Over steering?

I would never be so presumptuous as to expect the President of the United States to sing “Happy Birthday” to me, but would it be too much to ask for Janelle Monae to put in a cameo appearance for me this September? I mean, it would be unreasonable to expect the leader of the free world. I will settle for the…

Don’t fear canned tomatoes for anything simmered this long. Just be choosy about the tomatoes that you buy. Try to find ones without added calcium chloride. That really is not such a horrible additive, but it is added to give firmness to the tomatoes, which is not what you want for this type of recipe.

One slight correction — while many (including Hitch himself) claimed that you never see the knife touch flesh during the shower sequence of Psycho, that is clearly not true. Whether or not the knife appears to penetrate is another debate, but still frames do appear to show it doing so — though it is probably just the…

Trust me, I won’t.

The only thing that mustard is needed for is ruining perfectly good dishes. . .

After reading Kenji’s book The Food Lab cover-to-cover, my biggest disappointment was his emphasis on mustard, which I absolutely despise. And I get it: it is an emulsifier, which is necessary for dressings like this. I could substitute egg yolks, I suppose, but it is not the same thing. But emulsifier or not, he just…

And, mandatory:

There is an element of peer pressure to poor winter driving. Some people are tempted to drive faster because other cars are driving faster and they do not want to lag behind. Probably a touch of the competitiveness thing there as well. Trouble is, it has a snowball effect (so to speak) and then more people start doing…

Well, I was not really referring to the Honda driver in particular as much as I was to the merge situation in general. But whether due to lack of awareness, or due to selfishness, the resulting mess is the same.

Yes indeed, the one who sells monkeys.

Oh, you just appear to have been talking to the wrong people. Complaining about other drivers is a hobby for some of us.

Pretty much turn it into a pizza-shaped watermelon/feta salad.

I generally hate processed cheese of any kind, but I finally got around to making J. Kenji Lopez-Alt’s “Ultra Gooey Macaroni & Cheese” a few weeks ago, and there will now always be Velveeta in my house. Carefully hidden, but accessible if the mood strikes again.

I live in a small community outside the Twin Cities metro area, and while it would qualify as rural, I see the same thing in the cities.

“’I’m going to get in front of this bike.’

I have not been able to get VLC to work at all since I upgraded to Windows 10. I have tried uninstalling, re-downloading. . . Nothing works. Finally gave up and switched to Pot Player. I will have to try the beta when I get home.

Can we please stop it with the “officer-involved shooting” nonsense? That has become such an accepted phrase that even more left-leaning media uses it, but it is biased in favor of the police. When an officer is the one who is shot, the phrasing is always more precise, like “a fleeing suspect shot an officer.” But…

“I love you too, QuakerOats!”

You do not have to be on a motorcycle, our even going that quickly. . . I was riding my bicycle last Saturday on a warm & sunny day. While cruising at around 20mph, I rode through the shade of a few trees, and apparently all of the gnats in western Wisconsin were swarming in that one spot. I got them in my eyes, nose,…