#orange juice
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The Dreamsicle !
Ingredients:
1½ oz. Whipped Cream Vodka
½ oz. Triple Sec
2 oz. Orange Juice
Fill Lemon-Lime Soda
Orange Slice for Garnish
Method:
Shake all ingredients with ice except for soda. Strain into glass with fresh ice. Top with lemon-lime soda and garnish with an orange slice.
This heavenly recipe is perfect as a desert or a simple go-to when out on the town.
Courtesy: Empire Mixology
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Ginger, C & and Greens Smoothie
Servings: 1
STUFF
1 cup orange juice
squeeze of lemon juice
2-inch piece fresh ginger, peeled and chopped
¼ teaspoon cinnamon
¼ teaspoon vanilla
2 cups baby spinach
1 frozen banana*
pinch of salt
1 serving vanilla plant-based protein powder, optional
pinch of cayenne, optional
STEPS
In a blender, combine all the ingredients. Bring the blender’s speed up to high and run until liquid is completely smooth. Enjoy!
NOTES:
You can substitute the banana with a handful of frozen pineapple, mango, or even some frozen avocado .
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Cider-Brined Pork Tenderloins with Roasted Apples
Servings: 4-6
STUFF
2 cups apple cider
1 cinnamon stick
2 teaspoons black peppercorns
2 teaspoons coriander seeds
1 teaspoon crushed red pepper
2 garlic cloves, crushed
Kosher salt
4 cups ice
Two 1- to 1 ¼-pound pork tenderloins
¼ cup plus 2 tablespoons cider vinegar
1 large shallot, minced
2 thyme sprigs
3 tablespoons sorghum syrup or pure maple syrup
¾ cup chicken stock
2 tablespoons unsalted butter
1 pound medium carrots, cut crosswise ¼-inch thick
2 Honeycrisp or Pink Lady apples—peeled, cored and cut into ½-inch pieces
2 tablespoons fresh orange juice
1 ½ tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
2 tablespoons canola oil
STEPS
In a large saucepan, combine the cider, cinnamon, peppercorns, coriander, crushed red pepper, garlic and 3 tablespoons of kosher salt and bring to a boil, stirring to dissolve the salt. Remove from the heat, add the ice and let cool completely. Pour the brine into a bowl and add the pork tenderloins, then cover and refrigerate overnight.
Preheat the oven to 450°. In a small saucepan, combine the vinegar with the shallot, thyme and sorghum syrup and bring to a boil. Simmer over moderately high heat until reduced to ¼ cup, about 3 minutes. Add the stock and simmer until reduced to ½ cup, about 5 minutes; discard the thyme sprigs. Whisk in the butter and season lightly with salt; keep warm.
On a large rimmed baking sheet, toss the carrots with the apples, orange juice and olive oil; season with salt. Roast in the lower third of the oven, stirring once, until tender and browned in spots, about 25 minutes.
Meanwhile, drain the pork tenderloins and cut them in half crosswise; discard the brine. Pat the pork dry and season lightly with salt. In a large cast-iron skillet, heat 1 tablespoon of the canola oil until shimmering. Add half the pork and cook over moderately high heat, turning, until browned all over, about 10 minutes. Transfer the pork to a rimmed baking sheet. Wipe out the skillet and repeat with the remaining 1 tablespoon of canola oil and pork. Roast the pork in the upper third of the oven for about 12 minutes, until an instant-read thermometer inserted in the thickest part of the meat registers 140°. Transfer the pork to a work surface and let rest for 10 minutes.
Slice the pork and transfer to plates. Drizzle the sauce on top and serve with the roasted carrots and apples.
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ORANGE JUICE - ‘FELICITY’
Postcard/Polydor, 1982
Só a melhor pop sabe ter a frescura que, como poucos, os Orange Juice souberam explorar em alguns dos discos que lançaram em inícios dos anos 80. Em terras escocesas, animados pelo viço pós-punk e atentos a referências (bem assimiladas) de escolas soul, ajudaram a definir um espaço que gerou públicos e descendências. Este single é um dos mais felizes entre os belos episódios da sua carreira.
Back in Scotland in the early 80s, energized by post-punk and listening to soul music references, Orange Juice opened doors to a new pop idea.
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Ivo: Is not going to hesitate to take the food. Use 24″ hemostats in case she misses. (She has missed before and bitten the tongs, realized that’s not the rat, and gone back of her own accord to find the rat. Be safe!)
Newdle (Working Title): Is cautiously investigative of the food. Hisses a lot at all things. Once he realizes that food is present, he will gently take the food from the tongs.
Matilda: I used to have to set her food in her enclosure and wait for her to find it, but now she’ll feed from tongs! She’s a very dependable eater.
