CANNABIS and COOKING
For Non-Smokers
 

Even with the many methods of taking the healing properties of Cannabis into the body, including the health-benefits of **vaporizers and the recent studies that prove marijuana does not cause lung cancer, many people who want to use the plant prefer not to smoke.  I'm including some do-it-yourself recipes for those people. Also good for the experimental among us.

Enjoy,
Kay Lee

HAPPY HOLIDAZE CANNABIS BROWNIES:

Get a box of brownie mix that calls for oil to be used in the mixing instructions. I like the double fudge with walnuts brownie mix myself.

Next prepare the oil by using a double boiler to gently heat it while adding kind buds. They should be broken apart well, but not powdered as they would be hard to strain. Put as much in as you wish (at least 1/4 ounce for best effect), and heat for twenty minutes.

If you don't have a double boiler or don't know what one is just use two different sized saucepans. Fill the larger one half way with water and bring to a boil. Place the smaller one inside the larger one on top of the water and use it to heat the oil and herb. By using a homemade double boiler like this you keep the temperature right and avoid overheating and losing THC.

After 20 minutes or so, strain the mixture through a fine mesh strainer and separate the plant matter from the oil.

Now, and this is key, resoak the herb in 2 shots of 151 rum for 5 or 10 minutes and strain that mixture into the brownie mix with the oil. The rum will help remove any of the left over oil from the plant matter and will flavor the brownies as well.

Then, just mix and bake as directed for delicious rum flavored pot brownies.

RECIPE FOR BHANG CAKE:

INGREDIENTS 8 oz Cannabis leaves (the part people usually throw away 2 sticks butter 2 cans whole evaporated milk 1 store-bought cake mix (moist) of choice Very large pot/kettle Lots of water Takes about 24 Hours to become Bhang. Then use equal amount of Bhang to replace liquid in cake mix.

DIRECTIONS: Cover Cannabis in water in pot. Boil 1/2 hour.  Drain, throw out water, save Cannabis.  Do this 4 times.  Now take drained Cannabis, place in pot, add butter and canned milk.  Bring to boil. Then simmer for eight (8) hours.  [NOTE: When cooking, keep Cannabis moist or covered with water at all times. May need to add an occasional cup of water.] When simmer is complete, drain, save liquid and very carefully dispose of wet Cannabis mass.  Makes more liquid than cake mix asks for, so will need to simmer covered liquid down to 1 and 1/2 cups.  Don't let it burn.  When amount is 1  1/2 cups...That's the Bhang.  Make cake mix as directed, except substitute Bhang for liquid.  You will need to add the eggs.  Bake as directed.  Be careful - it is deceptively delicious. Best served warm. This Bhang Cake is strong enough for 96 2-3oz servings.

DOSE: Individual.  For new/light users recommend beginning with 2oz slice. To find your level, start low and eat another slice if correct dose isn't obvious in 1 hour.  OVERDOSE: Could throw up, could stagger, could sleep for long period of time. WILL NOT KILL. Even if you eat too much, you will probably feel real good for the next day or two.   CAUTION: Too strong for children and animals.  Keep ingredients away from children and pets.  Use extreme caution when disposing of leftover ingredients.

THE INFAMOUS ALICE B. TOKLAH BROWNIES
Once Baked and Delivered in San Francisco by Brownie Mary Rathbun

 

"Take 1 teaspoon black peppercorns, 1 whole nutmeg, 4 average sticks of cinnamon, 1 teaspoon coriander. These should all be pulverized in a mortar. About a handful each of stone dates, dried figs, shelled almonds and peanuts: chop these and mix them together. A bunch of canibus sativa can be pulverized. This along with the spices should be dusted over the mixed fruit and nuts, kneaded together. About a cup of sugar dissolved in a big pat of butter. Rolled into a cake and cut into pieces or made into balls about the size of a walnut, it should be eaten with care. Two pieces are quite sufficient. Obtaining the canibus may present certain difficulties.... It should be picked and dried as soon as it has gone to seed and while the plant is still green."  ~1954 Alice B. Toklas Cook Book

A Wisdom Archive on Alice B. Toklas brownie - Recipes
http://www.experiencefestival.com/alice_b_toklas_brownie/articleindex

A Straight Dope Classic from Cecil's Storehouse of Human Knowledge
http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/880/alice-b-toklas-brownies-the-recipe
 

The Original Mary Jane Superweed’s Super Candy (first published 1969)

Ingredients: 1 lb. roasted cashew butter. 3/4 cut dried currents. 3-4 tsp. honey. 2 cups shredded coconut. 1/2 cup ground almond meal.

The Preparation: In a mixing bowl blend cashew butter with honey. In a flat tray mix coconut with almond meal. Roll and knead cashew honey mix in coconut-almond mix. As the cashew picks up the coconut it will become less tacky. When both are thoroughly blended spread currents on tray. Roll and knead currents into the candy. When this is done pieces can be broken off and shaped into individual candies. To add cannabis: knead 1/2 - 1 gm of pulverized cannabis (preferably crumbly Lebanese) into each 3/4 inch cube of candy. Alternatively use pre-prepared THC Butter.

If you aren't feeling well, sweets may not be what you need. Cannabis cooking doesn't have to be deserts. You can cook just about anything with Cannabis. 

