Yep, chips are often calling my name, especially sour flavors. Lime, salt and vinegar, dill pickle, all good stuff.
Ooooh yum, that's also an excellent "I'm being fat" meal. There's a restaurant near me that does Korean/Mexican fusion, and their "kimchichanga" with bulgogi is amazing.
How lovely! I've gotten pretty good at growing vegetables, but flowers, not so much.
For me, there's a Mexican restaurant down the road from my house that does what they call Super Fries, which are loaded with carne asada (a surprising amount for the price), cheese, sour cream, guacamole, refried beans, pico de gallo, and red and green salsa.
An absolute gut bomb, but delicious as hell.
If it's truly tasteless and dissolves completely in water, yet can bind like eggs, that opens up a huge range of applications. Really hope they're able to scale up production.
Really really good balsamic, the stuff that costs like $150 for a few ounces. I watched a video series about the making of it and taste tests against regular balsamic, and the desire to try it has been floating around my head.
Last year I went bungee jumping for my birthday, and it was one of the most unique experiences of my life.
I've been skydiving before, but I don't think my caveman hind brain was able to comprehend the danger. Jumping off a bridge however was at a recognizable height, so the moment I leapt, that part of my brain screamed "OH GOD WE'RE DEAD!"
I chalked it up to first time nerves, but with the second jump, same mental scream. Never felt anything like it in my life, and will probably never do it again, but I'm sure glad I tried it.
I'm strangely good at wiggling my nostrils, way better than anyone else I've met. No luck wiggling my ears though.
Heck yeah, I've been trying to post both here and on a couple of my communities at .world. I've mostly been going through my old, never-posted photos for some good OC, but think I might also start scavenging my ex-reddit account. Anything for content and to keep up the momentum!
Poblanos are probably my favorite peppers to grow. Very mild heat, but tons of flavor, and fantastic for rellenos or enchiladas.
[Image description: close up of a large green poblano pepper on the plant]
But there's something about the roots of these new cuttings that gives me trypophobia-esque heebie jeebies.
[Image description: a hand holding a segment of a tomato stem. The lower part of the stem has straight white roots sticking out from one side.]
[Vegan] and [Vegetarian] are quick ones that come to mind. Maybe also like the region of the cuisine? i.e. [Chinese], [Peruvian], or maybe the type of meal [Breakfast], [Appetizer].
For me, it's kompe. It's a dish that's eaten in southern Norway, which consists of a little ball of salt pork surrounded by a potato dumpling. As the dumping is boiled, the flavor of the pork spreads through the potato, and it's a way to make a very poor meal feel like much more.
Most often eaten with butter, sugar, and lingonberry jam, I think the leftovers fried up on the second day are the best!
[Image description: split image, kompe cut up on a cutting board, and slices of kompe browned in a frying pan.]
[Image description: ridge of a sand dune at sunset, a shadowed mountain in the background. Numerous footprints along the dune ridge, with wind ripples in the undisturbed sand.]
Ooooh them's fighting words. Have you tried a burger with a homegrown tomato? Pretty night and day, might just change your mind.
[Image description: a plate with a burger and sides. The burger is open and ready to be assembled, one bun has sauce and a slice of an heirloom tomato, the other has the patty, cheese, pickles and bacon.]
She was a tiny little thing, barely the size of my pinky nail. The movement of her jumping was the only reason I spotted her on the asphalt. I considered tossing her down into a treatment pit where I could hear her compatriots croaking, but I knew their time was limited, as the whole area was scheduled to be demo'd.
Having always wanted a pet frog as a kid, I did a quick check to make sure I hadn't just grabbed an endangered species (nope, most common kind of frog in southern California), and decided to take her home with me.
Fun fact, the distinctive "ribbit ribbit" heard in movies is the call of the Baja Tree Frog.
[Image description: a close-up of a mottled brown frog sitting on a branch. The frog has its front feet tucked together underneath its belly.]
Located in inland southern California, zone 9b.
[Image description: split image, the top photo is four tomatoes on a cutting board, the bottom photo is hundreds of multicolor heirloom tomatoes covering a kitchen counter.]
It's definitely a learning curve to start your plants from seed, but seeds can be gotten cheap and are easy to transport. I find beans/peas to be pretty easy to grow from seed, and their vertical growth means they don't take up too much space.