Yes! I use Cacao Barry Extra Brute but really it’s whatever you like for your taste and availability dictate. You can swap out whatever dark cocoa power you like in the same volume/weight as the recipe (Hershey’s Special Dark, for example) but if you’re using a lighter cocoa, I’d up the quantity of both the cocoa and…

I think a PBJ on rye would be highly dependent on the type of J involved. Rye and apricot is a classic combo for sweet/savory sandwiches, but grape or strawberry would be a nightmare.

Listen, I’m not always one for trigger warnings, but you’re just going to mention sugar in grits without a troubling content note? Right in front of my salad deviled eggs with relish?

Relish absolutely belongs in deviled eggs. If you can’t find relish because you live in a country where it’s not available, you gotta do…

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but...but...what if A Man had a to feel a feeling without instant unquestioning public validation and/or a paycheck?

What makes this hot chocolate different from most American and European versions is you effectively brew the cocoa first. This is an intensely chocolatey but not cloyingly sweet version, though all amounts are adjustable to taste. Makes three small, two generous, or one…

Every year I think “this is the winter I’m going to like champurrado”because what could be cozier than walking in the plaza drinking champurrado and eating churros, but it never works out. Atoles in general and champurrado specifically aren’t my bowl of soup. I keep thinking there’s a champurrado out there for me…

Before y’all climb over sweet Claire for this water business, yes it works. Yes it’s good. Yes it still tastes rich and has a beautiful texture. No it doesn’t taste watery or thin. It lets the chocolate flavor really come forward and there’s still creaminess from the bar. Obviously there’s no great sin in wanting an…

Absolutely. There’s even a Spanish idiom: Como agua para chocolate/Like water for chocolate that means being really ready for something, usually sex. I used to be ride or die for an all-milk hot chocolate until I moved to Mexico and learned the wisdom of water in hot chocolate. It lets the chocolate come forward…

You’d think water would be wrong, but it works. Normally I use water first and then top up with a rich milk. The water lets the chocolate flavor open up and come through in a way that all milk doesn’t, and bringing water to the boil and dissolving the chocolate in that is less destructive to the texture. It’s weird,…

You’re right, of course. Thanks for the check. I left Texas so I’m not trying to sell it. I just worked in a Latino-centric nonprofit for a long, grueling time there and still feel so run down when all my colleagues and loved ones are giving their blood, sweat, and tears still trying to make their home better…

You’re right, of course. I left Texas so I’m not trying to sell it. I just worked in a Latino-centric nonprofit for a long, grueling time there and still feel so run down by all colleagues and loved ones giving their blood, sweat, and tears still trying to make their home better (instead of leaving like I did) and…

I did! I had eyebrows and I looked amazing while everyone else had Ronald McDonald sperm brows and now everyone has brows and I’m like DAMMIT YOU DISCOVERED MY SECRET.

I think we’ve been at Peak Brow for a while now, so I think a trend towards slightly less intense brows is in our future. I hope it doesn’t go all the…

I treasure the VMs I have from my brother. There’s one of him singing Happy Birthday that I listen to every year. It always makes me cry, but it’s also comforting, especially on days when I worry that I’ll forget what his voice sounded like.

Bush is from Connecticut: Beyonce is from Texas.

Lord I know it’s easy to talk about Texas being garbage, but that’s inadvertently erasing a lot of good people doing good work. As of 2010 Texas is at least 51%+ Latino and almost 12% black.. Texas government is almost always trash but white supremacists WANT us to buy…

Plus, why are you trying to give up a commission like that? That’s how deep this shit is. People will basically PAY for the opportunity to be racist jerks.

My neighbor is a very fancy man and has lots of famous friends. He’s never vulgar about name dropping and I never fangirl, but then he posted a selfie with Auntie Maxine at his establishment ON THANKSGIVING DAY and I’m pretty sure I blacked out from envy.

I just can’t feel good about watching American football. It seems so dangerous and it just feels like white people making black men hurt each other for fun and (mostly white) profit. Obviously there’s a ton of nuance I don’t understand bc I didn’t grow up watching it so I’m absolutely willing to believe there’s a…

I hated this song UNTIL I watched the video and was absolutely mesmerized by what a perfect, crystalline distillation it is of all of the mid-80's Cold War too-posh-to-be-Eurotrash aesthetic and now I love it. The hair! The symbolic diamante daisy brooch! The oversized sweaters! The ski lodge full of obviously gay men…

Neither Sr Chavez nor I tend to use a lot of profanity in our speech, but in our house Dolt45 is just known as “[heavy sigh] This Motherfucker.”