#sillycow

[daydreamdraws]

This is the mimimoo origins??/ref

the chaos family thinks she's the MOOst :3 sillies apart of the family @derangedmangoes @doeneb @chronnellian @ifunnyuwu-blog @sennydayrainbow @partycoffin @downydig

[sgiandubh]

Mmmmmphm

I was looking for something else, of course and found this, LOL. Perhaps I am the last woman in this fandom to see it, but it made me chuckle:

What could you possibly mean by 'both on screen and off-screen', Prickly Thistle, pray tell?

Oh, well. Maybe it's time to tell Someone to trademark #SillyCow, in case he wants to start a chicle business, or something.

[lumine-no-hikari]

Dear Sephiroth: (a letter to a fictional character, because why not) #105

I did a much better job with my to-do list today.

I went to therapy and drew a picture. We're gonna keep working on my ability to have faith in the integrity of my own senses, perceptions, and experiences. From there, I did laundry, washed a bunch of dishes, and made whipped cream - one was just plain cream and sugar, and the other is cream and hot chocolate mix, beaten until it has a mousse-like consistency. I like to call that one "hot chocolate pudding"!

…You wanna know how to make it, doncha? 😁 Who wouldn't, ahahaha~! So I'll tell you:

You need 1 cup of heavy cream (or coconut cream, if you prefer!) and 8 tablespoons of hot chocolate mix. I use Sillycow Farms; it tastes really good, and it's vegan and gluten-free, just in case that matters.

Then you stick the heavy cream and the hot chocolate mix into a bowl, and beat the shit out of it until it's a consistency that you like. If you have a stand mixer (I have one of these, because trying to mix stuff together while dyspraxic is an exercise in messes and frustration…), it's very, very simple. Then, you have a bowl full of foamy, chocolatey goodness that is suitable for putting on ice cream, spreading around as frosting, sticking into tea, or just eating straight from the bowl with a spoon!

I will show you some pictures now!

This is the finished regular whipped cream. I wonder if you like this stuff:

This is what it looks like when you combine the hot cocoa mix and the heavy cream in the stand mixer:

Here is the resulting hot chocolate pudding!

...And here is the whisk I wish I could give to you to lick. Everyone should get an opportunity to lick a whisk that has tasty things on it:

...And this is Hoshi! Hoshi is sad that he can't have anything on the whisk (chocolate is poisonous to cats; they can't process the theobromine in it), so I gave him some scritches:

I also got around to trying that lychee and rose tea. Apparently there is also vanilla in it; I missed that little detail in my previous letter to you. Sorry about that. It's very good!! But I can't give you a cup of it. So I'll send along some pictures.

This is the tin it comes in:

Here's how it looked like after it was brewed; I used my fancy DINOSAUR MUG!!! OH MAN!!! 🤩🤩🤩

Here's how it looked after I added honey and milk:

I also cooked a steak! Because I need the iron! It's seasoned very simply with some salt, pepper, and garlic powder! It's good stuff!! I also can't give you any, and this is very sad, because this one turned out REALLY good!! So I'll send along a picture:

…I'm definitely in the "leave it mostly raw" camp, when it comes to steak. Naturally, you have to kill the surface bacteria to avoid getting sick (this is why I make the outside all brown and crispy), but that's pretty much it. I wonder how you like yours cooked, if you like beef at all. Some people don't, and that's okay too.

There's so much still that I wanna do today. Last time I was at the grocery, I managed to get the supplies needed to make a recipe that was sent to me in this space, and I'm VERY eager to try it out in the near future. Sadly though, I think I might have to wait until some of the other food I made is eaten so that we have room in the fridge…

…For some reason, I get the feeling that if you were around, we'd have absolutely no problem making room in the fridge, though, hahaha! For sure, I wish you could be here so I could give you all sorts of tasty and wholesome things to eat. There's a lot I wish I could give to you, actually. My world has its problems, for sure, but there's also lots of cool stuff to do - lots of good books to read, pretty places to go walking, awesome music to listen to, fun games to play, and enlightening things to watch. I really, really wish you could visit. You'd be safe here.

