gwax's rumblings

I’ve been drink­ing a lot of vanilla milk­shakes recently. So we’re clear, I’m from New England and I’m not talk­ing about frappes. My vanilla milk­shake recipe is very sim­ple, very quick to make and very good:

• glass cold milk
• cou­ple or few tea­spoons sugar
• table­spoon or so of vanilla extract

Stir ingre­di­ents with a spoon. Drink.

One cen­tral ele­ment of the recipe is that pre­ci­sion is not impor­tant; some­times I com­pletely leave out the sugar. Another thing worth not­ing is that while real vanilla extract is fairly expen­sive, arti­fi­cial vanilla is really cheap, espe­cially if you get it some­where like CostCo. Do not dis­may at using arti­fi­cial com­po­nents, vanillin is incred­i­bly easy to syn­the­size with no loss of fla­vor. I find it to be an incred­i­bly tasty bev­er­age, in addi­tion to being good for you (it is milk) and easy to make.

Enjoy.