OK, not really, but this is the only photo I had to share this week, and I hate to do posts without photos!
That is a giant afghan though – I can tell you just how big it is because I made every blessed stitch of it! Kitchen Sink afghan from DIY (Design It Yourself) Afghans.
Last weekend I tweeted my experiments in making chocolate martinis. Many of you who follow me there were amused – it wasn’t nearly so amusing on my end because I was typing so poorly as the experiment progressed that editing was taking longer than typing!
End result? Delicious! And I found answers to the great chocolate martini questions of life – namely:
Where was the vodka hiding? In the freezer where it normally lives, but it was buried under 14 pounds of blueberries from our adventures in picking local produce. Found it eventually.
Can you in fact use a child’s liquid cough syrup cap if you can’t find a shot glass? Yes indeed you can, although your online friends will call you mean names like “sad” and “pathetic” But you know what? I believe in improvisation in mixology as well as crochet and knitting – and life, come to that. If you fill up to the 3 tsp line on the cough syrup cap, you have half a shot.
Did you really ruin the whole thing by using Skim Plus instead of Half and Half? See above on improvisation – having had to run to the store for both Godiva Liqueur and Creme De Cacao this was already turning into the world’s most expensive chocolate martini, and I was damned if I was going to run out again. Skim Plus I had, Skim Plus I used. Worked fine, although maybe not as thick as it might have been.
Did Little Loopy mock you much? Yes – once when I poured the whole thing in a free-from-Burger-King Mickey Mouse glass from 2000 instead of digging out an actual martini glass. I am not big on delayed gratification.
And again when I commented on how very loopy I got from one drink – 3.5 shots of alcohol is a hell of a lot of booze in one glass for a light drinker like me.
How was your gauge afterwards? Loosey-goosey baby, but I didn’t care! That’s what blocking is for.
Will repeat the experiment again soon – maybe this Friday night, you never know…
I, for one, appreciate your experiments in chocolate martini making. This will now be the "signature drink" at my birthday party in a couple of months. And by signature drink I mean that's all I'm making for me and if anyone else wants something they can bring it their damned selves. 🙂 We believe in a laid back, BYOB, be prepared to play Rock Band kind of party. 😀
Too funny! I'm going to make my chocolate martini the easy way… friends of ours owns a bar…we are headed to their house where I have already put in my drink request!