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Other details of my life coming soon.
Due to a time crunch we were unable to create as beautiful and themed design for the Chocolate Making site as we would have liked. However, the recipe that this page contains is QUITE tasty, enjoyable and educational! Hope you enjoy!
I found this tasty-sounding tidbit at Digs Magazine. Added bonus: it has everyone’s favorite carbonated beverage: Mountain Dew! Lup lup!
Toxic Waste
1 oz. Midori (melon liqueur)
2 oz. gin
Mountain Dew
Pour the first two ingredients in a highball (tall glass), preferably frosted, over ice. Top off with the Mountain Dew. Added bonus: the gin makes this cocktail glow under blacklight. You can substitute vodka if you like, but alas, no eerie glow.
We should probably try this sometime, no?
I’ll be surprised if I don’t weigh 500 pounds soon, with the quantities of yummy food I have eaten in the past few days.
Last night I went with some of the guys to Lone Star Steakhouse on Wolf Rd. in Albany. The service was very good, unlike the bad experience there in Durham over the summer! (we waited like an hour after we had sat down just to get drinks! and this was during the work day…haha.) Anyway, we had 2 frickin appetizers, Bloomin’ Onion and Cheese Fries! I could not restrain myself. THEN there was a divine garden salad and that warm bread that you cut yourself… and finally my main course, a 6-oz filet and a 1/2 rack of ribs. AGIAGA! I was so full I barely fit in my pants I feel. So yummy.
After Lone Star we went to Dr. Java’s (is that what it’s called?!) also on Wolf Rd. to get some chai, of course. That was a cool place, we thought it was in a house at first. It had cool decorations, red walls and interesting works of art everywhere (lots of collage/painting things… note to self: try that medium sometime). The chai there was very milky, much better than the almost sickeningly sweet (but CHEAP!) chai from Dunkin’ Donuts. Speaking of chai, Oak just received a shipment of a very large quantity of Oregon Chai concentrates in assorted flavors. Fellow chai consumers: perhaps we should start a site on all the chais of the capital region?! It would be educational for all.
Continuing on the food topic, I made post here about the Apricot-Orange Chicken Picadillo that Laura and I made today. Who knew salsa, apricot, orange concentrate, cinnamon, and chicken would mix so well? Lup Lup!
Laura and I made some very tasty Apricot-Orange Chicken Picadillo. It was very much an adventure indeed. We were afraid of the strange combination of ingredients (including salsa, apricot preserves, orange concentrate and cinnamon!!) but it was delicious!
The chicken came out very tender and there was an interesting mix of flavor, you could taste the separate ingredients but they seemed to mesh together quite nicely. It almost reminded me of orange chicken or something, but better. We used medium salsa so it was a little bit spicy. I’m getting hungry again right now just thinking about it! We highly recommend this one! Who would have known that Pillsbury has so many tasty and easy to prepare dishes?!
Who knew there were Ikea games on the net???
First, you can find out Which Ikea Product you are.
Then have fun with some Gusles and Lack tables with the Ikea Product Guessing Game.
Somehow I don’t think we are the only addicts out there!!!
Went to Montreal, Canada this weekend with my man and his bros. It was lots of fun. 
We love Canada because it is cheap. Either that or we miscalculate whenever taking 1/3 off the price of everything. “Oh that is $2 Canadian??? It must be like 50 cents in US$!!”
There was also a convenient store that had an “Open 25 hours” sign in its window. We spent a lot of time pondering that one. (Being RPI geeks and all, we considered the possibility of metric time.)
We stayed at the Quality Hotel (hotness! lol) on Rue de Parc. Everything was in French, very little of which I understood despite my 4 years of high school education in the subject. It was very weird since most signs and stuff were in French but there was a variety of who spoke what (French? English? Franglais? Frenglish?). How exciting it is being in a “foreign” country!
The evening was filled with a bit ‘o’ bar-hopping (well as much as I’ve ever done, I imagine this is a lot more exciting when you are under aged in the States, it must feel illegal). Then we boogied our butts off at the Loft. Fun fun! We had a very late-night chai fix as well. (YUMMERS!)
The weekend was entirely too short, of course. I’m glad I got to come along this time!! 
Rock on!
The Smiley is only a year and two months younger than me.
Funny Face is one of my new favorite musicals… I just love 50s style. And there is a song called “Think Pink!” Haha. I just adore cheesy brainless musicals. This one was a lot better than all those other ones with Ginger Rodgers (Top Hat, Shall We Dance.. they are all basically the same thing).
We have concluded that Fred Astaire was a stud. He got all the chicks: Ginger Rodgers, Judy Garland, Audrey Hepburn… I guess the ladiez really loved the tap dancing thing back then!
Here is a whole article about lychees. Remember when we thought they were octopii in my “sweet and sour duck and lychee” or whatever it was? Haha!
I am beginning to think Chai may be the new, improved, less-calorie Mountain Dew.
Friendly, “Mr Nice Guy” John comes around tempting us. “WHO WANTS CHAI?” It is hard to resist when the smell is looming in the air. Imported from the very origin of wonderful coffee, that whole Oregon/Washington area, we lowly college students have become accustomed the highest quality brew.
Our newest favorite activity is to go to different coffee shops and taste-test the chai. Tonight’s consensus: Borders in Latham’s Chai is too milky and sweet.
I’m sure that this is all a part of John’s evil plan: to become a God to college students. He keeps saying, “Only the FIRST cups are free.” He is clearly taking the drug-dealer approach. Who knows where you can order mass quantities of chai for cheap on the internet??? Please share!