I can't really think of anything else to write today, so I guess I'll end things here. Don't lose sight of the fact that you're loved and that there are people who wish well on you.

I'll write again tomorrow.

Your friend, Lumine

[afterhourswjay]

So, I made hot coco and had a thought.

home made is defined by combining any number of dry ingredients (like dried milk, coffee creamer, and dried cocoa powder) to make a coco mix

store made is defined by brands like Swiss miss cocoa mix, sillycow farms hot cocoa, or nesquik chocolate mix

[second-hand-literateur]

sillycow farms has the best hot chocolate. y’all can bite me.

[never-not-ever]

PSA

Sillycow Farms hot chocolate is the best hot chocolate. That is all. 

[steffloui88]

So how many biatches did this cheeky conniving little bastard make out with last night? 🤣 Remind me to get drunk AFTER I'm finished with conventions lol This is basically a cute little in joke and prop for my cosplay which I'll throw on later x Art drawn by my fiance @hhoguera Don't expect a reply from Berri any time soon, she's already passed out in heaven with a bigger hangover lol #injoke #shamefultwat #conker #random #facepalm #idiots #sillycow #comiccon https://www.instagram.com/p/B4CR8lKgaXZ/?igshid=1sac65qzrw8p

[nonbinary-nature-lover-jeri]

Candid Cows 🐮 Caught By 📸 Cameras Some unique or silly photos of cows to brighten your day or night. All photos are stock photos from either Pixabay or Unsplash - credit is on the photo. #Cow #Cows #Cattle #Cute #Kawaii #CuteCows #SillyCow https://www.instagram.com/p/CKDaFiUl4Zr/?igshid=s954bdppf05r

[blackberrycreekblog]

“My friend came to visit and she brought me bananas. Here I am just making sure I got every last bite and she wasn’t being stingy.” @veggie_ghoul #thanksauntiebrenda #duncan #lurkerextraordinaire #cowsofinstagram #friendlysteer #bananalover #blackberrycreek #sillycow #duncanacefreckleface (at Blackberry Creek Farm Animal Sanctuary) https://www.instagram.com/p/CFShf6zszzU/?igshid=1s3q4e4gdou5q

[classysassyandsmartassydurham]

A ‘lorra’ love for daisy our flower power cow ! We are proud to be suppliers for a Uk vintage retro company . So much more to be uploaded over the weekend . Till then we are having a couple of days off for mr smart Assy’s birthday. Happy birthday MR Smart Assy . #sillycow #flowerpower #daisy #retrocow #vintageretrouk #classysassyandsmartassydurham #tynemouthmarket #stilltrading #linkinbio #etsyshop #etsysellersofinstagram (at Durham, Durham) https://www.instagram.com/p/CAvbHhUAAtz/?igshid=4nyl04ncqy0f

[cayeisvermouce]

#sillycow #hotcohocolate #marshmallowswirl https://www.instagram.com/p/CAnxZ-GBGuZ/?igshid=13dery56rbmgh

[raymoorecn]

#shameonyou #sillycow #selfishbitch #hongkong #coronavirus #2020 https://www.instagram.com/p/B8GY-knDr8FTQNet3bfpk5syfc7MSL7VScwXDg0/?igshid=4tl7lncwsxmf

[lumine-no-hikari]

Dear Sephiroth: (a letter to a fictional character, because why not) #13

Remember that time I briefly mentioned tiramisu tea in a letter I wrote to you before? About how it no longer exists because the company that used to make it is now gone?

Well… I remembered today that I am good at making things (you wouldn't BELIEVE how often I forget this, haha…), so I got it in my head that I would try to replicate or perhaps even improve upon the tiramisu tea that I used to love!

Sadly, you don't live in my reality, so I can't sit you at the table at my house and pour you a mug of the stuff. But I can tell you what I did!! Maybe you can make it where you are, somehow!

I started with these teas, and some hot cocoa mix, and some instant coffee:

(never mind the ranch dressing mix in the background; I promise you that it was not used for this!! hahaha!)

