Spiritual and very Sexy Sunday

I realize today's Tuesday, but got carried away on Sunday and busy on Monday. So here's my original post for Sunday.


Earlier last week I was hanging out with the Beer Master from beerthirty.com at Baker's Street Pub on South Lamar. Not only did I run into a few people from my past life, but we also got to try some really awesome Smirnoff! Chocolate laced Vanilla vodka was like drinking an adult and lactose free version of a vanilla sundae with chocolate icing! Well, we got more adventurous and added some creme de menthe into the mix and made it into a mint chocolate chip flavour!

My taste-buds are still dreaming about our concoction. Earlier than our little outing, we saw a commercial on television for Smirnoff's Marshmallow flavoured vodka... So, we bought some and I have to say, I'm verry impressed! It would be awesome in a hot cocoa!

I'm going to play with some alcoholic marshmallows here today. I will definitely post about it later this week.

Cheers and here's to the summer fun (and sexy) times!

Super Sweet Saturday

There's just something about Saturdays that makes the week just seem so much better; almost like the random sun showers one might encounter on a hot summer day or even just sneaking a mallow when no one else is looking.

I made some guava mallows for my mother on Mother's Day, they turned out splendidly! They ended up having a nice little kick in the back of the throat, much like my strawberry mallows. They're a delicate tasting fruit, but oh so delicious when paired with coconut and passion fruit too... I'm definitely craving a snow cone from Snow Beach right now. 

So, what in the world is a guava fruit? 

The guava fruit is grown in South America, Mexico, and the other warmer continents on shrubs or small trees. The guava flower is a really gorgeous white flower. See below:
 

The fruit itself is gorgeous and is as great tasting as it looks!

Here's a picture of the "Thai Maroon" guava: 

The guava fruit is rich in Vitamins A and C, folic acid, potassium and manganese. All vitamins we need to consume on a daily basis.Therefore, an excellent fruit juice to have in a marshmallow!

Marshmallows are good for the soul, the inner kid and the taste buds. Add a few awesome fruit juices and you have the best of both worlds!

(I took these pictures from Wikipedia and some of the facts from it too. I'm not a know-it-all, but when it comes to the making of these confections, I only use the best ingredients.)

I find the more exotic fruits rather interesting from a biological perspective, it's my inner nerd coming out...

Life is full of little wonders, just like Saturdays.

 Enjoy yours, as I have enjoyed mine!

Wicked Wednesday

What's the most wickedly delicious food you've ever eaten?

If you have ever been down to the State Fair of Texas, you know how many different varieties of fried food they have there. I was born and raised in Texas and fried food is almost as much of a staple in my childhood as watermelon and root beer! Well, recently the state fair has had fried bacon and butter and coke and I am waiting for the day when they have fried chocolate and marshmallows... Yes, I just said it, marshmallows people. I think it'd be ten times better than fried Twinkies! Just think, a crispy golden batter around one of my fluffy white vanilla mallows (or even the coconut or chocolate), and when you bite into it you get the crunch of the batter with an explosion of flavour from the mallow. YUM!

My arteries are clogging just thinking of it...

It seems so wickedly delightful. ;-)

xoxo

Tempting Tuesday

I frequently have those cravings for random things like hamburgers or ice cream or something of what I don't usually eat on a regular basis (I'd look like my marshmallows, if I did!). So, I was thinking about some new flavours and had some pretty interesting suggestions come up from a very good friend of mine. He recently suggested more alcoholic flavours (which I totally am a fan of) and something more unusual: Indian influenced marshmallows. I naturally took to the idea and will be implementing it soon, but it also occurred to me to make some Mexican influenced mallows too, considering I'm from Texas and we have a lot of Mexican and Spanish influences here. I'm already salivating. As much as I love my mallows, I love my food too.

There's no place like Texas to get your Tex-Mex on. Just something about the way it's made here, is just so damn good.

Now I'm really hungry...

Fruity Friday

Alright people, listen up (well technically it's reading, but I'm not in the mood for slight technicalities today):

So, as my beloved Facebook and Twitter friends have been reading I have 3 new fruity flavors and they kick puff! Key Lime, Strawberry and Coconut!

OK, I'm done bragging... nope, just kidding... I use REAL fruit juice in the Key Lime and Strawberry flavoured mallows and a coconut extract for the other. I gotta say, it's pretty cool with the fruit juices because each batch is just as good as the last, yet they each have their own distinctive flavour. For example, the strawberries I use may come from a different plot of land or may be experiencing a different kind of season. It's pretty cool, for those of you who can taste the differences in strawberries from each time you purchase them at your local grocer, you might get a tart batch one week and when you go back you get a sweeter batch or an earthier tasting batch... and those of you who haven't thought about it... start thinking! :-)

I'm going to start going for the locavore way of thinking here pretty soon, but not so much while I'm in my experimental jive here... I would love to support local farmers or even just Texas farmers! I'm hoping for a good season all around this year!