A Good Imagination and a Pile of Junk

Yeah I just realized at 2 am as I started to post that there was nothing good about posting at 2 am.

Having seen this link, I decided on Saturday night that the right thing to do the next day was make candied ginger. So I spent a few hours on Sunday doing that. It’s excellent. I undertook the escapade with a “well how bad could it possibly be?” But it came out far better than that.

Far FAR better than the candied ginger itself is the resulting ginger syrup. I went to Cook’s Companion on Atlantic Avenue and bought a few bottles. But I only had enough for one of them.

Thinking about it I realized I was definitely going to need more. So yesterday I went through the whole process again. Unfortunately I wasn’t thinking and put the stuff on the stove at a little before 10 last night. Now, the stuff takes three hours to boil down. But it’s worth it.

Now I have three bottles of

Plus more than a couple fluttering eyelashes over twitter. Figures. Bitches man… they all want me for my candy.

Still got some cleanup to do (boiling sugar does tend to get around.)

In 48 hours I’ve gone from “ooh ginger!” to “if I never see another damn piece of that vile root again it will be too soon.”

S’ok. It always happens with stuff I make. By January I’m saying the same thing about oatmeal cookies and egg nog. (ooh, that reminds me. It’s a few weeks away from time to start the nog.)

So yeah. That’s what I’ve been up to on THAT front.

(I figure I’ll do these one at a time. It’s the only way they’re gonna get done.)

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