Does the store have Laoganma SPICY CHILLI CRISP, though?? That stuff is habit-forming - it’s a bit spicier than the one you tried, it also has sichuan peppercorn for a tingle, and it has fried shallots (I think?) so it adds awesome texture. We’ll eat it in my house just on rice but I’ll also finish simple veg dishes…

I go through sambal oelek very quickly in my house, I add it to anything that already has garlic and needs heat and a little acid. It’s amazing to finish off soups that need something extra, especially anything with coconut milk, or if I’ve finished off a can of chipotles in adobo but I still want a bit more oomph in…

I just came into possession of a mixer with a dough hook so I think this would be an excellent first project!

I mean, not really? Like I said, it’s pretty intuitive. I think it would be more frustrating if you were shopping to try making a specific dish for the first time, but if both rice noodles and spaghetti are in your regular pantry you’re going to be in that aisle anyways.

The grocery store I shop at most often (in a mid-sized Canadian city - it’s a specific No Frills) does not have a distinct aisle for ‘international’ foods. Packaged curry products are all in the same place whether they’re Thai or Indian or Japanese curry, but rice noodles are with the pasta, the Goya / Cedar brand…

Toronto’s gonna Toronto. You’ll drive yourself nuts trying to figure why the trends work the way they do, so just enjoy the the bone marrow / fish tacos / ‘house ferments’ / poke bowls / ribs if you’re interested, or wait for the next thing if you’re not. For what it’s worth, my story happened almost a decade ago and…

“Ribfests” are very popular annual events in the region I live in. Basically, there are teams who drive from city to city each weekend in the summer with these enormous, 18-wheeler-sized portable smoker/kitchen rigs with the biggest, gaudiest signs possible. At least 4,and up to 2 dozen of these trucks are set up in a…

I used to live in a basement apartment with the landlord upstairs. He had two goldendoodles that were exactly as you described, AND extremely understimulated. He would put them in the (not big enough) backyard when he went to work and was skeptical that you could hear them barking for hours HALF A KILOMETER AWAY, next…

Replied to another commenter - I think he’s fine, I just don’t think he’s got the momentum for this election. Stuff could change, though!

Mostly just looking at current polling numbers. Jack was popular, and Jagmeet doesn’t have the same recognition/trust (yet). Not saying we’ll never get there, but I’m doubtful that that could happen before Oct. 21.

It’s moments like this where I wish we could resurrect Jack Layton so there was at least a viable third option. 

I just said this in another thread but IMAGINE if the Liberals boosted Jody Wilson-Raybauld to the leadership? DREAM.

Imagine if the Liberals booted JT and boosted Jody Wilson-Raybould to the leadership. I usually vote NDP, but have voted Liberal in the past - I would ABSOLUTELY support her, since she’s clearly shown her integrity and character. Pipe dreams, though.

There’s milk, also. 

This lotion is cheap as hell and I use it very effectively as a gentle makeup remover for waterproof eye makeup. Spread a half pump’s worth thickly over the product you need off, wipe with a tissue/cotton pad, hooray. You can wash your face after if you don’t think it’d be good for your skin type but tbh I end up…

I used to feel really bad about myself for not having a singular best friendship that was all consuming like this. Did a lot of soul-searching along the lines of ‘why don’t other women want to relate to me this way?’

Yeah, she reminds me a lot of Cat Marnell too....but with preppy/‘basic’/GOOPy type stuff swapped in for the party/drug stuff. I think Cat was a better writer though.

I’ve bought into the nouveau scrunchie thing. My hair is up in a hot pink leopard print one right now. The texture of my hair is very unforgiving and retains an everlasting line if I throw it up with a regular elastic so on days where I can be a little looser with my style, scrunchie it is.

Very dumb and true story: the first time I tried pho, it was in a spot with barely-translated menu and I had no idea what I was doing. Like many pho places, it had different combinations of meats you could order for your bowl, and those combinations were numbered. I’d just watched a Bond movie so I ordered 007 and…

I looooove soondae. I like most varieties of blood sausage (Tibetan gyuma, British black sausages, the Finnish version my Vaari made) but soondae is my favourite. Truthfully, I’ll probably never make it because sausage-making is a big job and my dude doesn’t eat meat, so that level of effort just for myself doesn’t…