Fun Food Experiments and Phlox

 
Image: purple garden phlox and orange day lilies.

My Asiatic lilies have all faded and are making way for the purple garden phlox and the orange day lilies.  

Today, everything started out stormy, but then the heat mostly broke (though the humidity lingered a bit) and it has been moderately decent. It is currently 83 F / 28 C. My house spy seems to think the temperatures might actually drop into the upper sixties tonight. That's good sleeping weather, so fingers crossed.

Since the temperatures weren't insanely hot (and I was up early,) I decided to try to make the lettuce soup recommended by dragonlady7 and pameladean ... folks, I think I maybe did something wrong or, it might just be that I don't like the taste of lettuce as much as I thought I did. Here's how it ended up looking:


Image: lettuce soup with flecks of... lettuce? (Although the flecks might be chives, honestly.)

Is this how it's supposed to look? I used my immersion blender and followed the recipe as closely as possible. However, I am the sort who will read and read and read a recipe and then discover I missed something critical like baking soda (obviously not in THIS recipe, just as an example.) So, who knows? My family and I all tried it at lunch, and it certainly used up a lot of lettuce. I'm down to a very reasonable amount to last until Thursday when the next CSA is scheduled.

It smelled AMAZING when I was making it. I'm not sure why did didn't live up to the smell.

The thing that did live up to its reputation?

BASIL ICE CREAM.


Image: home made basil ice cream in a sake bowl (on a red counter.)

Thank you sabotabby for convincing me that this was not as weird as it sounded!  My rather picky wife even ate a whole bowl. Mason agreed "not bad." So, we now have Thai basil ice cream in the freezer.

Which is good, because I may need some comfort food tomorrow. I got pressured by my boss to come in to work at White Bear Lake library tomorrow from one to five. I am... full of trepidation.  I mean, it's not open to the public (although apparently some branches are to some extent;people are being allowed to use the computers) but there is still a lot of handling of things that were in the extended possession of hundreds of patrons. The air will all be recycled, as "hermetically sealed" is actually the preferred mode when dealing with books. But, I kind of need to put in some hours, some time? Or they will drop me off the roster.

So that sucks.

We also failed to purchase Mason's computer twice again today, even with a banker sitting on the phone with us. We must have gotten tagged as fraudulent by the company we are trying to buy from because we tried unsuccessfully too many times. Damn you, American Independence Day! (*waves fist*)

However, we found the same laptop available at a local Best Buy, so we're just going to try walking in. We are still pre-approved for the spending, so... hopefully, it will work. Even if they don't have it, they can probably order it for us with better luck.

I can't believe it's been this hard to buy a damn computer.

Anyway, hope you all are doing good. How's things?