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Friday February 2nd, 2024. Austin, Texas. 9:45 am 61° F (16° C)

One of the adventure items on my list is to make fancy oil and fancy vinegar.

That whole thing where you infuse them with herbs and such.

So I read up on the matter, watched a short video and found a recipe for a quick oil.

Behold!

Half of a cup of garlic oil.

So…

I made some mistakes.

Most of the recipes discuss techniques that require a time frame of between one day and two weeks, but I found one recipe that would only take about two hours.

Neat.

Half a cup of olive oil heated on low heat with three smooshed garlic cloves added.

Stir for a few minutes and then leave for two hours.

I left for about one hour.

I can barely taste the three cloves of garlic that I used on this.

So lessons:

1. Actually follow the recipe.

2. Don’t do the shortcut recipe.

3. Will I care about the fancy oil and/or vinegar? I’m having doubts.

4. I won’t know until I try for real

5. Figure out what to eat with the fancy oil and/or vinegar.

6. Make some Chimichurri. It’s basically the same thing and amazing.

7. Should I buy star anise?

8. Stop adding tangents to the list.

A failure is still an adventure.

Penny says “Hi.”