So Julia Child is dead, and the kitchens of the world are a little bit colder now. In her memory, I have returned to my original concept of going through her cookbook "Baking with Julia"... project that got sidelined by a variety of factors including high blood sugars, and low carb fascinations. Last week's project was the Danish Twist, made with a sort-of puff pastry recipe that involved a lot of margerine and then a whole bunch of rolling out, folding, and putting back in the fridge. The whole thing took about a week, and absolutely mystified one girl I spoke with, who observed that it would have taken about 5 minutes to go to the store and get an Entemann's.



The miraculous Danish Twist--with only a slight dehiscence in the middle.

The confectioner's cream was made with non-fat half & half, and the apricot filling was cheated by liquifying apricot jam in the microwave. All in all, not a bad result, although I wound up getting about 1/2 a piece. Oh well--certainly don't need the extra weight.

Anyway, for today I got a call from M & D on their way back that they hadn't eaten yet, so a frantic bit of cooking on my part yielded some miso eggplant and some quesodillas made with leftover oven kalua pork, low fat swiss cheese, and low-carb tortillas. The eggplant went over ok, but M complained about the low-carb tortillas which she said tasted like cardboard. This mentality is likely the reason why her blood sugar hovers around 200...