Hollis

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A large cardboard box full of donut peaches next to a smaller box of dark red cherries.
A box full of shrink-wrapped board game components. On top is a stack of instruction manuals, and under those is a pile of dry-erase markers and wooden cubes in plastic bags. The cards and boards are under the markers, but they’re not visible in the photo.
A lake, which the author of this post is currently beside. Well, there are some trees and chairs and a grill and a smoker between the author and the lake. But I don’t think it’s arguable that I’m not “lakeside”
A large stainless steel mixing bowl full of colorful pasta salad, the rough recipe for which can be found in the replies to this post.
Screenshot of a weather info panel indicating that today was 26°F hotter than average in Seattle, with an observed high of 90°F compared to an average of 64°F for this time of year.
A drawstring fabric bag that clearly has some objects inside
My hand, dyed purplish red from chopping roasted beets, hovering above a bowl of chopped beets
The front and back faces of the redesigned player board, printed out on my home printer and cropped to size, with safe zones marked on the edges. The front face has the letters A through G arranged in a 7-gon, with triangular segments in rainbow colors. The back face trades the colorful shapes for a more mathematical-looking diagram where circled letters are connected by dashed lines to form a complete graph on seven vertices.
A hand holds aloft a matte black soup bowl, contrasting sharply with a deep golden soup inside it. The bowl is slightly tilted, giving a sense that the soup is quite thick and rich.
A shallow white bowl with a wide rim, in which is a steaming pile of white rice, red lentil curry, and a small topping of fried onions and bell peppers.
On a white plate, a pile of fried tofu tossed in a bright red sauce. A layer of rice is just visible underneath in some spots, and it’s been garnished with sesame seeds.
A 10-oz glass bottle of Red Rock Golden Ginger Ale. “Just The Right Bite!™”
A cast-iron pan with some sourdough toast, roasted tomatoes, and re-roasted thick-cut turkey thighs.
A foil pan with the stuffing from upthread, but now with the top nicely toasted. The pan is covered with foil, which has been peeled back to serve
The same thighs from the prior post, except now the skin is gorgeously browned and crispy
Eight turkey thighs with pale, flabby skin on a sheet tray, about to go into an oven to fix that skin problem. It’s truly unfortunate that you can’t smell them through the alt text, though. They’re phenomenal.
A foil pan packed with a bread, vegetable, and meat stuffing.
A dutch oven with a bunch of finely diced vegetables, softened after cooking. There’s a wooden spoon with the end fully immersed in the veggies.
A pan with perhaps more than “just a little” bacon, cut into lardons
A wide pasta bowl filled with cavatappi covered in a stark white cream sauce
A vacuum sealed bag containing two turkey thighs, some duck fat, and a bay leaf
A pitcher of cloudy peach-colored liquid on a table next to a bowl with a slightly clearer version of the same. Atop the bowl there’s a fine mesh strainer lined with a coffee filter.
A different pot containing a thick cream, speckled with black pepper and thyme. There’s a spoon resting across the top and a ladle sitting in the cream. There’s also a phone shadow, but hey, I never claimed to be as good a photographer as I am a cook.
Top-down view of a pot containing puréed parsnips. An immersion blender stands proudly in it.
Yours truly, sitting at my market booth
Fifty-three CTF starter packs in a cardboard box. The starter packs are sorted into stacks by variant
Two sheets of paper with five stacks of cards on each. The top sheet has haphazard piles, each with cards of a single color. The bottom sheet has five starter packs arrayed more neatly. Three of the five starters have been sorted with a full-art card on top; the remaining two still need to be sorted.
Photo of the interior of a cardboard box that contains many stacks of game cards wrapped in paper bands and plastic bags. None of the card faces are visible, but some of the card backs have curly braces and some have @ signs
Video of the blackberry mead fermenter from further upthread. It’s sealed, but there’s an airlock through which a CO2 bubble scapes every few seconds. It’s not apparent in the video, but the bubbles smell like pie.
Eight horizontal lines of various widths, scrawled on grid paper. It’d be frankly ridiculous to suggest that it’s intelligible in any kind of mathematical context
Photo looking down into the 5-gallon fermenter from the quoted post. The liquid is a translucent purple color, and a rather large quantity of blackberries floats in it. There’s a few bubbles on top from everything being vigorously mixed, but fermentation hasn’t started in earnest yet.
