I tip at my fave place for pick up because they do a great job of packing everything up. Foil pans with the edges folded down tight so nothing leaks. Sauces into little containers with zero drip. Exact perfect amount of napkins. Salad above the napkins and menu so the hot food doesn’t warm it up. All stacked neatly.…

Kenji, once again, is right. White kernels because they leave a thinner hull. Coconut oil for popping. Flavacol for salting. Topping is either clarified butter or go full real fake stuff. My favorite being Great Northern. Supur-Kist is garbage.

I occasionally go to a supermarket and it drives me mad how they have SO MANY CHECKOUT AISLES but there are only ever like 4 open. They have 20. And I know the excuse is “but those are for the super busy holiday season”. Except they don’t use them even then. The day before Thanksgiving, the entire week leading up to…

Reading comprehension. Get into it.

I usually don’t order fries BECAUSE I don’t wanna bother asking. I live in the Bay Area and Seattle so there’s pretty much always an item on the menu with a little green V next to it. When traveling I just don’t bother and go for the salads. I also do my research beforehand. There are a lot of lists of what is/isn’t…

This. Also my work takes me to a lot of remote, smaller towns where there are mostly only chains or very casual mom and pop diners. Not much fine dining. The waitstaff in these establishments seem put off/surprised by orders of steak that isn’t well done and absolutely none of them seem to recognize what this…

I didn’t even know she was a comedian.

I LOVE to cook and bake. Every single aspect of it. From shopping for the ingredients to cleaning up afterwards. It’s like a ritual. My favorite gifts are kitchen things. But not aprons. I don’t see the point. Many of them only cover the crotch and thighs which is like... why? The part of me that gets messiest while…

I whitelist all Gizmodo Media sites because its the only way I can support the sites I enjoy. HOWEVER. Fuck if I’m not tempted every time an autoplay video starts in the literal center of an article I’m reading. Or the total screen takeover of the “PLS PLS PLS SUBSCRIBE TO OUR NEWSLETTER” popup that has to be manually…

I’ve never actually been to Red Lobster but I have made these several times. My professor used to bring me these Martha White biscuits and I got hooked. I’d been buying the mix for years but recently my local grocery stores stopped carrying it and it’s sold out online which leads me to believe it’s likely been…

Huh. I also don’t discriminate against mac and cheese. Well except for oven baked recipes that call for an egg because that basically becomes scrambled egg cheesy pasta casserole. BUT. I was always told not to use pre-shredded cheese because it comes coated in cornstarch which makes the resulting mac grainy. In my…

I still love Grey’s but I somehow wound up watching Chicago Med one night. I’ve never seen any of the other Chicago shows but this one was scratching my med drama itch. So many WOC and the nurses are permanent, important characters.

You know, I never attempt to introduce friends to Korean food. I think I just have a sort of fear of rejection based on memories of my white classmates coming over and making fun of the stinky kimchi fridge in the garage. Maybe I’ll finally get over that.

I really hate going for meals with my co-workers when traveling. They mostly want to stick to familiar chains. Or if they’re being outgoing a chain we don’t have back home.

Spill. That. Tea.

Those corn tortillas look store bought too WTF

I got a Claire’s gift card from a work gift exchange. I gave it to my 14 year old niece who had to Google what Claire’s was. She admitted she’s never had any desire to venture beyond the Nordstrom Rack.

As if helicopter moms would allow that.

Guilty.

My parents were stuck on a Carnival cruise ship during hurricane Harvey. A 5 day cruise turned into an 11 day cruise. They still loved it. They basically got an extra week free. They said the crew was amazing and upbeat and really took care of everything. Originally they were only supposed to stop in a couple of…