Experiment 18 - The Selection

Usually the general process for this here recipe blog thing is "select, post, shop, cook, post".  Last night, however, I selected a recipe that included an ingredient that I wasn't sure if I could get in a reasonable quantity, so I went shopping first to check on that.

As I grow farther and farther away from the original "random" selection idea, I find it harder and harder to make a choice that sounds good on the night I do the selection and sounds like something I'll still be interested in by the time the weekend rolls around.  Last night I was thinking "dessert" more than anything else, and finally stumbled upon a recipe that came to me in email.  See if you can figure out which item caused me to shuffle up the process this week.

Chocolate Stout Silk Pie, aka Guinness Chocolate Pie

Crust -
1 1/2 cups crushed graham crackers
1/3 cup melted butter

Filling -
12 oz. semi-sweet or bitter-sweet chocolate (chocolate chips work well)
24 large marshmallows
pinch of salt
2/3 cups stout
1/3 cup evaporated milk
1 tsp vanilla
1 T creme de cacao (liquer, light or dark will work)

The body of the email this arrived with also states "some female co-workers of mine call this 'PMS Pie', on the basis that it pretty mush satisfies any chocolate craving."  That's beyond my ken, so I'll leave it to others to judge.  Just throwing it out there.