[-] RBWells@lemmy.world 3 points 4 hours ago

I was lucky enough to have not just free time, but some rare time alone today. I watched Frieren, deep watered the baby veg that are still in pots, and went for a pokemon go walk.

[-] RBWells@lemmy.world 3 points 8 hours ago

Subs here split a length of baguette or Cuban bread, or long bun. But not all the way through. Then they open it like a hot dog bun & put in the fillings. I hate hot dogs but if a sub is a sandwich, a hot dog is a sandwich.

[-] RBWells@lemmy.world 5 points 9 hours ago

What the fuck? Were there so few participants that 3rd was a bad result? High school has four years, right? 4th, 3rd, 2nd, 1st place, seems to me you were on track.

[-] RBWells@lemmy.world 1 points 11 hours ago

What do you call a guy with both legs cut off at the knee?

Neal.

[-] RBWells@lemmy.world 10 points 12 hours ago

It's normal & I don't care, only care about behavior - I expect straight guys are looking at women, aware of attractive women, notice nice figures, men are very visual in general, nothing bad about it. And I expect gay guys are constantly checking out men as well.

Bad is remarking on it all the time, touching, staring really hard when the lady looks uncomfortable about the staring, looking at boobs when someone is talking to you - you already know all this! Just noticing, you aren't going to be able to turn that off and ought not if you could.

Me, I notice looks but not often turned on by anyone's look. And I notice guys looking and do not care, don't think it means anything.

[-] RBWells@lemmy.world 1 points 12 hours ago

I do 350g whole wheat and 650g strong white flour, 20g salt, 200g starter (100% hydration) and between 650 and 700ml water, this round right smack in the middle with 675.

So about 1/3 whole grain for the rustic loaves, which to me makes them seem like white bread - they can go up to 50%, I do that sometimes with rye because I like that denser, and the flavor is better with more, I do not want rye to feel like white bread.

That's the long version, lol. Short version - 1/3 whole grain, 2/3 refined white.

[-] RBWells@lemmy.world 1 points 14 hours ago

Here's the results of that dough

[-] RBWells@lemmy.world 1 points 16 hours ago

I have only once seen a fox, but we do have city coyotes. And amazing birds, whomping big herons and storks, and flocks of ibis, and in my neighborhood peacocks, downtown there is a flock of green parrots. I feel bad for them, sure they'd all rather have the space without the city but they have adapted. And we do have a lot of green space, mitigation is mandated when you pave over land otherwise flooding would be so much worse in the rainy season.

Ostriches can live in Poland? It seems so cold there.

[-] RBWells@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Sure. Jehovah's witnesses, Baptists, and Miss Mary, mom of a friend of one of my kids, nice lady but the only fundamentalist Catholic I've ever met, so many kids that each one got a birthday party every 5 years (but a BIG party), we went to one and there was a pony, little tables set up in their yard for the kids, she wrote a song as a present for her kid and sang it, that was nice, and when the kids were getting their pictures taken, said "say Jesus!" to get them to smile.

Oh and once when I was a kid my friend took me to their church and there was speaking in tongues, they did not want me to leave without being overcome and speaking in tongues that was kind of terrifying.

There also used to be a church near us called "The Church of Christ Upon the Rock of the Apostolic Faith Holy Temple #2" . Which always made me wonder where the first one was.

[-] RBWells@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago

Part of the exhibit. They fed the gators chicken, the guy would stand on a platform and dangle the chicken on a pole, and get the gators to jump for it from the water. Like cats, it was kind of amazing. I always thought they were full of chicken. But maybe only one or two of them knew to jump for the chicken, who knows?

There's an alligator in the pond at my office park, and one day riding in on my bike I saw him grabbing breakfast, very exciting. But everyone knows not to feed them, and to to be careful of them out in the wild! I did not know to be careful of the ones that were behind a very low fence in an exhibit!

Here is the one I see on my way to work sometimes.

[-] RBWells@lemmy.world 22 points 1 day ago

We live near a park with alligators in an exhibit, they are well fed and lounge on the banks of a little pond, with some turtles, sunning themselves - so I always let my kids lean over the railing, not touch them or anything but I didn't worry about it since they were fed & lazy.

Until one day, we saw one of them lunge at a turtle and grab it, moving so fast! Crunch crunch gulp. Which disabused me of two wrong ideas. One, that these alligators did not care to have a snack, and two, that nothing but eagles could eat turtles. Someone had told me that no animal could bite through a turtle shell, but that eagles would drop them from a great height to crack them open, and since I'd never seen another animal eat a turtle, I bought it.

So after that, no more leaning over.

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I often use the big mixer with the dough hook because I don't have time, but the no kneading just mix, rest for 15-45 minutes then stretch & fold every half hour is so pleasant. Feeling the dough develop, getting lighter and stronger each time, not really counting the rounds because it tells me when it's ready to be left alone to rise. It's a very enjoyable process, and more reliable for me than a more standardized method.

