February 1, 2011
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homemade pumpkin spice icecream?
Two blogs in one day, does that tide you over for a weeks worth of no blogging? haha. Perhaps you were thinking we had expired due to, and long before, our long-life UHT milk.
Currently we are hosting ‘the guys’ over for supper and the evening. They are having a guitar-hero battle just now while the icecream(s) are thawing enough that we can get a sharp edged machete in to carve a bit out and the freshly baked apple pie is patiently waiting for us all to get it together. I have become quite the (better) pie maker since i developed the skill of making pie crusts (and boy are they good!) from a packet – just add water. You know those are being restocked when we’re back in C! (arent you proud of me for using a packet of pie crust mix for no special reason instead of hoarding it for Thanksgiving 2011?
) Anyway, the apples are not really great for eating, these ones i bought from that ubiquitous fruit man who seems to be everywhere at once (at school, at church, on the road up from Jovena… all on foot – he must be in fantastic shape!). Asher likes to eat them, but then again he also likes chewing on pre-chewed/spit sun flower seeds. ugh. WE’ve just enjoyed a sumptuous BBQ’d chicken thigh dinner with mesquite rub. DEE-lish! (8 largish thighs for 10$, how does that compare to Canadian prices, can you tell me?) potato wedges and green beans from my garden that i put in the freezer without doing whatever one is supposed to do before putting them in the freezer so Josh declared them almost unfit for company… (insert dejected droop of shoulders. who knew?!) Now for the selection of: pumpkin spice icecream (oh my goodness, it tasted just like either a very creamy pumpkin pie or some sort of pumpkin cream cheese cake filling!), vanilla bean icecream made with Madagascar vanilla beans
, or peanut butter icecream. The chocolate fudgesicle icecream was polished off this afternoon (finally a warm one after weeks of incessant rains) by Judah and his buddy. Woot! can you tell we’re enjoying our new icecream machine?gotta go serve the pie.
