I don’t even know anymore. It was not good to eat, although it was hideously exciting to look at.

I am a chef and culinary school instructor. At the risk of destroying any credibility I have anywhere, behold, a jello salad I made eons ago for a 70’s themed party. This monstrosity was layered cherry and lime jello. There are pretzels suspended in the cherry layer, and those are spam cut outs in the lime layer. It…

I am a Randi as well. I grew up in a fairly conservative Jewish community, where it just was not a common name. Once my world broadened a bit (I went to a secular high school, moved away from home for University, etc.), it was at least a name that people had heard of, albeit never attached to a girl, or with an ‘i’.

My mom also put me in Weight Watchers when I was 11 or 12. It was in a mall near both my house and my school, so the middle-aged ladies in the meetings were my friends’ moms and staff and faculty of my school. It was absolutely mortifying.

I would like to sign up as a guest at the wedding that has L7 as a wedding band. I’m pretty fun at weddings.

Thanks! I missed the boat on high school make-up learning, and am just getting into it now (at the ripe old age of 36). It seems like there are some basic pieces of information that passed me by!

Possibly a silly question: how can you tell whether your skin has warm or cool undertones? I just went to Sephora for the first time, and got so overwhelmed that I forgot to ask.

Also, Heritage Minutes.

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I am a cook at a formal, fine dining restaurant. We don’t get a lot of kids in, but when we do, we will bend over backwards to make something they want to eat. Pasta? Break out the pasta roller. Fries? Start cutting potatoes and put a pot of oil on. Grilled cheese? Homemade sourdough and homemade butter. Sometimes we…

“You can’t expect to wield supreme executive power just ‘cause some watery tart threw a sword at you!”

Me too!

My family used to road-trip from Montreal to Virginia Beach every summer, and we listened to the exact same cassettes in the exact same order, every year. Hall and Oates’ Greatest Hits was always first, followed by Simon and Garfunkel, Neil Diamond and recordings of Mandy Patinkin singling the Yiddish songs of his…

A time a celebrity was a nice, normal person, not a dick:

I would argue pretty strenuously against adding salt to a stock-in-progress. I think leave it neutral, and season it as you use the finished product, according to its intended use. If you want to reduce the stock to make a sauce, if it has already been salted, you run the risk of an overly salty sauce that can…

I just bought a pair of Grandma’s orthopedic Velcro sneakers. I thought I was just going to wear them to work (my Birkenstock clogs were doing nothing to support my crumbling knees), but as it turns out, they are pretty fun to wear, just for fashion. In my heart, I am super Old.

^This. I wish I could star this a hundred times.

My can of oven cleaner says to avoid getting the product on the oven coil, which I am nowhere near dexterous enough with the spray to manage. Should I be covering the coil? Should I just avoid spraying directly at the thing? How bad for the coil is some splatter? Am I worrying for nothing?

I would also add Scaramouche!