The design seems solarpunk af and I am here for it.  The corporate city thing, not so much. Next, the residents will only get paid in scrip.

My trans and nb friends object to “guys” still being gendered, so I’m trying to purge it from my vocabulary.

Bon Appetit talks about making cider syrup, essentially reducing apple cider to a syrup-like consistency. I did it, and I regret it, because I want to use it on EVERYTHING.

Working with kids my whole life has led me to use “my friend/s” whenever I need to address people. Adults blink at me a bit, but it seems to work. Haha.

We will never know peace. Long live our ovoid overlords. (And thanks for the shoutout!)

I can take an Amtrak from my city to Chicago that is slated to take three hours but actually takes five hours, or I can just drive for three hours.

Let’s be honest, I like them both, but then, my 2008 Fit Sport is still lovely and I’d gladly buy another once this one is well and truly dead (knock on wood). 

The problem I have with tomato juice/bloody mary mix on airplanes is that it always smells terrible. I flew with someone who drank it exclusively on airplanes, and I had to beg her not to order one on the way back, at least not near my motion-nauseous face.

Came here to say this. Oh avocado. Will we never know peace?

I became interested in baking pretty much the moment we got satellite TV when I was 12 and the great Alton Brown was beamed into my brain. Years later, my notoriously thrifty sister snagged me a store model KitchenAid stand mixer for $100 for my 22nd birthday. It’s still going strong almost a decade later. (My…

I had this experience as a kid. I was six or seven and had heard it somewhere and used it in front of my parents and my sister. The collective explosion of all three of them and a stern talking to about it educated me, but also immediately erased it from my vocabulary.

We will miss you, Patrick! Thank you for your candor, and for the laughs. I can’t wait to see what you do next.

Just watch Binging with Babish and get all of your fictional food needs met. He made a cheesy blaster!

Here in the... middle Midwest, I guess? I hadn’t heard of kringle until we sold them for a band fundraiser. The issue I have with them around here is that they are always days old, soft, and kind of depressing, the way that pastries go stale and soggy at the same time.

I was hoping someone would make this joke.

WE’LL MISS YOU, KATE! *sobs into my lunch*

Uuuuuuuugh. So far, I’ve been able to continue watching The Grand Tour, telling myself that even though Jeremy sucks, Richard is my fave, so I can just focus on him. After this last season and their “Children and environmental protection are bad and stupid” takes, I really can’t anymore.

https://www.thedailymeal.com/eat/why-pig-meat-called-pork

Youth librarian here. I LOVE Katie O’Neill’s stuff. Aquacorn Cove is brilliant, Princess x Princess Ever After is lovely, and I just got the Tea Dragon Society card game!

My Thanksgiving is always with my mom’s vaguely Germanic side of the family, and the star of the show isn’t the turkey, it’s the noodles. We have a local Amish company that does delicious thin egg noodles, and my mom simmers them up in the turkey drippings and lots of butter and they are everyone’s favorite.