All those times I paid the big bucks for a tiny cup of panna cotta at an Italian restaurant, I figured cooking it was a delicate process involving steam baths and candy thermometers.
Imagine my surprise to realize it's as easy as making jello... because it is jello:
you just add unflavored gelatin to cream ("panna") or milk!
Recipe here.
For Christmas Eve dessert, I drizzled melted apricot jam on top.
The apartment cleaned up nice (if you didn't look in Mz's bedroom where my mattress and all our junk got shoved), and bink brought a box of Christmas crackers with whistles inside that played different notes, to toot Christmas carols on (chart provided):
This morning we exchanged presents (which includes the paisley shirt I'm wearing, and Lynda Barry's new book):
Imagine my surprise to realize it's as easy as making jello... because it is jello: you just add unflavored gelatin to cream ("panna") or milk!
Recipe here.
For Christmas Eve dessert, I drizzled melted apricot jam on top.
The apartment cleaned up nice (if you didn't look in Mz's bedroom where my mattress and all our junk got shoved), and bink brought a box of Christmas crackers with whistles inside that played different notes, to toot Christmas carols on (chart provided):
...and academic explorations of fan culture.
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Merry Christmas, everyone!
Good gifts, that Lynda Berry book especially.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the snailmailcard!
Yes, I spent all of C'mas afternoon reading that book on the couch, in my jammies.
ReplyDeleteYou're welcome for the card---I only managed to send a few.
Merry, merry Christmas! Such happy pictures, so good to see all of you. Sending love.
ReplyDeleteMerry Christmas! We're between the Christmases of the Gregorian and Julian calendars -- our Orthodox celebration will come on Jan. 7th. Book gifts are the very best.
ReplyDeleteI want both Kirk and Spock's sweaters!!! I want them now! Especially Spock's. Oh, to be rich enough to commission such a sweater (notice I don't wish to knit well enough to do it myself--I am too realistic to wish for the completely impossible.)bink
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