So, after thinking about it for a while, I think I’ve decided what the donut milk coffee tasted like. It tasted like Tim Hortons. Not any particular food product from Tim Hortons, but more like the way it tastes in Tim Hortons when you are in there. But not in a gross way? Is that possible?
March, 2009
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Donut Milk Redux
March 4, 2009 by ms. xandra
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Milking donuts liveblog – Part 3
March 3, 2009 by ms. xandra
7:44 PM: Just got home. Here’s what awaited in the fridge:
And now it is straining:
I think that I’m going to have to squeeze the milk out. Stay tuned, kids.
8:11 PM: Ok, so straining was harder than I thought. The potato masher was a particularly ineffective idea. And just now my friend Gray walked in and was like “Did you use cheesecloth?” and I was like, “Why didn’t I use cheesecloth?” NEXT TIME.
8:18 PM: Behold! Donut milk!
Success!
8:20 PM – AND IT TASTES LIKE A DONUT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
8:23 PM – Grinding coffee! I’m dipping into my stash of Kona from Hawaii.
Kona!!
8:27 PM – Brewing!
8:35 PM: Coffee + Cherry Jelly + DONUT MILK (!!!) = MAGIC!
8:40 PM:
Donut Coffee! In my sheep mug! YAY!
Verdict: Delicious. I LOVE SCIENCE!
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Donut Milk Liveblog part 2!
March 2, 2009 by ms. xandra
Ok, so – it is 10:03 pm and I have checked on the donut milk, and this is what it looks like:
Gross?
Ok, yeah, kind of gross-looking. But I took a sip of the donut milk and it tastes kind of donutty! I was debating whether or not it was done, and probably it could be done, but I’ve decided to leave it overnight. Because I want to use it in coffee anyhow, right? And I’m certainly not drinking coffee at 10:00 at night. So…tomorrow! Tomorrow when I get home from school I am going to strain the dount milk and then make donut coffee, and then, most exciting of all, figure out what to do with the donut mush that is left behind (what would happen if we baked it? Could we reconstitute it into a solid? Should we just eat it with a spoon like donut soup? OH SUCH EXCITING MYSTERIES LIE AHEAD).
Until then.
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LIVEBLOGGING: Making donut-infused milk!
March 2, 2009 by ms. xandra
Oh, the things I do for the five people who read this blog. As you may recall, yesterday I made the thrilling discovery that you can get donut coffee! And then I thought: “Fuck the L.A Mill, I can make that myself!” And then I thought: “I should live blog about making my own donut infused milk! What a great idea!”
Question: Is there anything more exciting than the idea of liveblogging the making of donut-infused milk?
Answer: Unlikely.
So. It is 7:21 PM and I have just arrived home from Tasty Donuts with a dozen donuts. Tasty Donuts is our fabulous and locally renowned donut shop (read: It is fabulous and renowned because it is around the corner from our house and it has donuts.)
This blog officially endorses Tasty Donuts
While Tasty Donuts is known for its blueberry donuts (those are the four in a row on the left), for tonight's adventures we will be using the more traditional old-fashioned glazed. Blueberry donut milk is a more advanced infusion and I must perfect my technique before I make such an attempt.
And yes, that is a dozen donuts. No, I will not be making donut milk out of a dozen donuts. The purchase of an entire dozen was caused by my roommate, who made the following compelling argument: “But once you’ve made the donut milk, that’s great and everything, but then aren’t you out a donut?” Solution: buy a dozen. Problem solved.
Ok, so, the donuts are home and looking good, I am going to put dinner in the oven (for woman cannot survive on donut milk alone) and then I will be back and the GREAT SCIENCE EXPERIMENT SHALL BEGIN!
7:47 PM: The Chosen Donuts have been selected:
Donut Porn!
7:52 PM: The chosen donuts have been chopped, which, theoretically, will allow for maximum flavor seepage into the milk.
Donut Carnage!
7:55 PM: The chopped donuts are now in a container and covered in milk.
Donut Soup!
8:01 PM: The donut soup is in the fridge. Right there beside the strawberries I got at the market this morning.
Ok, so, now I wait, I guess. I’ll check back and see how mushy they are in, like, a couple hours or something. In the meantime I will eat this:
Dinner! Oven roasted veggies!
And I will probably watch some of this:
Le Star Treque
See you in a bit! Sorry all y’all on Eastern time.
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Two things:
March 2, 2009 by ms. xandra
1. My favourite lunch ever: Strawberries and avocados chopped up with balsamic vinegar on top
2. TONIGHT THERE WILL BE A HILARIOUS LIVE-BLOGGING SPECIAL POST ON THIS BLOG! Stay tuned kids! It is going to be grood. I mean, great. And good.
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DONUT-INFUSED COFFEE.
March 1, 2009 by ms. xandra
What is driving me crazy, though, is that last week sometime, I had a conversation with someone that went kind of like this:
“Did you hear? Intelligentsia is opening up this new, excessively-pretentious-sounding store in Venice. With hydraulic pods or some shit.”
“Really? Wow. I heard there’s some place where you can get some kind of donut-infused coffee.”
“That is so amazing that it can’t possibly be real.”But this morning I learned that it is real. But I cannot for the life of me remember who I had this conversation with so I cannot share the joy. Which is driving me crazy.
But, anyhow, apparently the process for making donut-infused coffee is actually to first make donut-infused milk, which you do by soaking donuts in milk. So I am going to do it myself. I figure, if you use skim milk, it will be like eating donuts, only not as bad for you.
ANYHOW, in other Excellent Coffee News, yesterday I found the Most Perfect Coffee Shop Ever: It is purple on the inside, plays jazz, has paintings of pinup girls, has lots of cute boys with beards hanging out, and MOST IMPORTANTLY: it has a brie and avocado melt. Sadly it is in Echo Park, which means I cannot walk there. The only coffee shop in walking distance to my house is the shitty uncomfortable one with weird Tibetan chairs that are low to the ground and very tiny tables that I always bruise my knees on.
I am going to write another blog post about things other than coffee, but first I need to finish reading my pretentious French feminist theory.
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