I’ve always organized a little birthday shindig for the folks on my team and we got so sick of cake we started doing morning ones with donuts or danish, cake pops, cookies and other things.

That’s actually a big reason why I got a double oven. The top one is a little bit bigger than a broiler - you can put brownies or steaks in it but not, say, a whole chicken or a bundt cake. It works for 90% of the stuff I make and heats much more quickly and is presumably more energy efficient since it’s maybe half…

I already have a convection feature on my oven which I have never used (I wanted dual ovens and many of those ranges just come with convection). Can I use that to do all these things? 

Ha, I NEVER use my Instant Pot for rice (I’m Asian and already have a rice cooker I much prefer) and I have never made cheesecake. So I have mostly used my Instant Pot for beans and stew-like dishes. The real advantage for beans is that the Instant Pot is much, much faster. You get from dry to cooked in 45 minutes or…

She cooked them in an Instant Pot. That doesn’t require soaking.

Weirdly enough Barneys carries the same kind of china I have so I went there repeatedly leading up to the holidays, chasing the discounts to replace stuff that got broken in a move as cheaply as possible. And here’s the thing - the company handling the liquidation brought in a TON of random stuff that Barneys never…

Yes, speaking as someone from NYC, a city whose population is almost double Iowa and NH COMBINED, where presidential candidates would never so much as touch down on the tarmac if they didn’t have to run out to the Hamptons to pry money out of Wall Street bankers, FU too NH guy!

. . .and then put it on top of a pizza! 

. . . except the need for clicks! 

Seriously. At age 56 Brad Pitt was recently shirtless in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood looking every bit as implausibly hot as JLo. Where are the male bloggers and thought pieces about how intimidated they are about that and how they’ll never look like that again? Guys don’t think about things like this because they…

Just to be clear, I’m not saying that there was in fact fraud, only that it’s not surprising that people are suspicious there may have been and that they didn’t need much if any prompting from candidates to have concerns. Many people are just seeing the headlines here and aren’t reading the full story.

I don’t think it’s surprising that people are speculating about this regardless of which candidate is pushing this narrative forward. There have been endless articles about foreign interference in the 2016 election and about the vulnerability of our electoral process to hacking. . . then the first major primary…

Speaking as someone who actually IS 50, having a 50 year old flaunt a body few 25 year-olds have is indeed simply implausible, not transgressive. It’s so difficult to look like that at age 50 it’s not surprising that everyone is staring, and it doesn’t do anything for the 99.999% of 50 year-old women who look nothing…

Yep, they link to one of the original ads from the 90s. It should bring back plenty of memories if you watch it back at home ;-).

You can see sprinkles in the birthday cake flavor in the ad, so your sanity appears to be intact! 

I’m Asian and grew up eating rice at every single meal. Regular rice won’t stick together more than sushi does even if you cook it further - think about fried rice, that wouldn’t stick together like these bun things either. There are a couple of different approaches that could work - for example, combining it with…

These seem like they’d be incredibly messy to eat. There’s a reason why sushi come in nice little bite-sized pieces, and why omusubi have a totally different ratio of filling to rice and come in a nice little seaweed wrapper. I feel they should have either gone full omusubi with these or done a don-type rice bowl. Not…

This reminds me of a couple of weeks ago when my mother got her meal delivered with the included side, au gratin potatoes, totally missing. It took us a while to get our waitress and when we told her she said she would send it out. A busboy came by in another 5-10 minutes with MASHED potatoes, which my mother ate…

But the OP obviously paid for the side without saying anything. He/she seems to be asking if it would have been OK to refuse the side and not pay the next time it happens (and things like this do happen from time to time).

A former co-worker of mine turned me onto Buckleys ages ago - it may taste like ass, but dammit it WORKS. However, it seems to have completely vanished from the shelves in the NYC area and it’s super expensive on Amazon :-(.