N/A - La Verdita
Recipe is in the non alcoholic pinned post.
Funny looking but really good. Made a half batch of the Verdita syrup, my jalapeno was not spicy but I guess that's better than too spicy. Mojito Mint.
Next one I may use tepache, not tonic, and spicy it with some fire tincture. But it's very good.
There are two answers for me. Sometimes I stop and think my way out of it and am ok after a couple hours, I can let it go.
Sometimes I just get angrier and angrier as I think about it, and in that situation I must talk to the other party. That usually takes a day or two because it takes me that long to realize I'm not gonna calm down, am still mad. But every time this has happened, the other party has apologized because they, in the same intervening time, have realized they were being asshole-ish.
Nobody I know takes that long to tell me, if I am being asshole-ish. It can take me an hour or so to calm down and apologize.
All of this assumes good intentions on all sides. My ex, you couldn't back down or apologize with him, he saw it as weakness and would mock, was terrible at fighting.
One thing, hmm. I need a rug for our front room, and a hundred would get a much nicer one than those I was looking at, so a rug.
Bourbon sour, unless it's a good bar, then a margarita. If it's really not a good bar, like at a concert then vodka cranberry or whiskey pineapple.
But at like a restaurant bar, mid tier, a bourbon sour.
That doesn't work here. Natural soap, saponified fats, causes soap scum in hard water. If it puts a mineral coating on your tub, it will do the same to your hair.
Constantokra? Could you have a word with my okra plants? They have not flowered yet, are flourishing in the heat but no okra. I planted fewer because in years past we couldn't keep up with them, but this year they hesitate? We want constant okra.
I have noticed, with YouTube Music: if you play a new song, it plays similar sounding songs, old and new - that's great.
If you play an old song, though, it just plays other music from the same time period regardless of what they sound like. Stupid.
I make mine with a ginger bug. I put the recipe in the non alcoholic thread in the cocktails community. So sort of a sweet ginger lemonade fermented with the natural yeast in the ginger, until it's less sweet.
The toast is wrong for Florida though, we'd have Cuban bread.
The bacon though - we went to La Teresita here for breakfast, my kids ordered bacon and they brought them a whole bowl full of bacon to share.
Oh, Mr. Flickerman. Old people have sex. More than young people since now not as many distractions, no young kids or chance of pregnancy. I think a better way to express this is, it's not important as long as it's not a problem. I agree the friendship part is more important, but having a similar sex drive makes everything work better, and sex is not a silly thing to need in a romantic relationship, it's not a frivolous extra.
Because you are in the middle of nowhere? There are so many people in the world, I cannot imagine nobody is into you. Above I see you say something about "people like you" but you seem to be able to communicate well and keep your cool, that puts you ahead of a lot of guys.
If you are around 40, it's a pretty good age for looking for a partner. A lot of movement in the market, for lack of a better term.
If you want to hook up, get out there and talk to people. If you literally just want sex and not relationship, I can guarantee you that somewhere someone will be thrilled to break you in, no question. Anything you can imagine, someone gets off on it.
If you want a whole different life and sex is just part of what you are dissatisfied with, that is up to you to change - the point of power is always in the now. It doesn't matter who you were, and while there are outside forces, you can do a lot to change your own life.
Ha! Well, certainly don't try it with your dog.
I wish you luck, but if you haven't tried sex by now maybe it isn't your thing? Have you no girl-or- boyfriend to try it with? If you start old, you may have to go through the awkward part still but I think it will pass more quickly because you are, presumably, more mature and less hung up.
Dude. You are still a kid. Not missing out on anything yet.
And yes sex is awesome if it's good, but takes some practice usually before it is good. It's free and fun and good for relationships. Better when older and not so self conscious.
You can certainly afford to wait for years, literally no reason to rush, all you are missing out on is the awkward bad part.
Make a vinaigrette then crumble in blue cheese and shake it together. That might be my favorite, or at least the best one I'm usually willing to make.
I guess we could use a little ice age right around now, and it would also be nice to have a Renaissance around the corner.
Someone said inns and taverns, and yes it's a missing piece of housing here - long term hotels with food, bars/restaurants with rooms to rent above.
Not much though, it is not a time I'd visit.
Orville Peck - C'mon Baby Cry
Every time this plays at my house everyone is belting it out. Nobody can hit the high notes.
I grew up without AC in Florida.
Sit in the shade with a fan, be still. If in the shade and a breeze, and not moving around, a pretty high temperature is comfortable.
Go to places with cold AC or to cold springs to get cold, it will last awhile after you leave.
