Jet’s ranch is SO FREAKING GOOD. It manages somehow to have the delicious taste of the “runny restaurant ranch” while also achieving the perfect consistency for dipping your pizza or Jet’s bread in.  Mmm...Jet’s.

Whether or not you need the plastic bag over it seems to be dependent on the temperature of your house. I had a bag over my cilantro and it went bad immediately (like, within a day), but my basil was bagless and stayed fresh in the water much longer. So if, like me, you don’t always have your A/C on and your house…

I think the “lack of imagination” is a key point here. I’m having a great time with a flexitarian diet, but it was really difficult at first because I had always centered my meal planning around meat up until that point. It was not difficult to eat delicious, satisfying meatless meals. but planning them definitely…

I basically badgered everyone in my family into watching ToC because I thought it was so awesome.

I had an excellent breakfast pizza at Midway in the A terminal food court at Woodgrain. The new food court there is super, with very comfortable seating, but the breakfast pizza was bomb. There’s also a Reilly’s Daughter there, but I’m not sure if it’s an additional location or if the one at the back right when you…

I had recently watched one of Jacques Pepin’s cooking videos that said this same thing, that he buys older-looking mushrooms because they have better flavor. Far be it for me to doubt the combined wisdom of Jacques Pepin AND Claire Lower!

Thank you, this is great! I just bought a big bag of dried Thai chilis at the Asian market, so I’m going to get to infusing!

I’m sorry if this is a deeply stupid question, but is there any danger of food poisoning with fresh chilis? I was trying to google how to make chili oil, and someone mentioned that if you don’t go through the whole sterilization process like you do with canning, there was the risk of botulism when you use fresh…

I’ve never looked for hot-dog size kielbasa in the hot dog case, and that’s really making me feel like a failure right now. Adding these to the grocery list!

I’m glad you mentioned that it was based on the comics. I thought that shit looked busted, but it always makes me feel better if it looks bad because they were trying to emulate something from the comics, for some reason.

Same, but I’ve only been here for 10 years.

I made the zucchini casserole and it was freaking awesome.

Any time! Yeah, they pack the boxes with a lot of dry ice, so it can handle some delay, but not several days’ worth.

1. Are the portion sizes they advertise really accurate?

I talk anyone’s ear off who expresses even a slight interest in it, so fire away!! :)

Girl, you know I have that one bookmarked for the nearly-here-in-Chicago asparagus season!

I got an Amazon gift card from my boss as a Christmas gift, and used it to buy an air fryer. If you are a lover of roasted vegetables, do not hesitate to buy one of these. Absolutely perfect roasted asparagus takes 5-6 minutes (depending on the thickness), no preheating necessary. Green beans, cauliflower, broccoli,…

I think this is what I would do if I could go back and do it over again. Don’t get me wrong, I adore my air fryer (and as a person who, like you, resisted for so long because of space constraints, I truly wish I hadn’t), but my only complaint is the round basket. I even got the Ninja XL version, but I’m a Sitka Salmon…

This is such an interesting idea that I’m definitely going to try! Thank you!

The only song that I felt suffered on rerecord here was the regular version of “Forever and Always”, which is like half a beat slower and FAR more low energy than the original. Which is a shame, because it’s one of my favorites, but I did very much enjoy the stripped down, acoustic version of it as well.