Howdy poltergeists!
Listening to: The Weepies
Today I will review some Christmasy delights. This may be a booze-soaked endeavour, fair warning. And I am a sloppy drunk.
First!
EGG NOG WITH SCOTCH
Nice, nice, nice. You can taste both very well. It's a nice eggnog in which you can definitely taste the spices and you get bite and warmth from the scotch. My wine-obsessed brother would call it blasphemy to imbibe an entire scotch before reviewing another liquid. Ha! He doesn't know what he's missing! Very tasty is all I can say. A nice winter buzz drink. Probably wouldn't want to get drunk on this seeing as it has so much dairy but it's a nice day drinking kind of mixer in my opinion. It's no Caucasian but at the very least it's an Oriental (racism is hilarious!)
CANDY CANE LANE TEA
Decided to play the Weepies' Christmas song "All that I want" for this so I feel all Christmassy right now! This tea is great. Can taste the mint, not too weak and it's nice and sweet and flavourful. It's a good tea, what can I say? And it's warming me up really well. My mouth feels a bit of a cold feeling from this afterward. Let's try a swish. Eh, more mint, nothing new. But it's warm and the mint is prominent and I like it and that's that, alright? Leave it alone for God's sakes.
Okay bye.
Announcement! The saddest song of the week is Stars by The Weepies (especially this particular music video for the song): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1pV9M7GYOKM
Next week we eat greek fire.
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Thursday, November 24, 2016
Stoner Food Reviews (Rebaked!), Day 3
Greetings ghosts!
Listening to: Death Cab for Cutie, Taylor Swift, The Weepies
Watching: 30 Rock
(Don't worry, this becomes important later. Nah, just kidding.)
Today is feast day apparently. I'm staying up late for this but it's worth it because I am having a stoner tea party for one! Today's spread consists of 6 items; a chocolate crepe snack, strawberry wafers, macarons, super special crackers with swiss, cheddar and smoked cheddar, Johnnie Walker scotch and cinnamon-vanilla tea. Nom nom nom is all I can say aboot that, eh?
First item I will eat is… hard to pick. Okay, I think I'll go for the crackers.
CRACKERS WITH CHEESE
These are actually special, super thin crackers that I got from Loblaws (Savoury Crisps by 34 Degrees) with a cute spirally design that essentially stand back and let the filling speak for itself and offer a few little improvements. I'm using cheddar, swiss and smoked cheddar inside the crackers, very thinly sliced in cracker sandwich format.
Cheddar:
Mmmm, great chewy texture, the cheddar is just so nicely emphasized yet shrouded a bit by the cracker. I love how thin they are. Super tasty and a cute, pleasant-to-feel-in-your-mouth snack. Does that mean it has mouth feel? Fuck if I know.
Smoked cheddar:
Taste the smoke right away. It seems quite emphasized and perhaps also coloured by the cracker. Tastes like a roaring fireplace in the dead of winter. The texture of the smoked cheddar works really well with the thin, malleable, chewy cracker. Bam! is all I can say.
Swiss:
Mmm… So good. Swiss is so much lighter than the forceful smoked cheddar. To me, it tastes like stinky feet, but like a delicious stinky feet that you would eat. Yep, all of these cheeses taste phenomenal with these crackers. Can't get over how nice the texture of the cracker and cheese feels it my mouth. These crackers are truly a pleasure to eat. Sad that that's over, although that does mean I'm onto my fucking 3-course dessert because why not diabetes, right?
MACARONS
Got these from my local grocery store bakery. I love these so I'm guessing I will enjoy this. 3 flavours, which will be announced as I go. Also, that is what they were labeled as but the labels could be wrong.
Blueberry:
Ultra amazing great! Texture hits me right away, super soft and easy to bite into. Definitely blueberry. Sugary, but that works for this dessert. Very flavourful as well.
Pistachio:
Yup, definitely pistachio. They nailed the flavour. Absolutely delicious. Nice and creamy and sweet. My god these things are wonderful.
Either Pumpkin Spice or Creamsicle (both of those were orange):
It's a gamble. If it's Pumpkin Spice my crush likes me and if it's Creamsicle he doesn't. PUMPKIN SPICE! Oh wow, they did a good job. That is a perfect Halloween treat. Creamy again, the spices are there but not overpowering. Really good.
STRAWBERRY WAFERS
Yup, those taste both good and of strawberry. Great texture; that's half the reason you buy them right there. Although, they do have a bit of an artificial flavour, definitely overly sweet as well. They aren't as good as the other treats.
CHOCOLATE CREPE SNACK
Mmm… I warmed it up. Chocolatey, definitely tastes like crepe (pun not at all intended). The chocolate tastes very dark and rich. I personally would prefer more of a milk chocolate but it's good for what it is. I'm cold and the warmth of it is definitely making me feel cozy. Not too sweet. It's good, but not amazing.
SCOTCH
Bottoms up. The sweet stuff from before definitely makes this taste sweet. I wonder what kind of pairings I could do with this. Very interesting flavour. Tastes way better high than sober for some reason. I think it tastes too gasoline-ish and bitter sober but high and after some sweets it tastes sweet and pleasant. It really warms me up inside - very toasty flavour. Oh, swishing it in my mouth is a recipe for burning of the mouth and bitter, gasoline taste. Yeah, I think I'll just sip without swishing. Well, one more swish just to make sure I didn't miss anything noteworthy beyond gasoline taste. Nah. Not a big fan of this scotch. I hope that isn't blasphemy in the scotch circles. I'm sure they consider me a troglodyte anyway so whatever.
