UPDATE - BIOBOMB BROWNIES: Step 1 - Decarb the bud
Weigh out eight grams. Good grief, look at how beautiful these buds are!
Gently break the buds apart into the baking dish. No need to get crazy with it. It's much easier to break up when it's done decarbing. Seal the dish up tight in the oven roasting bag and toss into the oven - 230 degrees F - for 45 minutes.
It just came out of the oven. I'll usually give it a couple minutes to cool a bit and then into the freezer for an hour to help the vapors settle. Those vapors are valuable terpenes and flavinoids that I want in my meds. I'm not sure how many are lost in the brownie-baking portion of this adventure, but I'll keep this step in. It hurts nothing to make the effort.
Ahhhh....... I'll have brownies in the morning.
I have my mango and my apigenin all ready to go. A little priming of the receptors and some competitive inhibition to get more cannabinoids into the system.
BROWNIES: Step 2 - Prepare the oil
It's been an hour in the freezer. Time to crumble it up.
I prefer to do this by hand. It's tedious, I suppose, but it also gives me ample opportunity to infuse it with healing intention. Of course, I'm an aging hippie, remember?
Toss the plant material into a pie pan and add 1/3 - 1/2 cup of either coconut oil (for recreational use) or cold-pressed extra virgin olive oil. Yes, olive oil is a strange choice for brownies, but these are medicine as much as food and the olive oil is a long-chained fatty acid that will be absorbed into the lymphatic system. That skips the first pass through the liver and gets more cannabinoids into play, able to help my body reach homeostasis. The intense chocolate of the brownie mix and the caramel drizzle mask these odd flavors completely for me. I've actually grown fond of it. It's the taste of healing in my mind. Feel free to use coconut oil instead if you're looking for the buzz. It hits even faster.
To assist that process along I added about a tablespoon of liquid sunflower lecithin. Lecithin speeds up the absorbtion process, among other beneficial things it has to offer. That's just the benefit I'm most interested in here.
Thoroughly stirred, it goes back into the oven bag and back into the 230 degree F oven for another 55 minutes. This brings the total decarb time to 110 minutes.
After it cools a bit it goes into the refrigerator overnight. In the morning I simply prepare brownies according to the box instructions, using the oil mix as the oil addition. I'll also throw in a splash of hemp seed oil, just to give it an extra bit of healthy moisture to make up for all the plant material in the olive oil, and bake.
Life is sweet guys.
BROWNIES:Step Three - Making the brownies
The oil mix is removed from refrigeration and stirred throughly. Coconut oil needs to be brought to a temperature that allows it to liquefy. I don't strain my oil for brownies. I'm interested in keeping every single cannabinoid.
Add the boxed mix, 2 organic eggs, a splash of hemp seed oil and a splash of water. I never measure the extra oil or water. At 62 cooking's come instinctive enough I don't need to bother being that precise. I like the fact that the hemp oil adds more cannabinoids to the mix, albeit none that are known to be psychoactive on their own. I have great faith in the entourage effect and the synergy I know is going on here.
Leave nothing behind. If I could have gotten my tongue into the bottom of that bowl I'd have licked it clean. I'm telling you, I licked that tiny spatula, the pie pan, and the bowl and this oil's kicking my butt already. Tingly body rushes coming in waves and that sweet edgy buzz that SweetSue so thoroughly appreciates.
I like to add caramel to mine, if it's on hand. It adds another flavor layer and helps offset the taste of the cannabis. Drizzle the caramel onto the surface, score with a knife and bake for 35 minutes.
They're baking now. I have about 10 minutes left before they're finished, which gives me enough time to quickly shower and start breakfast, so I have something in my stomach a half hour before I eat my dose. I'll have some mango and take some apigenin as the brownies cool to get the receptors primed and get that competitive inhibition going.
Ooooo...... Nice buzz going here. Quite surprising in its effect. Maybe I want to try a half dose of these brownies. I think I found my supercharged method.
The apartment smells fabulous! Brownies in the oven and buds drying in the hall. I'm thinking they're fragrant enough I may hang them in a tent to finish drying and let the filter control the smell. I'm at the end of the block, so to speak, so it's not the concern it'd be for anyone else in the building, but still........
