Sure, I'll be your Valentine in a strictly heterosexual manly kind of way. If you were in Atlanta, I'd ask you to join Gretje and myself in macaroon making. Since you're not, here's the recipe. I also posted it for Consuela, so ya'll can write behind my back to discuss your results!
Macaroonkies
These macaroons are deliciously addictive. The name comes from a Dodgesonball* game we played after eating a whole batch in one sitting. Macaroon + Junkies = Macaroonkies, or people who cant resist coconut confections.
*What is Dodgesonball, you ask? Well, it's the best of two wonderful things: Charles Dodgeson (a.k.a. Lewis Carrol) and dodgeball. You play at synthesizing seemingly sensical nonsense words by hybridizing the sensical kind.
1/3 cup rice flour, but plain white flour will do
pinch of salt
2 cups desiccated, sweetened coconut flakes
1/3 cup sweetened condensed milk
1/3 cup coconut milk
1 tsp vanilla essence
1 Preheat oven to 350F. Line two baking sheets with greaseproof paper and grease the paper
2 Sift the flour and salt into a large bowl. Stir in the desiccated coconut.
3 Pour in the coconut and sweetened condensed milk. Add the vanilla essence and stir together from the center. Stir until a thick batter forms.
4 Drop spoonfuls of batter 1 inch apart on prepared baking sheets. Bake for 20 minutes, until golden brown. Transfer to a wire rack to cool.
Oh, and I baked you some Raisin Roundies, I guess I'll just throw them in the river a'la Charlie Brown.
Better dust off the old Iron Maiden, not the band of course...
The moral of this story is, Never become famous for anything. People will wind up stealing your head (true story) as a prank, or writing graffiti on your grave to the dismay of the french.
Hey, the french again, in the same journal. Oh, they helped a bunch of hillbillies win a war against britain, I guess this was back when the King actually wasn't just a figurehead that spent money recklessly on walk in humidors...
Oh and Mary Queen of France was pretty badass, but that's about it... I think after Dienbienphu they gave up all notions of warfare and went back to important things like forbidding anyone to use american words like email (true story)...
edit: Oh yeah, I might add that I was in england and if you go past Buckingham pallace, there is a gate of course that keeps you at a comfortable distance fom the regal crib, (I guess they don't take kindly to trick or treaters)...
Everyone sort of just looked at this inanimate building as if Prince William himself might parachute in from the sky from a Hawker Typhoon and do an impromptu soft shoe routine.
Hey Yuh old Geezer, I've had the adult onset since I was 21, I'm going on 35 now, and still doing shots, but everything is cool! You kin' live with this! Welcome to thee club!
Since you're diabetic II, you might want to go a little lighter on the sweetened condensed milk and the difference with coconut milk. You might consider using unsweetened coconut flakes too.
ah! just read your down in HB! I had a store on Hollywood & Vine for 11 years, now I just sell on ebay, i'm spending the day p[hotographing for that while watching Japanese Yakuza films! Woo!
As for the Diabetes, they told me originally that I got it from My alcholic drinking (i'm sober now going on 15 years), but now this doc I'm seeing says that new developments in research are telling him that people who get adult onset in the early 20's usually have had a heavy virial infection that has attacked and killed the pancreas! In other words someone shook My hand, or coughed in the right direction, i got sickko, and boom! I'm a frigging diabetic! Well, I count the blessing, Yuh know......
awww...... thank you so much for the flowuh! that was so very sweet of you.
by the way, just in case you haven't already guessed, i've got this boy in my sights, and one day, we will be married.
mmhmm. yep. tis true.
already got names for our kids and everything.
gawd i love him.
sorry. got off on a tangent there.
THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!
