didn't get the job. so is still lookin. you know, i never thought that given that the average cycle time these days for people who actually want career progression is only 7 years, that saying my current 'career objective' is to get a job i can stay in for 5-6 years to support myself while waiting on citizenship and working towards a teaching certification wouldn't be "long term" enough for working a goddamned call centre or flipping sodding burgers. bah, at least they try to soften it by having their form letter claim "it was a hard decision"


anywho, that's just updating, i don't wanna focus on it too much and get all depressed, i'm prone enough to that as it is. the query's much more interesting.

while my Owner and i were playing WoW, our guildchat somehow ended up on the subject of sweets, specifically playing temptress and trying to convince one of the other guildies that if they're having cravings, they should just go indulge them briefly in a controlled fashion then come back happier and finish the dungeon. She was adamant about sticking with her vodka. so my brain came up with a vodka-based desert on the fly to throw at her.

trouble is, being allergic to alcohol myself, i obviously cannot try it and find out whether this is a case of my muse coming up with tasty food, or gastrointestinal warfare. So, i give the 'recipe' here, in the hopes that someone will give it a try and let me know how it goes, because i wanna settle the issue.


anywho:
take your preferred sort of vodka, and one icecube tray (or more, if you want to make THAT many). Do whatever one does with it for the purpose of making those vodka jello things (i certainly don't know), and half-fill as many of the cubes in the icecube tray as you want to make. let 'em mostly set.

put a small piece of chocolate in the middle of each cube. the chocolate pieces should be small enough to not be touching any of the sides. i think dark chocolate would work best, but then, that's largely because i prefer dark chocolate period. i don't see why any other sort of chocolate -wouldn't- work, at least. anyhow, after putting the chocolate in the middle, fill the cubes the rest of the way with the vodka-gelatin stuff. now let it completely set.

take the cubes out of the tray, and dust them with powdered sugar, or even icing sugar if you feel like cleaning up that much mess.

i'm not sure wether or not the notion of cutting strawberries in half and pressing the cubes between them (one strawberry per cube) is a good idea or just culinary wankery. but anyhow, that's the desert. I call it "Murmur's Lament" because describing the recipe in guildchat got sugar-fixes fetched and the Shadow Labarynth run started if anyone makes it, please let me know how it turns out.