There Will Be Milkshakes

"I drink your milkshake! I drink it up!"

If you've seen Paul Thomas Anderson's new American epic, There Will Be Blood (loosely based on Upton Sinclair's Oil!) you've no doubt left the theater with this brilliant line, delivered maniacally by Daniel Day Lewis as oil baron Daniel Plainview, still ringing in your ears. On the pop-culture front it's promising to enter the lexicon along with "I see dead people," "Say hello to my little friend!" and "It's not personal, it's business." This week New York Magazine's Vulture blog made a plea to save this most excellent (and very bizarre) line from becoming a SportsCenter catchphrase. If anything, we hope the line will inspire more milkshake consumption. Keep in mind that July is National Ice Cream Month. In a cinematic milkshake mash-up, we'd like to bring together the best of both worlds--National Vanilla Milkshake Day (June 21) and National Chocolate Milkshake Day (September 12)--for a serve-anytime-of-year confection that would be just perfect for a movie-inspired menu item on this year's Oscar party circuit. --BTP

Malted Black-and-White Milkshake in the Style of Daniel Plainview
(Adapted from Bobby Flay's Boy Meets Grill)

• 1 pint good-quality vanilla ice cream, slightly softened
• 2 tablespoons of malt powder
• 3 ounces chocolate sauce
• 2-3 ounces bourbon
• Whipped cream (for garnish)
• Shaved bittersweet chocolate (for garnish)
• Cherry (for garnish)

Place ice cream, malt powder, chocolate sauce, and bourbon in a blender and blend until smooth. Pour shake into a tall glass. Garnish with a large dollop of whipped cream, chocolate shavings, and a cherry on top. Serve with an enormous straw.

Comments

[LadyNaava on January 10, 2008 at 07:42 PM]

Wow! Sounds awesome.

[Ben Lukoff on January 10, 2008 at 11:10 PM]

Great recipe, Brad! (Great movie--and score--too.) "I hate most people."

[Paul A' Barge on January 11, 2008 at 01:19 PM]

"all your bases are belong to us"

"don't tase me bro' "

[bob on January 11, 2008 at 01:32 PM]

Wanda: I can't stand people, I hate them.
Henry: Oh yeah?
Wanda: Do you hate them?
Henry: No, but I seem to feel better when they're not around.

[bob on January 11, 2008 at 01:32 PM]

Wanda: I can't stand people, I hate them.
Henry: Oh yeah?
Wanda: Do you hate them?
Henry: No, but I seem to feel better when they're not around.

[B. Durbin on January 11, 2008 at 07:21 PM]

Any frozen blender drink should have the liquid put in first; this will keep the blender from burning out.

Blender smoke is a horrible flavorant.

[NikFromNYC on January 11, 2008 at 11:34 PM]

WTF are U?! I thought this was a movie link. Then I saw the cowboy image. Where's the big version? Then I noticed a milkshake recipe. Now I remember something called "malted milk" that was a 1970s necessity in kitchens. Ah, "malt powder". Gottcha. Will print this for future reference. Thanks!

But what TYPE of "chocolate" sauce? Just like Coke used to have cocaine in it, today's cans of chocolate sauce come in plastic bottles with high fructose corn syrup as ingredient number 2 after generic water plus trade secret "thickening agents" otherwise known on labels as "natural flavors."

So one must buy imported candy bars and melt them down with a little sassafras or peanut oil added to keep it liquid.

We are not the Roman Empire coming to an end are we? But it's worse. It's like Caesar with Nukes he can't even use. Hey, let's Nuke the Moon, for the 4th of July.

Soy protein powder is actually kind of good though.

If you want to really screw that "female friend" you study with though? Melt dark chocolate, burning it only slightly. Then mix two cartons of fresh raspberries into the mix, after crushing them by hand in a ziplock bag. Make sure she's not lying about current birth control methods (check her purse, along with her ID), and you are ready, set, GO.