According to the book, if you're not using a stone mill you're doing it wrong

You don’t need it, but even a little fat helps them along. If I have really soft butter, or even a splash of olive oil I’ll add it to me Maseca mix. Try a little lime zest in there as well! Pepper is good too!

wtf are you talking about?

Like... she’s so smart!  She came in second in a science competition in high school in microbiology.  She graduated cum laude with a degree in international relations and economics.  And in video i’ve seen of her in hearings, her questions and speeches are so well researched.  But like, providing citations for facts…

Living in Maine... keeping Hunters Orange on hand, especially from the fall to the spring (generally no hunting season in the summer) is a best practice if you’re ever in the woods, even your own.

My 2011 Golf was mostly good.  Never any issues with the engine or drive train.  I tended to have a lot of issues with the suspension and breaks though.  And those added up.  Also, the electrical did get wonky at times, with the sunroof opening and closing on it’s own occasionally.

Fuuuck that’s shit luck to go through what you did professionally. But journalism is a tough gig. The Phoenix though was awesome and Deadspin and Kotaku were too. There is just less space today for anything that doesn't generate big ROI unfortunately.  Good luck!

My experience has been that the dough retains the liquid more in the baking process, so I don’t know if “wetter” was the right term.  It just normally takes longer.  I’ve never had problems hitting the right consistency in the mixing/kneading process though.  I mean, there a lot of things that can go sideways in…

You have to be aware with whole wheat stuff though, generally it makes your doughs and batters wetter, and can deceive you into thinking that something is fully baked when it’s not.  It will probably look more burned, because the flour is dark.

I made Allison Roman’s Chocolate Banana Bread (cake, really) at the beginning of this when my surplus bananas turned on me, and MAN was that cake and definitely not bread.

Now I thought that buttermilk never really went bad in the fridge, unlike regular milk.  Is that incorrect?  Because I’ve definitely used buttermilk that has been in my fridge for a while, and had fine results in both performance and taste.

I think someone should be reading the Marblehead, MA Police Logs for good leaf-blower related drama.  You’re not even allowed to use those kinds of machines on Sundays in the town, and people will definitely call the cops on you if you do.

I mean, really, Joe Biden is just an older version of John Kerry, but 16 years later.

I have no faith that Biden wouldn’t veto a single-payer healthcare plan.  Because he’s adamantly against it.  

Fresh yeast is best yeast.

I think they just passed some reform in MI that will help alleviate this.

If you’ve got a car not getting used, sure go ahead and take off liability, but don’t take comprehensive off it. That protects you from theft, vandalism, fire, trees, hail, etc. Unless of course your car is over 10 years old, because regardless of what happens there is a good chance your insurance company will…

I work at a large office that is primarily IT and IT-adjacent employees for a major company, and it is definitely a suburban/ex-urban area, and there are so many huge pickup trucks in that damned parking lot. I get it, maybe they have hobbies like 4-wheeling or snowmobiling where having the truck is good. But they…

Do a dance because mayo is gross and nobody needs it.  Where’s Magary when you need him!?

Rich New Yorkers and Bostonians are fleeing their cities for the likes of Newport and Block Island, RI, The Cape and Islands in MA, and Maine in hopes of “distancing.” But distancing isn’t getting really far away from people, it’s staying at a safe, non-communicable distance from others. And people who live in those…