Also, it’s not “Charlie” XCX (Charli). 

This is a bummer comment to me because a mashed rutabaga casserole is like, THE essential dish that makes a holiday meal a holiday meal for my very Finnish family. They’re not a consolation prize for potatoes!! They go NEXT TO the potatoes!!

I wish you luck in finding egg nog ice cream - my local grocery store brand (PC, Canada, sorry) came out with some this year and I snatched a pint as soon as I saw it. Incredible. They put a cinnamon rum swirl through it which I thought might be unnecessary, but it’s very good!!

This is me, haha - my partner is vegetarian, and I was too once upon a time when I was learning to cook. Basically all of my best recipes are veg, often quietly fully vegan, and I’ve made a LOT of people happy at potlucks over the years where they basically expected to only be able to eat their own dish. I hope we’re…

That salad is so good! I’ve brought it to a bunch of parties too. More work than it looks like it should be (the multiple types of grains, the fried onions) but I usually just make extra, then enjoy it as leftovers myself for a day or two (leaving the arugula on the side until eating time). A++ delicious recipe.

For Christmas last year, I bought myself the book ‘Fresh India’ by Meera Sodha and cooking through it this year has been a joy. Previously, I had a a few North American-Indian takeout-style classics in my repertoire (chana masala, saag paneer, baingan bharta, dal makhani, etc) but the tamarind, peanut, cilantro-based…

WTF I just googled and they didn’t fail, you can still get them!!!! No idea why we had such a large quantity at the food bank then....but wow what a happy discovery.

There was a brief moment where Reese’s was testing out a bar format - looked kind of like a Caramilk, with pieces you could break apart, but of course with peanut butter in the middle. They did not succeed...and I learned about their existence/failure in one swoop when the food bank I worked at received 3 cases.…

I never understood the logic of the ‘swipe to get in, then get whatever’ type of cafeteria. To me, the obvious dodge would be to swipe in at like 4 pm and eat a python meal (vs. eating a regular portion twice, at lunch / dinner). Not what I want to be doing now at my big age, but as an 18 year old? Bring it on.

This is how I’ve done it for my entire adult life!! I only keep soy milk around, and it seems wrong to put it in box mac somehow....so just pasta water + butter it is! Following the directions always resulted in something soupier than I wanted anyways, so the slightly thicker consistency is a big plus.

I’m not much of a sweets-eater in general but I do love an apple crisp....and I do like an annual purchase of a sweet Starbucks dessert drink. They have definitely captured my attention with this one.

There was a Krishna temple on my walk home between campus and where I lived 2nd/3rd/4th years!! It was $5, but all you could eat, so if you were extra hungry that was your spot. They made a yellow lentil soup/curry, a red one (with cauliflower, and I’m allergic, so I never ate it), rice, this macaroni salad that was…

I only lived in residence (with the accompanying cafeteria & meal plan) for first year. There was a soup/salad bar that was inexpensive, actually pretty stocked with decent fresh options, AND I was determined to make my mother’s snide ‘freshman 15' jokes incorrect, so that’s mostly where I went. There was a very…

I’ve been lactose intolerant since my teens and I like to have ‘milk’ (unsweetened soy) around mostly because I’m used to it - I do eat cereal, I drown oatmeal in it, I’ll drink a glass with peanut butter toast or Oreos. I’ll buy the lactose-free cow’s milk occasionally for other dishes I crave that will taste weird…

I posted in a different thread - every pub in my Canadian university town has these and they’re always called ‘antojitos’ on the menu. Hereabouts they have exactly the modification you suggested - no olives, but a greater amount of pickled jalapenos and also pickled banana peppers. I found them funny when I moved here…

These are inexplicably on the menu of every pub in the town I live in (Canada, not Midwest) - except instead of the olives, they typically have equal parts pickled jalapenos and banana peppers. I found it funny when I moved a few years ago but it didn’t take long to naturalize and start ordering a plate for the table.…

Yes! I wash my face in the shower using the same Dove shea butter soap I use on the rest of my body. I’ll wash it at night (with the Dove) if I’ve been out and wearing sunscreen that day and not taking a full shower. I.....rarely wash my face any other time. I recently upgraded to a Aveeno face lotion with SPF, but…

Flip flops and I broke up after high school - I had a full rainbow of options that I’d coordinate with my outfits and I’d still be wearing them when the temps were single digits (Celsius). Then I moved somewhere more humid for school and the blisters came....never doing that again.

I want to love this style of jean!! I’ve bought a few ‘mom’ pairs to try it out.....but on my body (small waist / cyclist thighs / regular calves) they are not cute!! For a pair to even get onto my body, the thighs are tight like skinnies anyways, the waist is always too big, and the calf part just looks off.

This is where my heart is too. I feel kind of guilty about it as a fan, because it feels like essentially making the argument like ‘only do the things that align with my taste’, but it’s getting harder for me to separate the art from the artist with these two. The art itself has also progressed into something…