ellis
Mere Mortal
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Post by ellis on Nov 26, 2008 19:23:30 GMT -5
Dear Vikki, Last year you posted a 'recipe' for holiday cooking that included using some sort of liquor. It was hysterically funny! Do you still have it? Cheers and congrats on all the sales! Great work! Ellis *First phone call from you I said: 'What are you wearing?' I admit I beat you to the punch. Now then, do you still have the holiday recipe? Being tested against one that had Scotch in it. One phrase, 'scottle the botch' was good. I said you had written a much better recipe. We've got a bet on. I said you'd win, hands down.
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Post by Vicki Pettersson on Nov 28, 2008 12:09:15 GMT -5
I can't remember! A holiday recipe with Scotch? Hm...
I'm working on one now with jalapenos and peach vodka. I had it in Sonoma and am trying to replicate. I missed my calling as a mixologist, I swear...
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Post by MsKay on Nov 28, 2008 15:11:35 GMT -5
Jalapeno's and peach vodka - you know that sounds disgusting....
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ellis
Mere Mortal
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Post by ellis on Nov 28, 2008 16:01:53 GMT -5
With Jose Cuervo? You put something in the dishwasher that was meant for the oven. No? Okay. Get thee back to scribbling. Your fans love ya! Ellis
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Post by Vicki Pettersson on Nov 30, 2008 12:15:11 GMT -5
Jalapeno's and peach vodka - you know that sounds disgusting.... Nah, it was great. The jalapeno juice takes away the tartness. Here it is: 1 1/2 oz absolute peach 1 1/2 oz white cranberry juice 2 teasp. fresh lime juice 2 teasp. jalapeno juice garnish with one jalapeno pepper slice leaves a nice, slight burn in the back of your throat, but peach on the tongue. Yum!
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Post by miki on Nov 30, 2008 12:57:42 GMT -5
Oo, may have to try that for the holidays! Sounds yummeh!
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Post by debim on Nov 30, 2008 15:25:20 GMT -5
I vaguely remember the LiveJournal blogpost that Ellis is talking about. It must have been during the 2007 holiday season. Are there archives of the LiveJournal blog? I don't visit there anymore since we have such a good thing happening right here.
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Post by Vicki Pettersson on Dec 1, 2008 9:58:05 GMT -5
I vaguely remember the LiveJournal blogpost that Ellis is talking about. It must have been during the 2007 holiday season. Are there archives of the LiveJournal blog? I don't visit there anymore since we have such a good thing happening right here. I'd have to go looking...I don't know what I did with that thing. As you can tell, I'm not a very good or natural blogger. It feels like homework to me. I much prefer riffing and just chatting with you guys.
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Post by ailishsmom on Dec 5, 2008 20:19:30 GMT -5
T'was LJ. Here it is:
The Rachel Vincent Smackdown
* Dec. 10th, 2007 at 10:04 AM
Rachel Vincent and I have a lot in common. We embarked on our careers at the same time, we have the same agent, and we write in the same genre. She's also extremely sweet. I don't know if I can rightfully claim the same of myself, but I'm going to anyway.
Now for the differences.
Rachel bakes, builds and decorates gingerbread houses from scratch. I buy mine at Smith's -- but the box is pretty festive.
She apparently also makes award-winning cookies - like, Academy Award winning type cookies except, yanno, for cookies - and publicly gives out the recipe to other, more domestically challenged types, like myself.
Well I've had enough, Miss I-Could-Even-Build-An-Igloo-From-Scratch-If-I-Felt-Like-It-While-Typing-Out-My-Next-Secret-Project-One-Handed-And-Still-Do-It-All-Faster-Than-You-Even-Though-It's-The-Best-Thing-I've-Ever-Written-And-The-Igloo-Won-An-Award-For-The-Best-Porte-Cochere-So-There Vincent.
(She really said that, too.)
So here's my favorite cookie recipe -- and it totally kicks your recipe's ass. Read it and weep, Vincent.
Best Christmas Cookies Eveh.
1 cup of water 1 tsp baking soda 1 cup of sugar 1 tsp salt 1 cup of brown sugar lemon juice 4 large eggs 1 cup nuts 2 cups of dried fruit 1 bottle Jose Cuervo Tequila
Sample the Cuervo to check quality.
Take a large bowl, check the Cuervo again, to be sure it is of the highest quality, pour one level cup and drink. Turn on the electric mixer...
Beat one cup of butter in a large fluffy bowl. Add one teaspoon of sugar...Beat again. At this point, it's best to make sure the Cuervo is still OK, try another cup ... just in case.
Turn off the mixerer thingy. Break 2 leggs, and add to the bowl, and chuck in the cup of dried fruit. Pick the frigging fruit off floor.
Mix on the turner. If the fried druit gets stuck in the beaterers, just pry it lloose with a drewscriver.
Sample the Cuervo to check for tonsisticity. Next, sift two cups of salt, or something. Who giveshz a sheet? Check the Jose Cuervo.
Now shift the lemon juice, and strain your nuts. Add one table. Add a spoon of sugar, or somefink. Whatever you can find. Greash the oven.
Turn the cake tin 360 degrees and try not to fall over. Don't forget to beat off the turner. Finally, throw the bowl out,
finish the Cose Juervo, and make sure to put the stove in the dishwasher.
CHERRY MISTMAS
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Post by Raven on Dec 5, 2008 22:14:07 GMT -5
Theresa, you da man! WOW! I can't believe you found that!
LMFAO at how many times you gotta check the Cuervo, Vic. Very cute.
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Post by nat on Dec 5, 2008 23:58:41 GMT -5
LOL...um Vicki, u like that Cuervo huh??
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Post by vampyre on Dec 6, 2008 10:04:54 GMT -5
I remember that...or something like that. Friends don't let Vicki bake and drive.
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Post by debim on Dec 6, 2008 10:30:04 GMT -5
Yup, that's the one all right. Thanks, T for looking for it. Made me laugh the first time I read it and made me laugh again now.
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Post by slayercat on Dec 6, 2008 12:23:50 GMT -5
Too, too funny!!!! That's our Vic! Hahaha! Thanks, T, for the research!
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Post by MsKay on Dec 6, 2008 14:25:55 GMT -5
totally awesome T
and Vicki that jalapeno thing still sounds disgusting... but Im willing to try nearly anything once
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