Family Friday Tales

 Here is another story from my childhood.  

Last week I spoke about the cellar walls and the field stone foundation.  One year our father decided to put in good cement walls on the other side of the cellar so he could divert the stream safely around the end of the house.  To do this he dug out around the front of the house and installed concrete forms (made out of plywood or whatever wood forms were made out of back in the old days when this happened) prior to using the cement mixer.

The project took quite a while to get set up since there was milking of cows to do plus haying plus cleaning out the barns, etc.  My younger brother was somewhat of a curious boy and pretty much a daredevil. So...he took it into his head to jump from the pile of dirt onto the top of the cement form and started walking along the top, like a tight-rope walker.

You need to understand that there was some distance between the dugout dirt, the form, and the foundation of the house.  ALSO the forms were about 8 feet tall.  So picture this boy...maybe ten years old...jumping onto the form, then tight-roping along it for a while.  Sadly, he lost his footing and fell down into the hole.

While falling he tried to save himself and caught his middle finger on the splintering wood...jamming a quarter-inch-wide splinter all the way to the second knuckle on his hand! Oh my gosh!!! Just sitting here remembering makes my knees jiggly and my stomach weak.  It really was dreadful.  He did survive, however.  I don't remember how he was removed from the hole. I just remember that awful sliver.  Someone got it out.  I don't remember that, either, just the fact of the sliver and seeing that he could not bend his finger....

This is probably one of the reasons why I, myself, did not grow up to be a daredevil nor much of a risk taker at all.  He did survive but...This is probably also the reason I never wanted to be a nurse.  I could not bear anyone else's pain or discomfort.  Patients would not have felt better with their nurse dripping tears all over them.  Teaching was a much better career for me!  TOTALLY!

A Quick and Easy Instant Pot Dish

 Last night I was not sleeping.  I had promised myself to do no knitting for at least twenty-four hours to see if I could get my body back to a happy place.  SO...I was rummaging through Facebook.  There was a post from Esther Loveridge, a woman that I really admire and respect.

This is the recipe she had posted:

Immediately after seeing that she put the beans and rice going at night and left it on warm overnight, I decided to do it myself.  That would be a very quick and easy breakfast.  Yes, I do like beans and rice and all sorts of savory non-breakfast-y foods for breakfast.  Dear One is not such a fan but he does partake from time to time.

Since I discovered all the rice I had was still in un-opened bags, and since I had a small amount of steel cut oats in a jar on the counter, I used them in place of the rice.  This morning I found this deliciousness:

It really was good.  The taco seasoning I used was homemade, I think from our daughter, but I made it some time ago and you know how long things remain at the top of one's mind....If not, I can tell you--not so long!

Next time I make the beans and rice/steel cut oats, I will use 3 Tablespoons of the taco seasoning.  It was a little mild.

Ya Learn Somethin' Every Day!

 So often I hear that.  And I think it is true. At least some days... Here is something I learned just yesterday.

So often I have bragged about/updated you on the Love Knots Blanket test knit I have been working on since October.  My plan has been to finish by the end of January.  That is this week!!  Anyway, yesterday I worked on Block 8 of 9.  I spent more than eight hours knitting.  I DID finish the block before 10:00 PM.  I laid it in place on the bed.

What I learned was this: eight-plus hours of knitting in one day is a bad bad idea.  From shoulder to fingers on my right hand (plus the lower part of the left arm and hand) ached so badly I could not get to sleep.  Eventually I got up and watched one of my favorite knitting podcasts for a while, then did manage to get back to sleep.

One more block (something under 7,000 stitches if I don't botch it and have to pull out and re-knit) plus the final inner border which is less that 2,500 stitches.  There is a moderately good chance that I will complete the knitting this week, then still need to weave in ends and sew together.  When it is finished I will heave a gigantic sigh of relief that everyone within hearing distance of this blog will hear, no matter where that is!!!  I kid you not.  

Dear One asked me if the designer knew what it was she was asking of her test knitters when she asked us to knit this beautiful blanket.  She did.  It took her four months to knit.  I am competitive enough that I want to finish in under four months.  Is that nasty of me?

Anyway,  I do think it will be a very cold day "down there" before I try knitting that many hours in one day again.  I do have quite a knitting queue but have a little time. I do hope to finally get to knitting socks for myself.  

