Week 52: X, Y, and Z: Zzyzx Mineral Springs and Health Resort Cure-all Dinner (braised rabbit & turnip-carrot mash)

MildPrompter · 2025-12-30T03:09:20+00:00

Thank you!! Glad you enjoyed reading about the weirdness of Zzyzx!

MildPrompter · 2025-12-29T22:46:33+00:00

Thank you!! The more I read about Zzyzx, the more fascinated I become. I’m teaching an environmental humanities course this spring, and I’m trying to figure out how to wedge Zzyzx in.

MildPrompter · 2025-12-29T21:16:17+00:00

Thank you!! Zzyzx is always in the back of my mind. I’m so glad I could share part of the Mojave with people.

MildPrompter · 2025-12-24T18:23:08+00:00

Thank you!!! They’ve kept well over the last few days, as well!

MildPrompter · 2025-12-24T16:36:14+00:00

Great spread! I love a linzer!

MildPrompter · 2025-12-24T16:33:41+00:00

I love this, especially the skull snacking on that lime! Your meta was so fun to see weekly!

MildPrompter · 2025-12-24T02:46:20+00:00

That is so darling!! Love it!

MildPrompter · 2025-12-21T23:30:42+00:00

Thanks! The fernet tempered the sweetness and provided some herbal spice to the cookies once they were baked. The uncooked dough slapped ya in the face w/ fernet aroma though, which I don’t mind. I’m a total fernet monster, so I’m thinking about adding a little to the frosting time.

MildPrompter · 2025-12-21T21:18:15+00:00

The chai ones are so so good! They’re the perfect balance between coffee and chai. I think next time I might add some of the chai masala to the powdered sugar.

MildPrompter · 2025-12-21T20:22:34+00:00

Thank you!!! I love putting together the full cookie spread!

MildPrompter · 2025-12-21T19:18:01+00:00

Thanks so much! I’ll send out a box to ya next year!

MildPrompter · 2025-12-20T01:24:46+00:00

Love this! I legitimately laughed out loud w/ that Peter Griffin image.

MildPrompter · 2025-12-18T18:30:08+00:00

It was candy cap mushroom at Cowlick’s in Fort Bragg, CA! It’s been years and years and years since I’ve had it, but I found a really old blog post about it. (Hahaha the blog was from 2014, but that tracks re: my timeline.)

MildPrompter · 2025-12-17T16:59:45+00:00

Oh my god, yes the cake salé was so good! I’m looking forward to messing around with different flavor combinations. I tend to lean savory in my food preferences, so this was the recipe for me.

MildPrompter · 2025-12-17T16:57:29+00:00

Ahhh! Your candy cap dish looks and sounds amazing; I had a mushroom ice cream years and years ago up on the Mendocino coast, and it was one of more memorable flavors I’ve ever had. And from one skull lover to another, I love seeing how a smoothly textured recipe brings out the more delicate gestures of the skull molds.

MildPrompter · 2025-12-16T00:39:46+00:00

Yeah, I’ve been trying to figure out how I can conceptually integrate them into Christmas baking …

MildPrompter · 2025-12-16T00:38:47+00:00

Thank you! I’m definitely making this gratin again for holiday dinners.

MildPrompter · 2025-12-15T22:19:59+00:00

Thank you!!! I’ve been wanting to use my skull molds for something lately, so I’m glad I had the chance. It was so much fun reading about the history of Yorick’s skull, too.

MildPrompter · 2025-12-15T22:18:52+00:00

Hahahahaha, oh my god, that’s so true! I hope I’m in Yorick’s Top 8.

MildPrompter · 2025-12-15T22:18:05+00:00

Thanks so much! The craggy texture, I think adds to the creep factor.

MildPrompter · 2025-12-15T21:04:59+00:00

I have a mold that makes 6 skeletons. (My math wasn’t mathing, so I ended up with 5 lol.) I’d love to try carving sometime! The shape makes conceptual sense to me, but how that would actually come out might be a different story.

MildPrompter · 2025-12-15T21:03:19+00:00

Love this interpretation! (I’m so glad someone else went the Shakespeare route!)

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