Liz and Alissa Make Stuff

It's the most wonderful time of the year! No, it's not back-to-school, (nice try Staples) it's time to give gifts! You know the gifts we're giving are 100% certified fresh, AND homemade. Or not, but some percentage of our gifts are definitely made by us, including the ones we are giving each other! We are exchanging the most well suited, super dorky, Christmas gifts, talking about gifts we've made for others this year and in the past, and sharing some of our listeners' most memorable handmade gift giving experiences. BONUS: Just like the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, stay 'til the end for a visit from You-Know-Who!!!!!!!

 (MORE SHOW NOTES COMING SOON)

Clarice's Christmas Cooler

 

Liz's Reusable Grocery Bags

Tina Belcher cross stitch that Liz made for her sister.

Liz and Alissa and the Not So Nice Bake

 At last, the moment has arrived! You voted and we are making raised Game Pie and Charlotte Royale, two complicated, crazy challenges from one of our fave shows, The Great British Bake Off. How would we fare on GBBO? Did we collect roadkill to fill our game pie? Does any of this taste good enough to be worth the effort?! Listen to find out!

The Princess Meghan Mark-tail

 

1 shot vodka

1/2 shot amaretto

Luxardo Cherries and their syrup

Lime

Seltzer

In a glass of ice, combine vodka and amaretto. Add three or four cherries and a teaspoon or so of the cherry syrup. Squeeze in a wedge of lime and stir to combine. Top with seltzer. Drink and feel like a princess!

The recipes we used:

Raised Game Pie

Charlotte Royale

The start of construction of the Charlotte Royale.

Braaaaaiiiiiiiinnnnn.

The inside of our Charlotte Royale was less than vibrant.

So much meat.

It at least looks good!

That's nothing but meat. And fat. And gelatin.

We spent this past weekend on our annual Quilt Guild retreat and between that and Thanksgiving (in two days!) we have SO MUCH TO TALK ABOUT! Learn all about the bs that is homemade face masks as well as our thanksgiving status, what's made Liz's bujo oh so glamorous and join us for our new segment, Chex Mix Corner!

 

 

Mask recipes: http://www.marieclaire.com/beauty/how-to/a2830/best-homemade-face-masks/

 

MORE SHOW NOTES COMING SOON!

Thanksgiving Ho! (Stick)

It's the most wonderful time of the year! We are in full turkey mode over here and this episode probably could have been 3 hours long if we thought you'd listen that long. We discuss how Alissa is flipping the t-giving script this year, how Liz is keeping it classic and what the f*** a "ho stick" is! Join us as we wax rhapsodic about the holiday to end all holidays.

 The Cocktail!

Cranberry Gobbler

In a shaker combine:

1 Tablespoon of cranberry sauce

The juice of two clementines

1.5 oz vodka

Ice

Shake until well combined. Pour into a glass of ice, top with a splash of unsweetened cranberry juice and some sparkling water. Garnish with a squeeze of lemon and a lemon wedge.

LINKS

Lucinda Scala Quinn and her amazing IG stories

Cranberry and walnut relish

Crack Pie

MUSIC

The Show Must Be Go Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

 

Lions and Trash Bags and Packer Cats, Oh My!

Halloween approaches and we have trick or treaters to clothe! We are talking about homemade Halloween costumes, past, present and future! (Because we're not done yet, of course.) We also made a festive fall drink that one might describe as spooky because it definitely resembles...well, I'm not going to say, you just have to listen to find out. We also get into some new holiday traditions that you may not have heard of like the Purim Mouse and Harvaween!

 

The Hallowini

Recipe coming soon...

 

You can see all of Liz's Harvaween costumes on Facebook or on Instagram under the hashtag #happyharvaween.

To see more photos and share what you're making, join our Facebook group, Liz and Alissa Made Me Make It!

Music: 

The Show Must Be Go Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Enrobing Wishes and Candy Corn Dreams

You are definitely going to want to come trick or treating at our houses this year when you hear about all of the sweet, sweet (literally, so sweet) homemade candy that we will have on offer. OR WILL YOU?! Does making candy leave us with sweet dreams or a mouthful of cavities? You'll have to listen to find out!!!

 

Keywords/Potential Drinking Game: enrobe, Garfield, dental crown

 

The Jack-O-Lantern

 

 

 

 

Behold, our candy spread!

The recipes we used:

Candy Corn

Peanut Butter Cups

Millionaire Shortbread (fake Twix)

Lollipops

Twix

Lollipops

 

Alissa bought her candy making supplies at the lovely Jane's Cake & Chocolate Supply in La Cañada Flintridge. They have a great website where you can satisfy all of your candy making needs! But no penis molds though. Maybe you have to buy those in person?

