2016 YRT

Happy New Year!

I know, I'm really really late.

Everything is happening, all of a sudden.

So, I'll hopefully be doing some YRT stuff, but I'm not sure if I'll be totally on the ball this year... though, seeing how off the ball I was last year, you can probably see where I'm headed this year.

Anyway, first recipe I'll be trying is the Coffee Recipe #4, post on January 1st, 2015.

I've made some changes to the way I'm going to be doing the YRT. Instead of doing the stars thing (who needs those?), I'll just have a little intro about how much I like, how much you might like it, whether it's good or not, how fast it is, etc. etc. ... basically anything that pops into my head.

This oughtta be fun.

Aaaaalso, I'll be finding pictures on the internet to paste onto my recipes. I know, they're not my own. You'll find that I put the source (where the picture came from) as the caption, underneath the picture, so I'm not saying it's my picture! And I *do* ask permission when they want me to. Unless I can't find out how to comment (some of them are really confusing!) and then I just get a new picture. So don't worry.

And hey, this is one of those back-of-the-woods blogs that nobody knows about and nobody reads (about) (so they'll never know that I took their picture) except the blog author who thinks it's the best.

Which, I have to say, I do.

Just kidding, it's not the best.

But I have a soft spot for it, anyway.

Which is why I've posted on it so often this year *oops*.

And just so you know, I'll try to come up with more creative names for each of my coffee recipes. Yes, all 15+ of them. I only have 15 up at the moment, but I have tons and tons more, it's just that I haven't gotten around to them all and a lot of them are very boring. For example: "make inst. coffee. Put in white sugar. Put in cream. Put in cocoa. Stir. Enjoy."

Yum, yum.

Also I would love if you comment with some suggestions on the names of the coffee because I need them!

My originality is going to be below zero by the time I'm done with the 2016 YRT, no kidding.

(that's why most of the coffees are named "coffee recipe #3, 7, 10, 15, etc.)

Looking forward to it (not George Washington so I can say anything)!

YRT - Cold Coffee

Again, the link to the cold coffee recipe is in the title. Just click on it, and it should take you to the recipe. If it doesn't, comment below and tell me. I haven't rated this recipe yet, so that's why, if you came and stopped by to do the YRT with me today, you'll notice at the right side of this blog that it will have a "Today's YRT" thing and it says what the day's YRT is. It will also have the "rating" I gave the recipe. I know, it has a rating (I haven't even tested/tasted the recipe yet!), and before I've even "tried" it (I've tried all my recipes, but I don't remember what they taste like...all the more reason for me to have a YRT every year!) but I didn't want to take the rating away because it was too much trouble. And I want a smiley face that has a tongue sticking out right here, but I can't because it looks bad: :P    See? Anyway, that's today's YRT. Probably for the whole week, because I'm quite busy.

YRT - Milky Joe's

I've enclosed the link in the title, so if you want to go to the recipe we'll be trying, click on this post's title. It'll work. I promise. Anyway, "Milky Joe's" is the recipe I'll be tasting. Another thing, some people have been dubious as to whether it should be called "Joe-apostrophe-S" or "Joe-no-apostrophe-S". It should be "Joe-apostrophe-S", because the name was made because I used Trader Joe-apostrophe-S coffee, so there you go. Just in case any of you who are reading the title are also dubious. :) Anyway,

YRT - Creamy Caramel Coffee

If I'm going to be making something with coffee in it, why not kill two birds with one stone? That's why I chose to do two YRTs instead of just one--and because then I'll be closer to accomplishing my goal of finishing up all of last year's recipes...only closer. I'm probably not going to ever finish them all! But. Whatever. So, I'll be doing the "Creamy Caramel Coffee" (link opens up into new tab). Wonder if it'll be any good. We'll see!

YRT - Quick Make-it-Yourself Coffee Ice Cream

For the second YRT recipe, I'll be making "Make-it-Yourself Coffee Ice Cream in Three Minutes or Less". I know, long title. But I shortened it for the YRT. I mean, I shortened it in this post's title. If that makes sense. I'll be making it today, so if you come back in about an hour, I should have the stars up on the original post.

Also, if you scroll down you should come to my first YRT post on the "A La Cafe" recipe. Click on the link and you'll go to that post. You'll notice that I have the stars there! Yep, I actually managed to finally "rate" my first YRT recipe! :)

White Mint Hot Chocolate

The "white mint" part is for the white mint stuff I put in it, and the "hot chocolate" stuff because I'm using chocolate milk mix to make it taste more cocoa-like and some people call cocoa "hot chocolate" so it's almost a play-on-words, emiright?

Aha, right, kay.

Obviously it's at it's best in front of the fire on a snowy day with a good book, but it sounds so cliched, I'll just give you the recipe and let the sleeping dog lie.

