The Sinsear looks delicious!

Got near a hundred mini watermelon this year, the very late ones were no good but for a couple months they were glorious. Mini love variety, it was a brutally hot summer and they flourished, I let them take over the whole garden.

Two plants survived being overrun by watermelon, the asparagus and the hong tsoi. I'm sort of resting it until "spring" which is planted around Feb here.

Very basic scoring this time. One line one x. I was happy to find some "golden whole wheat flour" yesterday.

350g Golden whole wheat flour

650g strong white bread flour

20g sel gris

675g tap water

200g starter made with all purpose white flour and tap water, hydration 100%.

Just mix, rest, stretch and fold 4x at 30 minute intervals. Bulk rise took awhile, maybe 4 hours this time (it varies, one hour to 8 - is a condition not a time). Split and bench rest then shaped, into cloth lined baskets wrapped in plastic bags, overnight in the refrigerator. Baked cold bread in very hot closed pans 20 minutes then open lids and 20 minutes more. 450F.

(Sorry for the mixed measurements - I had a bunch of egg white so had to weigh out 1 egg worth)

35 grams egg white

1 Tbsp guava jelly or guava paste

1 oz good mezcal

1/2 oz over proof reposado tequila

1/2 oz Aperol

3/4 oz lemon juice

ETA I failed to list one step. First: whisk or muddle the jelly and booze to incorporate it.

Shake without ice, then with ice. Just as good as it sounds and so beautiful.

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.

Campari and Campari and Campari! Strap on your ad blocker, I enjoyed reading this. Quite a few simple recipes too.

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.

Ok so my garden is basically a watermelon patch right now, so I was interested in this as it uses one whole mini watermelon, but this says the juice lasts one day, the drink once clarified lasts months.

I guess I could freeze the rest, or simply make less, or since the final version keeps well, make more of that - but why does the recipe say to make so much more of the watermelon juice than one would use, if it doesn't keep?

Has anyone on here done milk clarifying, is it very fussy?

My coworker went to renew her driver's license.

They sent her back, said she needed a birth certificate because she didn't have the star on it yet. She's old and from some small town up north so this took 6 months plus another to get another DMV appointment.

She went back yesterday and they said no, you also need the marriage certificate from your first marriage, the divorce documentation, the marriage certificate from your second marriage and the divorce documentation from that too.

So now her license is expired, and she can't renew it until some tiny vital statistics department far from here responds to her with paper copies of all those items.

I am wildly infuriated.

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.