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whitereflection) wrote2010-06-24 04:57 pm
whitereflection) wrote2010-06-24 04:57 pm
life is a bowl of
So the other day James brought a bag of cherries home from work. Yeah, he works in an ag/enviromental lab. His coworkers leave the weirdest stuff on the 'free to take' table in their breakroom.
So these were obviously home grown, small and tart, and this afternoon I tried my hand at pitting cherries. I don't own a cherry pitter (but I think I'll pick a cheap one up), so I tried this method I found online of using a metal tip from a pastry/icing set to push the pit out. It actually worked okay, though I used the writing tip which tended to slide off the pits--I probably should have used the smallest star tip. But yeah, a mess of cherry juice everywhere, didn't seem to stain though. Ended up making cherry syrup from it all, since the skins had a lot of blemishes and bruising and that way I could just sieve the solids out. I'll have to pick up some good ice cream to serve it on.
Also made sticky rice from the recipe off a can of coconut milk (I've got a fresh mango I'll serve with), and a Thai-style peanut sauce to have with the marinated flank steak I'll do in a bit.
So, that whole thing where I cook a bunch when I feel really useless as well as guilty about not being productive and intelligent like you all? Yeah. Definitely there today, and probably a bit this whole week.
Saw this on the CakeWrecks blog, thought it was amusing considering how many on my flist are into the World Cup of late: http://www.cakewrecks.com/2010/06/our-world-cup-overfloweth.html
So these were obviously home grown, small and tart, and this afternoon I tried my hand at pitting cherries. I don't own a cherry pitter (but I think I'll pick a cheap one up), so I tried this method I found online of using a metal tip from a pastry/icing set to push the pit out. It actually worked okay, though I used the writing tip which tended to slide off the pits--I probably should have used the smallest star tip. But yeah, a mess of cherry juice everywhere, didn't seem to stain though. Ended up making cherry syrup from it all, since the skins had a lot of blemishes and bruising and that way I could just sieve the solids out. I'll have to pick up some good ice cream to serve it on.
Also made sticky rice from the recipe off a can of coconut milk (I've got a fresh mango I'll serve with), and a Thai-style peanut sauce to have with the marinated flank steak I'll do in a bit.
So, that whole thing where I cook a bunch when I feel really useless as well as guilty about not being productive and intelligent like you all? Yeah. Definitely there today, and probably a bit this whole week.
Saw this on the CakeWrecks blog, thought it was amusing considering how many on my flist are into the World Cup of late: http://www.cakewrecks.com/2010/06/our-world-cup-overfloweth.html
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I don't like cherry... well, anything. (Except my grandmother's homemade cherry ice cream, but that's different.)
Those cake wrecks had me LOL'ing so badly!!
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Something about Summer always makes me crave sticky rice like mad. Yours sounds yummy!
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LOL those cakes are awful! But I shouldn't judge because the last time I attempted to frost a cake, it was a mess.
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rise and mango? I'd like to taste that.
I love rice in any way. :)))
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