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 ML> Nancy picked up ginger scones from the bakery in
 ML> the next building at the end of the parking lot.
 NB> They were available right there in the co-op, but had come from that
 NB> bakery in back...

I have this feeling they're actually part of the same
operation.

 ML> Somebody - probably Steve - got Natural Brew Outrageous ginger
 ML> ale, which was disappointingly noutrageous, pretty average actually.
 NB> Twas indeed Steve, and he also got a Natural Brew root beer which
 NB> wasn't bad... a tad better than the ginger ale, anyway...  definitely
 NB> better than the 88-cent stuff from Price Chopper.

Yeah, they were much better, but those were a buck for 12 oz.

 ML> I got hummus, lightly garlicked and even more lightly lemoned and
 ML> pretty much as good as the Air Canada version, which is my
 ML> gold standard,
 NB> Which got compared to the hummuses that Hafflys brought, one of which
 NB> was labled Lemony and was quite so...  ;)

I really despise overlemoned things (though I enjoy
overgarlicked ones).

 ML> and oil-cured olives, which were average, which
 ML> means pretty good to me, but most of this group didn't care for
 ML> olives in any form except oil.
 NB> I liked them quite well, actually...  I think Ruth took the remainder
 NB> home...  :)

Yeah, that's what I figured. I might have insisted on a few if
I had been thinking quickly enough.

 ML> Blue Sky beverages were on special, so I bought
 ML> cola - sweeter and less acid than Coke; Ruth thought it was
 ML> like Pepsi, I said RC;
 NB> my least favorite of the three...

My most favorite of the three but not by much of a margin.

 ML> orange cream - pretty good by all estimations; I found it acidy
 ML> and orangey but not creamy in any way (people call things with
 ML> vanilla "cream" for some reason);
 NB> Tasted somewhat like an orange creamsicle...

But not nearly as good.

 ML> cherry vanilla - some people thought it was like cough syrup,
 ML> but Nancy and I rather liked it.
 NB> Didn't taste at all like cough syrup to me... maybe the vanilla cut
 NB> that...?

There wasn't much vanilla. Anyhow, I liked this almost
as much as the cola; my estimation flip-flops, though.

 ML> Honey Acres chocolate mints - three ingredients, 99% dark
 ML> chocolate coating, 100% honey flavored with oil of peppermint.
 ML> Really good - If you bit in and chewed, you got something like
 ML> the after-dinner mint experience, but if you let the candy
 ML> melt in your mouth, you get this bitter chocolatiness followed
 ML> by a burst of intense minty honey. Good chocolate and good
 ML> honey and good mint. Can't go wrong.
 NB> None of those left at the end of the week, either...  :)

The last of them departed some days before the end of
the week.

 ML> Harry & David relishes - onion and pepper had a nice if puny
 ML> kick; red pepper and ancho chile tasted like sweet pepper
 ML> jelly, nothing special at all.
 NB> Also at that meal the red cabbage and apple first came out, to appear
 NB> as an accompaniment to various other meals... :)

Yeah, that semideliciousness that you couldn't eat and
I couldn't remember.

 ML> I didn't like the Zevia cola - it tasted really artificial to
 ML> me and actually not very sweet at all; plus it had caffeine.
 NB> It had a bitter (after)taste to me... part of the artificial-ly taste,
 NB> I'd guess...  At least I know not to get the Zevia soft drinks for me,
 NB> now...  ;)

Fersher.

Azafran & ron
category: booze
servings: 1

h - the infusion
2 to 3 saffron threads
1 bottle rum
h - saffron syrup
1 c water
1 c sugar
1 pn saffron
h - the cocktail
2 oz saffron rum
1/2 oz lemon juice
3/4 oz grapefruit juice
1/2 oz saffron syrup
h - the garnish
Solerno blood orange liqueur
maraschino cherry

Infuse saffron threads in rum for 2 days; remove threads.

Boil water and sugar until a syrup is formed. Add saffron.

Shake cocktail ingredients and double strain into chilled
cocktail glass. Add a mist of Solerno and garnish with
maraschino cherry.

Gonzolo Marin, Barraca, New York City
US Airways Magazine 6/2013

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