Fantastic when you're cooking dried beans. Makes the bean broth really "meaty" and substantial tasting.

Fish in pastry would be 'en croute' not 'en papillote'. What a moron!

Oh God yes, it rammed the point home and punched me in the throat when it passed by.

I didn't watch that other video until you linked it but I interpreted it somewhat differently from the write-up. I do not particularly like Taylor Swift (though my six-year-old is going to flip for the song when she hears it) but I didn't get as negative an impression of the video. The point that came across to me was…

That's what makes this especially stupid to me; if people want to protest Israeli goods, fine, I totally get that and I'm on board with it. But for fuck's sake, Kosher food?! How stupid do you have to be for that to be comparable.

So instead of finding ways to get her resources for caring for her children, they... strip her of more resources by throwing her in jail? This makes sense.

I agree about RAW tomatoes, but I love pizza and spaghetti sauce, so I file them under 'delicious cooking item/ a banal and watery horror as a standalone'.

I was doing okay until I saw Evan Rachel Woods' tweet that just said "Genie, you're free" and then I fucking lost it.

Except that it is her profession and she is not ashamed of it at all. Why should we instill that shame on her by saying "Oh we won't mention what you do for a living." If she were a doctor, lawyer, etc. would you say something like that? Do you recognize that telling people they should omit that is basically an…

Do you know I never called today. I totally forgot. Robin Williams' suicide threw me for a loop. We performed at the pre-show last night for the Anti-Suicide/Depression Awareness Comedy Benefit at the Improv in Hollywood (musical act in the lounge before the comedy benefit). I sang a song I wrote in April about three…

Bless your heart. I had a retropharyngeal abscess in 2012. I spent a lot of time choking on and spitting up mucous as my throat closed before the ICU docs diagnosed me and I had 3 surgeries. That constant mucous/choking/spitting was horrible and scary. To this day I still have to be careful because if I upset the acid…

The pineapple thing makes me so sad. It smells soooooo good and looks so pretty. When I went to Hawaii it was Everywhere. Everyone looked slightly offended when I would leave all of the beautiful pineapple on the plate :( My poor mom is allergic to honeydew melon (as is my best friend). Luckily I can eat all melons!