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Pros: It does make you less concerned about the exact measurements, more willing to be intuitive and let the recipe 'flow.'
Cons: It makes you a frikkin space cadet and causes you to ask things like, "Did you helpfully come by and put away the mixing bowl I was going to use for apple crisp topping mix? No? Where the heck could it be?" (In the oven, set to 100 degrees so the butter could soften.)
No, the wine isn't going in the food. I can recommend this wine, though* - it sat in our van for about two months last summer and is still quite drinkable. I should know. I don't really like wine and I seem to be drinking this. I initially put it in a mug because I thought I would need to put spices in it and warm it in the microwave. Frankly that's how I feel about most wine that I find in my pantry and figure I need to get rid of. However, I've had two mugs of it so far and it seems fine.
Fine. Quite fine.
Anyhow, um. I'm making chicken in hot red sauce so that I can use this year's garlic from our garden, really fresh locally grown ginger from the Farmer's Market in Portland (not the cured root that's brown on the outside - no, this is soft, white, blushing at the tips of it's scales REALLY fresh ginger - lovely, soft, easy to mince, and very, very sexy), and tiny 'super chillis' from Common Ground. I swear these are the tiny peppers we first found under the name 'bird peppers' and have been unable to find locally for years, but found in England imported from Kenya and tried to bring back to the US, but were foiled by Customs. Eor disagrees, he says those were longer peppers.
Back to my naked apples - which will soon be crisp once I clothe them in brown sugar and oatmeal. ;) (I sorted all the apples we picked yesterday** by "will keep," "should be used soon," and "must become crisp VERY soon.")
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* ETA - because it occurred to me that if I'm going to recommend a wine you might want to know the name or something: Rene Barbier Mediterranean White Catalunya
**Yesterday we picked apples and then went to Common Grown Fair. It was Kids and Seniors day. OMG I had no idea that people who went to Common Ground were doing so much breeding. What the hell, has the push to reduce the population simply been abandoned?
Cons: It makes you a frikkin space cadet and causes you to ask things like, "Did you helpfully come by and put away the mixing bowl I was going to use for apple crisp topping mix? No? Where the heck could it be?" (In the oven, set to 100 degrees so the butter could soften.)
No, the wine isn't going in the food. I can recommend this wine, though* - it sat in our van for about two months last summer and is still quite drinkable. I should know. I don't really like wine and I seem to be drinking this. I initially put it in a mug because I thought I would need to put spices in it and warm it in the microwave. Frankly that's how I feel about most wine that I find in my pantry and figure I need to get rid of. However, I've had two mugs of it so far and it seems fine.
Fine. Quite fine.
Anyhow, um. I'm making chicken in hot red sauce so that I can use this year's garlic from our garden, really fresh locally grown ginger from the Farmer's Market in Portland (not the cured root that's brown on the outside - no, this is soft, white, blushing at the tips of it's scales REALLY fresh ginger - lovely, soft, easy to mince, and very, very sexy), and tiny 'super chillis' from Common Ground. I swear these are the tiny peppers we first found under the name 'bird peppers' and have been unable to find locally for years, but found in England imported from Kenya and tried to bring back to the US, but were foiled by Customs. Eor disagrees, he says those were longer peppers.
Back to my naked apples - which will soon be crisp once I clothe them in brown sugar and oatmeal. ;) (I sorted all the apples we picked yesterday** by "will keep," "should be used soon," and "must become crisp VERY soon.")
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* ETA - because it occurred to me that if I'm going to recommend a wine you might want to know the name or something: Rene Barbier Mediterranean White Catalunya
**Yesterday we picked apples and then went to Common Grown Fair. It was Kids and Seniors day. OMG I had no idea that people who went to Common Ground were doing so much breeding. What the hell, has the push to reduce the population simply been abandoned?
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