After an exciting weekend last weekend, which involved being around a fuck ton of people and actually being on a stage, I needed some downtime this weekend. The perfect downtime for me includes packing up the car and heading to Tennessee to visit our mountain friends. We had a birthday to celebrate and I needed quiet with solitude.
While their place is terribly secluded, we didn’t spend much time being quiet.
The weekend was exactly what I needed. My friends have a cozy, well stocked guest cabin. I know other people use the cabin, but we have an understanding that it is my cabin.
No matter where we end up on their property, the scenery is amazing and peaceful.
But on to the party.
You know in that one South Park episode where they counted the number of times the word ‘shit’ was spoken (162)? Well, I am going to keep track of the number of times I write ‘ganache’ (1) in this post.
The reason is, my mountain friend was amused every time I said ‘ganache’ (2) and starting requesting that I say ‘ganache’ (3) more often. I had baked a chocolate cake for my friend’s birthday the day before we left for their place. A chocolate cake with ganache (4) for the icing. Unfortunately, I attempted to complete other chores while baking, even though I know that never works out for me, and I forgot to set the timer on the cake.
You know that scene in A Fish Called Wanda where Jamie Lee Curtis tells Kevin Kline that calling him stupid would be an insult to stupid people? That would be the same for me calling my cake dry. Dry cakes everywhere would be saying “I don’t think so…I’m dry, I am not a chocolate flavored brick.”
I didn’t make the ganache (5) until we got to Tennessee. As it was my first ganache (6) attempt, I fucked up a little. The ganache (7) just didn’t set up the way it was supposed to. It sort of had the consistency of snot. Hence, my first ever chocolate snot cake.
Having the ganache (8) be slightly runny ended up being a good thing as the ganache (9) reconstituted the cake before we ate. If it weren’t for the ganache (10), I would have had to name my cake the ‘astronaut food cake’ as you could have easily crumbled the thing into a sand like substance and stored it in foil packets.
We ate the cake anyway because it was chocolate cake and who walks away from chocolate cake? Even a little (a lot) crumbly, the cake wasn’t bad. Mostly, because of the ganache (11).
The weekend was beautiful and flew by too quickly.
I am not ready to return to work tomorrow. I need more laughing and not acting my age.
But no more staying up until 3:00 am because damn. I am really too old to keep the musician’s hours that our mountain friends keep.
Oh, we also saw an extraordinarily large cock on our trip.
Ganache ganache ganache ganache. (15)
Gnip Gnop.
When I Google up the word “ganache” (16) , the most searched-for links all have to do with how to pronounce the word ganache (17).
So, it’s as if the most important thing about ganache (18) is saying it out loud, or wanting to say it out loud properly.
With panache.
oh god..did I say ganache (19) right?
Ha ha ha ha ha, I so wish I could have been there for that! One of these days!
🙂
That would be much awesomeness.
That is indeed, a huge cock.
I’ve been meaning to take it’s picture for a few years now…finally got it.
Do you suppose it’s friends with (or related to) Beyonce?
Well..it’s not as pretty as Beyonce. (either one). But it does seem to be quite a bit bigger. I should have said ‘knock, knock motherfucker’ to it to see if I would get a response.
It’s a testament to the deliciousness of ganache that even when you described your attempt as snot-like, I still immediately wanted some.
HAHAH. Oh man..it WAS delicious..it even saved my dried out cake.
I made some chocolate brownies last Thursday with hot cocoa mix instead of baking cocoa as an experiment. They don’t taste very chocolatey, but I’m determined to eat them anyway.
One really can’t waste a brownie..
I’ve always been too chicken to make ganache (19) so props to you on that score.
I’ve seen a few cocks in my time but never one as big as that! 😉
It is SO easy to make. Seriously…nothing to it. Chocolate chips, heavy cream and some butter. That’s it. Well, other than mine didn’t turn out. But it was terribly tasty.
I once baked a bunch of chocolate cupcakes while deviling eleventy thousand eggs. I called it multi-tasking…in reality I was inventing a whole new stench never before smelled by man.
http://psb1969.blogspot.com/2013/02/southern-stuff-part-one.html.