In case you're interested, here's "Garfield Minus Garfield", AND the halloween classic and inspiration for this episode's friends: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aWPYngPBa8

Music: 

The Show Must Be Go Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

 

Some product links are Amazon Affiliate links.

 

Meet the Clumps

 

Keywords/possible drinking game: Eye Holes, Infected, Burning

 

Makeup Milk Punch

 

NOTE: We straight up copied this from America's Test Kitchen. Here is their awesome recipe:

Black Tea Port Milk Punch 

Pics

The disgusting makeup we made

 

Liz's beautiful self-makeover with our makeup. We promise she is not actually dying/dead.

Here is our esteemed guest, professional makeup artist Tifanie White, completely cracking up while attempting to apply our makeup on Liz.

Here is Liz after Tifanie applied real makeup to one half of her face and our terrible makeup to the other half. Can you guess which half is which? Hmmm...

Music: 

The Show Must Be Go Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

 

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Liz and Alissa have made a lot of very nerdy stuff. Let's GET INTO IT.

Keywords/possible drinking game: Nerd, Fandom, Juicer

 

The Nerdy Verde

NOTE: We made all of these juices ourselves. You will not be able to find them at the store. So this is a cocktail for when you have a juicer and some time. IT IS SO WORTH IT!

In a shaker combine:

2 oz yellow tomato juice

2 oz tomatillo juice

2 oz cucumber juice

2 oz celery juice

A splash of lime juice

A splash of cilantro juice

A few drops of garlic juice

A dash of Worcestershire

2 oz of vodka OR tequila

Add ice and shake vigorously. Strain. Pour over ice into a glass rimmed with salt.

 

Links

Juicer

The Adorkable Misogyny of The Big Bang Theory

 

Pics

Liz's not very tear stained Hamilton handkerchief

Liz's nerdy quilt for the North Hollywood Classic Mac Collectors Club

And here it is on display at the North Hollywood Classic Mac Collectors Club HQ

Liz's Moana Costumes

Alice in Wonderland with Liz's sister Lauren's kids

And 7, count them, SEVEN Frozen costumes

1...

2...

3...

4...

5, 6... (Lauren made the one on the right, I can't take credit for that one!)

...and 7!

Alissa's Dalek Pillow

And Barry Manilow

Alissa's Planet of the Apes Quilt

The teeny tiny man shape she cut FREEHAND.

Alissa's collection of Reality Show Villians

 

Music: 

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Subtitle: Dear Diary, Why is Liz Making Me Do This?

Straight to number 8, with a bullet! We've made bullet journals people, or at least one of us has. Find out which one, what a bullet journal actually is (maybe?), what Liz regularly eats for breakfast and what our very special guest did on March 16, 2017. Plus we talk a lot about Chex mix juice.

Keywords/possible drinking game: Chex mix juice, my monthly, dear diary

 

The Bull-jit-jo

In a shaker combine:

Juice of one lime 15 mint leaves 20 blackberries 1 Tbsp sugar 4 oz Bulleit bourbon

Crush the berries a little bit with a muddle or wooden spoon.

Add ice and shake vigorously. Strain. Pour over ice and top with a splash of ginger beer.

 

Links

The official Bullet Journal website. This is a good place to start. You can read about the basics but I found the most helpful thing was to watch a couple videos so you can really see things put in action. This is the video from the official site and I also found this video very helpful.

We both bought fancy pants Leuchtturm notebooks, the dotted variety, which come with prenumbered pages and a dedicated index. Also, this is just a very nice notebook. Did I mention it was fancy pants?

PS, I highly encourage you to click the link above. This fancy pants notebook comes in a wide array of fancy pants colors. It is a sight to behold.

I (Liz) also treated myself to the following accoutrements:

And now, the moment you've been waiting for:

Liz's bujo!

Complete with wine stain.

And for real people, I will make a video of this shit, just say the word! I only need the slightest bit of encouragement.

Other Business:

Recipe Jenny used for her amazing Chex Mix juice roast

Grilled Shredded Wheat

At the beginning of the episode Liz talked about her dad's recipe for grilled shredded wheat which he thought should be included as a family recipe. While it's not Liz's recipe it is definitely a good, wholesome, comforting breakfast and if you're in the mood for something hella old timey you can't go wrong with shredded wheat! And Liz was correct when she said credit for this recipe actually goes to her dad's dad. It was one of the few dishes in his repertoire and we must give him his due!

