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Liquored Up Hot Cocoa (original recipe by moi) Ingredients: milk water unsweetened cocoa refined white sugar cayenne pepper kahlua dark spiced rum Directions: Make up a batch of hot cocoa. Do this by slowly heating up in a sauce pan any variety of milk, rice milk, or soy milk - and water. Use a 3 to 1 ratio of milk to water, or 4 to 1 if you like it richer. When the milk gets good and warm, add in at least 1/4 cup of unsweetened cocoa powder and dissolve. Depending on how big your batch is, you want to add cocoa until the mixture looks like dark chocolate. Stir in refined sugar one tablespoon at a time. Don't add too much. You want it to be JUST BARELY sweet. What this means to you will depend on your own taste. Let the cocoa get nice and hot, but not *too* hot now. Sprinkle cayenne pepper into the hot cocoa in very small pinches. You only need a little bit. You definitely want to give it a decent zing, but you don't want to set anything on fire. It sounds crazy but you have to try it. Trust me on this one. Ladle this mixture into a mug. Fill the mug 1/2 way. Add in one shot of kahlua and one shot of dark spiced rum. Drink it up. |
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it needs to go on the record that i do not in any way endorse drinking milk. moreover, anyone who can sit and drink a plain glass of milk is suspect. |
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i imagine most stoners have been there. except the vegan ones. |
when i drink milk, which is rarely, but when i have a craving for it, and i take the whole glass in one shot....chocolate milk? LOOKOUT! i dont understand how anyone can not like milk... |
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who is selling at that price? U-Drive-Fast Car Sales? |
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I cannot stand mixed threads. It's unnatural. |
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i've been drinking odwalla vanilla al'mondo future shakes lately. three cheers for stoner refreshment! |
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Nuf said. |
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my new favorite dessert is the pan of brownies i'm about to bake here in a few minutes. but first, an original recipe! this is the breakfast of champions, my dear sorabjiites: Breakfast Gooo Ingredients: 1/3 cup raw oatmeal (steel cut or rolled) 1/4 cup soy milk (preferable vanilla flavored, unsweeted) 1/4 cup water 1 tablespoon natural peanut butter 1/4 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips or 1/4 cup chopped bittersweet baking chocolate Directions: Pour oatmeal, soy milk, and water into a microwave safe bowl. Nuke on high for 2 minutes (3 for older/less powerful microwaves), stirring once half way. Add peanut butter, nuke for another 30 seconds. Remove from microwave and stir well until peanut butter is fully combined with cooked oatmeal. Add 1/4 cup chocolate, which will melt immediately. Stir until combined. Eat it up with a spoon. |
i am getting a massage tomorrow morning. then i'm going to play scrabble with tim at spider house. i finished rowing lessons. rowing is very, very difficult. the club invited the Learn To Row students to participate in a "scratch" regatta tonight. it was really fun. not as fun as outrigger paddling, but still fun. all the folks are very nice. they put a few novices in the 8-man sweep boats with experienced rowers. i raced twice in two different boats with two different crews; neither time did my boat win. afterward there was food and beer in the clubhouse. i talked to some guy who had a UofM tank top on. he was from Flint innercity. used to teach there, but took a job down here for national instruments. i thought he would be nice but i think he got the impression that because i wanted to talk to him that i was hitting on him. not the case. and i hate it when people think that. it's so lame. roger, one of my teachers/coaches, is very nice to me. he looks like he's about 19, but apparently he's old enough to purchase alcohol. shiner bock, the beer of choice around here. it's pretty good. it's better than coors light. (but what isn't?) three minutes til brownies. summer time i austin isn't so bad. i like the heat. people in the clubhouse after the race were complaining about being hot, complaining of humidity. i wasn't even sweating, i thought it was quite nice. but then again, it's not august yet. other things that are good about being in austin: my job rocks. i get to build database web applications as well as do creative design stuff. i get to learn lots of new technologies and i can buy almost any software i want. i got one of those double wide monitors too. i get to be the Boss of the Internet there. i get to make rules and stuff. oh, the brownies are done. |