Ahhh..... A bit of normal again. *sigh of deep relief*
Weigh out eight grams. Good grief, look at how beautiful these buds are!
Gently break the buds apart into the baking dish. No need to get crazy with it. It's much easier to break up when it's done decarbing. Seal the dish up tight in the oven roasting bag and toss into the oven - 230 degrees F - for 45 minutes.
It just came out of the oven. I'll usually give it a couple minutes to cool a bit and then into the freezer for an hour to help the vapors settle. Those vapors are valuable terpenes and flavinoids that I want in my meds. I'm not sure how many are lost in the brownie-baking portion of this adventure, but I'll keep this step in. It hurts nothing to make the effort.
Ahhhh....... I'll have brownies in the morning.
I have my mango and my apigenin all ready to go. A little priming of the receptors and some competitive inhibition to get more cannabinoids into the system. BROWNIES: Step 2 - Prepare the oil
It's been an hour in the freezer. Time to crumble it up.
I prefer to do this by hand. It's tedious, I suppose, but it also gives me ample opportunity to infuse it with healing intention. Of course, I'm an aging hippie, remember?
Toss the plant material into a pie pan and add 1/3 - 1/2 cup of either coconut oil (for recreational use) or cold-pressed extra virgin olive oil. Yes, olive oil is a strange choice for brownies, but these are medicine as much as food and the olive oil is a long-chained fatty acid that will be absorbed into the lymphatic system. That skips the first pass through the liver and gets more cannabinoids into play, able to help my body reach homeostasis. The intense chocolate of the brownie mix and the caramel drizzle mask these odd flavors completely for me. I've actually grown fond of it. It's the taste of healing in my mind. Feel free to use coconut oil instead if you're looking for the buzz. It hits even faster.
To assist that process along I added about a tablespoon of liquid sunflower lecithin. Lecithin speeds up the absorbtion process, among other beneficial things it has to offer. That's just the benefit I'm most interested in here.
Thoroughly stirred, it goes back into the oven bag and back into the 230 degree F oven for another 55 minutes. This brings the total decarb time to 110 minutes.
After it cools a bit it goes into the refrigerator overnight. In the morning I simply prepare brownies according to the box instructions, using the oil mix as the oil addition. I'll also throw in a splash of hemp seed oil, just to give it an extra bit of healthy moisture to make up for all the plant material in the olive oil, and bake.
Life is sweet guys.
BROWNIES:Step Three - Making the brownies
The oil mix is removed from refrigeration and stirred throughly. Coconut oil needs to be brought to a temperature that allows it to liquefy. I don't strain my oil for brownies. I'm interested in keeping every single cannabinoid.
Add the boxed mix, 2 organic eggs, a splash of hemp seed oil and a splash of water. I never measure the extra oil or water. At 62 cooking's come instinctive enough I don't need to bother being that precise. I like the fact that the hemp oil adds more cannabinoids to the mix, albeit none that are known to be psychoactive on their own. I have great faith in the entourage effect and the synergy I know is going on here.
Leave nothing behind.
If I could have gotten my tongue into the bottom of that bowl I'd have licked it clean. I'm telling you, I licked that tiny spatula, the pie pan, and the bowl and this oil's kicking my butt already. Tingly body rushes coming in waves and that sweet edgy buzz that SweetSue so thoroughly appreciates.
I like to add caramel to mine, if it's on hand. It adds another flavor layer and helps offset the taste of the cannabis. Drizzle the caramel onto the surface, score with a knife and bake for 35 minutes.
They're baking now. I have about 10 minutes left before they're finished, which gives me enough time to quickly shower and start breakfast, so I have something in my stomach a half hour before I eat my dose. I'll have some mango and take some apigenin as the brownies cool to get the receptors primed and get that competitive inhibition going.
Ooooo...... Nice buzz going here. Quite surprising in its effect. Maybe I want to try a half dose of these brownies. I think I found my supercharged method.
The apartment smells fabulous! Brownies in the oven and buds drying in the hall. I'm thinking they're fragrant enough I may hang them in a tent to finish drying and let the filter control the smell. I'm at the end of the block, so to speak, so it's not the concern it'd be for anyone else in the building, but still........
Ahhh..... A bit of normal again. *sigh of deep relief*
