Friday!!

"MUSASHI66" (musashi66) 10/23/2020 at 20:18 • Filed to: None

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My camera is refusing to capture the pink tones of this drink.

A while ago, my favorite fancy watering hole had this dessert drink that I loved. Description said - Cognac , Tawny Port, raspberry rhubarb syrup, cream, and pink chocolate.

I haven’t tried to recreate it at home as every bottle of tawny port I’ve seen has been $40 and I am too lazy to make the syrup.

But, tonight was awesome. We bought a computer for my wife at Costco, 2+ years ago. It kept crashing and I kept rebuilding it, but we got tired and bought her a new one. Costco actually accepted the return as long as I provided evidence of contacting the concierge. So, $540 back, yay. Aaaaand, they had Tawny Port for $17. This covered all the parts I bought for my PC day before yesterday, with money to spare.

So, I bought a nice bottle of Chianti, had some leftover with wifey as we’re going out tomorrow, and I made this:

1 part Cognac

1 part Tawny Port

1 part half and half (recipe calls for cream and I had none)

1 part simple syrup + 1/2 part Chambord for that raspberry taste

Stir the daylight out of it with ice, strain, and shave Ruby Cocoa chocolate on top for garnish. Yum!

MUSASHI66 > MUSASHI66 10/23/2020 at 20:29

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Fixed the photo. Warmth and tint.

Just Jeepin' > MUSASHI66 10/23/2020 at 20:44

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The plummeting prices on computing never fail to amaze.

I remember as a teenager lusting after a $10,000 Mac IIfx.

Mac IIfx: 4-128MB RAM, 40MHz, $10k

Raspberry Pi 4: 2-8GB RAM, 1.5GHz, ~$25 0 if you throw in a cheap display and keyboard/mouse.

MUSASHI66 > Just Jeepin' 10/23/2020 at 20:50

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My parents spent a months salary to buy me a Commodore 64 and had to travel from Bosnia all the way to Belgrade to get it from a guy who brought one from Germany. Good times... 

barnie > Just Jeepin' 10/23/2020 at 22:26

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End of the 80s, RAM cost $400 a MEG. Not gigs , megs . Recently paid ~$40 for 8 gigs of the good stuff.