Amy Lighthouse – Amy’s Guide to Staying In

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Amy Lighthouse

… self-described over-achiever, worked at Snapchat and Apple before going venture capital. During the initial Covid onslaught, she wrote for The Lemonade Stand offering strategies of how to cope with quarantine and staying in. Her recipes and cable television suggestions have boosted the spirits of numerous households who credit Amy with keeping a number of families from harming each other.

Amy’s Guide to Staying In

April 24, 2020

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MoviesTV ShowsBooks
Bad Education
(HBO)
Servant
(Apple TV+)
The Kind Worth
Killing
Becoming
(Netflix)
Tiger King
(Netflix)
Everybody Lies
(Non-Fiction)
The Lovebirds
(Netflix)
Dead to Me
(Netflix)
Sapiens
(Non-Fiction)
Kid DetectiveHuge in France
(Netflix)
Homo Deus
(Non Fiction)
The Last Cruise
(HBO Max)
When They See Us
(Netflix)
The Dutch House
I Care a Lot
(Netflix)
The Politician
(Netflix)
The Night Circus

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Cody & Mary’s Lemon Ginger Kombucha

*** Ingredients ***

Primary Fermentation

–    1 Scoby –    1 gallon fermenting jar  –    Medium saucepan –    8 cups filtered water –    1-1 ¼ cup sugar –    10-12 tea bags of black tea (to taste) –    Coffee filter or cheesecloth –    Rubber band

Secondary Fermentation

–    2-4 teaspoons ginger to taste (or any juice) –    (10) lemons to taste (or any juice)  –    (6) 16 0z bottles –    Funnel –    [Optional) tea steeper (for ginger) 

Primary Fermentation

Boil 8 cups of water in saucepan. Add tea (10) teabags or (2) 2 ½ tablespoons of loose black tea to taste). Must have mostly black tea, other teas can be added for flavor,       but culture needs black tea to ferment. Steep tea to desired taste or recommended on teabag. Stir in sugar.

Reduce sweetened tea to 80 degrees or to room temperature. Pour sweetened tea into fermenting jar. Add filtered water to tea mixture to top of jar.

Pour SCOBY with starter liquid on top of cooled tea (liquid must be below 80 degrees or SCOBY will die).

Put coffee filter over top of jar and secure with rubber band and put in a cool dark place to ferment. Fermenting can last 7-20+ days, ferment to taste; over time the kombucha will taste more sour and eventually turn into vinegar.

Taste after 7 days and every other day until desired flavor is reached.

Secondary Fermentation

Once the Kombucha has reached optimal taste, it is time to bottle. With clean hands, put the SCOBY and baby SCOBY (separately) into glass jars with 2 cups of the tea, they can both be used for future batches.

It is now time add juice to the Kombucha for flavor and to add carbonation. Rule of thumb is 15-20% juice to 85-80% Kombucha.

For lemon ginger tea, put 2-4 teaspoons of ginger into teabags or tea steeper and put into 1 cup of hot water. Add juice of 8-10 lemons to taste. Use funnel to pour lemon-ginger mix into each of the 6 bottles to 15-20% of the bottle.

 Use funnel to pour Kombucha to 1-2 inches before top of bottle. Secure top and store for 7-30 days until desired carbonation is reached.

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Amy Lighthouse – Amy’s Guide to Staying In – Update

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Amy’s Guide to Staying In

August 1, 2020

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Updated Master List of Recommendations

MoviesTV ShowsBooks
Little Women
(Amazon)
Curb Your Enthusiasm
(HBO)
Defending Jacob
Bombshell
(Amazon)
Portlandia
(Netflix)
Silent Patient
American Factory
(Netflix)
Schitt’s Creek
(Netflix)
Truth Be Told
Knives Out
(Amazon)
Little Fires Everywhere
(Netflix)
Bad Blood
(Non-Fiction)
Peanut Butter Falcon
(Amazon)
The Morning Show
(Apple TV+)
The Kind Worth Killing
Bad Education
(HBO)
Servant
(Apple TV+)
Everybody Lies
(Non-Fiction)
Becoming
(Netflix)
Tiger King
(Netflix)
Sapiens
(Non-Fiction)
The Lovebirds
(Netflix)
Dead to Me
(Netflix)
Homo Deus
(Non-Fiction)
Troup Zero
(Amazon)
Huge in France
(Netflix)
The Dutch House
Palm Springs
(Hulu)
When They See Us
(Netflix)
The Night Circus
The Politician
(Netflix)
Friends from College
(Netflix)
Unorthodox
(Netflix)
Defending Jacob
(Apple TV+)
Succession
(HBO)
The Last Dance
(ABC, ESPN)
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Amy’s Feta Dijon Salad Dressing

Best served with mixed greens, cucumbers, walnuts,  avocado, and feta on top! 

Ingredients:

– equal parts: juice of 3 limes & olive oil – (start with 3 limes and match the amount w/ olive oil) – 3 tablespoons feta – tablespoons dijon mustard – Healthy amount of salt & pepper

Directions: 

Put the ingredients above in a blender or food processor and blend until creamy. Adjust ingredients to your liking. 

Storing: 

Store in a jar and use in 5-6 days.

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