Bacon isn’t even the most difficult meat to replicate in a recipe. That fried chicken skin, however..The fried chicken smell in the Publix parking lot. Damn.

When I stopped cooking meat, I had to go cold turkey. Because I was raised on a meat and three sides, I knew I’d fall back into that routine if I allowed meat in at all. I found that when I had to rethink my plate - it opened up a whole new style of cooking that made me a much better cook and much more adventurous in…

I cook and eat mostly vegetarian, some pescatarian, some vegan (or meals that just happen to be vegan...I don’t go out of my way to eat vegan). I DO hate what America has become. Among other things, especially right now, the idea that what I choose to cook and eat is a judgement on what anyone else eats. I don’t give…

Has anyone here had (or known someone) with a STUMP tumor? Smooth muscle tumor of unknown malignant potential? It’s basically an atypical uterine fibroid that no one knows much about. My daughter and I will be headed to Houston at the end of the month for a 2nd - or kind of a third - opinion on the pathology so she…

Florida here. Can barely go outside. Humidity and a mask. My dog is going crazy because I have to be up by 5:30 to walk her. (She has a doggie door...doesn’t count in dog points. even when I put her in the car for a chicken nugget Happy Meal. Fun fact: if you go to Sonic and you ask for a happy meal they will pretend…

I’m wondering if Taco Bell is in trouble, y’all. In our town, at lunchtime the Popeyes, McDonalds and Wendys on the same strip have cars around the block...Taco Bell. Not so much. I do not eat meat, and the last time I went there the spicy potato soft taco was already gone. Dammit. Got the 7 layer burrito. No rice,…

Me too! I’ve tried to wear the brand in several styles, and they just kind of clonk around my foot as I walk and hit my bunion on the sides.

Another classic is Laurel’s Kitchen. I still make the sweet potato salad from that cookbook, only now I add diced, cooked facon bacon. Even the teens where I work love that stuff.

That’s fucking hilarious. I assume you’re joking....but now I’m thinking I could make them for our next birthday gathering. I have five lifelong best friends who would get a kick out of that.

Come on dude, don’t make us a sad. Hopefully someone will take up the cause. Surely?

Classy AF is right. Like so classy that most people stare and don’t know what to do. THAT’S when you know it’s classy!! I could just boil them and put them on a plate for my dog, Stella Mayo - like those hamster videos with their wee gourmet meals. Except she’d gulp them down shells and all and honestly that might be…

I dunno. But I just bought a dozen tiny quail eggs because they were on sale and were prettily speckled and my husband made fun of me. Now I seriously don’t know what I’m going to do with them. I’m tempted to just deliver them to the house down the street with the two little girls who play in their driveway wearing…

OMG - has anyone in this series mentioned The Flame and the Flower and The Wolf and the Dove, anything by Kathleen Woodiwiss? At 13, I devoured those. As well as purloined (hey..see..I read!) copies of anything by Harold Robbins or Sidney Sheldon. Also Lace as a book and a TV movie...with Phoebe Cates and a bunch of…

Living in the South all my life, I was unaware - until recently - that dollarweed is edible! Haven’t tried it yet though. 

The smallest amount my rice cooker makes is 2 cups of dry — so 4 cups of rice. That’s fine for jasmine or sushi rice (which I make often), but I definitely do not need 4 cups of brown rice lying around. I really hate that I can’t make myself love brown rice. I’m not a picky eater and I know it’s much better for me. I…

Money market accounts generally pay a little bit more than a savings account. They pay more because you have to have a larger chunk of cash to open them. Shop around at different banks. 

If you’re going to need it on hand within the year - a money market at least pays a little bit more than a savings account. Shop around at various banks. Since this is money specifically earmarked, I wouldn’t be throwing it into the market or anything speculative where you need time to make up gains and losses.

I have an expensive rice cooker that I use extensively. The only time I buy a microwave rice is brown rice for dolmades. I like the brown rice to mix with chopped nuts, onions, herbs, aged goat cheese and such. The texture and nuttiness works in that context, but I don’t really LIKE brown rice in general. So, a small…

Scoop out the flesh (get rid of any seedy parts that are too fibrous), chop it up and saute with minced onion and whatever other leftover vegetables and grains you have in your fridge. Salt pepper favorite spices. Add shredded cheese from any small cuts in your drawer - reserve some for topping. Stuff the squashies,…

Will raise you with Horse Fly. Asshole on Steriods!