Tuesday, January 19, 2016

This Is Probably A Very Bad Idea

A few days ago, I asked the MiL to pick up some heavy cream the next time she was at the store that carries the real kind*. We usually buy a quart at a time. But this time, she found that they were half off, due to a sell-by date of the next day.

So she bought two quarts.

That's right. A half gallon of heavy cream that needed to be used rather quickly. This is a good problem to have. I'm not short on ideas of how to use it, but it is perhaps not the best complement to the exercise I've started just recently.

I currently have a very cream-heavy rice pudding on the stove. A double recipe, as a matter of fact, because I still had one entire quart of cream to use up. Not sure how long I would have to do jumping jacks to work off all that cream, but I think it would be many hours. Probably best not to think of it, actually.

Fitness sabotage of the most delicious kind, without doubt.

* Meaning NOT whipping cream, and NOT ultra-pasteurized. We have a local dairy that distributes real cream at some limited locations, and it is so much better than the crap with stabilizers and thickeners and whatever.

3 comments:

  1. Have you used up all your cream? If not, put some in a mason jar with a tight lid and let the boys shake it until butter forms!

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  2. We did use it all, actually, but I wish we had more so we could do this. Great idea. Next time . . .

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  3. Ice cream! I sense the need for homemade ice cream!

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