YES, I am 100% in the same boat as you. 

This year has been way too long.

or to having her book included on HelloGiggles’s list of “11 feminist books to gift your bestie who’s busy smashing the patriarchy.”

Yes! My partner is the primary contact point to manage his/our relationships with his family, and I am for mine. This happened originally because I was overwhelmed - I come from a tiny, quiet clan and his family is BIG, AND LOUD (and lovely...but damn they’re a lot) - and now it just feels right. Still, I was shocked…

My partner’s family (the Irish part) always puts out a certain spread of finger foods at the holidays and crucial in the mix is some cold sliced smoked kielbasa. His great-uncle calls it KOO-buss-uh and the family follows suit even though this is clearly wrong. I think it’s all very charming, and I definitely tuck in.…

I was too old to be the target audience for Rookie - I just checked, it started after I’d finished university - but I always admired it, and was a bit jealous that something like it didn’t come along 7-8 years earlier. Poor me and my agemates, becoming teens too late for Sassy and too early for Rookie, haha. Anyways,…

This is vindicating!! The human cost of fast fashion is not a trivial thing to shrug off, but I’ve always been kind of skeptical of the idea that ‘designer’, or at least more expensive, items are inherently sturdier or higher quality. I’m a real stickler for feeling the fabric, inspecting seams, looking for linings,…

My mom was anti-Kraft singles when I was growing up and my household ate mostly dark rye bread. I have no memory of trying a Kraft single/white Wonder bread grilled cheese, cooked in a pan, until I was in the middle of my undergrad. LIFE CHANGING. I like it too much to keep Kraft singles in the house, but I insist on…

Yeah, everything I said comes from a baseline status that we are all childfree adults. If/when kids become part of the logistical puzzle, I imagine that nobody’s going to tolerate ‘c’ anymore. I also think it’s very different when there’s a meal involved - it’s no big deal if someone’s catching up later if we’re…

A thing I really appreciate about the group of friends I’ve made over the years is that we’re all predictable when it comes to timeliness. There are three categories of behavior:
a. folk who are 5 min early / precisely on time.
b. folk who are usually 5-10 min late, but can tell you with precision how far away they are.…

Hahaha, I didn’t properly learn the English word for ‘lanttu’ (rutabaga) until I was in my twenties. My family just called them turnips, which was confusing and incorrect since a) turnips and rutabagas taste/look different and b) it’s not a translation error, ‘nauris’ is turnip. It didn’t come up before that because…

This is such a sweet and sad story. I’m happy you had each other and something comforting and warm to eat in that moment.

I’ve had and made from-scratch stuffing since, but Stove Top is to homemade stuffing as Kraft Dinner is to homemade mac and cheese. There are merits and pleasures to both and sometimes you just need the box kind. 

This is both funny and sweet. My dude’s a vegetarian so my mom was definitely stressed about how to feed him at first, and veg is easier than vegan. The way they tried is giving me a little heart glow.

I like asking a question on Jez then googling it afterwards. I guess at one point, there were American locations, but now there’s only one left (it’s in a suburb of Detroit). There’s been one in every city I’ve lived in up here in Canada, though! The pasta wasn’t great tbh, but very satisfying Caesar salad.

True story, my family never had stuffing on the Thanksgiving table when I was little. (We’re pretty culturally tied to the motherland, not all of the North American traditions sunk in with my Mummo. Lanttulaatikko was mandatory instead.) Then, my brother tried it at a friend’s house and was raving about how much he…

Does the U.S. have East Side Mario’s? I’m a big ol’ foodie snob and hadn’t been in one for a decade but recently I had reason to go. That endless Caesar salad, mannnnn. It is 100% predictable and textbook standard and that is why it was wonderful. I want some right now.

I mean, I like to think I’m super selective about who I choose to associate with as well. Being bullied as a preteen sucked a lot, but it taught me that I was fine on my own, and that I preferred being alone over spending time with anyone that made me feel even a little negative. Then, after years with no incident and…

By my own calculation, I don’t consider tofu skin substantially more highly processed or objectionable than anything related to dairy cheese. The process of making seitan is not unlike making bread, it just starts with a different wheat product. The products the author uses are these ingredients, seasoned with smoke/sp…

I have made this!! We enjoyed it a lot, very hefty and flavorful. I’ve tried a different veg main for most Thanksgiving/Christmas meals since I got together with my vegetarian partner 7 years ago. This was one of few that had him doing the post-feast couch sprawl like the turkey eaters, haha.