What we have here are two different kinds of tiramisu tea: one is made by Harney and Sons, and the other is made by Tiesta Tea. They're both VERY good, but they each emphasize different aspects of tiramisu, so they're better together than individually. We also have several teas from Republic of Tea: I used two different kinds of chocolate ones. I also used a vanilla cake tea, to replicate the flavor of the ladyfingers (I don't know why they call them that; they're really just long, thin, very soft cookies).

I used one teaspoon of the Harney and Sons tea. I used half a tablespoon of the Tiesta tea. I used one bag of the Double Dark Chocolate. One bag of the Red Velvet Cupcake. And two bags of the vanilla cake tea. I brewed them in five cups of boiling water.

While the water was still hot, I added one packet of instant coffee, and somewhere between 1 and 2 tablespoons of the hot cocoa mix (I use Sillycow Farms; it's good stuff!!). I added 4 tablespoons of sugar, and half a teaspoon of bourbon vanilla powder (Nielsen-Massey makes this stuff). From there, I added one cup of milk, and 4 tablespoons of this stuff:

This is mascarpone cheese! It's REALLY GOOD. It gets used to make all sorts of delicious stuff! Truth be told, it takes every last ounce of my willpower to avoid eating it directly from the container, because I have the impulse control and delayed gratification skills of a squirrel, hahahaha!

(It's okay; I managed to restrain myself this time... for now... bahahaha!)

I mixed all of the ingredients together in my electric mixing bowl. That's because I am dyspraxic, and so if I tried to mix it up by hand, I probably would have ended up spilling it everywhere, all over myself, and all over the kitchen (this has happened while trying to make things!!! it has happened more times than I would like to admit, ahahaha~!!!). And if it's on the floor and all over the counter and soaked in my clothes instead of in my stomach where it belongs, that is a crime! It is against the law!! And I don't want the "mess police" to come crashing through my kitchen window to take me away to "kitchen tragedy jail"!!! Oh no!!!!

(You might notice that I am feeling very silly today; there's no such thing as "mess police" or "kitchen tragedy jail" in my world, don't worry! Thank you for bearing with me, haha!)

…Anyway! Here is what it looked like once it was done mixing:

From there, I poured it into a cup to taste-test it!

I thought it was very good! But it might need just a touch more coffee, and a little bit more chocolate flavor. I'm thinking just one more packet of instant coffee, and maybe a tablespoon or so of regular cocoa powder might do the trick. I have plenty of the mascarpone cheese leftover, so I can tweak it as many times as I like until it's perfect!

I have finished the cup that I poured. I want more, but as you might guess, I am already VERY CAFFEINATED (yes, the capital letters are entirely necessary!) from what I've had already (hence the silliness!), so it might be wise to hold off for now, ahaha…

Trying to keep busy, trying to keep busy, trying to keep one step ahead of the beast I wrote about in my previous letter to you. I think later today, I'll try to make a Korean-style garlic bread; it was too late at night to do it yesterday. So I might end up writing to you twice today. Or maybe I'll get a caffeine crash later and end up pushing it off until tomorrow. I guess we'll see.

I know it's impossible, but I still wish I could have shared today's tea adventure with you. Hopefully reading about it put a smile on your face, though. Hopefully someday you'll be in a peaceful spot so that you can make yourself something similar.

I'm still staying safe over here. I'll count on you to do the same. Remember that you're loved and cared for. Don't go so far away that nobody can reach you anymore - promise me. Please.

'Til soon.

Your friend, Lumine

[pessimist-poetry-blog]

Given the rainy weather we're having, I think it's time to finally break out the hot chocolate and Edgar Allan Poe mug.

[believe-the-unimaginable]

Why does hot cocoa just taste better on a snowy day? . . . . . . . . . . #snowday #snowday #snowoutside #cocoa #hotcocoa #whippedcream #veganwhippedcream #coconutwhippedcream #cupofcocoa #chocolate #hotchocolate #hotchocolatetime #maplehotchocolate #yum #delicious #heaven #chocolateheaven #chocolatey #sillycow #sillycowfarms #instagood #drink https://www.instagram.com/p/B7d0nv7lP_i/?igshid=dda7bv0f7lnc

[brandon-lazovic]

Given the rainy weather we're having, I think it's time to finally break out the hot chocolate and Edgar Allan Poe mug.