I do too! But bf was insistent that this one time his dad (his very Italian dad) made The! Most! Amazing! sauce out of just really good tomatoes, fresh basil, and garlic. And salt/pepper, ofc. And it did have really good flavor, but I can’t get past the wateriness issue. I think with some of the leftover I might try…

Fish sauce! I KNEW there was something I’d been meaning to get. Oh and now I’m reminded that I have the carrots and the ginger to make ... carrot ginger soup tomorrow. Yay!

They’re pretty much the gaudiest thing ever, but they’re delightful in person, and (as one would imagine) extremely satisfying to squish!

I also had two leftover that wouldn’t fit in the Very Large Pot Plus The Giant Pot, soooooo I microwaved them. It was ... less effective? And not really any faster! I mean waiting for the water to boil does take a while, but the blanching itself is much faster than I expected! (I had never blanched before. Shit I…

OOOOF, I only ever make “stock” when I’m just boiling a whole chicken (okay usually plus a couple lemon halves and garlic cloves and leek ends) ... and then taking the chicken out, dismembering it, chopping it up and returning it to the stock pot to make soup. But that is a LOT of chicken stock to be unenthused about!…

Yeaaaah, it’s all just kind of ... inoffensive? But to be fair, I don’t know the full details of this property and her residence in it, so it’s entirely possible that this “decor” is the result of the listing agent(s) having an empty house staged for photography/showings. The “nice, I guess, but fucking boring” motif…

This is so lovely! <3

The tree thing SUCKS but otoh if it were in my yard (and if it weren’t 95 degrees, humid, and mosquito-y) I would have a literal and figurative field day with the reciprocating saw. Woo, destruction!

No lie -- me too. A+, absolutely would have in my living room.

Even warm and cool neutrals can mix well! Harmonious design depends on a lot of other things too — contrast levels within each element and across multiple elements, size/scale, textures, intensity and temperature/hue of the lighting, ettt cetera. These whole rooms are a little too “done” and bland for my tastes, but…

TBH I like the Hell Mouth Monster Face fireplace (sincerely hope she calls it a fireface) waaaaay better than this seemingly-mismatched blandness. Those tiles ARE cool! But I’m not keen on that weird beige stone mantel-and-column situation, and I’m extremely not keen on the grey ... fieldstone? tile? facing it…

Ha ha haaaaa, omg right? This room is like the interior design equivalent of a spotify playlist of adult contemporary / smooooth jaaaazzzz ... with one track from a Norwegian Black Metal band.

Eh, in white-on-white I think it’s fine? Though I would DAILY have to fight the temptation to full-color paint the thing like an early Renaissance demon.

The fireplace in question, holy shit :

Same. I want to hang out with these kids and just play them random / obscure shit out of my collection. Misfits! Atari Teenage Riot! Slade! Cocteau Twins! Guitar Wolf! Royal Trux!

That’s what *I* kinda don’t get — I’m in AL and kids start back to school next week, I think? And the weather here is way, WAAAAAY more miserable in August than it is in May and June. (Or maybe it just seems that way because the “miserable” has been rolling for three months by this point and I’m just OVER IT?) 

Pandemic Relief Fraud is apparently the hot new Chad Challenge. Get your check, spend it on a Lambo, booze, and strip clubs, then @tag a friend.

And if you’re freaked out by “shiny,” clear matte nail polish.

IKR? They’d be literally traffic-stopping! (And now I kind of want traffic-cone-orange ones too?) Gonna see if there’s a women’s version anywhere, since the men’s only go down to a size 7 and I need a 6...

Totally. There is NO upside to “sandals + hose.”