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This gatekeeping is odd. Tattoos are bad if decorative but good if meaningful to your standards?
One day you will be the wrinkly old person at the beach. At that point I don't think it matters at all, does it? I can't imagine they are trying to look good to you. Lots of things only look good when you are young, doesn't mean you ought not do as you like.
I had a friend who said all she wanted was one day to be that wrinkled old lady smoking a cigarette at the beach, because those people looked so happy and did not give a fuck.
The pilot on Farscape, and the Martians on Sesame Street.
This was the popular opinion when I was younger, I love tattoos but they used to be uncommon and sort of countercultural.
I never imagined tattoos would gain mainstream popularity like they have. I think it's improved the art but at the same time made them less, I dunno, cool?
Or more cognac, lol. Split base, fruity, looks good!
I have pretty much given up. The insect apocalypse has me worried. The watermelon seems able to out-grow whatever it is that always eats its leaves. Squash, never. Tomatoes I hand pick the bugs off with chopsticks but can't keep up with them. Citrus mostly does ok. Okra grows without anything bothering it, also broccoli, cauliflower, collards, mustard, fennel, sweet potatoes, hong tsoi, catmint, most of the trees.
Passion fruit, I had a vine but some caterpillar that can only eat passion flower vine ate it to death and didn't even stick around to make butterflies. So I gave up on that even though it does like the heat.
And I don't know how many years I would have to not grow squash to get the squash bugs under control.
Birds, I grow elderberries for them. Crows I give cat food in the front yard hoping they ignore the backyard, so far so good.
Environmental pollution. All the different sorts of environmental pollution.
Very lightly buzzed feels good. Can think normally, would not drive but it is a pleasant feeling.
Drunk to me feels annoying, and I feel stupid. That is also how pot feels to me. I don't feel out of control, no. Just dumbed-down.
So my limit is 2 drinks, I don't over-drink because I have learned that one more does not make it better.
I experienced the opposite feeling, spent my high school summers in London and always felt like laughing when people would warn us off rough neighborhoods that were safer than the safe neighborhoods where I was from.
It has gotten much less violent here since then.
1980s to 2000
Believe it or not this still left us rougher than the US in general or even Florida in general. But look, since 2000
https://punchdrink.com/recipes/avocado-pit-orgeat/
Is the way I did it. It comes out orange but tastes good, and uses something you would otherwise throw out.
If you live in a state that allows single men to foster and adopt, that is one possibility.
And yes I'm sure paid surrogates can work with single guys. There are agencies for those.
Good luck to you.
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Not baked, but
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Sourdough donuts
Used the recipe on Perfect Loaf, way too long to detail here but the ingredients are, for 18 of them (he always has these weird odd measurements like 101, I do often round them with no ill effect but will write them as the recipe states):
203 g very active starter 100% hydration
253 g all purpose white flour
253 g strong white bread flour
187g eggs - use extra yolk to adjust to this weight
101 g butter
101 g white sugar
91 g water
10 g salt
It takes a couple days to finish these (I start Friday midnight to get Sunday morning donuts) but most of that time is waiting not working).
Couple of notes- he says the final rise takes 12 hours but that must be in a cold climate, here in the subtropics it took about 7 to be perfect. And when he says careful attention to shaping he means it, but it's easy if you keep the dough chilled, with the butter in the dough it's not too sticky. Don't be afraid to really stretch it when forming the little dough balls, you want a tight surface all over. If you can shape buns, and your starter is robust, this is about a foolproof recipe.
https://www.theperfectloaf.com/naturally-leavened-bomboloni-doughnuts/
I can't see the picture in the header, hopefully you can. Will put below too.
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Leña
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1 oz tequila claro (Tequila Ocho, la mejor)
1/2 oz mezcal
1/2 oz Luxardo Bitter Bianco (see note)
1/4 oz Ancho Reyes rojo
1 oz fresh pineapple juice (see note)
3/4 oz fresh lime juice
1/3 oz agave nectar (again, see note)
Shake all with ice, pour into chilled rocks glass over fresh ice. It is delicious.
Notes: I don't have that luxardo, used half Campari half bitter rhubarb liqueur; doubled the pineapple juice because I literally just made it and it's amazing. This doesn't need 1/3 oz of agave, less is better. Finally - it was quite difficult to make one of these with those teeny measurements. I would recommend making two at a time.
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Minor Demon
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1.5 oz rye (Emerald Giant overproof)
0.5oz each of mezcal, Aperol, and Ancho Reyes (rojo)
1 oz lemon juice
Squirt of agave
Shake all with ice, and I would say serve up in a coupe but it's summer, still 90f at 19:00. So I'm having it on ice, and just enjoying the hot weather.
Variation on a Devil's Soul. It would benefit from a float of the Heirloom Pineapple Amaro (and being served up), but had enough oddball ingredients I didn't want to add another. But if you have it, go for it.
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Rhinestone Cowboy
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2 oz bourbon
3/4 oz lemon
3/4 oz peach liqueur (I used apricot)
2 oz ginger beer
Sprig of mint for muddling and one more for garnish. I used mojito mint, it barely survived our double tap freeze, so it was fresh from the garden.
Mix the first 3 ingredients then use a little of that mix to muddle the mint, then put in the rest & shake with ice, top with ginger beer.
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A Mastiha Cocktail
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Had to pull out the kitchen scale because all my measuring cups are in the dishwasher. I assume grams are ml but not sure so giving weights here.
50g vodka
25g Mastiha
15g Chartreuse
20g lemon juice
Was meh. I shook some of it with the peel of the lemon, that helped some. Not willing to toss it with the Chartreuse so I spritzed it by adding a bottle of yuzu lime tonic, it's good now but not what I was after.
I was looking for something to do with the mastiha, and had half a lemon but vodka was not the right base for this, I was not feeling gin today, wishing I had grappa or pisco, and I think lime also would have been better than lemon.
But mastiha & Chartreuse - yes. A definite affinity.
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Adjusted Paper Plane on ice
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Posting because it's so pretty!
2oz bourbon (Evan Williams Bottled-in-Bond)
1 oz lemon juice
1 oz Aperol
1 oz Amaro Nonino
Spoonful of Campari
Shaken with ice and poured over new ice in a frozen glass, then parked in the freezer for 5 minutes because summer is here and it's 32C, 90F outside so everything has to be cooled. But beefed up with the extra whiskey and the Campari it's fine to be diluted a little, better than warm.
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Maximilian Variation
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Kitten for scale.
1 oz tequila claro
1 oz good mezcal
1/2 oz St Germain
1/2 oz Amaro Nonino
1 oz lemon (was too much so a squirt of agave, would change that to 1/2 oz)
Shake all with ice, and if it wasn't so hot, serve up in a coupe.
The kitten was found in our neighbor's car. Less than one pound, fearless little guy. Currently passed out on my lap. We call him Legolas.
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As someone else said: Pierogi!
Gnocchi is pasta made with potatoes.
Not pasta but I've put potatoes and rosemary and swiss cheese on a pizza and it was amazing.
Little cubes of sweet potato in cold pasta salad is good too.
I think you are more right, but I would not, like, mix spaghetti into mashed potatoes.