connectivity and food

[redbird]

Posting via email because LJ is being wonky right now. First it wouldn't
let me read anything behind a cut tag, or existing comments on entries.
Then it gave me an error on everything in sight, including "update
journal." The offsite status page says the heavily armed monkeys report no
current problems, but they are not honest primates. (My theory is that
email will get through when they fix whatever it is.)

adrian_turtle and I made something resembling papersky's Cousin Beryl's fruit cake. Resembling because we left
out the milk for reasons of allergy, and baked it slightly too long. Also,
the instructions say you'll need to measure weights. We had no scale. We
had volume measures. This left us needing to convert weights of sugar, in
ounces, to volumes, ditto. The cookbook was no help, but Google found me a
site that was happy to convert grams of sugar to teaspoons. Since I know
grams to ounces and teaspoons to fluid ounces without looking them up, we
were fine. Cherry/cranberry/blueberry is a good combination of fruits for
this.

Green grapes work very nicely in plain yogurt.

Emack and Bolio's chocolate ice cream was quite intense. Nonetheless, I'm
going to push Adrian for a trip to Toscanini's before I head back to New
York.