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[–] RBWells@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

I guess I'd try some, regardless of the legal status of other meats. To see if I liked any. But the insect population has collapsed worse than other animals, I'm not sure how this is an environmental improvement.

Culinary-wise I think I'd do better being vegan probably, though I'd certainly miss having meat and miss cheese and eggs even more.

Maybe I'd get chickens again and let them eat the bugs so I could have the eggs.

That's assuming I didn't end up really enjoying cricket pancakes or popped flies or deep fried beetles or stir fried rice with ants or whatever.

[–] RBWells@lemmy.world 12 points 16 hours ago

I would personally be squicked out by that age gap because she's young enough to be your kid. But I'm not you or her, it's not my business, right? If your daughter thinks she'll be good for you, the reverse matchmaking is funny, why not at least meet and see how you feel?

[–] RBWells@lemmy.world 3 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

Maybe the iron skillets. I don't think a day passes that I don't use those. Or my house, it's from the 1940s. Some of the furniture is older than that too, though I don't think there is any one piece I actively use each day.

Truly oldest? Double entry accounting, I use nearly every day and that's from around 1300.

[–] RBWells@lemmy.world 4 points 16 hours ago

Meh. I'd try it, if the peanut butter is not sweetened. Just love onion in a sandwich so much, and don't like the peanut butter and jelly at all.

 

This is shockingly good.

2 oz bourbon

1 oz lemon

1/2 oz St. Germain (i think fresh pineapple juice would be a good substitute)

4 blackberries

5 leaves basil

1/2 tsp aged balsamic vinegar

Demitasse spoonful brown sugar (probably half teaspoon)

Muddled the sugar, basil, blackberries and balsamic, added the rest and shook with ice, strained through a fine mesh strainer over one big ice cube.

I wasn't sure at first sip, just thought "I'd serve this to someone" but it is very, very good. I don't taste the individual ingredients, it all combined into a delicious whole.

[–] RBWells@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

He is so beautiful but aging not so well, or going through an awkward phase or something. The weedy little moustache he is rocking is just awful.

[–] RBWells@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

They do not do deposit returns here anymore, but even so, most neighborhoods I've lived, people come look through the recycling for aluminum cans to scrap. So I would set them on the side in a tote instead, it was always such old people, moving slowly down the road with a rolling cart. This neighborhood is apparently too bougie for that, even though as far as I can tell we still are never more than 2 blocks from at least one homeless person.

 

Sidecar recipe with a side of a bit of cocktail history.

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Eclipse (infosec.pub)
submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by RBWells@lemmy.world to c/cocktails@lemmy.world
 

2 oz tequila (see note)

3/4 oz each of Aperol, Cherry Heering, and lemon juice.

Shake together with ice, strain into chilled coupe.

Note: the recipe calls for tequila anejo and a mezcal rinse. I had no anejo, one and a ounce plus a little more of reposado, and some really good mezcal and blanco so made up the tequila part with about 1 1/3 oz reposado, 1/3 oz blanco, 1/3 oz mezcal and that worked fine. I do think it wants a tequila with some character, the Cherry Heering will dominate if you use something too mild.

This is definitely my kind of drink. I might increase the lemon to 1 oz if making it again, or a splash of Campari . And it's beautiful as well as delicious.

[–] RBWells@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Warrior. My God what a good show.

Wheel of Time, it kept getting better then they stopped.

[–] RBWells@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Yeah. I actually do like big, occasionally. But also I like everyday sex, and with big guys you need some time between to heal & recover. This is NOT an advantage. Guys seem to think bigger is better, full stop. That's just not true. More pleasure (if you are into that) with a hung guy, sure. But WAY more pleasure overall with more sex.

[–] RBWells@lemmy.world 21 points 3 days ago (4 children)

Is that not an ideal size for most? It seems so. Don't think anyone should say they are packing "only 5.5", that's at least average, maybe more. Preferences vary of course, but this seems a crowdpleaser size.

[–] RBWells@lemmy.world 6 points 4 days ago

Hmm. I would need to first be vaccinated vs. yellow fever, because apparently that hit so hard right then it left only a few hundred people. My own house is from 1940, though it's in the city now it was not developed yet. Holy fuck, it's also Reconstruction right after the civil war.

I don't think I would even try. Would be enough of a struggle finding a way to survive. And if we have learned one thing from science fiction, it's don't mess with the timeline.

[–] RBWells@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Hmm.

