I got them in that order too

Oooh yum, I’m a sucker for capers but haven’t ever had them in a risotto. Love how the black of the risotto jives with the sunflower plate 🌻

Ugh, obnoxious click bait title had me wondering how the hell can cocaine be printed. The guy didn’t “3D print cocaine,” he printed a paper weight and tried to pull an Indiana Jones swap.

Aww, what a cutie

God I love British humor 😂

She’s gotten a little bit of supervised porch time, my husband and I plan on training her the same way we’ve trained our first cat, Mirepoix.

Mira loves her supervised outside time and understands when we ask “you wanna go outside?” She’ll generally stay in the garden with us (occasionally she’ll push her luck and wander a little) and knows when we say “inside!” that it’s time to go in.

Oh of course! I kept an eye on the local lost pet listings and had her checked for a microchip, no luck with either.

I don’t know how long a young kitten can go without food, but she was extremely skinny, had fleas and worms, and with how matted her fur was with leaves and filth, she really didn’t look like she’d been taken care of. 😢

So I finally got around to seeing it at one of the last theaters showing it in my area, and I agree with folks calling it ridiculous. It was entertaining enough, I don’t regret going to see it, but I don’t think I’ll ever get the urge to rewatch it.

Denzel Washington seemed to be having a great time and was fun to watch in his variety of extravagant outfits. There were several actors that just seemed wasted for how little screen time/plot relevance they got, Derek Jacobi, Rory McCann, Peter Mensah, even Pedro Pascal. But for me it was the repeated continuity errors and confusing character motivations that strained disbelief.

Like, I’ll roll with you that a fleet of Roman warships have siege towers and trebuchets; but if two characters fall off of the city wall into deep water, then suddenly they’re on a shallow beach, then you’ve lost me. Likewise, when Lucius’ stated goal the entire film is “I’m gonna kill that guy,” and he finally gets his opportunity, Acacius pleading that he’s loved Lucius’ mother (which is not new information, and he didn’t seem to give a shit earlier), somehow changes his mind? There’s a number of other “but why would they do that?” moments, but that’s the most egregious.

It’s been a while since I’ve grown parsnips, but I saw a contestant on the Great British Bake Off make a parsnip cake (as opposed to a carrot cake), and that’s got me itching to grow them again.

Hah! Well you’ve hit the nail on the head, I’m in California and clam chowder with good fresh clams is a rare treat.

I use canned clams in my chowder, and I usually reach for some fatty pork product to render fat for sauteing the veggies and as a finishing garnish (I once splurged on some guanciale, but wasn’t a discernable enough upgrade to be worth repeating). Interesting to know that the chowder isn’t traditionally thick. I can’t think of a single time I’ve had it at a restaurant where it wasn’t, which is why I was adding extra thickeners to try to match that expectation.

Yep, didn’t have any bacon in the house, but I like having a little meaty salty bite in my chowder, and turns out spam fried until crunchy fits the bill!

I have no interest in reading anything beyond the original six books (and even 5 and 6 are just okay), so I have no clue as to the content or quality of the source material, but man am I praying it’s at least close to the quality of the movies. So tired of big budget shows with god-awful writing. It looks like the showrunner was in charge of season 2 of Altered Carbon and season 4 of Westworld, neither of which I was particularly enamored with, but I’ll still hope for good things for this show.

Oh certainly try it, clam chowder is one of my favorite soups. Both New England and Manhattan style are delicious, but my inner fatass prefers the New England.

I differ from the usual recipes in that I’m a sucker for really getting some good browning on the vegetables before adding the liquid. The flavor is worth the trade off of having a tan colored chowder rather than the pale cream of the traditional New England style.

I agree, soup weather is the best!

My exact thoughts! Also the dual meaning of “swatted.”

This feels worse.

In 2016, I could at least rationalize that some people were voting for an outsider, a “billionaire” who promised to fight corruption in D.C. Anyone paying attention could see he was an immoral dipshit who was corrupt himself, but I could understand how he won.

Now? We’ve all had years to see who he is, and if that wasn’t enough, to see his rapid mental decline. This time I don’t understand.

Archipiélago

Oh my god I love that

I second Lorn! Dark ambient electronic sprinkled liberally with glitch elements is chef’s kiss.

Also would recommended Amon Tobin. ISAM is one of my favorite albums, and Lost and Found is often the song I’ll put on to introduce folks to his style.

Yeah, I could also see there being variability between dialects and how much they respectively pronounce in a word. “What’s that?” could easily become “waz-at?” which is much quicker to say.

Ooh yum, what’s the sauce? I’ve got a cucumber in the fridge that needs using, and this looks tasty.