Tuesday 28 February 2023

Super Paper Mario: Saffron & Dyllis Super Show #40: Herb Tea

 Herb Tea is made from SMELLY HERB


I don't really know what SMELLY HERBS ive got for tea but i have tons of tea flavours, so lets use a strong flavoured/scented one like this ginger chai mix


just stick it in an infuser and wait a few mins


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It's a nice tea! I always love a good spicy flavour tea, and especially anything that goes well with a splash of milk.

Sunday 26 February 2023

Super Paper Mario: Saffron & Dyllis Super Show #39: Warm Cocoa

 Warm Cocoa is made with a MILD COCOA BEAN (wait is there a non-mild cocoa bean?)


Good news I drink hot choccy on the reg so we've got cocoa and cocoa accessories! (BTW dont mind the tea ring, im just reusing a mug from earlier today)


I like to add a little splash of milk to my hot chocolate to make it creamier, and then fill the rest with hot water because this mix has some sort of low-cal milk powder included.


*****

LOVE ME THAT HOT CHOCCY

Friday 24 February 2023

Super Paper Mario: Saffron & Dyllis Super Show #38: Mixed Shake

 Mixed Shake is a mix of PEACH JUICE and MANGO JUICE


So we are going to mix our peach juice with our mango juice.




*****

I mean it's good mate, these are good juices.

Wednesday 22 February 2023

Super Paper Mario: Saffron & Dyllis Super Show #37: Sky Juice

 Sky Juice is made from (ANY APPLE EXCEPT BLACK APPLE)


I thought about incorporating actual apple into this somehow, like chunks in the jelly, but i decided not to make this bad and overcomplicate things, so instead we're just going to do a tri-colour fruit jelly in a fancy glass! That'll be effort enough tbh.


So im just gonna do 1/4 of each jelly at a time and proportionate water, otherwise we got a lot of jelly on our hands. No wonder its a party food.


melting the jelly cubes in hot water, stirring a bunch


once its all melted we add a bit of cold water, and then we have to let it cool enough before we pour it in a wine glass... but not so much that its set... good thing ive got no plans this evening.


and then repeat process with the other layers... this looks like its working just fine!


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This looks good! It's nice enough but the flavours not a scratch on that mango pudding we made with real mango and gelatine.

Monday 20 February 2023

Super Paper Mario: Saffron & Dyllis Super Show #36: Mango Juice

 Mango Juice is made from KEEL MANGO


Or in this circumstance... some juice we bought.

*****

Again its just a really nice quality juice. And for the garnish leaf I think coriander goes very well with mango.

Saturday 18 February 2023

Super Paper Mario: Saffron & Dyllis Super Show #35: Peach Juice

 Peach Juice is made with PEACHY PEACH


We have peach juice! This was surprisingly hard to find. We should make it fancy.


*****

It's a good juice!

Thursday 16 February 2023

Super Paper Mario: Saffron & Dyllis Super Show #34: Couple's Cake

 Couple's Cake is made from SNOW BUNNY and BERRY SNOW BUNNY


Guess we're doing it, guess we're combining the apple & rose ice cream with the toothpaste peppermint one.

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Actually this was nowhere near as bad as I thought? The flavours didn't clash that badly and they just plain tasted better when im not trying to scrape it off a plate with leaves and currants. The peppermint is all round superior, with a smoother texture and a crisp minty flavour. I should make it again, but with a dark chocolate ripple sometime.

Tuesday 14 February 2023

Super Paper Mario: Saffron & Dyllis Super Show #33: Berry Snow Bunny

 Berry Snow Bunny is made from SNOW BUNNY and PINK APPLE


Pink apple? This is prettymuch a re-colour of the snow bunny, so we can do ice cream again but in a different flavour. I've got apple cordial and rose syrup, i think thats the pink apple-est thing I can think of!


So since these are already sweetened syrups, we can just bang it all straight in the ice cream maker no need to dissolve some sugar.


Uhoh... i think taking too long to pour in the syrups and start the machine had let the cream freeze too fast and its gone a bit lumpy. Either that or the apple cordial has curdled the cream a bit? It should be fine, but it might be a bit more textured than we wanted it.


In it goes to the freezer... then my mums visiting for dinner so i'll make her try her hand at scooping it out and shaping the bunnies! 


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The texture on this one wasn't as smooth as the peppermint, but the flavour went better with the decorations, for what its worth. Who's the better ice cream scooper, me or mum? You decide. But don't tell me because I don't care.

Sunday 12 February 2023

Super Paper Mario: Saffron & Dyllis Super Show #32: Snow Bunny

 Snow Bunny is made from TURTLEY LEAF and ICE STORM


An obvious choice here: ice cream! We're going to make a white peppermint flavour and the turtley leaf will be the fresh mint leaves on the decorations.


For this one we'll need to sweeten the cream ourselves, so im going to heat the cream with some caster sugar, and add the flavouring in here too.


Then we slam it in my mini ice cream maker (that we prepared in the freezer) btw i have a mini ice cream maker, its grand.


When it's done churning it needs to go in the freezer to finish freezing. I've put it in a tub so that its hopefully a bit easier to scoop.


Ice creams frozen now, and I miraculously managed to find a frozen fruit mix that contains blackcurrants, as well as some fresh mint so we have pretty bang-on eyes and ears.


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This is one of those life skills I kinda never really thought I needed to train for... but I do not know how to scoop ice cream. I've tried to make an approximation of a snow bunny shape and decorated it. anyway the good news is, the ice cream itself is quite nice. The peppermint is clearly there but you can also taste the fresh cream quite a lot. It goes well with the mint leaves obviously but it does not go well at all with the blackcurrants, maybe use choc chips instead. Or just have a bowl of ice cream.

Tuesday 7 February 2023

Super Paper Mario: Saffron & Dyllis Super Show #31: Fruit Parfait

 Fruit Parfait is made from PEACHY PEACH and SNOW CONE


So I never really knew what a parfait exactly is and had to do my research. Apparently in france its some sort of ice cream slab, but in america and asia its a layered dessert with yogurt, fruit and granola? I don't really feel like doing any more crushed ice nonsense so i thought i'd forgo the SNOW CONE and instead try that layered yogurt dessert approach. Also, instead of granola I thought id just try some weird cereal that sounded nice tbh.


So we're chopping up some PEACHY PEACH into smaller chunks, dicing the cereal and some glace cherries as well.

Maybe i should have gone for a thicker yogurt, its not gonna appear that layered i guess...but you get the idea.


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Tastes delicious! Like ok it didnt blow my mind or anything but I really like tinned peaches and yogurt I guess. Good things and good combo. The cereal I could give or take, it doesn't keep its crunch as well as granola/oats probably would but the blueberry filling and chopped cherries go really well and add a burst of sweetness. Took the lazier approach to this recipe and i have no regrets.

Sunday 5 February 2023

Super Paper Mario: Saffron & Dyllis Super Show #30: Snow Cone

 Snow Cone is made with ICE STORM


We've got ice. (and raspberry syrup)


We've got storm. well this is the best I can do anyway. this machine isnt really ideal for ice but idk, thought id try it.


Its ground the ice up nice and fine. I have to do it in really small batches and keep emptying it out so it can get to the big chunks. i dont want it to melt while im doing it so thisll probably do.


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Annoyingly the ice was ground up so fine that it kinda started refreezing into bigger chunks again, but the syrup was really nice.