My favorite was Wizard's welding and hair salon, sadly closed now.
The Catholic gift shop near me that's open like 8 hours a week. Maybe it's money laundering.
Envios a Cuba, some shops here just send items to Cuba for you. Only to Cuba, only from here
What does she like to eat, and why is she demanding you cook only on one day as some bizarre test?
If you make a kale salad and she doesn't like kale, it won't work. It could be amazing and she might still say it sucks.
Personally I'd be inclined to not play that game at all. If you like your own cooking you are fine. But if you are going to play, consider your audience.
May I suggest Neil Morris Woodland Strawberries? It's a more unisex, whole strawberry plant scent. Not so fruity but still strawberry.
Since you are getting a lot of hate in here, let me say you smell great. I do enjoy when I'm coming through the entry door at work and whoever went through it before me smelled good. I think the smell intolerant have to win in the office - it's an enclosed environment and some people have actual allergies. But personally I do love it when I, say, walk into the bathroom and smell perfume not shit, it's a surprise and a welcome one. And perfumery is olfactory art.
Basenotes is a nice site if you are into perfume. It's the only social media forum I use besides Lemmy.
LSD is mind bending and a joy IMO, though I don't do drugs anymore that's the one I would do again without worry.
Dreams have been trippier for me than any drug though. I have had prophetic dreams, mind altering dreams, lucid dreams - seem to be able to achieve states of mind while I'm asleep that I can't get while awake.
If it doesn't work as bread, dense doorstop bread makes great bread crumbs.
And I think the first go after a long rest never rises well, the starter will be more robust next time and your hands will remember how to shape it
Beautiful color.
What a good tip! I soak cut potatoes in a warm brine before making oven fries but would never have thought to do that with frozen, I would have thought they'd dissolve or something.
That's amazing. And I applaud you for trying new things.
Around then, yeah. We had an odd confluence of events, landlord selling house out from under us right when I got some bonus $ that would make it possible to do beginning renovations and found a house that was solid but very oddly arranged so people didn't buy it and I could bargain, and a zero down government loan. I was utterly convinced we were buying at some peak, but fuck me, prices just kept getting higher until they now make no sense. I'm sure it's a bubble, housing has to have a relationship to wages in the area.
The city has some programs to help people buy a house, forgivable down payment grants - if you live in the house 20 years you don't pay it back - and others to help low income homeowners with repairs, but of course the wait-list is insane. They are trying though.
What a gorgeous spider, and thank you for the update, I was going to comment that she needs to clean her web!
What the actual fuck? I would charge them with trafficking, that is certainly not anything that could be described as parenting.
The house I used to live in is over 100 years old and still standing, it's not like the hurricanes hit directly very often. Insurance charges like they do, though. And it's not like everyone can just easily pick up and move, where exactly?
Humans live on the coast for a reason. All over the world, population is clustered on coastline all over the world.
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.
Biker kitty!
Biker kitty!