I find a lot of places lean hard into the anise, which imparts that distinctive licorice flavor. It's not everyone's cup of tea.

The reason they recommend that is that commercial stocks tend to vary wildly in the saltiness of the product. Therefore they suggest getting the lowest possible salt and adding your own later

Sure, but then why not go for the full 24 hour method and make a true broth from bones? With this recipe, you still have to buy the relatively exotic stuff, but you skip the good broth for store bought. At the 40 minute time and the price of the ingredients (plus whole anise is not something every grocery store…

At that point I'll just go to a Vietnamese restaurant, where it will be better anyway

the julian/caitlin thing has been painfully obvious for at least 2 or 3 episodes

there's a pretty big difference between 'insane earthquake machine' and 'illegally getting tenants out so you can build high rises.'

i'm not sure name checking a former president who was a serial rapist is exactly the best choice?

they already spent the money to develop that sound, need to max out the ROI

john carter of mars is only iconic if you're over the age of 65. nobody under that age remembers or cares about those books, except occasional cracked listicles about '15 things your grandparents loved that were incredibly racist!'

i actually made it to the penultimate episode and luke cage and then never went back. i just don't care.

they spent an entire season on it, i think they're just looking to find something different now. i imagine it gets a bit boring after awhile, as a creative type.

given he's proposed a massive increase to military spending, a trillion dollars in infrastructure spending, a health care program with better benefits than the ACA, no cuts to medicare, medicaid or social security and the largest tax cut in the history-which will be mostly concentrated in the top 20%- why is it a good…

i'd read the hell out of that

one of the little fascinating bits of this story (to me) is that fawcett was correct- there are (multiple) lost cities throughout the amazon, representing a still unknown series of civilizations. The problem is, even had he 'found' their locations, he would certainly not have recognized it. unlike the cities of meso…

you just nailed someones very specific fetish

NIH doesn't really agree with that:

a jack russel terrier is as unsuited to hunt wolves as an irish wolf hound is to catch rats, and neither of them would be remotely effective at moving sheep or retrieving hunted game from a pond. by contrast, every cat has the same purpose.

there are not- the differences are purely cosmetic.

what exactly is the point? other than the most superficial external changes, different breeds of cats are meaningless.

War of the world's makes a lot more sense in the original setting of pre-ww1