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Drew my baby Aisha, Minbitty, to try and submit to the neopets gallery this month!
This baby loves winter and all the stuff it brings ❄💙❄
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~ allison christine ~
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buy me some pumpkin spice <3
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Homemade Pumpkin Spice Latte
It's been in the 90s (°F) all week where I live, but catch me drinking hot drinks.
1 shot of espresso
1 tbsp Pumpkin spice syrup
1 - 1 1/2 cup steamed milk
Milk foam
Notes: I used 6oz of regular coffee instead of espresso as I do not have an espresso maker.
I used 2% milk. Generally, milks with higher fat contents get frothier more easily. Oat milk is known to be a good vegan/non-dairy substitute that still froths nicely.
You can buy the mug here. If anyone can find this mug from a small business, please let me know!
Pumpkin Spicy Syrup:
I followed the second recipe by Living Well Mom because I did not have any allspice on hand.
1 cup water
3/4 cup pumpkin puree
1 cup brown sugar
1 tsp vanilla (I used imitation vanilla because it's cheaper)
2 tsp pumpkin pie spice
1/2 tsp cinnamon
1/8 tsp ground cloves
Whisk all ingredients in a saucepan over medium heat. Once the mixture begins to boil, turn down the heat to simmer for 2 minutes. Use fresh or allow to cool and jar. Refrigerate for up to 2 weeks.
Use 1 tbsp of syrup per cup of coffee, add more syrup to taste.
Steamed/Frothed Milk:
Add 1/2 cup of milk to a saucepan. Heat to approximately 150°F/65°C. Use a milk frother to create foam. This is the frother that I have.
Assembling the Drink:
Add espresso to a mug.
Mix in pumpkin spice syrup to taste.
Pour in steamed milk.
Top with foam.
Dust with cinnamon if desired.
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The neighborhood
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Mo’s Recipe for Fic Writing, Warm Drink Edition: Hot Chocolate!
One packet of hot chocolate mix (I used Swiss Miss Milk Chocolate packets)
Three Andes Mints chopped up
Milk of choice (today I used whole, but I’m lactose intolerant so I usually use oat milk. Whole is better for hot chocolate though) I never measure ingredients so you have to follow your heart on this one. (Or more accurately, your hot chocolate mix directions will tell you how much to use).
2 cups. One for the hot chocolate and one for heating the milk up!
Heat up the milk in the microwave in a microwave safe cup. You don’t want it too boil over or anything crazy, but you do want it hot enough to melt the chocolate. (I did 40 seconds and then another 40 seconds, but it’s possible that our microwaves work different so keep that in mind!)
While that’s heating, add the chopped Andes into the hot chocolate mug of choice.
Then add in hot chocolate mix.
When the milk is done heating, add some of it to the mug. Stir well until the chocolate powder is dissolved. Then, add the rest of the milk. Stir again to help melt the candy and then don’t worry about it because it’ll likely melt as you’re drinking it. (Mine is as I write this).
And there you go! A good old mint-y hot chocolate.
I’m going to need to go make some more for when I get back to my fic, because I drank all of mine while writing this
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A warm drink on a chilly October day.
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describing fall
if you were to describe autumn to someone who has never experienced the beauty that it is, how would you?
i would say it has crisp, cool air with trees swaying, flaunting their new colors to the world.
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Orange & Ginger Tea:
Ingredients:
1 orange per 1 or 2 people (the peel should stay on)
Ginger to taste (I usually use about 3 slices when I'm making it for myself)
A couple dashes of cinnamon
Honey to taste (I usually use 2 tsp cause I like mine quite sweet)
1 black tea bag
However much water fills your mug (probably one or two cups)
Instructions:
Slice the orange and put the slices in a pan along with some water, ginger and cinnamon
Bring that pan up to a boil
Once it's boiling turn it down to a simmer and throw in a teabag and some honey
Leave it like that for 3-4 minutes
Serve (I usually try to put a slice of orange in every mug)
I hope that made sense to anyone else who may want to use it! Feel free to give feedback and I'll do my best to make the recipe clear and understandable for everyone!
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~ Kira auf der Heide ~
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buy me some pumpkin spice <3
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probably time for this story i guess but when i was a kid there was a summer that my brother was really into making smoothies and milkshakes. part of this was that we didn't have AC and couldn't afford to run fans all day so it was kind of important to get good at making Cool Down Concoctions.
we also had a patch of mint, and he had two impressionable little sisters who had the attitude of "fuck it, might as well."
at one point, for fun, this 16 year old boy with a dream in his eye and scientific fervor in heart just wanted to see how far one could push the idea of "vanilla mint smoothie". how much vanilla extract and how much mint can go into a blender before it truly is inedible.
the answer is 3 cups of vanilla extract, 1/2 cup milk alternative, and about 50 sprigs (not leaves, whole spring) of mint. add ice and the courage of a child. idk, it was summer and we were bored.
the word i would use to describe the feeling of drinking it would maybe be "violent" or perhaps, like. "triangular." my nose felt pristine. inhaling following the first sip was like trying to sculpt a new face. i was ensconced in a mesh of horror. it was something beyond taste. for years after, i assumed those commercials that said "this is how it feels to chew five gum" were referencing the exact experience of this singular viscous smoothie.
what's worse is that we knew our mother would hate that we wasted so much vanilla extract. so we had to make it worth it. we had to actually finish the drink. it wasn't "wasting" it if we actually drank it, right? we huddled around outside in the blistering sun, gagging and passing around a single green potion, shivering with disgust. each sip was transcendent, but in a sort of non-euclidean way. i think this is where i lost my binary gender. it eroded certain parts of me in an acidic gut ecology collapse.
here's the thing about love and trust: the next day my brother made a different shake, and i drank it without complaint. it's been like 15 years. he's now a genuinely skilled cook. sometimes one of the three of us will fuck up in the kitchen or find something horrible or make a terrible smoothie mistake and then we pass it to each other, single potion bottle, and we say try it it's delicious. it always smells disgusting. and then, cerimonious, we drink it together. because that's what family does.
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