If it gets cool at night, open your window at night to let in the cold air, close it in the morning to keep that air in for the morning. But once it heats up inside, you are better off with ventilation - open windows on both sides of the house and run fans, to move air throughout the house.
If it's dry where you are (it doesn't work here) get wet and let evaporation cool you. Even here you can get wet and stand naked in front of a fan you will get cold.
STAY HYDRATED.
I don't think this has been mentioned, but it is also used to hide age discrimination. HR can't say you are too old, so they say overqualified.
Orange soda.
With my third baby, she did not want to come out (in stark contrast to her sisters, who all seemed to want to give me about one hour of advance notice before getting born) and the midwife said, before trying induction, try castor oil, sometimes it will kick the labor on. Not a spoonful, no. A whole bunch. And don't puke it out. I chased it with orange soda because I liked it but figured I could certainly manage without it.
Oh God. I couldn't even look at orange soda without nausea for several years. And it didn't even work, I still had to get induced!
July cocktail contest - Dry Dry July
The July contest is a non-alcoholic cocktail, must contain at least 3 ingredients. Non-alcoholic for purposes of this challenge is defined as non-intoxicating, not absolute absence of ethanol so a squirt of a tincture, splash of bitters, a base of kombucha or fermented ginger beer is allowed, also caffeine at reasonable level but a THC cocktail would be disallowed.
Happy July!
Made fresh pineapple juice, suggestions?
I made today a pineapple margarita with mezcal, tequila, lime, and the fresh pineapple juice. One more day before I start Dry July and I would like a banger, this is good but not great.
Any suggestions for this weekend, also anything interesting and pineapple not alcoholic would also be most welcome. I am making tepache, but it's not done will make ginger beer, have mint in the garden, have tonic water, will probably buy some Chinotto soda too.
Punch - Most searched cocktails of June
Here are the drinks that you couldn’t get enough of this month.
Apparently we were a bitter bunch in June!
A sidecar-ish
This is delicious. Fruity, tart, round in flavor.
2oz cognac
1oz Giffard Abricot
1oz Heirloom Pineapple Amaro
1oz lemon (a little more than an ounce, lemon was juicy)
Shake everything, a coupe would be ideal but it's too hot now to have an outdoor drink without ice. I wouldn't make any substitutions or corrections so it should probably have a name, but I can't think of one. The cognac and apricot are French, the Amaro is American Hipster, the flavor smooth as hell, feel this should be easy but my brain is fried from work.
Paper Plane on a rainy day, what are you having?
The rain lilies are happy, and I am enjoying the rain with a paper plane. So happy the rainy season has arrived at last.
What are y'all drinking?
Mezcalita, or, a comedy of errors.
Well, this was quite a journey but it's good.
I was going to have a margarita with our dinner of chicken and black bean enchiladas, oh no, used almost all the tequila making a batch of margarita and one of Paloma for memorial day. Ok, plug the gap with mezcal, the good one. Measure the juice from my measley lime, nope not enough, juice my last lime, well now it's too much but I don't want to waste it. So a smidge of simple. I'll be damned, it ended up very good but I do think it is because of the good mezcal.
1oz Tequila Ocho claro
1oz Del Maguey Chichicapa
1oz orange liqueur
1.25 oz lime
.25oz simple (1/1)
Ranglum
In less than two decades, the tropical drink has become a sleeper hit in the local cocktail scene.
Punch has such good articles. Any Germans who can confirm this is a local drink? I've never heard of it. I particularly liked the line:
"The simplest cocktails have the smallest margin for error."
Pineapple & Bourbon cocktail
I am making tepache, and juiced the fruit of the pineapples. This is heavenly, if you don't have the pineapple Amaro a spiced and slightly bitter but not too heavy amaro, like Toscana might work, or Ancho Reyes original but I highly recommend the Heirloom for fruity drinks, it's so good.
2 oz fresh pineapple juice
2 oz bourbon (stronger is better)
1 oz Heirloom Pineapple Amaro
1 oz lime juice
Tajin
I first mashed the tajin in a mortar and pestle. Wiped the rim of the glass with the squished lime and rolled it in the tajin, put big ice cube in the glass. Then shake everything else together and pour into prepared glass. My pineapple juice is very, very sweet this time, you might need to adjust if you have a more acidic one.
June Cocktail Contest - hot, hot, hot
Happy first birthday to Cocktails@lemmy-world!
For June, the challenge is a hot cocktail - either spicy or literally hot. Bring on the heat! Warm yourself if you are in the southern hemisphere, or cool off with a spicy spicy drink if it's summer (it is very much summer here).
