I know my Plated box is more expensive than grocery store ingredients, but... of course it is. I’m paying for a service. Someone else finds some recipes I get to pick from, then they send me all the stuff to make them. I don’t end up with lots of food waste that comes from being pretty bad at meal planning for two…

Somebody around here gave me the idea a couple of weeks ago, actually! I love furikake, and it goes great on there.

Ooh.

Oh noooo! Can you command-strip something magnetic to the fridge so you can stick magnets to that?

If I make the mistake of eating cereal for breakfast, I inevitably end up with second breakfast once I get to work. I have some instant oatmeal in my desk for just such an emergency.

I’ve gotta have some protein and fat to get started, or I’ll be hungry in like an hour. Cereal is pointless, except as a late night snack. I can scramble a couple of eggs AND make toast in 5 minutes flat. But when I am too bleary eyed to be trusted around an open flame or else can’t be bothered to wash a pan, I do a…

My primary comfort TV is rewatching Buffy. Violence, but campy, silly violence, especially the early seasons. Skip, like, the entire second half of season 5 and you’re probably safe from much distress.

It’s mentioned in the article, vets use pentobarbitol, but drug companies won’t let it be used for executions (bad PR). They used to use it for lethal injections, but they can’t get it anymore.

Apologies, it’s been over a decade since my last Spanish class :)

I’ve only ever had the frozen kind. But lemme tell ya, I will never say no to a dumpling full of cheesy mashed potatoes. Truly a food for kings.

Is that a tamale on a bun? Why is there a tamale on a bun, give me that tamale

Excellent, that was what I thought. I did a few rounds of French on Duolingo almost entirely so I could stop stumbling over French culinary terms, but I clearly need some more.

How do you pronounce “roux”?

I’ve never had them either, but I have to think it’s not that different from eating mussels, or scallops. Catfish suck the algae and crap off of things, and they’re delicious.

Naked mole rats are such bizarre creatures, I love it. I want to learn more about them. If I’d gone into biology (I probably should have) instead of computer science, I’d make it a point to research them if I could.

I really like that, actually. Man, it’s almost like there would have been lots of ways to make this movie better, and it missed every mark. ;)

Harness works pretty well for this. My doggo also lays in the back seat, but I clip her harness to a seatbelt attachment. She’s got enough leeway to turn around and stick her face out the window, but I’m fairly confident it would still keep her in in the back seat if we ran into something. It’s a pretty easy solution;…

I hook my girl up with a step-in harness (buckles in the back, where the attachment hooks are, so impact wouldn’t be against the plastic buckle, but against the nylon straps themselves) that I use to walk her, and a seatbelt attachment. I don’t know how much it would protect her in a crash, but it’s gotta be better…

Excuse you, I sought out my lime green little hatchback, and I adore it.

My comfort food is breakfast foods. Maybe pancakes from a box mix, or lots of cheesy scrambled eggs. Or some poached eggs on top of some torn up toast and bacon.