December Recipe
Alright, I know I haven't kept up with my New Years Resolution. Yes, I missed four whole months, but I'm giving myself a pass anyway. It was a rough fucking summer, and I'm still finding things that were stolen. Which I suppose doesn't count as "finding" them, but you know what I mean. THANKS FOR TAKING MY VANILLA YOU FUCKING SOCIOPATH.
Anyway.
Two of my friends are getting married this weekend, to each other, and I decided to make them a food basket of sorts instead of a more traditional present. They've been together for something like eight years, so there isn't anything they really need, I hate getting people things that just take up space and/or won't be appreciated, I didn't want to get a gift card as a wedding gift to some of the closest friends I have, and finally, I wanted to get them something that is memorable or at least has my kind of personal stamp on it.
So yeah, a food basket.
My base item was salsa. I figure nearly everyone likes salsa, it keeps pretty well, and bonus that it isn't too hard to make.
I've made this before, so it's not the recipe that counts.
Obviously chips are in order, so at first I decided I'd try my hand at making some from scratch. Then I discovered pretty much every recipe for tortilla chips involves buying pre-made tortillas, cutting them up, and frying them in oil. I did find one real recipe, but it involves some sort of special flour and seriously I had a lot of shit to buy. I'll be trying my hand at frying some tortillas tomorrow night, if it doesn't work out I am totally going to buy some regular ones from the store and just put them in the fancy bag I bought.
As I type, I have some corn meal biscotti in the oven. No picture, but it looks pretty good so far. If I were cheating, I'd count this as one of the missed months' recipes, but I'm not a douche like that.
The last food item is Jalapeño Cheese Balls.
They are so close to a shortbread cookie, ingredients-wise, it's not even funny. Nevertheless, they're very good. Of course I ate one, I wouldn't pack food in a gift for friends if the damn things hadn't turned out. They're really spicy... so I hope my friends don't mind too much.
The final food-like thing I'm adding is a few limes and some Cointreau. I know they have a bottle of tequila (and neither of them drinks tequila), so it's not like I am going to double them up on something like that. I bought some margerita glasses, and some fancy-pants salt for rimming them.
Yeah, I decided pretty early on I was going for a Mexican food-type theme.
Oh yeah, to round it all off, I got a set of little serving dishes and a nice basket to put it all in.
Well, that certainly is a long fucking story for a dozen cheese puffs, but it's MY corner of the internet and that is just how these things are going to go.
Anyway.
Two of my friends are getting married this weekend, to each other, and I decided to make them a food basket of sorts instead of a more traditional present. They've been together for something like eight years, so there isn't anything they really need, I hate getting people things that just take up space and/or won't be appreciated, I didn't want to get a gift card as a wedding gift to some of the closest friends I have, and finally, I wanted to get them something that is memorable or at least has my kind of personal stamp on it.
So yeah, a food basket.
My base item was salsa. I figure nearly everyone likes salsa, it keeps pretty well, and bonus that it isn't too hard to make.
I've made this before, so it's not the recipe that counts.
Obviously chips are in order, so at first I decided I'd try my hand at making some from scratch. Then I discovered pretty much every recipe for tortilla chips involves buying pre-made tortillas, cutting them up, and frying them in oil. I did find one real recipe, but it involves some sort of special flour and seriously I had a lot of shit to buy. I'll be trying my hand at frying some tortillas tomorrow night, if it doesn't work out I am totally going to buy some regular ones from the store and just put them in the fancy bag I bought.
As I type, I have some corn meal biscotti in the oven. No picture, but it looks pretty good so far. If I were cheating, I'd count this as one of the missed months' recipes, but I'm not a douche like that.
The last food item is Jalapeño Cheese Balls.
They are so close to a shortbread cookie, ingredients-wise, it's not even funny. Nevertheless, they're very good. Of course I ate one, I wouldn't pack food in a gift for friends if the damn things hadn't turned out. They're really spicy... so I hope my friends don't mind too much.
The final food-like thing I'm adding is a few limes and some Cointreau. I know they have a bottle of tequila (and neither of them drinks tequila), so it's not like I am going to double them up on something like that. I bought some margerita glasses, and some fancy-pants salt for rimming them.
Yeah, I decided pretty early on I was going for a Mexican food-type theme.
Oh yeah, to round it all off, I got a set of little serving dishes and a nice basket to put it all in.
Well, that certainly is a long fucking story for a dozen cheese puffs, but it's MY corner of the internet and that is just how these things are going to go.