Witch-King

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☁️🗡️ more fuel ash teal, she/her Minneapolis, obviously

Dinner with distant family visiting from Hong Kong and all the talk of traveling finally drove me to make the dessert in HK I miss most, ginger milk curd

Four ramekins of pudding made by splashing hot milk and sugar onto fresh ginger juice, which curdles the milk. I haven’t tried to grate ginger in years, because it’s so much work; and I’ve never tried to do the classic version (ie not steamed egg whites or silken tofu), because I’ve been too nervous to use a cooking thermometer.

Constantly forgetting and shocked to discover again that huge swathes (a majority???) of The Lord of the Rings fans are white supremacists. I’m the idiot here, I guess.

Every year, I hope I get to finally try a Sweet 16 variety apple, and every year something goes wrong. The tree didn’t even blossom last year, and I thought this year only the Honeycrisp trunk did. But lo! a single Sweet 16 apple is pollinated.

Small apples starting to grow on the Honeycrisp branches in the foreground. On a distant branch in the back, a helpful red arrow points to but One little Sweet 16 variety apple developing.My only hope this year