I’m a big fan of this type of silicone garlic peeler too.  I bought it expecting it to fail and it was shockingly good.  Caveat: doesn’t work well on very fresh/young garlic. The skins need to be kind of dry.

Bleached flour has a softer texture. So, for some baked goods where tenderness is important, it makes a difference.

50% of people in the US between 25 and 54 are women. Therefore 50% of contestants are women?

Don’t diss the lipstick cake video till you’ve seen it.  Mmmm lemony.

The airlines I’ve traveled on that have handed out blankets have them in sealed plastic wrap.

What would you suggest they do instead?

In ‘even a broken clock and is right twice’ style, he’s stumbled into the truth.  Opinion & investigative branches of NYT operate independently.  So there is a chance that they will uncover who it was.

Sounds like what you’re looking for is a dutch baby pancake. Mix the batter, pour into pan, let bake unsupervised for 20 mins.

At this point, it still feels like a mess we can get out of by voting in 2018 & 2020. I don’t want to break the system. In fact, some of the scariest things to me have been the extent to which Trump & Co have been breaking existing bipartisan norms. To my mind, breaking the system makes recovery from this disaster…

Oh good, I’m not the only person that feels this way. I’m just so tired this week.

I haven’t seen Kapoor and Sons yet. I do love the Humpty/Badri ki Dulhania series though (some painfully dumb moments, but also a lot of heart and good acting), which is also Karan Johar produced. So, I should give Kapoor and Sons a shot.

Indian television shows are mostly quite amateurish and made fun of, even (or especially) within India. The most popular ones tend to be outlandish soap operas. See this video that was making the rounds in India recently:

When I’m asking, I try to make my questions very specific & limit the choices i.e. ‘Do you like this better with the scarf or the necklace?’, ‘Is this too many colors to wear at once?’

That’s a subset of chappatis known as a ‘phulka’ i.e. puffed. They’re rolled a little thiner so they puff up right.

‘Abortion Barbie’ was the choice of attack, I believe. Would totally buy one.

ETA: redacted. Infighting doesn’t help.

Haven’t you heard? Liberal is a bad word again. Being ‘leftist’ is all the rage now.

FWIW, when I clicked through to the links in the slate article, it wasn’t clear that he (Jason Jones) was opposed to moving the school. He seemed to be talking only about people going to the press with what he felt was an internal issue. Yes, that’s still equivocatory and ‘both sides have issues’, but it’s different…