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I am eating homemade ginger ice cream. For this one, I heated the milk to a simmer, steeped pieces of ginger root (about a 2-inch piece, peeled and cut up) for 20 minutes, strained it, chilled it, and then proceeded to follow the ice cream maker's instructions for vanilla, but with only 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract. I meant to add cut-up crystallized ginger shortly before the ice cream maker was done, but didn't watch the timing, so I mixed it in my hand when I moved the ice cream into containers to freeze.
I'm happy--the basic ice cream is somewhat gingery, and the pieces of crystallized ginger work well.
After making ice cream, I went out to buy groceries. I didn't get heavy cream, because the Stop and Shop is charging even more exorbitant amounts for it than the local C-town. I did get bananas (the small red kind), a can of pears that I intend to turn into sorbet, and cat food.
Then I stopped into the Sleepy's (mattress store, part of a chain) next to the bus stop. I tried out a couple of Posturepedic mattresses, and think they'll work for me, if![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
cattitude likes them. I let the saleswoman talk me into putting down a refundable $25 deposit, to keep a sale price of about $400 off. As far as I can tell, what the store gets out of that is that I, or we, will walk in again and they can try again to sell me the mattress. I put the deposit on a credit card, and if we don't buy from them and they make a fuss about it, I will dispute the charge with Visa.
I'm also back in the research mines, and reminding myself that Wikipedia isn't really appropriate in this case.
I'm happy--the basic ice cream is somewhat gingery, and the pieces of crystallized ginger work well.
After making ice cream, I went out to buy groceries. I didn't get heavy cream, because the Stop and Shop is charging even more exorbitant amounts for it than the local C-town. I did get bananas (the small red kind), a can of pears that I intend to turn into sorbet, and cat food.
Then I stopped into the Sleepy's (mattress store, part of a chain) next to the bus stop. I tried out a couple of Posturepedic mattresses, and think they'll work for me, if
cattitude likes them. I let the saleswoman talk me into putting down a refundable $25 deposit, to keep a sale price of about $400 off. As far as I can tell, what the store gets out of that is that I, or we, will walk in again and they can try again to sell me the mattress. I put the deposit on a credit card, and if we don't buy from them and they make a fuss about it, I will dispute the charge with Visa.I'm also back in the research mines, and reminding myself that Wikipedia isn't really appropriate in this case.