These look amazing. If the dough is workable enough, tightest I can get for a roundish (round or fat oval) loaf is:
Flatten slightly into a rectangle, so a short side is at top and bottom. Fold that in thirds into a smaller rectangle, (fold the top down to the middle then the bottom up all the way to the top) then repeat but in the other direction (like, side to side) and more tightly, tucking in the ends and pinching the seam.
I don't know if it's the best way, but it's the best way I can actually accomplish with my two hands.
Grits can be white or yellow corn.
Hominy. It's corn treated with lye, "nixtamalized" so slightly different from cornmeal. Hominy is so good in soup or chili, too.
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I think I could survive a Prohibition for quite some time, and even homebrew and sell it or run a speakeasy.
I have no idea how to get it to look like the picture in the article, it has to be photoshopped. But it's delicious. Increased both tequila and raspberry syrup to 1 oz to make it easier to scale, did use the teabags in the syrup and let it steep longer than she said, still this beautiful pink not vampire red.
Grits with canned tuna.
Grits with chili paste, fried egg, pork fu.
Sandwich of sardines and mayonnaise and raw onion.
OP, my sweet potato lunch is a Stokes Purple one frozen then baked, topped with goat cheese, pepitas, olive oil and fancy salt. I don't even like sweet potatoes but like that there's enough salty/sharp stuff
What bothers me more is that violence gets a PG rating here, sex gets an X rating. How in the world is it more inappropriate for kids to see people naked than for them to watch someone hack someone else to death? The graphic violence should get a more restricted rating than on screen sex.
I've made fruit kvass before, but never with bread. Will be watching with interest.
Malaprops to the author, this is such a mess.
But I think he's right that it's tough to overcome actual bad looks. Like if you are both naturally ugly and also unwilling to even try to be stylish or fit or whatever (some offsetting physically attractive quality) then it can be a slog. But then why the "cute" standard for a girlfriend? If you aren't willing to put in the work why do you feel you can demand it of your partner? That is such an ugly attitude.
They are a 2 hour drive from us so not extravagant trips. But I am so grateful to my mom for taking my kids with her when she traveled to Europe. Even though she never did anything like that with us, she would invite her grandkids one or two at a time to wherever she was going and her rules were "one bag, you carry it, no whining". They got to see places I haven't yet. Very extravagant and I wish she'd taken her own kids on trips like that!
If I take my pay in 1999 and adjust for inflation that's about $70k, so that would be about fair probably. Two of those (two income family) is about what it would take to be comfortable here too. Very comfortable if no kids.
To celebrate the return of electricity. All my remaining lemons & limes were lost to mold and I've not restocked yet, so something different. As close as I could get to Chancellor #2.
1.5 oz whiskey
1 oz tawny port
.5 oz Amaro Toscana
2 dashes Angostura bitters
Absinthe rinsed frozen coupe
Stir all ingredients with ice, pour into the glass.
A little sweeter and heavier than my ideal, obviously, but a nice aperitif, the flavors are good though. Not completely sure about the Toscana, close but maybe Amaro Nonino if I try it again. I never seem to have vermouth.
2oz Tequila Ocho claro
1oz orange liqueur
1oz fresh lime
3 dropperful fire tincture (habanero and anatto infused vodka)
Shake with ice, dirty pour (still no power here, can't waste ice) into tajin rimmed glass. Perfect and refreshing.
I will say that as much of a PITA it is to be without electricity, the clean running water that the city managed to keep running is much more valuable, I'm glad for that.
I don't understand how they get this drink to look pretty in pictures, maybe the dark rum is not as dark? Anyway - sitting here watching the sideways rain and enjoying a hurricane.
2oz white rum (Miami Club)
2oz dark rum (Mahina)
1oz orange juice
1oz sweetened passionfruit puree
1oz lemon
1 spoonful grenadine
It's not bad, but not great.
2oz bourbon 1oz Heirloom Pineapple Amaro 6oz Tepache
Delicious. Usually I'd put some lemon but supper was very lemony. This is sweet and bitter but in a very approachable way, lightly sweet, lightly bitter.
The rain is beautiful today, storm coming but today just a gentle rain cooling things off, it's only 23c/73f.
Got this from the Mixel app, credited to Brad Farran. Recipe sounds strange AF, I was looking for something with Galliano that wouldn't use my two oranges (as the storm Milton may call for a hurricane later this week I want to save them) and something with some amount of citrus. This is really quite nice. Would not have thought tequila and rum would work together like this. I put a little more Galliano and no agave - if doing it again I might sub honey syrup though.
3/4 oz tequila Reposado
1/4voz mezcal joven
1 oz dark rum
1/2 oz Galliano
Dash of Absinthe
1 oz lime (scant, since no agave, closer to 3/4 oz)
3/4 oz agave syrup
1 dash tiki bitters (I didn't have, used Angostura)
Shake all with ice, pour over one ice cube.
Ok - first of all, I didn't make this as written because it calls for 5.5oz of bourbon, which would put me under the table, and I'm out of good orange liqueur. So:
First pour a little absinthe in coupe and toss it in the freezer.
2oz bourbon
1/2 oz orange Curacao
Scant 1/2 oz lemon juice
Shake with ice. Retrieve glass from freezer and twirl it right side up then upside down to coat it with the absinthe. Pour drink in glass.
It tastes like Christmas. Bourbon mostly, even with less than half what's in the recipe. Hint of orange, hint of licorice/anise. This is a successful licorice orange cocktail. Would be much better with Cointreau, even though there's not much in here.
Not a looker but it's nice.
2oz bourbon
1.5oz orange liqueur, 1oz vanilla liqueur
0.5oz lemon juice
One egg white.
Dry shake, then shake with ice.
Slow cooker, on the back porch, if making a batch of them. Otherwise just low & slow in the skillet. A comment farther up says 'many recipes call for sugar' but I have never seen that. The onions that make your eyes water when you cut them, and a little salt & olive oil.