Fudgy Brownies Ingredients: 3/4 cup white sugar 2 large eggs 1 tbs hot water 2 tea instant coffee granules 1/4 cup butter, melted 1 tea vanilla extract 1 cup regular baking flour 2/3 cup unsweetened cocoa 1/4 tea baking soda 1/4 tea salt 1/2 cup semi sweet chocolate chips 1/2 cup chopped walnuts (optional) Directions: Beat sugar and eggs with electric mixer at high speed until thick and pale. Combine hot water and instant coffe until dissolved. Add coffee, butter, and vanilla to sugar mixture. beat on medium until well combined. in separate bowl, combine flour, cocoa, salt, and baking soda, stirring with a whisk until well blended. gradually stir into sugar mixture until just combined. stir in chocolate chips (and nuts if preferred). the batter will be VERY thick. spray a 8x8 or 9x9 baking pan with nonstick cooking spray. spread batter into pan. bake at 325 degrees for 20-22 minutes. remove from oven; let settle and cool. garnish w/ powdered sugar if desired. |
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hate. summer. on thursday of last week it was 34c (that's 93f) but with the humidity, or 'humidex' as the weather people call it, which we always have SHIT LOADS of, thank you lake Ontario, it was a balmy 42c. Which is 107f. A hundred and fucking seven. No one could breath or sleep. I tried to camp out under our puny window a/c, but to no avail. Asthma popped in to say hello. I noticed that everyone in town was a little messed up the next day. It hasn't been that hot here since the early 70s. And this shit season isn't over with me yet. I decided when the cash starts flowing i'm taking all my summer vacations in Norway. It's weird to know that i've had it all now, the full range of temperature from 42- to 42+. My favorite outdoor temp is 16c (60f), it's just right for everything, and you can still wear a t-shirt by itself. sweet, sweet Norway. thank you sara, i love brownies. :) |
Always enjoyed after dinner. And maybe with a bottle of wine. Pussy. LS |
yuck. please stop already we get the point |
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It falls more into the "snack food" catagory. Please do not try such chicanery with us again.Cz |
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hey wisper, as i recall toronto sucks ass. maybe that was just me, though. humidity is a cockjob. we don't get summer rains here, so we have nice dry heat. |
i've never been able to make up my mind. But, you never did get to go through the giant underground cave-like shopping mall, which runs under most of downtown and every major office building in the city. World's largest! For the last several weeks there's been a garbage worker strike. Chinatown *shudder* was covered in maggots. That and the humidity = good sniffing. But the city forced them back to work, and it rained, and now it's quite cool in the shade. It thunderstormed. Humidity sucks but it's not unusual to have 2 or 3 huge lightning storms a week here in the summer. It's my payoff, anyway. *mwah* |
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new recipe! i've been baking a lot of non-chocolate stuff lately, which is odd. this one can be sweeter for a more cake-like taste, or less sweet for a moist bread-like taste. Lemon Syrup Cake Cake: 1 3/4 cup all purpose flour 2 tea baking powder 1 cup sugar 4 eggs 2/3 cup oil (safflower, sunflower, or canola) 2/3 cup sour cream grated rind of one large lemon 4 tablespoons fresh lemon juice Syrup: 4 tablespoons powdered sugar 3 tablespoons fresh lemon juice Directions: grease and line a deep 8-inch round cake pan and line with wax/parchment paper. combine flour, baking powder and sugar in a bowl and set aside. using a whisk or beaters, combine eggs, oil, sour cream, lemon rind and juice in another bowl until well-mixed. pour into flour/sugar mixture and blend until the flour is just incorporated. pour into prepared pan and bake for 50-60 minutes at 350 degrees. while the cake is baking, combine powdered sugar and lemon juice in a pot and simmer over low heat until mixture is bubbly and starts to get thick like syrup. when the cake is done and still warm, brush the syrup over the top of the cake and let some oooze down over the sides. let the cake cool quite a bit before removing from pan. the meat of the cake is moist, but not very sweet. the syrup part is very sweet and makes a nice contrast in flavor and texture. if you want a sweeter cake, add another 3-4 tablespoons of sugar. you probably could also add poppy seeds and then call it coffee cake, or pour it into muffin pans and you'd have lemon poppy seed muffins. i didn't do that, but thought of it just now. of course, if you make muffins, you'll want to bake them at least at 375 degrees, but no more than 400. i predict i will bake and cook a lot with lemon this year. |
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oh, and if you make muffins, you'll want to add 1 teaspoon baking soda to the flour mixture, and maybe a 1/2 teaspoon of salt. |
