““Anti-bride” is just a new version of the same list of “musts” that a woman has to achieve in order to be a good and trendy host on her wedding day, but framed by punching down at women who want a traditional wedding experience and the legions of women who did the traditional thing before.”

While I do think some of them aren’t smart in a scholarly way, there aren’t very many dummies who play in the NFL, contrary to what people might think. Michael Oher, the subject of The Blind Side, said the movie making him look unintelligent adversely affected his draft prospects. In addition to being supremely…

I’ve had people tell me that my love of Taylor Swift’s music is completely incongruous with me as a person, but “She makes music about the stuff taking up space in the center of our hearts, the emotions we avoid acknowledging as we get older and pretend as though we’re increasingly unflappable. Jealousy. Yearning.…

It’s like these dudes who put “Alpha Male” in their Twitter handle. The least “alpha male” thing you can possibly do is tell everyone that you’re an alpha male.

Legit one of my biggest pet peeves, unless you’re talking about the actual Japanese version.

One thing that I find missing from this conversation in a lot of places is that fact that where I grew up in the Midwest, it was considered rude to show up or still be at someone’s house at dinner time unless you were specifically invited beforehand (sometimes “beforehand” was days before, sometimes hours). I went…

“Every day, I wake up and immediately plunge into a world in which reducing my caloric consumption would be considered an act of heroism.”

Celery is high in sodium for a vegetable but is not “really high in sodium”. One stalk of celery equals about 1% of your daily sodium, so you’d have to be consuming an absolute ton of it for it to make any difference in your diet, sodium wise.

My understanding of the article on the whole was that it meant to point out that the histrionics about his supposed poor health were overblown, because eating a Big Mac per day is not necessarily a terrible thing for your health, even if it isn’t the epitome of GOOD health either.

Very true, but many breakfast options are pretty low sodium, so it’s also conceivable that he’s still staying under his RDA while consuming 44% of his sodium in one meal? 

I really like both the breaded fried ravioli and the veggie spring rolls in the air fryer. I cook the spring rolls on a lower temp for like 5 mins and then Max Crisp (450, I think) for 3 minutes or so.

Man, I love some potato oles, especially because Taco John’s has “the good ranch”, but the Crunchwrap blasphemy here is a bridge too far. I have literally never had anything at Taco John’s (and I grew up in the Midwest!) that held a candle to a Crunchwrap.

I’m actually having trouble getting my Made In one seasoned properly, in spite of diligently following directions. But food constantly gets stuck to it still, and it doesn’t come off easily even with a silicone scraper, so I get a ton of food buildup in it. After I get that off, I diligently dry it and use the…

Same. Eggs are another thing I prefer a HUGE amount of pepper on. I use a grinder at home, but the shaker at the restaurant certainly doesn’t taste like nothing either.

I have recently enjoyed two different spritzers called “She Can” from Trader Joe’s that were delicious. I will keep an eye out for these!

Are wood ear usually called anything else at Asian grocery stores? I went to H-Mart, Joong Boo and Tai Nam (in Chicago) in the course of building an Asian cooking pantry, and though I spent a long time in each store looking at the  dried mushrooms, I couldn’t find anything labeled as wood ear.

The River Valley Ranch guys were there last Saturday when the Lincoln Park farmers’ market opened! I of course bought a giant bag and have been having mushrooms with everything this week.

“Red beer” can also be light beer and bloody mary mix, which is the superior combination.

Man, I loved Lockdown. It was apparently run by some sort of spurned former partner of the Kuma’s people, but their food was just generally better.

YES, I hate the people who are like “I changed 4 things in this recipe and it didn’t turn out! Will not make again!”