Well, it LOOKS like Sherbet…what it really is something Marcia came up with on her own, although others have made a variant of it with names like Jello Cream Cheese Fluff. She mixes two small containers (or one large) of sugar-free Jello with 2 cups hot water and 1 cup cold water, mix and put in the Refrigerator until it sets. Then she puts 6 oz of cream cheese, cut into small squares (to mix easier), 1/4 cup of heavy whipping cream, and the set Jello in the Magic Bullet and mixes until it is well blended. Then pours it into a large mixing bowl, and uses her immersion blender to get it to fluff up more, then back into the fridge. An hour or two later, it is ready to eat. WOW, this stuff is GREAT, and it is nearly carb free! The serving you see above is a bit bigger than our normal serving. When she makes it, we both get 3-4 servings from the batch. One ounce of Cream Cheese has less than one carb in it, according to the label. She puts in 6 ounces, and that makes 6-8 servings…so essentially, each serving has less than 1 carb. The Jello and heavy whipping cream have no carbs.
Skruffy wants to show off our new dishwasher.
This is the quietest dishwasher I have ever heard…and my sister and Arny have a very quiet one too. There are two drawers, and you can wash one while filling the other, and then start it when ever you want. So you can wash one drawer or both drawers at the same time, and it does not matter which one you use first.
There is only one set of controls, all on the top drawer. The first button will light up the display (so will opening a drawer). The second button will select which drawer you want to wash, pictured with the white rectangle above the button. In the bottom two picture above, the “Fast” is for the upper drawer, and “Rinse” is for the lower drawer. The third button selects the type of wash you want to do…46 minutes fast wash is what she likes to use, it does not dry…she likes everything to drip-dry. The bottom drawer is set for a 15 minute rinse. The manual says that you should run each drawer at least once every week or two, other wise you open up the drawer and let it sit until you get back from your vacation. So we just run a quick 15 minute rinse once a week or so for the bottom drawer…typically with nothing in it.
Above you can see the other types of washes. All types of washes are available for each drawer, and you select the type by pushing the button right under the numbers. You can also push the second and third button at the same time to make changes to the length of time of some of the wash choices.
The last button starts the washer. You can use either liquid or granule soap in the dispenser, or if you use the solid squares or balls, you can put them in a special holder that sits above the silverware holder. You add a liquid rinse aid, and when it runs out, a small light right by the soap dispenser will light up telling you it is time to add more.
I really like our new chair. It was easy to put together, took me about 40 minutes. It is also very quiet when it moves, but there is a hum when the massage is running.
It is time for a new hose for the motorhome, and heard about this neat new hose, it has been around for a couple of years. It has real good reviews, and it will be much easier to store.
In looking over Black Friday Week on Amazon, I came upon this neat little speaker. It is bluetooth, connects to our Kindles, is solar charged (or it can charge via a standard phone charger), and also connects to a phone. Sometimes we are traveling on a Sunday and we want to watch/listen to our church service via the Internet…but the sound is too weak. This will be perfect.
Heard about Verizon’s new “no contract” Prepaid Unlimited Data plan, $65 per month if you autopay, and a new aircard/Jetpack for $49 (one payment only). Right now our 40 gigs of data runs us $150 per month…and we are locked into using that aircard for 5 more months…but we are NOT locked in at the 40 gigs. But that 40 gigs is a promotional price…once we let it go, we can’t get it back at that price, which is normally $300 per month. So we got our new prepaid Jetpack today, and if it works for the rest of the month, I will drop our 40 gig plan down to 1 gig, which will run us $30 per month…and in May, drop it completely, saving the $30 and the $20 monthly connection fee. Also, since this plan is unlimited…we hope to be able to drop our house connection saving another $100+ per month. The only shortfall with this prepaid plan is that is subject to deprioritization on congested towers.
This is “US” going all out on Christmas. Yep, this is the extent of our decorations…we love it.
This is our Christmas Tree, with the presents underneath it. Wish I could tell you who the presents are for, but when my sister sent them, there were no names on them. Heck, knowing her, they are all for Bubba and Skruffy. Wish we could sneak Bubba in here for Christmas, but alas, we don’t want the HOA coming down on us now do we….
Well, that pretty much covers the past three weeks, and above is the total decorations that the Condo does for outside….nice that they light up the pool and cabana area, it is a nice touch…but they won’t let anyone put anything else outside, but you can put stuff inside your windows. Christmas Eve is a week from today and we plan to head to Brooksville to visit with Marcia’s side of the family…and this time I plan to take my camera to share that and the rest of our Christmas with you all. Until then, be good so Santa “MIGHT” stop by where ever you are…
PS: Posted this using the new aircard…went just fine.
I remember way WAY back when we made jello like that. I'm trying it again. I am super interested in the dishwasher. Need one in Arizona. What is the brand name? I still have the old JetPack, $60 for 12 gig, and I rarely use over 6. I suppose they will outlaw it and I'll have to sign up for something MORE expensive. That's how they get more money out of us!!
ReplyDeleteSent an email about DW...it is a Fisher Paykel.
DeleteThe old JetPacks still work fine...but in a few years when they go to 5G we all will need to replace them because 5G will be so much faster. You might want to look at the PrePaid plans, you can mix and match phones and JetPacks...unlimited data on both would run about $140 total...no contract...no connection or start-up fees...can use your current devices (most likely)