another use of fresh cream

Ok, I was desperate, It was looking like I was going to be throwing cream away again, very bad. Half a quart per gallon of milk is too much to waste. So after making 7-8 cups of alfredo sauce with last week's cream I determined not to get behind. I mean, I like coffee with cream a lot, but if I drank that much we'd have to call an ambulance. The new recipe I found was lemon posset (po'sit), pronounced with short vowels. I found that out from the Free Online Dictionary ( http://www.thefreedictionary.com/ ). Although, what I made last night and what the dictionary had for posset were pretty different, that's what happens when Americans get hold of something like this! It used 3 whole cups of cream for 5 servings, so of course, I 1 1/2 ed it. I think I could enjoy this now and then, it would be especially good with some raspberry sauce on top to cut the sour. It might make a good frozen dessert, we may try that with it. It would be sort of a cross between ice-cream and sherbet. mmm. I'll let ya know how it turns out.

click here for recipe

Oh, and posset was mentioned in a couple of Shakespeare's plays, I feel special now. uh huh. Apparently back then it was slightly sweeteded milk curdled with wine. Quite a bit different from the custard-y dessert I made last night.

* a little note*

the macaroon recipe down below has been corrected. It takes only egg white. very important.

Taco Bell taco sauce, from home. A BLOW to consumerism!

Ever feel like leaving consumerism all together? I sure do. All those brightly labeled bottles that tend to nickel and dime us to death. I felt this way the other day and thought, "Surely someone has figured out a recipe that tastes like the taco sauce from Taco Bell." So, I hopped on the great WWW once again onto recipe zaar, one of my favorite places. I mean, it is just way too hard to look up a recipe in all those cookbooks, ya know. They look nice on the shelf though. eh hem. I just like to try new things. Anyway, I found a recipe! I got no complaints either, it was close enough anyway. This is such good news! Death to consumerism! I think I'm on a roll. Here's the link directly to the print page for you all: http://recipezaar.com/recipe/print?id=60254 . On top of it, I used tomato juice, which you can buy a half gallon of for 99 cents most of the time. Wonderful! I came across a blog post called 30 days of nothing. This woman decided not to buy anything unnecessary for well, uh, thirty days....she needs this recipe. Happy taco making. Wonder what I'll find to make for -almost- free next? I'm going to look up toothpaste.