Sweet Drinks and The Electric Whisk

Everyone who offered suggestions towards the satisfaction of my Orange Julius craving - which, I'll note with gratitude, was many of you - will be pleased to know that I acheived satisfactory results with some Homemade Vanilla flavored ice cream, enough skim milk to almost cover the scoops of ice cream, and some orange juice, all smoothified by my completely lame Gizmo electric mixer. Some crushed ice would have really improved matters, but the Gizmo is much, much too feeble to do more than whine at ice cubes.

The Gizmo is exactly like every other hand mixer ever, except that it only has one arm. This renders it almost totally ineffectual for most hand-mixer activities like creaming butter, but it does mean that it's small enough to smoosh up ice cream in a drinking vessel. And the extra attachment means that, if you find washing the pan (yechh) and the plate(s) and the egg-beating vessel doesn't deter you from making scrambled eggs as much as beating the eggs by hand, you can beat the heck out of them with the Electric Whisk. You do then have to wash the Electric Whisk, which means that body of the Gizmo sits out on your counter all day while the Whisk Attachment dries, because towel-drying a whisk somehow never works out very well.

mmdinner...

I think I'll be making this tonight:

( Butternut Squash Soup with Sage and Parmesan )

I'll need to skip the pureeing part, and get some prefab vegetable broth on the way home... and, hm, possibly an onion too. The receipe comes from here, which despite all the low-carb craziness, seems to have some very tasty-sounding dishes. Cilantro-lime soup, for example. oooooooh....

(I'll probably be lazy and will make myself some spaghetti with sauce from a jar and frozen spinach. But one night soon - butternut squash, oh yes.)