Yes! I have found the sweet spot in my apartment where I can get a fairly consistent internet connection. The sweet spot is less than ten feet from where I had been using the computer, and my landlady's house is pretty small, so I can't be that much closer to her wireless router. Conclusion: Seriously wimpy router plus elderly Airport card == not such a good combination.
Anyway, I did go ahead and make up more cranberry sauce with that extra package of cranberries. As in the earlier version, I used apple cider, chopped pecans, cinnamon, ground ginger, and nutmeg. I subtracted the currants since I didn't have any left and replaced a couple tablespoons worth of brown sugar with blackstrap molasses. I also threw in a wee bit of dark rum, just because. The result was a darker tasting, but more cranberry-flavored cranberry sauce. Sophisticated and tasty, but without the cherry pie goodness of the Thanksgiving Day version.
I brought some up to Alexandria with me to eat by the spoonful since I don't have anything to put it on.
Then I went grocery shopping and bought the smallest (yet still startlingly huge) container of Honduran sour cream available in the Latin American section of the grocery store. The awesome Plato Tipico at the El Salvadorean place near my apartment has taught me the glories of Central American sour cream. So creamy, rich and sweet! If there's something horrifically disgusting about the way they make it, don't tell me.
And this huge thing of wonderful sour cream needs to be consumed by the end of December, so I'm looking for things to put it on. Like today's lunch: drunken beans (pinto beans simmered with beer, tomatoes, onions, garlic, and chipotle peppers in adobo sauce) with corn tortillas on the side. (The smallest pack of tortillas in the Latin American section was a thirty count pack. I'm going to be eating them with everything.)
This evening for dessert I decorated a little plate with a few spoonfuls of cranberry sauce beside a few spoonfuls of sour cream, kind of a yin-yang thing, then transferred the sauce and cream bit by bit to a Stoned Wheat Thin delivery medium and ate it up.
I'm going to run out of cranberry sauce before I run out of sour cream. I suppose I'll have to make more.
394 words | December 4, 2007 11:04 PM | Kitchen