Traveling to another state all by myself for the first time to visit friends, and having revolving sushi for the first time, a delicacy that you sure as heck can’t get in my neck of the woods. The restaurant wasn’t much to speak of, but it was AYCE and the food and company were both wonderful.

“the father, the son, and the honey roast” nearly made me spit my drink out. Thank you, Allison, for continuing to brave the depths of banality that is Baby Nut.

Washing machine, no question whatsoever.

high-low: twix, kit-kat, reese’s, snickers

Ants on a log is an acceptable use for raisins because the ratio of raisin to everything else is very small. 

This is utterly heartbreaking. Thank you for continuing to bring attention to these matters instead of sticking to sprouts.

Yeah! I still need to make that. 

I look forward to your recipe for meat muffins.

No automated voting this time? Anyway, gotta throw my vote in with Aimee. 

I’ll have you know my grandmother was from Youngstown, and her minestrone was FANTASTIC.

I’ve eaten insects in the past and would be all right with doing so in the future if I was convinced that it was actually better for the environment on the sort of large scale that’d be needed to make it something I could afford anyway. 

If you really wanna fall down a youtube hole, you can get into miniature cooking videos - I recommend miniature space, miniature bistro, and hkminichef. If you want some education with your food-based youtube wanderings, Absolute History has a bunch of episodes of a show called A Cook Back in Time, which covers…

I’ve been sticking to my favorites - Binging with Babish, Sorted, and, when I need the same sort of homesteading feels, Townsends.

No problem! What you’ll want to do is brew tea (I use 5 tablespoons loose leaf/5 bags bagged tea per 1 cup of water) in the water part of the syrup, strain, then bring to a simmer again and dissolve in the sugar before letting cool and pouring into a jar. I’ve done a 1:1 ratio of tea to sugar in the past, but it’s a…

I do this all the time with tea to make syrups for at-home milk tea or lattes. Great way to use up the last of something that’s maybe been sitting around for a while.

I’m planning on using Cytube, because that’s the most reliable ‘hey let’s toss up some stuff from youtube and watch it together’ service I know.

Since my sister and I aren’t meeting up like we usually do, we’re going to be using a screenshare service to stream the things we’d been planning on watching anyway.

Troika! is one of my favorite rulebooks just to page through; the art and the ideas within are equally gonzo, and I want to use them all in a game of my choice sometime.

What a pity. 

What should one do about recipes that call for active dry yeast but no activation step, like this recipe from the NYT? Should I just go ‘fuck it’ and activate it in the milk anyway? Trying it as written did lead to some issues with rising, but I’d just chalked that up to my kitchen being cold.