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last night i made the most awesome cocktails for my most awesome friends: lavender orange sparklers!
it’s super easy: just a glass of prosecco with a ‘lil bit of lavender orange syrup. the syrup part is easy; the not drinking 30 glasses is the hard part.
lavender orange syrup:
1/2 cup fresh lavender
1 cup lavender water
1.5 cups sugar
2 tablespoons honey
1 teaspoon orange zest
first, make the lavender water by steeping 1/4 cup of lavender in boiled water. let sit for 10 minutes then pour through sieve to remove lavender buds. in a pan, combine the lavender water with sugar, honey, remaining lavender, and orange zest and let simmer til sugar is dissolved, about five minutes. remove from heat and pour through sieve to remove lavender. after it’s cooled, mix about 1 tsp with a dry sparkling wine, such as prosecco. drink until you cannot resist urge to dance naked to hoobastank.
also, when you run out of prosecco, try mixing the syrup with a vodka soda with an orange twist. let me know how it goes!
to my readers in LA, to my readers coming to LA, to my readers anywhere in the world:
if i can impart anything to you at all in these pages let it be the absolute necessity of going to STAN’S DONUTS and going for the gold with their variety of peanut butter donuts. i cannot stress it enough. i don’t even like donuts but the peanut butteriness of these flawless creatures has made me a donut fanatic.
no matter where you are in the world, no matter how much money you have or how long you have to live, consider it a priority, no, a duty, to beg, borrow, steal, or order online to get these donuts into your stomach. and don’t just limit yourself to the peanut butter— they’ve got all sorts of other complicated flavors that i’m SURE are just as good. i’m a sucker for anything peanut butter so i decided to start off with them. next up: the line of maple donuts.
this is me with the peanut butter-banana donut and the peanut butter-chocolate donut. this is how happy i was before i ate them; afterward, the happiness register in my brain went berserk and i just sang showtunes for three hours straight.
so interesting: i never knew there were so many rules to eating sushi. i mean, i hate sushi and consider it one of the most boring foods on the planet (no salsa?!), but in a pinch i’ll eat it, you know, with like japanese dignitaries and envoys and shit, and now i’ll do it properly.
arigato, sushi-san!
by the way, i’ve broken all these rules in the past. no wonder japanese girls never ask me to take a photo of them making a peace sign.
via thedailywhat
i love how excited this guy is about carbonated drinks and how he so passionately procures them from all over the world. i have to check this place out. WHO’S IN??
things i will definitely add to cart:
- bubble up lemon/lime soda
- manhattan special coffee soda
- sweet blossom rose petal soda
- mr. q cumber soda
- fentimans curiosity cola
if you can’t make it for the field trip, check out the galco’s soda pop stop website and get your fizz fixx online.
via chow.com
is this really necessary? what kind of spoiled shithead foodie kid are you trying to raise with this sort of culinary coddling, funkylunch? you think it’s cute to teach your kids to only eat anthropomorphized food? look: it’s a fucking sandwich. how ZOMG adorbz does it have to be??? i don’t even know your funkylunch kid and i already hate who they’ll be when they’re an adult.
you know what, you want to do your kid a favor? get him prepared for the real world by learning how to pack a lunch from this site or this site. that’s a meal your kid will thank you for when he/she orders a side order of despair with his/her failure in the year 2025. there is no such thing as an adorable lunch and the sooner your little PSP barnacle learns that the better.
via presurfer
bring these cupcakes to a party and i guarantee you will take home some serious ass. to improve your sex life immeasurably, follow the photo recipe on kate wienburg’s flickr stream and don’t forget to use protection (like an apron—they’re messy!)
i like a little crazy with my sandwiches, and it’s all the better if my sandwich is crazy on its own. before discovering this website i thought the height of insanity in a sandwich was one filled with coffee grinds and lithuanian postage stamps, but i like that i’m wrong!
the cubewich
the giftwich
more at insanewiches.com
via zoomdoggle
i don’t even drink soda but i am actually excited about this soda fountain 2.0. It’s tentatively called Coca-Cola Freestyle and has a touch screen display that will theoretically allow more than 100 different varieties of soda in an effort to BLOW KIDS’ MINDS ACROSS THE COUNTRY.
one 16 oz. rootbeer-sunkist-sprite-minutemaid, coming right up!
i remember when fast food chains started putting their soda machines in the customer’s domain which then inspired kids (myself included) to become soda alchemists, combining a sickening variety of sodas in one 20 oz. cup and then not only drinking it but going back for another liquid hodge podge even more formidable than the last. we did it because the 6 options were there, just begging to be experimented with and because no one was watching us. now, with coca-cola freestyle in every fast food chain, not only will the entrancing lure of a touch-screen display captivate children for hours, but the sheer number of options, all of which can be combined in ever-crazier permutations, will most likely have kids and adults nonplussed by the variety. if coca cola freestyle is the “ipod of drink machines,” why wouldn’t anyone put it on shuffle?
on top of all of this, the soda machine is also an inventory supercomputer which sends data back to coca-cola, reporting which flavors sell the most and when. i imagine coca-cola will probably find it a shock to discover that a variety of lime minute maid-root beer-coke-dr. pepper-sunkist has been cropping up, but i wonder how much data they’ll have to throw away when they realize that a lot of it is just kids geeking out on the buttons while trying to create the sickest combination of soda ever known to man, and then drinking it.
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