$1 - $5
Toothbrush Candy Hand cream Teeny bottles of booze
But mostly candy
Huh. I hate them in food but use them for stock. Shrimp peels and an onion are all you need for a very flavorful stock.
Canned tuna on grits. Cheese and raw sliced garlic on crackers. Kimchi chopped and mixed in cream cheese for everything bagels.
I love those salty sour weird pickles so much, the ones with unripe mango are heavenly.
Made sourdough rye, planted more radishes, hoping to go to Pokemon go raid hour today.
Awesome, that is great progress no matter what. Practice is what matters. Take care of yourself. Not kidding about the yin yoga - slow and cold, with pillows, it sort of tricks your nervous system into feeling safe.
Good luck to you! A beer, a healthy supper, a walk in the night before bed. You can build healthy habits not just unhealthy ones. Do things to replace that beer. Yin yoga is really relaxing too, good bedtime practice.
Lady, about 174cm and yeah I like it, I think of it as the short end of tall height.
Husband was drinking 3-4 a night and I was freaking out about it, he got it down to 1-2 by not buying it in packs except on weekend. Like he will stop at the corner store and get one beer for after work.
If you buy only one on your way home, instead of a six pack, do you think you would go out and get more, or might it work for you as it did for him?
Sitting at my desk at work is probably the biggest health risk I face.
I eat well, exercise, drink moderately (not every day, never more than two, almost always one drink only), don't smoke, have sex every day, manage my blood pressure, really try to be good to my body and do things to reduce anxiety but the enforced idleness of desk job is for sure unhealthy.
Usually I get cafe con leche from the Cuban place in the morning, and ask for no sugar - if you don't specify none they will drop in so much sugar it is nigh undrinkable.
But if ordering cold coffee without milk I do want it sweetened just not as much as the coffee shop standard. So "half sweetened" usually gets me there.
I do not like hot coffee without milk, and don't like cold coffee unsweetened.
Not usually getting the flavored ones, no. Coffee is a flavor.
Oof, I was not going to share my thoughts on this but: my first thought when I saw the smiling footage was that it had to be a cute psychopath, I don't think most people could smile while they planned to kill anyone, and I was glad that if he was a weapon at least he was aimed correctly. I wouldn't say my impression has changed.
My gay coworker said, and I quote "ooh, hello handsome!"
Nobody I've talked to has been able to dredge up any sympathy for the victim, like literally nobody of any class or inclination. All feel he killed for profit, live by the sword, die by the sword. That is separate from any feelings about the killer or vigilante justice in general.
Yeah it's funny I have no problem ordering coffee half sweetened, but it feels like insulting the bartender to ask for an adjustment like that.
Yahoo for my spam, the commercial emails. It makes me feel a million years old, but I don't feel like changing them.
Was making a paper plane today, I always double the bourbon and add a splash of Campari. Amaretto/Bourbon sour, double the bourbon. In general, it seems drink recipes are often too sweet for my palate
Are there changes you always make?
I agree with this. We have rented houses when we didn't want to buy a house. Even though technically we probably could have bought one, it's a pain in the ass to purchase and expensive to maintain and even now I'm not quite convinced it's worth it. Housing is important but not everyone wants to be a property owner.
It's more like the whole system is fucked, housing is too expensive and part of that is because of rental profit but it's not the whole problem. We paid less per year to rent than we do to own, for similar properties. Even though the landlords made money.
First:
No, you don't need a purpose, and your lifestyle sounds ok, if you were enjoying it (I think plenty of people would) but a couple of things stick out to me. One, you are avoiding romantic attachment - if any women are attracted to you, you are not unattractive or too awkward or whatever - you are really not attracted to any women who find you attractive? Or your brain rejects them because you subconsciously think you cannot possibly be attractive so there has to be something wrong with them?
Two, you do honestly sound depressed. It doesn't have to mean so catatonic you can't make it to work, it can mean going through the motions of life without feeling anything.
Things I didn't choose or earn? Taller than the average woman in my country. Both parents were smart as hell, university professors. Dad who thought women had every right and ability to do any job they wanted, we weren't raised differently based on sex.
