Combinations

[firstfrost]

Sometimes things just come together. At justom's party, the combination of Sesame Street reminisces and discussion of the El Bulli restaurant in Spain led to mad experimentation in the kitchen to create A Glass Of Cookie Juice. And, in fact, it turned out to be a fairly successful rendition of a liquid chocolate chip cookie. (We decided we didn't have the ingredients, time, or equipment to make a wafer of milk to eat with it, but we did have some ideas...)

And: "Laura and Victor together are nearly a von Neumann machine of trouble." Hee!

Comments

[visage.livejournal.com]

> Laura and Victor together are nearly a von Neumann machine of trouble.

Wow.

Yeah, that is a scary image.

We barely survived.

[mjperson.livejournal.com]

Yeah... The two of them together.... It's a moving disaster zone!

[chenoameg.livejournal.com]

So what went into the glass of cookie juice?

[firstfrost.livejournal.com]

Cookie Juice:

Melt butter until a little toasty. Add flour to make a roux. Cook until light brown. Add some sugar, cook until dissolved and a little darker brown. Add milk until it seizes. Add some more milk and heat, mushing it until it dissolves again. Cool. Serve garnished with finely chopped chocolate chips.

[readsalot.livejournal.com]

White or brown sugar?

[firstfrost.livejournal.com]

We used white sugar, because we couldn't find brown. I think brown would have been a little better for proper cookie taste. :)

[ilhander.livejournal.com]

It was pretty cookie-tasting as it was, though.

What I could taste before I went off into my corner to have a coronary... ;)

[firstfrost.livejournal.com]

The weird thing is that it, I think, tasted much worse for you than it actually was. There was way more milk than either sugar or butter in it, but because it was so thick, the mouthfeel was all about "oooh, rich!". But the thickness was due to the flour. :) Nobody claims they're going to go off and die from a sip of pudding.

[desireearmfeldt]

And there was certainly no more butter (or anything else) in that than in a couple of actual cookies. :)

(Or, think of it as the moral equivilant of eggnog. Except without the eggs. Granted, that gives some people coronaries too, but...)

[fredrickegerman.livejournal.com]

Definitely came off as richer than eggnog. Roux-based drinks, who'd'a thunk it?