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ART: Temporal Frequency
Jan. 17th, 2023 02:11 pmTemporal Frequency: a signal echoing through time.
More of my art backlog.
Fluid art. Digital art edited in GIMP.
Prints: Temporal Frequency
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Jan. 17th, 2023
ART: Waking From A Dream
Jan. 17th, 2023 03:38 pmWaking from a dream, the fantasy melts away, revealing the reality underneath.
The title is because the piece made me think of that effect where movie film melts when it is overheated. Guess I'm showing my age with that!
Fluid art. Digital art edited in GIMP.
Prints: Waking From A Dream
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Battle of the Mints
Jan. 17th, 2023 06:20 pmTwo different kinds of mint, two different ways of preparation.
Processed both of them on the "Sorbet" setting of my Ninja Creami machine.
The peppermint tea comes out ahead. They're both nice, but the fresh-pureed-mint has a bitter aftertaste which is unfortunate. They have different mint tastes because peppermint is not the same mint as one buys as "fresh mint"; the fresh mint is probably spearmint or some other mint, it is milder and not as "peppery" as peppermint is.
The peppermint tea had a a clean taste, whereas the pureed mint was more organic and muddy. The pureed mint had a nice green colour, the peppermint tea was so pale it was almost white.
I think it would be worthwhile either getting some dried spearmint to make tea from, or to just infuse the fresh mint -- that is, to prepare them both in the same way, and then compare them. Because it would be nice to have a mild mint sorbet as well as a peppermint sorbet. Mind you, making spearmint tea from dried leaves would be less work than stripping off all the fresh mint leaves in order to infuse them, so I'll probably try that first.
Even though I have not compared them, I'm pretty sure that the peppermint tea sorbet would have a nicer flavour than using peppermint essence instead. I don't know whether it would be worthwhile trying to make peppermint ice milk using peppermint essence - maybe, maybe not - but that's probably the only thing that would motivate me to use peppermint essence.
