Friday, July 30, 2010

link: Corndog Maker

Here

I do believe I need this thing. Sure, it's a unitasker, and sure, corndogs are really bad for me, but I love them and I would adore the ability to make them myself all the time always. Until I die of a heart attack.

Tuesday, July 13, 2010

Crubiscuits!

An attack of the midnight munchies with no real food on the house led to me wAnting biscuits, and since I'm lazy, drop biscuits. I found a recipe, mixed it up, cooked it, and whAt I got was not drop biscuits, but was tasty. They looked like big cookies and tasted like really moist cookies, or biscuity bread, they stuck to the pan like cement, and they were exactly whAt I wanted. We've dubbed them crubiscuits because they seem to be somewhere between a crumpet and an American biscuit-- if crumpets were made of biscuits.

Recipe!

2 1/2 c all purpose flour
1 tbs baking powder
1 tbs sugar
1 tsp salt
2 c milk, cold

Mix it all up, drop it on a very well greased pan, bake in the middle rack of a 400 degree oven for about 20 minutes, and there you go! Aunt Sami's Old Tyme Crubiscuits, just like gramma used to make!

Sunday, July 11, 2010

wishlist: 3 Seasonal Blueberry Cocktails For Summer - Planet Green

3 Seasonal Blueberry Cocktails For Summer - Planet Green: "Blueberry Basil
8 basil leaves
4 mint leaves
1 tsp raw sugar
1 tbsp lime juice
12 local blueberries
1 1/2 oz rum
Top with soda water
Garnish with more blueberries

Method

1. Muddle basil, mint, sugar, and lime juice in base of a shaker glass. Add blueberries and continue to muddle. Add rum and ice and shake. Fill tall glass with ice and strain muddled rum mixture into the glass and top with club soda. Garnish with more blueberries.

Recipe adapted from Art of the Drink.

Blueberry Julep
1 1/2 oz organic vodka
1/2 oz blueberry liqueur
1/2 oz simple syrup
� oz blueberry pur�e
Splash of sparkling wine
Garnish with mint

Method

1. Shake the vodka, liqueur, and simple syrup in a drink mixer. Top with puree and mix with a spoon. Top with champagne and garnish with mint.

Recipe adapted from The Nibble.

Acai Blueberry Mojito
2 oz organic vodka
� oz simple syrup
� oz acai juice
1 oz lime juice
Blueberries and mint leaves for garnish

Method

1. Shake the vodka, simple syrup, acai juice, and lime juice in a drink mixer. Garnish with blueberries and mint leaves."