And the wild dogs in the mountains to the north of us come down

[sovay]

There were coyotes yipping and howling somewhere outside the house last night. Not dogs; or at least I have never heard a dog make that thin, almost whinnying keen before. I will be curious to hear if they return tonight. I expect I will still be awake.

From the sublime to the sugar-laden: for Thanksgiving, Burdick's is selling little chocolate turkeys with sliced almond tails. The dark ones are filled with clementine ganache, the milk with pecan, bourbon, and chestnut. I framed this one in its natural habitat, which was apparently on top of Georgette Heyer's The Toll-Gate (1954). It did not survive long. Fortunately, I memorialized it first.



Most of today was spent with gaudior and rushthatspeaks and an absolutely ridiculous recipe for Baileys brownies which I believe originated with tamnonlinear. My blood sugar might not forgive me until the end of the week, but I was impressed. And the conversation was even better.

I should know more obscene Greek verbs.

Comments

[sovay]

I have mint, orange, and raspberry varieties of the brownies of doom, and I know a good recipe for Bailey's mini cheesecakes, but I haven't attempted Bailey's brownies yet.

It was this recipe with Baileys substituted for the crème de menthe. And although I had to leave before the frosting and ganache stages, the brownies all on their own were demented and delicious. So, thank you.

[tamnonlinear.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I'm glad you tested Bailey's and find it works. I've wanted to try that for a while but hadn't done so yet (also under recent discussion was espresso variety).

[rushthatspeaks.livejournal.com]

It turns out that Bailey's really, really works. I wound up using Ghirardelli milk baking chocolate as well as 60% dark, because I thought the dark might not jive so well with the Bailey's flavor-- it turns out that a bag of white chips and a bag of milk chips thrown in as chips, a bar of dark melted into the batter, and a milk ganache is Precisely Correct.

Thank you so much for the recipe!