Coke with lime.

Going for a baby so really can’t drink right now.  So I drank a Cuba Libre without the rum today {sob}.  And did some work, because Labor Day or not, I’m behind.

HAHAHAHA that’s a good one.

I really like her. Anything would be better than Trump, but I think having a professor who, I don’t know, SET UP THE CFPB, would be great as a president. She reminds me of my college advisor a lot, actually. A wonderful woman with great ideas and a good head on her shoulders. Who will be reduced to ‘Pocahontas’ by our…

My husband cut his head open hitting it on the corner of the mantelpiece while getting a towel to dry off the dog. He didn’t want to go get stitches (I think because of the time component involved), so I superglued his forehead skin for him (I used to do rodent brain surgery, and we used superglue for some parts of it)…

Your dinner for tomorrow sounds amazing! Especially the peaches. I’m brining two chickens overnight in a cajun brine to be smoked by my husband. I swear I have made this brine before and didn’t remember this happening, but when I mixed the spices together earlier today (paprika, garlic and onion powder, chile de arbol…

That sounds great! I love carbonara, but sometimes I end up cooking the eggs and I end up with pasta and scrambled eggs instead of that smooth, creamy sauce.

I take it you live in the UK?  You guys definitely have great cider.  Here in the US, you have to really look to find dry cider.  Most supermarkets have really, really sweet varieties. 

I will say that the bacon slices it makes aren’t amazing. I was going off of a Binging with Babish video where he made bacon and cut it super-thick and it looked great. I tried that and basically got pork jerky. So for Friday night’s dinner, I peeled off and tossed the fatty rind, cubed the meat small, and rendered it…

I got this great hunk of smoked bacon a couple of weeks ago from a local European market that I used for last night’s carbonara.  It was delicious!

What’s your favorite cider? Mine is Downeast from Boston, but I’m not able to get that a lot, so usually it’s original Strongbow (not the too-sweet ‘Golden Honey’ that’s in most grocery stores), it’s the kind in the cans that is more dry.

The husband is out of town at a conference (he saw the Orange Cheeto ‘s motorcade yesterday, so yes, he’s in S. Korea). I’m sure his absence is causing me to go back to my bachelorette days. Last night, I made pasta carbonara and watched some of the first season of True Detective before our cable crapped out for…

What’s everyone cooking tonight? I made Greek meatballs (beef-didn’t have any lamb-with parsley, mint, garlic, and egg) to go with homemade naan and garlic yogurt. My husband ate two wraps and pronounced them good.

It’s from the Pioneer Woman:

I’m going to make roasted red pepper soup tomorrow for lunch with the roasted red peppers I bought at a European market store close to my home in GA. This will go with the really fresh bread rolls I bought at the same store. Breakfast tomorrow will be from the slab of smoked bacon I bought that I will cut myself into…

Sorry, I looked this up but all I could find was senior shift work (like people doing shift work that are higher-up).  What is senior shift?

Did you listen to Behind the Bastards, too?

Thanks! The second postdoc would have been with the government, not with academia, but there were a lot of drawbacks with it as well. My husband and I even wrote up a huge pro/con list for both jobs and that’s kind of how I made my decision. I knew before I left grad school that I didn’t want to be in academia. My…

I decided to compromise a bit and left academia. I now have a more stable job doing scientific writing in industry with benefits, including paid maternity leave. I turned down a second postdoc which would have required a) a move to a much more expensive area (ATL to DC), b) a term that only lasted for two years with…

I remember that!  It was sort of a powder mixed in liquid, right?  I remember them coming around once a month to do it.  I lived in semi-rural KY, though, so maybe it was for kids that relied on well water, like you said.