It Started with a Journal

Practicing my gif making and using gfycat. Here's a gadget play that the Seahawks ran during last season's game against the Atlanta Falcons.

( 3 GIFs )

Aaaaand here's a GIF of my cat Jaime eating grass, why not. (Edit: I was going to try out how to use gfycat video instead, because that would reduce the size by a ton... but I have no idea how to make it work with LJ/DW. So I'll just put it behind a cut.)

( Kitty eating grass! )

I made a drink that I've been wanting to try ever since reading about it in A Song of Ice and Fire. :D A lot of people complain about how much GRRM focuses on food description; personally, it's part of why I love the series so much! :)) Anyway, iirc, in the first book Pycelle offers Ned some "iced milk sweetened with honey." Someone, maybe it was Jade, remarked that that sounded disgusting. I actually felt the opposite when I read it again not too long ago. I thought it sounded really nice and refreshing.

Now, I have to admit that I'm one of those people who used to find the idea of ice in milk strange and a little off-putting; I don't know why. Then a few years ago I was down in SoCal, and all the young 20somethings were all about Half and Half Express, a bubble tea chain down there (you can see their extremely extensive drink menu here). I'm also one of those weird people who haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaated bubble tea, finding the boba disruptive to my drinking enjoyment. However, this place's hot honey boba was really good, and my favorite drink to get there was the iced milk drink with pudding and honey boba. That made me realize that my prejudice against iced milk was possibly unfounded.

Initially when I thought about making this simple drink, I figured I would have to heat the milk, in order to dissolve the honey completely... but I didn't like the idea of doing that because milk tastes different once it's been cooked, and not in a way I like. So because of that, and because I'm lazy, I decided to try just mixing honey with cold milk. The honey was very thin because it's been warm here lately. (If my honey had gotten crystallized I'd probably have microwaved it to turn it to liquid first.) It dissolved in the cold milk surprisingly well. I added ice and viola!

Long story short... IT WAS DELICIOUS. I used 2% milk, but it tasted so incredibly rich that I felt like I was indulging in some super decadent drink. Definitely would make again. ;)