I Love Lucy.
Sometimes my life is like a sitcom.
For instance, Friday.
On Saturday, Marty and I decided to celebrate belated-Valentine's Day (we couldn't celebrate on Wednesday because it would've been near-impossible with him recording his new CD and me working and both of us needing to get up early in the morning). Anyhow, the V-Day plan was, he was going to come over to my place for some home cookin'! I decided to serve a lime mousse that my dad has made before as a dessert, because Marty loves limes. Lime mousse has to chill overnight, as it kind of becomes a "sorbet-like" thing. [End: backstory.]
Ultimately, I had to make the lime mousse on Friday night after work. There were a bunch of different steps. I whipped egg whites into a meringue, I make heavy cream into whipped cream. I juiced limes, I softened Knox unflavored gelatin. The next step was to boil the lime juice with sugar. Basically, it was instructing me to make a simple syrup. However, you were supposed to not stir and just use a candy thermometer to monitor how hot the syrup was getting and when it was time to turn it off. I do not have a candy thermometer. But it was suposed to reach 240 degrees, so I assumed it had to boil for a while.
In the meantime, I started zesting limes for the next step. I got distracted, and by the time I looked back to my lime/sugar syrup, it had gone brown, indicating it had burned. I was most upset, but before getting too bummed out, I realized that I hadn't ruined the dessert; I'd overbought limes so could get more juice, and I had more sugar available.
So -- I had to quickly dispose of the hot sugar syrup so that I could use the pan again. What's a girl to do?? You can't throw scalding liquid into a garbage can.... and our kitchen sink was not working (the pipe was frozen so no water was coming out) so I thought it a bad idea to pour the syrup down the sink's drain.
Ultimately, I decided the "answer" was to pour it directly into the toilet and flush it down. (Just the other day, when Jess and I had made room in the freezer for all the frozen Kashi meals, we had disposed of some gone-bad lemonade in this same method.) Immediately I realized this was a mistake. First the toilet began to clog. Then I realized why. The hot sugar, when added to the COLD toilet water, solidified directly onto the inside of the toilet bowl!! Not having time to mess around, I immediately stuck my hand in the toilet and began to break off pieces of the sugar-candy. I broke it off enough to stop clogging.
The remainder of the sugar-candy was fused onto the toilet still, but I was worried about leaving my half-finished recipe there without completing the next step. Quickly I jotted down a note to my roommates: "I CAN EXPLAIN! Toilet OK to use. I will clean." Back in the kitchen, I cleaned out the pan and made simple syrup (TAKE 2). It was a success! (Hooray!) I completed my lime mousse. It came out great, despite the trouble with TAKE 1.
Then, Susan came home and I started to tell her what happened. When we revisited the toilet, a miracle had happened! After that time just sitting there, the sugar had dssolved, and it was now a liquid that could be flushed easily down! YES! SAVED!
For instance, Friday.
On Saturday, Marty and I decided to celebrate belated-Valentine's Day (we couldn't celebrate on Wednesday because it would've been near-impossible with him recording his new CD and me working and both of us needing to get up early in the morning). Anyhow, the V-Day plan was, he was going to come over to my place for some home cookin'! I decided to serve a lime mousse that my dad has made before as a dessert, because Marty loves limes. Lime mousse has to chill overnight, as it kind of becomes a "sorbet-like" thing. [End: backstory.]
Ultimately, I had to make the lime mousse on Friday night after work. There were a bunch of different steps. I whipped egg whites into a meringue, I make heavy cream into whipped cream. I juiced limes, I softened Knox unflavored gelatin. The next step was to boil the lime juice with sugar. Basically, it was instructing me to make a simple syrup. However, you were supposed to not stir and just use a candy thermometer to monitor how hot the syrup was getting and when it was time to turn it off. I do not have a candy thermometer. But it was suposed to reach 240 degrees, so I assumed it had to boil for a while.
In the meantime, I started zesting limes for the next step. I got distracted, and by the time I looked back to my lime/sugar syrup, it had gone brown, indicating it had burned. I was most upset, but before getting too bummed out, I realized that I hadn't ruined the dessert; I'd overbought limes so could get more juice, and I had more sugar available.
So -- I had to quickly dispose of the hot sugar syrup so that I could use the pan again. What's a girl to do?? You can't throw scalding liquid into a garbage can.... and our kitchen sink was not working (the pipe was frozen so no water was coming out) so I thought it a bad idea to pour the syrup down the sink's drain.
Ultimately, I decided the "answer" was to pour it directly into the toilet and flush it down. (Just the other day, when Jess and I had made room in the freezer for all the frozen Kashi meals, we had disposed of some gone-bad lemonade in this same method.) Immediately I realized this was a mistake. First the toilet began to clog. Then I realized why. The hot sugar, when added to the COLD toilet water, solidified directly onto the inside of the toilet bowl!! Not having time to mess around, I immediately stuck my hand in the toilet and began to break off pieces of the sugar-candy. I broke it off enough to stop clogging.
The remainder of the sugar-candy was fused onto the toilet still, but I was worried about leaving my half-finished recipe there without completing the next step. Quickly I jotted down a note to my roommates: "I CAN EXPLAIN! Toilet OK to use. I will clean." Back in the kitchen, I cleaned out the pan and made simple syrup (TAKE 2). It was a success! (Hooray!) I completed my lime mousse. It came out great, despite the trouble with TAKE 1.
Then, Susan came home and I started to tell her what happened. When we revisited the toilet, a miracle had happened! After that time just sitting there, the sugar had dssolved, and it was now a liquid that could be flushed easily down! YES! SAVED!