Serves: 1
Time: 3 min, max

Ingredients

• 2 spoonfuls TJ's inst. coffee (I know, I use it with all my coffee recipes...if you don't have TJ's, you can use Folger's. That's what I used before I tried TJ's and realized I liked it better)
• 1-2 Tbs. mint [white] chocolate  
• 1 spoonful Nesquik choc. milk
• 1 spoonful sugar

Directions

1. Put in the inst. coffee, Nesquik, and sugar
2. Put in hot, boiling water
3. Stir and 

One

 This recipe is a coffee recipe. It's the 7th coffee recipe I've posted. And I'm not even close to halfway through my coffee recipes. Trust me. It's called "one" because everything is one. Or you could call it "one coffee" because it's one coffee and everything is one and it's for one person. You just can't make it for two people. Drinking it by the fire on a snowy day is a way to make the coffee spectacular. Here's how to make it.

Ingredients

• 1 spoonful TJ's inst. coffee
• 1 spoonful Nesquik choc. milk
• 1 spoonful brown sugar
• 1 Tbs. mint white choc. (recipe coming--hopefully--soon...it's my mom's recipe, so I need to ask her for it before I can get it!)

Directions

1. Put in the inst. coffee, the choc. milk (without any milk, of course), and the brown sugar (or you can put the brown sugar in after you've poured the water). Then pour hot, boiling water over the mix. Then, put in the mint white chocolate, stir, and

P.S. You can also make a mix and bag it. For four servings, put in four of all the dry ingredients and put it in a baggie (I use Ziploc). Store it in your pantry/cabinet or counter. Just don't put it in the fridge, because that's useless. ;) Enjoy!

YRT - A La Cafè

For my first recipe for the YRT (I'm so so sorry that it's already March and I haven't done any of the YRT--I totally forgot) I'm going to do the first recipe from 2014: the "A La Cafè". If the link doesn't work, go to the side where the "recipe archives" are and you can click on the arrow next to "2014". Then go down until it says "march" and you can either click on that or you can click on the arrow next to "march" and it will have the name "Quick Drink". Click on that and it'll take you to the recipe I'll be testing. Or, you can save yourself the trouble and click on the link I gave you. That's the recipe I'll be testing.

New! Yearly Recipe Tasting/Testing

Big news for everyone this week (and the weeks to come), guys! I'm going to test all of my recipes (one by one) on SWT and give it a rating from either 1-5 or 1-10. This will be my yearly test. (YRT = Yearly Recipe Testing...or Yearly Recipe Tasting) Then, I'm going to go through my blog and add my ratings to the posts. But as I go along. So, for example, I test the muffins. Then, after I test it, I add the rating to the recipe post. I also might post about the recipe and what was good and what was bad. Pros and cons. Then I move on to the next recipe and do what I did for the muffins. If you guys don't think this is a good idea or you don't want me to do this, that's fine. It just means less work for me.

Really looking forward to the YRT!

Questions you may ask: 
Notice: these might not be questions you ask. If so, please email or comment below and ask me. I'll try to get back to you as soon as possible, if possible. Thank you!

• What's the deadline on the YRT?
  The deadline is Jan 31st, though I will be prolonging the deadline this year because I got the idea in, like, the middle of January and I have so many recipes that I'll need more time to rate them.
• When will you rate them? How do you know what to rate?
  I'll rate all the recipes from the last year the following year. So say you have ten posts posted in 2014. So you rate them Jan. 2015. You rate all the recipes posted in 2014. None of the 2015 ones.
• When do you stop rating the recipes?
  As soon as I'm through with all the recipes that need rating. (Don't understand which ones I decide to rate? Look at the question above.)
• What month do you rate them?
  I'm planning on rating them in January.
• What if we want to follow your progress as you do this year's YRT?
  I'll try to post often enough, telling you which recipe I'm tasting and rating and hopefully I'll have a link so that you can see the post, and maybe you'll be able to rate and taste with me! 
• What if we want to tell you our ratings and how much we liked the recipe?
  That's easy! If you want to, either comment and add your rating, or (and this is recommended) send me an email about how much you like or dislike the recipe and what your rating is.  
• What about the posts following the YRT?
  The posts following the YRT will not be rated until the next YRT. If you don't get this, read the question "When do you rate them?" and if you still don't understand, read below.

I still don't understand!
OK, that's fine. Say, for example, I have ten posts. The following January, I do the YRT and rate all ten posts. Then, once I've rated all the posts I have, I'm done with that year's YRT. Then, after the YRT, I post some more recipes. I don't rate these because I've already done that year's YRT.

If you STILL don't understand, just contact me and ask all your questions. I'll try to answer them as much as I can. If you don't want to email, comment below and ask. Either way, I'll try to get back to you as soon as possible.

Hope this helps!

P.S. This exact post (or, the exact words) are also found on the page "About theYearly Recipe Testing/Tasting" which is by the top of this blog, where the recipes and "About Me" are located. Why? Because then, after this post has disappeared into the many other posts in my blog, all you have to do is go to the top of the page and click on it to know more about. Also, that way, visitors who don't know that there's a post on it will be able to read about it as well...without having to search and see if there's a post about it. It's just for your convenience, though, so if you don't want it up for some reason, just contact me (go to the "Contact Me" page to find my email address) and tell me all your problems about it. I'll try to meet those problems and make the YRT/it's page better. :)