Just out of curiosity, how does kombucha taste? Mind you, I can barely tolerate regular tea, what with my extreme supertasting. (The worst superpower EVER.)

Okay, mine are called fasnacht, and they're not filled at all! Some were granulated sugar, some were cinnamon sugar, and some were powdered sugar, and they're cut into a diamond shape.

Which is more like what I had last year -- little thumb-size pieces of fried dough -- but not really anything like paczki. Weird.

Just out of curiosity, how does kombucha taste?

Well, it's meant to be brewed long enough for it to ferment, so it can be kind of sour, sort of like apple cider vinegar. Basically, you make sweet tea (like almost a gallon of tea with a cup of sugar) and throw the "starter" into it, and cover it and let it ferment for at least a week. If you let it ferment longer, more of the sugar gets eaten by the starter, and so it gets more sour the longer it ferments.

Some people like it sweeter and drink it after a week, some people like it more sour and wait 3 weeks or longer. The commercial kombuchas (like GT) aren't horribly sour, I don't think, and they're usually flavored with fruit or ginger or something.

I brew mine long enough for it to be barely sweet; despite my crazy sweet tooth, I like it to be really tart (but not totally vinegar-y, because that would be a bit much).

Adele is the best.

Steph, isn't acupuncture the one alternative cure that has clinical studies that support it?

Did I mention we were trying to take off in heavy snow last night? Well it's been raining since about 3:30 and it's one sluchy mess out there. I need to go shovel...

I know where to get polish doughnuts at home (the polish house is a block away!) but sadly I am not home, so I am eating some sort of pre-made cold-oatmeal-yogurt-apple thing that a sampler at whole foods got me to try. It's kinda ok, but I think it'd be better if the oatmeal were warm.

We have Mardi Gras treats at work.

I had a slice of King Cake! (I've never had it before.)

Does everyone get a baby? Or am I special?

Does everyone get a baby? Or am I special?

You got the baby? That means you have to buy the cake next year. Seriously. There's only one baby, and it gets shoved in the cake somewhere, and whoever gets the piece with the (freaky naked plastic) baby is traditionally supposed to buy next year's King Cake.

Okay.

Or make it - I think that these were home made.

isn't acupuncture the one alternative cure that has clinical studies that support it?

I don't really want to get into an argument about this, but no, it doesn't.