First of all, buy this:

• Spread butter on either side of a shredded wheat biscuit.
• Poor about 1/2 cup of water into one end of the biscuit and let it run out the other. Repeat.
• Fry in a skillet over medium heat until golden, about 3-4 minutes. Flip and repeat on other side.
• Serve in a bowl, sprinkled with sugar, with cold milk.

Music: 

The Show Must Be Go Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

 

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Cream of Chicken Soup for the Podcaster's Soul

This episode, we're talking family recipes with some real live family, Liz's mom Claud! We do our best to celebrate the food traditions of our families while avoiding (sometimes unsuccessfully) all canned soup products. You'll also hear about the thrilling saga of who eats which pierogi, learn about delicacies such as "Noodoos" and Texas Trash and find out where Alissa will be spending next Christmas!

Possible drinking game: Nanny, Claud, Doritos, Noodoos

The Pink Claudy

2 oz gin 1/2 oz lemon juice 1/2 oz st Germain Splash of cranberry Shake and serve over ice.

 

 

Nanny Casserole (Alissa's version)

Ingredients

1 rotisserie chicken 3/4 cup flour 3/4 cup butter several cloves of garlic, pressed About 4 cups of milk 2 onions 1 jalapeno or other green chile (fresh) 2 bell peppers (any color, I like red) 2 cups or so of frozen corn (get fire roasted if you can) 2 bags of shredded mexican blend cheese 1 large bag of plain, salted tortilla chips pickled jalapenos (jar kind) Canned black olives --- Preheat oven to 425 Grease a 9x13 baking pan. Take the skin off of the rotisserie chicken and pull all the meat off and chop it into bite size pieces. Set aside.   Sautee chopped onion, jalapeno and bell peppers in oil, salting and peppering to taste. Melt the butter in a medium saucepan, sprinkle in the flour to make a roux. Stir the roux till lightly browned and toasty smelling. Slowly whisk in the milk and whisk as it thickens. Add salt and pepper and garlic.   Dump the chopped up chicken and cooked veggies into a large bowl. Stir in the cream sauce till it's moderately saucy. You may end up with extra sauce. Add about half of one of the bags of cheese to the mixture. Stir it all up. Crush up the tortilla chips. You can either put them in a ziplock and smash them or just pull them out of the bag and smash them with your hands. Ziplock lets you smash more of them at a time. You don't have to smash them to DUST, just small pieces. Start to assemble the casserole. First put a layer of broken chips, then the soup/chicken mix, then a layer of cheese. Repeat layers till you run out of filling. I usually only get like two layers of everything. (make sure you save some chips and cheese for the topping) Finish with a layer of cheese, then put the pickled jalapenos and olives on top of that, then crumble some more chips on top for crispiness.  Cover it with foil (I always spray the foil that will be touching the food w/Pam first) and bake it for 45 minutes with the cover on. Then take off the cover and bake it an additional 15 minutes or so to make sure the top is all melty and brown. It should be browned and bubbling when it is done.   Pierogies Pierogi dough   1 egg 2T sour cream 1 cup milk 1 cup water 4.5 - 5 cups flour   Whisk wet ingredients until combined. Slowly add 3 cups flour and stir with a wooden spoon.  Turn out on floured surface and knead in 1 cup, then 1/2 cup flour. Knead for 8 to 10 minutes.    Cabbage Pierogi Filling   1 large can sauerkraut, drained and rinsed 1 small to medium head cabbage, shredded 3 onions, chopped 4T butter 1/4 cup water   Chop cabbage and onion with water in food processor. Drain. Fry with sauerkraut and pepper in butter until soft and light brown.    To assemble pierogi:   Divide dough in half. Cover one half and set aside. On lightly floured surface, roll out to 1/8" thick. With a 3" round cookie or biscuit cutter, cut as many rounds as you can. Place about 1T of filling in the center of each circle. Fold over and pinch the edges to seal. Repeat with the rest of dough.    Noodoos 1/2 Box Acini de Pepe 1 large can crushed pineapple (in juice!) 1 can mandarin oranges 3/4 cup sugar 2 Tbs corn starch 2 eggs, beaten 8 oz Cool Whip   Cook pasta in salted water. Drain and rinse well.   Drain fruit, reserving juice.   In a microwave safe bowl, combine juice, eggs, sugar and cornstarch. Heat until thickened. Cool.    Combine cooled mixture with pasta and cool whip. Chill overnight.   Pics Kelly Family Christmas! You know you want to be a Kelly.   Our amazing feast!  

Music: 

The Show Must Be Go Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/