Ooh I want to do a guava and cream cheese croissant now.

I’ve lived on the streets, in a car, in a house with 10 people so we could cover rent, in slums and have crawled up to solidly middle class. I think it used to be easier to do that than it is now, like every year it gets more stratified with more slipping below average (meaning the mean) but also harder to dig out. Not impossible, but it was hard enough as person of able body and mind back then - I can’t imagine how hard now.

At work in my department only one of us has never been very poor, I do think there is some social mobility but for each of us there must be hundreds who did the same things and it didn’t work.

I was a wasp agnostic until I saw them pollinating the flowers in my yard. They aren’t all assholes. Some hornets are aggressive but most wasps are chill and helpful. Everyone loves bats though, don’t they?

Having some tepache today. So delicious, and an easy entry level fermentation project. I’ve made this dozens of times and it’s failed only once.

i love spiders, they are such helpful creatures.

I intuitively pronounce gimbal as gimble because of Jabberwocky. 'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves did gyre and gimble in the wabe; all mimsy were the borogroves, and the mome wraths outgrabe."

Like even if it was wrong that is how it looks like it sounds.

I do generally enjoy animated adaptations more, and agree with your list.

Arrival - we were rewatching this one evening when my teenager came home with some friends - for reference these are a group who have been watching the “evil bong” movies together, not people I think of as film geeks at all. But Arrival held their interest despite being a slower paced story and 2 of them came back to watch it in full because it just didn’t let them go. It’s such a good movie.

I order it from Heirloom and IIRC it’s fulfilled through some liquor store in NY but gets here pretty fast. It’s really good, once I tried it I keep getting it!

And the after dinner drink, almost a dessert, I made fresh pineapple juice because I started some tepache.

2 oz bourbon

1 oz heirloom pineapple Amaro

1 oz fresh lemon juice

2 oz fresh pineapple juice

Shake shake, serve up. I would absolutely try this frozen as well.

When my younger kids were little, one of their older sisters used to play with them as the anti-hero The Nuisance. She would just get in their way, turn them around, open cabinet doors if they closed them, or close them if they opened them, gently grab them and lay them on the floor, move objects to block them, nothing violent or mean really she just kinda followed and jammed them. It was really funny.

This looks great, but I’m so confused by cooking sweet onions, they lose too much flavor because they are so mild. A white or yellow onion is sweeter when cooked, much better caramelization than a sweet onion. Love the idea of deglazing with orange liqueur and wine.

So much gin in general. I guess that’s the trend right now.

Whiskey and cold water is very good!

I think the paper plane & variations was my cocktail of 2024, but I also made a deal with a coworker that I would try to like wine if he would try more foods (I like food, didn’t like wine, he is so picky he went to Singapore and ate chicken nuggets, but likes wines) so 2024 I also found I do like some wines.

Rounder and a little less sweet, not as strong . But yes if she likes that try this, and also try subbing the passion fruit liqueur in a margarita.

I looked and it’s made of natto? And aspergillus? Isn’t that what ferments sake? Maybe just go out to a Japanese restaurant. And the advert then says the only proven blah blah blah get the spike protein out is autophagy, which would imply that simply fasting would work, so even if you believe it you could just buy nothing and not eat for a few days, save money instead of spending it.

I was afraid it would be too sweet in equal parts with both Chartreuse and St. Germain, but apparently was wrong because it was quite tart. It wasn’t lost, no, everything was combined well except the lime (the Tequila Ocho is not an assertive tequila).

Looks great! If my pineapple is still good I may try it this weekend!

Oh no, get better!

Thanks, this is a good insight and I’ll pin this for awhile and add the text for my other screenshot recipe post.

Smooths flavor, adds texture. And I suppose nutrition, too.

Me too - usually Evan Williams Bottled-in-Bond, talk about inexpensive, that is our workhorse but even that is used up. So many parties in the last few months , birthdays, a wedding, holidays. I will restock next month hopefully but it is kind of fun finding ways to use what is here.

The Scotch is Benromach 10, better than it’s price for sure.