What a gorgeous picture! I never think of apple anything because I don’t like apple juice, but this looks really good.

Fresh pineapple juice and any sort of whiskey, I have never had that go wrong. Splash of whiskey in pineapple or splash of pineapple in whiskey. With smoky scotch, with rye, with bourbon, every variation I have tried has been so good.

I like good whiskey but only after it is diluted in some way - straight it just overwhelms my palate and I can’t taste it well. I need it stretched with water at least.

And whatever I have I put in cocktails. I do agree you don’t need top shelf but disagree on it doesn’t matter at all, I have had some terrible well drinks that were bad because bad whiskey.

I do agree. Doesn’t take anything away from men that was theirs to take in the first place. Just trying to lift women up doesn’t squash anyone down.

My dog - she was hacking and I let her out, she didn’t puke. Let her back in and she hurled all over the rug so I let her out, she seemed fine after puking and cleaned it then let her back in when the rug was cleaned and she puked on it again.

I threw out the rug.

Lifestraw filter pitcher. We have hard water and good coffee, so I guess it’s working.

I’m in subtropical humidity, more worried about too much moisture than too much cold.

Yes I will save the peels, almost out of Yuzu Kosho, so might make more of that. But the juice has a different flavor to me too. Though I do have a press juicer, it gets oil from the skin of the citrus always.

https://www.liquor.com/creme-de-menthe-cocktail-recipes-5190060

Ok, this one is both gorgeous and seems delicious. I would swap the vinegar for a live meyer lemon vinegar or a champagne vinegar, and maybe goat cheese (or goat milk feta) but for sure will try this.

My favorite fruit salad is:

https://patijinich.com/morelia-style-gazpacho-salad/

I agree with this.

If I am measuring “for real” I use a scale and grams. Mine can also do ounces & pounds.

If I am measuring in a measuring cup, my kids laugh at me but I crouch down so the liquid is at eye level so that I can see it better. And most things don’t need to be all that exact. The ones that do, convert them to weight measures.

It looks so cute! Like it just grew the right size for that pot. That is a lot of peppers for one plant.

I just now planted peppers for our dry season, always thought of them as slow growing but one of the bell pepper plants was already flowering so into the ground they go.

Savory oatmeal is awesome. I like it with olives & Parmesan and a fried egg.

I live in a subtropical climate and it seems like most typical garden plants are not really good for our weather, it’s too hot for some and too wet for many who like hot.

Our winners are:

Trees- starfruit, longan, mango, papaya all do well.

Garden -

summer, wet season - Okra mostly. Hong Tsoi, Eggplant (little ones) Watermelon (little ones) sweet potato (Stokes Purple), tomatoes, basil.

winter, dry season- Collards, peppers, broccoli (Green Magic) cauliflower, arugula, fennel, lettuce, radishes. Cilantro, or dill. A lot of the typical northern summer plants can be started in December or January to grow in the “spring” that runs from January to April ish.

In between - peppers, fennel, mustard greens, eggplant, pumpkin type squash (but bugs always eat it) tomatoes.

Cream soda is part of my favorite Halloween cocktail - cream soda, vodka, sambucca, splash of lime juice, the recipe is in this community somewhere I’m sure, make one every Halloween. It was developed when I needed a licorice cocktail and spent weeks trying to make one more sophisticated, like good black licorice, they all turned out so foul. Gave up and went in another direction, this one came out tasting just like a black jellybean, so that’s what I call it. Very sweet, and licorice is polarizing but people who like it really like it, and those who don’t generally won’t even try it, that’s fine.

If she is making good tasting low calorie food, that’s actually quite an advanced trick. But your mom should (sorry for the should) work out if she’s able bodied and her TDEE is 1,000 kcal. How can an adult woman even get enough nutrition on that? I thought 1,200 was the bare minimum and took some wrangling. I am moderately active (vinyasa yoga 4x a week and electric bike not car) and at least 2,000 a day to maintain at 57 years old. It does keep me at weight not underweight like when I was 20-45 but how idle is she? That can’t be good.

You couldn’t wait for 1st April?

I’m awake now, but here, with a bonus ass in the background

https://punchdrink.com/articles/best-easy-nonalcoholic-cocktail-recipes/

IME it only takes one music loving parent genre blind parent to get kids who are eclectic listeners.

TikTok, oddly, has also gotten them into a lot of old music. I’ll come home and they are listening to Depeche Mode or Boz Scaggs.

Very nice. If you want something else to do with the strawberry tops and the goop from the syrup, strawberry kvass is delicious, and the friend zone non alcoholic cocktail made with it even better. I don’t know why she doesn’t put the tops in her kvass recipe but calls it zero waste, I throw them in with the leaves on them, it’s great and I think the raw fruit helps it ferment.

https://imbibemagazine.com/recipe/friend-zone-a-zero-proof-strawberry-drink/

I don’t know if I have a least favorite overall - there is a color between brown and green I find distasteful but there are colors I like but not for certain things.

I cannot wear orange, or coral. They make me look like I am green and sick.

I can’t stand red on walls. We moved into our house and the kitchen was painted red it was almost offensive. I think they were going for “Tuscan” . My grandma’s house had a Red Room and I never liked it either.

Floors should not be gray planks pretending to be wood but clothing in that color can be so beautiful. I have a gray silk cami and it is like liquid mercury looking, so pretty.

Oh, I make do cold brew from coffee, grind it coarse and have a contraption that is like a beaker with a central metal filter column that holds the coffee. It does come out strong but is so smooth I am having trouble imagining it working in the cocktail.

I can’t have too many versions to try, I’ve had these parties before when working up recipes and 4 seems to be the magic number of variations.