Hoorah for the credit crunch: rabbit is back in the shops again. Which is good, but we got ours from the game dealer at Bentley (always a bit suspicious seeing fridges stocked with duck a couple of miles from a wildfowl sanctuary, but hey at least it's had some exercise...). Hwsgo cooked the rabbit (whole, unjointed) as a French casserole with lots of tomatoes and veg inside: a good thing to come home to after losing the ability to move my arms much in the gym. Wine: Katnook Estate cabernet; not best matched to the Wabbit, but definitely best matched to our relaxed-out mood for the evening.
Oh, the Simon? Chocolate malt ice-cream. Not difficult really: I dashed home at lunchtime to make it (having collapsed into bed early last night), which mostly consisted of whisking stuff carefully and having patience whilst things melted into each other (and taking an educated guess at what "thickens slightly" means). It's had 7 hours of freezing now, but was at a happy cold-fudge state when we got home two hours ago, so it is possible to both make and eat it on the same day. Which judging by Hwsgo's earlier reaction to tasting it is really quite likely to happen.
The *really* important thing that I forgot to mention earlier was that I didn't use an ice-cream maker. I didn't even need to whisk the ice-cream mixture midway through: there were no ice crystals at all in it, and it just froze directly into the right state. Homemade ice-cream without the faff? Oh yes...
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I have 5 words to say to you. C C I C M. There, that sums it up nicely.
"Champion Chocolate Ice Cream Monster"? Do I have to do the hand-signals? Again?
Meanwhile, there is still some left. It really is that rich, and I really am that restrained in the face of chocolate: perhaps I should have my chromosones checked?
Dash it woman don't tell the secret code to the world. That kind of thing is for us chefs alone: it is toque secret. Now you've blabbed the rest of the ice cream will have to be dealt with immediately. Oh yes. Please bring it here for secure disposal.
Disposal completed. Well done that man. It was a difficult mission, but we made it, somehow. Phew. Time for Żubrówka.
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