Granita for Lincoln (AKA COFFEE!)

Well this won't be my first official recipe post. I had one planned but mr. ice cream machine is being well... we'll try again tomorrow. In the meantime, i'll post one of my old videos here. This is a recipe for granita. Granita for those who don't know, is a cold ice Italian frozen dessert.  In can come in many flavors and is very customizable, but this here is my old standby. I've lost track of the amount of times i've made it, and i've committed the whole recipe to memory. I suppose then that this would make a fitting second post, as this dish holds a personal connection to me. So without further ado, here's Lincoln's coffee granita.

Ingridients:
2 cups of warm to hot coffee
1/2 cup of sugar
zest from one orange
a teaspoon of vanilla extract

1. zest up that orange, zest it good!
2. Combine everything in some sort of glass, stir until the sugar is dissolved. This will be easier if the coffee is hot.
3. Pour into a metal pan, make sure it doesn't come up the sides of the pan too much.
4. Send that bad boy to the freezer.
5. When it's had time to chill out and think about what it's done (fully frozen) it's time for vigilante justice!
6. Scrape it with a fork to make it light and fluffy.
7. Mound it up high into a glass (fancy would be best.We're classy here in the spiral's kitchen), and add whipped cream (home made is best, but if you use a can, i won't tell!)
8. Optional: More fresh orange zest on top. Nice but, not needed.

And that's all there is to it! Very easy, yet extremely rewarding. You see why I love it. Thanks for taking the time to read this, and give it a try! You'll like it, i'm sure. I'll leave the video below if that is of interest to you. Thanks for reading my fellow spiral foodies. :)

What's Cooking, Good looking?

Hi there everyone. If you're reading this, you've stumbled across the spiral's first ever cooking blog. Yes that's right a cooking blog! Here you'll be able to learn how to make some awesome dishes that will turn Headmaster Ambrose into Eatmaster Mmmbrose. If you're not sure what that means, well i play a game called Wizard101. This here is going to be a fan cooking blog for the game. It may sound like an odd  concept, but hey, stranger things have happened.

So, what can you expect on this blog? Well basically, fanboy meets magic, meet kitchen. I've loved cooking my whole life, and as soon as i was let in the kitchen, i never left. I also love Wizard101 in a big way. I'm a big fan of the story, and i love the worlds and the art and the pets and well, there isn't too much i don't like about it. 

For you, it means that every so often i'll post about a dish i've made, that in some way relates to the game. Perhaps a community member, perhaps an NPC, perhaps an area. Sometimes i'll have a video to accompany my post, but it'll be a case by case instance. More recently, i even took up the challange of recreating a pet snack from the game. Not fun for me (gelatin is an evil food. No exceptions). I'll leave a video of said endeavor at the bottom of the post. 

I'm excited to go on this blogging journey (uncharted territory here!), and i hope you'll excited to come with me. Food and wizard101 and things i both love, so it's no surprise the two managed to coalesce. Please note with school going on, things will be a bit, slow to put it nicely. I'll try my best to post every 2-3 weeks. If i don't please know i don't mean it, and i haven't gone away. It just means homework has taken the time up. I'd like to thank you for reading, and I hope you're ready to see the spiral from my side of the spoon. :)

"The Culinary Conjurer" Carlos Trollfist