During a recent cooking class, I learned the secret to the perfect whipped cream. While this may be obvious to some, to me the inclusion of a pinch of salt to your whipped cream recipe takes your end product from, "Oh, how nice" to, "Oh My God, I want to lick the plate". To me, the salt enhances the sweetness of the cream, even allowing you to cut down on the normal amount of sugar your recipe calls for. If you want to take your whipped cream all the way home, substitute brown sugar for powdered sugar. I like using the brown sugar because I think it gives the cream a more mellow sweet with lots of depth. Right now, I am really loving making my salted whipped cream to top fresh strawberries.
On the gardening front, you will be happy to know that my tomatoes have started turning red faster than I can pick them. Unfortunately, because we have had such a wet spring, many of my tomatoes started cracking before I could pick them. Once a you can see the juicy part of a tomato, it really has to be thrown away. So far, I have had to toss about seven, half of my crop. Also, my plants are now infected with powdery mildew. Basically, they are in a really sad state right now, but they are still producing. I think this year I will try pulling them up mid-August and plant some fall tomatoes. Here, the fall lasts until almost December, so I should get a pretty good crop if I time it right. We'll see.
I haven't talked about stitching in a while, but I haven't completely abandoned it either. I have now finished the pattern on one side of the fabric, and have started it again on the other side. It's going slower this time around, probably because I am slightly bored with it and busy with school work. I cannot wait to see what these look like as pillows. The only thing I am going to have to change on the finished portion is to remove the stem portion of the floral arrangement. This way, when I have two pillows siting next to one another on a bed, it will not look odd (as it would if both the pattern's stems were tilted in the same direction).
Sunflowers in my garden.
They're the mammoth variety, and are as tall as my windows!
Notice the Fibonacci Sequence?
Pretty periwinkles on the porch
Trying to stay motivated about school and my career in math. I think I can, I think I can, I think I can…
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