For tacos there’s also beans and marinated cactus available as substitutes. I think they’re just good ingredients on their own as their own thing. I wish people would quit it with the “you wouldn’t even know”. It’s a dumb selling point and changes the expectations. The only things I’ve had that I wouldn’t have known…

Super Bowl XLI. My friend’s suburban townhome. It was a BYOB affair and I took it upon myself to purchase the finest box of Pinot Grigio I could find. At some point, I decided to make my damnedest attempt at polishing off the wine. After the better part of a liter, I decided that I was a massive Peyton Manning fan and…

I’ve been baking my chicken like this for years, and I can’t say enough about using a wire rack. I’m going to call it indispensable for this in particular. Dusting them with corn starch and baking powder can help make them even crispier. 

Hard yes to all of this. I very, very rarely deep fry at home but had a wing craving the other night. Since I don’t live near any fancy pants wing temple and am generally of the opinion that ‘I can do a lot of that shit better myself’, homemade was in order. Found a recipe for Coffee Porter brined wings on Salon of…

“What are onion ring salads?! I want an onion ring salad! Would that even be good? Would it be lettuce-based salad? Is it a salad topped with onion rings, or salad with chopped up onion rings tossed in it, or like a macaroni salad but with onion ring pieces? I want to know mor- dammit, it’s just a missing comma.

We should all follow the Chief Justice’s lead and refuse to acknowledge Rand Paul exists

I didn’t realize that. Thank you for the clarification, and thank you especially for the kind words. Losing my only sibling has been incredibly difficult. In a way, I “parented” my parents through their loss by helping with the arrangements and supporting them through their immediate grief. I was the older sibling,…

I am hopeful that, due to her celebrity status and wealth, her statement was written by an assistant/publicist and she only had to approve it, NOT SIT THERE IN HER IMMENSE AND CHOKING GRIEF AND PEN A NOTE TO APPEASE THE MASSES WHO HAVE NOT FELT THE LOSS OF A CHILD. Because she’s already a widow grieving the loss of…

I just wanted to scream, “STOP! Don’t you realize what’s happened here?!!!” Losing someone you love so deeply can make you want to stop living, and the shitty thing is is that you really can’t.

I’m so sorry for your loss, and for what you went through in the aftermath of losing your mom. Thank you for sharing your experiences. Whether or not anyone cares about the “legacy” of Kobe Bryant, I hope we can all feel sympathy for Vanessa, as losing her husband and first born child is a pain none of us should have…

Looks like we have a vial of insulin sitting next to the waffles?

No love for chicken nuggets warmed up and chopped? The breading adds a certain je ne sais quoi to the overall baked delight that is buffalo chicken dip.

Right-wing Christian theology that believes that the institution of an embassy in Jerusalem will bring about violence and destruction on a cosmic scale. Known as premillennial dispensationalists, this subset of evangelicals reads the embassy as an important and necessary step to the bringing about of the Apocalypse.

If that Dumpian Scuzbag, Matt Wolking, were to get doxxed himself it would be quite fitting. Hey, if you want to send dangerous frothing idiots at someone else, you should get the same fucking thing back right at you! 

Dave Chappelle, a simple question: Why should people have to choose between food and health insurance?

If it helps any, just imagine anything he says in Gilbert Gottfried’s voice.

I had cancer and the chemotherapy screwed up my gut - I was always a small person but at that point I weighed 92 pounds. The other side effect was that my skin was oddly amazing - the wrinkles, the sun spots all GONE. So of course there was a lot of ‘you look incredible’. And I would say ‘yup, thanks to chemo’. Once…

A friend of mine is losing significant weight right now, and is at the point where people can confidently exclaim about it without wondering whether or not they’re correct in their observations. So I’ve seen her get a lot of “Wow, you look great!” and “What’s your secret??” kind of thing. When people ask her what…

The whole genre of reality television-themed game shows (i.e., where there is a winner and many losers) has always been more about voyeuristic cruelty than it is about the greater aspirations of the individual candidates. I’m old enough to remember when American Idol first premiered and was an overnight sensation in…

I haven’t been to an all you can eat buffet in 6 years. This isn’t because I am against them, or because there are not amazing ones out there. It is because I experienced a shame so deep it sunk into my bones and I haven’t been able to shake it.