Mmmmm! This is good!
My wife gets to put up cool recipes on her blog and make everyone's mouths water. So I thought it was time for me to do something similar—except that my recipe is going to be presented "man-style."
We got almost a foot of soft, powdery snow yesterday. So it was a perfect day for one of my son's favorite treats: Snow Cream.
Here's the recipe. Be sure to follow the directions exactly as it most likely will not taste right if you don't use just the right ingredients:
Snow Cream
| 1) | Grab a big mixing bowl and carry it outside |
| 2) | Clear off the top of some fresh snow. |
| 3) | Scoop up the snow beneath with the big mixing bowl. Don’t dig so deeply that you scoop up grass, dirt, or mud. |
| 4) | Shake the excess snow off of your shoes before re-entering the house (unless you want Mom to unleash the wrath of Kahn on you). Then go to the kitchen. |
| 5) | Add some vanilla extract to the snow bowl. |
| 6) | Dump a bunch of sugar or other unnatural sweetener into the bowl of snow. (More or less to taste.) |
| 7) | Pour some milk or cream into the bowl—just enough to allow the ingredients to mix together, not so much that it makes it liquidy. |
| 8) | Stir the snow, vanilla, sugar, and milk with a large wooden spoon, or a large metal spoon, or another large instrument of stirring. Mix well. |
| 9) | Scoop resulting snow cream into bowls. Sit at the table. Eat. |
| 10) | In between bites, proclaim loudly, "Mmmmm!" From time to time intersperse a loud, "This is good!" |
wow , that certainly is somethin' different!
ReplyDeleteMy girlfriend in high school introduced me to snow cream. It must be made from fresh, virgin snow or else you'll end up with a lot of dirt and gravel in it. But when we get as much snow as we have now - it's perfect.
ReplyDeleteBTW - that girlfriend lived in Manassas. Not too far from Loudoun County.