Working on fermenting Mustard right now. Otherwise, how is it September already?

Hope y'all are doing well!

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We finished and blended the fermented hot sauce this weekend. It tastes great, funky, spicy, but a bit yeasty. Not sure if we had too much fruit in the ferment or what else might have been the problem. But it's real yummy and we're excited to be using it. cgod.

Applied to a job with the most hellish monopoly on earth, PG & E. I didn't understand the hate for them then I moved to CA and damn now I get it. And yet they pay well and seem to have stable jobs. So here we are.

Hope y'all are well this week! Hard to believe September is just a few days away

Hell yeah!! Let me know what you make I've explored maybe 10-20% of the book there's a ton more there and they're all just perfect recipes. I really want to try the croissants with homemade compound butters. She's got a pesto butter ham and cheese croissant and hot damn I haven't done the work on that yet but it just sounds so delectable

Today's picture is someone making a mojito with their homemade moonshine. It's fun finding a new bootleg pubski picture at work every week!

Alright what's new? I've been doing some baking recently. Made soft pretzels last week and scallion pancakes this week. Both recipes are from the book Savory Baking by Erin McDowell. I can't sing the praises of the book enough it's got so many killer savory baking recipes. If you like baking its fabulous. The rough puff pastry is stellar I've made pies and pastries with it and there's a Broccoli Rabe and Ricotta Galette that uses that which still has to be one of the most dangerous and delicious things I've ever made.

Work is still work. Still waiting on the federal government to release the work plans so I'm still in a holding pattern and applying to jobs slowly.

Hope y'all are well!

Hot sauce update: so we put it together this past weekend and it's fermenting away. It was a few types of Chiles and peppers, and it's also got peaches and mangoes, and cardamom pods, dried hibiscus, and cinnamon sticks. It stared by smelling super strong and spicy. But we may have fucked up and put in too much fruit because now it just smells like alcohol lol. Going to be interesting to try whenever that happens. Probably give it another week to a month of ferment before we blend and bottle it up.

In work news, we've had a meeting space reserved for around a month now for an event the week of labor day. It's just a job-owned space, nothing exciting. But the county heads decided they want it at the same time and place for a meeting they have, so they're kicking us out 3 weeks out to find a new space if we have to move the time of it. Apparently not the first time this has happened either. The original space was Centrally located for our external partners, free for us to use, has plenty of parking for free, and is plenty large enough. No other space will meet all those requirements. So now I get to play those games which is super cool.

I'm excited to get the update! I've got a friend who makes his own and he really enjoys it, especially playing with flavors.

So yeah Texas did something about moving towards not criminalizing hobby distilling. Doubt it'll make any federal moves, but it always seemed fun so if something does come from it who knows!

Beyond that, I found an article the other day about making homemade fermented hot sauce so I'll be setting up a ferment this weekend and letting that sit for a bit and making hot sauce with it. Maybe it'll be spicier than Tim Walz's couch fucker quote. That's the benchmark.

Hope y'all are well!

One day! If you're ever around for business too you should definitely stop by. I don't have anything coming up by you anytime soon unfortunately but hopefully that will change!

We haven't had one of these in weeks! At work so I can't find a good #bootlegpubski picture so if y'all can, decorate with your own #bootlegpubski picture! My last bootlegpubski post had illegal liquor from the illegal distilling reddit page.

Had a great time getting together with kleinbl00 this past weekend. Got some good food, better liquor, and the best time. His new workshop is going to be absolutely incredible and I can't wait for the finished product tour we all deserve. Check out rezzeJ's weekly music post for kb's music recommended I am currently listening to as I post this. We also got to talk about emergency management and the fact that there will in fact be more pandemics in the future.

Otherwise the job has been what the job has been recently. Have to work Saturday, but my shitty boss won't let me flex the following week, so I really only have a 1 day weekend which is bullshit.

Hopa y'all are well!

Was with kb the other day and he introduced me to W O L F C L U B and their new album Canyons. It's great, would recommend

https://newretrowave.bandcamp.com/album/canyons

Yeah! Ended up being gifted a Zoleo so we used that, though the InReach looks pretty damn great.

Trip overall was wonderful. 11,000 ft of elevation got to us, as did the unexpected snow. We couldn't find any info on what we were attempting online (Gaylor Lakes to Saddlebag Lakes if anyone is curious) and apparently that's because Gaylor Lakes area only opened a few years back. Turns out, the only reasonable (Not cliff) way down to Saddlebag 1000 feet below is currently covered in snow. It was impossible to find trail conditions before leaving, so we were just winging it a bit, especially since the region we were hiking doesn't have trails and it's all just cross country make your own way. So we called it on our second day due to elevation + snow making our path impossible to cross. The views were absolutely stunning though. We were quite possibly among the first people to camp in that area in a loooooong time and it was gorgeous. Once we left the trail we didn't see or hear a single person. Milky way was crystal clear at night. Only sounds were wind and water and mosquitos. It was a truly wonderful adventure, even if it had to be cut short.

Going on a 3 day 2 night 20ish mile backpacking adventure this weekend. Spending my work day meal prepping and packing and sending the occasional email.

Also if you haven't listened to Mavis Staples' new single you should. Almost 85, still a killer voice, and an absolute killer song:

Oh yeah it's wild. It's basically a small city. Place has to have over 1500 residents. Primarily independent living/apartments, but also has higher levels of care and 24/7 physicians. It's a massive campus. They've check on you every day to make sure you didn't die overnight. They've got multiple dining room options. Since it's in a location that gets both really hot and really cold, everything is connected too by heated/cooled bridges so you never have to go outside and risk slipping on ice or having heat stroke. Place is absolutely bonkers.

My grandmother is using her retirement to educate the fuck outta her retirement community. She hosted a meeting today on "Limitatianism" and extreme wealth, she's working on forcing a historical site she helped fundraise for to use the funds to create an exhibition about the history of the site and its use of slaves, she helps run a TV show for the community that's teaching people not to be racist or sexist or any other ist/ic, she helps run a human library where you can borrow people and hear their life story, things like growing up gay in the 40s and 50s. Some people get annoyed with her. I love it.