Soy just being itself is delicious, though. Who doesn’t like edamame? I also love the tofu preparation where a fresh cube of the silken variety gets sliced and simply dressed with a savoury/chili oil. Soy milk is my favourite alt-milk, and I drink the unsweetened, plain variety. All the weird imitation products it…

There was a bar in my university town that had wood panelling inside, the biggest patio downtown outside, and was just.....kind of slummy in a comfortable way. It was the kind of place that would show UFC, have weekly karaoke, but also all the punks congregated there - truly a place for the people. On Sundays they had…

YIKES. Had literally no idea. Thank you for saying this. A neighbour recommended, I tried, the burrows stopped was the full extent of my knowledge (and I guess I liked the idea of a plant-based, ‘natural’ solution vs. something overtly designed as a repellent). There are still tons of intact-eyed squirrels around my…

If you’re having problems with furry invaders try a hefty sprinkle of cayenne around the perimeter of your pots (like, until there’s a faint orange dusting). I was finding little proto-burrows in my garden containers every morning and this was recommended to me - no digging afterwards, and the plants are thriving.

J.K., for SURE. Gwyneth is absolutely out of touch, but being out of touch to the tune of sleeping in and having long dinners at home with your family seems less harmful to me than actively making transphobic statements.

hahaha yes thank you!! I was feeling disoriented like....isn’t Joan a Californian? Are we talking about *that* CTV? *That* Fashion Television? The odds are good that I watched that Marc Jacobs segment real-time as a kid, while kind of doing homework.

Yeah, it was absolutely here. I had that thought too.

One of the first things I learned how to make as a newly-on-my-own home cook was lentil soup. I was nervous in the kitchen and working off a limited budget so my logic was like ‘if I screw this up, there’s enough here to try again.’

Oh, if only I could purchase fat bunches of radish leaves on their own! They are like a gentler arugula, with a pleasant bitterness that does far more for a salad than big fat discs of multicolored radishes ever could.

CALORIFIC AFTERS. Calorific Afters!

I grew up in a house where ‘coffee break’ was extremely literal, especially if my grandparents were around. Google ‘fika’ - we’re Finnish, not Swedish, but it’s mostly the same. Anyways, if you have a couple of cups to start the day, then a friend pops by in the morning so you put the pot on, you have coffee with…

O Y S T E R S

One thing that’s starting to grate on me is the number of folks going on and on thanking us for still working and being open (as a bakery). Do not get me wrong, I understand that it’s coming from good intentions, and if it was just the regular polite thanks you’d say pre-COVID that’d be great!! What I don’t think that…

Peaches make a really excellent crisp, and the frozen kind work fine in a pinch. My other favourite is rhubarb + strawberry, raspberry or both.

Neither my partner or I are strictly vegan, but he’s firmly vegetarian and I also was for a year back when I was a baby just learning how to cook for myself. I consider myself a very good, confident cook with the giant blind spot of whole cuts of meat - I’ve literally never cooked a steak in almost 15 years of living…

I have a yard, but not really ‘patio’ space. (I rent my place, it’s on a corner lot without fences, and people cut through sometimes.) For this reason, I lust after outdoor furniture, but I can’t allow myself to buy anything big until I move somewhere else.

Oh, if you pronounce the middle part ‘Ash’.....that’s functionally his name, then?

Grew up in a ‘midwest’ area with Nordic family. I had no idea that it wasn’t supposed to be cottage cheese until....age 22? I still kind of like it, years later....I love ricotta so much in other applications (a bright pasta with lemon and peas, dolloped onto a high quality pizza, ricotta pancakes, etc) but it is…

The basic black cotton cardigan was the only thing I really looked to J. Crew for. With the perpetual sales, I found that price matched quality well enough. I don’t think this type of attitude was just me, and it’s hard to maintain a brand on that level of loyalty alone.

I do the switching too! My old favourite got discontinued and nothing else since has quite hit the sweet spot for me, so I alternate between somewhat too moisturizing / somewhat too drying formulas. It works out ok, but the hunt continues.