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Grilled ribeyes with Brussels potatoes and sauce bordelaise

I’ve somewhat recently gotten back into cultivating mushrooms. Most of what I’ve been working with lately has been Psilocybe tampanensis ATL#7 strain.

I have a lot of dried stones as well as some dried fruits. I have beeen working lately with making these chocolate bars. The polycarbonate mold you see pictured makes 4 bars at a time, and I have been weighing out 32g on my kitchen scale (it’s not perfectly calibrated) so I say they have 7g each but one could have 6 while another has 8. It not a very scientific process but since I’m the only one who will be consuming this I think it’s fine.

My last trip with tampanensis was with 6g of dried fruits only (in my limited experience the fruits and stones are the same potency) and I just mixed the powder into some peanut butter and spread it on a cold tortilla. Not exactly gourmet but it got the job done. Getting all 6g down was a chore to say the least. Cubensis tastes much better and depending on genetics is often more visual of an experience. Although I had a really good time. I went for a short hike in the morning but cut it short because the snow melt made the trail muddy and slippery. Then I became inspired to try some philosopher’s stones since I had nothing to do and the next day off to rest.

Thats when I ingested the tortilla. I put a show on the TV and sat on the couch. I was surprided that there was no nausea because when I ate the fruits whole and dried it messed my stomach up pretty bad. I’m not sure if this relates to them being powdered with the tortilla or just that my stomach had something to digest other than the mushroom alone.

So as I sat on the couch I slowly began to feel the trip take hold. One thing I always find to be really interesting when I’m in that state of mind is a hot shower. Don‘t know why but it’s just always a good time. So I paused the show and went for a shower. The shower was great, fun headspace and I got cleaned up.

Once I was done with the shower, I returned to the living room and things started to amp up. It never got to be too intense for me or anything but I was without a doubt feeling it. I didn’t even remember to resume the show I was watching. I had some pretty extreme couch lock. I kept looking at objects around the room and out the window, watching them move and enjoying some colorful patterns as well. Opposite of my couch there is a painting of a monkey on a shiny gold background, this painting had my attention for a long time, I was laughing to myself as I watched the monkey smile and then scowl at me from across the room.

At some point I really had to pee, so I managed to get up and use the restroom. Much to my surprise around three hours had passed since I had showered. I spent around another hour looking at myself in the mirror, noticing subtle facial expressions and watching my own face morph around. My face was bright red and I wore a goofy smile.

Once I finally made it out of the bathroom I spent a significant amount of time in my room observing some P. tampanensis I had fruiting in a mason jar, for some reason looking at those fruits brought me unrivaled joy.

Once I had finally decided that enough time had passed, I returned to the living room by now around 7 or so hours had passed since ingestion and I still felt wonderful, the show I had paused since much earlier was still on the TV and I decided to finally resume watching, it was making me laugh much more than usual and overall a memorable viewing.

So anyway this weekend I’m hoping to eat a chocolate bar. It‘a been around a month since last time. And if you made it all the way down here well thanks for reading I guess.