I know dark is more traditional but used the Stade's white rum, it has a nice flavor and I have a whole liter left over from a wedding reception one of our kids had at our house.
Ouch. That is so fucked up. I am older and have been structurally tight (skin too tight at opening) sex hurts when it goes on too long. The "husband stitch" is abusive. And doctors do it because they do episiotomy, which is also awful because that cut doesn't heal as well as a repaired natural tear and you might not tear at all.
Complimentary tightening surgery my ass. That doesn't help mothers at all.
Rehab with kegels does help and obviously if you tear, a repair. The midwife recommended working up to fisting before having a baby and man I wish I had taken that advice.
But being tight right at the opening of the vagina just hurts, there is no advantage to it.
I think the point of communication is to communicate. People who "have no filter" aren't communicating because they don't care how their words are received. Knowing your audience is half the battle, right? I am harshly straightforward with other people who are, because if they can dish it they better be prepared to take it. But mostly I try to speak in a way that can be received by the person I'm talking to.
I'm ok with the no filter people unless it's someone using it as an excuse to be mean, that does happen. "I'm just brutally honest!" No. You are not.
She was 9 months pregnant and they couldn't wait and schedule her court date after the birth?
Clearing the room is not a good defense. Have you ever had a baby? I have, and handcuffed it would be terrifying. Being in court IN ACTIVE LABOR should not be allowed at all, how can you give real answers or pay any attention to what is going on?
Sure, but being physically embodied is not some unclean state, and those ideas have some pretty dark roots. Purity as a concept is such bullshit. There were also the colonics people, who got these crazy enemas and tried to get their insides clean. I'm sure they are dead now, that's just not how bodies work. We need all that gross stuff inside us to be healthy!
Wait, why such a sharp and interesting machine on the Dull Men's Club?
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.
A huddle they were doing soon after a shift change. They were chanting, and I found it so creepy and unsettling. The last thing we need is a Walmart cult.
I am a mom, but used to sometimes carry my oldest by her feet, in one hand, squirming like a fish, when she had a fit somewhere out in the world when she was toddler age. The change of perspective seemed to help. That kid also ended up being an acrobat.
My brother always held babies so awkwardly, even his own, it was funny.
You don't need belief to measure prices, or wages.
I used to work in a health food store and remember I could always tell who the raw foods guys were (it was always guys) because they had crazy eyes. They were crazy.
I'm sure most of us could stand to eat more raw foods, but dude. That fruitarian thing makes zero sense. It's people who think bodies are dirty, they want to transcend this filthy mortal plane and be clean and pure. That whole mindset is so twisted.
What the fuck?
No. Though to be fair, I don't live in the cold part of the US.
So sorry to hear that shitty education is not unique to us.
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.
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'
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.
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.
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.
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.
Basically a tequila daiquiri. I used my beloved Tequila Ocho.
2 parts tequila, one part lime, squirt of agave (to taste. Less in mine, more in the one I made for my daughter). So simple, so good.
No. IF they ask, and you know they are really asking, sure. Or if usually they are an awesome cook, and you are also an awesome cook, and this meal is bad, they already know, so sure, especially if you have actual advice to give. But if someone gives you a meal they are enjoying and you don't like it, I don't think a critique is appropriate, and particularly if the critique is just "man, you suck at cooking." Generally speaking, if someone makes you a meal there is only one correct response and it's "thank you." No don't praise the food if you think it sucks but just say thanks.