Not good. Tastes diety. Not sure how to make it drinkable.
I got a 12 oz. can and drank the whole thing. Did I die? No.
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
Red Bull Cola
Not good. Tastes diety. Not sure how to make it drinkable.
I got a 12 oz. can and drank the whole thing. Did I die? No.
Thursday, March 26, 2009
I hate Burger King
I noticed something the other day, and it is that I hate Burger King. If someone offered me free anything for a year from Burger King, I'm not sure what I would get. I don't think that anything they have is any good. I mean, nothing at McDonald's is any good either, but that's sort of for a different reason. I'll still eat a Big Mac. I used to like Burger King's fries but I think that either something happened to them at one point or something happened to me. Now I just think it's all crap and I don't understand why anyone would want anything from there. I sure do like a lot of other fast food though.
Thursday, January 8, 2009
Fondants!
Last Christmas I received a Gordon Ramsay cookbook, and this is probably one of my favorite recipes from it.
The book is in a box somewhere so I found this recipe here and used mathematics to come up with this:
4 Tbsp Butter
Cocoa Powder for dusting
1/4 C Chocolate
1/3 C Sugar
1 Egg
1 Egg Yolk
1/4 C Flour
Preheat oven to 325 degrees.
Butter 2 ramekins and dust with cocoa powder
Melt the chocolate and butter in a double boiler
Use an electric beater to whip the sugar and egg until it's thick.
Let the chocolate mixture cool, mix it into the egg mixture, and fold in the flour. Pour it into the ramekins and bake it for 12 minutes. Probably more like 20 though. If I take them out at 12 minutes, they just gush all over the plate. Turning them over onto a plate is also a fingertip searing event, so maybe you've got an ove glove or something of the sort with that sticky business on it.
4 Tbsp Butter
Cocoa Powder for dusting
1/4 C Chocolate
1/3 C Sugar
1 Egg
1 Egg Yolk
1/4 C Flour
Preheat oven to 325 degrees.
Butter 2 ramekins and dust with cocoa powder
Melt the chocolate and butter in a double boiler
Use an electric beater to whip the sugar and egg until it's thick.
Let the chocolate mixture cool, mix it into the egg mixture, and fold in the flour. Pour it into the ramekins and bake it for 12 minutes. Probably more like 20 though. If I take them out at 12 minutes, they just gush all over the plate. Turning them over onto a plate is also a fingertip searing event, so maybe you've got an ove glove or something of the sort with that sticky business on it.
Wednesday, January 7, 2009
Biscuits!
Make some Biscuits! I've spent about three weeks trying to find a good biscuit recipe that didn't use buttermilk, since that's not something that I generally have in the house. I found one from Paula Deen that worked out pretty well, but I've adapted it a bit.
2 cups flour
1 Tbsp baking powder
Pinch of sugar
Pinch of salt
1/4 cup butter
1/4 cup shortening
1 tsp lemon juice
3/4 cup milk
Preheat oven to 500 F. Sift together dry ingredients and work in butter and shortening by hand until the big gobs are gone. Slowly add milk (I add it in thirds) and lemon juice.
Turn the dough out onto a floured surface and flatten to about 1". Cut out biscuits; I started by using a cup, but my biscuits were too small, so I started using a ramekin instead. Apparently you're not supposed to twist the cutting tool, otherwise it seals the edges of the biscuit and then it doesn't rise. I have had two biscuits right next to each other where one rose nicely and the other didn't rise at all. maybe that has something to do with it. I started out by sticking these into a cast iron pan, and it works, but you get some odd shapes. A sheet pan works fine.
2 cups flour
1 Tbsp baking powder
Pinch of sugar
Pinch of salt
1/4 cup butter
1/4 cup shortening
1 tsp lemon juice
3/4 cup milk
Preheat oven to 500 F. Sift together dry ingredients and work in butter and shortening by hand until the big gobs are gone. Slowly add milk (I add it in thirds) and lemon juice.
Turn the dough out onto a floured surface and flatten to about 1". Cut out biscuits; I started by using a cup, but my biscuits were too small, so I started using a ramekin instead. Apparently you're not supposed to twist the cutting tool, otherwise it seals the edges of the biscuit and then it doesn't rise. I have had two biscuits right next to each other where one rose nicely and the other didn't rise at all. maybe that has something to do with it. I started out by sticking these into a cast iron pan, and it works, but you get some odd shapes. A sheet pan works fine.
Tuesday, December 30, 2008
Spattering Grease
So sometimes I've got to wear my glasses that I got at least 4 years ago and the right side rubs my ear in such a way that it is irritating but not really painful, and I just can't keep the things clean. When you're looking at normal things such as trees and shoes and snow, it doesn't matter, but when you fry up some potatoes in the good old cast iron and then sit down in front of a computer, you can really start to notice the spatter between you and the monitor.
Going back to the beginning here, I only sometimes have to wear these glasses because I usually keep my contacts in for too long and ruin my eyes in such a way that it feels like there's a knife between my contact and my eyeball but that goes away when I take the contacts out. I have eyedrops for it and if I don't use them, it doesn't heal.
Terrible.
(When I made said potatoes I had the theme from Weeds in my head because we've gone through 2 1/2 seasons of it in the past 2 or 3 days. Maybe once we get to season 4 and they stop with the theme, I'll stop having it stuck in my head.)
Going back to the beginning here, I only sometimes have to wear these glasses because I usually keep my contacts in for too long and ruin my eyes in such a way that it feels like there's a knife between my contact and my eyeball but that goes away when I take the contacts out. I have eyedrops for it and if I don't use them, it doesn't heal.
Terrible.
