{"id":1937,"date":"2008-12-08T12:23:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-08T12:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=1937"},"modified":"2014-06-15T05:16:21","modified_gmt":"2014-06-15T05:16:21","slug":"chocolate-martinis-and-pancakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=1937","title":{"rendered":"Chocolate Martinis and Pancakes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John and Donna came up from Little Dixie to impart a little culture to us Rubes in Tulsa. I hope that we didn&#8217;t embarrass them too much.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">First, we ate at the Cheesecake Factory. Two in our party got a little carried away. I don&#8217;t what these two are doing except Sweetie was talking about her favorite television show as a child was &#8220;The Flying Nun.&#8221;<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/20081208_10.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5277394443859513666\" style=\"DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/20081208_10-300x225.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">Then we went home where John taught Sweetie how to make chocolate martinis. Back in school I took all sorts of chemistry labs. I had never seen anything so complicated as the preparation of these drinks. It was taking them a lot of time. I was having to drink beer in between rounds to keep my buzz going.<\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/20081208_11.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5277394445146140210\" style=\"DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/20081208_11-300x225.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> <\/div>\n<div align=\"center\">I don&#8217;t know what all the fuss was about. Those martinis were not any good.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/20081208_14.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5277394442240453202\" style=\"DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/20081208_14-300x225.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> The next morning after we came to, I mean woke up. I made pancakes. My one or two readers know that I&#8217;m very particular about the 1\/4 cup rule and face centered cubic structure and all that but there is one exception. The &#8220;dog cake&#8221; traditionally the last of the batter is made into a large pancake and given to the dogs.<\/p>\n<p>I changed the tradition some time ago, to the consternation of the dogs. Now, I get the dog cake. Of course I eat in honor of the dogs so the spirit of the dog cake is preserved. Just to make sure that nobody gets confused about whose pancake it is I monogram it.<\/p>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/20081208_18.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5277394438668110082\" style=\"DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/20081208_18-300x225.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> All good times must end so we had one last party pic. SuperPizzaBoy and I were headed to a Cub Scout Meeting. Unfortunately Mr. Rick wasn&#8217;t going to have us work on the bartending merit badge. SPB might have been able to meet the requirement for Specialty Drinks.<\/p>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/20081208_25.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5277394427105600962\" style=\"DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/20081208_25-300x225.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John and Donna came up from Little Dixie to impart a little culture to us Rubes in Tulsa. I hope that we didn&#8217;t embarrass them too much. First, we ate at the Cheesecake Factory. Two in our party got a little carried away. 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