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defensiveness ahoy, food, otf can ruin anything, the mods hate otf so much, whipping cream is hard!

Cool Whip: It's a Floorwax and a Dessert Topping!
Over in the hip_domestics community, petrel asks the age old question, "Cool Whip is the same as whipped cream, right?" followed closely by "How do you make whipped cream anyway?" This draws some slight mumbling from the crowd on the evils of Cool Whip, nothing spectacular, really.

Anyhoo, domestic snark picks it up and upsets a friend of the original poster, coflower, who wouldn't have been upset if everyone knew what an IQ smart person [petrel] is.

Once again, short but sweet. (I should really stop looking at food comms when I'm hungry.)

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shaysdays
2007-12-06 10:11 pm UTC (link)

It's usually off with the coffee creamer and soy milk- where people who just drink regular milk wouldn't look. And it's fucking surrounded by half-and-half. Who drinks all this half and half? I was looking for cream the other day (homemade pesto with cream + shrimp +angel hair pasta = crazy delicious) and I literally spent five minutes shoving aside Vanilla Dream and Hazelnut Surprise to find the little box of creamy goodness.

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	julesnoctambule 2007-12-06 11:02 pm UTC (link)
	Agh, those 'creamers' make me feel queasy just looking at them! Mmm, pesto cream sauce on the other hand. . .I have a new idea for my husband's birthday dinner now. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

shaysdays
2007-12-07 02:05 am UTC (link)

Well, I took a bag of fresh basil, (about 1 1/2 c of loosely packed leaves) about 1/3 a cup of grated parmesan, 3 cloves of garlic (smashed) and some salt and pepper. (I leave out the sprinkling of pine nuts but they're traditional.) Drizzled olive oil over it and hit 'frappe.' Well, okay, not frappe. But then after it was blended nicely I let it sit for a half hour, then added the cream and gave it a blend right before I served it.

Also I just threw the shrimp in with the pasta for the last 30 seconds of cooking to heat it through. (Also I had my kids make the pesto because grating and picking leaves are their jobs- YMMV.)

By the way, I cannot write real recipes to save my life.

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	julesnoctambule 2007-12-07 02:10 am UTC (link)
	Ever tried pesto made with rosemary and a little parsley instead of basil? It's delicious and a bit of a surprise -- goes great with shellfish, too. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	shaysdays 2007-12-08 05:45 pm UTC (link)
	I will have to keep that in mind- also 'pesto' with mint, pine nuts, and marscapone on white bread is too good to be legal for a desserty-type appetizer. (Reply to this)(Parent)

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