Dave Groomer
Well-Known Member
Kitchen Sink Brownies, Take 1
It's been a special joy living close to some of our members, and having the opportunity to meet so many others. I've made bonds through this magazine that spill over into my personal life all the time. Part of the fun of pulling together this oil was discovering how so many of them are contributing to my first dance through a multi-strain mystery.
What do we have here.....?
Hash Hound is excellent company. We share this passion that we can only share with so many people in our day-to-day lives, and every time we get together it's an explosion of all those things about the gardens you have to keep inside. The pressure valve we callworks wonders, eh? Being able to meet with members is a new level of fun. He's also incredibly handy with tools. Every so often that becomes a benefit.
He contributed the Power Africa, the chemovar that helped me have the spiritual insight that led to my most recent epiphany, the Widow Cheese and the Widow x Querkle. Hash Hound and J always bring surprises.
J brings a freshness to the grow experience. His youthful exuberance is hard to resist. The skunky Lemon Haze came from his garden. I found it a smooth and tasty smoke that leaves me with a smile of appreciation every time I stop to have another taste.
The Devil's Carnival is a chemovar that exists because of my passionate championing of both contributors, Carnival and Dark Devil Auto. Canna and Nis were inspired to breed them, and now I'm growing one pheno and smoking two other phenos grown in my friends' gardens.
One of whom is TheRedDragon. We have a special connection, he and I, and what a delight to get to meet him and his lovely wife in Jamaica last February. We keep in touch and he contributed the purple pheno of Devil's Carnival and the incredible Mango. Wow! What a nice smoke! He suggested it yesterday to lift my spirits, and it did just that. I'll be playing with it for a few days. This one looks like a shoe-in for the next year's rotation.
The Blue Dream was grow from seed made by the talented hand if MagicJim, and has other special significance right now that shall remain discreetly private.
Canna and Nis contributed the fragrant Tangie, a scent that throws me back to the sand and surf of Jamaica every time I open the jar. I may keep it around for aroma therapy alone until I grow one of my own. Ahhh....another sativa to try to fit in. By God, I need an entire apartment just to grow in.
The Thin Mint GSC was grown from seeds I recieved as a gift from livetoskate82, excited to share a chemovar that lit him up.She was one of the most beautiful and also one of the highest-yielding plants I grew this year, and she makes the best-tasting brownies yet, highly suggestive of mint and adding to the chocolaty flavor. I was hard-pressed not to add another gram of her.
As I reached the end of the list I realized that these brownies will be a celebration of a multitude of joyful moments in my life that occured over the past year alone. Well..... an unexpected flavor to the tribute to Cajun I'd intended they be........ Geez...... that was kinda sweet orchestration, but it caught me off guard. *sigh*
......I stepped back and read over that list, flashing through the delicious memories of shared joy. What a year it was. Huh! I could do this every year. I like the name, so I think I'll keep that. It'll be an interesting tradition. I'll make certain to keep some around for New Year's Eve celebration. The daughter asked if we could make chocolate chip cookies with infused oil.
.If you are in the NYC area you have to visit my family and me.
Sweet.