The brilliance of this is that old people and teens tend to drink the same things—overly sweet liqueurs, bland beer, and cheap hard liquor. Unless it it the holidays, no self-respecting 40 year old buys Irish cream.

That is typically a function of having too much nitrogen in your soil or potting mix.  You can also encourage the plant to divert energy to fruit production by pinching off the little shoots of leaves that form.

My husband was a picky eater when we met. He hid it by selecting restaurants where he knew there would be something he liked until after he lured me in. I tried to get him to try new things, but we would always end up going to places that he wanted. Eventually, I started simply going to the restaurants I wanted to eat…

I knew that women weren’t allowed in bars historically and that some bars had booths with doors so women could have a drink with their male companions without being seen, but I had no idea TGI Friday’s was the first bar to welcome single women.  I have a whole new respect for them now.

I even remember a high school teacher telling us that the way to establish a credit history was to use layaway or store credit cards and immediately pay them off.  I followed the advice, and it worked.

They modeled themselves after Sears? Who thought that was a good idea? In the race to the bottom, everyone loses.

That is exactly the point, though.  They aren’t remotely qualified, but they are given spotlights to spout lethal ideas.

I have been a woman in STEM for more than 2 decades now. I was often the only woman in my college classes, and I was the first woman with a Ph.D. hired at a certain pharmaceutical company. Over the years, I have been physically threatened at work by three separate men who either didn’t think they should have to take…

I have never been high enough to think that sounds good.

I was in Philadelphia recently and caused quite the scandal when I said I thought Mrs. Freshly’s was better than Tastykakes.  I didn’t dare say that I thought Sheetz was better than Wawa after that.

Fried bread is quite common out west.  I love it, but holy cow it is fattening!

I have reached the point where I have to leave the room when my husband eats cereal.  The slurping is more than I can handle.

I just looked at the Daily Mail list, and wow did they misinterpret what Indiana means by pork tenderloin. 

I am surprised by the searches for pound cake, although it does go great with fresh berries. It uses large quantities of multiple staples that can be hard to find.

The mint has made an appearance in my yard this week, and I was looking for an excuse to make a mint julep.  I might even have to make an outlandish hat for this.

I make a similar fruitcake. It is Alton Brown’s free range fruitcake, and it is the highlight of my Christmas baking.  One time I did take a slightly less boozy version into work and didn’t tell people it was fruitcake, and I caught someone LICKING THE PLATE at the end of the day.  But my husband and guests at my…

I just realized that I initially typed overproofing could affect temperature. I meant texture, and it is too late to change it.

Bread can overproof, and it can affect the temperature or cause it to collapse in the oven.  However, you can just move it to the refrigerator for a couple hours (be sure to let it come back up to room temperature before baking) or you can punch it down and let it rise again.  Unlike the American South, there is not…

When I used the wild grapes that grow around my yard, I just treated it like any sourdough starter.

I remember bread machines being big in the 90s and 00s.