Death by Chocolate

Wanna enjoy the cool weather and give your arteries a good hardening at the same time? I suggest you cook this up. Best you’ll ever have.

16 Oz Whole Milk
16 Oz Heavy cream
8 Table Spoons Ghirardelli Double Chocolate Cocoa Powder
¼ tsp Vanilla Extract (Preferably Mexican)
Marshmallow Crème

Mix milk, cream, cocoa powder in a medium saucepan with heavy bottom under medium heat. Aggressively mix powder into milk/cream mixture (Will take a while for powder to saturate). Consistently whisk mixture as it heats (will become less frothy and more liquid). Add Mexican vanilla. Once it’s reached a desirable temperature (personal taste) remove from heat. Drop one heaping spoonful of marshmallow crème into the bottom of a large mug and pour hot chocolate over it. When marshmallow lump floats to the top, it’s ready to drink.

Suggestion: Serve with lavender caramels topped with Fleur De Sel click here

Goo Goo over Gaga

Lady Gaga's new track "Poker Face"... does it for me..

Click here for the cheesy eurofabulousness

Kitchen Confidential

I bit the bullet in a big way today and bought my first appliances for my soon-to-be remodeled new home.

First, the refrigerator to end all refrigerators.








Up next, a Wolfe that can feed an army

Calculate This

It really is the little things..

JT sent me a link to an online percent change calculator. For mathmatically challenged media folks like me, shortcuts like this can mean more time time perfecting my ping pong game and less time nursing media math-related headaches.

Share the love:

http://www.csgnetwork.com/percentchangecalc.html


Heres a long laundry list of web calculators for other lazy folks:

http://www.webcalc.net/menu.php


Wanna know how long you're gonna live?

http://calculator.livingto100.com/calculator

Who's The Boss?

Loved this E-Card I got today for bosses day! Good to see that my ability to source and hire top notch smartasses is still sharp as ever! Loved it!

Thank you!!

Reward This!

Enough with the rewards cards people! Every store I go into now has their own “rewards” card and consumers get bum rushed and sideswiped in the checkout line when you don’t have one or forgot to bring yours along. If had to carry every rewards card I’ve signed up for (or been offered and refused) I would need 2 wallets, a backpack and a paper bag to carry them all.

The worst perpetrators of the “Reward card or die” tactic here in Austin? CVS pharmacy and Randall’s grocery store. I avoid Randall’s altogether now because I don’t have their reward card and you can’t even do a transaction on their POS without either swiping it first or receiving a 10 minute lecture from the cashier on how much money you can save with one. I’ve found that if you quickly cut them off and say “I don’t like to save money”…… they usually shut up right there and proceed with your checkout, only after looking at you like your some asshole elitist.

Maybe I’ll invent a global rewards card that you can go online and register your stores of choice to and flash when you checkout? I’ll take it one step further and allow consumers to globally opt out of receiving the “Would you like to donate a dollar to (insert random children’s charity here)” too.

Now that idea’s got some legs.

Food Frets

Forrest made dinner for me last night. He was visibly nervous when I arrived at his place because he was worried it wouldn’t taste good. So nervous so that he quickly downed a drink before I arrived in hopes of taking the edge off; Cleary a failed attempt. I found it all too cute and extremely familiar. I remember how important it was to stay calm, cool and collected in the early stages of a relationship. Long before I felt comfortable burping out loud and peeing with the bathroom door wide open, I had to be indestructible, unscathed and generally perfect.

Of course his meal was delicious, and I was extremely appreciative of every detail. Down to the lemon wedges cut and arranged on a side plate. Everything about Forrest’s life reminds me of my own when I was in my mid 20’s. There’s something wonderfully familiar about eating dinner at his apartment on stools at the breakfast bar surrounded by books, papers, unopened mail and random pocket change.

I thought I might struggle more with our age difference but I’m completely unfazed by it. Well, almost…he’s never seen Sixteen Candles and that’s just incomprehensible. And un-American if I do say so myself. ;)

At this very moment

I am the happiest I've been in years.



Finally.....

Weather Wars

Whats up with Austin's weather? High of 93 low of 59.... it must be all that carbon those coal plants are dumping into the air....

Just For The Day

Ever wanted to be a lesbian (yeah me neither)...

But just in case... now you can on the L Word's virtual lesbian world. I just picked 12 fights, turkey basted a baby in the bathroom and asked a girl to move in with me before our first date...
You know, typical Lesbian goings-ons.

Check it out:

CLICK HERE

Fool me once.....

An email about the $490,000 AIG execs spent on a corporate retreat at a swanky California resort just days after they got their asses bailed out by the US taxpayers got me thinking about a documentary I saw a while back on the collapse of Enron. Talk about gross corporate negligence. They should all be fired and shunned from their country clubs.


The Smartest Guys in The Room



Also thought about another documentary I saw on the (then) impending credit crisis in America. It'll rip your heart out and piss you off at the same time.


Maxed Out

HUH?

OK so I think the Facebook add on applications may be a little out of control. I just got a "Kidnap Request" from a friend that said:

"You have been kidnap'd to Rio de Janeiro with the Mega Toilet Flush"

Am I just too old to get this or does that sound like some 3rd grade punchline? What is a mega toilet flush? And more importantly, why does it take me to Rio? And finally, is it a good thing? Being flushed down the mega toilet? Or should I be offended that the sender doesnt feel like I could fit in a regular sized toilet? So many questions.. no answers...

Rethinking Facebook participation as I type...

As you were.....