I had the exact same experience with the elephant garlic, they took forever to sprout, long enough that I actually dug one of them up to check that they hadn't been eaten or something.
It might be! That was one of the varieties I planted this year, though the cloves I put in the ground looked like normal shaped cloves, just scaled up a bit.
That makes sense, he was really undersized compared to the rest.
[Image description: a perfectly round peeled bulb of garlic on a cutting board, with unpeeled normal cloves behind it.]
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/16622039
Week 24 - Seasonal ingredients: Many berry pie with rosemary lemon ice cream
My dad loves berry pies, so had to make him one for Father's Day. Fresh seasonal items used were blueberries and lemons (picked from my tree). The rosemary was from my yard too, but that thing grows year round 😋
Other berries used were the frozen Costco mix of blackberries, raspberries, strawberries, cherries and pomegranate, on a homemade crust.
The ice cream was a custard base, with rosemary steeped in the milk & cream. I like experimenting with unique flavors of ice cream, and this one was a hit with my family.
[Image description: a close up of a slice of double crust berry pie with a dollop of melting ice cream on top.]
As is often the case with my meals, this was a "use it up before it turns" meal. Had some beef top round roast, jalapenos, carrots, and cabbage, plus a giant bag of oranges from my parent's tree that need to be eaten, and this is what came out.
General recipe:
Still have more beef and more oranges, going to use the same marinade, but add lime and turn it into some carne asada for tomorrow.
[Image description: a blue bowl on a speckled white countertop. Inside the bowl is white rice and mixed sauteed vegetables, topped with small cubes of beef with a drizzle of glossy dark brown sauce, and a sprinkle of sliced green onion.]
Her first time seeing a balloon, was absolutely fascinated.
[Image description: a brown and white tabby cat sitting in front of a backlit curtain, staring upwards with rapt attention. The end of the balloon ribbon can be seen dangling to one side. The angle of her head emphasizes the roundness of her little cheeks.]
Here's the link to their recipe.
Now normally Serious Eats is pretty bang on with their recipes, but this one has a CRAZY amount of sugar in it. I made it as directed (but using store bought puff pastry) for Mother's Day, and it was tasty but so sweet it could have been served for dessert.
This is the second time I made it, but with half the sugar. However sweet is still the dominant note, even after adding Worcestershire sauce, tart goat cheese, and more herbs. If you want to make this, seriously try using just a quarter of the sugar they ask for, and you might get something more savory.
[Image description: a circular tart made of layers of deeply caramelized cabbage in a sticky glaze. A bit of golden crust can be seen on the edges, and the tart is sitting on a wooden cutting board on a stove top.]
And see, I'd swap your Lawful Neutral and True Neutral, as then all the neutrals would feature one long bed edge placed against a wall.
Maybe we need more Christmas songs that are suitable to gloom of Seasonal Effective Disorder.
Yes, 100%. I'd like to see more songs about the dark cold that sucks rather than pretend with "merry and bright."
Maybe a beef belly cut that's been smoked and thinly sliced, similarly to regular bacon?
Somehow, I can tolerate "jpheg" much easier than the forsaken "jif."
As someone with ADHD, the results of this study are encouraging, but limited. They summed it up well in the article, but the study only covered people who were self-microdosing and then self-reporting, which leaves lots of uncontrolled variables.
“This study is a naturalistic prospective study, meaning that we measured participants over time without manipulating any variables such as substances and doses they used for microdosing during the study,” Haijen said. “In contrast to a controlled lab-based study, where drug- and dose uniformity is guaranteed. Also no control group was included, so we cannot say if this effect was purely because of microdosing, or if other factors, such as placebo- or expectancy effects, were the main force behind the changes we observed. So this study should be seen as a first step in this research direction, as more and controlled studies will hopefully follow.”
I know right? My first thought was put a heating pad on the windowsill, and the cat will be much more likely to choose that spot.
