#muddled

[refinedstorage]

ooooooh this is hard

[posthumanwanderings]

Outlaw Star: Leave Gene Starwind in the Dark

[getting-messi]

The colours of these kits are confusing me

[spacecatpoetry]

Gemineye

Eye of summer,

not quite fixed

Burnt orange and cherry heat,

Shades of the sun

Flax white hair, dirty blonde in time

Dark thoughts growing down the strands

Lonely as the stray cat

I can’t catch

Two shapes, more than that,

A different shape for every moment

I’m not my sign

I don’t believe in that

Or anything

But moderate extremes

And keeping my I’s dry

[plighthouse]

[makedata]

A wave of Majestic dawn by lorcachi // From beyond the horizon, a fresh morning sun made a glimpse of the face! In the best moments of the morning I was excited to cross the light and wave. Wonderful Photoshop Forget everything to volley, immerse yourself in this moment, the grand Earth Thank you for the atmosphere of the screen!

[thebackoftheshelf]

Nectarine Smash

60ml bourbon (Woodford Reserve)

15ml lemon juice

15ml simple syrup

12+ mint leaves

1 nectarine

Peel and slice the nectarine, remove the stone, and muddle thoroughly in one half of the shaker. In the other, gently muddle the mint with the lemon juice and syrup, before adding the whiskey and combining. Shake hard and fine strain over ice into a tumbler. Garnish liberally with mint, a nectarine slice, and a cherry.

I bought some nectarines a few days earlier, and could smell them from across the room while playing guitar this evening. Realising I’d never had a Whiskey Smash before, I popped out to grab some mint, came home, and made this. Smashes are traditional cocktails with no fixed ingredients outside of the mint and seasonal fruit (though were primarily made with whiskey), but whether the lemon juice and simple matches tradition I’m not quite sure. It seemed fairly natural to include them, though I wouldn’t have used any more than I did.

I think the nectarine could have done with a few more days, to get it softer and jucier, but this was delicious. With a thicker than expected texture, the whiskey opens up the sip with the nutty flavours I find present in Whiskey Sours, before the mint gets involved and finally the nectarine rounding it off. 

Traditional recipe.

[bryantmcgill]

Muddled thoughts and intentions create a muddled life. Get clear. — Bryant McGill