Voice Lessons and Dessert
Tonight I had an hour-long voice lesson with a friend of mine from this area. It was actually really good – I was nervous for no explainable reason, but I got over that about half-way through. I am going back tomorrow to pick up some sheet music for a song he wants to teach me; my next lesson is next week.
Tonight for dessert I wanted something substantial, but there were no cookies. We had ice cream, and then I eyed some bananas, and then I saw we had peanut butter.
So, I made myself a delicious sundae.
- Chocolate Ice Cream
- Vanilla Ice Cream
- Sliced Banana
- Peanut Butter topping
The peanut butter topping is difficult, since you can’t just cook it in the microwave, lest it get nasty (and the line between “smooth and melty” and “burned” is about a tenth of a second). A double boiler does the trick, but for just a little bit of topping, I heated some water in our electric kettle (nice) to near boil (or boil, but I’m impatient). While said water is heating, get yourself two bowls, one smaller than the other. I use thin clear glass bowls, your mileage may vary. It’s important that your smaller bowl is thin and glass (the outside bowl doesn’t matter), so if you have to use a juice cup, that is fine too. In a pinch a tupperware may do.
Ok, so, put a spoonful of smooth peanut butter in the smaller bowl. Put the smaller bowl in the bigger bowl. Pour the hot water in the bigger bowl so it surrounds but does not cover the smaller bowl. Grab the edge of the smaller bowl and lift it a little so that the bottom is surrounded by water too (this step optional). With your other hand, stir the peanut butter. In your faux double-boiler, you will see that after about 20sec of stirring, your peanut butter will be nice and goopy and perfect for drizzling over the ice cream. Time may vary, but if it isn’t at least starting to melt at 20sec, you’re doing it wrong. Go heat the water more.
For extra deliciousness, you can do this with chocolate chips for some poor man’s hot “fudge”. Melting chocolate will take longer than peanut butter, but can be done in the same fashion. Chocolate can also be started in the microwave, as the line between “melted” and “burned” is a bit wider.
Anyway, my sundae was delicious. I would make it again, except this time with no chocolate ice cream. Yes, I did just say I would re-make a dessert WITHOUT the chocolate. Trust me, though, on this one. The chocolate was good, but somewhat threw off the banana/peanut-butter deliciousness that was happening.
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