Sometimes when you're in quarantine and your downstairs neighbors have karaoke and Dance Dance Revolution parties past 2AM, things like weekends and time lose all meaning. There is no sleep, only Zuul*.
*Zuul = staring at Asian Twitter and watching Instagram videos of someone stirring cheese until your eyes glaze over long enough for a nap.
So you might find yourself deliriously reaching for an ice cream sundae where there are only memories of another life. One such life featured a place in Chicago called Margie's Candies, an old timey ice cream shoppe where friends like Aurora and Rammel would gather and share a giant dish, sometimes with whipped cream, always hot fudge.
I miss these friends and I miss that ice cream so thought I'd recreate both. Nothing creepy. I just made replicas of all my friends on Sims 4 so I can watch them interact with each other like a normal.
Anyway. I made food things.
Recipes #14 Coffee Liqueur and #15 Coffee Liqueur Hot Fudge Sauce
Choice of libation: Coffee liqueur (recipe below) and cream over coffee ice cubes frozen the night before. You're right. I am a genius.
Choice of music: Lila Downs. I don't know how to describe her music and voice - it's equal parts belted war cry, joyful whooping, mournful confession and mystery. And then sometimes she's randomly a baritone.
I've been listening to her since I heard her voice in the movie Frida and really never stopped listening to her. Ooh, this one is really good too:
Isn't she a badass???
Anyway. Right. Homemade "Kahlua"
I hesitate calling this a kahlua because it should be rum, not vodka, but this is what was in my freezer so.
You didn't need a picture of me pouring all the ingredients into a saucepan and simmering it did you? GREAT. Because I forgot to take one. But the recipe ended up making about about two small bottles and should keep at least 2 months. Or, if you're me, maaaaybe 2 weeks.
Again, I was totally surprised I had the ingredients for things I wanted within my home.
Something something metaphor for life something something.
What is more beautiful than pouring chocolate chips into chocolate melted with butter and heavy cream?
Possibly pouring homemade coffee liqueur into said chocolate.
Voila!
Oh Andie. I know this looks good but dogs can't have chocolate.
I know, pumpkin. But let's recall what the great philosopher Hannah Toriumi texted us at midnight, "The heart wants what it wants. Even if it will make the heart beat so fast it explodes." This stuff will literally kill you.
You watch your language, young lady.
As a throwback to my Margie days, I poured the sauce over some coconut ice cream, but this would also be good as a dip for fruit, poured over a brownie or cake, stirred into your coffee, or just ladled directly into your mouth.
stolen and adapted from veganinthefreezer.com
HOMEMADE COFFEE LIQUEUR
2 1/2 cups strong and hot fresh brewed coffee
4 cups sugar - organic
2 1/4 cups rum
1 inch vanilla bean - cut in half lengthwise for aged quality or 1 tablespoon of a good quality vanilla extract for instant gratification
Stir sugar into hot coffee and stir until the sugar is dissolved. Let cool.
Add the rum and vanilla pieces, stir.
Cover and let sit for 2 to 3 weeks in a cool place.
Strain, remove beans and bottle.
or
If you are using vanilla extract then stir in and it is ready. It won't have quite the depth of flavor but it is good.
stolen and adapted from smittenkitchen.com
KAHLUA HOT FUDGE
2 tablespoon unsalted butter
2/3 cup heavy or whipping cream
1/4 cup honey
1/4 cup packed dark-brown sugar
1/4 cup cocoa powder
1/4 teaspoon fine or table sea salt
6 ounces semi- or bittersweet chocolate, chopped, or 1 cup semi- or bittersweet chocolate chips
1/4 teaspoon vanilla extract
1/4 teaspoon cinnamon (next time I might also add cayenne)
1/4 cup kahlua
Combine the butter, cream, sweeteners, cocoa, and salt in a small saucepan over medium heat and bring to a simmer. Simmer on low, stirring, for 3 to 5 more minutes after everything has melted, then remove from heat and stir in chopped chocolate or chocolate chips. Stir in vanilla and kahlua
It’s now ready to ladle over ice cream, although it thickens more as it begins to cool, so you could also wait for 15 to 20 minutes before doing so, if it’s not too unbearable. Pour leftovers into a jar or jars and refrigerate. Hot fudge sauce keeps chilled in the fridge at least a month and often two, although it’s rare it lasts that long.
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