Tuesday, April 22, 2008
Sunday, April 20, 2008
in crawlspace
so that's how they've been doing it all this time. lately they've begun hitting the area underneath my bed so that my bed shakes when i try to sleep.
this is in the Hyde Park area of Austin Texas.
Sunday, March 2, 2008
On Mixings / Hot Cocoa and Cashews
The combination has to be right; it seems better if the two items do not have similar flavors else one will overpower the other. For instance, the Kit Kat and Vanilla Ice Cream; the ice cream was so sweet that it took over the entire taste so that the Kit Kat did not heighten the taste enjoyment - the ice cream had a different consistency in that it became a bit crunchy but that's about it.
Hot Cocoa and Cashews
Here's what I use:
- Nestle Carb Select Hot Cocoa Mix
- 28 g Cashews
The taste of chocolate in this cocoa mix is rather subdued - its good but not overbearing. The cashews go very well with it.
One thing I'd like to mention is how chocolate cookies don't go well with this cocoa mix for the above-mentioned reason - the chocolate in the cookies is way too strong for the cocoa mix and washes it out; one might as well eat the cookies alone or with milk.
Brownies with Marshmallow Topping
I did this a long time ago but wanted to document it since it was
so horrible. Here's what I did:
- Prepared a batch of brownies from mix as usual
- When the brownies had cooled a bit, I smothered t the brownies with a layer of mini marshmallows
- Placed smothered brownies under broiler until the marshmallows showed browned areas.
The marshmallows totally washed out the taste of the brownies - I could have just as well stuffed my mouth with marshmallows and it'd probably been better.
Krusteaz Chocolate Chip Waffles and Ice Cream
This one is a real winner. Ingredients:
- Krusteaz (Complete) Chocolate Chip Pancake Mix
- Blue Bell Ice Cream
Anyway, I mixed up the pancake mix as waffles (I halved the recipe on the back of the box), threw a batch into the waffle maker, and when it came out, placed a serving of Blue Bell Ice Cream on it (any flavor will work I imagine but I used Dutch Chocolate and Homemade Vanilla [separately]).
Surely this is delicious!! What is so neat is wrapping the ice cream with the waffle - its like a soft waffle cone. Really, really great.
Blue Bell Homemade Vanilla and Hershey Kit Kat
- 2 Scoops Blue Bell Homemade Vanilla Ice Cream
- 2 Kit Kat Individual bars (half of a standard package)
- Using a cutting board, I cut the Kit Kat bars into little pieces using a butter knife (a particularly sharp knife was not needed)
- Mixed up the scoops of ice cream with the pieces of Kit Kat ala Marble Slab Creamery
- Placed above combination in a flat-bottomed wafer cone.
Reese's Peanut Butter Cups and Coffee
Well, those people are still at it but I want to talk about something else. Anyhoo, I enjoy mixing edible things together and sometimes the combination is just right... other times its just bleh. So here's a report on such a combination.
Reese's Peanut Butter Cups and Coffee
Delicious! Wow! What a taste!! Here's what I did:
- 10 oz Coffee with
- 1 tbs Coffee Mate Sugar Free Hazelnut Non-Dairy Creamer
- 1 tbs Equal Spooonful! Artificial Sweetner
- 1 1.5 oz Reese's Peanut Butter Cups (2 individual cups - standard package)

