FOOD: A Little chilli in here...
Changing the 'Baking' tag to 'food' as not all my food related posts are baking.
So, I've been experimenting with vegan ice-cream for a while now, and earlier this month decided to follow a recipe from the usually excellent Vegan Scoop. This one was a Mexican flavour, involving copious quantities of cinnamon. I was a little concerned at exactly how copious the quantities were if you were substituting for the little mexican chocolates he recommends using, but thought, "What they hey. He probably knows what he's doing right?"
And then of course, I decided to add chilli. As you do.
I forgot two important features of chilli:
It gets hotter the longer it sits It gets hotter if it's chilled, say just for eg, in a fridge. Or a freezer.
The good news is that the overpowering amount of cinnamon almost masks the overpowering heat of the chilli. We are eating the super-hot-scald-your-intestines ice-cream, at the rate of about one teaspoon each a week. There's a lot of it...
And for Christmas, I thought it might be cute to make K some chilli Vodka. Clean and dice a chilli, and steep it in a bottle for five hours before straining and decanting the vodka into a bottle. Easy right? What can possibly go wrong there?
What can go wrong is, you can forget you are steeping the chilli in the vodka because you've had to hide it because K came back unexpectedly, and then it can remain in its hiding place for 2 whole days before you remember...
K has also been drinking the chilli vodka. He has about a teaspoon at the bottom of a glass and tops the rest of the glass up with coke or similar. The chilli fumes from the glass burn my nose when I sit next to him on the sofa.
The conclusion of these experiments is that Daisee should seriously think twice before making chilli anything.
Anyone for chilli cupcakes?
So, I've been experimenting with vegan ice-cream for a while now, and earlier this month decided to follow a recipe from the usually excellent Vegan Scoop. This one was a Mexican flavour, involving copious quantities of cinnamon. I was a little concerned at exactly how copious the quantities were if you were substituting for the little mexican chocolates he recommends using, but thought, "What they hey. He probably knows what he's doing right?"
And then of course, I decided to add chilli. As you do.
I forgot two important features of chilli:
The good news is that the overpowering amount of cinnamon almost masks the overpowering heat of the chilli. We are eating the super-hot-scald-your-intestines ice-cream, at the rate of about one teaspoon each a week. There's a lot of it...
And for Christmas, I thought it might be cute to make K some chilli Vodka. Clean and dice a chilli, and steep it in a bottle for five hours before straining and decanting the vodka into a bottle. Easy right? What can possibly go wrong there?
What can go wrong is, you can forget you are steeping the chilli in the vodka because you've had to hide it because K came back unexpectedly, and then it can remain in its hiding place for 2 whole days before you remember...
K has also been drinking the chilli vodka. He has about a teaspoon at the bottom of a glass and tops the rest of the glass up with coke or similar. The chilli fumes from the glass burn my nose when I sit next to him on the sofa.
The conclusion of these experiments is that Daisee should seriously think twice before making chilli anything.
Anyone for chilli cupcakes?