herbiehancock

With the cooler weather upon us, this is a perfect time of year for a pumpkin and spice flavored coffee drink. I'll just run down to Starbucks and get one! Oh, the nearest Starbucks is 115 miles away! You may have one of the ubiquitous coffee houses nearer to you, but save yourself a few bucks and give this copycat recipe a try. I made this recipe twice and here are a few notes:  I made this first using sugar and then Splenda. The recipe calls for 2T sugar, which was enough to send me on a sugar high shortly after drinking it. I preferred using 2 packets of Splenda. The first time I made this, I put the steaming milk mixture in my blender. Knowing that the hot mixture would expand when I mixed it, I cracked the lid and put a towel over the top. It still exploded and wound up all over my counter. The next time I made it, I simply used a wire whisk to froth the milk mixture and it worked fine (and no blender or counters to wash)! Pumpkin Spice Latte (makes 2 servings) PRINT RECIPE H...

Bloody Maria with Shimp The snow is falling today and we're ringing out the old and bringing in the new with this South of the Border Bloody Maria with Shrimp! This recipe makes two tall glasses of goodness!  Seasonings may be adjusted to your taste. Happy New Year!  Enjoy!   24 oz Clamato 1 tsp prepared horseradish 1 tsp Worcestershire sauce 1 T lemon juice 15 dashes hot sauce (Tabasco or your favorite) Freshly ground pepper to taste 3 oz. Tequila Ice cubes 4 cooked, chilled shrimp Shake Clamato, horseradish, Worcestershire, lemon juice, hot sauce, pepper and tequila in a large glass jar with tight-fitting lid.  Fill two tall glasses with ice and divide the mixture between the glasses.  Garnish each drink with two shrimp, celery and lemon slice.

We like Kahlua. We bought a bottle in Mexico for $5 . The same size bottle cost $14 in California . Guess how surprised we were to discover that the same size bottle costs $28 in Montana! We don't pay sales tax in Montana. Great! Oh, wait a minute. Montana is a controlled State... so don't think you're going to walk into any old grocery store and buy a bottle of booze, cuz it ain't gonna happen! Drive, you must, to a State Agency which sells liquor and fortified wines at nearly double the cost that you'd pay nearly anywhere else. But I digress... We decided to make our own coffee liqueur! 6 c Sugar 6 c Water 20 tsp instant coffee 8 c vodka 12 tsp pure vanilla Mix sugar, water, and coffee together and bring to a SLOW boil. (If you think you're going to put this concoction on the stove and then go into the living room to dust, you'll come back to a really brown, really sticky mess that has boiled over onto your stove and beyond. Really... trust me on this.)...