About a month ago I needed a cup of heavy cream for something that I was cooking. I have no idea at this time what it was. It all came to head last weekend, we were cleaning out the fridge, throwing stuff away left and right when all of a sudden I was shocked into saying "Hey, your not planning on throwing this out are you? It's still good" I snatched the yellow container off the floor, "see it doesn't go bad until the 30th." to which was to replied from the person on the floor with their head in the fridge "are you sure". Of course I was sure, the stuff was fine the only problem is now I need to figure out what to do with it, what exactly do you do with 4-5 cups of heavy cream? so immediately I began to search my recipe books for potential recipes that use cream, for the first time ever I had trouble doing that, I swear before I had cream everything used cream now that I was trying to get rid of the stuff I was having problems, what did I do? well that's easy instead of using the cream like I was supposed to I made something called Sweet Potato Cake w/ Brown Butter Glaze. It however only called for milk, so I pretended it called for cream and used it anyways. Then I realized left over from my exciting Muffin making binge I still had half a bag of raspberries so I did the only thing I could think of, Raspberry Caramel Sauce, I bottled it up, put it in my fridge, I suppose that isn't taking care of it really but I did buy myself another three weeks before they have to be used, Then I decided to do something with chocolate. All recipes that contain chocolate also call for cream, my choices were Chocolate Cream Pie or Hazelnut Chocolate Truffles. It was quite a decision but I went with the truffles, probably because I've never made them before and they looked awesome, (they are by the way) I still have 30 left. I have used up over 3 cups of the stuff I swear that container is overflowing, in the process I went through 2 sweet potatoes 1 cup hazelnuts 12 oz chocolate 6 oz raspberries, 4 cups sugar, and other assorted ingredients. Then when I got home last night I looked on my counter and realized I had made a dire mistake, I bought to many bananas, so I am creating a marriage of problems, to kill two birds/bananas with one stone. Banana Cream Pie. The only problem is I have all this food at my house, somebody has to come eat it all forcing me to throw and impromptu party to eliminate it. So that it, that is why I had to make a banana cream pie and invite a while bunch of people to my house for a party. I will probably also cook a big batch of pasta for everyone meaning this whole cream thing has gotten completely out of hand, anytime you find a food item that results in a pasta party it means something has gone horribly wrong with the universe. The moral of this story of course is do not clean your fridge.
p.s. I'll post the recipes soon.
Thursday, April 3, 2008
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)

No comments:
Post a Comment