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Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal:
But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal.Matthew 6:19-20
A portion of my treasures
Bleach doth corrupt
I spent a few years accumulating a large collection of ice cream books. I scoured used book stores and I carefully watched for price fluctuations on Amazon.com. I didn’t end up owning every ice cream cookbook ever published, but I did own a lot of them. As is the way of accumulating mortals, I’ve gotten busy in the last year or two and haven’t made ice cream nearly as much. However, I continued to keep my treasures on a shelf in the laundry room by the ice cream maker and it gave me pleasure to know that if I wanted an obscure ice cream recipe, I could probably find it.
On Saturday, we noticed a strong chlorine smell in the house. I figured Amelia, who had been working to do an extra good job on the bathroom, had gotten over enthusiastic with the Scrubbing Bubbles again. Personally, I spent a good share of the day in the laundry room. Unfortunately, even when I noticed the tell-tale little spots on my pants, I didn’t connect them with the odor. Later we discovered the bottle of bleach that had tipped off the dryer on to the counter where the cookbooks were.
Silver lining: My two favorite ice cream cookbooks
How to Make Ice Cream by Cook’s Illustrated
were safe in the living room upstairs:
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I wish my caprese salads were as beautiful as this one. But just seeing it makes me sad that summer and fresh tomatoes are almost over.
I am such a party pooper when it comes to homemade ice cream. I got an ice cream maker and cookbook (the one you have pictured in your first picture with the strawberry ice cream on the cover) when I got married. We did make ice cream a few times but buying the ingredients costed more money than a half gallon of Bryers ice cream and usually it wouldn’t set up enough in the machine and we would have to freeze it anyway. So when we moved to Texas, and I knew how small our student housing apartment would be, I donated the machine. Obviously you enjoy making homemade ice cream though. Do you have a favorite kind to make?
Oh, boy…things like that happening are so sad. I once went to Jackson and stayed in a cabin and knocked over my water on the nightstand and soaked a brand new computer book. You have my sympathy.