I’m adding a new segment to Shock Munch. Not every dish I prepare comes out perfectly, in fact, some of the stuff I make tastes gross, or tastes OK but looks like a total disaster! I’m far from perfect in the kitchen, so I thought it unfair to only showcase recipes I’ve conquered. I want you to see all of it….the good, the bad, the ugly, the gross, the weird, the meh, and the extraordinary.
I’ll be adding “Nailed It” as a segment on my blog. That way, we can all have a laugh when I fail, because quite frankly, failing at cooking can be hilarious. Plus, we can all learn from my mistakes.
Back to the regular scheduled program………my amazing friend Heather emailed a bunch of us to see who was interested in watching the movie Ghostbusters at Millennium Park. The park was showing the movie as a tribute to Harold Ramis, who is hilarious in my opinion.
(^ This tattooed lady was with another party…we were trying to figure out her tattoo….a whale maybe?)
I certainly didn’t want to miss the opportunity to watch Ghostbusters, which is one of my favorite movies. When me and my friends do movies or music in the park, we throw down. We each bring food to pass and wine to share (more wine than food seems to be the norm), and since we’re watching Ghostbusters, it was obvious to me to bring marshmallows to honor the Stay Puff Marshmallow Man!
I searched online and found the Best. Thing. Ever. Kahlua Roasted Marshmallow Shots. I’ll say it again, Kahlua Roasted Marshmallow Shots. Say it with me now…..Kahula….ok, I’ll stop.
The instructions sounded easy enough: roast marshmallows, hollow out hole in marshmallow, fill marshmallow with Kahlua, and gobble that booze filled marshmallow down your mouth hole.
Oh man did I fuck it up! I didn’t want to spend all day roasting the marshmallows one by one, so I put 12 of them on a tin-foil lined cookie sheet, that I forgot to spray with nonstick cooking spray. I figured I could quickly brown them all under my broiler (on the lowest setting), so I stuck them in the oven and watched carefully as they all began to brown at once (it only a minute). Once I got the desired browning, I took them out of the oven, flipped them over, and browned them on the other side.
When the marshmallows were a lovely toasted brown on both sides, I yanked them out of the oven and allowed them to cool. EUREKA, I thought! I did it!
Then……I tried picking one up, and since I forgot to spray the foil with nonstick cooking spray, you guessed it, the fucker wouldn’t come off! Well…..half of the m.mellow came off, while the other half clung to the foil for dear life. I FINALLY pried one off, and attempted to hollow it out, but it just turned to goo in my hands and refused to hold a “shot glass” shape.
I thought if I put them in the fridge the marshmallow would harden so I could easily hallow them out. The only thing that “hardened” was the marshmallow’s kung-fu-grip on the tin foil. I mangled the poor little guys as I ripped them off the tin foil. Much to my chagrin, even though the mellows were completely cooled, they were impossible to hollow out!!! The marshmallow-y insides were still turning to goo! I even put those marshmallow turds in the freezer, thinking they would FINALLY firm them up enough to be hollowed out. NOPE…they seemed to enjoy mocking me as they stayed gooey in the middle.
After an hour of messing around with those little bastards, I finally had enough.
I screamed, “Screw this shit!
I poured Kahlua over a marshmallow, aggressively ripped it off the tin foil (failing to notice a small piece of tin foil came off with it), stuffed it in my mouth, and started to chew.
Son of a bitch.
So, in theory, turning marshmallows into shot glasses sounds amazing. And, if you have better techniques, not to mention more patience than me, you’ll probably get them to turn out great!
The good news: I brought the remaining bag of marshmallows to the movie with me and passed them around when Stay Puff made his appearance.
We all happily munched on mellows while quoting along with the movie, “Nobody steps on a church in my town!”
To see a picture of the recipe I was attempting to replicate, click here. However, I wanted to point out, they found the recipe in a cookbook called, “Put A Little Spark In Your Ash”, by CQ Products, which you can buy here.
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