Taste
It has now been close to a year since I got my two sour dough starters going full blast. Mirka and Niedamir have performed admirably helping me produce a varied batch of sourdough loaves. Nowadays I hardly ever eat store bought bread. Each week I make at least two sourdough pan loaves that provide me with my daily bread. Its become a pleasant routine.
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Again with the rendered bacon... Yes and I think there will be more where this came from 'cause now the possibilities are endless. Smalec started of as a simple way for poor folk to preserve some bacon fat. Somebody added onions and it was better, somebody added apples and it was better still. I live in Southern California not far from the ocean and apples don't grow in my yard but mangoes do and so could peaches and apricots and nectarines and... Came up with this smalec variation out of necessity and it worked out real nice for me and the futur of smalec production everywhere.
Yes, all things considered, it's a strange combination. Xocolātl, also know as chocolate or cacao was widely used by the Aztecs in food and drinks. Kim quật is the Vietnamese name for a citrus fruit that originated in China and found great favor on the islands of Nippon. Combine the two by using an old Polish method of drowning stuff in vodka and you get a delicious Nalewka who's origin spans 3 continents.
Picture if you will the mandarin, the scholarly imperial bureaucrat immersed in poetry, the dedicated civil servant in his finest regalia sipping a dainty cup of expresso. Now picture the mandarin, the majestically orange, oblate fruit, the clementine or the tangerine pierced by the finest expresso beans and smothered in the waters of life. One more Mandarincafécello and I will have to pull out my copy of "The Selected Poems of Du Fu".
Meet my two new pets - Mirka and Niedamir. You'd think that with 3 dogs and 4 cats we would be done with taking on any more pet ownership responsibilities. But, these pets are easy. They live in the refrigerator. As long as you take them out about once a week, to feed and play with, they can live forever. Not good for snuggling or playing fetch, they can however help with an endless supply of delicious, sourdough baked goods.