One of the projects in the queue is another large-ish project (a sweater in multiple colors which will be new to me.  Also new to me is that I need to design it myself.  Wish me luck.  I have been looking and looking for one already designed that fits the plan I want and in the size I need to make it, but no luck yet.  I found a great book on Thriftbooks on sweater design and have a fabulous color-work book coming tomorrow {Knitting in Two Colors by Amy Detjen and Meg Swansen} which I can hardly wait to receive. Sadly, I will probably not allow myself to open the package because I don't want to be deflected from Block 9!

So, what did you learn today?!

Munchie Monday: Frozen to Cooked

 Our daughter is quite a cook.  She is also quite good at experimenting with recipes.  

One recipe she experimented with happened when she made too much chocolate chip cookie dough to bake all at once.  She, being smarter than average, formed the dough into balls, froze the balls on cookie sheets in the freezer, moved the frozen balls to plastic bags, put them back in the freezer, then hauled out a few balls to cook some cookies as needed.  Smart!

We have done the same thing.

To make a few cookies, pull out a lined baking sheet and place the cookies about 2 inches apart on the pan.  Put the pan in a COLD OVEN then turn on the heat to 350 degrees F.  Set your timer for 10 minutes.  It will take longer than that but start checking about then. There is no point burning cookies you have waited weeks for.  In our oven it take 13 or 14 minutes until they are cooked the way we like them.

Telling this story makes me think I had better check to see if we have any in the freezer at the moment.  Dear One was just scoping out the kitchen looking for something to munch on.  I don't suppose he would love a few sticks of celery...

Family Friday Tales

 Hopefully I have not already shared this story.  I am sure I have not shared all of it.

When I was three years old our family moved from Riverbow Farm on Route 110 to Jigger Hill Farm as, you may have guessed, was on Jigger Hill.  It was an idyllic place to be raised the rest of my growing up years.  I had wonderful parents and the best siblings ever. Yes, we did have our squabbles from time to time but I cannot tell you any of them at this moment.  Only the best things remain in my mind at this moment.  Others may pop up as I am writing but for now, only happy memories.

Anyway, our house was VERY old. It was so old that the foundation was created from field stone.  It was beautiful in some ways.  It was not so great in other ways.  Those ways included easy access for spiders to enter the cellar.  There were steep stairs into the cellar.  There were cobwebs overhead as you went down the stairs.  Why they were not swept down is a mystery to me at this point because our mother was a good housekeeper.  At the bottom of the stairs was a cement wall where some of the stones had been covered.  There was very little room between the bottom step and the wall.

To get to the story, one summer our mother was making applesauce.  When she had it completed and put into freezer containers it was my job to take the containers down cellar and put them into the giant deep freeze down there.  As it happens there may have been activity in the cobwebs overhead, or I may have just imagined it, so, instead of taking the applesauce all the way to the deep freeze, I set the containers on the edges of the stairs.  This was not a problem until about the third, or possibly fourth, trip when I stumbled over the applesauce, fell down the stairs, slammed into the cement/stone wall, then came crying back up the stairs.  I was about ten years old at the time.  

When I got back up into the kitchen, our father was there.  He asked me what had happened.  I told him I had fallen down the cellar stairs.  He nodded his head, led me back to the cellar door, opened the door, and looked down the stairs.  There on the stairs was a terrible mess of smashed containers and applesauce spread everywhere.  

Then he spanked me.  Not much, but enough to get my attention. I thought it was unjustified until he explained, rather forcefully,  that our mother had worked hard over a hot stove for hours to make the applesauce so we could have a sweet treat during the winter.  I still thought it was unnecessary to spank me when I had fallen down the stairs, crashed into the wall, and possibly been run over by big gray barn spiders.  Well, it happened.

For a long time I wondered how my father could have known about the applesauce debacle. Even with the crying.  One day, probably before I was eleven years old, I realized that seeing my clothes covered in applesauce may have been a dead giveaway about what had actually happened.

Well, I never held that against our father.  He was wonderful in every way.  The few times I was reprimanded or spanked were, looking back, totally justified.  

The other story I was going to tell shall wait for another time.

Thursday Thoughts

 The recent sporadic posts lets you know where I am!  (Two burials in ten days, two food orders plus local food shopping in four days, and so much more.  It is a full time job to be a church lady...!)

Today's "thought" is about something I did at least two weeks ago. 

