Hong Kong Fuey or Devil Dogs

Some days I feel like Patrick Bateman from American Psycho. Not that I want to shout "Hey Paul!" and smash an axe into someone's head (ok, you've got me, sometimes I think about it) but like a paranoid schizophrenic, I hear the wrong words a lot.

Such as this snippet from the coffee shop the other morning:
"I want your sex."
"Pardon?"
"I love your socks, where'd you get them"
"Oh! Target... check out the clearance section."
"Thanks!"

If you dig fictional serial killer books "American Psycho" is a good one. It's a little odd because the book is filled with brand name dropping and ultra focused on money and goods but that's the whole point of it. The movie version with Christian Bale is also pretty good. My favorite part is when he and his friends are mackin' on some models in a club and one lady asks him what he does and his answer is "Murders and Executions" and she replies back "Do you like it?".

Don't tell anyone, but people scare the crap out of me, maybe that's why I get sucked into these kinds of stories. Darkly Dreaming Dexter (yes, the book the tv show is based on) was pretty good too... a short read and somewhat vague in certain parts but that sort of behavior is a mystery to most of us so I can see why it was written that way.

Why am I thinking about this sort of thing.... I can't remember.
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Why are drawn hearts nothing like real hearts? Who made up the first heart symbol? Have your people check it out and get back to me ok? Thanks. I think I've finally figured out what I want to cover up my old tattoo with... another tattoo of a mechanical heart and/or gears and pipes. I need to contact a few artists and see what they can come up with. Why mechanics? Well, I am an automaton after all.

To get us all in the mood for weekend o' love, here's a recipe for devil dogs. It looks somewhat complicated but it's not bad. This one originated with my Grandmother O and they taste exactly like the store bought devil dogs. I feel like my family should sue.

Makes a billion little cakes.

So really it makes a half billion dogs

Also, I'm not really all here right now and the written recipe doesn't make sense so I might edit it again later on... thus ye be warned

Ingredients for Cake

2 cup flour

1 cup sugar

1/2 cup coacoa powder

1/2 tsp salt

1/2 tsp baking powder

1/2 tsp baking soda

1 cup milk

1 egg

1 tsp vanilla

1/2 cup shortening

Ingredients for Filling

1 cup milk

3 Tbspn flour

1 cup sugar

1 cup shortening

1 stick unsalted butter

1 tsp vanilla

Directions for cake part

1. Preheat oven to 325F

2. grease and flour cookie sheets

3. sift dry ingredients together

4. mix all wet ingredients and shortening into dry ingredients and combine until smooth

5. drop batter blobs onto cookie sheet leaving space between each cake (they expand a bit) try to keep each blob about the same size and shape- these will be the tops and bottoms of your devil dogs

6. Bake for about 15 minutes or until cake tester comes out dry

7. Cool completely on a rack

Directions for filling

1. Make pudding base- on low heat stir together 1 cup milk and 3 tbspn flour, stirring constantly stir until thick and set this aside to cool completely

2. cream together 1 cup sugar, 1 cup shortening*, 1 stick butter , 1 tsp vanilla

3. add cooled milk stuff to creamed mix and stir very well

4. you can freeze any extra filling

make little sandwiches and eat

*shortening was listed as Oleo which took a google search then a phone call to the real expert- Me Mum