solosater

matthew doesn't require contributions to his delinquency, he's doing just fine on his own.

sheftali52

lol solo!

maddyjean08

Solosater, english. I'm ten.

solosater

maddy you say you are not a precocious child but if you are indeed ten years old there is clear evidence of precociousness.

solosater

That's not a bad thing, in fact I believe it is a good thing. Precocious children are fun and smart. They are however sometimes treated like adults prematurely. I'd hate to do that to anyone.

Baldur

matthew is NOT the worst thing you could be.

Baldur

Now, this is exciting.
Baldur was putting his onions away in the cupboard when I spied a dusty bottle. It was on the shelf half obscured by the toaster oven.
MEAD!
I had no idea that there was still a bottle of mead here at Chez Baldur.
My first reaction was to want to open it immediately.
So far however I am showing restraint.

Baldur

Baldur had purchased a couple bottles in New Hampshire at their state run liquor commission, this was on the way home from a trip to Canada.
We used to spend a week in New Brunswick with a couple hundred of our dearest friends every August.
After 12 years of that the couple that were hosting the event finally had to stop. It was understandably getting to be too much.

Baldur

How this bottle managed to remain undrunk is beyond me.

solosater

Mead is a sweetish honeyed beer?

I cannot imagine that tasting good but then Guinness Punch is an awful sounding beer and egg concoction that is pretty decent...

Baldur

It is honey and water that is fermented, not really a beer as there is no grain involved.

solosater

Now that I think I might like...

Is there a particular brand that is better to try?

solosater

And one more: Cold or room temp?

Baldur

It's so hard to find here that I'll buy whatever there is. This bottle is 'Chaucer's'http://www.chaucerswine.com/mead.asp

Baldur

Room temperature, though warm is good too.
You can make a mulled drink with it by gently heating it with spices.
Good choices are cinnamon sticks, whole cloves, allspice berries; also a bit of orange rind, a few peppercorns and even caraway seeds if you like them.

Baldur

There is a Lithuanian/Polish liqueur that is a mixture of honey and caraway flavors. It is also unexpectedly good.

solosater

It all sounds delicious, I'll put it on my list of things to try.

I recently got an e-mail stating all the things honey and cinnamon together at different ratios and such can cure. I don't know how true it is but I do think honey and cinnamon together is one of the most pleasant tastes ever created.

Fermenting and heating could only make it better!

Baldur

Baldur got a present in the mail today from his friend Bobobear.
For some reason he pronounces it BooBooBear, by the way. I have never understood the spelling.
Anyway upon opening this large heavy box it was obvious that he had sent me a case of turnip.
Not just any mundane variety mind you, but the world famous Florida Mountain Turnip from Western Massachusetts.
Somehow such prominence within root vegetable circles had escaped my notice. However after a quick internet search my sad lack of turnip savvy has been corrected.

Baldur

Another surprise today is that for some reason playback is working again for me. It has been a couple months now that Baldur hasn't been able to get it to work.
I could also not view the pictures on their own pages, only the small versions in the gallery
matthew you are VERY naughty

Dragon

So are you planning on eating the turnips or saving them to plant next year. (If indeed that's what one does with turnips, I've only eaten them, not grown them)