His last name was Thompson. Gonzales was her last name.

I’m pretty sure rogueIndy means this:

Beans are for all-year-around at our house. I nearly always have some baked beans and frijoles borrachos in the freezer. Thanks for the mention of the three sisters. I need to come up with a meal that uses all three. I bet they’d make a nice filling for some enchiladas (I’d probably throw cheese in there too.)

If you put baking soda in the washer with the clothes, and vinegar in the softener dispenser, they get washed with soap and baking soda, then rinsed with fresh water and vinegar. They don’t cancel each other out because it’s two different batches of water.

This is beautifully written, Nirmeen, and you sound like an amazing parent. I’m sorry (and angry) that Shaheen, you, and the rest of your family are suffering because of this nonsense, but I have a feeling y’all are going to be just fine.

The best thing about Buc-ees is that there will always be a really nice Exxon across the highway.

What the fuck is wrong with you that you are this stupid?

I read this as “anger ketchup” and I was like, “Yeah, somebody gets my mood right now.” Please pass the rage fries.

A cat food donut? I’m in!

Exactly. Two million is “comfortable in retirement and able to pay medical bills,” not rich.

Thanks for this! Chloramine - combined chlorine - is what you smell, too. If you don’t have too many people in your pool on a regular basis (and especially kids/uncouth people who will pee in your pool), chlorine rash won’t be a problem.

Vegan things I like to grill: corn; thinly sliced seitan slathered in BBQ sauce; marinated mushrooms (red wine, olive oil, Montreal steak seasoning); sweet onions, red onions, all kinds of peppers, marinated summer squash, eggplant slices, green beans, asparagus, seitan souvlaki, marinated tofu; and pita, baguettes,…

I think you’re right. With laundry, you can put baking soda in the washer and vinegar in the softener dispenser, which releases into the rinse water after the wash water drains - this works well for me - but mixing them together doesn’t make sense.

Any recipe that tells me I need “one package” of noodles or pasta. Do you mean the 6-ounce, the 7-ounce, the 8-ounce, the 12, the 16, the 32?

My mom used to make fried chicken livers when I was a kid, which I liked  because “fried chicken.” Liver and onions, gross. These days, I don’t eat meat, but I make dirty rice with lentils, quinoa and millet, or lentils and some other protein. What makes it great is the onion, bell pepper, celery, and spices.

It’s been years since I’ve eaten at a Popeyes, since I don’t eat chicken anymore, but their Cajun rice is called dirty rice in LA and TX. Find a dirty rice recipe you like and probably add more fat and salt and there you have it.

One of my quarantine hobbies has been learning Spanish, and Guatemala is on the top of my list to visit when we can, so thanks for this! 

Devs was excellent, and I don’t usually like bleak sci-fi.

I don’t cook with eggs either, and I would probably replace the egg with 2 or 3 tablespoons of vegan mayo.

When my boyfriend (now my husband) and I were in college, we moved from a tiny apartment to a shithole house behind a Whataburger. This was a wood frame house with no air or heat, except a gas wall heater under the bathroom sink. The Whataburger had florescent tube lights that shined in our bedroom window at night, so…