Shoelace™: Has already become aware that there is food in the area, and is standing at the top of the enclosure waiting for you to open the door and give her the food. INCREDIBLY FOOD MOTIVATED. Not too strikey though, thankfully. Holds her food and waits until you’re done feeding the other snakes before actually eating it, so I often feed her last. When she’s done eating, she cruises around looking for more food no matter HOW big her meal was… please calm down???
Neku: Generally a reliable feeder. Usually drags the food back into his favorite tube to eat in solitude. (Solitube…)
Joshua: Is scared of all food over a certain size………. can be a problem feeder. Often mock-strikes to try and make the food go away. Once he actually bites it and realizes that it is, in fact, food, you’re usually good to go…
Lucy: Is there, waiting for the food from out of a hide, blep blep i’m heckin hunger. Has an insane strike when she takes her food, often prompts calls of “that’s my girl!”
Worm: Does not feed from tongs. I have to lay her food under a hide and wait for her to find them. I put the food in the same place every time, so she usually does! She’s going to go off food soon, she doesn’t eat during the winter.
Orange Juice: …I often have to unbury her head and tap her with the food for her to know it’s there… she usually finds it on her own when I leave it in there, but other times she just misses a week of food, and I hate that, so I just… present her with the food. She’s doing her best…
I’ve got a camera again! This is Orange Juice against the internet’s universal scale (heh) of measurement. She liked photo time because the banana gave her a comforting sense of Under, which she prefers to being Over.
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Was fine when I took her out for cleaning.
Was fine while I cleaned and let her noodle about through some paper towel tubes.
Was fine each time I needed to pick her up and put her back t the start of the tubes.
Threw an epic tantrum and tried to tag my hand when it was time to go back into the bin because hands are bad now.
Was fine once back in the bin.
Thanks little buddy.
At least in my humble opinion.
Paper Towels/Butcher Roll/Newspaper
Pros:-Economical
-Easy to find just about anywhere
-If Newspaper, Recycling!
-Easy to replace when soiled
-Will fit any enclosure of any size
-Humidity neutral
-No dust
Cons:
-You will burn through entire rolls so fast
-Have to replace all of it every single time there’s a deposit
-Snakes tend to burrow under it and then go to the bathroom there instead
-If they get under there they will move your temperature probe around
-I’m talking about you, Joshua
-Humidity neutral: can mold easily in humid situations
-Cannot be burrowed into, which some species won’t appreciate
Verdict: Great for quarantine and snakes like Joshua who waste huge amounts of substrate if given the chance with their… bathroom habits. A good choice for larger snakes or just about anyone, really, but take note for humidity lovers and burrowers. That said, while Lucy was in quarantine, I maintained her on paper towels without any mold issues. Constant Vigilance, my dears!
Shredded Aspen
Pros:-Usually easy to acquire
-Relatively affordable
-Not the dustiest option
-Fantastic for burrowers like Matilda, Worm, and Orange Juice
-Holds tunnels well
-Can be spot-cleaned
-Clumps like cat litter around waste
-Can come in bulk sizing!
-Multiple sizes available from tiny slivers to big wood chips
Cons:
-Still dusty
-Should prophylactically freeze it before use
-Will mold when damp
-Did I mention the dust
-Takes a lot of space to store while it’s not being used
-Gets expensive quickly if you have a snake named Joshua and must replace all of it regularly
-I am literally coughing sawdust over here from deep-cleaning Matilda’s house
-I’m not sure how renewable it is
Verdict: Fantastic for burrowing snakes, use the hell out of it for most everyone personally. As long as they don’t need daily dampenings like Lucy and the Newdle, it’s a great option in my opinion, especially since you can even find it at the walmart.
Shredded Pine: Shittier aspen. Just buy the aspen.
Cedar: If you want a dead pet, go for it.
(Isn’t that a little harsh?)No.
(Cedar oils are a respiratory and skin irritant and literally immersing an animal in it with no way to escape is a recipe for disaster. Please don’t buy the bulk bags at walmart for dogs and horses either. Same with Pine, EXCEPT for the kiln-dried stuff.)
Carefresh (and other products)
Pros-Recycling 2: Electric Boogaloo
-Next to no dust
-Comes in lots of colors, including rainbow!
-Another great option for burrowers
-Holds tunnels well
-Can be spot cleaned (doesn’t clump as well though)
-Easy to find just about anywhere
-Relatively affordable
-Soft
-Can also be bought in bulk!
-As an absorbent product, you can scoop out the damp parts without having to replace all of it when Joshua manages to tip over his water bowl
Cons
-It’s going to mold if it gets wet
-Still takes a lot of space
-Costs a little more than aspen in my experience
-The colorful one costs even more
-Doesn’t hold tunnels or clump quite as well
-It’s still expensive to replace en masse
-Will make you want to color-code your snakes’ enclosures, requiring more substrate than usual
Verdict: I use this for corn snakes in particular because it’s fun and more forgiving to work with than Aspen when it comes to their antics and bathroom frequency. It’s probably good for most (CAVEAT EMPTOR) colubrids in that regard, garters and really BIG colubrids notwithstanding. IMO Carefresh and Aspen are fairly interchangeable between each other in their function. Protip: put one half Carefresh, one half Aspen in a Sand Boa enclosure. The texture change is pleasing.
