[silly, food, previous post]

[wispfox]

The responses I got to my odd green pie are entertaining me.

Multiple things to say, since some people appear confused:

a) I already had the crust, and did not make it (some of the comments don't make sense to me, and I suspect that is why). I only made the jello. (yes, when I bought the crust and jello years ago, I did actually look for jello pudding. Found none, and was curious about the combination of the regular jello and the crust. It's only taken me something like 3 years to get around to actually satisfying my curiosity about what it would be like)

b) I avoid cooking, mostly, because it hurts my head and takes amazing amounts of effort (I do ever cook; just rarely, due to the energy required). Baking is much easier on me. That said, I'm not sure that I've ever baked anything from scratch or have the ingredients for that. And not that either cooking or baking was involved for what I did. :)

c) It was nearly my bedtime when I made it, so there was not _time_ to make anything more involved, even had I the ingredients or initiative. Jello is really quick, and really easy. Also, I did expect interesting results from putting something fully liquid onto a graham cracker crust, I was just not completely sure what the final result would be.

d) I'm not intending to have anyone else taste it (although if anyone wants to, I won't stop them). It helps satisfy my random cravings for sweet things, without me going out and buying something sweet. That was the point, along with satisfying my curiosity. :)

e) It takes like lime jello and slightly damp graham cracker crust (since the liquid from the jello was absorbed by the crust). It's neither amazing nor bad.

f) I now have half a mind to do this again, with gummy or similar fish (glow in the dark would be better, but I don't know if they exist), and some sort of frog. Of course, with my luck, it'd look far less interesting. :)

Comments

[bernmarx.livejournal.com]

f) Do it!

See, I meant to post before, I thought it looked tasty enough. All these cooks with all their rules are just no fun! Sometimes you just gotta slap the ingredients together and see what happens.

Could you mail me a slice? ;)

[leiacat.livejournal.com]

The consensus among my friends was that it was, "um, green", and interesting.

Interestingly, to me baking is a lot more effortful than cooking. That might be because baking is fiddlier, and less forgiving. Cooking is hard work, but I'm pretty good at substituting flavors and customizing recipes to something I'd like, or excluding things I don't. Also, with baking, it's too easy to mis-measure. Accidentally doubling the amount of wine with which one is flavoring meat is a heck of a lot more forgiving than accidentally doubling the amount of butter in the dough.

Want pics of pond pie!

[wispfox.livejournal.com]

Baking is... something which most people seem to use recipies for. And rarely make more than one thing at a time.

I do reasonably well with recipies, and with things I can leave alone for long periods of time. Baking allows for this.

Pond pie...

I really may have to do this. Unfortunately, the remaining colors of jello I have are yellow and red. Not quite so impressively pondy... perhaps I shall have to find more green jello. ;)

[leiacat.livejournal.com]

My favorite recipe is of the form "apply interesting things to hunk of meat. Shove a thermometer probe up it. Heat oven to predetermined temperature, put in, take out when it beeps".

Baking, alas, requires my bane: "cook until done". I like recipes that can beep at me, or can be precisely timed. Anything that requires noticing a particular shade of brown is doomed.

[fourgates.livejournal.com]

f) I now have half a mind to do this again, with gummy or similar fish (glow in the dark would be better, but I don't know if they exist), and some sort of frog. Of course, with my luck, it'd look far less interesting. :)

A few years ago, when I was a pseudoparent of a small boy, I once took some berries, mashed them up, added agar agar (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agar) (which one can get at Whole foods), heated it over the stove for a few minutes, and poured it into a pan to make a flat piece of squishy stuff that acts and tastes a lot like jello. I then cut a fish-shaped piece out of the agar jello and put it in another pan, then poured clear agar jellow over that. With the fogginess of the almost-clear solution, plus some bleeding from the hot clear stuff being poured over the set colored stuff, it looked like a spooky fish in slightly scummy water -- a bonus, I think.

So, your could my point is that you could cut a frog and a fish out of a piece of colored jello to get a similar effect.

[okoshun.livejournal.com]

That sounds like so much fun!