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Post by bpg on Mar 31, 2022 18:31:02 GMT
Pisco sour: is that dessert or a drink ? Egg white ? Soufflé or Meringue?
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Post by WDB on Mar 31, 2022 18:32:34 GMT
Drink. Done well, it’s delightful. Needs practice, though. I’ve never mastered it.
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Post by dixinormus on Mar 31, 2022 19:18:24 GMT
If Humph can cover 300 miles in 5 hours on 5 gallons of fossil juice, in a mid-sized car, then it’s a pretty high benchmark IMHO.
Could an electric car beat it daily? Might use less energy, but might take longer? And where/how is the electricity being generated? A big coal-fired power station in Doncaster?!
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Post by Deleted on Mar 31, 2022 19:31:41 GMT
Pisco sour: is that dessert or a drink ? Egg white ? Soufflé or Meringue? A drink - WDB and I had both a Pisco Sour and a Ceviche when lunching together some years back. The Chileans and Peruvians argue about who owns it all the time. Probably the Peruvians do but a Gringo getting involved would be ill-advised. Everybody makes it a slightly different way, so it varies between different bars, restaurants and homes here, never mind drinking it in another country. The best thing to do is to make it according to a recipe, and then amend it, particularly the proportions, to your taste and once you like it simply claim it as the only correct one. This is a good starting place and gives you plenty of information with it. www.thespruceeats.com/clasico-pisco-sour-cocktail-recipe-3029217 |
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Post by Humph on Mar 31, 2022 19:32:53 GMT
Don’t wind him up Dixi ! 😉
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Post by Deleted on Mar 31, 2022 19:36:29 GMT
p.s. if you ever see a pisco sour recipe calling for lemons, it's wrong. Limes are required.
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Post by bpg on Mar 31, 2022 19:42:43 GMT
A drink - WDB and I had both a Pisco Sour and a Ceviche when lunching together some years back. 👍 Learn something new everyday. Brandy style drink combined with seafood would definitely be new for me (from what I've read), not sure about the egg in the drink though, it obviously works but to the unacquainted sounds like a challenge. |
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Post by bpg on Mar 31, 2022 19:46:32 GMT
Don’t wind him up Dixi ! 😉 Don't tell me he's moved Drax from t'North Yerkshire to the People's Republic of South Yorkshire 🙄 It hasn't been coal fired for a long, long time. It was one of the power stations I covered when I worked for National Power in the early 90s, also the last power station I visited when I left a subsequent employer in '97. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 31, 2022 19:52:29 GMT
A drink - WDB and I had both a Pisco Sour and a Ceviche when lunching together some years back. 👍 Learn something new everyday. Brandy style drink combined with seafood would definitely be new for me (from what I've read), not sure about the egg in the drink though, it obviously works but to the unacquainted sounds like a challenge. I cannot now remember if it was the first time that WDB had tried it, from vague memory I think that it was not. I've been drinking and eating South American food for so long that he'd probably give a mroe relevant impression than I. |
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Post by dixinormus on Mar 31, 2022 20:05:05 GMT
Might be safer sticking to Tequila in that part of the world, bpg?!
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Post by Deleted on Mar 31, 2022 20:24:52 GMT
Tequila? Safe? Hardly. I've got myself into some proper messes with tequila.
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Post by bpg on Mar 31, 2022 20:25:59 GMT
South America is not a place I've been, I probably should.
NZ too.
Australia I'm a bit meh! about. SWMBO has family there who I get on great with but the thought of everything wanting to do you in doesn't appeal. I've been in India, in hotels where the gardener's wander around with snakes minding their own business. Funny old world as they say.
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Post by WDB on Mar 31, 2022 20:29:22 GMT
Could an electric car beat it daily? Might use less energy, but might take longer? And where/how is the electricity being generated? A big coal-fired power station in Doncaster?! 1. Yes. 2. Possibly but not much. Traffic determines travel time far more than machinery. 3. Doesn't matter. This is a popular fleecy canard but a glance at the efficiency chasm shows that it makes no sense. All those megajoules that Humph's car turns into heat (as do yours and mine) are fossil in origin; there's no alternative. Even if all the electricity came from coal and gas (and in the UK it very much doesn't) it would still be a third of the fossil energy turned to heat by Humph's 'efficient' diesel car, never mind those burned by the ships and road tankers that delivered his fuel. |
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Post by WDB on Mar 31, 2022 20:32:58 GMT
Learn something new everyday. Brandy style drink combined with seafood would definitely be new for me (from what I've read), not sure about the egg in the drink though, it obviously works but to the unacquainted sounds like a challenge. It was my first one. I was there for several weeks over two visits and had a few more in that time. ElCh and I drank ours as aperitifs, with some pleasantly crisp local white to follow with the fish. It was a bright, not over-warm spring day in late November. All very pleasant. |
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Post by bpg on Mar 31, 2022 20:46:04 GMT
3. Doesn't matter. This is a popular fleecy canard but a glance at the efficiency chasm shows that it makes no sense. All those megajoules that Humph's car turns into heat (as do yours and mine) are fossil in origin; there's no alternative. Even if all the electricity came from coal and gas (and in the UK it very much doesn't) it would still be a third of the fossil energy turned to heat by Humph's 'efficient' diesel car, never mind those burned by the ships and road tankers that delivered his fuel. Does this future lack of 'warming' plunge the planet back to an ice age ? If all the heat from combustion disappears what is the consequence ? India has just bought a load of cheap gas or oil or both. Will they just bury that and not use it ? Problem is there is no coherent plan. The UK saving the planet is p155ing in the wind if all the major players are doing the opposite. |
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