Zzot!

Yes, it’s been a while. So long, in fact, that this very entry is the first in the category — in spite of the category having been here for ages. On Friday, I tried to recreate one of my greatest hits; Killer Apple.

Lets just say it came out as more of a 24-hour virus than Jack the Ripper. Don’t get me wrong, it was still pretty good — it just wasn’t killer. In their book (which got me started making ice cream, and which I highly recommend for beginners), Ben & Jerry say:

There’s no such thing as unredeemingly bad home-made ice cream.

I’m certainly not disputing this. On the other hand, there was a…grittyness that I haven’t explained, and the fruit flavor was sort of buried (like muddy base, if I was setting up speakers, instead of making ice cream). I strongly suspect that I know the origin of the flavor issue, so I’ll have to mess around to see how to resolve it. The gritty part, however, I’m not sure if could even reproduce, much less find and fix the underlying problem.

This probably makes my process of making ice cream sound very regimented, but one look at my notes on Killer Apple would instantly resolve any confusion; never mind that my sister would probably have someone bumped off if they caused that document to be misplaced.

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…was quite good. It wasn’t quite as smooth as a pumpkin pie can be, but whether that is due to the inherent qualities of the source material or because of a cookware malfunction or failing to properly “beat the tar out of” the batter is an open question. I didn’t make the crust, though — its pair is sitting in the freezer right now begging me to make another pie, so…

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…think of it as the best Pumpkin Pie you ever made.” We were given an assignment for Thanksgiving Dinner this year — dessert.¹ Of course, the best way to judge a pie isn’t usually to watch it laying on the counter cooling, but it looks (and smells) pretty good. Oh drat, I didn’t tell Lins to get some cream — fresh whipped cream on a homemade pie, what could go wrong?

Update: My tools are clipping that URL, and I’m too tired to fix them right now. If you can’t wait, copy the link, add “.html” the end, and there you go.

Update 2: I can’t say that I really understand why the regexp in question was matching that specific URL, but I think I’ve stopped it from matching the wrong stuff without making it match less of the right stuff.

1. As an advocate of great ice cream, and by great I naturally mean homemade from fresh ingredients, this is hardly virgin territory for me. [↩]

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