What if you pureed everything else in the blender, and then stirred in the champagne by hand? I bet that would work.

I totally agree with you. Also, I have this book and have cooked extensively from it, and all I can say is Lindy must have chosen some of the most labor intensive recipes in it. I have found most of them to be on the simpler, less involved side.

I ordered this cookbook when it first came out, having enjoyed her previous cookbook, and I unabashedly love it. There are so many good recipes, not all of which require bizarre health food store ingredients or take ages to prep. I would say I have cooked 15-20 recipes out of it, and of those, at least five have wound…

I've done everything I could to keep costs down for my bridesmaids. They are allowed to choose their own dress, shoes, and accessories. I don't care if they get their hair or makeup professionally done. We didn't have an engagement party, and none of the bridesmaids were invited to more than one shower (although I did…

It's weird to me that a bride would even require her party to get their makeup done. Hair, I understand, kind of, since certain styles are difficult to do on oneself (although I always think it's weird when a bride dictates that everyone must wear their hair in the same style, since there is often such a wide…

I had two, but one was in California, the other in New Hampshire, and the only overlapping attendees were my mother and aunt. I can't imagine having two showers and inviting the same people to both. My brother's fiance's sister invited a bunch of our family members to a shower in their hometown even though my mom had…

That just proved my point that it is still a common and accepted occurrence. I'm not arguing that women should not be called what they want to be called; I am merely stating that the practice is not dead yet.

Thank you! Having never taken it, I wasn't totally up on the specifics.

Good thing it was her calling herself that then!

California has Pregnancy Disability Leave - I believe you get four weeks prior to your due date and six to eight weeks after, at 55% of your salary. It runs concurrently with FMLA leave. Then the California Family Rights Act provides another 12 weeks of unpaid but job protected leave. So theoretically in CA you could…

Traditional etiquette-wise, a woman is Mrs. Husband'sFirstName Husband'sLastName whether she changes her name or not. I assume her tweet was a nod to that tradition in the spirit of the romance of her wedding day. I highly doubt she is actually changing her name.

Exactly what I was coming here to say! The amount of frustration Free Staters are causing in some communities is not insubstantial.

Yeah...but if you talk to the flight attendants beforehand or call their customer service line in the type of situation in which requesting someone to change seats for you might be reasonable, they will typically allow you into the preboarding group. I mean, families with small children get to go first as it is. So…

I'm with you. I've never actually been asked to switch seats, even though I travel a ton (I guess I just give good bitchface?), but I always dread the prospect. I purposely book early to ensure I can get an aisle seat on the left hand side of the plane because I have nerve damage in my right leg from a back injury,…

Agreed. One of my mom's good friends had a young daughter die in a freak ATV accident - she was riding it with her dad and it flipped and pinned her. It was horrible. I think she was only five.

I was at a bar recently that had giant games of Jenga - the pieces were made of 2" by 4"s that had been cut to about two feet long. I learned that drunkenness improves the game immensely (although it also seemed kind of dangerous, since it was impossible to tell which way it would tumble and the board were large and…

Are you serious?! A dog of any breed can turn out to be vicious, and not necessarily through any fault of the owner. Like humans, some dogs are just psychopaths. When I was a kid, we had a purebred golden retriever who had to be put down after he bit three people. He was sweet as pie around adults but for some reason…

One thing I've noticed about the BR factory store, though, is a lot of their stuff is cut way differently than their regular merchandise. I have tons of regular BR stuff that fits great, but whenever I try to shop at the factory store, the things I try on are tight or loose in places they shouldn't be, or fall weird,…

I think the flash sale sites are for the most part real overstock. I've ordered plenty of real designer merchandise from RueLaLa.

Oh man, I miss that place so much. In college I worked at one of the makeup counters at Filene's, and every single break, I could be found downstairs, stalking the 75% automatics markdowns. I was as well dressed as a semi-broke college student could ever hope to be.