This week concludes the no heat month, where I don’t turn on my oven because have you heard July was the hottest month on record? EVER?
No bakes, ice cream, and edible cookie dough.
I don’t think I turned on my oven at all this month.
According to Google, a dessert called slice from Great Britain can either be a single mixture such as the cookie I made, or a combination of a base, such as shortbread, and a topping layer.
In my head, it means a dessert that can be cut and portioned.
A small voice pipes up, “Like cake.”
Shh, small voice in my head, no one asked you.
I can see how the recipe I chose might have started out with a base layer and a topper but that was decidedly not the cookie I got.
For this recipe, 500 grams digestive cookies, crushed, 395g or 14 oz sweetened condensed milk, 250 g butter or 1 c, softened butter, 1 tsp of vanilla, and an entire package of marshmallows cut small. If using mini marshmallows, you can omit cutting them.
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Oh! Oh dear.
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I skipped an entire ingredient. I was supposed to add 4 tbs of cocoa powder. No wonder mine looked different than the reference picture. Besides the fact that I didn’t have pink marshmallows.
Oh, well.
This is a happy accident that made me think of another no-bake recipe, based on this one, for s’mores slice, on the fly. You see, if I substitute graham crackers for the digestive cookies, and continue not to add the cocoa powder, and add chocolate chips instead…
S’mores slice!
That is how to be an experimental baker; turn issues into opportunities.
This has a lot to do with the OR as well. You have to be able to keep your mind flexible and offer alternatives to problems.
For example: A surgeon has dropped the instrument for the second time and that was the remaining sterile one, because he, you recall, dropped the other one. You sent the original down for processing but it won’t be ready for another 45 minutes.
There is no reason to wait, twiddling your thumbs and staring at each other, while the patient remains under anesthesia.
There is no reason to flash the instrument because you remember that a very similar instrument is in another pan that is not in use. The very similar instrument is half an inch longer than the original two but should be used interchangeably.
The OR could have had an IUSS except for you.
Or the patient could have been under anesthesia at a considerable premium except for you.
A nimble mind can help in situations such as these.
Dispatches from the Evening Shift 