I’ll take a picture of it. I wish it were some long standing traditional recipe, but it’s actually from a gluten free cookbook I got about a decade ago when I first was diagnosed with celiac disease and suddenly I had to MAKE pfeffernusse if I wanted them. They taste right though!

Yes. My husband had it under emergent circumstances and the laundry list of horrors that could happen because it was in a blockage/inflamed/angry state was long—But they were almost entirely because it was emergent. Under ‘normal’ circumstances, would have been MUCH easier, safer, and super successful, like yours…

He is a Dog of Leisure (TM).

Ughhhh, that surgery. Best of luck (you should be fine though, since it’s not a blockage yet, really. No ng tube for you!). My husband had that. It’s kind of freaky when a surgeon goes ‘yeah, we’re going to take out about 8 inches of intestine’ and then goes to your horrified face ‘It’s fine! 8 inches? He won’t even…

Oh yeah, absolutely the best like day 4 or 5, when those spices really bloom out.

He’s SO LOYAL it’s crazy. He has some separation anxiety, but considering his background, it’s astonishing he even lets us leave the house without chewing on the walls.

They are great! Especially with coffee. I’m going to assume they were a thing my german grandparents did that my mom did that I now do. The worst part of making them is how much powdered sugar gets EVERYWHERE despite my best efforts.

I do pfeffernüsse, meringues, ginger bread, and cranberry bliss bars.

I had my first glühwein of the season, and it’s the first time I’ve felt a little calm in like three months.

“3 Beliefs Bernd ditched when she stopped anti-depressants”

I used to have like three make up steps and no hair steps and would wash my face only with water.

I love that animals are weird like this. My dog likes carrots, but only baby carrots.

I was hoping this was impacting the larger pickled/tinned herring distributing world, so that my herring eating coworker’s life would be impacted.

If I ever, for whatever reason, had to leave my dog in a permanent manner as such, he’d end up going with my parents. He lives a pretty spoiled life now and it would look like I was treating him like a 15th century peasant in comparison to how my parents would take care of him. He’d be puppy dog royalty with two human…

There’s a goddamn stupid libertarian at work who thinks that he is just SO MUCH BETTER than everyone else at everything and brags about it alllll the time as he is the justification for why libertarianism works. My favorite game is picking away at his idea that he and his ideas are sooo much better and no one else…

And stuck in the ‘hell’ that is being marooned in an airport for a terrible, terrible SIX WHOLE HOURS.

TIL about old man ear wrinkles

Also a turning point in burn and burn wound care! It was one of the first uses of penicillin for burns (as you could imagine, after the incredible pain, infection is the big thing for burn patients). Depending on which Boston hospital you were sent to determined whether you got new form of burn care and whether or not…

We have an entire craft thread every week! C’mon crafty jezzies!

The biggest difference with Meghan is she’s not at the top of the royal food chain, so to speak. Kate is wedged in, very specifically, into what she can do, what she is allowed to support, and all of the ‘work’ that she is supposed to do, because she’ll eventually be Queen (consort). Meghan very well may get to keep…