There are quite a few books on the subject of marijuana cooking available online, like this list from Amazon Books: http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/s/ref=is_s_/189-9970224-6677811?i=stripbooks&k=marijuana+recipes

Here are just a few of the websites offering recipes:

Cannabis Recipes - Award winning marijuana recipes from all over  offering recipes such as:

FANTASTIC POT PASTA
2 cup shell pasta
1 1/2 cup cannabis milk (1/4 oz. bud or 1/2 oz. leaf)
half of a green (or red or yellow) pepper
half of a onion
a glove of garlic
2 tablespoons margarine (cannabis margarine!)
4 tablespoon flour
1/2 teaspoon wet mustard
fresh dill spice
3 tablespoon nutritional yeast
soy sauce

Boil pasta until complete. Set aside. In a saucepan, sauté veggies until onion is transparent. Set aside with pasta. Melt margarine completely. Add flour to produce a thick paste. Add more flour if needed. Blend in cannabis milk. Wisk until all is blended. Add heat to make the sauté thick. When desired consistency is achieved (be careful, sauce burns easily), add pasta and veggies. Heat all together and serve.

Marijuana recipies - marijuana recipes offering recipes such as:

Cannabis Coffee

Ingredients:

• A pot of good coffee
• 1 teaspoon of finely-powdered straight Arabian mocha/cup
• A pinch of powdered cardamom seed
• 0.5 g of pulverized hashish/cup
• 1 teaspoon of honey/cup

Place the mocha, cardamom and hashish in a Turkish coffee pot. Pour the coffee. Heat the Turkish pot on a low flame until it threatens to bubble over. Remove it from the heat immediately.

Serve in demitasse or espresso cups with a small spoon. Dissolve in the honey. The coffee is sipped from the top and the powdered mocha, honey and whatever is eaten like a candy from the bottom with a spoon.

THC Club - Cannabis Recipes offering recipes such as:

THC Butter

Divide 3 grams of cannabis into nine equal parts. Add a single cannabis part to 400 ml of Coconut milk, Rice Dream (500 ml) or Soya milk. Hard simmer for 5 minutes, lightly stirring, taking care not to boil. The finished product can be spread on bread, added to food, used in other recipes, or drunk hot or cold.

Cannabis Recipes - The Garden's Cure offering recipes such as:

CANNABUTTER
INGREDIENTS
1 ounce Cannabis
1 pound Butter

INSTRUCTIONS
Using a coffee grinder, or something similar, grind the cannabis into a fine powder. In a saucepan, melt the butter over medium-low heat. Stir in the cannabis powder with a wooden spoon. Once the mixture starts to come together, reduce the heat to low. Leave on heat for a minimum of 30 minutes, the longer the better, just don’t let the mixture burn! Once it has cooked, strain the mixture, making sure to squeeze all the butter out. You can use those plastic containers that margarine comes in if you have nothing to put your cannabutter in. Pour a little water over the butter once it has hardened and it will last longer.

NOTES
The amount of cannabis you use will determine how weak or strong it will be. Some people add as little as 1/4 ounce, some more. You can also use margarine, lard, shortening, and any oil (sunflower, sesame, olive, peanut, vegetable, etc.) instead of butter. If you don’t want the house to smell like cannabis, just add 7-28 grams of whole cannabis into a jar with oil and let sit for at least a week, this is known as Cannaoil. The same goes for flour, by mixing powdered cannabis into flour will leave you with a perfect flour substitute, Cannaflour. Just remember, any recipe that calls for butter, oil, or a fat can be substituted with the cannabis version.

 

Cannabis Corner - Marijuana Recipies  offering recipes such as:

BBQ Sauce

Ingredients:
2 tablespoons of marijuana butter
1 large onion, chopped
2 cups of ketchup
1/2 cup of apple cider vinegar
1/4 cup of brown sugar
1/2 teaspoon of smoke flavouring
2 tablespoons of vegetarian worcestershire sauce
2 teaspoons of chili powder
1/2 teaspoon of liquid hot pepper sauce (optional)

Directions:
Melt butter in a saucepan on a low flame; add onion and cook until tender, stirring often. Add all other ingredients. Heat on low flame for 30 minutes; stirring often.
** If you don't have marijuana butter, you can add 2-3 grams cannabis buds, finely ground and browned instead. 

Marijuana Cuisine - Marijuana Recipes - Marijuana Cooking offering recipes such as:

Krunchy Kif Tuna Sandwiches

1/8 cup kif or ½ cup finely chopped bud
1 can (approximately 7 ounces) tuna, drained
3 tablespoons teaspoons mayonnaise
2 tablespoons finely chopped celery
dash of Worcestershire sauce
2 teaspoons chili sauce
1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice
1 small cucumber, optional
sliced toast

Mix tuna with mayonnaise, celery, Worcestershire sauce, chili sauce, lemon juice, adding a little more mayonnaise if not moist enough. Peel and thinly slice cucumber. Now you can either spread kif on cool toast (1/2 teaspoon) or incorporate bud material into tuna mixture. Spread tuna mixture on toast, top with thinly sliced cucumber and top with another slice of bread or toast. Voila! A tasty easy treat for anytime! Try with a bowl of tomato soup!

 

**Vaporizers reduce risks of smoke inhalation dramatically
http://www.canorml.org/healthfacts/vaporizers.html

Vaporizers for Medical Marijuana
http://www.aids.org/atn/a-327-02.html

Dr Todd Mikuriya has an entire section touting the benefits of vaporizers with regards to medical marijuana use.
http://www.mikuriya.com
http://www.marijuanavaporizers.info/
http://www.weedsthatplease.com/vaporizer.htm
http://marijuanavaporizers.com/