This is what I'd want to do (the bar not the commune) if I won the lottery.
So yes I agree with the top post here, it's lack of access to capital that limits this. Farm cooperatives happen because people own farms. It's very difficult to grow these from the bottom. You would have to buy your share, with money or work.
We need more co-op businesses and also more entrepreneurship from the bottom and small business grants can help with that. You can't only yank wealth from the top, they got it from us, we can make more and keep it in our communities.
Oh, the tearjerkers:
Emmylou Harris - Boulder to Birmingham and Red Dirt Girl
Lucinda Williams - Sweet Old World
So good, so sad, so cathartic.
Elbow, Fontaines DC, Idles, feeling UKish lately I guess.
Working up a cocktail for a party to celebrate a half-Philippine wedding. Calamansi puree was available from Walmart so that's what I'm trying. So far, this is quite good.
2oz Calamansi Puree
2oz white rum
1/2 oz Aperol
1/2 oz orange liqueur
Splash of Orgeat
2 Splashes of simple syrup 2x strong
I shook it and it's got the spirit of the fruit for sure, easy drinking, sweet (the Calamansi is quite tart, this might be too sweet but when batching it, should be easier to adjust) It is not literally floral or perfumey but tastes like a fruity/floral perfume smells, hangs together extremely well.
It might taste better with a more assertive rum, but needs to be beautiful looking so it has to be the clear rum. For the batch I have a 2L of Stade's Barbados, could probably use a 750ml of more rum if anyone is familiar with the calamansi flavor has a suggestion for one that would work well, or cachaca perhaps?
Not a contest. For December, make a drink you've never had before and post it here.
If you are celebrating (or observing, or suffering) Thanksgiving, what are you drinking?
Starting things off here with a Mimosa, after two days of cooking.
It's not really harvest time in Florida, but did cook some sweet potatoes I grew this summer.
I didn't score it or egg wash, it rose so high, not sure the picture does it justice. Baked in the big Pullman pan and it's 19cm tall.
Didn't keep good notes but it's this recipe, scaled up for the bigger pan, proportionately a little less butter and sugar than she used. Very nice crumb, delicious toast, I took a slice right from the middle and toasted it for breakfast.
https://www.pantrymama.com/sourdough-brioche/
2 oz Benromach (punches above it's class)
~~0.5 oz Busker Irish whiskey ~~(removed)
0.5oz Heirloom Pineapple Amaro
1 oz fresh lemon
1 oz roasted pineapple syrup
I started with half and half Scotch & Irish but think it may end up all Scotch, thus the name. It does need the full oz of sweetener. Absolutely glorious.
Boring picture but not a boring drink. Whole Foods here had the best, ripest, most perfect yuzu I have ever seen. Got 6 of them, making a liqueur from the zest, and I juiced them and got about 4oz, not bad as they are mostly seeds.
2 oz bourbon
1 oz fresh squeezed yuzu juice
1 oz orange liqueur
0.5 oz St. Germain
Shaken.
Got this from the Mixel app, a Last Word variation. Please excuse the messy table, so busy lately, nice to have a midweek drink.
1.5oz tequila Blanco, I used Tequila Ocho
.75 oz lemon
.5 oz each orange liqueur and yellow Chartreuse.
Shake and pour into chilled coupe.
I like it, tart and lovely but it would be better tasting with the green Chartreuse, or maybe slightly adjusted proportions, the yellow one is very subtle in here.
I ended up with a 2L of Deep Eddy Grapefruit vodka. A year later, still have about 2L and want to leverage it for Thanksgiving in a punch or sangria, something that will use a lot of grapefruit vodka. Thinking about cranberry and rosemary maybe, I have many liqueurs and time enough to get any mixer.
Any suggestions for a crowdpleaser?
Well, I got cream soda to make my beloved Halloween cocktail, only to find I am out of vodka!
So having a Dead Rabbit, and made a Blood Orange Margarita for my (adult) daughter.
Are you having any holiday drinks?
