Stevia is so gross. It ruins anything it touches. Aspartame is ok. Splenda is a migraine trigger.
For coffee, a demitasse spoon of sugar - moderation is the way, or I like a lot of milk no sugar (but that probably ends up with the same amount of sugar from lactose)
For tea, mostly unsweet is fine.
For soda, moderation again but I like the diet version better than the sugared ones. Diet coke is fine and doesn't give me a headache. Once in a while though, not every day. Just when I want something that is nothing.
I love that flavor, though. Licorice candy, aniseed cookies. Sambucca (not alone, too intense. But good in a cocktail). Fennel. Whatever that flavor is called I like it. Mastiha can be good too, I have one by Verino that is lovely.
Lemmy is pretty anti-kids, so to give you some perspective from a person who had plenty of them and enjoyed parenting -
I think it's worth thinking about what you are working for, what kind of life you want now. Not just hustling hard now to stop working at some future point when you are older. My dad died when he was only about 50, there are no guarantees.
And agree that wanting/not wanting kids is generally one of those things you can't survive disagreement on. Like it's just so big someone is going to be unhappy. I can't say kids were bad for my financial situation overall. When they were small I went to college and ended up ahead of where I would have been. But what a nightmare it would have been for all of us if I didn't want the kids!
I still had hobbies and interests, lol, not sure how your parents were but I think it's better to set an example than to spend all your time actively directing. You can't lose yourself and make your whole life your kids because they do grow up.
I love unsweet iced green tea, more than hot green tea. Yum.
I do disagree and you have my upvote. Just had a nice bowl of chili, pretty hot in both senses of the word, toast and hot coffee for breakfast.
A cool refreshing salad, sure. Sandwich is good cold (except grilled cheese). Cold french fries suck, cold scrambled eggs are horrible.
Thank you for your unsettling opinion.
I hesitate to even recommend it because I don't want it widely known but better than any champagne I've had is:
Raventos Blanc Blanc de Blancs Xarel-lo
It's what champagne should be IMO. The gentle fizz, the flavor is perfect, it's gentle and delicious.
I wish I could like beer but I don't either. I love fermenting things, love making sourdough and tepaches, ginger beer too, and would like to try brewing beer but cannot like the taste, and beer breath is also so bad smelling.
I wouldn't like it in that situation, no. If you aren't together and are doing other people but not each other what exactly is your relationship?
The only way I think it really works is if you are so hot together it pulls other people in, and if you are both wired to be turned on by hearing about the sex with other people, and have extremely good communication, like to the point it would annoy most people. It can't be to fill a hole (ha ha) in the relationship you have. It can be good if you are both enthusiastic about it for sure. I don't personally know anyone who has successfully used it one sided to manage a libido difference, though the top comment here is a guy saying he does that.
Lots of foods I like are polarizing.
Having/raising kids. Best thing I ever did in my life. The most satisfying work and they are fantastic grown people. Absolutely loved having a large family. But never have I ever recommended to anyone else that they ought to have them.
And for sure living in Florida. I love the hot weather and the rain in summer, the enormous variety of birds we have, the beautiful land that doesn't scream it's beauty like mountains do, it whispers, the closer you look the more beauty you find. And since I'm old enough to remember before it was so politically awful, know that really about half of us are not actually conservative and it's still nice in the cities. But also know that not everyone is calibrated to enjoy hot weather.
Bwahaha I feel exactly opposite this. Dry, elegant white is usually good, and not sweet red wine can be so good (not Grenache or Syrah but Cabernet, Nebbiolo, Merlot)
Sweet wine makes me want to gag!
Tequila Ocho Blanco, the clear one. Is amazing.
I do like smokey flavors in drinks but the tequilas blancas are not smokey, they have a vaguely vegetal flavor. Also for any tequila : Try with some agave & lime & water or soda water, make a tequila-ade and see if you like it better as an ingredient. I don't love it straight, too strong but love love love it in a cocktail.
This is a personal question, different people have different taste. And it changes over time too. I can't like anything that is tooth-shattering sweet but can appreciate bitter flavor now.
My answer to this is always a Negroni. I cannot apprehend it, and I like cocktails. The Negroni is a cup of bitter sugar syrup and I cannot taste whatever it is that people like in it. It's like someone drank Campari and said "not sweet enough" what the heck?
Tequila, scotch, bourbon, all those I drink "lengthened" with some soda water to appreciate them and can taste the delicious flavors once they are diluted. Gin is good with tonic & lime. But the very strong, oversweet stirred drinks I don't enjoy and Negroni is the most beloved of them.
