I love most of what he’s written, and he is prolific and the books are different from each other.

Mezcal & Cynar are really good together.

Pas de Loup

1 oz Mezcal

1/2 oz Ancho Reyes

1/2 oz Honey Syrup

3/4 oz Cynar

3/4 oz Lemon Juice

I think that’s a no, once you are 40 or so. The whole face kind of drops (everyone, not just ladies, that’s why you see the bottom teeth when The Rock smiles now - being in great shape doesn’t change this) and if you fill the top lip it ends up looking sneery because the shape is wrong. You would have to get the whole expensive and brutal face lift to move everything up first.

On really young people it can work ok IMO.

And overall I agree that GOOD work you don’t really see, all the relentless skincare I do works but nothing will keep you from moving through time. Celebrities who just look good and like they haven’t had work done have had face-lifts.

Yes sir, I do that. I’m on both sides of these requests as I admin some of the financial software, sometimes can fix things before having to involve IT.

And to purplemonkeymad’s point, OMG I don’t know who writes Microsoft’s error messages but they are nonsense.

“The program has stopped working.”

Thanks.

I send the request and list the troubleshooting steps I have tried. Mostly so that they know it’s not frivolous but also to avoid duplicate work.

But so often those stupid steps work. Turn it off and back on. Uninstall and reinstall.

Then could you not do this testing on a machine at their office? What the heck?

A roomba with an enormous cocktail on it! I could only wish for a floor that clean and smooth, that’s the coffee table. Have never seen a white roomba though.

One data point only. My mom and grandma had osteoporosis, and I had restrictive eating as a teen so didn’t build enough bones. I do work out heavier than my mom did (lift occasionally but also yoga with pushups & arm balancing, etc. More focus on muscle) because of starting at a disadvantage and also, importantly, do MHT. At mid-50s I did manage to immaterially INCREASE my bone mass, so a little better than maintaining, rather than the steep loss that would be expected at menopause.

There is more than one factor, right? I encouraged my daughters to eat more and do more exercise when they were teenagers so they will start out with heavier bones than I did, if you start with more you can lose some and still be ok.

But plenty of people have osteoporosis as an endocrine issue, the chemistry of their blood is taking more bone than it’s building. I don’t think that’s something that you can necessarily lift your way out of.

Oh yes. I call them by their names and they know their names.

I do kinda think everyone should have to Freaky Friday swap with anyone they disdain or don’t have empathy for, and also one random swap.

I’ve never been bothered by catcalling but haven’t had it happen in a dangerous feeling situation.

Everclear and Crystal Light was the drink of my anorexic youth and it’s not bad. Not good, but not bad.

Vodka and some St Germain in lemonade is legit delicious.

I would say don’t bother - but really the only times I’ve felt I NEEDED a drink I can count on one hand and all but one involved my mom. Family really can be hard to deal with. As long as you aren’t getting drunk or spiking their punch do they care? Aren’t you already lost or whatever?

This looks lovely. How is the texture? I love pears but they can be grainy/mealy. And what gin did you use?

Those look great and also like they would be easy to convert to vegan (I certainly am not - cheese is one of the peak achievements of mankind IMO - but some of my family is, so always looking for stuff that won’t suck if vegan-ized)

Well, welcome! I’ve not found any salsa community but if you start one I will join, I am definitely a salsa snob, lol.

And yes this was a delicious drink.

Mayo and dill pickle relish (or chopped dill pickles and pickled jalapenos) is the best tartar sauce IMO.

Chipotle salsa - dump a can of chipotles en adobo into the food processor, press start, turn it off when they are smooth.

Black bean sauce. Dump a can of black beans in a pot with some of the chipotle salsa, heat them together, hit with immersion blender and then whisk in some sour cream.

If you have an abundance of basil (if you have a plant, you will have an abundance) pesto is easy.

Slightly more work but so easy and so good, sheet pan salsa, put tomatillos and fresh hot peppers on a sheet pan and broil them until soft and a little blackened, slide the whole mess into the food processor, season with salt, a little olive oil and vinegar and either cumin seeds or cilantro (you don’t need both), pulse until chopped up and combined.

I find vegan gravy so good for the amount of work too. Make a dark roux of oil and flour, mix soy sauce into water until it looks like diet coke for the broth, add it slowly into the hot roux while whisking, season with pepper, salt if needed, rosemary is good as are mushrooms, miso, but it’s plenty good on its own.

Well I tried it - my thinking was that the Cynar has a vegetal flavor, and I know it works well with mezcal.

I did like it better.

Tajin rim sounds great too.

I might well try this. My main problem with negroni is not the bitterness (Campari is great in fruity things - I often put some in a Paper Plane) but the super intense unalloyed sweetness, it just tastes like cough syrup to me.

Shredded a bunch of ginger into a pot, put about 1/2 liter of water, brought to a boil, turned off the heat and stirred in 250g white sugar and 250g brown sugar, let that sit until cool with the ginger in it then strained it out to make the syrup. Really as much ginger as you can stand to grate, I don’t think there can be too much.

What gorgeous foam!

Seaweed is the way to go. As others have noted, miso soup with kombucha is good, seaweed salad, maybe tofu wrapped in seaweed, nori snacks (I like the wasabi ones).

Think of the tentacles shape, too. Maybe make a dense shallow cake and cut it into tentacles shape before frosting it? I don’t think it all has to taste of the sea to be thematic.