One of my favorite crafts is Gelli printing to make into greeting cards. I love the colors. I love the way they play on the paper. I can never get bored but I have found a new techniques that pleases me.

These prints were a variety of techniques.  The ones with the "dots" are from using the bag that onions came in.  I spread the paint on the Gelli plate with a 4" brayer then laid the bag over the paint.  After that I placed the card stock on top, covered with a full sheet of card stock then rubbed over the top of the paper for about thirty seconds to hopefully get really good contact between the card-to-be and the paint.

You might also see some stars plus some circles of various sizes on one of the prints.  The stars come from the cap on Pellegrino bottles that someone pointed out to me might work,  The circles are from all sorts of covers as well as defunct pen tubes...the ink having dried up.

You might ask why I put a full sheet of card stock OVER the card stock that is being printed.  Good question! Easy answer: the Gelli plate is 5" by 7". The card stock is 4.25" by 5.5".  I am not fond of paint under my fingernails and all over my hands so I solve that by the big sheet.  It really helps, though does not totally eradicate the problem...since I always manage to get some paint where I don't want it, don't notice, then when I am done, discover my hands still have paint on them and the backs of the cards also have paint.  Oh well.  Amateur artist.

Munchie Monday: Bread and Honey

 Last week we received a package from Son #1.  One of the things in it was a jar of Blackberry Honey!  That sounded so tasty.  We were expecting the sister missionaries for a visit on Saturday so I decided to make some bread  that morning and test out the honey when they were here.

The recipe I got many years ago was called Setpoint Bread from a book called Set For Life.  I have changed the recipe a little for our use.

Setpoint Bread

10-12 cups white whole wheat flour (I grind the flour in our VitaMix just prior to using it.)
2 Tablespoons dry yeast
1/3 cup vital wheat gluten
4 cups warm water
1/3 cup vegetable oil
1/3 cup honey
1 Tablespoon salt

Place 4 cups flour, the warm water, and the yeast in the bowl of a stand mixer.  Process for 2-3 minutes then let it sit, covered, for up to 30 minutes to proof. Ten minutes will do. Add the honey, oil, and salt to the mixture and stir for about 30 seconds.  Start adding flour one cup at a time until the dough forms a ball and cleans the side of the bowl.  Add no more flour at that point but let the mixer knead the bread for 7-10 minutes.  Cover again and let rise until doubled, which takes about an hour.  Divide into four loaves and put in greased pans (unless you have silicon bread tins which do not need greasing), cover, and let rise until well above the tops of the pans...30 minutes or more.

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. then bake for 30-35 minutes.  Let stand until cool (if you can!!) then slice.

This bread was pretty good!

Food Friday: "Weight Loss Vegetable Soup"

 So here it is!  The recipe I told you about yesterday.  It turns out it was not entitled "Healthy Soup".  Another mistake on my part.  It was a recipe on Sweet Pea's Kitchen.

Weight Loss Soup

1 cup chopped carrots
1 onion, chopped
4 cups chopped cabbage--I used 6 cups
2 teaspoons minced garlic--I used 2 tablespoons
2 bell peppers, diced
1 cup green beans, chopped--I did not add these. Dear One does not like green beans.
1 28 ounce can diced tomatoes -I used 15 ounces fire-roasted diced tomatoes
2 Tablespoons tomato paste--I used the whole 6-ounce can
1 teaspoon thyme
1 teaspoon basil
2 bay leaves--I used all the small pieces in the bottom of the bottle.
6 cups beef broth--I used vegetable broth
2 cups chopped zucchini--I did not add these since I had used the last one in the vegetable broth pot.
2 cups broccoli, chopped--I used 6 cups cauliflower and broccoli mixed
Salt and pepper to taste

You can read the actual directions on the Sweet Pea Kitchen website.  As for me, I just put everything into the 8-quart Instant Pot and set it going.  Sadly, I left it as it was from the broth , which was 58 minutes.

Total disaster. 

 The one good thing about the soup is that as I am eating it, I seem to put too much into the saucepan to heat up so I feel not compunction about dumping the uneaten remainder down the sink.  A new thing for me, wasting food in this way.

Thursday Thoughts!

 This week has been full here.  I bet your week has also been full.  We are only two weeks into the new year and I have already fallen off the write-down-what-you-eat-before-you-eat-it wagon.  Well, some days I am doing it, but not religiously.  I have also tubbed up a lot.  Well, some.  Today I am turning this wagon around.  

