David Hammond wrote:Though the use of cannabis in cooking certainly predates Gertrude Stein’s charmed circle, here’s the infamous recipe for "brownies" from friend Alice B. Toklas’ cookbook:
"Take 1 teaspoon black peppercorns, 1 whole nutmeg, 4 average sticks of cinnamon, 1 teaspoon coriander. These should all be pulverized in a mortar. About a handful each of stone dates, dried figs, shelled almonds and peanuts: chop these and mix them together. A bunch of canibus sativa can be pulverized. This along with the spices should be dusted over the mixed fruit and nuts, kneaded together. About a cup of sugar dissolved in a big pat of butter. Rolled into a cake and cut into pieces or made into balls about the size of a walnut, it should be eaten with care. Two pieces are quite sufficient. Obtaining the canibus may present certain difficulties.... It should be picked and dried as soon as it has gone to seed and while the plant is still green."
David Hammond wrote:Though the use of cannabis in cooking certainly predates Gertrude Stein’s charmed circle, here’s the infamous recipe for "brownies" from friend Alice B. Toklas’ cookbook:
"Take 1 teaspoon black peppercorns, 1 whole nutmeg, 4 average sticks of cinnamon, 1 teaspoon coriander. These should all be pulverized in a mortar. About a handful each of stone dates, dried figs, shelled almonds and peanuts: chop these and mix them together. A bunch of canibus sativa can be pulverized. This along with the spices should be dusted over the mixed fruit and nuts, kneaded together. About a cup of sugar dissolved in a big pat of butter. Rolled into a cake and cut into pieces or made into balls about the size of a walnut, it should be eaten with care. Two pieces are quite sufficient. Obtaining the canibus may present certain difficulties.... It should be picked and dried as soon as it has gone to seed and while the plant is still green."
Cathy2 wrote:Leek,
Just a thought: maybe they are more like bourbon balls for the cannibis oriented people.
Regards,
Mhays wrote:All the above being said, I will admit to a certain amount of discomfort with this subject matter. I like the idea of this thread locked for bringing politics into it, but I feel like having posted here and having read it makes it seem like I'm tacitly agreeing with something I vehemently oppose in practice.
Mhays wrote:...something I vehemently oppose in practice.
ronnie_suburban wrote:Khaopaat wrote:...so apparently sautéing up your wacky terbacky in butter, or mashing it up & soaking it in some olive oil, is actually a pretty efficient way to go.
LOL! I've also heard from a friend that this method is very effective but have no first-hand knowledge of it.
=R=
Kim Severson @ NYT wrote:Nevertheless, a handful of chefs are unabashedly open about marijuana’s role in their creative and recreational lives and its effect on their restaurants.
The chefs and restaurateurs Frank Falcinelli and Frank Castronovo said most of their projects — going to Sicily to import olive oil to sell at their two Frankies Spuntino restaurants; the concept for their Brooklyn restaurant Prime Meats; even a new restaurant planned for Portland, Ore. — were conceived with the creative help of marijuana.
Roy Choi, who owns the fleet of Kogi Korean taco trucks in Los Angeles, likens the culinary culture that has grown up around marijuana to the one that rose up around the Grateful Dead years ago. Then, people who attended the band’s shows got high and shared live music. Now, people get high and share delicious, inventive and accessible food.
“It’s good music, maybe a little weed and really good times and great food that makes you feel good,” he said.
ronnie_suburban wrote:Kim Severson has a piece in today's New York Times that tracks a slightly different culinary aspect of marijuana . . .
Marijuana Fuels a New Kitchen Culture
trpt2345 wrote:ronnie_suburban wrote:Kim Severson has a piece in today's New York Times that tracks a slightly different culinary aspect of marijuana . . .
Marijuana Fuels a New Kitchen Culture
People working in kitchens using marijuana? I'm shocked, shocked I tell you. This is hardly new.
JeffB wrote:Full legality for recreational use is a formality.
Seen 2 weeks back-- guys on Hollywood Blvd. with posterboard signs in a style I associate with car washes and going out of business mattress sales -- "Anxiety, Migraines? Call Dr. Weed. Rx $60."
grace21 wrote:Instead of making brownies, another option (that works great with melted butter) is rice krispie treats! The regular kind doesn't mask the quite obvious taste (so I've heard...) but mix in a little peanut butter or make a PB frosting and you're good to go.
I will also second the notion of a different experience had eating vs. smoking: eating is indeed a slower process and more like what I assume 'tripping' would be. It radiates from your tummy instead of your head, if that makes sense.
electric mullet wrote:Here's an actual recipe for those that are interested:
Firecracker
Two crackers (saltines, Ritz, graham, whatever you prefer)
Peanut Butter
About a small joint's worth of cannabis (approx. little less than .5 grams)
Aluminum foil
Preheat oven to 325 degrees
Remove stems from cannabis and break into small pieces.
Chop up finely on cutting board and set aside
Spread peanut butter evenly on each cracker
Sprinkle cannabis on each cracker and put together to make sandwich
Wrap cracker sandwich in aluminum foil and bake for 20 minutes.
Let cool and eat on an empty stomach
Don't plan any serious activity but expect to wait about an hour before you begin to feel uplift.
It's the heating of the compounds in cannabis that activate the reaction you are looking for and not so much the peanut butter/fat as a solvent. While cooking in butter or oil to make an extract is viable and proven method, the firecracker is a quick and dirty way to accomplish, well, whatever it is you are looking to accomplish.
In all seriousness, maybe this will serve as a reference to someone who chooses to help out a loved one in need of some pain or nausea relief.
BBC Link: Dutch sniff cards to help find cannabis plantations wrote:Around 30,000 Dutch households are to receive marijuana-scented scratch cards in a bid to uncover illegal urban cannabis plantations.
Any bets on how long until their PR firm opens a temporary soda fountain in some other space (yes, that'd be a "Pot Pop Pop-Up")?David Hammond wrote: Pot pop to launch.
MBK wrote:and the butter, man that's real too... toooo real!