Sand
Pros:-Fuck sand
Cons:
-Fuck sand
-Also IT’S FUCKING DUSTY
-AND STUPIDLY HEAVY
-AND EXPENSIVE
Verdict: Fuck sand.
(It irritates your snake’s eyes, cloaca, and mouth. Ingesting it can be dangerous. Vita-sand is some bullshit. Crushed walnuts aren’t even real sand and are also shit. As an enrichment item in limited exposure it’s not the worst thing on earth, but IN MY OPINION fuck sand.
Hemp: I WISH I COULD BUY IT HERE
Cypress Mulch/Forest Floor/et al
Pros:-This one doesn’t mold as much
-Cheaper than orchid bark
-Can find at most pet stores
-Not the dustiest thing out there
-Great for anything that needs higher than average moisture requirements
-Often comes damp
Cons:
-From what I understand, Cypress isn’t harvested in a sustainable fashion? Someone fill me in.
-Sometimes has… things. Freeze it before use.
-Harder to buy in the same kind of bulk that one would buy aspen/carefresh in
-Trust me, dry it out some before use
-It’s really heavy compared to other things mentioned
Verdict: Great for moisture-lovers, maybe not great for the environment, and it’s heavy and damp so use can be a pain. Pretty mold-resistant though.
Coconut Fiber/Coir/Eco-Earth et al
Pros-It’s everywhere
-You can buy it in huge compressed bricks
-Still cheaper than orchid bark
-Moderate dust depending on cut
-Comes in a variety of textures
-Fairly mold resistant due to coconut being naturally antifungal in nature
-Pretty easy to get ahold of
-Can even emulate soil if needed, holds tunnels well
-Potentially more sustainable than cypress mulch
Cons
-Compressed bricks can be used up quickly; bags take a lot of space
-Personally, the finely-ground stuff molds on me worse than aspen (however, I know that’s not universal!)
-The fine stuff can also be pretty dusty until it’s rehydrated
-Can sometimes hold too MUCH moisture
-Ivo was kept on it and it stained her scales until she shed, so potentially not a good fit for light-color snakes.
Verdict: Caveat emptor about the mold, but tons of people use this for tropical animals of all sorts and it’s probably the go-to for anything in need of high humidity retention.
Orchid Bark
Pros-I think this stuff is indestructible. It never breaks down
-Caveat emptor once again, but I’ve not gotten mold on it so far
-Comes in a variety of cuts from big chunky pieces to tiny flakes
-Probably the ultimate substrate for moisture requirements
-Also great for growing actual orchids (and for planted terrariums by proxy, though be sure to set up a water table)
-Burrowable
-Can be bought in bulk
Cons
-It’s so goddamn dusty it’s almost as bad as fucking sand
-It’s heavy as hell
-It gets on everything when you spread it
-It will stain shit
-I don’t think anyone but Josh’s Frogs even carries outside of the gardening world
-It’s expensive as hell compared to just about everything
-If you have to replace it often, god help you
-You can buy it in bulk because that’s ALL you can buy it in
-Enjoy your completely excessive crop-sized bag of wood chips
-The bag has little ventilation holes so as it sits in your freezer it covers everything in a fine layer of grit
-IT GETS ON EVERYTHING YOU LOVE
-It can’t hold tunnels for shit
-Small pieces get everywhere, big ones are like mulch and hard to burrow through, the medium size is what I affectionately refer to as “wood gravel”
-THE FUCKING DUST
Verdict:Unfortunately I am forced to swear by this pain in the ass. I’ve never had it mold on me. This stuff resists breaking down better than anything I’ve ever met. Despite being overpriced and a huge inconvenience, it’s been a boon for Lucy, and I can’t go back to other products now. It’s like a really good waffle iron. You only need it for one thing, and it’s probably overpriced for a single-use item, but it’s really good for that one specific thing, and so you buy one anyway. I have to recommend it because I have a bag of it sitting on a shelf RIGHT THERE.
Gravel: I hate you.
Those are all the ones I have experience with, this isn’t a particularly good list, but it’s 4am and I just cleaned Matilda’s house, so I felt inspired to yell about snake bedding. I’m sure I forgot some things, so let me know about it if I did, or tell me your experiences with things I might not have liked. Unless they are sand.
Fuck sand.
As always I speak purely from a snake perspective, and those in the amphibian, invert, and lizard-world naturally have different views on all of this! And I can only speak for my own experiences, too; I don’t claim to speak for the majority whatsoever!
Thank you for reading if you read this~
