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libitina - top five beverages you wouldn't make for yourself

(Assuming this means "because they're a lot of work" rather than "because you hate them"? If it's the latter, you can fill the entire list up with Things With Mint In Them.)

5. Kahlua and cream. Similar to the way I have difficulty making pizza with the amount of cheese that I actually want on pizza, I would have a hard time pouring myself half a cup of cream.

4. Homemade eggnog. Same issue plus raw eggs.

3. Sonic's cherry limeade. How many bottles and cans am I going to open just so I can have what amounts to a custom-made flavored Sprite?

2. Punch -- the regular church-basement kind with the blot of lime sherbet bobbing and fizzing in a bowl of pop. A couple of years ago I got a craving for it, but then I made the mistake of reading the ingredients on the ginger ale and the lime sherbet, and it grossed me out, so I attempted it with some schmancy all-natural pop and lemon sorbet, and it was predictably not worth drinking. Someone else has to make it for me so I can pretend I don't know what's in it.

1. A mocha. You're looking at a person who once lit a gas grill with the instruction book still inside it. In no way is it safe for me to operate an espresso machine.

Upcoming prompts below the cut.

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lunabee - Top five colors to wear
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minutia_r - top five pieces of fandom history
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celli - Top five TV episodes of all time
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duffy - Top 5 OTPs in television or movies. Could be romantic or friendship. (Canon is NOT a requirement!)
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minoanmiss - Top five poets? top five titles?
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the_future_modernes - top five things you look forward to as you grow older
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clevermanka - Five pieces of treasured advice
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dine - Top five ice cream flavors
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rhi Five favorite Christmas treats (cookies to make, mulled cider, Advent calendars, e.g.)
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china_shop - Top five devices/appliances/bluetooth thingies/whatever :-)
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dorinda - Top 5 comfort movies? Or comfort reads, if you'd rather
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summerstorm - because it puts me in mind of blackjack, do you play any card or board games regularly? Or videogames? top 5 games?
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summerstorm - top 5 poems?
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fox - Top five Advent carols, maybe
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fox - Top five Christmas carols
25 break for Christmas
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ride_4ever - top 5 dS fanworks other than fic (arts, podfics, vids)
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azurelunatic - 5 reasons you enjoy a party in the dark times of the year
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james - Top 5 places in the past you would like to visit. Top 5 places in the present you would like to visit.
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laurenthemself - Top five snack foods
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mergatrude - what five complements/encouragements would you give your young self.

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when I'm buying it to eat right away instead of baking, I go for plain soft goat cheese (chevre) which has the perfect consistency without any stinking gum.

I wonder how that would work in a sweet recipe? Not, like, cheesecake, but I have a toffee shortbread cookie where the shortbread part has a stick of butter plus a couple of ounces of cream cheese. I'm making it for Christmas gifts -- a rare opportunity to make it once with cream cheese and once with chevre and see how they compare.

The kidlet does most of the grocery shopping, and has already been endlessly burdened with my Opinions regarding ricotta (the short version: you have to get it from the organic section, because the regular brand is so full of gelatin it won't melt).

Goat milk is super fat and the fat stays in solution better. I had goat milk ice cream and it was orgasmic.

If you do the side by side test, please report back!

What an excellent idea! I will be doing this!

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