Foam

I am starting to realize just how poor I've become at writing. Among the ever growing list of ideas I want to write about, this Monday, I actually involved the whole family in a little "experiment" and even took pictures. The original idea was to write the "experiment" up like a lab report and have it be funny.

I just couldn't get past the absurdity of the first sentence. Yes, folks, writer's block strikes again. And the worst part is that I know not a single person is going to read it.

Here's the setup: I decided that I needed to do something more than just make whipped cream with my whipped cream dispenser. I remember reading about making other foamy food things using the canister and nitrogen capsules. So after a couple of years of making nothing more exciting than the occasional alcohol laced whipped cream,

I wanted to do something a little more exciting. And that led me to the idea of adding Jello to the normal mix of confectioner's sugar and heavy cream. Natalie picked raspberry (which as NUMB3RS recently told us, is the flavor of our galaxy, perfect for an alien foam)

The general idea was that this was a sample of an alien and unidentified foam-thing. So being reasonably mad scientist, we would culture the foam and see what developed.

From there, it was all chocolate graham crackers and vanilla ice cream with the foam sprayed over the top. Yes, this is a simple raspberry-ice cream pie, but the fun was going to be in the pictures. And did I mention the failed attempt at interesting chocolate shavings?

Adding to the fun were the pictures we took of Sam and I holding the "samples" wearing lab coats. I'm sure the fact that we have lab coats here at the house surprises nobody.

Of extra special fun was having Jacob as the "clean up crew" wearing (quite coincidentally) a t-shirt reading Annual Pie Eating Contest.

No actual animals were harmed in the creation of this little bit of family fun.