...A friend of mine recommended that I take biotin supplements, which I did. What my friend neglected to tell me however...

Now that is lifehacker worthy advice. Haven’t seen something like this here in a long time.

Cherokee Purples and German Queens. OM NOM NOM. Sorry. As you were.

Freeze them whole in gallon bags as you get them. Then the skin comes off super easily, and you can take as many bags out as you want at a time to make sauce.

I’m not a “foodie” but I really enjoy eating tomatoes stuffed w/cottage cheese & lotsa pepper. Ok, that’s all :-)

Two words: farmer’s market. I bought a 20 pound box of dry-farmed early girl tomatoes and made 2.5 gallons (10 liters) of tomato sauce. Yummy!

Nah.

I have a long MP3 of a thunderstorm. Thunderstorms put me to sleep like nothing else ever has. I even once chose a vacation spot based on the likelihood of frequent thunderstorms during my trip, because I mostly needed to unplug and relax (Tampa is where you want to be during the summer for this kind of vacation, FYI).

Rant on the ASMR craze...

Morningstar makes a Garlic&Quinoa one that’s pretty crunchy and cohesive, I like them. 

I make my white trash/bread croutons indoors but grilled sounds to be even better. I just melt butter over low heat in a frying pan, and cut up white bread to crouton size, toss into pan, season, toss and adjust into single layer. Let it go till done then flip.

It’s what happens when all the writers are so young, I guess.

My wife eats yogurt daily, and I’ve been meaning to try making it with the pressure cooker.

Or when you could invetstingin pork belly or orange juice concentrate.

How is soup not on this list? It’s basically free when you make it with leftover bits. It might be more expensive than canned if you’re buying expensive beef or something, but it would still be worth it since canned beef soup tastes like dog food.

This series had a massive effect on me growing up as well. While the politics are spot-on, the blind rage and accusatory tone of this post don’t comport at all with the friendly, forgiving tone taken in the books. I like Coville’s approach better.

The fact that you can only see this in terms of “wut about duh capitawists?” is really telling.

Oh my god. My Teacher Flunked the Planet specifically is why I’m a socialist (well, that and my super progressive parents who encouraged and cultivated it). Bruce Coville in general is just phenomenal and I have plenty of goof memories of reading his books... but I remember very clearly, very vividly, the sequence in…

I often ask myself how I ended up so radically different from my family, politically speaking and otherwise.

And morning breath is their favorite.