Welcome to #BikeNite on Friday, January 9th.
Thanks for joining our chat about cycle-related stuff. Answer whenever at your convenience. Anyone can join, now or later. Reply to what you like, and boost for visibility.
Our intro:
Q1. Where are you posting from today? And a non-cycling question: What is something tasy that you ate recently?
@ascentale @bikenite #BikeNite A1: Back from very cycly season's holidays, i.e. at home in Zurich, Switzerland. During my holidays, I discovered jam with basil. Mjam! 🤤
@bikenite A1. Hello, I am back in Oakland, CA! Something tasty I had is a homemade cider. We visited a friend's place months ago, and had too much apple cider to drink. When it started fermenting natrually, I picked up a packet of cider yeast and tried making real hard cider.
I haven't done this before, and it didn't taste that great. I read about bottle conditioning and bottled, then added some sugar to carbonate.
Last night I finally tried some (and lost half of the cider when all the CO2 was released 😢 ) but it tasted really good!
@ascentale @bikenite A1. In a city near Frankfurt, Germany, as usual. This area is very famous for what we call "Äpfelwein". Some kind of cider. If you are ever coming to Frankfurt area you must taste it - with or without CO2! It's being sold everywhere.
@ascentale @bikenite A1. Santa Clara, CA. Today I liberated the right side mirror from a BMW with my shoulder (it overtook me, and turned into me to get into a parking lot. Fortunately it stopped or I would have plowed right into its door). I’m ok, but I have to look over the bike tomorrow. (And the groceries in my backpack were ok).
For Christmas I baked vegetarian Haggis Wellington. I first baked it on a whim maybe six years ago and it is now a Christmas tradition. Sooooo good!
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@rand @ascentale @bikenite Wow. Good to know you're OK.
@ascentale @bikenite A1. From my usual Seattle. Had a bit of a cold so things haven't been tasting as good lately, but the waffle cone gelato I had this afternoon managed to trigger my taste buds and also sooth my throat.
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@dgodon @ascentale @bikenite Get well soon!
@ascentale @bikenite
A1.
Posting from Arden, Ontario, a teensy village right on the Trans-Canada Trail. It's winter here so the trail is the domain of the snowmobiles right now, but I'm looking forward to spring and cycling season.
My wife recently made a ginormous blueberry cheesecake, so I've been monching on that all week. Still tuning the crust, but the cheesecake part is spot-on, and the recipe is for a very big cheesecake.
@ascentale @bikenite A1: Sydney Australia where we're officially having a heatwave (predicting over 40°C over much of NSW). So today my version of tasty is iced peppermint tea :)
@moz @ascentale @bikenite I am looking forward to see spring again in Europe, but 40 °C sounds a bit too hard!
@moira @moz @ascentale @bikenite Ditto! Limit here is about 32C.
@ascentale @bikenite #BikeNite A1
NW suburbs of Minneapolis. I routinely visit South Minneapolis; have friends and family there and enjoy the cultural amenities. Food, art museums, etc. Appreciate the cycling infrastructure, though it’s not super-well maintained during winter. There’s way too much ICE on the streets.
Posting with a heavy heart.
@MarkBrigham @ascentale @bikenite My wife didn't get it when I told her about ICE recently. "What did the ice cream man do? ..." So now I rather say Gestapo than ICE. (Being German it is hard to use this word, especially in a currently active context.)
@ascentale @bikenite #BikeNite A1. Home in rainy Northern New England, today. Somethings tasty I ate recently were my first attempt at making お好み焼き okonomiyaki at home, and also some 竜田揚げ tatsuta-age (Japanese style fried chicken) with sweet-sour pickled Jalapeño chiles and rice with のり佃煮 nori tsukudani.
@ascentale @bikenite A1. Tirana, Albania.
It's hard to get ingredients to make many foods I miss here, so something I got excited about was making some ersatz gringo tacos with the ingredients I could get. #BikeNite
