(C) Daily Kos This story was originally published by Daily Kos and is unaltered. . . . . . . . . . . New Day Cafe: 2023- Starting With A Smile [1] ['This Content Is Not Subject To Review Daily Kos Staff Prior To Publication.', 'Backgroundurl Avatar_Large', 'Nickname', 'Joined', 'Created_At', 'Story Count', 'N_Stories', 'Comment Count', 'N_Comments', 'Popular Tags'] Date: 2023-01-01 Good morning and Happy New Year to all of us at the New Day Cafe. Not only is it a New Day….today, it’s a New Year. Grab something wonderful and a tasty nosh, and join us to welcome 2023. All are welcome to join the fun, the silliness, the conversations. If you don’t know...just ask! Some things really do require a bit of explanation. There will be a few surprises along the way, all good ones, we hope. We are here to keep building the Daily Kos Community. We post Mon-Sun at 10:30 a.m. Eastern. Pie fights will be met with outrageous ridicule and insults. Trolls will be incinerated and served at the next group BBQ. As briquettes. For those who are feeling a bit more adventurous, how about a mimosa? From Cocktail Society.com: To make a Mimosa, you only need two ingredients: freshly squeezed orange juice and Champagne. Yet still, some things can go wrong. -Most of them are related to losing the bubbles of your Champagne. That is why the first important thing to do is to choose suitable glassware. This means don't use a wine glass. The Champagne flute should be your glass of choice. The reason for this is simple: Champagne flutes are designed to preserve the carbonation of sparkling wine. However, if you do not have one handy, a wine glass would actually be the next best option. The second important thing is to chill everything properly. A Mimosa will fall flat as soon as the temperature rises. And the same thing will happen if you add ice cubes. Therefore, chill your Champagne flutes in the freezer to have them ice-cold once you need them. Naturally, your Champagne should be ice cold, too, and also make sure you cool down your orange juice after squeezing it. That way, all ingredients contribute to preserving the bubbles in your Champagne. Another pro tip is to double-strain your orange juice. You don't want fruit pulp in this elegant drink. In case you ever wondered who created the Mimosa, Frank Meier is credited as the inventor of the Mimosa cocktail. And given that he was also the first ever to include the recipe in a cocktail book, that story has quite some substance. Most likely, Meier invented the drink in the mid-1920s when he was bartending at the Hemingway in the Ritz Carlton hotel in Paris. Or...you could just brew some really good coffee or tea! Many of us have given up on the idea of making New Year’s resolutions because we never keep them! That’s an awful lot of pressure to put on a New Year, isn’t it? So, I recently found something that I think works much better. My gift to each of you in the New Year...with love: On the stroke of midnight tonight, you can resolve to be better, if you like… to be fitter, to eat cleaner, to work harder. On the stroke of midnight tonight, you can resolve to become a whole new you, if you so choose. Or, you can take a moment to acknowledge, all you already are. Because it’s a lot. You’re a lot. And you deserve to be commended. On the stroke of midnight tonight, perhaps you could congratulate yourself, for coping. For breaking, again, and for rebuilding, again. For catching the stones life has thrown at you, and using them to build your castle that little bit stronger. You have endured, my friend. And I don’t see the need to resolve to become a whole new you, when you are already so very much indeed. Happy new year. You made it. Now let us face another 365 day-turn, arms wide, accepting, embracing and ‘seeing’ each other, for all we are.. [END] --- [1] Url: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/1/1/2144645/-New-Day-Cafe-2023-Starting-With-A-Smile Published and (C) by Daily Kos Content appears here under this condition or license: Site content may be used for any purpose without permission unless otherwise specified. via Magical.Fish Gopher News Feeds: gopher://magical.fish/1/feeds/news/dailykos/