It's not a looker, but tastes great.
2 oz tequila (any)
1 oz lime juice
1 oz creme de cassis
2-3 oz ginger beer (I used 1 oz ginger syrup, 3 oz fizzy water, 2 squirts of fire tincture)
Result of googling "what else can I make with tequila and lime"
Husband is having a Stella, that's the bottle in the background.
He's up to 7.5 lb from under 1 lb when we found him. (From 300 grams of baby to 3.5kg of kitten in only a few months, crazy.)
Here is a "before", the day my kids texted to say they found the source of the meowing I had heard before work. Just a wee handful. Always bold as anything though, he was never afraid of us or our 75lb mutt of a dog.
1 oz barrel strength bourbon
1 oz barrel strength reposado tequila
1 scant oz Aperol with a splash of Campari to make an ounce.
1 oz Amaro Nonino
1 oz grapefruit juice
1 oz lemon juice
Shake together with ice. If you are somewhere it's not still summer, serve up in a chilled coupe. Tart enough for a sugared rim. But it's still hot here, so everything is iced. This is sort of 1.5 servings, I just find it fussy to measure .75 of an ounce. Equal parts is the key.
https://makemeacocktail.com/en/cocktail/9953/banderilla
Equal parts tequila, mezcal, Apricot liqueur and lime, half part Aperol works best IMO, any more Aperol and it gets too sweet.
This is a pantry recipe for me as I keep Giffard Abricot in stock always. You want a good apricot in this, I think passion fruit or peach would be equally delicious but make sure it's made from real fruit. Also can sub Campari for the Aperol if you want a little more bitter.
This was a test-and-adjust drink. I was looking for something with Fernet & Mezcal and everything I saw were stirred very boozy things, I was not in the mood for. I saw one though with cachaca and lime so tried a margarita approach.
Started with these, shaken:
1.5 oz tequila
.75 oz each Fernet and Mezcal
Juice of one lime.
Nope. Too flat, too sour. Added about 1/2 oz Pineapple Amaro, and a squirt of Agave, shook again and THIS is a keeper. I guess Fernet does like sweeter drinks more. This one is balanced and I can taste all the ingredients but they did cocktail into a new taste. I usually don't taste the pineapple in the pineapple Amaro but it's shining in this drink - I may try another Fernet-Mezcal-Pineapple Amaro variation (when I am in the mood for stirred and boozy) as I think those together are the magic here.
So, I saw this recipe that inspired me.
https://punchdrink.com/recipes/green-mango-martini/
But don't have mango eau de vie and not about to make it, and I think as written it would be too sweet for my palate. And of course everything needs ice here in the summer. I did make the green mango tequila.
So far I can vouch for tequila, green mango and sauternes - it's a surprisingly good combination.
This is:
2.5 oz green mango infused tequila
1 oz Sauternes wine
.75 oz lemon
.25 oz Giffard Apricot (because I have no mango liqueur right now and did you hear Chinola is making a Guava liqueur? I am excited for that.)
Squirt of honey.
Shaken with ice.
My thoughts - the green mango tequila is tart and I think the lemon sort of muddies the flavor. I would try this again with more Sauternes and a splash of mango liqueur, leave out the honey and if it was too sweet adjust with citric or malic acid not lemon.
I would also like to try the green mango tequila with ginger beer but not today, this is a one and done.
And I was thinking to convert the recipe into a punch or sangria, a pitcher cocktail using a whole bottle of Sauternes, but I think that it might need to go in a different direction. Again, I do love the combination of the green mango with the Sauternes, and tequila - the main flavor combo is good. I've tried amchur and tequila - the green mango infused tequila worked so much better to get that flavor.
1 oz tequila blanco
1/2 oz each mezcal, Campari, passion fruit syrup, ginger syrup and lime.
Squirt of fire tincture
Shake these together and add 1-2 oz IPA beer.
I had to substitute apricot liqueur for the passion fruit and it's really good so I suspect anything fruity would be fine. Beer I used is Jai Alai and only 1 oz, I don't like it but as an ingredient in here can't taste it, must add something though. This is bitter in a great way, somehow not too sweet, I went a little heavy on the lime but close to the 1/2 oz. If you do like beer I think you could safely increase it past the 2 oz and still have something really nice.
The rainy season is finally here too. So happy to be out here watching the rain.