I'm a geologist, but not the fun kind that gets to look at actual rocks.
I do environmental and some geotechnical work, which pretty much boils down to "Is the dirt poisoned?" and "How hard do I have to squish the dirt to make the future building not fall down?" There's few things to get excited about, but it's steady work and pays the bills.
I've come to learn your brain is really good at subconscious processing of things that don't quite make it to conscious awareness. Some part of your brain saw the cop and the deer and was trying to alert the rest of you.
I had that happen once when I was out hiking alone doing geology research. I reached this area of the woods and was suddenly overwhelmed by this feeling of TIME TO LEAVE. I tried arguing with myself that there was still enough daylight to check out an outcrop I could see in the distance, but the feeling got so powerful, I finally gave in and called it quits for the day.
I realized while walking out, that with all the little noises of the quail and other animals I'd been hearing all day, that spot in the woods had been silent. The next time I visited the area (and not alone this time), I found a cave right behind where I'd been standing, with fresh mountain lion tracks. Who knows, some part of me might have seen a mountain lion in that cave and was doing everything it could to tell me to get the fuck away!
Followed by the Paw of Rejection™
[Image description: first photo is of a brown and white tabby cat on a bed looking slightly irritated, with one paw poised over a hand which is spread on the bed towards the cat. The second photo is the cat looking away with that paw pressed down on the hand.]
I love my instant pot, it makes cooking meats and dried beans so easy.
Here I grabbed a hunk of frozen pork shoulder, threw it in the pot with a can of beer and some seasonings. Hour and a half later, pulled out the pork and dumped in some dry pinto beans to cook in the remaining liquid. Half hour after that, all that was left was to shred the pork and add it back to the beans with a jar of salsa verde I canned using produce I grew last year.
Stopping there would still have made for a good stew, but I reserved the pork fat cap prior to shredding, and roasted it, making crispy chef nibbles and a bunch of rendered fat. I coated slices of poblanos with the fat and charred them with my broiler and a blow torch.
The stew is topped with cotija cheese and the crumbs from the bottom of a bag of tortilla chips.
I've had a few people ask me about it, and I usually get as far as "So in Star Trek, there's this alien race called the Ferengi where the women aren't allowed..." before their eyes glaze over and I see them dismissing it as some nerd thing.
[Image description: a sticker depicting Ishka from DS9 rolling up her sleeve in the classic Rosie the Riveter pose, with a speech bubble saying "The Future is Fe-male."]
[Image description: a collage of seven photos, showing a view of the increasing eclipse, totality, and decreasing eclipse through the lens of a telescope.]
Bonus shot of the totality projected on a kid's hand through the sighting scope:
[Image description: a brown and white tabby cat sitting on the back of a recliner. The front half of her body is slumped forward, with one paw dangling and her face resting on a cheek, eyes staring into the distance.]
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/3286611
I lost almost 50 pounds by calorie counting back in 2015, then stopped counting and spent the next six years slowly putting it all back on. I've used Libra to track my weight, and you can see the half-hearted attempts over the years to halt that upward progress.
I've been sick of being overweight, of feeling sluggish and unattractive, and of having a hard time doing things l love like hiking and rock climbing. I stress eat a lot, and not to jinx things, but I've finally reduced the stressors in my life where I'm feeling really good about this latest weight loss spree.
Fingers crossed I'll be posting here sometime in the new year about having hit my goal weight!
[Image description: a line graph with the x-axis from 2014 to 2023, and the y-axis from 108 to 160lbs, the charted line showing a steep drop, and a jagged climb, with the last couple years hovering over an "overweight" demarcation.]
She's not even fully stretched out, and yet very tubular.
[Image description: a brown and white tabby cat laying on her side on a grey blanket, with her straight out body looking very uniform in width. She's looking right at the camera with an expression that says "what do want human?"]
I'm in southern California and I think most houses have gas hookups for driers, often with gas stoves and gas water heaters too.