This morning one of my counselors and I made a three-hour cruise.  Actually, it was a 3-hour drive and we did not end up on an uninhabited island. We did find a grand-mom and her new granddaughter at home. We spent a moment on the doorstep as we delivered a sweet little quilt another sister in the ward had made.  At the other house (which was a LONG way away...no wonder she found it hard to get to Church...) we found a nice man and a lovely cage where he had a white peacock!  I had never seen a white one.  He had gotten it thinking it would be a mate for the peacock he already had, but it turned out to be male also!  Sad.  I wonder what their pea-babies would have looked like.  Anyway, we learned that the sister who lived in that gorgeous house had moved to Kentucky. Three years ago!  Now we will hunt her down there to say goodbye and best wishes.

On the way back we stopped in Olanta at the Thigpen Farm where Dear One and I bought Asian sweet potatoes last fall. (I have two of those little beauties in the Instant Pot with a sweet onion and a wedge of cabbage for supper.  No, Dear One will not be sharing it with me.  He had a Subway sandwich which was lunch and supper...!). We learned a lot about sweet potatoes. It looks like I can plant a few starts, but earlier than I did last year, but plan to visit the farm again in August...!

After the visiting I managed to drive myself to theYMCA where I swam for only the second time this week. It was glorious though the water was only 89 degrees!  Often it is 90 degrees.  You would not think so but you really CAN feel the difference.  The YMCA app worked today so I signed up for a slot in the pool tomorrow.  I got in more than an hour of moving through the water. I really should not glorify what I do as swimming...but I did keep moving for a long time, though not as long as when Ms Ruby is there to chat with.  THOSE are really good days!

On the way home I stopped for Dear One's sandwich but before doing that, I stopped at a new Tienda Latina on Broad Street.  It is a small shop but has quite a bit of good stuff in it!  I got some Mexican vanilla as well as a gingerbread bar and some other semi-sweet  bread-y thing. I ate some on the way home and Dear One scarfed down the rest. I really MUST learn Spanish.  DuoLingo here I come!

This darling little ball with the fluffy green hair and the green-haired, headed pen with the tip to use on your phone keyboard was a gift from the nice proprietor of Mercado Acosta.  So nice of him.

Now that I am home and stopped, I feel like a nap coming on but should not do that.  I started to write this post about things that have been on my mind this week. Instead I am just blatting on about what I have done today...Sorry.  Not at all the thing!

Thought 1:  Sometimes you can prepare a meal that you think will be fabulous and it just plain isn't.  We had a meal like that this week. I made "Healthy Vegetable Soup".  I have come to believe that when the word "healthy" is in a recipe's title, the food is probably just this side of garbage.  In this case, it was my own fault.  It cooked way too long in the Instant Pot.  I did not have time to hang around the stove babysitting the soup so I cooked it in the Instant Pot.  For a LONG time.  Mistake #1.  Mistake #2 was that when the recipe called for a 28-ounce can of diced tomatoes, I put in a 15-ounce can of "Fire-Roasted Diced Tomatoes".  Along with extra vegetable broth.  WELL...this really was just this side of garbage. I realized after talking with Dear Daughter that the problem was the fire-roasted/burned tomatoes.  I had used fire-roasted tomatoes once before and found the flavor they imparted to be nasty but did not remember.  Now I will remember.  There are two half-gallon jars of this glop in the refrigerator.  I would rather eat the leftover miso soup with udon noodles and tofu than the Healthy Vegetable Soup...!  Hopefully I will get to it before it goes bad.  Or should I say, worse.

Thought #2:  When you have a "great thought" come into your mind, after examining it closely and finding that it really is a great thought, it would be wise to act on it immediately.  No story to share, but a truth I have come to believe.

Thought #3: Our lives will be so much happier and more productive if we spend time every single day counting our blessings.  Gratitude is the very best medicine.

Munchie Monday: Vegetable Pie

 The other day I was on some social media site--Facebook or YouTube or Instagram--when a recipe appeared. It caught my attention so I made it yesterday.

It was on YouTube but I cannot seem to find it now.  There was no audio, just the video and text onscreen. I think the author was Italian.  Or maybe Portuguese...?

