Looks awesome! I have recently been remiss in my posting of delicious things to this thread.
Random stuff
Making bubble-tea at home:
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Delicious tortilla-pizza:
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Failed attempt to fry some weird Japanese oreos:
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Homemade pesto, with lots of garlic, and walnuts substituted for pine-nuts (which definitely improves it, plus makes it a lot a less expensive!)
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Making delicious Soup:
Start by chopping up lots of onions of garlic, add a teensy about of chicken broth, and lots of butter, and let it simmer in the bottom of the pot for a while. Then add the rest of your broth (about a quart total), and a pound of chopped-up chicken breast.
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Once it's boiling again, add veggies (carrots, celery), and spices (sage, thyme, bayleaf, and black pepper).
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Finally chop up a potato, and add it, along with a can of black beans:
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I like to keep the bean-juice in for extra flavor and extra liquid in the broth, but if you're particularly sensitive to the digestive effects of black beans, you may want to opt for a different way of adding more flavoring + padding the liquid content.
Making Rice/Raisin Wine
Yeast food! A pound each of white and brown sugar.
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A pound of rice, ground in the blender. Plus two cinnamon sticks:
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Blend up a lot of raisins, along with some lime-zest (and a cup or two of water to keep things flowing):
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Juice the lime and add it to the rice powder:
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Boil the raisin-puree, and the sugar, along with 3 more quarts of water:
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Mix it all up. Make sure your brewing container will be able to release gas (we use a loose-fitting cap, but you can use fancier set-ups too):
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Let it cool for a while! Keep checking with a thermometer, until it reaches yeast-friendly temperatures. Then add a few teaspoons of active dry yeast (or fancier yeast, if you have it). Wait a while (up to an hour, but probably less) and make sure the yeast is happy and burping out gas. If something goes wrong, refrigerate the mixture and go buy new yeast / add more from a source that you know is happy and healthy.
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Let it sit for a few weeks, swirling once or twice a day to keep it all mixed up. Then filter, bottle, and enjoy.