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Ice Cream
To be fair, I only measured the ice cream; there was no experimentation involved. I buy my ice cream in quart-sized containers now and I serve it to myself in tea cups with the aim of keeping my serving size at something reasonable. (Also, it's an excuse to use my pretty cups.) Recently I decided to count how many servings I get out of one container of ice cream.
I finished off the ice cream today and the total stands at 11 servings. I feel quite confident that I remembered to record each serving. I also feel confident that all the serving sizes were typical--I even put the ice cream for my breakfast drink into a tea cup first to make sure I was using an equivalent amount.
Officially, a quart of ice cream includes 8 1/2-cup servings, so I'm now eating less than 1/2 cup per serving. Interesting.
And a half-cup of the ice cream I'm eating now is 180 calories, so my current servings have (180*8/11=) 131 calories. Not crazy. (Except for the part where I usually then smother the ice cream in chocolate syrup and peanuts. Or where, if the ice cream is a rare and special flavor, I might then get another serving. And then one more.)
Spring Rolls
Okay, this isn't really an experiment with a side-by-side blind taste test compared with a control group, but the differences are so great that I will argue that this level of precision was not needed.
A while back I got some of those rice papers used to make spring rolls. And today I wasn't quite in the mood for salad, which I thought I should have before it goes bad, so I compromised on an odd sort of spring roll. I made some tuna salad and rolled it up with a whole bunch of greens and some peanuts.
The result was . . . not so great. Compared with the beef or chicken spring rolls I used to get a Le Soleil, well, let's say I wouldn't serve this to the queen. (Though I did give Robin a bite.) However, it was certainly edible and, for today, it hit the spot.
To be fair, I only measured the ice cream; there was no experimentation involved. I buy my ice cream in quart-sized containers now and I serve it to myself in tea cups with the aim of keeping my serving size at something reasonable. (Also, it's an excuse to use my pretty cups.) Recently I decided to count how many servings I get out of one container of ice cream.
I finished off the ice cream today and the total stands at 11 servings. I feel quite confident that I remembered to record each serving. I also feel confident that all the serving sizes were typical--I even put the ice cream for my breakfast drink into a tea cup first to make sure I was using an equivalent amount.
Officially, a quart of ice cream includes 8 1/2-cup servings, so I'm now eating less than 1/2 cup per serving. Interesting.
And a half-cup of the ice cream I'm eating now is 180 calories, so my current servings have (180*8/11=) 131 calories. Not crazy. (Except for the part where I usually then smother the ice cream in chocolate syrup and peanuts. Or where, if the ice cream is a rare and special flavor, I might then get another serving. And then one more.)
Spring Rolls
Okay, this isn't really an experiment with a side-by-side blind taste test compared with a control group, but the differences are so great that I will argue that this level of precision was not needed.
A while back I got some of those rice papers used to make spring rolls. And today I wasn't quite in the mood for salad, which I thought I should have before it goes bad, so I compromised on an odd sort of spring roll. I made some tuna salad and rolled it up with a whole bunch of greens and some peanuts.
The result was . . . not so great. Compared with the beef or chicken spring rolls I used to get a Le Soleil, well, let's say I wouldn't serve this to the queen. (Though I did give Robin a bite.) However, it was certainly edible and, for today, it hit the spot.