Election Chocolate Pie

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Went to my polling site and voted this morning. There was a PTA bake sale in the lobby and I bought a slice of "fudge pie" from this statuesque MILF. Liked it so much (yeah, I ate a slice of chocolate pie for breakfast) that I went back in and asked for the recipe.

She looked at me a little strangely and I was afraid she might charge me for it, but she wrote it down for me. It was her Little Rock, Arkansas mother-in-law's recipe.

INGREDIENTS

(Pie Crust)
[Look up a decent pie crust recipe: she didn't offer up ingredients for the crust, which wasn't anything too special]

(Filling)
4 eggs
3 tbls Karo syrup
1 1/2 C. sugar
1 tsp vanilla
1/2 tsp salt
1 stick of butter, melted
3 oz. UNSWEETENED chocolate, melted

DIRECTIONS

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.

Beat eggs. Dump in all the rest and use an electric mixer to incorporate really well.

Pour into your readied pie crust and bake for 35 minutes.

She called it a "fudge pie" and I was expecting it to be really dense like fudge, but it was surprisingly soft. Really simple but lovely.

Vote for change and eat some fucking chocolate pie, America.

Chicken Fried Steak Ice Cream

Hungry for an order of chicken fried steak ice cream?!

Get ready to be fucking appalled by 101 Frightening Ice Cream Flavors from AROUND THE WORLD!

The Hydrox Proxy

Don't it always seem to go that you don't know what you've got till it's gone...?

They paved Paradise and put up a parking lot.

I had no idea that Hydrox Cookies:

A) Pre-dated OREOS
B) Are now a discontinued brand

For what it's worth, I do remember them. And I did prefer them. The taste was just subtly but distinctly superior.

It's good to mourn. You are not alone. (Check out "The Truth" on that Hydrox Cookie fan page.)

!!!UPDATE!!!
Back by popular demand...?

Fried Apple Pies

Are you young enough to remember McDonalds's original fried apple pies?

Largely retired since 1992, they're still out there if you're willing to travel. That's the fun thing about the old golden arches. They preach uniformity, but there's actually a great range of variation throughout their worldwide empire.

Or you can try one of the many recipes out there. That's filed under

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Bow Down Before the One You Serve

Obey, Brad.

Obey.

Brad Renfro has a posse, now.

The fear is real inside your heart.

"Sister Cake"

From my mom...

Here's the recipe: 2 sticks of butter; 2 packets of yeast; 1 Liter of milk; 1 cup of raisins; 5 Lbs. of flour.

Warm the milk, take 1/2 cup warm milk and mix the yeast, melt the butter. In a bowl put all of the said ingredients then start adding the flour, I use up half of the bag, so it is about 2 1/2 lbs of the flour. If the wooden spatula can stand that means the mixture is good.

Cover and let it rise for 1/2 to 45'. The raisins I mix a little flour then once the mixture is fully rised add the raisins.

You need 4 foil bread tray. Fill it up with the mixture about half full.

Bake in a preheated 400 degrees oven for 45'.

Best Pesto

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Don't ask me about measurements on this one...

INGREDIENTS
a lot of garlic (a whole bulb, maybe)
walnuts
pine nuts
a bunch of fresh basil
a bunch of fresh parsley
a bunch of fresh spinach
a nice hunk of Parmigiano Reggiano
a lot of olive oil

DIRECTIONS
Okay, you know the drill with pesto. It's just a bunch of stuff all mashed up together, resulting in a green paste-like thing.

I saw this one on some tv show. They didn't give measurements, either. I think some cheese shop out West uses all these ingredients for their famous pesto. So I tried it, and it's great.

I've made pesto before, out of different ingredients. I've never *combined* ingredients like this one does. And it produces something special.