Delivery day
Jul. 1st, 2003 07:03 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
magidYesterday was definitely delivery day. I delivered a chapter, then picked up some bags of clothes and shoes, delivering them to be collected for charity, then delivered a couple of theater passes. And then walked home again, vaguely regretful that the promised thunderstorms hadn't happened, since that would've hopefully cut the humidity (it's not the heat, it's the humidity, of course), though it would've been hard to avoid getting soaked socks, which I just hate. Really, it's time to get new sandals already. Ah, well. I'm glad to have those things done, off my list.
I got home too tired to make any of the interesting things with greens I'd thought of. Instead, I made a smoothie for dinner, which was faster and cooling, and I was hungry right then. What flavor? Well, you name it: I put in whatever was left of the blueberries (less than half a pint), a mango and a bit, squeezed in a lime's worth of juice, added a frozen banana, spent some time confused that I couldn't find the couple of pieces of pineapple I was sure had been in the fridge, then put in the end of the Meyer lemon sorbet and some mango sorbet. I got a nice reddish-purple drink, very refreshing, though perhaps a bit thinner than I prefer. More sorbet/banana next time, I think.
Of course, the drawback to smoothies for dinner is the utter lack of leftovers for lunch (or breakfast) today. Feh.
I got home too tired to make any of the interesting things with greens I'd thought of. Instead, I made a smoothie for dinner, which was faster and cooling, and I was hungry right then. What flavor? Well, you name it: I put in whatever was left of the blueberries (less than half a pint), a mango and a bit, squeezed in a lime's worth of juice, added a frozen banana, spent some time confused that I couldn't find the couple of pieces of pineapple I was sure had been in the fridge, then put in the end of the Meyer lemon sorbet and some mango sorbet. I got a nice reddish-purple drink, very refreshing, though perhaps a bit thinner than I prefer. More sorbet/banana next time, I think.
Of course, the drawback to smoothies for dinner is the utter lack of leftovers for lunch (or breakfast) today. Feh.
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Date: 2003-07-01 06:08 am (UTC)Sounds like when my old roommate and I were cleaning out the freezer in preparation for moving. We found an ancient frostbitten ziplock of some sort of unidentifiable fruit. Might have been peaches. Maybe melon. Possibly apple. Definitely not blueberries, though.
We figured the best course of action was to dump them into a blender with rum and ice and buzz up a batch of fruit daiquiris. And then we drank them while continuing to clean. :-)
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Date: 2003-07-01 06:51 am (UTC)I was in Israel for the year, and the appliance was much older than I'd had before; it had a tray under the freezer section. I was defrosting it in March or April (the late-night fun of trying to use hair dryers that didn't have long enough cords, plus flinging hot water into the block of ice known as the freezer), and discovered that the tray under the freezer had been housing some kind of fish fillets. And no one in the apartment had bought fish since we'd moved in in late August...
Er, frozen *apple*? Still, with enough rum.... :-)
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Date: 2003-07-01 07:28 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2003-07-01 07:41 am (UTC)bubblebabble has been fairly creative in smoothie-ing for me. last week i went and made my own - i've found that if i use a lot of banana, i can get a thicker texture and pretend it's like a fribble. but yes, i have a very limited repertoire of smoothies i'll drink. however, if it's hot enough, i'm a lot more tolerant of fruit than usual, 'cause, well, COLD DRINK.
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Date: 2003-07-01 07:51 am (UTC)Are any of the non-dairy ice creams not soy-based?
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Date: 2003-07-01 08:01 am (UTC)Yes.
Not at all acceptable, however.
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Lately my smoothies simply consist of ice, ginger ale, bananas, and a splash of cranberry juice (to tarten in up).
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Date: 2003-07-01 08:08 am (UTC)Huh? I got caught out riding in them yesterday. They only lasted for about 10 minutes at a time, but those 10 minutes were quite monsoon like. The ground dried fairly quickly after each burst, at least on the north shore.
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Date: 2003-07-01 08:10 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2003-07-01 08:15 am (UTC)Is this that New England thing where "milkshake" means "shaken milk"? Because, where I come from, a milkshake has ice cream in it.
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Date: 2003-07-01 08:16 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-07-01 08:18 am (UTC)but go to Friendly's - a milkshake is a milkshake; a fribble has ice cream.
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Date: 2003-07-01 08:18 am (UTC)...as someone from pittsfield...
Date: 2003-07-01 08:19 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-07-01 08:21 am (UTC)They also include a "Regional Note:"
To most Americans, a milk shake, that thick, sweet accompaniment to a hamburger and fries, naturally includes ice cream. But speakers in parts of New England make finer distinctions in their ice cream terminology. To a person living in Rhode Island or the adjoining part of Massachussetts, a milk shake consists of milk shaken up with flavored syrup and nothing more; if ice cream is included, the drink is called a cabinet, possibly, says food writer John F. Mariani in The Dictionary of American Food and Drink, named after the square wooden cabinet in which the mixer was encased. Farther north in New England, the same drink is called a velvet or a frappe (from French frapper, “to ice”).
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Date: 2003-07-01 08:24 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-07-01 08:25 am (UTC)I don't know if they have certification on their containers, and I don't really keep up with this stuff, it being a carbonated beverage (thus falling into the category of "drinks I rarely if ever consume," along with coffee and beer. I'm beveragely challenged, compared to the average American...)
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Date: 2003-07-01 08:26 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-07-01 08:28 am (UTC)My oregano has gotten pretty sad quite a few times this summer already; I've ended up using it as the signal to water the rest of the plants as well.
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Date: 2003-07-01 08:37 am (UTC)i don't ever drink beer, and only rarely imbibe coffee. i go through alternating phases of totally eschewing soda and living on the stuff.
in a smoothie, i try for something "dry," like sprite or ginger ale, so i get a kick, but not too much sweetness.
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Date: 2003-07-01 08:38 am (UTC)*sigh*
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