  1. Absolutely fucked

  2. Still absolutely fucked

  3. Ok for awhile I think. Until I was captured and killed for being some sort of impossible demon, or sacrificed as a prize because of unusual looks. Knives, tools to barter, rope, food. Nothing particularly good for hunting with.

[–] RBWells@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

Preacher. I was a season in before I looked it up. Still haven't read them, the show was so good.

 

This is adjusted to what I had on hand, and I increased the lemon after tasting it. The tangelo juice is so good, drank the rest of that straight. Squeezed the oj to make a Harvey Wallbanger then found I had no vodka!

2 oz rye (scant, almost 2 oz)

1 oz fresh Tangelo juice

3/4 oz lemon juice

1/2 oz Amaretto

1/2 oz vanilla syrup

I like it but don't love it. This rye is great though. Redwood Empire Emerald Giant. Would be better shaken with an egg white I think.

 

I didn't get a picture but it's not a looker, between the dark rum and reposado tequila.

Tequila reposado 3/4 oz

Mezcal joven 1/4 oz

Dark rum, Pref. Puerto Rican 1 oz

Galliano L'autentico 1/2 oz

Absinthe- heavy dash

Lime juice - 1 oz

Agave syrup, undiluted 3/4 oz

Tiki bitters - dash

Shake everything, pour over one big ice cube in a rocks glass.

I didn't sweeten it (didn't have agave) and think the 3/4 oz would be too much. None was fine, Galliano and absinthe are both so sweet, rum is kind of sweet, I would try 1/4 oz sweetener.

My first impression was that this was interesting, more than good. But that first sip, the aftertaste was really nice. I drank it slowly over an hour and enjoyed it.

 

From Last Call by Brad Thomas Parsons

2 oz bourbon (I used my favorite mixing bourbon, Evan Williams Bottled-in-Bond)

3/4 oz St. Germain

1/2 oz lime (I went a little heavy because I'm using canned ginger beer not homemade. Maybe 3/4 oz)

2 oz ginger beer

Shake the first 3 ingredients with ice, add the ginger beer, strain over a lot of ice. He floated it instead but combined tastes better to me.

I am a whiskey person but like a dark & stormy, this is like a platonic ideal of a drink for me. People use the word "balanced" a lot but this really is. It's not obviously fruity or boozy or spicy, it is a balanced combination of all that.

Will try it with homemade ginger beer when I home make some but fantastic use of a can, I used Reed's. Definitely use at least that level of ginger beer in this - sweet is fine but it needs the punch of real ginger

 

1 oz cognac

1 oz bourbon

1/2 oz Green Chartreuse

1/2 oz vanilla syrup

1/2 oz lemon juice (I used 3/4 oz because when I testing before shaking way too sweet)

Cardamom bitters (I don't have this but put a shake of cardamom, and wished I had pods instead)

Shake all, pour into chilled coupe.

This is good but I wouldn't say great. If doing again without the cardamom bitters I would absinthe rinse the glass instead. In fact, I think I would absinthe rinse anyway. And less syrup, though it's hard to measure smaller than half an ounce.

 

1.5oz tequila

0.5oz lime

0.5oz passion fruit (I used liqueur)

0.5oz vanilla syrup

0.5oz Ancho Reyes Verde

Recipe shows a jalapeno floating in the drink and recommends a squirt of habanero tincture, I did neither and it's perfectly spicy to my spice-tolerant palate with just the Ancho Reyes. I do think the tajin rim would be great though, it's a little sweet.

Use an ad blocker if you click the link but the article was good.

 

This is a slight modification of a drink I found called The Lighter Side (inappropriate name, it's boozy) which was 2oz bourbon, 1/2oz Aperol and 1/4oz peach liqueur with a twist of lemon.

1oz bourbon

1oz rye

1/2 oz Aperol

1/2 oz Apricot liqueur

1/2 oz lemon juice

Shake all, with ice. Served over a big ice, but in a chilled coupe would be better I think.

 

I like the idea of raspberry and ginger beer but less sure about raspberry and gin. Has anyone tried this?

 

Boring picture but delicious drink.

2 oz bourbon

2 oz tepache

1 oz lime

1 oz orgeat

Shake all with ice.

I have yet to find any permutation of whiskey and pineapple that I don't like. I'm sure one exists but anything from a splash of pineapple in whiskey to a splash of whiskey in pineapple is good.

 

This was a nice and diverse list! I will try the Rome With a View, I think.

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