Challenge 14: Fandom Food!
Inspired by Star Wars Episode VIII: The Last Jedi, I devised a recipe for -- what else? -- Luke Skywalker's Green Milk of Sadness.
The base of this recipe was this simple vegan matcha latte from Minimalist Baker. I don't have a milk frother, so mine are creamy but not foamy. If you have a frother you can get it looking more like this, apparently:
I made one other important adjustment: The matcha will give you a lovely green color, of course, but I wanted that thala-siren seafoam. So if you're like me and you have a little bit of blue spirulina on hand from a moment of foodie trend weakness, you too can be truly Extra with this recipe, just like a Skywalker (or an Amidala) would. It brings that essential note of true blue -- and of course the mystical food powers of the sea.
Thala-Siren Latte
(Serves 1)
Caffeine content: about 32 mg
1/2 teaspoon matcha powder (ish? I used one of the teapigs packets, which is 1 gram)
1 tablespoon hot water
a little bit of maple syrup (to your taste)
1 cup (8 oz) cashew milk*
1 teaspoon coconut butter
1/8 teaspoon blue spirulina
* or your favorite nondairy milk. Dana at Minimalist Baker recommends half coconut and half macadamia; I got good results with the cashew, and I had a coupon for it
Whisk the matcha and hot water together in your serving mug with as fancy a whisk as you have until the matcha is fully dissolved. Add the coconut butter, maple syrup (or whatever sweetener you prefer), and blue spirulina and get all that stuff fully dissolved too.
Heat your milk in a saucepan on the stove until it is hot and steamy. Pour into the mug, whisking vigorously all the while. Enjoy immediately whilst poring over some sacred Jedi texts in your library of sadness.
P.S. There's now an official Star Wars dot com recipe for another green-milk-inspired drink, which hadn't yet been posted when I got to work on this. It's a very different interpretation, anyway, basically a dessert milkshake, not what I'd be drinking in my lonesome island penance exile, but probably a lot more appropriate for Star Wars parties
The base of this recipe was this simple vegan matcha latte from Minimalist Baker. I don't have a milk frother, so mine are creamy but not foamy. If you have a frother you can get it looking more like this, apparently:
I made one other important adjustment: The matcha will give you a lovely green color, of course, but I wanted that thala-siren seafoam. So if you're like me and you have a little bit of blue spirulina on hand from a moment of foodie trend weakness, you too can be truly Extra with this recipe, just like a Skywalker (or an Amidala) would. It brings that essential note of true blue -- and of course the mystical food powers of the sea.
Thala-Siren Latte
(Serves 1)
Caffeine content: about 32 mg
1/2 teaspoon matcha powder (ish? I used one of the teapigs packets, which is 1 gram)
1 tablespoon hot water
a little bit of maple syrup (to your taste)
1 cup (8 oz) cashew milk*
1 teaspoon coconut butter
1/8 teaspoon blue spirulina
* or your favorite nondairy milk. Dana at Minimalist Baker recommends half coconut and half macadamia; I got good results with the cashew, and I had a coupon for it
Whisk the matcha and hot water together in your serving mug with as fancy a whisk as you have until the matcha is fully dissolved. Add the coconut butter, maple syrup (or whatever sweetener you prefer), and blue spirulina and get all that stuff fully dissolved too.
Heat your milk in a saucepan on the stove until it is hot and steamy. Pour into the mug, whisking vigorously all the while. Enjoy immediately whilst poring over some sacred Jedi texts in your library of sadness.
P.S. There's now an official Star Wars dot com recipe for another green-milk-inspired drink, which hadn't yet been posted when I got to work on this. It's a very different interpretation, anyway, basically a dessert milkshake, not what I'd be drinking in my lonesome island penance exile, but probably a lot more appropriate for Star Wars parties