We celebrated the fourth in our traditional way, making too much food and watching 1776 (which is the source for the quote, said by Ben Franklin to John Addams). I got the movie on DVD from Netflix on Tuesday so mom and I could watch it for the fourth. There were a whole bunch of extra scenes and a new song (about the "cool cool conservative men" called "Hosanna" which is sung after John Addams is gone to Maryland). But the extra scenes made transitions that I always thought were weird make more sense. For our lovely dinner we had pork chops, green beans, baked beans, and mom's delicious potato salad. Mom and I made dessert which was a black raspberry roulade (also known as a "fool"). I picked the fresh berries from the fence row of one of our fields (which was less fun than it was when Rachel picked with me, at which time "We'll pick just a little longer" was equavalient to picking for another 30 minutes). Then mom helped me make the sponge cake. While that was cooling I crushed and strained the seeds from the black raspberries (like one would do when he or she was making jelly). Then I made some sweetened whipped cream (from scratch of course) and mixed the black raspberry juice/pulp with the whipped cream. The cream then gets spread on the sponge cake and then the cake gets rolled up like a jelly roll. We put it in the freezer to speed up the chilling process so by the time we ate the cake, the cream was a little like ice cream. Then the cake got topped with powdered sugar and served. It was fantastic! Hope you all had a good Fourth of July! (The US is now 230 years and One day old!) Mom and I also went in to see grandma for the fourth (and took her in some dinner). On the the way to grandma's house, we heard this hilrious comedien named Brian Regan on XM. He was talking about since he was the youngest he always sat in the worst seat in the car. So he decided to make is seem like he wanted the crappy seat. He would call "Back seat, in the middle, feet on the hump" which reminded me of my childhood, having to climb over that backseat or squished in the middle.
"Face it guys, we were putting extra stress on a structure that wasn't up to code to begin with." -Hank Hill (about Dale)
7 comments:
I thought you would have use cool whip and added raspberry extract. Plus the worst seat in the red sub was the middle not because of squishing, but because it was hot in summer, cold in winter, and had the most leg-pinching cracks on the edge
oh leg pinching cracks- how do you rememebr that shtuff?
but katrinka- a fool would have just been the cream and berries i think- rolled up with a sponge it's a roulade. but still sounds yummy nad makes me miss home.
oh yeah- and nice purple text- how'd you do that?
As if missing this dinner wasn't enough- there are deleted scenes from 1776!?!
Only a person that never had to sit in the middle won't remember the leg pinching cracks of the red sub! According to Martha Stewart, it is called a fool (so take it up with her!) As far as the purple text goes, when you are creating your post there is a pull down menu which lets you change the color of the text.
you are right about the cracks. swipes, i do remember Bridget sitting in the front a good deal, even after mom delegated the weekly rotation
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