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.
To do? Charcoal, or pencil drawing. Yes I try not great but it feels good to do. Nudes mostly. Followed by nature photography, if I can catch something cool. Here is one from my work's office park.
To see? Animated stories and comics are my favorite.
Go dancing, maybe? Or just start walking places as your transportation method, that kept my mom slim her whole life. I am not a super active person, love to sit & read too, but a lifetime of experience has taught me that I will not sleep well or eat enough if I do not exercise or do plenty physical activity.
It's running in particular I dislike, but running in particular really helps anxiety.
Yeah jogging never felt good while I was doing it, no runner's high at all, always a slog. But did feel much better on a day I ran, than on a day I did not. I ran back then because the only free time I had was 5-6 in the morning, and no money, running has almost no barrier to entry. Put on shoes and go.
Now I just ride electric bike (I pedal it) to work and do yoga, lift and walk, work in the garden -build activity into normal life by not driving and growing food, nothing active that I don't like to do, still feel good in my body & mind. Aerobic exercise does more, but anything helps.
Cut generously and use the cut off ends to make kvass (tepache de fresa). Yum yum.
ETA: or tepache de gnome I suppose.
It's not my thing, I do have a small basket of stocks I call gambling (they break even) and husband spends $2 a week on a lottery ticket.
Other than those I abstain, it's not really fun to me.
It takes 6 weeks to build a habit - do it for 6 weeks then decide. At that point, usually you will feel better on days you exercise than days you don't. So yes, habituated but it doesn't take years.
The thing with the moving and sweating always works for me. Diet doesn't make so much of a difference as far as I can tell but miss exercise for a few days & I am a mess. Laying down under the bright fucker up there (and man, it is a BRIGHT fucker down here) does help if I am sick & can't exercise. Not as good though
Yeah I just shook it but could taste it. The original recipe calls for peach liqueur, not apricot, & ginger syrup. I didn't have either. Nice fresh ginger, peeled, and it did come through in flavor.
If it's on purpose to deceive, I guess.
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.
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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.
I had a really beautiful ruby grapefruit, so wanted to use it. This is
A spoonful of honey-ginger-arbol syrup
2 oz bourbon
1 oz Giffard Abricot
1 oz grapefruit juice
Scant oz lemon
Shake with ice, pour over new ice.
Oddly a little watery tasting/feeling (like, it could use more mouth feel, or a bit of fizz) but flavor is mmmm.
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.