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*smacks blogger repeatedly with a frozen salmon*

I /was/ going to post last night, but it wouldn't go through because they'd been 'improving' it. I /really/ wish they'd quit doing that...

I know I'm getting lazy when I spend a day on my footies and wind up half-unable to walk ..

Why did I spend most of the day on my feet? Well, other than the usual reasons, that is - last night I got it into my head I wanted a banana split. With raspberry sauce. So I went and got the required material. Ice cream - vanilla, chocolate and *sigh* strawberry. I don't /like/ strawberry-flavoured things very much.. but you can't buy raspberry icecream. You can buy raspberry sorbet, but that's not the same thing... (Admittedly, Andi tells me he saw raspberry ice cream in Whole Foods - but they wanted six bucks for a pint.. o.O) anyway. Chocolate sauce, caramel sauce, frozen raspberries (Not raspberry season yet, of course... and I can't get raspberry sauce, either. Grrr.) heavy cream (whipped cream. Yes, I prefer to whip it myself - I know what's going into it..) a little jar of marachino cherries and, of course, the bananas.
I also picked up some leeks - for potato soup. (Came out more like potato sludge, it was so thick, but /damn/ it was good shit..)

Ain't got there yet, although I /did/ make the raspberry sauce. ^^
(Which turned out /very/ well - nicely tart and very nice against the vanilla ice cream. ^^)

However, while Andi and I were discussing the kinds of ice cream you can and can't get your hands on, I discovered a recipe for raspberry icecream (Made with heavy cream - serious shit!) and said, rather wistfully, that I wished I could get my hands on an ice cream maker ...
He hit Ebay, and I /started/ to compose a post for FreeCycle - next thing I know, he's pointing me at an ice cream maker by some company I've never heard of. (Italian, specialises, supposedly. No, I can't remember the name of the company..) available on Ebay for a fifth of the normal selling price, no bids and it was closing in about two hours. Hm.
We batted it around for a little bit and I finally said to grab it. He grabbed. We have a new toy - or will, in a week or so. ^^
Now.. what'd I do with that recipe? ^.~

Later on, I'll go down and test Mom's mixer toy - the same one she used on the potato soup (Leeks, potatoes, milk and heavy cream, with a heavy hit of garlic and a little salt. Yum.) - and whip the rest of the heavy cream and make myself a nice banana split. The mixer-toy is effective - I have /never/ seen whipped cream that fast. I do begin to believe that it would make whipped cream out of skim milk... o.O

. ... it occurs to me that if I'm gonna keep doing this, I'm going to have to find a couple of suitable dishes... o.O

More than an hour later, I have had my split-cravings settled. My eyes were bigger than my belly, but I won't want another one for a good long time. ^^
This might be fortunate - that'll give me a chance to acquire some suitable dishes...

Now, if this will /post/ I will be a little less ready to send an annoyed email to the idiots at Blogger. >.<