It’s better than just sitting around in a savings account at .01% or money market at .35% or CD at 2.5%

This post is not suggesting this in lieu of other investment vehicles. This post is suggesting it merely as an alternative to a common savings account for money you wouldn’t touch within the next 12 months. It’s also not suggesting that it’s the best long-term investment vehicle, only suggesting it as a short-term…

Buying I-bonds now is kind of a form of market timing, but there’s an argument to be made about guaranteed rates, and how these are not normal circumstances (inflation is rarely this high, and thus you rarely get such high guaranteed rates).

Oh, I have had freshly fried hard corn tacos. Recently, actually, the place by my house will do them—but funnily enough, *only* for their ground beef/tomato/lettuce/cheese gringo tacos. I am delighted by both, in equal measure and for different reasons. It’s like how most of the time I want a fresh, hot,…

A many generational family-run San Antonio, Tx strip-mall restaurant that relocated from Laredo, forget establishment’s name & prolly long closed by now, had *greatest* deep fried corn tortilla tacos & chips/salsa because they deep fried their daily-made, freshly crushed masa while still raw & not after cooking it on…

Exactly! Why have “healthy taste” when you can elevate your life with “salt and oil” taste?

Yeah, my mom always pan fried tortillas. It’s the only way that those disgusting Mission or Guerrero tortillas are edible.

I’m uncertain why you would need to ‘contrive a way’; I learned from my mother, and it was dead simple. About a half inch of hot oil in a pan, slip the tortilla in, allow it to cook for a few seconds as it started to cook, flip it over, another short time on the other side, then grab one side with tongs, fold it in…

I can only say, “You are so very right.” I will admit though that I absolutely hate those crunchy shells. Soft tacos are the way to go, for me. Also, I prefer flour not corn. Put the soft tortilla in a dry skillet and “toast” it on both sides. Pull it off the heat while it still has some nice flexibility. stuff it…

sometimes we take a cup of cheese, put it on our paper wrapper and nuke it for 30 seconds and make a big cheese “chip” then we’d top it with sour cream, guacamole.

It takes about 3 minutes to fry up your own shells. Just get the corn tortilla from the store and if you want them formed like a taco shell you just fold then I’m half as soon as you put in oil. I just put a cup of oil or so in a skillet to cook mine. They are a thousand times better than packaged shells.

There was nothing like making a taco with a warm from the fryer shell. That was a great perk of working at Taco Maker, our boss let us make our own lunches how ever we wanted.

I used to work at The Taco Maker where we got flat corn tortillas and used a special tool to deep fry them into the traditional taco shape.

Then I worked at Taco Bell where we’d open a box and take out a row of pre-made taco shells.

This is a helpful piece about the topic: https://www.bkcorner.org/fermented-honey-garlic/. I’d just be summarizing, so rather point you directly towards it. 

Oh please, you’re not going to get sick because your steak was next to your ice cream in the bag for 10 minutes.

About shopping at the wrong time of day: if you live in a place with a 24-hour grocery and you have a schedule that permits it (like shift work), try shopping in the middle of the night. It is the absolute bar-none best time to be in the store.

Counter point frozen items should always be grabbed LAST, like on your way to check out last. The proper order is bulk goods first, then deli and or fresh produce then frozen items. The deli is the one department your likely to spend the most time in since your waiting in line, then waiting for the deli clerk to cut…

we use a shared google keep list.  then it can easily be re-ordered after the fact. 

That should read “non-iodized” salt (not “non-ionized”).

What I hear you saying is we can finally get rid of southern Illinois, but it would mean giving two Senate seats directly to the rednecks.