I’m interested in trying that condiment you made, but I’m not sure I’m dedicated to zesting that many oranges, especially when I doubt anyone else in my family will want anything to do with it.
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Some good ones here! Orange curd will work well because I can jar it up and give it away.
Re zest - I peeled the oranges and then filleted any remaining pith off. Still time consuming but easier than zesting.
A shitload of orange marmalade.
Canning in progress.
Also working on orange syrup and confit orange peels. But I’m also watching a gambling event in Vegas, so the multitasking is difficult.
Oranges remaining: 14
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I dunno if its a thing in america but i used to love dark chocolate covered candied orange peels. Havent had some in years but its like an old school treat here
Thats definitely a thing although not something you find everywhere, agree that they’re delicious.
Is soccer season over?
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It’s dumb but I actually cut up some nice cold orange slices the other day for the first time in…decades? Pretty dang good tbh.
I usually eat two cut up Mandarins every night.
My Italian grandma used to slice up oranges and drizzle olive oil on them with a little pepper. Sounds gross, but it’s actually pretty good!
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This reminds me that one of our best salads is cutting wedges out of oranges like this:
https://www.waitrose.com/home/recipes/step_by_step/how_to_segment_an_orange.html
and then squeezing the remaining orange juice out and whisking the juice into olive oil as a dressing. The wedges without the pith and the citrusy dressing can be matched with lots of greens and toppings.
As someone who grew up with no cooking, my mother and father couldn’t really cook, and who didn’t really cook in bachelorhood the NYT Cooking section and app is a pleasant surprise. I would have expected a lot of pretensiousness but the recipes are mostly very easy and basic.
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The Mrs. suggested this too. I’m going to give this a try.
Also going to try the orange slices with EVOO and black pepper. Trusting Italian grandmothers is always a good idea.
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Didn’t see that it gave the name until round 2. Fun one.
Some of the warm/hots don’t make a ton of sense. For the last one I put Ghana which has a border less than 300 Km from Nigeria, and got Warm, but on the first I got hot when putting in Japan, even though its closest border to Korea is like 215 km. Curious where the cutoff between warm and hot is.
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I was doing some random ones and for an Indonesian dish I put Malaysia and Singapore and only got warm for each. Singapore is like 10 miles from Indonesian islands and Malaysia not much further come on.
Terrible at today’s daily one but I did some other random ones and scored 10k+ so maybe I’m not as clueless as I thought.