I love cooking Italian (or, I guess, Italian-ish, since I'm really just talking about pasta) and going out for Mexican (which, sadly, happens all too infrequently).  My holy grail of ethnic cuisine, though, is Indonesian, after having the most sublime restaurant outing of my life in Amsterdam with my sisters.  For all…

I had a friend who had a huge crush on Lance Bass, but ended up coming out a year or two before he did.  Which, in hindsight, makes perfect sense.  He always seemed to me like the perfect celebrity crush beard.

Liked for liking liking Marc Ribot.

There's nothing that can't be improved with more Lanegan.

@avclub-6beb5f589a9fd04c21fcd50db3d9c80c:disqus Thank you, and a very happy birthday to you!!

I've been enjoying those bitters in strawberry drinks.  I did a strawberry-mint daiquiri with them last weekend (muddling strawberries, mint, some bitters, and a bit of simple syrup, straining, then stirring with white rum), and then a strawberry mint julep (macerating the berries in some sugar, mashing, then stirring…

I've never had a Gimlet before, but that will be changing shortly.

I've got a batch of rhubarb bitters steeping as we speak.  I can definitely hook you up with a bottle when they're ready.

None of what @avclub-de4a08d644135b09bd7e1a592dff156b:disqus is saying is true.  There is no run-off from our factory, or at least, no unhealthy run-off.  I mean, the rivers around our factory just taste better now!  Right, children?  See?  The children who just happen to hang out at the factory — playing, might I add…

Thanks for the encouragement!  I've told myself that I'm not allowed to even think about whether I like it or not for six month.  I'm just going to add "going to the gym" to my routine, and in six months I can assess the situation.  Until then?  It's just something I do.  We'll see how that works out.

It's easy!  Step One: Buy a beet.  You can DO IT!

::MIND SHRAPNEL::

I'm also a fan — faking one's own death is a timeless classic.  This is by far my favorite news story of the year so far; not enough people fake their own deaths anymore.

Thanks, and happy birthday to your fiancee!  Sounds like you guys are going to be doing it up right.

My mom is also awesome, and has encouraged my childlessness by making it clear that she has no interest at all in having grandkids.  She seems to be satisfied just with her cat grandkids.

@avclub-3be42d8a3412057f79af152555e39bd4:disqus I'm so sorry about your basil!  Surely you can just run out, buy a new basil, plunk it down in its place, and pretend it never happened, right?  Just like replacing a child's pet goldfish!

Those are fantastic!

@avclub-3be42d8a3412057f79af152555e39bd4:disqus It all kind of depends on what you're canning, I think.  I mean, jams and jellies and shit like that can take forever, but pickles tend to be pretty quick.  I'm a Flickr-aholic and document a lot of my cooking projects there, so I'll periodically look back over the…

I'm urging my little basil plants to grow faster, because I think that'd be great in one of these drinks, too.

My job also has programs like that, only they're year-round, and they encourage taking trainings in mental and nutritional fitness, as well as physical.  I decided to try out learning more about eating vegetables, because while I'm good at eating veggies I'm bad at doing it when there isn't pasta involved.  Well.  It…