#bovel

[rtgrff]

Bday gift for @olenibovel

✨ Happy Birthday! ✨

[dearinnerfatkid]

Measurements: 10 months

Weight: 142,4 kg (- 1,3 kg)

Waistline: 143 cm (-1 cm)

Chest: 125 cm (- 4 cm)

Biceps: 40 cm (0)

Dex. Thigh: 73 cm (0)

Sin. Thigh: 68 cm (- 2 cm)

A total loss off 11,2 kg since start, a combined loss of 7 cm this last month. Not sure what my thighs are up to though... Considering sharing some progress photos by the end of the year.

[bovel]

Now that I've (kind of) got the hang of Scrying and Excavation of Antiquities in ESO: Greymoor, the grind shall continue in hopes to reach skills of Mythic proportions! *cackles* Going live on #twitch tomorrow (5th of August) at 7AM EDT/11AM UTC.

"Sometimes... it's just bones."  /Lord Odo Claudelaire, probably

https://www.twitch.tv/beardedbovel

Screenshot: by me.

[patsythegreaser]

When you get that Fallout-feeling!

[ritokaizen]

Bovel, Battambang #battambang #bovel #mrmab #ritokaizen #banana (at Phum Bavel, Batdambang, Cambodia)

[lescrayonsdeflorine]

Recherches et rendu final pour l’affiche de la fête du chant 2017. Merci encore à l’association L’Epille pour cette collaboration !

L’édition 2016 reste gravée dans ma mémoire comme une parenthèse magique, je ne pourrai malheureusement pas assister à celle-ci mais je ne peux qu’encourager les amateurs de chant à y aller...

[sunderlorn]

@bovel replied to your post “Coq au Vin is wank, guys. I’m just saying. Like, this might be an...”

I'm gonna plead ignorance and ask what's the biggest difference between Coq au Vin and Pollo alla Caccioatore according to you? Browsing recipes via Google didn't really enlighten me...

Okay so, to my mind -- and this may not consider the most authentic versionings of either dish -- the main difference is just in Pollo alla Cacciatora including...more?

The way I’d go about making it, there’s salted anchovies melted into the oil and garlic and so on at the start, adding this salty umami dimension. There’s olives adding buttery sweetness and flashes of sourness, textual variance throughout. There’s tomatoes adding body to the sauce and stopping it going that disappointing wall-paper-paste-y purple that cooked red wine sadly goes, instead of retaining its colour. In my experience it’s also just bolder with stronger aromatic herbs and possibly black spices: rosemary, black pepper, nutmeg maybe.

And I suppose that last point for me hammers home the key difference. Pollo alla Cacciatora has retained its rusticity --- it might include such-and-such, one might add so-and-so, include etcetera to taste, and the protein itself may vary. It’s not a dish so much as a style of cooking. You cook a thing ‘alla cacciatora’. It’s not nearly so sacrosanct a thing. It’s not the time-honoured stubbornly same-same territory of farmers. It’s food for poachers, by poachers. It’s equal parts foraged and hunted.

So yeah. The fact that it’s a game stew, rather than a farmyard festival dish, tarted up with mediterranean store cupboard oddments (anchovies, olives, wine, a garden’s worth of herbs), and is robust and intense in flavour as opposed to tip-toeing insipidly... To me, that’s the difference. Others will feel differently. Others may even cook versions of either dish which compare differently. But this is the dynamic, in my experience, and to my mind.

[dearinnerfatkid]

Measurements: post-quarantine

(7 months in, post 2-month quarantine and 4-week vacation)

Weight: 145,4 kg (+ 5,6 kg)

Waistline: 145 cm (+ 3 cm)

Chest: 132 cm (+ 1 cm)

Biceps: 40 cm (+ 1 cm)

Dex. Thigh: 74 cm (+ 3 cm)

Sin. Thigh: 71 cm (+ 2 cm)

A weight gain of 5,6 kilos leaving the total weight loss at 8,2 kg.