CINNAMON-VANILLA TEA
Can't have a tea party without tea! It's herbal! It tastes kind of weird. I can pick up the cinnamon. Kind of a strange subtle cinnamon taste. Can taste the vanilla only slightly. It's mostly just watery. Not a huge fan of this. I steeped it a while so the weak flavour is not my fault. Yeah, this tea is meh.
So… 2 were amazing, 2 were okay and 2 were bad or meh. A full gamut of quality. Honestly I thought I'd love all of it so that's surprising. Ta-ta for now!
Next week we eat yellow snow and the little known orange snow.
Listening to: Death Cab for Cutie, Taylor Swift, The Weepies
Watching: 30 Rock
(Don't worry, this becomes important later. Nah, just kidding.)
Today is feast day apparently. I'm staying up late for this but it's worth it because I am having a stoner tea party for one! Today's spread consists of 6 items; a chocolate crepe snack, strawberry wafers, macarons, super special crackers with swiss, cheddar and smoked cheddar, Johnnie Walker scotch and cinnamon-vanilla tea. Nom nom nom is all I can say aboot that, eh?
First item I will eat is… hard to pick. Okay, I think I'll go for the crackers.
CRACKERS WITH CHEESE
These are actually special, super thin crackers that I got from Loblaws (Savoury Crisps by 34 Degrees) with a cute spirally design that essentially stand back and let the filling speak for itself and offer a few little improvements. I'm using cheddar, swiss and smoked cheddar inside the crackers, very thinly sliced in cracker sandwich format.
Cheddar:
Mmmm, great chewy texture, the cheddar is just so nicely emphasized yet shrouded a bit by the cracker. I love how thin they are. Super tasty and a cute, pleasant-to-feel-in-your-mouth snack. Does that mean it has mouth feel? Fuck if I know.
Smoked cheddar:
Taste the smoke right away. It seems quite emphasized and perhaps also coloured by the cracker. Tastes like a roaring fireplace in the dead of winter. The texture of the smoked cheddar works really well with the thin, malleable, chewy cracker. Bam! is all I can say.
Swiss:
Mmm… So good. Swiss is so much lighter than the forceful smoked cheddar. To me, it tastes like stinky feet, but like a delicious stinky feet that you would eat. Yep, all of these cheeses taste phenomenal with these crackers. Can't get over how nice the texture of the cracker and cheese feels it my mouth. These crackers are truly a pleasure to eat. Sad that that's over, although that does mean I'm onto my fucking 3-course dessert because why not diabetes, right?
MACARONS
Got these from my local grocery store bakery. I love these so I'm guessing I will enjoy this. 3 flavours, which will be announced as I go. Also, that is what they were labeled as but the labels could be wrong.
Blueberry:
Ultra amazing great! Texture hits me right away, super soft and easy to bite into. Definitely blueberry. Sugary, but that works for this dessert. Very flavourful as well.
Pistachio:
Yup, definitely pistachio. They nailed the flavour. Absolutely delicious. Nice and creamy and sweet. My god these things are wonderful.
Either Pumpkin Spice or Creamsicle (both of those were orange):
It's a gamble. If it's Pumpkin Spice my crush likes me and if it's Creamsicle he doesn't. PUMPKIN SPICE! Oh wow, they did a good job. That is a perfect Halloween treat. Creamy again, the spices are there but not overpowering. Really good.
STRAWBERRY WAFERS
Yup, those taste both good and of strawberry. Great texture; that's half the reason you buy them right there. Although, they do have a bit of an artificial flavour, definitely overly sweet as well. They aren't as good as the other treats.
CHOCOLATE CREPE SNACK
Mmm… I warmed it up. Chocolatey, definitely tastes like crepe (pun not at all intended). The chocolate tastes very dark and rich. I personally would prefer more of a milk chocolate but it's good for what it is. I'm cold and the warmth of it is definitely making me feel cozy. Not too sweet. It's good, but not amazing.
SCOTCH
Bottoms up. The sweet stuff from before definitely makes this taste sweet. I wonder what kind of pairings I could do with this. Very interesting flavour. Tastes way better high than sober for some reason. I think it tastes too gasoline-ish and bitter sober but high and after some sweets it tastes sweet and pleasant. It really warms me up inside - very toasty flavour. Oh, swishing it in my mouth is a recipe for burning of the mouth and bitter, gasoline taste. Yeah, I think I'll just sip without swishing. Well, one more swish just to make sure I didn't miss anything noteworthy beyond gasoline taste. Nah. Not a big fan of this scotch. I hope that isn't blasphemy in the scotch circles. I'm sure they consider me a troglodyte anyway so whatever.
CINNAMON-VANILLA TEA
Can't have a tea party without tea! It's herbal! It tastes kind of weird. I can pick up the cinnamon. Kind of a strange subtle cinnamon taste. Can taste the vanilla only slightly. It's mostly just watery. Not a huge fan of this. I steeped it a while so the weak flavour is not my fault. Yeah, this tea is meh.
So… 2 were amazing, 2 were okay and 2 were bad or meh. A full gamut of quality. Honestly I thought I'd love all of it so that's surprising. Ta-ta for now!
Next week we eat yellow snow and the little known orange snow.
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