i worked a fair amount of mall retail in my 20's, and the only place close enough to my store that i could eat at in my 30 minute lunch window was chikfila. i was never impressed, even as an overworked and starving 20-something. i honestly don’t get the hype in the first place.

honestly, i secretly love the stuff solely because of its novelty; my mom haaaates green beans so i never had this growing up. when i met my partner, he’s had it since he was a kid so it was a must. it’s gloopy and gross and bad, i know, but still so good just because i can have it. that being said, making it gluten…

your cheese affair is safe with me. i recently came between my partner and his can of cheese whiz; he relies on it for easy, late-night gluten-free cheesesteaks when i’m sleeping, but the other day while home alone i had naught but the dregs of a bag of tortilla chips and damned if i didn’t heat up the last third of…

that’s the one- little discs that would scratch the hell out of your mouth and didn’t even really taste like cookies, but, eh. my mom refused to buy them bc they were blatantly pretending to be cookies, which added to their allure, obviously.

i mean, we’ve had cookie crisp since forever, oreo o’s, reese’s puffs, not to mention poptarts and rice kristpie treats cereals- it honestly seems like twinkieo’s should have happened a lot sooner.

huh, i wonder what it is about giant eagle that lends itself to silly pronunciations. 

i totally respect that. honestly i spend time at my desk job surfing sales while my actual-work pdf’s are printing on my other monitor bc they move very slowly and i can’t really do much else, so, may as well multi-task. so for me it’s not too much time out of my day and i’m lucky to have four different grocery stores…

i used to live in ohio and one of my two grocery choices was giant eagle. my partner is from florida and i’m from virginia and neither of us had ever heard of it so for some reason we called pronounced it with a french accent, like jee-yant ee-glay’ because we are annoying. it was across the street from where i worked…

safeway is ridiculous. i used to live in virginia and now live in arizona and though the cost of living is massively lower in AZ, safeway feels like it’s just as expensive as back in nova. i only go to safeway/albertson’s if they’ve got some kind of sale going on, though when they do have sales they do it right. the…

ho dang, not gonna lie i tripped up at the thought of $300 a month for meat alone, but of course, i’m a broke-ass and love sale-surfing. my partner and i spend probably $100 a month on protein and we eat it every day, though i always buy what’s on sale and abuse the hell out of my freezer, so, that probably does it.…

i used to live in nova and am transplanted to the southwest...good lord do i miss H mart. my mom and i used to go on saturday mornings and just buy completely random shit we had no idea how to cook but could fill up a basket with for a very nominal price, then we would consult the internet for ideas - long before…

i had a landlord a few years ago whose parents still pronounced them ‘taycos’ and ‘naychos.’ we live in the southwest. 

i’ve not been on any recent trips that allowed me to bring back food souvenirs, but i will say that when my partner went to italy about ten years ago, he brought back two little tins of red pepper flakes that were unlike any i’ve found here in the states. i’ve got quite a pepper collection to go on, but these little…

honestly, i like my little air fryer. i have a very tiny galley kitchen in a building that was repurposed from an old folk’s home to apartments maybe 15 years ago, so the counters are all low, the cabinets are small, and my oven is hardly bigger than an easy bake oven. the air fryer works really well to feed two…

when i was a kiddo, i got a wee cooking set for christmas one year. it contained a tiny whisk, bc everything was tiny, and damned if my mom didn’t totally steal that thing from me and use it as her own in just the ways you described. she still has it to this day and will probably never relinquish it.

...umm, this is awesome to know. thanks! i will be back later with frozen garlic and also probably 18 varieties of snacks i don’t need.

....what. is this a thing? i am intrigued.

wait a minute though, why are you chopping your potatoes after they’re cooked...?

it’s delightful, and super effing easy. i’m no midwesterner but since i’m busy with two jobs and have to keep a gluten-free kitchen with a celiac in the house, i have given in to the myriad delights of casseroles. 

chiles rellenos. i’d never experienced them properly having grown up on the east coast, but once i moved to the southwest, i found them in every other restaurant and they’re pretty tasty. they’re my partner’s favorite food as well, and i just can. not. ever. get it RIGHT. okay i lie, the *very* first time i made them…