D-Day

The daytona 500 has come upon us, its snowing so it is way too cold to appempt grilling the turkey so I put it in the oven at 3pm. The kids are right now happily painting the nascar sun catchers I picked up at the Dollar Tree store in Eau Claire along with the Nascar fuzzy posters and the blue tableware. I still have to go construct the J. Johnson cake the Model is finshed thanks to my boy and the marshmellow crispy treat cake is ready to go. I only need about 20 min to finish. We don't have any company today, I got a unhappy gift from my digestive system yesterday. Uhg, the kids made themselved canned ravolis for supper because I was sicker than the Bear's pup after wolfing down a stick of butter that weighed more than he did. I am still a bit shakey today, hence the rice cripsy treat 'cake' instead of an actual baked one. On the plus side I never have to toss out any crispy treats. We did have our planned Valentine's Day lunch, crepes with 2 berries and real whipped cream. I for the first time sucessfuly flipped a crepe without the use of a spatula. I usually make them in that silly pancake pan I got as a give a few years back, the one sold via infomercial that has a doulble cooking surface pans. It works great for crepes but it was very time consuming. An hour is the ususal cooking time. I decided to speed things up and used the cheater method of the pankcake pan and also make them like your supposed to, in a small skillet shaking the pan the entire time and flipping the crepe in a skillful toss. I got right after a few tries they were delicious. I make whipped cream myself usually and I use a cake decorators trick to stablized it, meruinge powder. Of course we don't have any egg allergies which would be a problem, but if you can use it works wonders. It can be found at WalMart, Micheals, and JoAnn's in the cake decorating isle. At my local Wally World its in the same isle as the book scrapping and wedding isle. Its cheap and keeps for a long time. I add two tablespoons per 2 cups of cream. Another trick to getting it wipped up good and quick is to use a metal bowl and put both the bowl and the beater in the freezer for about 15 min before use. When you take them out of the freezer make the cream right away it will whip for me even in August. Even here in the frozen north we still have 90*F days in summer and with all the lakes and streams it get very humid. The other day it got warm enough to melt some of the snowcover and it was so damp the mostiure hung in the air in thick clouds of fog. Now, I have to go assemble a 'cake' and baste a turkey. the race just started again after a red flag, excitemt returns!