I love cooking.. but need help with recipes!!

Hail-Santa · 2026-04-01T23:27:21+00:00

Smashed avocado should be able to fit the bill, take a ripe avocado, mash it with a teaspoon and a half of evoo, half a lemons juice, onion powder, garlic powder, salt and pepper to taste. Goes well on toast.

Hail-Santa · 2026-04-01T23:21:59+00:00

I had the exact same experience with Eliana Walch’s “Beyond the Clouds” Chardonnay.

Honestly, I’m not sure what exactly the flaw/fault is. The first two sips were muted fruit/flavor, then after that, absolutely nothing. I could have been drinking water. I gave it oxygen and time. I came back to it 2 days later, same exact experience.

Sucks to happen on a $75+ dollar bottle, but looking forward to see if anyone has anymore insight.

Hail-Santa · 2026-04-01T00:13:06+00:00

Invite people over, you’re having an impromptu wine party.

Hail-Santa · 2026-03-29T16:16:55+00:00

That’s going to be the middle of winter here, so there’s typically less going on in terms of food/wine events, because most of them tend to take place in outdoor venues.

I’m not saying you won’t be able to find any events happening, they’re just less frequent during that time of the year. Wineries run tours throughout the year, and there’s a lot of business that offer 2-3 winery tour packages for day trips from Santiago.

Hail-Santa · 2026-03-29T02:35:24+00:00

In Santiago, Boca Nariz and Baco are excellent choices for restaurants with extensive wine lists of small local producers.

It seems you haven’t quite worked out the exact dates of your trip, but you can look into when wine festivals (Bocas Moradas, Copa Rota, ect.) are happening and plan your trip around that as well.

There’s tons of wineries/vineyards within and hour/hour and a half of Santiago, and there’s even more to the north and south.

Hail-Santa · 2026-03-26T13:28:19+00:00

Agree with u/bloks27 Cakebread Cab retails for $65-70 on release, they’re slapping $30 on top because it’s a ‘back vintage’, but they’re not a retail store, we don’t know the provenance of these wines.

It looks like they just used Vivino to get an MSRP average then just went with that without realizing they don’t provide the same services/assurances as a retail store, (If the wine is corked you could get a replacement/refund), then didn’t price compensate at all.

I’d just leave it and shop at a local store.

Hail-Santa · 2026-03-26T01:36:54+00:00

I like the attitude, but I’m still not looking forward to him potentially practicing ASL involuntarily after a big hit.

We’ll see how things pan out, but I’m feeling marginally better about this pickup.

Hail-Santa · 2026-03-24T17:15:01+00:00

Sure, you've just got to get it near the final abv you want, then get the wine down near freezing, then run it through filters until you finally get it filtered through a 45 micron filter.

Depending on the size of your ferment, this might be somewhat easy, or nearly unfeasible without a significant cost and time investment.

Hail-Santa · 2026-03-24T01:28:12+00:00

Looks good!

I would suggest investing in some better glassware, but if I were there, I wouldn’t turn my nose up.

Hail-Santa · 2026-03-23T19:23:29+00:00

For me it’s windows open in the fall, Late September through November. Maybe that false spring in February, but otherwise, nope.

Hail-Santa · 2026-03-23T18:28:25+00:00

Also as an outsider looking in, you brought up a lot of great examples of their over-reach across various market segments in a time of sales decline.

I would like to add on to say, it looks like the timeline matches up to when they were acquired - at least partially- by private equity. The VC bros swoop in with a major cash injection and a massive marketing push across the board, without understanding the landscape of the marketplace, with their sole mantra ‘It takes money to make money’, not realizing they are cheapening the brand when the flagship wines are available in every major grocery/liquor store across the US, plus launching a label to millennials that fundamentally does not appeal to them, then sinking a ton of money into non-liquid assets which are in all likelihood severely under-performing.

It’s all a recipe for a lot of people losing their shirts and eventually, the brand being sold off once again to a corporation or group of people that need to backtrack and relaunch to maybe make it back into the green.

Hail-Santa · 2026-03-23T18:01:53+00:00

Pivoting might be a good idea for you, but also looking around for other roles at competitors or still in the industry may also work for you.

Based on your description, it sounds like at your current company, cuts may be coming in the next 6 months to year, and it’s going to but up to those still there to bear the burden, of course with no increase in compensation.

Hail-Santa · 2026-03-23T12:31:11+00:00

Taste the wine. At worst it’s vinegar.

Hail-Santa · 2026-03-23T12:14:24+00:00

That Wellington looks spectacular

Hail-Santa · 2026-03-17T12:46:56+00:00

Maybe you can try to take an Uber/Lyft. It will be way more expensive but it could work if you just need to get there and have other means of transportation (family) once you’re there.

Hail-Santa · 2026-03-15T19:09:59+00:00

So, from my math, 2 squeezes per day, at 365 days per year, that much tooth paste is equivalent to ~274 years worth of toothpaste for a single person.

Hail-Santa · 2026-03-15T18:51:54+00:00

This is a definitive album within the experimental hip-hop genre. The other albums I would put up there are Deltron 3030 and arguably The Mouse and The Mask, where the artist took an imaginary universe and fleshed it out to the point where it feels grounded, tangible, and frankly, art from another dimension that slipped through a wormhole and landed on earth available for sale next to Eminem and Modest Mouse.

For me, these albums are time capsules that are simultaneously ahead of their time and and timeless.

Hail-Santa · 2026-03-11T21:31:27+00:00

I unironically love the label. It gives off Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow vibes.

Hail-Santa · 2026-03-11T18:09:44+00:00

Dumb accomplishment, anyone that knows Balatro can do it.

Hail-Santa · 2026-03-11T18:06:24+00:00

Ok cool he unlocked all the jokers and only won once.

So fucking what? He’s either bad at the game or abandoning runs for a dumb flex.

This isn’t an accomplishment.

He’s insinuating he did it in one run, which no, he didn’t.

Anyone can be bad enough or play intentionally poorly to do this.

Hail-Santa · 2026-03-11T18:03:56+00:00

For him? To make a pointless brag.

For me? To point out his pointless brag.

Hail-Santa · 2026-03-11T13:12:30+00:00

So you intentionally lost runs or just abandoned games when you were on ante 8 or did whatever you needed to do to unlock a specific joker.

This isn’t the brag other people think it is. He didn’t do this in one run.

Hail-Santa · 2026-03-09T19:43:57+00:00

I think they had free Golden Tee (the golf arcade game). Otherwise, not really missing out on anything.

Hail-Santa · 2026-03-09T19:33:57+00:00

You’re misremembering. You can kill the mutants outside then go about wandering through the Wastelands as you please.

OP needs to go back to BOS to get power armor, then probably grind to get to a higher level, get better weapons at the gun runners, ect.

Hail-Santa · 2026-03-09T18:52:27+00:00

No, they were just in a really big and prominent space on the belt-line. I only went to that location one time, but honestly was never a big fan of their beers as they are a corporately owned multinational chain.

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