I find La Fee absinthe fairly dry, there’s only so much sugar you can fit into a 68% ABV spirit. Some other absinthes are definitely on the sweet side, but at least when I tried it with pastis, which is a lot sweeter than La Fee absinthe, that wasn’t actually an issue for me - Campari’s (or Cynar’s) bitterness balances it easily.
Campari and pineapple works great in the Jungle Bird, too!
I drew measuring lines on a small shotglass for cases like this. The measurements obviously aren’t that accurate, but it’s close enough - not any worse than measuring by the bar spoon, at least, which AFAIK would be the more standard method. TBH a pipette might actually be the easier option.
Or just make it full size, pour half and save the rest of the mix for later (before it gets into contact with ice, of course). Or make a whole batch!
I’m intrigued because I have most ingredients except the pineapple juice, I’m always missing pineapple juice.
Packaged juice kind of goes against the serious cocktail making ethos, but I make an exception just for pineapple - it’s way too much effort to make fresh pineapple juice when you’re just making drinks for yourself, but with a quality juice the drinks are usually still worth making.
I use 2:1 when I bother to heat it in a pot, but recently I’ve taken to just filling sugar and boiling water into the intended container and shaking it every couple of minutes, and that method leads to somewhat more watery syrup. Still more sugar than water, though.
If a recipe needs more dilution, you can always add water while mixing the cocktail. I do that pretty often.
I got a device from a competitor (the original company’s devices are >20€ nowadays). Worked great, too, but its longevity sucked - the next year, the ceramic plate didn’t get hot enough anymore, even with fresh batteries. Yet another example of “buy cheap, buy twice”.
One of those cocktail stirring spoons with a long, round handle. Makes stirring a glass full of ice extremely easier compared to normal spoon handles. In contrast, I found mixing glasses and cocktail shakers fairly optional (and those tend to be more expensive than $20 anyway if they’re decent quality).
I usually have a good time with isometric fantasy rpgs in the vein of Baldur’s Gate. They don’t really have grind, the world is generally well-filled with a relatively dense story and interesting quests (denser than Skyrim at least), and if the game becomes too hard you can turn down the difficulty. Though you do need to actually be interested in the combat mechanics (which are much more complicated than e.g. in Elder Scrolls games) to really enjoy these games, IMO. One downside is that these types of games are usually really long; I’ve dropped a couple of them halfway because they overstayed their welcome.
Some examples:
Baldur’s Gate 3 (don’t really need to have played 1+2 to enjoy this one, though they’re still very good)
Divinity: Original Sin 1+2
Pillars of Eternity 1+2 (2 has much better combat, but the first one is pretty important to understand the world)
Tyranny (this is a relatively short one)
Pathfinder: Kingmaker 1+2
For more Skyrim-style games, I really enjoyed the Gothic series. I think their level of grind is about the same as Skyrim (probably a little less, but it’s been a while), and if you can get past the outdated graphics of the early titles they’re quite fun. Especially the dialogues, they aren’t as serious as Skyrim’s.
Using downsized recipes is pretty standard for me when I’m drinking at home. For a lot of cocktails, half-size or third-size is just fine, especially when you start experimenting with ingredients and ratios. And I have something of an issue with actually committing to a full-size drink (i.e. I often get bored of it halfway through).
However, one of the biggest barriers to entry is the need for smaller glassware, which, while not impossible to source, is limited in its variety. “Where I see a lot of room for improvement is tiny rocks and tiny Highball glasses,” Zielinski says, noting that miniature coupes or diminutive Martini glasses are more readily available.
This is definitely an issue. I’ve been using stemmed liqueur glasses for small Martini-style cocktails, but even in somewhat smaller rocks glasses a half-sized Old Fashioned-style drink just looks lost.
Let’s be honest, there are a million versions of every cocktail out there online these days, and most of them are fairly terrible.
That sounds more like a matter of taste and making sure that you actually have the same ingredients (or knowing how to adjust if you don’t) as the person who made the recipe.
I think your ideas here go into the right direction, but the confusing part for me is that many of the christians I know are so far below what you’d expect from a christian in these parts (which is already very little) - it’s not that they don’t give everything away to the poor, they’re doing (as far as I can tell) nothing - they don’t pray, they don’t go to church, and they don’t adhere to any of what the bible says they should do beyond maybe basic Golden Rule stuff. And it’s not even like most families would make a big deal out of it if you left the faith or even became fully atheist. Most do pay the church tax, though, which is about 1% of your gross income.
It’s certainly weird how many people say that they believe and then just … don’t do anything that their belief says they should do.
That’s potentially included in wishy-washy christianity. The important part is how they act on it. Though it certainly mystifies me how you can believe in that stuff and then act as if it doesn’t, but that’s kinda how people roll in my parts …
I wouldn’t get involved with someone deeply religious. I’d consider someone religious if they were sufficiently wishy-washy about it, though, e.g. people who are christian and believe in it at least enough to not call themselves atheists or agnostics but don’t really DO anything christian.
I never used social media that much and I can’t be bothered to hang around on Reddit in addition to Lemmy.
Arguably, being muscular is a male beauty standard. I would very much prefer it if men had more freedom of expression, though.
I really don’t think that kind of expectation is that common.
Yeah, and especially mental health. Not many people are really going to go that far (it’s a LOT of effort), but it’s so unattainable that even fit people often don’t feel good about themselves. Especially if you add all the makeup and doctored photos.
Average is plenty beautiful, though. At least in countries where ‘average’ doesn’t mean ‘severely over- or underweight’.
Beards are one of those things that are at least natural and have uses beyond beauty standards (e.g. some men have sensitive skin that easily gets irritated by shaving, and it protects the skin from sunlight, cold and drying out). If you don’t go all out styling it or having it impractically long, a trimmed beard is less effort than a clean shave (at least for men who have to shave daily to maintain the clean look).
Same on both of those!
Interestingly, based on the names I’d assume that the Fairy Godmother came first, but I couldn’t find any reference to it that actually mentioned when it was invented (and the blog posts I saw where from 2023), while the Fairy Sugar Mama was invented in 2014 by Andrew Mils according to Difford’s Guide.