This was shot on the Pentax digital camera from 2006. These pictures will be uploaded periodically to track what we get up to!
An homage to one of my favorite restaurants back at home, this is a play on a Renata's Creperie plate. Super savory, perfect for a lazy weekend brunch at home or a casual dinner. I used the gluten fee crepe recipe from the Loopy Whisk as it was suitable for both sweet and savory crepes (though it does lean sweet), feel free to use whatever crepe recipe you like, buckwheat crepes are a great savory option as well.
Breakfast, Lunch or Dinner Savory Crepe
Serves 3-4
1.5 lbs boneless skinless chicken thigh
1 tsp garlic powder
1 tsp rosemary
6-8 medium crimini mushrooms
2 tbsp butter
1 tsp minced garlic
Salt and pepper
1 green onion sliced
5 eggs beaten
4 oz chevre
Optional: A little drizzle of cream fraiche or dolop of sour cream add a great tang to this dish! There are endless egg crepe combinations, think quiche and omelette mix-ins!
Please let me know if you give this recipe a try and what crepe style you went with in the comments below! Feel free to request recipes from previous live streams or youtube videos and I'll work on writing them!
One of my good friends gifted me a bottle of The Sassenach Wild Scottish Gin, he picked it because it was gin and it had a unicorn on the bottle. Honestly not a bad way to pick gin- and to my delight, it's delicious. Herbal but not medicinal with a bit of sweetness and very smooth. We were also gifted some gorgeous coupes and figured a gin sour would be the best option to showcase them both! Feel free to use whatever gin you have on hand, fresh lemon juice is key to this drink!
Nurse Huckleberry's Birthday Gin Sour
2 oz Sassenach Gin
1 oz fresh lemon juice
3/4 oz simple syrup
1 egg white
Peychaud's bitters and lemon twist garnish
Simple syrup is really easy to make, just mix equal parts hot water and granulated sugar (by weight or volume it really doesn't matter), stir until sugar fully dissolves and cool. It will last for 3ish weeks in the fridge!
Cheers!
Nurse Huckleberry
Welcome to the first episode of Solo Adventures together! Where husband and wife Diego and Shelby send each other off on solo adventures and then they report back. The only info they get before showing up is: location, dress code, length of event or class, and maybe an objective or two depending on what they are doing. enjoy the banter, and recollection of whatever happened this time, with new episodes every other week, alternating who is leaving and who is listening!
This time Nurse is sent to a High Tea Party in downtown LA. How was her experience? Would she go back? Let's find out on the first episode of SAT!
The story starts out like many, girl meets boy, boy moves hundreds of miles away, girl decides to impress boy by joining a live streaming platform one lonely Christmas night. First, and most importantly, she needs a username, something cool that says "I'm interesting, come hang".
Truth be told, I hadn't had a screen name in years. I wasn't a gamer and hadn't had a handle that wasn't just my name in years. So I took some time and tried to figure out something that felt like me.
I was working at a restaurant at the time as a jack of all trades, my primary position was serving and bartending but I also filled in as a manager as needed and baked the desserts for the chef. I really loved it. I made a few staple desserts, the bread and housemade raviolis but also got to make my own dessert specials as I desired. We had gotten in a big bag of local huckleberries and I was pumped. I decided to run a honey semolina cake with a huckleberry coulis and fresh whipped cream.
I set to work making the cake and cooked down the berries into a syrup and then made a life altering mistake, a butterfly effect worthy choice that has persisted for 8 years now. I put the hot syrup in a blender and did NOT give it a large enough steam vent. I essentially made a huckleberry pressure bomb in the kitchen. Huckleberry sauce went everywhere, literally floor to ceiling covered in hot sticky purple goo. I ended up also splattered in the hot sauce, the chef rushed back in and just started laughing at me. He delighted in asking if I needed help tending to the burns as I had a substantial amount of sauce on my boobs. Such a perv.
I cleaned myself, the floor, wall and ceiling up as best I could but there were purple stains everywhere. Then the rest of the line cooks showed up and the chef regaled in retelling the story of the explosion. I was stuck with the nickname of Huckleberry Tits for hours until the dishwasher came to my rescue by somehow making an even more stupid mistake. He managed to get his thumb trapped in a large star piping tip just as I was about to head out for the night.
The chef asked me ever so sweetly if I could play nurse and extract his thumb from its spiky metal collar- without ruining the piping tip of course. I sat the dishwasher down and using some needle-nose pliers typically reserved for pulling pin bones from fish, carefully bent the tines back one by one until we could pull it off his thumb. I then graduated from Huckleberry Tits to "Nurse Huckleberry", the moniker lasted for maybe a day in that restaurant.
Fast forward to a couple weeks later, and I have decided that Nurse_Huckleberry will be my new online identity (I later removed the underscore, but it still haunts me to this day). I made a cute offline image of a classic pinup nurse holding a tray with a bowl full of huckleberries and started what unbeknownst to me would be a life changing streaming career.
Let me know if you liked this longer style blog post! I'm excited to add to the lore and share stories with you all!
Cheers,
Nurse Huckleberry