Vegetable Pie

200 gr. flour
2 eggs plus optional egg for egg wash on top of crust
170 grams plain greek style yogurt
1/2 cup vegetable or animal milk
2 teaspoons baking powder
1 onion
2 large carrots
1 zucchini
Olive oil and salt to taste

Preheat oven to 375 degrees F.  Grease a round cake tin-either 8 or 9 inch. I used 8 inch but will use a larger one next time.

Using a shredder of some type, shred or grate the onion, carrots, and zucchini.  Put in a large bowl.

In another bowl weigh out the flour.  Add the baking powder and stir well. With the bowl still on the scales add the greek yogurt a little at a time until you have 170 grams of yogurt, then add eggs and milk.  Stir well.

Put half of the "dough" into the prepared pan and spread to the edges.  

Add 1-2 tablespoons of olive oil and half a teaspoons of salt to the vegetables and stir until well mixed.  Spread over the bottom crust. Now put the remaining dough on top and spread to the edges.  If you want to do an egg wash (maybe makes the top crust prettier...plus you can then sprinkle on sesame seeds or poppy seeds) now is the time.

Put in the oven for 30-40 minutes.  Since our pan was smaller and the pie came almost to the top of the pan, I left it in for 45 minutes because I wanted everything to really be cooked when I removed it from the oven.

It turned out "OK", according to Dear One.

It is somewhat bland if you have been eating lots of salty, greasy, spicy foods but it was still pretty good. I will be making it again.  I will probably add some Kirkland No-Salt seasoning, maybe to the crust AND the vegetables!

You can probably tell by the photo that I put parchment paper in the bottom of the cake tin.  I was afraid the "pie" would not come out.  I cut a circle that was about 3 inches larger than the pan all around, placed the pan in the center, then cut in towards the pan every couple of inches then placed it on top of the greased pan.  It was then ready for the bottom crust. The parchment paper worked really well.  I might give it 4 inches all around beyond the pan next time to make it even easier to pull out of the tin.

2021 January Garden!

 Today was a busy day.  

Drove to Columbia to pick up a food order.

Went to Food Storage Center for wheat and dried onions which were finally back in stock.

Went to Sam's Club to pick up something for a friend, and by the way, found a lot of stuff we needed after all...nothing big because the car was already loaded!

Dropped off the artichoke spinach dip at a friend's house.

Dropped off the food order at the home of a sick family...being very careful to have no physical contact with them.

During all this I was making phone calls about dressing for burial a sister who passed earlier this week.  I am SO GLAD we were able to make connections and have scheduled sisters for that event for tomorrow morning. (Feel totally free to add us to your prayers for tomorrow...) The family had hoped for a special friend to be involved but she was sick and tested positive yesterday so she had to decline.

When we arrived home we decided we needed five-gallon buckets and gamma seal lids for the wheat which I knew we could get at Tractor Supply Company so I left Dear One at home since he had had enough fun for the day.  While at Tractor Supply I found not only the buckets and lids but LOTS of new bird feeders!  So I added a feeder and seeds and a fatty brick of seeds to the cart. I was horrified by the total but...

When I arrived home after another stop, this time at the pharmacy, I impressed Dear One with the bird feeder and food, went out onto the deck and pulled up the last of the dead tomatoes, basil, and ginger plants, threw them over the railing of the deck and installed the filled bird feeder.  And waited for birds to arrive. 

 Those dumb bunnies never came!  The nerve of them.  I do expect them in the morning.  Birds, in the winter, seem to mostly be out early in the day. It makes me happy to think they will be thrilled to find two different kinds of food first thing tomorrow morning.  Makes me want to leap out of bed at dawn. We shall see...

When I get up tomorrow, besides reveling in the joy of the feeding birds, I will drag off all the dead plants to mulch the "pond bed"...keeping my eyes open for reptiles, who I expect are sleeping somewhere...hopefully not near our garden.  I have a horror of some day disarming our alarm system in the morning, opening the blinds to the deck and find that guy smiling up at me.  Yikes!  What a nightmare that is...a recurring one, unfortunately.  What a baby I am.

It is so fabulous that the pot of spring bulbs we bought last year has survived to try again this spring. We are hoping for the best!

Knitting Math?!

 When we were young and in school we might have thought our math classes were a bunch of bunk and not at all relevant to "real life". At least, I do know some some people who had thoughts like this.  Now, as a more mature lady, I realize that math is everywhere in life.  For an example: with knitting.

