We visited San Antonio Texas and my friend had said she got the best margarita of her life. While we enjoyed seeing the city, I think I need to make her a margarita because they were trash.
2 oz Tequila Ocho Blanco
1 oz fresh lime
1 oz orange liqueur
1/2 ounce Ancho Reyes (el rojo)
Shake shake with ice, pour over fresh ice of any variety.
Related - if anyone on here lives near there, where are these great margaritas or was she just drunk.
Admittedly I run cool, was born here. But ride to work in the Merino wool t-shirts from Unbound or silk/Merino thin knit sweater and also merino socks, and arrive absolutely presentable, so much better than cotton, not better than linen, but better looking for an office. Only the v-neck though, can't stand it near my neck, that does itch. And not all brands, only Unbound for the T-shirts. Silk/Merino blend always rocks.
You'd need to arrange the code ahead of time with whoever you were communicating with. I can imagine a few ways to do it, the number of letters in the words, the arrangement of the spaces between words, first letter of first word, second letter of second word, up through five words and start over, prearranged code phrases of course but nothing that would work with an unwitting recipient.
That homemade laundry soap made with bar soap would be a nightmare in hard water. I don't even want to think about soap scum in the drains and in my clothes.
I just use the smallest amount of detergent I can get out of the bottle, that works well. And don't wash a garment after wearing it once if it's not underwear. Invested in a lot of Merino stuff which manages to be comfortable even here in Florida and doesn't stink ever. I can wear those shirts and just hang them back up.
I raised my kids to be independent and was not very controlling - they think I was pretty hands off because they don't remember the earliest years - but I can't imagine doing that without literally teaching them what was reasonable behavior for different spaces. We did restaurant training, sit in your chair, use the utensils, don't yell. (ETA I would do this at teatime when it was slow, and tip double since the bill did not reflect the mess or work at all) In stores, "put your hands behind" was the cue, not "don't touch" because it's easier to tell them to do something than to not do something.
At the park though? My only rule was don't show off, don't do anything to show off. If you want to climb the tree because you want to climb the tree, go for it but no "look at me I'm in the tree" because then you will probably go past what's safe for you. When they fell down while running ask "you gonna be ok?" not "are you ok?"
Compared to their friends' parents, the younger ones think I'm nearly neglectful but it's more than my mom did, parenting right now while there are fewer kids around us so weird. So many parents are so controlling even of their high schoolers. You are trying to raise competent adults, they have to have the space to make decisions and mistakes to do that.
I've lived on the streets, in a car, in a house with 10 people so we could cover rent, in slums and have crawled up to solidly middle class. I think it used to be easier to do that than it is now, like every year it gets more stratified with more slipping below average (meaning the mean) but also harder to dig out. Not impossible, but it was hard enough as person of able body and mind back then - I can't imagine how hard now.
At work in my department only one of us has never been very poor, I do think there is some social mobility but for each of us there must be hundreds who did the same things and it didn't work.
Trying to get an appetite not buzzed. This was just thrown together, a highball.
1 oz Cynar
1 Tbsp Esme gin
1/2 oz lime
Bunch of club soda. A little bitter and quite good.
Phone camera absolutely refused to focus on this drink, but it's pretty good tasting. I'm out of orange liqueur, had a little vodka and half a lemon wanted something lighter for Sunday.
2 oz Deep Eddy vodka unflavored
1 oz Chinola
1/2 oz lemon
1 1/2 oz cranberry juice cocktail
Shaken & double strained.
It's more passion fruit than cranberry but that's not a bad thing. Would make a great backbone for a summer punch or pitcher drink, it's sweet and ever so fruity but has some complexity. I feel like the Cosmo is so good for playing with; changing the citrus or liqueur changes it but as long as you keep it fruity it works.
2 oz bourbon
1 oz Aperol
1 oz Amaro Nonino
1oz lemon juice
1/4 oz Campari
2 oz Crodino soda
Shake first 5 ingredients together, add the soda and pour back and forth between the shaker cups. Strain over fresh ice. I did one big cube but crushed would be good too.
Paper Plane is always just a little too sweet for me. This is a bitter version, still sweet but it's quite good! I didn't like the Crodino soda by itself but it is a nice ingredient.
1.5oz tequila
0.5oz Chartreuse
0.5oz St Germain
0.5oz mezcal (the good one)
0.5oz lime
Shake all together
Oddly tart for so little lime, if doing again I might do a sugar rim. But cohesive flavor for sure, it's good.
If you are reading this, you survived Valentine's Day!
I am having a Paloma De Jarritos y Tequila Ocho, with the juice of half a lime, since the soda is so very sweet.
Yes there is still a skeleton on the porch, he is a pirate now, for our local holiday, Gasparilla.
Very nice oven rise. For 2 loaves
1kg flour, 30% white whole wheat, 70% white bread flour
20g salt
700g cool water
200g levain
Mixed all, some stretch and folds, bulk rise, shape and rest overnight in fridge. Bake at 450f in preheated pans (almost - someone turned off my preheating oven so they started a little lower) 25 minutes in closed pan, 25 minutes uncovered but loosely tented with foil.
Wrapping up the weekend with a whiskey sour, a variation that came through my news feed, with orange juice (I have Tangelos, fantastic tangy juice) and absinthe (used Lucid)
I made this with scotch, as I have no rye, and it definitely needed 2x the lemon. Feeling more indulgent about the egg white than the Scotch! I think this would work with Angel's Envy bourbon very well, better than the Scotch and maybe better than rye but alas, as I have already mentioned I am waiting to buy anything.
I haven't had time or funds to go to the liquor store, out of the staples, so am left with a very odd assortment of ingredients. This recipe made very good use of some things I had on hand. The cinnamon doesn't add much flavor, it's more of a sensation - very nice!
1 1/2 oz Mezcal Joven
1/2 oz rhubarb liqueur
2/3 oz grapefruit juice
1/3 oz cinnamon bark syrup
3/4 oz lime juice
1 dash aromatic bitters
1 twist grapefruit peel
Shake together first 6 ingredients, strain into chilled coupe, express grapefruit peel over drink.
Oh I feel seen.
I was underweight a few years ago, and while it was not entirely healthy, I was indulging in the look and found some XXS Tall pants, in a beautiful blush color. Felt like a fucking supermodel on my way to work. Bought a chai latte, spilled it all over the pants before I ever got to work.
Also covered these white cropped pants. Got them, same sort of thing.
Decided I am not qualified for white pants.