No specified ingredient this round, doesn't have to be alcoholic but must contain at least three ingredients, most upvoted wins.
The game!
I was having a cocktail of cognac, apricot liqueur, and lemon juice, and thinking we could have a game. Make a drink using one of the ingredients in the previous drink. So to start - a drink with cognac, apricot liqueur, or lemon juice.
One more rule: don't repeat the chosen ingredient - so Ruaidhrigh brought the lemon juice from the first drink into the amaretto sour - next drink can't use lemon as the one ingredient brought forward.
The Fox River
At Beverly Hills’ Spago, the crème de cacao–spiked Old-Fashioned is reimagined as an easy-going stone fruit julep.
I like Punch's "bring back the" series. Readable and interesting, often like this one, new versions of old forgotten drinks. I wouldn't go to the trouble of making peach bitters, and not sure I could handle something so sweet but the flavors seem mighty interesting.
What are you drinking, Lemmy? Memorial Day weekend edition
I'm kicking off a long weekend with a paper plane with one oz of cognac added. Perfect.
Has anyone tried Frapin 1270, their entry level congac? I have the namesake perfume and like it a lot, but that doesn't seem like a good enough reason to buy the booze.
Siesta-Paloma
A hybrid.
2oz tequila
2oz fresh grapefruit juice
1 oz fresh lime juice
1/2 oz Campari
1/2 oz simple syrup
Shake all, add 2 oz fizzy water, dirty pour into glass.
Delicious, honestly. Increase the sugar if you want it more Paloma like, or more of the Topo Chico, to make one like like Texas ranch water. Sub mezcal if you really hate Campari, but you may like it in this.
Saturday drink, what are you having?
I'm having a bourbon and amaretto sour (inverted Morganthaler recipe, basically). Are you having a Saturday drink?
Riff on Pas de Loup
Not much to look at but tastes good.
1 oz whiskey (bourbon is all I had but I would try with Scotch)
1oz Mezcal
1/2 oz Ancho Reyes
3/4 oz Cynar
1 oz lemon, 1 oz honey syrup
It's quite good, I found the original on Mixel app, it seems they scraped it from Reddit? Original omits the whiskey, halfs the lemon and sweetener. But even with the additions I taste mostly mezcal and Ancho. Bitter in a good way.
Hi Lemmy, what are you drinking this weekend?
I'm just having coffee (moka pot coffee with foamed milk!) and water today, can't relax yet. Considering what to make in the weekend.
Smoky Spicy Strawberry
A boozy Saturday drink.
2oz bourbon
.75oz good mezcal
.75oz berry liqueur (any will work, or berry syrup, I used Montbisu Framboise)
Bare splash of vanilla liqueur, shake of bitters, or splash of absinthe or amaro (I used the vanilla, if you have a more interesting berry liqueur it might not need anything here but mine is not complex)
2 dropperful of fire tincture
4 strawberries plus one for garnish
1/2 tsp sugar (might not need if you have better strawberries)
3/4 of a lemon
Quarter the strawberries and put in shaker with 1/4 if the lemon, add the sugar and muddle the fruit. Add the booze, tincture, and juice of the half a lemon. Shake with ice and double strain, serve over big ice, garnish with the remaining strawberry.
It's very good, I like bourbon with mezcal and like bourbon with strawberry so thought it worth trying. Lemon peel muddled adds bitter edge, don't omit.
I was trying to make a strawberry heart but it came out more like wings!
Queer Old Friend
I am really sorry I didn't get a picture of the finished drink, too dark but it's gorgeous. I don't like the gin I have and thought vodka and mastiha would be more to my taste so:
1.5 oz vodka
2 oz adjusted grapefruit juice (juiced one sweet pink grapefruit and one lime, mixed, then measured 2 oz of the mix)
1/2 oz each of the St. Germain, the Campari, and the Mastiha.
Shaken, poured what fit into a coupe and drank the rest from the shaker, it's delicious and the dark pink with foam is really beautiful.
May Cocktail Contest - a Dry Rum!
Congratulations to [email protected] on the win for April, and to the closest challenger and most active participant BigGovernment[@lemmy.world.
For May, the challenge is a less sweet rum drink. Roll out the barrel, pirates!
The rules are even fewer than before, not requiring pictures since that's not working for everyone but a picture may get you more votes.
The drink must be original (as far as you can tell with a quick online search). Can be wholly original or a variation on a standard. A complete recipe and your impressions - what does it taste like? Winner is the most upvoted, downvotes are discarded.
Winner of the May contest can have glory unending, and can pick the theme for July.