HAHAHA…oh man…
I LOVE astronaut food! It was a happy day when they started putting what amounts to astronaut strawberries in many varieties of cereal. I love Astronaut Ice Cream and for a long time the only kind I knew of that was available was the too-expensive Smithsonian Institute sort that you could only buy at museums and stuff. THEN I discovered the camping aisle at Wal-Mart, which is a lot like the equipment section of a gaming book, and they have a version of astronaut ice cream too and for far cheaper! (actually, I think they at times have both an ice cream sandwich and also the van-choc-straw [that’s Neopolitan, for you non-Donohues in the crowd])
Technically Lizzie, I think the similarity of panache to ganache (20.9) can count as # 18.5.
Possibly up to 18.9.
How much can I get for a knish?
no such thing as bad chocolate cake – well unless it tastes like snot.
and now I have to go google ganache (21.9)
It’s so simple to make!
Just remember, frosting hides a multitude of sins. ESPECIALLY if it’s ganache.
It might be a funny word to write, but it sho’ taste good!
OMG..it was so good. I could have eaten it like ice cream.
I love ganache. Ganache is good. I’m sure you’re ganache was just as good and don’t go giving up on making the ganache because the more you make ganace the better you will get at making the ganache.
I’m glad you had a great weekend. Sounds quiet which is the equivalent of heaven. Or good ganache.
For the win, which ganache is spelled incorrectly in the above comment?
The fourth ganache which was ganace instead of ganache, snot is so much easier to spell
Snot IS easier.
I never would have noticed.
Oh, I can assure you, that was not my last attempt at making ganache. It’s awesome.
Snot (1)
😛
HAHAH
So envious of your weekend escape! Bravo to you for making the effort to make cake and frosting. I’m getting so lazy, I no longer bake even a cake mix with frosting from a container. But you pulled it off – that’s the point. (In my experience, chocolate anything gets devoured.) You are a better guest than I, lady. Glad you had a blast.
Thank you..it was a lovely visit..but it always is.
I am so craving chocolate cake Right Now! Even crumbly chocolate with ganache…
Anita
It wasn’t bad. I mean, it sucked all the moisture out of your mouth, sure…but it wasn’t bad.
Sounds like a great time. My “KY” friends are coming here for just the same thing this weekend and I am so excited to just hang out and laugh. It’s been a long time since I’ve seen them. Right now I’m sick so I am hoping to be feeling better in the next couple of days.
Oh..sister…I hope you get to feeling better soon.
Ganache is good. Extraordinarily large cocks are too. Laughing and not acting your age are the very best though.
I agree and it’s something I am REALLY good at.
How could I NOT click on something titled “Chocolate Snot Cake”? Mainly because chocolate… 😉
I know how to click bait! Wait til you see my next one. It’s going to be my greatest blog post title EVER.
It’s a testament to my culinary skills that I don’t even know what the consistency of ganache (what number are we on?) would be!!
I’m not entirely sure…but I know mine was too runny.
For future dry cakes, (not that you will have one ever again), just make some simple syrup, poke some holes in the cakes and drizzle over the top before frosting. Poof, moist cake again!
Just a helpful hint from someone who has never baked a dry cake, HA!!!!
Ohhhhh….good to know!!! Thank you!
You know, the cake might have been dry if it had not been adjusted to high altitude baking. When I used to live on either coast (California or Boston) my baking skills were awesome. Now that I am back to living at a mile above sea level, everthing I bake turns out hard. Cookies as hard as hockey pucks, I tell you. But I will have still tried to make it because, well, chocolate! Yummy snot ganache! Ha, ha.
Virtual hugs for using the south park reference. LOL!
I baked it in Cincinnati before we left for the mountains. I just over baked it. It will be better next time.
You know what would make that giant cock even better?
Ganache.
I wanted to add the count number after that “ganache”, but too many other people have written “ganache” without keeping count and it’s too early in the morning. There must be a way to count, but if I had that tool I’d just use it to count the number of times people have said “giant cock”.
giant cock with ganache..I think you’re on to something..
Thank you for reminding me of two of my favorite things: Extraordinarily large cocks and chocolate ganache. Preferably in the same room together.
Yes, they do go well together.
Ummm…I love some ganache (but not when it’s like snot – you need to work on that). I was at a garage sale the other day and the guy asked me if I wanted a hot cock. I was speculating the offer as I looked him over, but then I noticed he was pointing to a rooster made entirely out of dried chilies. I did not get a hot cock that day.