Grits can be white or yellow corn.

Hominy. It's corn treated with lye, "nixtamalized" so slightly different from cornmeal. Hominy is so good in soup or chili, too.

Mother, stepmother, mother in law, daughter, daughter in law, sister, wife, aunt, niece, cousin.

Accountant, sysadmin, home cook, home bartender, home accountant, home help desk.

Ex dancer, Ex Barber, Ex Salesperson, Ex Cashier.

I think I could survive a Prohibition for quite some time, and even homebrew and sell it or run a speakeasy.

Grits with canned tuna.

Grits with chili paste, fried egg, pork fu.

Sandwich of sardines and mayonnaise and raw onion.

OP, my sweet potato lunch is a Stokes Purple one frozen then baked, topped with goat cheese, pepitas, olive oil and fancy salt. I don't even like sweet potatoes but like that there's enough salty/sharp stuff

What bothers me more is that violence gets a PG rating here, sex gets an X rating. How in the world is it more inappropriate for kids to see people naked than for them to watch someone hack someone else to death? The graphic violence should get a more restricted rating than on screen sex.

I've made fruit kvass before, but never with bread. Will be watching with interest.

Malaprops to the author, this is such a mess.

But I think he's right that it's tough to overcome actual bad looks. Like if you are both naturally ugly and also unwilling to even try to be stylish or fit or whatever (some offsetting physically attractive quality) then it can be a slog. But then why the "cute" standard for a girlfriend? If you aren't willing to put in the work why do you feel you can demand it of your partner? That is such an ugly attitude.

They are a 2 hour drive from us so not extravagant trips. But I am so grateful to my mom for taking my kids with her when she traveled to Europe. Even though she never did anything like that with us, she would invite her grandkids one or two at a time to wherever she was going and her rules were "one bag, you carry it, no whining". They got to see places I haven't yet. Very extravagant and I wish she'd taken her own kids on trips like that!

If I take my pay in 1999 and adjust for inflation that's about $70k, so that would be about fair probably. Two of those (two income family) is about what it would take to be comfortable here too. Very comfortable if no kids.

Today? It was so good!

2 oz bourbon

3/4 oz lemon juice

3/4 oz Amaro (I used Amaro Toscano)

3/4 oz roasted pineapple syrup

Shaken.

Look up the Golden Crown by Katherine Bouchel for the syrup recipe and another whiskey/pineapple drink.

I realized I didn't answer which whiskey - honestly I think the best with canned pineapple juice is Irish whiskey, when we are out, like at a festival , pineapple juice and Jameson is one of the most reliable things you can order.

Bourbon with fresh pineapple juice.

Scotch in pineapple tepache is amazing, and I bet the roasted pineapple syrup would also be a good match.

So, all sorts of whiskey I think probably have some pineapple match.

Ads, because there are too many separate sites implementing paywalls, I don't like any of them enough more than the others to subscribe.

Reader supported without subscription model is my favorite though - I will and have thrown $5 to Wikipedia, the Guardian, etc. If there was some monthly umbrella one I might consider it, or a $0.25 pay per article but absolutely not $100 a year for one site absolutely no.

Basically I think my overall budget for all sites would be sustainable at $10/month or so, sure. But not that much for ONE site, no.

Yeah, my second to oldest daughter was visiting the other day and I offered her fresh sourdough toast and filtered chilled water, felt kind of funny like "here's your bread and water" but it is a delicious snack.

Sourdough is sold in stores here, a loaf from Whole Foods was the reason I started baking again, that bread was so good but mine now is often even better. So maybe there is a big overlap between people who like fancy bread and people who make it? But even so - if you are making a soup and want bread with it, nobody is buying sliced white industrial sandwich bread for that, and I will occasionally ask my husband to pick up "fancy white bread - from the bakery section not the aisles."

I don't literally SEE it like I would with my eyes but:

Red ball

Clown, no idea of gender

Again, clown

Ball smaller than tennis ball, bigger than golf ball

The table I am sitting at and looking at right now.

And no, I can and do imagine how things look. It's a different sort of knowing/imagining than actual physical vision or dreaming though. Which led me to be confused about what exactly aphantasia is.

Once you are more familiar with the dough you can likely figure out an evening process, refrigerator all the next day and bake the next evening. Slap and fold is exciting and effective but messy, or if you have the big mixer, dough hook, rest, dough hook, one round of stretch and fold.

But that long slow cold process is the most reliable and gives it the good complex flavor.

About a new baby? Yes, show me pictures. Also your new kittens, kitchen, a cake you made, a painting you painted, sure, yes.

Vacation not so much.

But these weaker social connections are so important to life and to society. You can't sort people into friends or strangers, care and don't care. There is a lot of room in between - people you know but aren't close with are most of the people you know. It doesn't matter if you are just following the forms, that's fine. Keep on doing that, be nice.

I can't left or right, but am well centered in North, South, East, West and can give directions like that. Those stay put. I hate navigation software though, the ones that talk at you, hate so much. Would rather get lost, usually, but have lived in the same city a long time and always know where north is.

Oh I want those bitters!

My husband has an odd reaction to Sichuan pepper, he's usually a little less spice tolerant than the rest of us, but not by much. But when I make mapo tofu, he almost can't eat it, finds it so, so, so hot and he thinks we are trolling him, but none of us find it super spicy at all. We perceive it as pleasantly picante but he is on fire. I'm sure it's that one pepper, because I don't use it in much else.

Love Barolo with pizza or spaghetti, yum.

For 2 loaves, this one doesn't need the mixer, way more process than recipe, super simple ingredients.

1000g flour (between 30-50% whole grain something, the rest white bread flour), 20g salt

700-750g water

200g refreshed starter, 100% hydration

Mix everything and let it sit 20 minutes to hydrate. Then I smush it into a big ball and wash the bowl, leave it wet and dump the dough back in. Stretch and fold immediately, then every half hour 3 or 4 more times. Cover the bowl with a plate or towel in between. No, you don't have to knead it. Once it looks strong and elastic, after the last stretch and fold, make it a smooth ball (flipping it over usually works) and let it rise 2-3 hours, covered, until bigger and lighter.

Dump it carefully onto a big flat surface and split it in two. Make lazy dough balls, dust them with flour and cover with a flat towel or t-shirt cloth. Let rest for 20 minutes - this is called 'bench rest' Meanwhile line 2 bannetons (or flattish bowls- something shaped like you want the top of the dough to end up) with flat kitchen towels and dust with rice flour. Shape each loaf carefully and place into the baskets with bottoms up. Let rise then bake in preheated cast iron pot at about 450F, 230C ish, no fan, 20 minutes with lid then 30 without - I have to tent mine with foil because oven heats from the top.

There are 2 places you can pause this, since it's such a long process. Either after stretch and fold (cover bowl with plate) or after putting them in baskets, which is what I do. If you do this you have to enclose them in plastic loosely, I use produce bags for that, and even if they don't look like they rose in the fridge, the cold dough into hot pan enclosed makes steam that makes them rise so well.

It's easier to do than describe so ask anything.

Grade school is funny. That's K-6, right? Like 6-12 year olds?

Church is a conspicuous absence on this chart, I guess nobody really meets anyone there?