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<\/a>Nigel Slater’s lemon ice cream – what’s left on Saturday after we all had some. He says to freeze it a plastic container, stirring occasionally, but I broke the lid of one my Tupperwares doing it that way last time – it got stiff from the cold and cracked – so used a metal bowl instead.<\/p><\/div>\n
Yesterday – Friday – I bailed from work early and just came home. It was the last day of a long grey week. I woke up with intestinal distress, and have been feeling like I have a sinus infection for what seems like forever – tired, headachey, gunk in the back of my throat.<\/p>\n
I decided to NOT go to the symphony with Mark, and just laze around the house. I was hoping that maybe Toni would take my ticket, but she wanted a night in too. Mark was no unhappy, since it meant he could walk downtown for the concert.<\/p>\n
I made Nigel Slater’s lemon ice cream. It’s whipped cream, purchased (or homemade if you have it) lemon curd, Greek yogurt, and smashed meringues. It’s kind of like this recipe<\/a>, but from his Kitchen Diaries<\/a>, from a menu for early May, so seemed appropriate. It’s the one where he says whip the cream short of stiff, so it’s in “slovenly folds”. I discovered that the American Spoon lemon curd I had in the closet was out of date – expiry date was in February of 2013. Not enough to kill you, just enough to not taste very good. It had a funny, cheesy smell when I opened the lid, and tasted only slightly lemony. Good thing I had another jar, of another brand<\/a>, so I used that, and, with just a spoonful of the out of date stuff, had just enough.<\/p>\n I ate wheat thins and an apple and a big spoonful or peanut butter for dinner. Then I cut up the pint of strawberries that was in the fridge, and made a sauce by mashing up the 12-oz. clamshell of raspberries I got at Trader Schmoes on the way home with 1\/2 cup of sugar. So at 8:00, I had lemon ice cream with berry sauce.<\/p>\n My happiness would’ve been complete if Netflix had been working and I could’ve had a Mad Men marathon. I should’ve just gone upstairs and reset the wireless access point. Instead, I did what the Netflix trouble shooting web page told me to do, which was completely power down and then power back up the TV, and found the pink massage ball<\/a> when I was digging around behind the TV – I guess that’s a bonus. As it was, I watched some of the movie CBGB<\/a> – it wasn’t good, but it was surprisingly not terrible, and the sound track was good. They used all the original artists, and did not attempt to recreate. Even though kind of miscast, I like Alan Rickman so much that I liked him as Hilly Kristal<\/a>. Probably the worst was the actress they had do Patti Smith<\/a> reading Rimbaud and getting booed – she just couldn’t do the true Patti powerful voice that let all the boo-ers know they were the idiots, not her – but they quickly cut to her lip syncing the real Patti doing Because the Night<\/em>. Then I watched what I think is the last episode of Parenthood<\/a>, because David Bianculli said it was the best drama on TV, and because Mark recorded it. It was often hard to tell the show from the commercials, as I fast forwarded. Then I watched Deadwood<\/a> which is in re-runs on HBO.<\/p>\n I went to bed at 11:30 and slept right straight through from when Mark came in at 1:30 all the way to 5:30. Then my eyes opened up at 6:22 and I just couldn’t go back to sleep. But I felt so good from four hours straight that I got up and made coffee cake. I just read this Louise Erdrich story in the New Yorker<\/a>, about a guy who divorces his wife who snores and marries a woman who sleeps like “a drunk kitten”. When he starts getting enough sleep he is amazed at how great he feels – who needs drugs when there’s sleep. Maybe I’ll get a chance to experience that sometime – I am sure I’d lose some weight if I slept better than I currently do. My normal is waking up every two hours.<\/p>\n