LHS Episode #554: The Weekender CXX

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  • Cheryl’s Recipe Corner!

  • Easy Banana Bread

  • Description

  • What is better for breakfast with a nice cup of coffee, or a snack?  This recipe is super easy!

  • Ingredients

  • 1 cup white sugar

  • 1/2 cup margarine, softened

  • 2 eggs

  • 1-1/2 cups mashed banana

  • 2 cups all-purpose flour

  • 1 teaspoon baking soda

  • Directions

  • Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease and flour a 9x5-inch loaf pan. Beat sugar and margarine in a bowl until smooth. Beat in eggs, then bananas. Add flour and baking soda, stirring just until combined. Pour into the prepared pan. Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick in the center comes out clean, about 1 hour. Remove from the pan and let cool. Store in the refrigerator or freeze. You can also customize and use chunky applesauce or a 15-ounce can of pumpkin for wonderful variations.

  • Cheryl’s Mixed Drink Corner

  • Dirty Banana

  • Description

  • How about a yummy banana cocktail?

  • Ingredients

  • 2 ounces rum

  • 1 ounce banana liqueur

  • 1 ounce coffee liqueur

  • 2 ounces half-and-half (or one ounce heavy cream and one ounce whole milk)

  • 1 banana, slightly overripe, cut into chunks

  • Garnish: banana chunk, with peel

  • Directions

  • Add all ingredients into a blender with a small (6 ounce) scoop of ice and blend until smooth. Pour into a Collins glass. Garnish with a banana chunk.

  • Russ’s Drink Corner

  • Peerless Single Barrel KSBW

  • Description

  • Kentucky Peerless’s identity as an artisan distillery is centered around its uncompromising quality and innovative nature. There is possibly no better exemplification of this than our Single Barrel program. Our team promotes only barrels of supreme quality and uniqueness for consideration to be a Single Barrel. Rare notes and characteristics that make each barrel stand apart from the standard profile are celebrated and show off the range of Peerless spirits. Every Drop is honestly crafted. We craft using strictly sweet mash, starting with fresh water and grain in each batch. Our whiskey is never chill-filtered, leaving all the craft flavors you love intact. Peerless Whiskey is bottled at barrel proof. You’re welcome to add water to your liking - we’ll leave that up to you.

  • Details

  • Mashbill: Undisclosed

  • Region: Louisville, Kentucky

  • Proof: 117.8 (58.9% ABV)

  • Color: Brulee’d caramel

  • Nose: Caramel, butterscotch, apple, pear, aromatic tobacco, toasted oak

  • Taste: Toasted marshmallow, barrel char, tobacco, butterscotch, lingering rye spice

  • Finish: Medium length focused on barrel char, tobacco and butterscotch with hints of apples and baking spice

  • Price: $80 (750ml)

  • Rating: 88

  • Bill’s Whatever Corner

  • Equilibrium Brewery - Macedemics

  • Details

  • Collaboration with Great Notion Brewing. Stout - Imperial / Double Pastry

  • 11% ABV

  • Macadamia Nuts, Academics, Beavers, Owls, and all in athletic track suits calculating a thicc stout: Macademics… We took out our Texas Instruments TI-81 calculators with our pals from Oregon to figure out the max amount of Macadamia nuts, Coconut, Cacao, and Madagascar vanilla beans possible in our latest stout. This viscous liquid pours pitch black with a mocha head exploding with an aroma macadamia cookies dunked into a salted caramel frap. This absolute big body stout has liquid velvet flavors of macadamia and chocolate chip cookies, Almond Joy bars drizzled with caramel in a thicccc finish that rolls around your palate before making its way to your belly like the most decadent dessert.

Segment 3 (Announcements & Feedback)

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Segment 4 (New Subscribers, New Supporters & Live Participants)

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  • Feloh Genje

  • Twitter

  • @CQN4ML

  • @igor_os777

  • Mastodon

  • @Panosmobm

  • @alper

  • Discord

  • Delring [KQ4ALK]

  • Mark KQ4MII

  • Live Chat

  • Tony, K4XSS

  • Don, KB2YSI

  • Jill, K1TTZ

Russ Woodman, K5TUX, co-hosts the Linux in the Ham Shack podcast which is available for download in both MP3 and OGG audio format. Contact him at [email protected].

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