I have this thing I do where I say, “Quarter for the jar.” It’s like putting a quarter in the swear jar, but in this case I take a deep breath and think, “Quarter for the gender jar.” Sometimes I say it out loud if I know the person I’m talking to - “Right, sorry, quarter for the gender jar.” The other trick I…

Cottagecore is just cottage styling. Slightly country, cozy, homemade appearances on some things.  It was used sarcastically here.

Brunch has been, and always will be, entirely optional. It’s like a holiday that you know exists but has no rigid traditions or obligations. Like on Halloween, when you may stay home and give out candy, you may watch the Great Pumpkin on a loop while inhaling a bag of chocolate, or you may go to a party, either in a…

Anyone who spends time on a ranch can tell you that stuff’s not clay.

I think my problem with these sorts of questions is that some watchers answer with a movie they didn’t watch the first time around and don’t understand. And I don’t mean a “those were different times” kind of excuse.

  Hi, I know I’m a newbie commenting from the greys, but if anyone wants a timeline so far, here’s one from the Houston Chronicle today. For 37 minutes after officials declared a ‘mass casualty’ at Astroworld, Travis Scott played on (houstonchronicle.com)

Duncan’s books were often centered around girls and the violence done to them. Discrimination is baked in.

“Olivia and John still have to decide what kind of future they’re going to have together, if any,” the insider explains. “It’s a time of uncertainty, for both of them.”

I suspect it’s a volley fired in a debate that has something to do with this:

Oooooh, weekend birthdays are the best birthdays.  Have a happy one!

There are a lot of things I make frequently that would be relegated to special or infrequent occasions if the mixer wasn’t already on my counter. Before I inherited my harvest gold stand mixer, I always had electric hand mixers. They’re just not the same. They require a lot more elbow grease for lesser results. My…

Most of what we call food poisoning is infection or the result of infection, so it takes time for some organism to get comfy and multiply. Salmonella, for example, is a bacterial infection. Trichinosis is a worm. Botulism results from a toxin, but even it is built up in quantity by the botulinum bacteria that wants to…

My mom told me that this became popular during WWII, when folks could leave the caramel in the can and mail it to troops in care packages. With the right postage you could just label send the can itself.

Leveraging. That’s what I love to experience together with my family. Right.

If you do it and it comes out nice, can you come back to the comments and let us know if it was the same time and temp? 

As someone who has cooked a lot of silver turtles (a.k.a. scout dinners), I wonder if foil doesn’t expand and let off quite enough moisture for something as delicate as fish. Even cooking ground meat in those things, you wind up with something kind of rubbery and over-steamed. I’ve cooked the “Better Homes and…

It sounds like one of three things: a powerful meditation on the nature of our illusory ego, impermanence, and suffering that could lead to sudden insight on the path to enlightenment; a therapeutic yoga technique that could help rebalance the nature of people who internalize their experiential stress; or yeah, just…

I read an article on NPR’s page about the Man Group dropping out of funding the Man Booker prize after this year, and the writer said that quite a few in academia were delighted. They hemmed about the latest books having some kind of mass literary appeal and slipshod standards, and about some of the winners even being…

You can buy ‘onion pancakes’ at an Asian market, but they don’t have an American pancake consistency. It’s more of a cross between a crepe and a tortilla. Flavor is great and they are cheap. But cook them from frozen. If you thaw them first, you have a mess on your hands. I think I’m going to try your way though,…

As a smaller than average sized person, I love sitting on them. They don’t dig into my sciatic nerve. But I prefer a chairback that I can hang my purse on.