I have had quite delightful frozen Midori margaritas and
daiquiris served in Hurricane glasses years ago in Hawaii.

Doubtless part of the delight was being in Hawaii.

You're right. They didn't taste the same back home. I looked it up

It's too bad, that. Would save a lot on
airplane tickets.

and the place still exists after all this time. I was there in 1980
when it was new and shiny. It didn't serve food though back then,
just 90 cent drinks. It was a meat market and I was single.

There are moments when I wish I were in the market,
but most of the time, no.

https://moosemcgillycuddys.com/

I've been there! Twice, I think - once with
Carol Bryant and once without. Frightening.

What is it with McGillicuddy and variants
in the popular consciousness? It used to
be a laughed-at name. Connie Mack, formerly
the owner of the Philadelphia Phillies, was
actually Cornelius Alexander McGillicuddy.

it was Canute.

The two interpretations I've seen are that
he was a power-mad megalomaniac blowhard or
that he did it to prove that even royal power
was nothing compared to the majesty of God.

Based on his track record he was probably pretty smart, so I suspect
the latter.

He wasn't to be caught Canutelling, eh.

Things in the willow family, I forget the
botanic term, perhaps Salacious, contain
salicylates (hence the name), which tend to
taste wintergreeny.

Some do. White willow is very wintergreeny.

They're also anticoagulants.

the qualities of pigs fed with various wholesome
people-worthy ingredients such as apples and
acorns vs. pig chow and swill.

Bill feeds his misshapen, wormy, rotten cabbages and rutabagas to
them but not for the last six weeks of their life. That's when they

Hey dude, where's my rotten cabbages? Oh, no ...

get treated with sweet corn, apples and barley mash. After the
first frost they get to run amok in what's left of the family the
garden and feast on lettuces, melons and anything else they desire.
They tend to ignore things like onions.

Maybe they're supertasters.

a grinder just for strong spices.

Roslind has a different one for her coffee beans.

Curry coffee might be interesting.

I am unsure about that. But I have made coffee with half a cracked
nutmeg, one cinnamon stick and a couple of allspice berries in the
filter basket along with Demerara sugar. After it's brewed the pot
gets couple of drops of vanilla and a swig or two of rum.

Mulled coffee, that sounds pretty good, but too
much nutmeg.

Speaking of which, vanilla extract is back down to $8 from $20 for a
bottle so I guess the vines have recovered from the cyclone damage

Bonnie was agonizing about the price of the
stuff until I showed her a pint of Nielsen-Massey
in her cupboard. She was a happy gascar.

and are producing in quantity again. (I was about to give up and buy artificial vanilla for the Christmas baking but was pleasantly
surprised at the store.)

Fake vanilla is perfectly fine for many
things (I prefer it for some), and at a
buck for a 4 oz bottle you can't beat it
with a stick.

How far down is bedrock in such places?
Ice is getting unreliable these days.

Inuvik is situated on the Mackenzie River's delta and bedrock is
very deep. Typically the first meter of soil is subject to a
seasonal freeze/thaw cycle. The next 6-10 meters tends to be the
permafrost zone, and sometimes much more. Bedrock can be 40 or more
meters down.

So if it warms up to any substantial
degree, there's no place to go but down.

Yellowknife has patches of discontinuous permafrost in places that
grow and shrink on a seasonal basis but never goes away completely. Naturally we don't try to support our building foundations on that.

Yeah. In Barrow we visited sites where the permafrost has
become permamuck, to the detriment of older structures and
likely the rest of the local civilization.

We've lost a few buildings here in recent years.

Silt happens.

Title: Cranberry Pineapple Gin & Juice
From: Www.Tanqueray.Com

The inventors of Tony Sinclair, just sayin'.

... Curry: take all the spices in your cupboard and mix them together.

Close enough with the caveat that herbs and
spices are not the same thing (we tend to
confuse them, and even I often misspeak).

Mentholmint Patty
categories: booze, herbal
servings: 1

2 parts Dr. McGillicuddyÿs Mentholmint
1 part chocolate liqueur

Serve as a chilled shot or over ice.

M's note: reverse the proportions.

"Dr. McGillicuddy's Recipes for success"
drmcgillicuddy.com/recipes
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