This is my go-to recipe; I’ve made it twice in the last month! These are quite crispy and buttery. I always chill the dough at least 24 hours, as the recipe made a big deal of that. I also use a little less chocolate (14 oz.), semi-sweet. I’m sure the bittersweet chocolate would be good (and cut the sweetness), but I…

My husband and I have been taste-testing apples lately, so this is of great interest. I like a sweet apple, and my husband likes a tart apple, so there were several winners. The main 2 were: Opal (tart) and SugarBee (sweet). Gala, Envy, Jazz, and Fuji were also good (Fuji not so much for texture as for flavor). The…

I recently looked again for a good all-butter pie crust recipe, and finally found a keeper! It’s the America’s test kitchen one called “Foolproof All-Butter Dough for Single-Crust Pie”. I found this version that wasn’t behind a pay wall: https://cleobuttera.com/pies-and-tarts/the-flakiest-all-butter-pie-crust/. I have…

I’m also a regular hamburger weirdo. In 1st grade, they used to ship in McDonalds hamburgers on Fridays for hot lunch, and this sense memory cannot be denied. I also like the small portion and the sweetness of the bun. Adding cheese makes it too salty.

I guess I thought the snark in the title was too subtle, since the rest of the article seemed to bolster the “spritzcourse” attitude against the aperol spritz unless it’s “mixed right.” Also I just had to complain about the pervasive bias against “girly” drinks, and this seemed like a good opportunity :)

I think it’s wrong to say that you have a “refined” palate if you like bitter things and don’t like sweet things. How people taste has a lot to do with the number of taste buds and the exact nature of those buds. For example, my husband is pretty much a non-taster; he loves bitter things and isn’t very interested in…

I gave up on this show after a bland season 1, but then I read that it got good, so I came back and watched it again from season 2. I am so glad I did. This show is so much fun, Tom Ellis is super sexy, it’s funny, and irreverent. I am grateful for at least 10 episodes on Netflix, but wish it were more. Not sure about…

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And what a cliffhanger! I’m so bummed. Bad decision, Netflix.

So hot.

Death of Stalin is one of the best movies EVER.

I just watched season 2 of Case Histories which I realize I hadn’t seen. I guess that didn’t get renewed. Sigh.

Sweet, one of my all time favorite shows. I’m a tech writer, and I like to use Farscape character names as the sample login names for examples...

My god, Schoenaerts was so sexy in Far from the Madding Crowd. Madding Crowd is a little of a departure for him; he’s kind of typecast in the Mustang kind of roles, ‘cause he does them so well. I also liked him a lot in “Disorder”.

Yes, different names.

My mom did this at Ancestry, and they were identical. How the data is interpreted is the thing. Ancestry recently reinterpreted everyone’s data and that resulted in very different findings. As it happens, mine seemed to become more accurate (as expected). Some groups are more accurate than others; for example, I…

I would like to point out that I have read a couple of defenses of GMOs from scientists in major media outlets, and none of them have addressed the potential environmental issue. They are all focused on whether it’s healthy to eat, etc. One I read gushed about Bangladeshi crops that are pest resistant, and isn’t that…

Well, trillions of GMO meals have been eaten over the years, and billions every day. That should be enough to point out that there is a problem. Have you seen any?

100% agree. Focusing on whether GMOs are safe for humans to eat is missing the real point, which is whether GMOs are going to fuck up the environment because we introduced strange things suddenly into the ecosystem. We have been known to F things up terribly without GMOs, but I think it’s hubris to think we know…

“Shoe-in?” Hurts my brain.