(From "Nama TT’s Corner" blog post)
11-1-2012
I love Pinterest! I can sit and look at all of these wonderful recipes that I will never ever make and pin them onto my boards that I will probably never look at again. It’s wonderful! Recently I had seen several pins for a Wendy’s Frosty knock off recipe and had saved a few of the pins myself. While in town running errands I decided to get the ingredients to try to make one of them, being the "Betty Crocker" type person that I am. It was
only about 40 F out and the wind was cold, but for me, it’s never too cold out for a Wendy’s Frosty. Before I continue, let me point out to those of you who are "city dwellers" and may be unaware, that when you live in the country there is no walking to the local grocery. I don’t even know anyone nearby with the stamina to venture in to town by bicycle to shop! We must drive there by car or truck, (some may go by tractor), it just makes sense, especially since most of us live on gravel roads.
Everything you need involves "going to town" – never city, we just never say city, unless you mean Chicago or New York – it’s always town – no matter the size – trust me. "Town" might be 3-5 miles away, or 15-30 miles, depending on where you live. It may be more for you but this is about me and where I live.
It will also depend on what you need as to which "town" you are driving to. For instance, if I just need to go to the Post Office, I drive the 3 miles into my local town, just making sure that it is not between 11-1 because I think that is when they are closed. If I need gas, same thing goes, plus that is usually about as far as I can make first anyway because my gas gauge is constantly pointing below empty. If I need anything else, then it is the 15-20 mile trip into the larger "towns" that contain the many grocery stores, shopping malls, etc. that one may need. My local town no longer has a grocery store, most small towns don’t now days, we have a gas station with a few over-priced groceries in it. So while running my errands I wanted to make sure I had all the right stuff to make a Wendy’s Frosty, which are without a doubt my favorite chocolate "ice cream" drink. They are not too dark chocolate, or too light, or too sweet, or too creamy – they are perfect! I actually met a woman while running errands that had NEVER had a Frosty! She looked to be a few years older than me, so of course I instructed her to "get thyself to a Wendy’s lady!" Don’t even ask why I was talking about Frosty’s – it just happened. I was also SO proud of myself for getting on my phone (which I might point out was actually working- again another story, another day) looked up a couple of the pins and checked out the recipes so that I was sure I had all of the ingredients. I know, right? I ended up with a "few" more groceries than I had needed, but then who doesn’t and headed for home. The recipe was really quite simple, Chocolate Milk, Cool Whip, Sweetened Condensed Milk. Got it! Then a thought occurred to me as I was nearing the edge of town, how was one to really know it was "just like Wendy’s" as all the various pinners claimed if one did not have a real Frosty to compare it with? So in the interest of true science, I made a quick pit stop at Wendy’s drive through and got a chocolate Frosty. Now off to home, ready to do this thing the right way! After putting away all the grocery items I didn’t need, I pulled up the recipe for the knock off Frosty. After several sips of the true Wendy’s Frosty I was ready to begin! I started to read all the recipes instructions so that I would dump things together in the right order – which normally I don’t do. I usually just start opening and dumping and then read – often seeing that I did something wrong! But this was a FROSTY! I was taking extra care to do this recipe right so that I might be rewarded with a home made version! A;so I didn’t have enough gas left for another trip into town should this fail. Things were looking good until I came to about the middle of the recipe, the part that said "pour cooled mixture into your ice cream machine"! WHAT???!!! It requires an ice cream machine!! I pause for a moment to reflect here: WHY I didn’t think it may require an ice cream machine and that you could simply pour 3 ingredients into a bowl, whip it a bit with a mixer and end up with a Frosty is beyond even me, but there you have it. Yes, we do own an ice cream machine, but that is my husbands area of expertise. I don’t even know where it is, let alone have I ever used it. So there it was, no frosty recipe trials for me. Sadly I put all the ingredients away, there would be other uses for them. I could make something from Pinterest with the sweetened condensed milk, Cool Whip is great in my hot chocolate and some pinners suggest you freeze it into little dollups just for that purpose, and I love milk, any kind. Of course, I could go buy some Schwans vanilla ice cream and make my chocolate Frosty the way I always do anyway – several scoops of Schwans vanilla ice cream into a glass and yes, I have tried several other ice creams and Schwans is the ONLY one that tastes like it! Pour in chocolate milk, my favorite is any milk by Anderson Erikson. Stir until it looks like a Frosty, enjoy! There you have it. Oh wait, no gas… So, as I sat eating the rest of my purchased Frosty I realized there were two things I had learned that day; 1) It’s always good to buy the real chocolate Frosty just in case you need a back up 2) Sometimes it doesn’t matter if you do have all the right stuff, if you don’t have all the right equipment…
Thanks for reading my blast from the past!
Until next time… Toni
