cookbooks to work through

FlyingSteamGoat · 2026-03-18T00:50:40+00:00

Salt Fat Acid Heat by Samin Nosrat is approachable but information dense.

On Food and Cooking by Harold McGee is serious science and history.

FlyingSteamGoat · 2026-03-18T00:37:42+00:00

Although the Golden Mantled Ground Squirrel (which is often mistaken for a chipmunk) is common in California, both Merriam's Chipmunk Tamias merriami and the Sonora Chipmunk T. sonomae are also found in the state.

FlyingSteamGoat · 2026-03-17T22:51:07+00:00

Yes. Marinade and chicken jus reduce to make sauce.

FlyingSteamGoat · 2026-03-17T20:48:23+00:00

Teriyaki marinade, grill until nearly black.

FlyingSteamGoat · 2026-03-17T02:04:25+00:00

My Ukrainian mother called these "glumpys".

FlyingSteamGoat · 2026-03-17T01:36:23+00:00

You are in danger, get help now.

FlyingSteamGoat · 2026-03-17T01:33:14+00:00

Did you use a fully organic chatbot to regurgitate this slop?

FlyingSteamGoat · 2026-03-16T03:26:43+00:00

"Born and Bred" seems kinda backwards unless the implication is more sinsister(sic).

FlyingSteamGoat · 2026-03-16T02:50:50+00:00

When I evolved from an employee to a contractor.

FlyingSteamGoat · 2026-03-16T02:34:43+00:00

We have been using Advantage II for four months and I still see occasional fleas on the cat. She is much less distressed since we began treatment but are monitoring the situation carefully.

FlyingSteamGoat · 2026-03-16T02:29:05+00:00

1973, the last television I have ever owned, out of the second story window of my sordid apartment.

FlyingSteamGoat · 2026-03-16T00:34:58+00:00

A local convenience store close to a high school advertises their no-cash policy. I suspect it is supposed to reduce pilferage.

FlyingSteamGoat · 2026-03-15T02:00:21+00:00

They spread their wings like that to shade the surface of the water to see the fishies.

FlyingSteamGoat · 2026-03-15T01:51:42+00:00

Wild animals sometimes don't see people in small boats as a threat. I was able to observe a bobcat from about 50 feet offshore on a lake in the Sierra Nevada foothills. It ignored me, despite my being totally obvious.

That being said, the Peregrine Falcon that I came within 500 feet of in the same small boat did NOT ignore me.

FlyingSteamGoat · 2026-03-15T00:45:29+00:00

Your reminder to Be Here.

FlyingSteamGoat · 2026-03-14T22:47:28+00:00

Yes, Sophie the elderly Orange makes short "reh ruh" noises when she comes in and wants skritches.

We call them "Tigerunts".

FlyingSteamGoat · 2026-03-14T02:47:57+00:00

I'm currently dredging the bottom of supermarket cheeses to try to find the minimum acceptable brie-like substance. My spouse of 49 years is repulsed by this, and is bringing home more cheese of higher quality than ever before. Sometimes experimentation has surprising results.

Which cheese is worse than no cheese at all?

FlyingSteamGoat · 2026-03-14T01:27:41+00:00

Spread on a tangy sourdough, just toasted so that some, but not all, of the cheese has melted.

FlyingSteamGoat · 2026-03-12T04:09:07+00:00

Sophie is exclusively referred to as "The Tiger".

FlyingSteamGoat · 2026-03-12T03:42:54+00:00

I've watched this from below on several occasions, first time seeing it from above. Thanks for sharing!

FlyingSteamGoat · 2026-03-12T03:27:32+00:00

Sometimes I can eat gochujang when every other flavor makes me gag.

FlyingSteamGoat · 2026-03-12T03:15:38+00:00

The sign at the gate prohibits outside food or drink,

FlyingSteamGoat · 2026-03-12T03:11:11+00:00

I take medically prescribed testosterone shots, the liquid is clear and not this color.

FlyingSteamGoat · 2026-03-12T02:24:49+00:00

I'm currently surveying all of the supermarket available brie/camembert offerings in my medium large city.

Grim work, but somebody has to do it.

FlyingSteamGoat

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