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Pastimes : Don't Ask Rambi -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Rambi who wrote (66397)	12/25/2004 2:47:21 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

The Tres Leches cake was too sweet for me to even eat a bite. I nibbled on raw dough and licked the beaters and the bowls, so got a lot of sugar that way. First, at Nick's request, we had dinner at The Prime Rib, a very fancy steak restaurant on K street, and the kids wanted to have dessert there, so when we got home everybody was too stuffed to have birthday cake. It was full of lawyers and lobbyists, older men, and twice as many young women, I assumed lots of people taking the staff out for Christmas treats. My mom joked that they must be interns! It cost about twice as much as comparable restaurants here in Fairfax, but Nick has expensive tastes. Also, Chris helped me with the cake, and while I was whipping egg whites, he beat in the flour, and did not realize that if you beat flour that will cause gluten to form. He thought he was being helpful by really beating it well! So it was very tough, and would not absorb the milks. Yesterday at Nick's request I bought him a food type hypodermic syringe - these have plastic needles so you can't use them for shooting up drugs. He tried to inject the milks into the cake, but it kept backing up. I think it was a mistake to wait for the cake to cool before pouring on the milks. When you put glazes on cakes, typically you do it while the cake is still hot. Anyway, Ben and Nick still think it's good. As I get older, I like sweet things less and less, except for chocolate. I put a box of Godiva chocolates in each of their Christmas stockings. They gave me the ones they don't like - imagine my surprise! ;^) For dinner, they are having roast prime rib of beef, but I bought myself 2 whole rockfish at a nice Korean grocery, and will have roasted whole rockfish instead. One for dinner, and one for tomorrow. I was hoping that this grocery would have nice fresh rockfish, as I was craving them. They were open until 11 pm last night and will be open all day until 11 pm Christmas! Probably not Christians, or at least not all of them. My cashier was wearing a Santa hat, and when I asked if they were open Christmas day, acted rueful, so I assume she's Christian. There are a lot of Christian Koreans around here. They have their own churches, all sects, including Catholics and Baptists. As for the insulation, yes, there are insulating things you can put into and around electrical sockets and light switches. You can get them at Home Depot, Lowes, and other hardware stores.