I dump this into my batter for savoury waffles! Slather that waffle with cream cheese and sliced tomato and that’s a happy weekday breakfast.

Came to check out the lovely wedding photo *and* I got to learn to stop confusing Tony Robbins with Tim Robbins. I bet Tim’s rave would be more fun.

When cooking a roast beast (pork or beef) my grandmother always taught me to glue a few bay leaves to a thin layer of mustard on the top of the beast before roasting. Always delicious, but you’re right - hard to describe that flavour.

I’ve never had beef Wellington. I always thought it was just boring beef wrapped in pastry and who cares because more exciting things can be wrapped in pastry. I’m now salivating at this and realizing the error of my ways. And I learned that the thing I do with mushrooms has a fancy name! Today is a good day.

What’s too bad is that the diclectin is more expensive than weed - not everyone’s drug plan covers all the cost :(

Here’s some hope from a Canadian perspective. Before Trudeau we endured many years of a robot man who served only to push industry self interests that didn’t help the people much. He cut social programs, muzzled scientists and made us look rather terrible on the world-wide scale. He got full power because at the time…

I often try to give people I dislike the benefit of the doubt, and muse about what they’re like in real life. I just can’t with Michael Cole - in my heart he’s a sniveling yes-man that can’t retire soon enough.

I haven’t had an abortion that was a medical procedure, but I have had a miscarriage, which is medically called ‘spontaneous abortion’. I was completely unprepared for the amount of pain, which felt exactly like my body committing violence against itself. Pain worse than what I experienced in childbirth.

There’s a group in my town threatening clowns this Friday (for real). Police are on it. Could this problem not be solved by throwing rocks and garbage at the clowns? They’re just looking for power through fear, right? I feel like treating them with disdain and rock throwing could make the assholes rethink their…

Oh man, thank you for that advice. After writing my comment I decided to check Amazon for the Anova and near pooped a little at the price. I was expecting pricey, but not ‘fancy Kitchen-Aid mixer pricey’.

Not sure if it was your point or not, but these sous vide installments are finally convincing me that maybe I need this kitchen apparatus in my life, if only for the jarred desserts.

Is that why I love it?? I thought I was a weirdo because shaved chests have been deal breakers for me. Glad to see I’m not alone.

And I’m not just referring to BPA - there’s a tonne more of plasticizers out there that I’m willing to bet we haven’t looked too closely at that are used in food wraps. I’m not saying this to be a hippie contrarian, I just think that we humans haven’t gotten it all figured out yet :P I’m curious now about silicone…

I’m late to this sous vide game, so forgive me if this is a dumb question. Cooking things in soft plastic squicks me out - has the process been tested to ensure there’s no leaching of plasticizers? Some researchers I’ve worked with in the lipids field don’t even like samples stored in plastic, so cooking things with…

Mostly real question: where’s the lines between people dressing as clowns to scare people/terrorism/free speech?

Thanks so much for that explanation! I’m glad to see it’s not just me being dense. Calls to mind when I took political science a million years ago - the prof told us that the frustration we had with fully understanding our own electoral system was nothing compared to what Americans had to deal with.

Try as I might, I simply don’t understand why it’s a thing that you Americans can wrap all sorts of other unrelated things into your bills. Did it come about as a side-door way of getting things done? How is it even legal? Not to mention how folks don’t just vote for a candidate, but a whole boatload of other stuff at…

I love your mental list name, and it made me think about how my husband states again and again that The Doors are only popular because Morrison died. I mean, I love me some Roadhouse Blues but that’s about it. There’s part of me who still thinks Hendrix would still be cool to this day, though.

My misunderstanding is that whenever I read the word ‘cupping’ I imagine people farting into their hands and then jamming it in people’s faces. I *wish* Gwyneth was in to that.

As someone who has gone through a traumatic (though not on a violent level such as this) experience I ended up surprising myself with the calmness that I felt. It was exactly like something had switched off, and a part of me that I did not know I had switched on and said “Do whatever you need to get through this time.…