A fair amount of work but well rewarded!
Even if I did reward myself.
Last night at 2am I made a chocolate mousse pie. This morning, almost directly after I got up, I made a Krusteaz' orange/cranberry muffin mix, adding half a cup of chocolate chips (a half and half mix of semi-sweet and bittersweet) and a quarter cup of finely diced walnuts. Because of the add'l ingredients, instead of getting a dozen muffins I got a baker's dozen plus one. My wife was taking the dogs out for a run just as they were coming out of the oven, so I grabbed one, threw it in a ziploc sandwich bag, and ran it out to the car for her.
They were quite awesome. And a total cost of under $5 for 14 muffins! (excluding cost of eggs and oil and....)
After she got back, we drained and flushed the hot water heater. It'd been making popping sounds while heating, and was barely 18 months old. The procedure isn't difficult, took maybe half an hour or so, I did have to buy a 10' garden hose which set me back all of $8 at Home Despot, but now we have it and won't have to buy it again as we're planning on flushing it annually starting summer of '20.
Having completed that, I sliced up the chocolate mousse pie. Normally I cut it into 16ths, but I went ahead and saved two pieces as 8ths as I thought I/we earned it.
Man, I/we do love my chocolate mousse pie! The little bit of chili powder really sets off the chocolate, which is also a 50/50 mix of bitter and semi- Ghirardelli, plus cutting it down from three egg whites to two to stiffen it up a bit makes it absolute killer. And I added a pretty healthy amount of Mexican vanilla extract. And the recipe comes together pretty quick: with practice you can do it in about 30-45 minutes, but then it needs to set in the fridge for a good 3-4 hours, so it's a good one to make the night before. It's also good for parties to make in parfait glasses, I've done that once or twice with crumbled chocolate Oreo cookie crust in the bottom, which makes it a lot of fun.
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Last night at 2am I made a chocolate mousse pie. This morning, almost directly after I got up, I made a Krusteaz' orange/cranberry muffin mix, adding half a cup of chocolate chips (a half and half mix of semi-sweet and bittersweet) and a quarter cup of finely diced walnuts. Because of the add'l ingredients, instead of getting a dozen muffins I got a baker's dozen plus one. My wife was taking the dogs out for a run just as they were coming out of the oven, so I grabbed one, threw it in a ziploc sandwich bag, and ran it out to the car for her.
They were quite awesome. And a total cost of under $5 for 14 muffins! (excluding cost of eggs and oil and....)
After she got back, we drained and flushed the hot water heater. It'd been making popping sounds while heating, and was barely 18 months old. The procedure isn't difficult, took maybe half an hour or so, I did have to buy a 10' garden hose which set me back all of $8 at Home Despot, but now we have it and won't have to buy it again as we're planning on flushing it annually starting summer of '20.
Having completed that, I sliced up the chocolate mousse pie. Normally I cut it into 16ths, but I went ahead and saved two pieces as 8ths as I thought I/we earned it.
Man, I/we do love my chocolate mousse pie! The little bit of chili powder really sets off the chocolate, which is also a 50/50 mix of bitter and semi- Ghirardelli, plus cutting it down from three egg whites to two to stiffen it up a bit makes it absolute killer. And I added a pretty healthy amount of Mexican vanilla extract. And the recipe comes together pretty quick: with practice you can do it in about 30-45 minutes, but then it needs to set in the fridge for a good 3-4 hours, so it's a good one to make the night before. It's also good for parties to make in parfait glasses, I've done that once or twice with crumbled chocolate Oreo cookie crust in the bottom, which makes it a lot of fun.
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