This one I find worth the fuss. Made a partially batched version for Thanksgiving last year and it was a big hit. Easier to measure when making a bottle of it, I premixed the booze, then day of mixed the juices/honey, it was easy enough then to shake or tell someone how to make it.
Was looking for something to make today and realized I have both the Chinola Passion Fruit and fresh pineapple juice, and when I looked I had everything for this & for me it hits all my favorites - smoky, spicy, fruity, sweet/tart, touch of bitter.
https://imbibemagazine.com/recipe/cima-summer-special-tropical-cocktail/
I told a guy today "you look so fashionable!" because he did, good looking guy literally young enough to be my kid, in a great outfit that looked intentional, and got back a "thank you!" Because he knew I was not chatting him up, just legitimately complimenting him. I could always do this with women, but not men.
Just happy, I am happy about it.
Arbella in Chicago envisions a Halloween cocktail as a mezcal sour with berry sweetness and a hint of amaro bitterness.
I have no idea how to get it to look like the picture in the article, it has to be photoshopped. But it's delicious. Increased both tequila and raspberry syrup to 1 oz to make it easier to scale, did use the teabags in the syrup and let it steep longer than she said, still this beautiful pink not vampire red.
I am having another pineapple and whiskey drink and thinking that combination has to be my favorite. And everyone to whom I've recommended it seems to love it. I put whiskey in my pineapple upside down cakes now, even. There is just such an affinity between the flavors.
What is your match made in heaven?
A new take on the liqueur completely transforms the two-ingredient ’70s classic for me.
I guess my palate is modern, because amaretto sour is way too sweet for me. I do mine as a bourbon sour with some amaretto. But I'm interested in this stuff.
To celebrate the return of electricity. All my remaining lemons & limes were lost to mold and I've not restocked yet, so something different. As close as I could get to Chancellor #2.
1.5 oz whiskey
1 oz tawny port
.5 oz Amaro Toscana
2 dashes Angostura bitters
Absinthe rinsed frozen coupe
Stir all ingredients with ice, pour into the glass.
A little sweeter and heavier than my ideal, obviously, but a nice aperitif, the flavors are good though. Not completely sure about the Toscana, close but maybe Amaro Nonino if I try it again. I never seem to have vermouth.
2oz Tequila Ocho claro
1oz orange liqueur
1oz fresh lime
3 dropperful fire tincture (habanero and anatto infused vodka)
Shake with ice, dirty pour (still no power here, can't waste ice) into tajin rimmed glass. Perfect and refreshing.
I will say that as much of a PITA it is to be without electricity, the clean running water that the city managed to keep running is much more valuable, I'm glad for that.
I don't understand how they get this drink to look pretty in pictures, maybe the dark rum is not as dark? Anyway - sitting here watching the sideways rain and enjoying a hurricane.
2oz white rum (Miami Club)
2oz dark rum (Mahina)
1oz orange juice
1oz sweetened passionfruit puree
1oz lemon
1 spoonful grenadine
It's not bad, but not great.
2oz bourbon 1oz Heirloom Pineapple Amaro 6oz Tepache
Delicious. Usually I'd put some lemon but supper was very lemony. This is sweet and bitter but in a very approachable way, lightly sweet, lightly bitter.
The rain is beautiful today, storm coming but today just a gentle rain cooling things off, it's only 23c/73f.
Got this from the Mixel app, credited to Brad Farran. Recipe sounds strange AF, I was looking for something with Galliano that wouldn't use my two oranges (as the storm Milton may call for a hurricane later this week I want to save them) and something with some amount of citrus. This is really quite nice. Would not have thought tequila and rum would work together like this. I put a little more Galliano and no agave - if doing it again I might sub honey syrup though.
3/4 oz tequila Reposado
1/4voz mezcal joven
1 oz dark rum
1/2 oz Galliano
Dash of Absinthe
1 oz lime (scant, since no agave, closer to 3/4 oz)
3/4 oz agave syrup
1 dash tiki bitters (I didn't have, used Angostura)
Shake all with ice, pour over one ice cube.