I used to make carbonara (and similar) with whole eggs, but have recently decided that using yolks only results in a richness I really enjoy.

The side-effect is that I have taken to making meringues (very delicately dry on the outside, gooey in the inside) every time I make such a dish. This may prove disastrous in the long run.

Fortunately it was mostly a matter of importing many Lightroom catalogs into a new master file, relinking the folders (links broken due to having changed external hard drive setups over the years), and upgrading the old catalogs where needed.

The harder bits will be normalising all the keywords I've used over the years, and the way I've marked the "picks" of shoots: in recent years I've had one folder per week/month of general snapshots, and then a dedicated folder for each event in which "picks" get rated 5 stars, but I used to dump them all into the same folder and just put the picks into a manual Lightroom collection.

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Finally took the time to merge so many Lightroom catalogs into one. 29000 photos over 12 years. Keywords to be cleaned up tomorrow….

Pretty spicy depending on how much you cook the ginger.

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Hm, I managed to do it with 1 saucepan and 1 mug, but I suppose you could drink straight out of the saucepan.

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Oh it's pretty quick really.

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  • Dry-fry roughly grated ginger
  • Toast clove, cinnamon, and star anise
  • Add brown sugar, let it caramelise
  • Deglaze with water
  • Simmer for 5 minutes
  • Add a drop of apple cider vinegar
  • Pour into a mug with a shot of gold rum

Very spicy, very cosy.

Possibly; I was also very careful not to have more than about a shot each of most wines yesterday. Love the taste of it all but hate the idea of losing the next day.

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Crazy day yesterday: company Christmas lunch (with lots of good wine) from 1pm–6pm; then a completely unrelated wine dinner from 7pm–1am with some ridiculously good food by someone who should basically be running a private kitchen — last of the main courses at midnight — and some blind tasting with people far more knowledgeable in those wine regions than me.

Surprisingly didn't get drunk at all; slept 6 hours and also have no hangover.