He’s sleeping now. Before he went to bed, by some miracle, we pried two little sweet potatoes from his 4-year-old fist.
Most nights, before the nuclear generator runs down and he shuts his eyes, Dexter and I argue about food. Lately he’s been on a cookie jag, and the arguments are not about whether he can have cookies before bedtime. They are about whether he can have cookies before bedtime if he preheats the oven and begins mixing the dough at 8:15. The answer to that one, and I try to stick to it, is no. Oh, but what about making the dough now and baking in the morning? And if I say no to that too: What about starting the dough now, finishing it in the morning and then baking the cookies tomorrow night?
The answer to that one is also no, because I know that in the morning he will have coffee to brew. …
He goes on to describe making sherbet: “When it was frozen, it reminded me of long-ago Creamsicles and Orange Juliuses at the mall, but it had a bright juiciness I don’t remember from my childhood.”
That was enough to get me interested. Recipes – Tangerine Sherbet
Boy, oh boy, does that sound yummy! Makes we wish I still had an ice cream maker. I remember tasting tangerine sherbet once as a child (at Baskin-Robbins, I think), and then never finding it again, although I always looked for it.
Oh man! Orange Julius rocked!
Orange Julius was the best thing ever.
I was actually friends with a girl in junior high and high school solely because her parents owned the Orange Julius franchise in our local mall.
They’re still out there, you know. There are four franchises in Albuquerque.
NewMexiKen, will you Fedex me a couple Orange Juliuses?