The proper amount of salt doesn’t overpower the flavor, it enhances it. We don’t keep a salt shaker on the table or anything to dump onto served food, but a pinch of salt added here and there while cooking really is important in developing flavors. If you’re cooking from scratch it’s really not adding unhealthy…

Yea we’ve started cooking a lot of our stuff without salt so the baby can have some, then season our individual plates. Definitely not as tasty as seasoning when cooking (we are not ones to skimp on the salt!), but it’s worth it so he can share mealtime with us.

We’re having a lot of fun w/ baby lead weaning. Little guy loves feeding himself, and isn’t really a fan of purees from a spoon anymore. Some of his favorites: baked sweet potato sticks, steak strips, fish-cakes (fish mashedup w/ sweet potato + egg + a starch, etc. then oven baked), zucchini pancakes, and roasted…

ssshhh we don’t want the pleebs jamming up our pre-check lines!

Don’t sign up for Pre-Check. Nope, nothing to see here. Move along.

I agree that no one should be forced to upgrate, and MS was definitely heavy-handed by rolling the auto-upgrade into Windows Update (I had blocked it for quite some time.

Get the latest version of Excel, it has each workbook in a separate window that isn’t “stuck” to other open workbooks.

The LATCH system is annoying/deceptive though, because many (most?) cars don’t have them for the middle seat, and the middle seat is the safest position for a car seat (if you have just one). I think a lot of people end up using the inner-side LATCH anchors for the middle seat, which is actually less safe and not…

We used to play massive networked Worms Armageddon games in my college dorm. Such a great game!

Republicans only took control of the NC legislature in 2010, riding the tea-party wave, so it wouldn’t be unreasonable for the Dems to regain a majority in a big anti-GOP year (thank you Trump!). Unfortunately the redistributing that occurred post-2010 will make it difficult.

Oh, give them time to fuck it up more, they’ve only had majorities in the state senate & house for 5 years. Before that there was balance in the state legislature, and NC was actually a reasonably progressive place for a southern state.

The King of slow cookers:

1) Buy “Coach’s Oats” from Costco. Way better than rolled oats and they cook much much quicker than true steel cut

Last time I bought banana’s they were $0.59/lb. So $2 would get you about 3.4 lbs of bananas, which could be about 8 if they weighed 6-7 oz each.

Soap is totally fine to use on seasoned cast iron. The seasoning isn’t just a layer of oil/fat sitting on the surface of the pan, it’s actually been polymerized and bonded with the iron. Normal modern dish soap isn’t stripping that away. Unless you have food seriously caked on, a steel scrubber probably isn't…

Soap is totally fine to use on seasoned cast iron. The seasoning isn’t just a layer of oil/fat sitting on the…

Oh yes, I’ve spent far too many days in Skyrim, great stuff. I might be tempted to get a PS 4 when the next Elder Scrolls game comes out.

This. Bought a cheap ps3 a few years ago (hadn’t gamed much in the previous 10 yrs) and I’m playing through a nice backlog of great games. Currently in the middle of the Mass Effect trilogy. Benefit of playing last-gen games is I can get them all used for super cheap on eBay!

So let’s say they delay and/or reject any nominee(s) that Obama puts forward and run out the clock. And then the GOP candidate wins the election (shudder). And further let’s assume R’s still have less than 60 Senate seats (they could actually lose some this cycle). What’s to stop Democrats from saying fuck it, we’re…

Hypothetical general election polls are pretty useless at this point. The GOP hasn’t thrown much at Bernie other than half hearted “socialist” insults. If he were to get the nominee, they’d tear into him full force, and those #’s would go down. Not saying he couldn’t win, but his general election favorably is probably…