Three Tasty Things

[jesse_the_k]

• MyGuy makes BLTs twice a year. He sets aside three strips of crispy bacon for my delectation. This week I went wild: gluten-free buckwheat crackers generously slathered with creamy simple peanut butter and then crowned with bacon bits. It was a party in my mouth! All the textures, lots of tasty fat, lots much crunch.
• Oatly Chocolate Dessert is pretty damn wonderful. Oat milk brings a creamy mouth feel very close to milk. The chocolate is not as dark as I’d love, but being able to eat ice cream without starting a war in my guts is excellent.
• Another sky picture! Brown prairie, bare trees, rolling hills dominated by medium blue sky with five contrail artifacts and low clouds coming in from the south. Indian Lake Park, Dane Co, Wisconsin — 10 December 2020 — 50 degrees F

Comments

[sonia]

Oooh I like the sky picture!

I was just outside cleaning my bike and oiling the chain, since it's only raining a tiny bit right now. It's 40 degrees F and my hands are only slowly thawing back out. What I want to know is, why is it warmer there than here???

[jesse_the_k]

Warmth was Thursday -- record high of 53 in town. (Record low is -19°F.) Right now it's 20°F with ~4 inches of snow on the ground.

Gotta say, when Wisconsin brings weather it doesn't hold back.

[sonia]

Oh. Definitely wouldn't be out doing bike maintenance in that! Nor riding either (cold maybe, snow absolutely not) so that would be okay.

Easier than you'd think

[jesse_the_k]

There are dedicated winter riders in Madison, and they've successfully lobbied to include the major bike paths in the "1st pass plow routes," which also include bus lines, hospitals, and (in other days) schools.

Re: Easier than you'd think

[sonia]

That's awesome! Plowing is barely a thing here at all.

[yourlibrarian]

Nice shot, all that open sky.

[jesse_the_k]

Thanks

[sheafrotherdon]

That's a beautiful photo!

[jesse_the_k]

<3

[julian]

Noice. I miss prairie.

Have a lake sky. (If you don't mind random pictures in your comments, anyway?)



This one has more of the shore's ground (well, any of it), but I loved the sunset-enabled manifold colors of grey.

thank you so much

[jesse_the_k]

As I may have mentioned I LOVE SKY PICTURES! That first one is going right to my desktops.

Noice! I finally get why people like Brooklyn 99.

My pal sasha_feather thinks they should just restart as a workplace comedy somewhere else: a municipal library or hospital?

[bibliofile]

Oooh, nice photos too: sky, water, land -- important elements.

[jesse_the_k]

Ha! I hadn't noticed! (I cropped out MyGuy & Bella, which ticks the "living creatures" boxes. Only thing missing is beer!)

[bibliofile]

Well, the water was in julian's lake photo.

[jesse_the_k]

boom.

[julian]

Also: Why only twice a year?

[jesse_the_k]

Well, it's twice this year. Given that I had bacon again tonight and he had to put up with my moaning with pleasure, it may be different in 2021.

[julian]

Ah, oh, that makes sense.

(Btw, I think the second half of your comment upstream to me was meant for someone else? Unless *I'm* not getting something about Brooklyn 99?)

[jesse_the_k]

Jake, the straight white guy foil, says noice a lot. I don't know if it's supposed to be an accent or just something goofy (he hopes his goofy makes him charming; his work-family tolerates him).

[julian]

Oh! Ha. Thank you for that context, I am otherwise a TV-less confused person. (Though I have thought about mainlining it, actually. Just haven't gotten around to it.)

[ismo]

I love that prairie sky! It's one thing I miss in Michigan. But we do have lake sky.

[jesse_the_k]

Lake sky is excellent. With the exception of the terrifying orange skies from the West Coast this year, I've never seen a sky I've disliked.

[replyhazy]

Great photo. So Midwesterny.

[jesse_the_k]

Our tax dollars at work :,)

peanut butter and bacon

[tarasacon]

I grew up eating peanut butter and dill pickle sandwiches, courtesy of my father, but everyone else thought this was weird. I remember in grade school another student often had peanut butter and bacon sandwiches. We didn’t enjoy each other’s flavor combinations, but we very much had a sense of solidarity around regularly enjoying the consumption of supposedly “weird” food. Then in high school I met someone who ate pb&banana, and later pb&shredded carrot.

These days I might enjoy the pb&bacon combo more than my beloved pb&pickle. Or maybe pb, bacon, AND pickles! Unfortunately peanuts are borderline for me (I started showing sensitivity to them a couple years ago) so I no longer eat peanut butter and anything. Sadness!

Re: peanut butter and bacon

[jesse_the_k]

Were the pickles sliced thin to fit in the sandwiches? They sound like a tasty treat!

Peanut allergy is serious business. Working on WisCon access issues we searched for peanut butter alternatives -- it's a winning combo in terms of low cost, high protein. Roasted soy bean butter is the closest. Almond butter is the tastiest, and sunflower seed button is ... often rancid.

Re: peanut butter and bacon

[tarasacon]

Sliced anywhere from quarter to half inch thick, depending on the parent preparing them (when I was little) or on my mood (when I was old enough to take over making my own sandwiches). Enough substance to provide crunch and body. It's a different experience from a sandwich with textural homogeneity, like with honey or jam.

The downside to pb& pickle is that after a few hours the acid from the pickles turns the peanut butter it contacts kinda pale and slimy looking. If you have to open it up to readjust pickle slices that are trying to escape, you learn to ignore that.

Re: peanut butter and bacon

[tarasacon]

Peanut allergy is serious business.

Yeah, a few years ago when I realized that my immune system had started developing sensitivities to various foods, especially things I regularly ate in large quantity, I quit tree nuts and peanuts at the earliest signs rather than risk having it become a Big Thing. It sucked to give them up, but the good news is that by not eating any for a couple years, I now no longer react to the occasional rare exposure/ingestion. Their absence apparently let my body dial it back a few notches, calm down some.