Wednesday, February 19, 2014

Postponed


Well, most of the free world that cares knows we had an ice storm followed by mass power outages which sort of forced cancellation of our dinner party.  I was in denial on Wednesday, and so even though we didn't have power, I kept making preparations, like this one:


That's anchovies soaking in milk that I was supposed to put in a tapenade. I was certain the power would come back on and I would be able to use my food processor.  But, it stayed in this state, until I tossed it due to staying in the refridge without electricity for 3 days.

Some of us found other ways to entertain ourselves during the power outage.  Still not sure who won this arm-wrestling match pictured below. 


I had the use of my cooktop, so I made cream of wheat, or creme de farine if you're being fancy.  It was for the dessert.


This is the apple ice cream that I made while the temperature in our house was dropping to seeming sub zero temperatures.


And I made some bread that I got to rise by sticking it next to my gas burner that I had on for about 36 straight hours trying to heat my house.


In the end, we postponed the dinner.  My neighbor ate the bread, because she had an oven in the RV they were sleeping in.

I froze the ice cream in my mother-in-law's ice cream maker in Atlanta, where we decided to take a spontaneous trip.



Once we got to her house, I poached apples that were to have been in the dessert. (Never mind that one with a weird looking middle, I missed the first time with the apple corer)




The puff pastry held up just fine in the cooler and made beautiful cinnamon twists.




And we had fancy Valentine's day dessert in Atlanta.



Stay tuned.  We intend to reschedule.  And Nichole, I need to borrow your pasta roller again, unfortunately. 


1 comment:

  1. So apple ice cream is my new favorite thing. I have it often in New Orleans at this place that serves it with an apple cider (caramelish) sauce that is ah-mazing. So I'm sure yours was even better being homemade!

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