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Piña Colada
(lemmy.world)
Yes, even better looking now and oh so photogenic.
Two months now waiting for them to "pre-approve" a cheap calcium score test the doctor wants me to get (high cholesterol since forever, no symptoms no family history of stroke or heart attack so no way to know whether to bother treating it without looking). The lab has rescheduled it thrice now.
Which makes zero sense because finding out with what the doctors call a primary cardiac event would be exponentially more expensive for them.
Stainless steel moka pot. KitchenAid grinder. Naviera cuban roast coffee beans.
Grind medium, fill bottom of the pot with 160F water, put the filter basket on and fill it with the ground beans. Screw on the top part and precipitate a pot of strong coffee. Heat some milk in a mug and pour coffee over it. Enjoy.
If work day, fill thermos with the black coffee and a mason jar with whole milk and take those to work to make 2 big lattes. At home someone usually grabs what is left after I make one.
Just hang your clock up with 1 at the top then? Why not start the day at 1? What is magic about 12?
The reason it happens less is DST though.
Nah it's just numbers. A day length is real, but the numbers we lay on it, hours and minutes, are just ways to split it up. There's no magic to calling the direct overhead sun 12, and that doesn't happen at the edges of time zones under either scheme anyway.
You could get it with a sundial, just have longer day "hours" in summer and longer night "hours" in winter.
That's gonna happen anyway. There is no way to guarantee a reasonable sunrise time all year. I hate changing the clocks and like getting up after sunrise, but nothing is more dispiriting than going home from work in the dark, and there would be less of that with permanent DST.
I saw the coffee being delivered to the Cuban cafe where I get cafe con leche, looked it up and they had a retail website, so I get it from there. Could probably do better on price but it's exactly what I like. And I agree grinding as you need it is so much better.
Wait, it's expensive here but $42 for a 2lb bag, whole beans roasted, of the good local one. Steadily rose from $35 over the last couple of years. But not near $76.
If you like ginger beer, and pineapple, home fermented ginger beer and tepache de piña are both really easy to make - they do have sugar but less than coke, and have probiotics, and about as much alcohol as kombucha.
I do like diet Coke but mostly try to be very moderate and when I want something sweet & fizzy, these homemade sodas are so good.
Huh. Stevia is one I cannot stand. And Monk fruit. Wish I couldn't taste those, they wreck anything they touch.
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Hipster Hawaiian Godfather
(thelemmy.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.
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The Belmont (ish)
(thelemmy.club)
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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Black Cherry Bourbon Sour
(thelemmy.club)
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'
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Grapefruit gin & tonic aperitif
(thelemmy.club)
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.
30
Rhubarb martini
(thelemmy.club)
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.
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Spumoni Highball
(thelemmy.club)
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.
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Today's Bread
(thelemmy.club)
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.
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Tommy's Margarita
(thelemmy.club)
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.
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I watch plenty of animated stuff but not specifically kids stuff. Movies I would, shows not so much.
Books, though? Some of the best written and most interesting books I've read as an adult were labeled as YA books.
Never mind - looking through the comments at what is called kid cartoons, yes I do watch them.