Bottom Shelf Mixology: Cadbury Eggnog

Welcome to Bottom Shelf Mixology™!  We have racked our brains (and our livers) to come up with special "bottom shelf" versions of popular drinks, and some original creations that range from "oh, that might be interesting" to "that sounds absolutely disgusting".  

Cadbury Eggnog

• 5 Cadbury Creme Eggs
• 1 5oz. container Plain Yogurt
• 4oz.  Barton Light Rum

Start by cutting the ends off (about 1/4 of the egg) of each Cadbury creme egg, but do not eat or discard.  Scoop out the creme filling and put it in a bowl.  Add the container of plain Greek yogurt and the rum to the bowl and mix thoroughly.

Re-fill the empty chocolate eggs with the resulting mixture.  Crumble the ends that you had cut off, sprinkle over the top of the new filling, and serve!

Don't be surprised if you wake up two days later from the resulting sugar coma.

HMM '12 Day 14: The Thing

It's finally October! That means two very important things: Pumpkin Pie Pop-Tarts are here, and Halloween is near! My favorite thing to do in October to prepare myself for Halloween is to, of course, watch movies that I feel best exemplify the season. Now, this doesn't just mean extreme gore fests (of course, I do love me some gore), but I like to include movies that have that Halloween feel. Anyway, let's get to Day 14 of Halloween Movie Madness 2012!

The Thing
(Universal Pictures, 1982)

Tonight's movie is the third from John Carpenter to make Halloween Movie Madness.  It also stars Kurt Russell and Wilford "Quaker Oats" Brimley.  That's right, it's The Thing.  And not the newer prequel.  Forget that junk.  I only like John Carpenter's remake.  On a side note, I was going to say Wilford "Liberty Medical" Brimley, but I like oatmeal more than I do diabetes.