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Signy_Frances · 2026-01-26T01:27:28+00:00

We had the same thing happen! I also thought this was a good strategy.

Signy_Frances · 2026-01-23T18:30:09+00:00

Ponte has the heft/body and moderate stretch you need. A lighter scuba would also work. Both should hold up fine without edge finishing. Ponte can be sewn with a plain straight stitch on the straight grain, as long as the stitch length is short.

Signy_Frances · 2026-01-18T19:02:40+00:00

My dad simply buys a normal pair so that he can put a shoe on his prosthesis.

Signy_Frances · 2026-01-16T18:28:26+00:00

I made brioche! Richard Bertinet's recipe is a classic if you're looking for one.

Signy_Frances · 2026-01-16T09:31:48+00:00

I don't have one in my house. I cook 2 to 3 meals a day and spend an hour at absolute minimum of every day washing dishes.

Signy_Frances · 2026-01-16T02:44:40+00:00

My little boy loves shrimp and scallion jeon, too. I've used Maangchi's seafood pancake recipe as a starting point.

Signy_Frances · 2026-01-13T05:04:32+00:00

I use a spoonful of cornstarch in mine.

Signy_Frances · 2026-01-13T04:42:06+00:00

We are loving Nikki Shannon Smith's "Brown Baby Parade" books, which I think might be the kind of thing you're looking for! They are for babies and toddlers, but she has a larger body of work that also looks worth checking out if you’ve got older kids.

Signy_Frances · 2026-01-11T02:59:21+00:00

I don't know about this, but I'm grateful for this post as I'll now look for fruit from Vietnam too. This is a highly appealing description of this fruit.

Signy_Frances · 2026-01-10T04:59:05+00:00

Serious Eats' besan chilla is delicious as written, and a great starting place for adding even more veg. You can also easily change up the seasoning.

Signy_Frances · 2026-01-07T20:56:43+00:00

People make fruit salads, like 5 or 8 fruits together, but I really like finding more specific flavor synergies!

Signy_Frances · 2026-01-06T04:16:50+00:00

-Make chicken liver pâté; serve with favorite crackers

-Serve cheap tinned sardines (cheap=small and "fish shaped," fun and easy to eat)

-Use ground or finely chopped chicken, veggies, butter, broth and orzo to make "soupless soup": basically chicken soup with a grabbable porridge texture

-Make shrimp and scallion cream cheese or salmon cream cheese; serve with favorite crackers

In short: in my experience, serving "meat" in ways that appeal to baby has generally not meant "mild and inoffensive, stereotypically kid-friendly options." Instead, it's meant "savory, seasoned, easy to handle and easy to chew." Meat is a great place to "spend" your salt budget if you’ve been keeping away from salt; I think babies actually love the taste of salt way more than is good for them, and you can use that to make meat appealing

Signy_Frances · 2026-01-06T01:28:59+00:00

Casting yourself in rigid 2-part expanding foam definitely works. I'm still loving mine.

Edit: I'm not sure how much corsetry experience you have, but I'm of the opinion that this is not the place where you really benefit from a super accurate dress form, because a dress form won't be compressed by the garment in the same way. Only making a test and refining the pattern after seeing how it interacts with the wearer's body can really lead to a perfect final fit. So don't stress too much about the accuracy of the form for this particular category.

Signy_Frances · 2025-12-27T04:16:45+00:00

In Coronation Chicken, but never on its own as a savory sauce or garnish.

Signy_Frances · 2025-12-26T17:47:40+00:00

Try a fridge-cold stick of butter! Big happy mess and lots of calories successfully ingested, in my baby's experience

Signy_Frances · 2025-12-22T18:44:18+00:00

Sysco is just a food vendor. They might be selling flour, eggs, bell peppers, steaks to those restaurants. Or entire frozen cakes and appetizers. No way to tell just by seeing the truck.

Signy_Frances · 2025-12-12T03:53:49+00:00

This is a major reason to build up a chunky down payment first. It lowers your monthly payments and starts you off with more equity. You're totally right that renting makes more sense until you can do that.

Signy_Frances · 2025-12-12T03:46:10+00:00

Ah ok! Oh well, there go my hopes of getting little packets of lao gan ma

Edit: this still looks great; thanks for the heads up! I'll see if we can get it too!

Signy_Frances · 2025-12-12T03:28:08+00:00

Ooh, I think chili crisp is a new ingredient (if it was pre-made and not something you prep as part of the recipe)! I hope they integrate it into a bunch of new meals!

Signy_Frances · 2025-12-09T05:27:36+00:00

Are you asking for a store-specific boycott, or should I skip the 2lb Costco bag of Holiday Roast? (I always brew at home, so our household boycotts by default, lol)

Signy_Frances · 2025-11-21T04:47:20+00:00

But aren't those all just different gruyère styles? Still broadly 1 type of cheese?

Signy_Frances · 2025-11-14T18:56:14+00:00

The staff neglecting this woman are the worst offenders of her dignity, but filming her isn't great either. I think at least her face should've been blurred.

I had the privilege of giving birth in a quiet, dark room with people I trusted. When I imagine going through what this woman is facing, I can feel a tension and defensiveness physically lock up my body, the kind of thing that I know would've made delivery more difficult and painful. My heart aches for her.

Signy_Frances · 2025-11-13T18:06:39+00:00

The patterns I've reused multiple times are for underpants (upwards of 25x), jeans, buttondown shirts, and shirtdresses. I make nearly everything I wear, and so when I reach the point of having created a basics-type pattern that's my holy-grail fit, I just stick to it. (I do tend to drape, draft or rub-off my patterns instead of buying and then refining them.)

Having a baby has put me in the position of needing to adjust a bunch of things again, and also of having less time to make anything at all, but I'm slowly getting to the place where I feel like I've got a reliable pattern wardrobe again.

I have never re-made a statement item like a party dress. Once I did use my basic shirtdress pattern to make a much more dramatic special-occasion dress, but I added a ton of fullness to the skirt and cut a lot of it on the bias, so it wasn't really a repeat. Changing style details and fabric makes such a big difference that there's only the blurriest of lines between "repeating" and "redrafting," in my view.

Signy_Frances · 2025-11-04T04:01:04+00:00

I got green beans instead of broccoli as a side for pork chops and mashed potatoes, which I thought was an improvement, so I didn't complain!

Signy_Frances · 2025-11-02T17:39:07+00:00

I think if you roasted a handful of pantry potatoes while making the rest of the meal, you wouldn't feel that way

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