{"id":582,"date":"2005-03-24T13:11:00","date_gmt":"2005-03-24T20:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dianeduane.com\/outofambit\/?p=582"},"modified":"2005-03-24T13:11:00","modified_gmt":"2005-03-24T20:11:00","slug":"distracted-from-three-ice-creams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dianeduane.com\/outofambit\/2005\/03\/24\/distracted-from-three-ice-creams\/","title":{"rendered":"Distracted from three ice creams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So we&#8217;re doing Easter dinner with\/for our friends Pat and Mary who live down the road.   Dinner for eight. I said to Peter, &#8220;Okay, let&#8217;s not get too far out into culinary left field on this one&#8230;&#8221;, since in about half the guests&#8217; cases we won&#8217;t know for sure how their tastes run, whether they like to get experimental at a holiday or whether they&#8217;re willing to swing out a little.  &#8220;We&#8217;ll keep it fairly traditional. Lamb.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Pork,&#8221;  says Himself.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Lamb <i>and<\/i> pork,&#8221;  say I. So we&#8217;re agreed. Leg of lamb in the Greek style, with a lot of fresh rosemary, fresh oregano and lemon:  rolled loin of pork done in a northern Italian style, braised in milk, with herbs.<\/p>\n<p>Then we start in on the side dishes. After some discussion, we decide on:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Mashed potatoes. <\/li>\n<li>Canary potatoes, aka <i>Patatas bravas<\/i> (a sort of hot potato salad using new potatoes boiled in very salty water &#8212; it would be sea water, in the Canaries &#8212; and a spicy vinaigrette). <\/li>\n<li>A Moroccan carrot-and-orange salad.<\/li>\n<li>Green beans cooked in some as yet unspecified manner.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Mary and Pat will be handling the other salads, and  the wine \/ beer \/ soft drinks end of things, so all we have left to worry about is dessert.  And at this point I know just what we need.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>My &#8220;double Valrhona gold&#8221; ice cream, using both Valrhona solid single-estate chocolate and Valrhona&#8217;s cocoa.<\/li>\n<li>My &#8220;triple vanilla&#8221; ice cream with Madagascar high-potency vanilla extract, vanilla beans, and vanilla sugar. And:<\/li>\n<li>Peter&#8217;s &#8220;Baileys ripple&#8221; ice cream.  (He&#8217;s not making the espresso ice cream that we usually refer to as &#8220;Nessun dorma&#8221;, because after eating it, &#8220;none shall sleep&#8221;:  wouldn&#8217;t be kind to the dinner guests. They may not <i>want<\/i> to see the dawn that much.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So I&#8217;m in the middle of hauling out the ice cream maker and getting the chocolate prepped when the mail arrives. Besides a bank statement regarding one of our accounts which has a truly tiny amount of money in it, there are two Very Important Looking Plain White Envelopes. One for P., one for me.<\/p>\n<p>I open mine and discover&#8230;oh, wonder of wonders!  Some nice marketing people in Dublin have sent me checks for, like, <i>ninety thousand Euro<\/i> or so!  And all I have to do to claim them is call this nice phone number that costs &#8364;2.40 a minute!<\/p>\n<p>(snort)  I&#8217;m sooooooo excited.  I bet that if you do call them, they keep you on the phone for about half an hour, minimum&#8230;and if by then you haven&#8217;t figured out that this is a scam&#8230;  (sigh)  And probably lots of people never do&#8230;or not for a long, long while, as they spend more and more money trying to &#8220;claim&#8221; this &#8220;prize&#8230;&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.wordreference.com\/definition\/gonif\"><i>Gonifs!!<\/i><\/a> How do the people who do crap like this <i>sleep<\/i> at night?  How do they <i>justify<\/i> it to themselves??  Argh!!<\/p>\n<p>Oh well&#8230;back to the ice cream, and to concentrating real, real hard on not eating the chocolate.<\/p>\n<p>(mutter) Gonifs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So we&#8217;re doing Easter dinner with\/for our friends Pat and Mary who live down the road. Dinner for eight. 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