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Since everyone beat me to saying marshmallows, my suggestion is maple sugar. Boil pure maple syrup in a heavy saucepan until 257°-262° F, transfer to mixer bowl and beat on medium low until you see the steam go POOF at which point the maple goop will turn sandy. Spread it on a cookie sheet to cool, sift, then whizz up the bigger lumps in a food processor. Tasty on oatmeal or yogurt, even better sprinkled onto slices of bacon with cracked pepper and before baking in oven.

This comment was made years ago in response to a post I made about what fun things might exist to do with a good stand mixer I had recently purchased, but I’m still going through my @cookerbadge recipes and this one seemed both doable and interesting, so I finally got to try it out! 

It is kind of magical how it happens -- one second the whipped maple syrup looks like taffy, and then a second later it’s like a switch flipped and it’s sandy powder. I didn’t have to sift it or grind up the big bits, really, nothing was overly large, although there was a thick layer of caked-on sugar on the bottom of the bowl that couldn’t be used and just had to be “soaked out”. But now I’ve got maple sugar to sprinkle on the overnight oats that I am still somewhat experimenting with (I can’t seem to find a good balance of “gloopy wallpaper paste” against “milk with oats floating in it”) as well as other treats! 

Ohhhh gosh, THANK YOU for the reminder of NaClYoHo. I just bought my first house(I close November 20th), but the current apartment is a DISASTER. I've been working on it but it'll feel so much less like work to clean, pare down, and pack NaClYoHo style.

Oh yay! I hope it helps. I am writing the manifesto as we speak. And congrats on buying your first home! Fingers crossed for a smooth closing!

While I don’t think it’s necessary to prep for NaClYoHo -- when I came up with the idea it was literally like 3 days to November -- I am preparing a little bit this year. Making notes about stuff I want to work on, etc.

Also I bought a handheld steam cleaner. You guys, this thing is amazing. I’m going to steam everything that can possibly be steamed. I should have bought one of these years ago. 

Ohhh, is there backstory with Sir Terry and banana daiquiris that I missed? My brain thought it was a reference to Tennant on Who partying it up with Madame de Pompadour.

Which might actually have been a Pterry reference, now that I think on it.