The beignet is served with chicory coffee and steamed milk. You have to train yourself not to inhale as you bite into a beignet lest you choke inhaling a tiny gust of powdered sugar going straight down your windpipe.

Is there nothing about you that I don’t like?

Those were the days. Those were the days.

the nekko smoothie effect…

when marketing people mash things in some bizarre way as, what they think, invention is. a cargo cult version of inspiration and design, backed by more marketing than substance.

cheese steaks in philly were an invention, the original french dip was an invention, hersheys chockolate is an accident, etc..

its capital with no substance to fill it. money chasing something but cant find what to really do with it. no way (for them) to really judge real inventions or potential (ever see the art they buy?), so they hire a marketing firm to create such. they get mash up and marketing as i call it. you get fads.

when i am out taking pics at events (havent in a while now, will do so february fashion week), you can see lots of attempts to do this. just most of them dont catch…

then sometimes a few famous people will pick it up at the event cause its free. .. i get a few shots… people see it… they follow their “friends/leaders” as their brains see it dually, the artificial non relationship, and the parts where the brain still thinks its a relationship beacuse conciousness doesnt reach in and control the rest of things and have ways of qualifying the information. (so even though they can assemble the information and remember its not real. when stored all over, the part of real not real doesnt follow all around, its just a quality like red, or soft that exists when the memories are assembled again in concious perception – which is why you cant really turn off or claim that propaganda doesnt work because you know its propaganda. seems reason and factual correlation can tag information enough so that it is a kind of defense against propaganda, but that would just mean that not everyone is receptive to the same presentation of message, not that they are immune)..

[and a few other things like underwear on the outside might have been bets, dares, or tests about proving how stupid we appear to be from that distance – look how that religion started on a bet]

I like lots of donuts but my favorites are lemon-filled, chocolate-dipped raised, followed by lemon-filled, raspberry-filled, chocolate dipped (all raised) and most cake, buttermilk or “old fashioned”.

You really should try the emon-filled, chocolate-dipped raised if you can find them (Winchell’s, Walmart, HyVee and Bakers will do them to order, Petit’s will not even as pay-extra-in-advance in large quantities).

There’s one cupcake the family likes:
From the Death by Chocolate cookbook – Granny Twitchell’s Secret Chocolate Cupcake recipe. Chocolate, cocoa (I think), chocolate chips and cream (instead of butter). Oh and some sugar. Frosted with ganache – heat cream, add bittersweet chips, stir until smooth, dip cupcakes.

I can only eat half of one at a time. Very very rich. But I’ll bet the ones sold for $4 aren’t nearly as good.

As for cup cakes, make them! the best recipe I use is the one on the back of the Hershey’s Cocoa can for chocolate cake, which is also my favorite recipe for chocolate cake, its been on there forever, hiding in plain site, all by scratch of course, including the frosting.
http://www.hersheys.com/recipes/recipes/detail.asp?id=184
read the reviews.
Mix in the boiling water well before pouring. Make 30 and give some away if they are too many or you could half the recipe They never last long around my house.