I’ve been meaning to sit down and spill my guts about several different, challenging and deep, topics for quite some time, but it seems that every time I sit down to do it I suddenly feel it’s more important that I play a game of Plants vs. Zombies (which I’ve beat several times over now), or Cake Mania, or to look up inane topics like Robert Pattinson or awesomely bad tattoos or birth defects, online. I know! I have my priorities, right? Not to mention I’ve also sat down with every intention of finishing my Educational Needs Assessment (ENA) for the PC, with the same outcome. I’m in a rut, simply because I can’t seem to make myself do the writing I’m supposed to do. When have I ever been at a lack of words to write? I mean, I have an essay I wrote in Denny’s at 11:30am about how thumb tacks are taken for granted for crying out loud!
But….here I am now, sitting at my computer again, making an attempt at doing something somewhat productive, hoping that at the completion of this blog update, I will have managed to get the ball rolling enough to work my way through the ever threatening “To do” list by the start of the weekend. Seeing as I’m kind of forcing myself to do this, I’ve chosen a simple, uncomplicated topic that most people enjoy; food.
I’ve decided that, when I’m due for a blog update but I’m not feeling terribly inspired, I’ll post a recipe for you folks back home to try out, or to grimace at as the case may be; you choose. The winning food, or drink I should say, for this time ‘round is Ocholoni Shai. (Oh-cho-low-nee Shy). To us English speakers it translates to Peanut Butter Tea. Sounds weird, I know, but it’s surprisingly good, especially on cold days when you just can’t seem to get the chill out of your bones. Here goes;
Ocholoni Shai
Ingredients
Tea – Herbal, nothing fruity, and green tea probably wouldn’t taste very good either. Can’t give you a brand because the kind they use here isn’t available in the states. Find one you like, experiment!
Peanut Butter – Duh! Here we use organic, unsweetened, all natural. You can get it in most grocery stores in the states now, if not, go to the local Co-Op. You can use chunky if you like, but keep in mind you’re going to be drinkin’ the stuff.
Sugar – Which isn’t actually necessary if you’re going to use already sweetened peanut butter like, Skip or Jiffy, or what-ever-the-hell brand you like.
Get Cookin’
1. Make the tea. If you don’t know how to do this already, there’s no hope for you.
2. Spoon in the peanut butter a little at a time until it’s as thick or thin as you like. If you’re using sweetened peanut butter, taste as you go so you don’t end up with it too sweet.
3. Poor into the tea cup/s or mug/s of your choice.
4. Add sugar until it tastes delicious!
5. Drink it! It’ll warm you up in no time flat!
i'm definitely intrigued! i shall try this! trying to think of what tea i should use though....
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ReplyDeleteMy name is Emilio, I am a Spanish boy and I live in a town near to Madrid. I am a very interested person in knowing things so different as the culture, the way of life of the inhabitants of our planet, the fauna, the flora, and the landscapes of all the countries of the world etc. in summary, I am a person that enjoys traveling, learning and respecting people's diversity from all over the world.
I would love to travel and meet in person all the aspects above mentioned, but unfortunately as this is very expensive and my purchasing power is quite small, so I devised a way to travel with the imagination in every corner of our planet. A few years ago I started a collection of letters addressed to me in which my goal was to get at least 1 letter from each country in the world. This modest goal is feasible to reach in the most part of countries, but unfortunately it’s impossible to achieve in other various territories for several reasons, either because they are countries at war, either because they are countries with extreme poverty or because for whatever reason the postal system is not functioning properly.
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Would you be so kind as to send me a letter by traditional mail from Ethiopia? I understand perfectly that you think that your blog is not the appropriate place to ask this, and even, is very probably that you ignore my letter, but I would call your attention to the difficulty involved in getting a letter from that country, and also I don’t know anyone neither where to write in Ethiopia in order to increase my collection. a letter for me is like a little souvenir, like if I have had visited that territory with my imagination and at same time, the arrival of the letters from a country is a sign of peace and normality and a original way to promote a country in the world. My postal address is the following one:
Emilio Fernandez Esteban
Avenida Juan de la Cierva, 44
28902 Getafe (Madrid)
Spain
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Finally I would like to thank the attention given to this letter, and whether you can help me or not, I send my best wishes for peace, health and happiness for you, your family and all your dear beings.
Yours Sincerely