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which_chickI think I'm going to make practice crepes for dinner tonight. I told Cousin Sue that I'd make crepes for Girl's Weekend Out, and I want to brush up on my technique before I go so that I can cook in public and not fuck up. I also want to double-check measurements and make sure I have a list of everything for my mise en place. I hate using other people's stuff (ingredients, measuring stuff, work surfaces, knives, bowls) to cook with. It's far easier on my nerves to bring my own stuff.
Also, I should email and ask if she wants me to bring stuff for a pie. Surely there will be room for pie somewhere in the weekend. I can't imagine there not being... but it's always best to ask. Apple pie ingredients are easiest to transport and they're conveniently in season right now, so it'd be an apple pie.
I'm thinking caramel sauce and apple bits for one crepe topping, sour cherries (Roy has some, frozen) in thickened clear sauce for the other crepe topping. Basic sweet crepes (LaRousse recipe, simplified), filled with 2 Tbsp. yogurt or small-curd cottage cheese (dealer's choice). Roll 'em up, dollop with topping, eat. Sounds like a plan to me.
How hard is it to make caramel sauce? It can't be that hard, can it?
Voice from the wings: You could BUY caramel sauce.
Not buying sauce. Weenies buy sauce. Real men make their sauce.
Voice from the wings: You're a girl.
And what does that have to do with my masculinity?
Also, I should email and ask if she wants me to bring stuff for a pie. Surely there will be room for pie somewhere in the weekend. I can't imagine there not being... but it's always best to ask. Apple pie ingredients are easiest to transport and they're conveniently in season right now, so it'd be an apple pie.
I'm thinking caramel sauce and apple bits for one crepe topping, sour cherries (Roy has some, frozen) in thickened clear sauce for the other crepe topping. Basic sweet crepes (LaRousse recipe, simplified), filled with 2 Tbsp. yogurt or small-curd cottage cheese (dealer's choice). Roll 'em up, dollop with topping, eat. Sounds like a plan to me.
How hard is it to make caramel sauce? It can't be that hard, can it?
Voice from the wings: You could BUY caramel sauce.
Not buying sauce. Weenies buy sauce. Real men make their sauce.
Voice from the wings: You're a girl.
And what does that have to do with my masculinity?
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Distaff
Date: 2004-11-11 06:55 am (UTC)Nary a fruit, vegetable, or other recognizable plant to be seen, and I suspect dessert will take the form of "more beer dammit."
Although I have to say that the crepes sound lots better than that...
Re: Distaff
Date: 2004-11-11 02:27 pm (UTC)Also, making caramel sauce at home is VERY manly. It's science! That's manly. Hell, the potential for disfiguring injury (if you don't go stupidly spilling 330-degree-F liquid sugar on yourself, you should be fine) alone should qualify it as a manly activity. At least give that a go. I'm not kidding about how good it is or about how easy it is. If you totally and completely fail, you've trashed half a stick of butter, a cup of sugar, and a quarter-cup of water. This is not an expensive thing to fail at.