BUTTERBEERISH!

So, I always crave this butterbeer I read about in Harry Potter books (p.s. I'm on the last one now) even though I've never tried it.  

I've looked up a few recipes and none sound too appealing or have too many ingredients or just blegh... and since I don't see myself going to Hogsmeade any time soon, I decided to make myself a cup of butterbeer, my own version.

It's really simple and can be made with 4 ingredients (possibly 3).  I may continue to experiment, but even my muggle husband enjoyed this!

ingredients

2 packets of Alpine Instant Apple Cider (or whatever brand of apple cider instant or not)

water (if using ready made apple cider just pop it in the microwave for a minute or two)

about a teaspoon or so of butter

2 small scoops vanilla ice cream

I put my cider packets and butter in my cup while waiting for my water to boil.

Once I poured in my boiling water, I mixed everything very well.

I put a couple of small scoops of vanilla ice cream in my cup and mixed it a little.

OMFG! here it is in all it's glory.  

So tell me, what do you think?  Do you have your own butterbeer recipe you've tried?

It's a bird! It's a plane! No... it's a BAT!

I've been working on a few crochet patterns to release soon.  I'm debating releasing one of my patterns  for free.  If I can get up to 200 likes on my Facebook page by next friday, then I will release this guy as a free pattern:

I know that I haven't been on here as much as I should but, HARRY POTTER!!!  I don't want to not read, plus I have SO many books on my to read list.  I just find myself lost in them and not writing for myself.  Oh and plus I am trying to become a better knitter... also, I've realized that I still don't know ALL THE THINGS about crochet...

And then I became a child again...

   So, I've been in a pattern writing funk.  I have this design that I see in my head and I'm trying to get it to translate to yarn.  It's pissing me off so after two days of unraveling a bunch of stuff and writing every step down to several patterns that aren't right, I have decided to take a break.
   Not from crocheting but from trying to translate what is in my head.

I'm going to start working on one of my mom's mother's day presents which I think will be fairly easy, however I'm not sure.  It's one of those things that is in my head and I don't really write patterns for because it's just something I do without thinking.

On a non crochet note, I've been reading the Harry Potter series and I just finished The Prisoner of Azkaban.  You don't even know how much I love these books.  I never really fancied myself a fantasy reader, but then again I never thought I'd enjoy mysteries and now all I do is find myself perusing the Mystery section at the book store.

I suppose it is right what they say about tastes changing every something years... I've found that the Harry Potter series just makes me super excited and I dig into my mind as I watch the story unfold in my head in movie version.  I feel like a freaking kid again.  It's amazing.

My BFF got me into the series and I'm so effing thankful she did.  She gave me the first book and the first movie and that was it, I was addicted.  My mum just got me the rest of the movies for Mother's day.  (I'm a mum of furry four legged children, so yeah.)  I can't wait.  I need to watch The Chamber of Secrets and Prisoner of Azkaban.

I feel absolutely giddy.