Bodacious Butter chronicles this old wannabe hippy’s journey into the adventure of DIY edibles.

Why a “Wanna-be Hippy?”

In the sixties, I was still young enough to need my parents’ permission.

Dad said, “No!”

Reflect Back for a Moment

There’s at least one in every group — you know, the yahoo who takes a single hit off the bong or pipe and coughs non-stop for, at least, a full four minutes and 35 seconds. Joints are a bit easier, but it’s still tough.

Well, that was me; but I liked my weed, so I toked and choked my life away.

Then the best thing happened — the medicinal shop around the corner started stocking edibles. Problem solved…

…Or not.

Packaged edibles certainly serve their purpose; but in all honesty, most of them either don’t taste very good or they’ve been hanging around the shop for so long that you can’t even bite into them. Seriously, I once got a peppermint patty that was so hard that the only way to eat it was to smash it into bits with my butcher knife and suck the life out of the crumbs. My last packaged peanut butter bar was so dry it was like eating sand.

So I bought a bag of shake and made Bodacious Butter via the slow cooker method. A day or so later, and it was oatmeal cookie time. Just a heads up — Bodacious Butter does not cream with the sugar the same way as fresh, non-infused butter. The cookies were a little dense; but quite tasty and performed as advertised. The remainder of the butter was consumed in melted form — over rice, on toast, potatoes — you get the idea.

That got me thinking…

Wouldn’t it be nice to have enough weed to experiment with more savory cooking? Maybe even play around with incorporating weed as an ingredient or spice rather than just adding infusions? I wanted a redo on the cookies — use quick oats, decrease the baking time, flatten them out first — the wheels were churning.

Unfortunately, unless you have a connection, weed is not cheap — not even shake and/or trimmings. No one’s finances were particularly abundant at the time, so it all became a game of “What if we had a lot of weed and could try to make blah, blah, blah, blah; and even if we made it, how would we package it to make it pretty; what about meatloaf…”

You know the old adage, “Be careful what you wish for?”

About a month later, a friend of mine, who knows a guy who knows a guy, brought me a big bag of high quality manicure cast off. Talk about a kid in a candy shop. Fortunately, this dude is not particularly meticulous in his manicuring practice — there were an amazing number of buds left on those stalks.

After successfully adding prepared weed to several recipes, I began surfing for other similar ideas. There are thousands of recipes out there. The majority use butter or oil infusions rather than incorporating actual weed.

What’s So Wrong with Infusions?

Absolutely nothing.

But, if you’re not so good at planning ahead — or your dog decides to have a snack — it’s nice to have an alternative.