Here is what I have finally learned: any time you want a piece of knitting to be a particular size, it is critically important to knit a gauge swatch.  What this consists of is a small piece of knitting using the yarn you plan for your project and the needles you plan to use for your project.

On the YouTube podcast, Fruity Knitting, Andrea showed us some math that helps us knit garments that knit.  If you are interested in watching some inspirational knitting, fancy complex gorgeous knitting, you will want to watch these 90-minute video podcasts.  Andrew and Andrea also have a full Fruity Knitting website.

This picture comes from a different YouTube episode than the one I have referenced above.  Meg Swansen (and Elizabeth Zimmermann) was interviewed on that podcast....not Elizabeth in actuality but she was there.  She is my top knitting hero. She got me knitting again after reading her book "Knitting Without Tears".  Such a fabulous book.  I highly recommend it to all those who want to knit.

Now to the knitting math I mentioned above

Stitch gauge

Number of stitches per 4 inch swatch divided by 4 equals number of stitches per inch

Row gauge

Number of rows per 4 inch swatch divided by 4 equals number of rows per inch

Width of piece

Number of stitches divided by stitch gauge equals width of piece

Length of piece

Number of rows divided by row gauge equals length of piece

Number of stitches

Width of piece multiplied by stitch gauge equals  number of stitches 

Number of rows

Length of piece multiplied by row gauge equals number of row

Since I am in the mental processes of designing a sweater/jacket for our daughter, I keep running this math through my head!

Monday Musings

 Yesterday our Relief Society discussion was based on the General Conference talk from October 2020 by Elder David Bednar entitled "We Will Prove Them Herewith".  Our discussion leader did a great job of making that talk accessible and useful to us all.  We met via Zoom and had a few technical glitches at the beginning and started late but her preparedness and skill with the sisters was wonderful and truly made up for the problems.

She started by quoting "prepare every needful thing; and establish a house, even a house of prayer, a house of fasting, a house of faith, a house of learning, a house of glory, a house of order, a house of God."

We discussed most of those points.  One thing I liked was the topic of prayer.  People brought up making prayer lists, which I liked very much.  I need to do that. I sometimes forget people I intend to pray for.

We talked about fasting.  We fast the first Sunday of every month in our Church and donate the funds we would have used to buy food for our family to a fast offering which is used to assist needy people in our local area.  It is a wonderful thing.  Not everyone can fast so we talked about how those people could also participate in the fast.  One sister said she fasts from social media, or TV, or sugar or something else that is a sacrifice for her.  That was such a good point.  When I cannot fast for whatever reason, I choose not to eat anything that gives me pleasure.

The other things we addressed were wonderful but I won't go on.  You get the point.

We also spoke briefly of temporal preparedness and spiritual preparedness and were given the assignment to assess where we are right now.  Are we just right or do we need improvement.  We were instructed to not skip over the "just right" aspects of our preparedness and directly to "needs improvement".  I hope to spend time before our next meeting doing just this assessment.

By clicking on the link above everyone can listen to this Conference address and be enriched. I hope you will do it then think of how the quotes can bless your own lives.

Food Friday: Pistachio Pudding Dessert

 Our daughter sent us a tempting recipe the other day.  It was so tempting that I decided to make it. I only needed to get two ingredients.

Travis Jones' Dessert

Mix together and press into a 9 X 13 pan (or throw these ingredients into a food processor and pulse until smooth)

1 cup flour
1/2 cup cold butter
3/4 cup walnuts (use chopped walnuts in you are not using food processor)

Pre-heat oven to 375 degrees F and bake for 15 minutes.  Remove from oven and let cool completely.

Cream together:

8 ounces softened cream cheese
1 cup powdered sugar

then add

2 cups whipped cream

Spread onto cooled crust.

In a large bowl, mix:

 2 small boxes pistachio pudding mix
2 1/2 cups cold milk

Spread the pudding over the cream cheese filling 

then spread on top of THAT(the green pudding) 

 2 more cups whipped cream.

Sprinkle chopped pistachios over the top and let chill until firm.

As I am writing we are waiting for the dessert to firm up in the refrigerator.  Can hardly wait to try it.  The only pain will be figuring out the nutrients in it. I will be putting the recipe in MyFitnessPal so the computer can do the figuring for me!