I made that cherry [strawberry] pie again, only this time I put it in a chocolate graham cracker crust. And since I had two crusts, I took the second one and made a no-cook chocolate Jello pudding pie. Only for that one, I used heavy whipping cream instead of milk, just because I wanted to see what happens.
I have absolutely no idea what will happen. It’s all very exciting!
The future’s coming:
A Dutch company that presented the world’s first lab-grown beef burger five years ago said Tuesday it has received funding to pursue its plans to make and sell artificially grown meat to restaurants from 2021. Mosa Meat said it raised 7.5 million euros ($8.8 million), mainly from M Ventures and Bell Food Group. M Ventures is an investment vehicle for German pharmaceuticals company Merck KGaA. Bell Food is a European meat processing company based in Switzerland.
Continue reading TL9 Watch: Lab-grown meat, heh, grows apace.
I flatter myself that it came out looking rather good.
All of our stuff is going on for the weekend, because the Fourth itself is on a Wednesday. So it’s gonna be nice and quiet, tomorrow. I should marinate the chicken and the steaks for the grill tonight, though. The steaks in question were bought because they were approaching their sell-by: anybody with thoughts on how to minimize the consequences of that? Small sirloin grilling steaks, if that matters.
And happy Fourth of July, if I don’t say so tomorrow.
From a 2017 Reason article on the cocktail:
…in the Dark Ages [the 1950s to 1990s – ML], proper cocktails were an obscure pastime for a tiny band of hobbyists, most of whom were, like 11th century monks, protecting what few scraps of imperfect knowledge remained.
It’s a fascinating article. Basically, cocktails were great, in ways that we have difficulty realizing. Until Prohibition, when most of the knowledge died and cocktails became something that you used to hide how horrible the booze was. And then it never got better, until booze nerds started cracking the books and recreating the entire culinary-artistic movement. And now I want a proper Old Fashioned, so I’m going to say it was also a successful article.
Via Ed Driscoll.
This Strawberry Pie recipe surprised my wife in that it doesn’t exactly bake. Oh, the pie crust is baked. And the glooped strawberries and sugar is first boiled, then simmered. But this pie takes its final form while chilling in the fridge. Continue reading Fresh Strawberry Pie!
I bought a bag of ’em to feed to ravens, but I’m told that I should have gotten the unsalted kind. Apparently, this is bad for birds, because of too much salt or something like that. Personally, I am dubious, but I am also not any sort of naturalist; I just wanted to have some corvids over in the morning while I’m having my coffee.
Anyway: aside from eating two pounds of salted peanuts over the course of the next couple of weeks, is there anything else I could be doing to the blessed things?
Yeah, it’s been that kind of day. I used this recipe (“Sensational No Tomato Sauce Spaghetti“), only swapping out Romano cheese for Parmesan and using celery seeds instead of garlic. Can’t feed my wife garlic anymore, you see. And yes, she’s unhappy about that, too.
Oh, and I mixed in the bacon with the sauce instead of sprinkling it on top afterwards. I have no idea what difference that will make. Guess we’ll see!
I feel it came out all right.
Blueberry pie! pic.twitter.com/vNwkbBajQq
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I wish that Anthony Bourdain had gotten through things.
But this is still something to watch.
Moe Lane
