Lonita's Lockdown Lab
2020 | journal
Lonita's Lockdown Canteen - 2020 04 28
I got one of those meal kit subscription boxes as a free trial, but since I don’t have the patience to deal with all those instructions (nor the desire to do anything about that) ...
I opened up a couple of the packets and threw some eggs in. Some of the other packets will end up in a soup in my slow cooker - which requires no effort - especially the sweet potato chunks so I won’t have to taste them.
Episode one from Lonitaâ€'s Lockdown Canteen (there is no English L synonym for kitchen, that I know of).
Lonita's Lockdown Lab - 2020 05 08
Questions you never knew you wanted the answers to until I finally got bored enough to ask them. It was 2020, and Lonita's kitchen called...
Ever since the dawn of the Brita filter I’ve always wondered what would happen to anything not water that you put through one. I have chosen Minute Maid orange juice, for two reasons. One, because it was on sale for a dollar, and two, because there’s nothing you can do to Minute Maid brand orange juice that could possibly make it taste any worse. It beats all how someone could take a fruit as sweet and delicious as an orange and turn it into something so bitter and nasty as Minute Maid.
It still tastes like Minute Maid post Brita, if a touch blander. I hadn’t planned on doing anything remotely useful with that filter since they don’t filter tap water sufficiently enough to make me want to drink it. Milk next maybe? What say ye?
Update: Well, ugh. There was absolutely zero milkness to the milk. It felt like milk does in the mouth, but it had no flavour. It was almost worse than drinking skim milk. Currently working on some non-alcoholic beer that was foisted on me.
Lonita's Lockdown Lab - 2020 05 08
Questions you never knew you wanted the answers to until I finally got bored enough to ask them. It was 2020, and Lonita's kitchen called...
I love radishes. I love that bitterness and the strong flavour. But we always eat them raw. I have never in my life seen a cooked radish - until now.
This has perturbed me for years, decades. I have finally done something about it. I boiled two for just under 10 minutes. Two because just in case I liked the first one I had another to have right off. The rest are in the fridge safe and still raw.
The boiled water started turning green, the radishes started turning not red.
They felt like eating any root vegetable that wasn't boiled too mush. The strong bitterness is gone, but there is a flavour, though not a particularly strong one. They aren't bad.