A big plastic bucket. Though the sides are white, the liquid inside is a dark enough purple to show through. It comes up to the 5-gallon mark on the side.
A 1 gallon glass carboy with some mead. It’s a little cloudy from the added lactose syrup.
9 pounds of local honey and 10 pounds of local blackberries, destined to become mead
Poorly lit photo of a 4x6 inch clear plastic scrapbooking case that I use for game prototyping. Through the top, a manual for the game “DAGnabbit!” is visible.
A set of homemade cards for the game described in the post. They include possible edges to add to the graph. For example, one card shows the letter D, with a 3-headed branching arrow pointing at the letters A, C, and F; this card instructs the player to add a directed edge starting from D and ending at one of A, C, or F. There’s a small dry-erase board with arrows drawn on it, and unfortunately for the player, any of the options on any of the available cards would create a cycle. The player’s final score of 12 is written and circled on the board.
Looking in through the side of a clear glass carboy, we see what will soon be a mead. In particular, carbon dioxide bubbles form and pop rapidly at the line where the liquid meets the sides of the vessel, indicating very active fermentation. There is no audio.
Screenshot of a purported “sexual identity generator”, with “nonpracticing pansexual” in the output field
Close-up of a bowl of lentils and rice topped with a thin red sauce and some fried onions.
Photo of a shopping list written on engineering paper. The things on the list are divided up by what section of the store would have them. All of the items on it are crossed off except for the lone item under the “Freezer” section: cranberries.
A menu with illustrations of poinsettias and mistletoe Hollis’s Christmas 2024 Menu The bird: Duck Leg Confit (duck legs, slowly cooked with herbs in their own fat) On the side: Parsnip Purée Sautéed Leeks Yorkshire Pudding (savory popovers cooked in schmaltz) Feeling saucy: Red Wine and Fig Sauce Duck Gravy Drinks: Mulled Apple Cider (non-alcoholic) Eggnog Mead Cordials Dessert: Cranberry Orange Pots de Crème (vanilla and orange custards with cranberry sauce)
A large clear plastic container with several sealed plastic bags, each of which hold a turkey thigh and some duck fat. Around the bags, the container is filled with water up to the 18qt line. There’s an immersion circulator in one corner reading a temperature of 111.2°F and a target temp of 158°F. The top of the container is covered in plastic wrap to prevent evaporation.
A buffet made of two folding tables. It’s topped with maybe 18 different dishes, most of which are about half gone.
Two fermentation vessels sitting on stools. The left one is a 1-gallon glass carboy with an airlock in the top. Faintly visible is a brew bag containing oak chips. The right one is a translucent plastic 5-gallon bucket with an airlock in the lid. It’s filled about halfway between the 3-gallon line and the 3.5-gallon line.
The menu for the Friendsgiving party, including Turkey in Mole Poblano and tamales as mains, beans and rice as sides, beer and hibiscus tea as drinks, and tres leches cake for dessert.
A Maine Coon mix hanging over the back of a couch. One of his front legs is extended downward, revealing that he’s got, like, at least seven toes on that paw
A large CO2 bubble working its way through an airlock embedded in the top of a fermenter
A large fermentation bucket. It’s slightly translucent, and there’s an amber liquid inside up to the 5-gallon line. There’s an airlock fitted into the lid.
Eight 385ml bottles of slightly hazy golden mead
A clear growler of mead with a hefty layer of sediment at the bottom. The growler has a stopper and an airlock inserted at the top.
Photo of a glass carboy with mead fermenting in it. There’s a layer of stable foam on top of the must.
A 1-gallon carboy filled with a cloudy, amber-colored mixture of water, honey, and fig juice. A bag of fig pulp is just visible floating in the liquid. A hole in the carboy’s lid is fitted with a stopper and an airlock.
A photo of a little corner with some brewing supplies sitting on a silicone mat
A photo of the cargo area of a hatchback with about $200 of homebrewing equipment in it.
Four cards, each of which depicts a chicken making claims about what she’ll do in the next round of some trick-taking game.
A pyrex baking dish full of delicious pulled pork
A tomato and cucumber salad
3 foil-wrapped pork shoulders in a baking pan