#fafo friday

[batteredshoes]

Buzzcocks | Something's Gone Wrong Again

[ottopilott]

Work couldn't even wait until I'd had coffee and breakfast before getting weird.

Weird is part of the job description, toxic is not, so nobody better fuck with me on a Friday.

[redshiftsinger]

FAFO Friday

The Fucking Around Experimented with lemonbalm, because it grows in my garden with great abundance and while it makes a pleasant tea, it's really not my favorite tea herb either solo or in blends, so I don't end up using it very much. Sometimes a bit as a salad accent flavor, but the leaves are kinda stiff and hairy so it's not the optimal mouthfeel. Decided to try cooking it to see what happens, since some other mint-family herbs (eg bee balm, nettle) make decent cooked greens.

Risk assessment: worst-case likely scenario is putting something of unpleasant taste and/or texture in my mouth, which I'm allowed to spit out if I hate it.

The Finding Out Turns out lemonbalm does not make a very pleasant steamed green. Tastes fine, but the stiffness of the leaves doesn't go away with cooking so the texture's moderately bad. Would eat again if very hungry and lacking in other options, but can't recommend otherwise. I doubt that sauteeing would produce better results, and although it would probably be fine if chopped up small before mixing into an omelette that's more work than it's worth when other greens that cook down better are plentiful.

HOWEVER, if simmered for a while it produces a truly delightful broth, which I like better than the results of treating it as a herbal tea just for drinking straight, and which would make an excellent base for a nice rich soup. Can definitely see making use of more of the lemonbalm abundance to add depth of flavor to homemade soup stocks of many kinds.

[inkandguns]

My Gen z coworkers say that boots and shorts cannot be done. It is a fashion faux pas in their minds. I disagree.

[bosmang]

Sometimes... you just gotta call people out.