[-] RBWells@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago

Somewhat tangential but you should read the story of how WaWa did an end run around a corporate takeover.

T-Mobile had the worst customer service of any company I have dealt with, then had a turnaround to the best customer service of any company, but now, sadly, not so great. Though not nearly as bad as it was to start.

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Piña Colada (lemmy.world)

No pictures but made piña coladas for my family today.

1 can unsweetened coconut cream

10 oz rum

10 oz fresh pineapple juice

Juice of 2 juicy limes

4 oz simple syrup because all the pineapple was tart

Frozen pineapple chunks, probably 2 cups in volume but not packed.

Scoop of ice, also probably 2 cups in volume but not packed.

First cooled the liquids, mixed, in the freezer. Then everything into the blender. Really good, boozy pineapple smoothie. And it's raining!

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2 oz fresh pineapple juice

2 oz overproof bourbon (or one with strong flavor)

1 oz amaretto (I used Adriatico)

1/2 oz pineapple amaro

1 oz lemon

Squeeze of agave syrup - if your amaretto is traditional & sweet, omit this, and add a tiny pinch of fine salt.

Shake everything with ice, pour over fresh ice.

It's really good, but I think would be better with a drizzle of syrup from amaretto cherries and a garnish of the same, and probably better with a sweeter amaro. I don't have either right now. But honestly pineapple and whiskey is hard to mess up. It's good.

Yes I moved the glass off the magazine right after the picture.

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The Belmont (ish) (thelemmy.club)

2 oz Glenglassaugh

0.5 oz Galliano

0.5 oz Giffard Abricot

1 oz lemon

1 inch piece ginger

Small spoonful brown sugar

Shake everything with ice, strain into a glass over new ice. Very nice! Galliano is underrated.

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You can't read it on the board but this was the special at the hotel bar today, they have a Bourbon bar, all sorts of good whiskey on the shelf. Always a sucker for a fruity bourbon sour!

Don't know exactly what is in it but my guess is bourbon, lemon, cherry heering and soda water. Can taste the whiskey, the cherry is not dominant, nor the lemon. More refreshing than I'd expect from something 'bourbon cherry'

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Three years old and I've not had to moderate even thrice! Will have a cocktail later to celebrate but wanted to say thanks for making this place great!

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submitted 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) by RBWells@lemmy.world to c/cocktails@lemmy.world

Featuring Juno, our velvet hippo.

This made 2.

4 oz gin (Farmer's)

6 oz grapefruit juice

1 oz Campari

1 oz lime

8 oz tonic (fever tree light tonic, la mejor)

Stirred with ice, strained over fresh ice with one lime wedge squeezed in and put in. A little watery, the grapefruit maybe not quite perfect but it's good.

Because the fever tree comes in weird sized bottles, there was left over so I made a gin & tonic for my daughter's girlfriend. She did not like it but a splash of St. Germain fixed it for her.

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Strap on your adblocker, this is a very adsy website but this story was good. I do a lot of waste diversion drinks but no trash can in a bar is absolutely incredible.

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I'm having a Friend Zone, a non alcoholic cocktail, as I still have strawberry kvass. One of the most delicious cocktails around. Batched it for a party once and nobody could even pick it out as the booze-less one.

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

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Rhubarb martini (thelemmy.club)

2 oz vodka

1/2 oz lemon

1/2 oz St Germain

1/2 oz rhubarb amaro

Not sure what else to call it. If a drink can be said to be vodka-forward, this is. It's balanced, a little sweet, barely tart, a little bitter, and I don't think I'd want anything adjusted but it is sort of like a really good flavored vodka. I am enjoying it. And I do love a pink drink. May work on this as a start to a Thanksgiving punch.

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Spumoni Highball (thelemmy.club)

1 oz Campari

1oz orange liqueur

2 oz gin

2oz fresh grapefruit juice

6oz Fever Tree light tonic water

Shook first 4 ingredients with ice, stirred in the tonic water. Tried it and OMG way too sweet for me, bitterness perfect but so overwhelming sweet. Added:

Juice of an entire lemon

And it's delicious now. Like a bitter sparkling grapefruit lemonade. This recipe made 2 servings but I am having both. One for an aperitif and one for dessert.

Regular spumoni recipe has the Campari, gin, grapefruit, tonic and SUGAR. I cannot imagine.

Featuring my neighbor's ever so American truck, and my in between front garden, looking bare but I planted sunflowers & cosmos & giant marigold, they are wee sprouts now. Hopefully won't all get eaten by birds.

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Today's Bread (thelemmy.club)
submitted 2 months ago by RBWells@lemmy.world to c/sourdough@lemmy.world

The crumb

30% whole wheat, the rest strong white flour. 70% hydration, no mixer just stretch & fold 5 times 30 minutes apart, rest until puffy, split into loaves and rest overnight in lined baskets, covered with plastic bags, in the fridge.

Bake next day in hot cast iron (you can see it in the picture) this time 450F for 20 minutes closed then 30 minutes open.

This (or slight variations) is the bread my kids call THE Sourdough.

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