(When I made said potatoes I had the theme from Weeds in my head because we've gone through 2 1/2 seasons of it in the past 2 or 3 days. Maybe once we get to season 4 and they stop with the theme, I'll stop having it stuck in my head.)
Wednesday, December 24, 2008
Christmas Pretzel Thingies
I have no idea what these things are called. I may have made them as a child when we did that kind of stuff, but that was a while ago. Anyway, I was either introduced or reintroduced to these about two years ago by my girlfriend. She likes them a lot.
They're really easy to make and probably don't even need any kind of explanation after you've seen this picture.
Well here's what I did! I got all of this stuff:
Some round pretzels (which were NOT by where the pretzels are supposed to be and I only happened upon them by chance), Hershey's Kisses (there were pink ones in the candy aisle and then when I went to find the M&M's, which were NOT by where the candy is supposed to be, I found Christmas ones. Just the wrappers were pink. That's good.), and some Christmas M&M's. They try to make this stuff easy to find, but it just makes it difficult for me. I'm at the grocery store so much that I know where stuff is, and if they put it somewhere else, I get confused.
Anyway... I forgot about this part when I decided to make these:
I was thinking "all right, yeah, I'm going to make a bunch of these!" and then I opened up the Kisses bag.
On the Food Network's website, they rate recipes' difficulty. This one would be rated as difficult or whatever the proper difficulty would be because you have to unwrap every single one of these. It's basically a nightmare.
I sprayed the pan because I didn't know if these were going to stick to the foil or not once they hardened, and now they just won't and that makes me happy.
So then I put all the nice little chocolates into their circular homes and put them into the oven at 170 for probably about 5 minutes. I have an electric oven and that's as low as it will go. I am told that these will burn if they're left in too long. If you use the Hugs with the white chocolate in them (GOOD), those melt more quickly, so keep an eye on them. I pulled these out a little too soon initially and found that even if the tops look melted, the bottoms might not be.
Stick some M&M's in these things after you pull them out of the oven, let them cool, and try not to eat them all in one day.
(When I made these I was listening to some Bob Marley Greatest Hits thing but there are so many that I have no idea what it was called.)
They're really easy to make and probably don't even need any kind of explanation after you've seen this picture.
Well here's what I did! I got all of this stuff:
Some round pretzels (which were NOT by where the pretzels are supposed to be and I only happened upon them by chance), Hershey's Kisses (there were pink ones in the candy aisle and then when I went to find the M&M's, which were NOT by where the candy is supposed to be, I found Christmas ones. Just the wrappers were pink. That's good.), and some Christmas M&M's. They try to make this stuff easy to find, but it just makes it difficult for me. I'm at the grocery store so much that I know where stuff is, and if they put it somewhere else, I get confused.
Anyway... I forgot about this part when I decided to make these:
I was thinking "all right, yeah, I'm going to make a bunch of these!" and then I opened up the Kisses bag.
On the Food Network's website, they rate recipes' difficulty. This one would be rated as difficult or whatever the proper difficulty would be because you have to unwrap every single one of these. It's basically a nightmare.
I sprayed the pan because I didn't know if these were going to stick to the foil or not once they hardened, and now they just won't and that makes me happy.
So then I put all the nice little chocolates into their circular homes and put them into the oven at 170 for probably about 5 minutes. I have an electric oven and that's as low as it will go. I am told that these will burn if they're left in too long. If you use the Hugs with the white chocolate in them (GOOD), those melt more quickly, so keep an eye on them. I pulled these out a little too soon initially and found that even if the tops look melted, the bottoms might not be.
Stick some M&M's in these things after you pull them out of the oven, let them cool, and try not to eat them all in one day.
(When I made these I was listening to some Bob Marley Greatest Hits thing but there are so many that I have no idea what it was called.)
Saturday, December 20, 2008
Pomegranate Jam
In preparation for this years Christmas gifts, which will consist mostly of sugar, I made pomegranate jam to put into thumbprint cookies.
I used this recipe which I found here.
2 cups pomegranate juice
1/4 c arils
2 T lemon juice
4 cups sugar
1/2 pack of pectin
boil pomegranate, lemon juice and pectic. add sugar and do rolling boil for 1 minute. turn off and skim foam. pour in jars and top with seeds. can be refrigerated for up to 6 weeks.
The only difference is that I simmered it for about an hour and reduced it to about half. CDW sends out tins of cookies from Chicago's Maurice Lenell, and there are always some raspberry jam butter cookies in there. The jam is gummy almost, so that's what I wanted to go for with this.
It worked out really well. I made the cookies as well but I put them too close together on the pan, so they have flat edges which is not exactly Christmas gift material.
Next week Tuesday I'm going shopping and on Wednesday is going to be a day full of making Christmas food.
I'm making toffee, fudge, and these cookies!
(When I made this I was listening to Neutral Milk Hotel's In The Aeroplane Over The Sea.)
I used this recipe which I found here.
2 cups pomegranate juice
1/4 c arils
2 T lemon juice
4 cups sugar
1/2 pack of pectin
boil pomegranate, lemon juice and pectic. add sugar and do rolling boil for 1 minute. turn off and skim foam. pour in jars and top with seeds. can be refrigerated for up to 6 weeks.
The only difference is that I simmered it for about an hour and reduced it to about half. CDW sends out tins of cookies from Chicago's Maurice Lenell, and there are always some raspberry jam butter cookies in there. The jam is gummy almost, so that's what I wanted to go for with this.
It worked out really well. I made the cookies as well but I put them too close together on the pan, so they have flat edges which is not exactly Christmas gift material.
Next week Tuesday I'm going shopping and on Wednesday is going to be a day full of making Christmas food.
I'm making toffee, fudge, and these cookies!
(When I made this I was listening to Neutral Milk Hotel's In The Aeroplane Over The Sea.)
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