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Where the Rubber Rainbow Hits the Rainbow Road

It started out with Star Wars , because of course it did, but man, it grew into something amazing.  You think you've had delicious booze before, and you probably have, but all the same, this is one you need to try.  It's beautiful and delicious.  Fun to make, too. A note:  I have silicon ice cube trays that I use for these, and they're SO much better than hard plastic.  Each color makes 9 cubes, and you can cut each cube into 4 cubes, which means you're getting 36 small cubes from each color, or 216 total cubes.  And that's lovely. Another note:  You can do this with straight-up vodka, but you should throw in some flavored things if you can.  More fun that way. Edit:  Now with pictures!  https://imgur.com/a/E5l2OWB Where the Rubber Rainbow Hits the Rainbow Road Ingredients (You will need, in total, 12 Tbsp unflavored gelatin (this is 3/4 cup, total) if you make the full rainbow.) Cherry jello (3 oz box) 1 cup Kirschwasser (cherry liqueur) 2 Tbsp u

There's Always a Bigger (tuna)Fish Salad

Back in 1999, I'd never seen a single Star Wars  movie, but it seemed the entire nation was freaking out over Episode I: The Phantom Menace  coming out, so being the good conformist high school sophomore I was, I bought tickets to the opening night showing and went with all my friends (including and especially the dear soul who would six years later marry me) to see what all the fuss was about. It was a party!  People showed up in costume, carrying brightly colored plastic swords (my dad bought me a red one for the event, I'm pretty sure that means he's cool with my Dark Side tendencies?).  The high school marching band came into the theatre and performed the Title Crawl and Imperial March live (which was AWESOME).  And there was just this ... I don't know, this aura of sheer jubilation suffusing every square inch of breath in the room, a generation of parents who'd raised their children on the orig-trig getting to see a Star Wars  movie along with their children

Don't Make Declarations against My Body Cabbage Soup

Several years ago, I found a recipe called  Fat-burning Cabbage Soup , and where the ingredients all sounded delicious, I'm not a fan of recipes that make declarations about my corporeal form, so it took me approximately eight thousand years to actually get around to trying it.  The results were ... okay, I guess.  The soup was SUPER bland and tasted like something you'd only eat if you were desperate to meet some sort of social standard for your physical appearance (which is stupid and you shouldn't do it -- you're beautiful how you are). However, I had this GIANT soup-pot of disappointing soup to deal with, now (this recipe makes a LOT of food), so I added some spices and garlic and an egg on top, and all of a sudden, I had a dish that I really liked and my partner couldn't get enough of.  Seriously, the look on his face when I said I was going to make another batch?  You'd've thought Christmas and his birthday had both teamed up to bring him cheer and h