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Things What I Done Tonight
Nov. 21st, 2005 08:57 pm1. Went to grocery store to buy shit for caramel nut pie I planned on making for Thanksgiving. Ingredients include shitloads of pecans, walnuts, and cashews.
2. Found nut section in baking aisle.
3. Saw price of quantity of pecan halves I required.
4. Woke up in emergency room after apparent heart attack.
4a. This did not really happen.
4b. What actually happened was, I saw the $7.someodd price tag on a half-pound bag of pecans, went "Jesus fuck!" out loud, mumbled "sorry" to the scandalized fellow baking shit shoppers, and rethought the pie thing. I didn't even see cashews there, but those little motherfuckers were just as expensive, I'm sure. And each pie required, as I mentioned, a metric fuckton of nuts. AND I was going to need to make a test pie first, and no way in HELL was I going to spend $20 a pie on NUTS ALONE.
4c. Decided instead to make a no-bake cheesecake with caramel and walnuts (which were much cheaper) on top. Grabbed two Oreo crumb crusts, two packages of cream cheese, tub of Cool Whip, bag of powdered sugar, nuts, and bottle of cajeta. Cajeta, for those unfamiliar, is this Mexican caramel stuff made with goat milk, and it is way better than any other caramel in the whole world.
5. Came home. Baked and ate spinach alfredo pizza. Massaged one package of cream cheese to soften it while the pizza baked.
6. Put a large chunk of Bachman Rd. together for the comic, including Cafe 5 to 2. Occasionally went in and smooshed cream cheese around.
7. Made cheesecake. One package of cream cheese, one tub of Cool Whip, and enough powdered sugar to stiffen it up a little. Dump into crumb crust, spread around. Pour cajeta on top, dump nuts on top of that, drizzle more cajeta on top of that, cover and throw in fridge. Easy.
8. Sat down with cheesecake glop bowl and spatula, scraped remnants of cheesecake glop out of bowl with spatula, and ate that.
2. Found nut section in baking aisle.
3. Saw price of quantity of pecan halves I required.
4. Woke up in emergency room after apparent heart attack.
4a. This did not really happen.
4b. What actually happened was, I saw the $7.someodd price tag on a half-pound bag of pecans, went "Jesus fuck!" out loud, mumbled "sorry" to the scandalized fellow baking shit shoppers, and rethought the pie thing. I didn't even see cashews there, but those little motherfuckers were just as expensive, I'm sure. And each pie required, as I mentioned, a metric fuckton of nuts. AND I was going to need to make a test pie first, and no way in HELL was I going to spend $20 a pie on NUTS ALONE.
4c. Decided instead to make a no-bake cheesecake with caramel and walnuts (which were much cheaper) on top. Grabbed two Oreo crumb crusts, two packages of cream cheese, tub of Cool Whip, bag of powdered sugar, nuts, and bottle of cajeta. Cajeta, for those unfamiliar, is this Mexican caramel stuff made with goat milk, and it is way better than any other caramel in the whole world.
5. Came home. Baked and ate spinach alfredo pizza. Massaged one package of cream cheese to soften it while the pizza baked.
6. Put a large chunk of Bachman Rd. together for the comic, including Cafe 5 to 2. Occasionally went in and smooshed cream cheese around.
7. Made cheesecake. One package of cream cheese, one tub of Cool Whip, and enough powdered sugar to stiffen it up a little. Dump into crumb crust, spread around. Pour cajeta on top, dump nuts on top of that, drizzle more cajeta on top of that, cover and throw in fridge. Easy.
8. Sat down with cheesecake glop bowl and spatula, scraped remnants of cheesecake glop out of bowl with spatula, and ate that.
