Blankets, candies, and President’s Day
February 18th, 2008Tweety’s latest blanket
If you like handmade blankets, check out Tweety’s latest creation. It’s a nice shade of blue with a darker blue ripple and it’s 45×57 inches. Tweety’s made two of our blankets and her quality is superb.
Chocolate Rum Balls
Lime and I are going to trade personal recipes. Hers, she’s doing later this week but I’ll just do mine now, since I’m not in a mood to write something serious.
Every Christmas, I made chocolate rum candies. They’re yummy. You’ll need a double boiler to make these and three days time.
Ingredients
1 stick of butter
1 pound of powdered sugar
half-pound of walnuts
Rum or your favorite liquor
8 to 12 ounces of baking chocolate
1 stick of edible wax (paraffin wax, make sure it’s up to standards for cooking with)
Day one - break up the nuts, whip out a tupperware, and soak the nuts in rum overnight
Day two - melt the butter and combine butter with powdered sugar in a mixing bowl. Add the nut/liquor mix. Mix well. Put it in the fridge for an hour to cool it, but not too long or else it will be too cold to work with. Take it out and on a cookie sheet, roll the mixture into balls. When all the mixture are balls, put the cooking sheet into the fridge and leave it there overnight
Day Three - Take one stick of paraffin wax and melt it in a double boiler. I’m impatient so I cut the stick up or else it will take forever to melt. Add the chocolate. Stir it until it becomes a pretty, shiny chocolate mixture and it’s completely melted. They need to be blended together, no wax chunks.
When the chocolate is ready, dip the balls in the chocolate. When they’re all done, dip them for a second layer. Do at least two layers. I do three, because wasting fine chocolate is a sin against all that is good in the world.
When they cool off, they’re ready to eat.
Happy President’s Day
I’m not going to do anything today. I exercised yesterday, but today, I’m going to practice guitar all day long and I might take Mrs. Z out to a movie, or maybe just rent one.
Have a wonderful President’s Day! If you’re in another country and working today, well, don’t feel bad. Of the industrialized nations, us Americans barely get shit for holidays so we have to enjoy each one.
President’s Day? You have a holiday in honour of your President? If so I am astounded. Not that you have a holiday for all holidays are brilliant just that I have never heard of ‘President’s Day’ before and it has come as such a shock. LOL
Rum? Well now I LOVE rum ;]
Three days? Can’t I just drink the rum now?
slurp……i am thinking of a number of various liquers that might be especially yummy in this recipe! thanks for sharing.
my recipe will be up tomorrow.
You have today off?
Lucky bugger! :p
I will have to try this recipe one day, looks good, but not on President day because me either I didn’t know this day could exist.
my recipe is up
Thanks for the post about the blanket. And it sounds like a wonderful day to just spend with the person you love.. Sounds like a great recipe also.
hehe…that’s right, we’ll take what we can get…oh wait a second, that’s right I didn’t get the day off!
Slade - Aren’t you a Professor? I thought fo shizzle you’d have it off.
Tweety - Sure. Try the recipe. I know you don’t drink, but the rum is just for flavoring.
Lime - Heading over…
Kitem - We used to have 2 holidays: Lincoln’s B-Day and Washington’s B-day. They shortened it to just one: President’s Day. So we actually got screwed.
Tshsmom - You didn’t?
Courtney - Sure. Just save a little for the candies, ok?
Miladysa - Well, it’s not the current President. It was in honor of Abe Lincoln and George Washington. Then it got shortened to just one holiday. And I’m all about the rum.
I did taxes last weekend. It wasn’t fun.
yeah I am, but our school didn’t make it a holiday…Mr. Slade got the day off, but he works at a high school.
Those candies sound amazing! I’ll have to sub pecans because I’m allergic to walnuts, but YUMMO! A dash of Kahlua might be good too . . .
Thank you!
Phew! That’s a relief - I thought it was for George Bush :]
Thanks for the recipe, ZS! Am definitely going to make this one!!!
Dammit I had to work. My next holiday will be my vacation in June. Going back to Disneyworld and actually looking forward to it.
Kate - I heard you owe. I owe too. I know Badman is still doing his. Taxes suck!
Slade - that’s lame. The post office didn’t deliver the mail so I thought schools would have it off.
Bunny - They are! Pecans will work. And I love Kahlua.
Miladysa - Nah. I think historians won’t be too kind to GWB.
Bridget - You’re welcome. Let me know if you like it.
Beach - Let us know how Disneyworld is. I haven’t been there since the early 80s.