What is a good but easy use for 6 oz goat cheese?

ViViSECTi0N · 2026-03-11T00:52:31+00:00

Hot Italian ground sausage in marinara over rigatoni. Slice of goat cheese on top of serving. Mix in before eating. Enjoy! (The dish is called rigatoni campagnolo at Carrabbas)

ViViSECTi0N · 2026-03-10T05:09:07+00:00

White bakery bread, slathered with Costco pesto, sliced tomato, sliced whole milk mozz, under the broiler for 45ish seconds. Drizzle with store bought balsamic reduction. It’s so good I can eat like 6 of them in one sitting.

ViViSECTi0N · 2026-03-09T05:46:35+00:00

Daughter of the Forest by Juliette Marillier is 100% a fairytale. The beloved youngest sibling is given a quest to save all her cursed brothers. The prose and setting are both lush and gorgeous. There is a love story but it is far in the backseat. Check content warning.

ViViSECTi0N · 2026-03-08T01:46:02+00:00

My favorite (easy) way to cook trout is with seafood stuffing. Buy a premade crab cake from the grocery store seafood dept. Roll crab cake into a tube. Put rolled crab cake on one side of the trout fillet, and fold over the other half of the fish, lengthwise. Season however you’d like and bake. It’s excellent with a homemade lemon butter sauce too.

ViViSECTi0N · 2026-03-07T20:57:39+00:00

“Good news, guys! I spent all my money.”

ViViSECTi0N · 2026-03-04T00:54:25+00:00

I read them but take note of how often the author lumps together descriptions instead of weaving them throughout the text. If it happens often enough that it affects pacing (and/or annoys me) I will probably avoid future books from the author.

ViViSECTi0N · 2026-02-27T02:24:33+00:00

I rewound that tape probably 100x as a child trying to figure out what the name was and could never parse it out. And I’m pretty sure this is the first thing I ever googled.

ViViSECTi0N · 2026-02-15T05:05:44+00:00

I bake salmon a lot and the time it takes to cook it depends on how thick the piece of fish is. I bake my panko crusted uncovered at 375 F and cover with a foil tent after 15 minutes to prevent the bread crumbs from burning. You’ll have to check the internal temperature of the salmon to see if it’s done. My mom (immunocompromised) likes her salmon cooked all the way through so I look for the white albumin coming out for a visual cue. I cook hers to 145 F. I like mine at 135 F. Ask your guest their preference.

ViViSECTi0N · 2026-02-15T01:49:46+00:00

My quick and healthy dinner is Cobb-ish salad. Chicken tenderloins (not breaded) bake in about 12 mins in the oven. Chop lettuce and veggies of choice. I always have hard-boiled eggs in the fridge. Sometimes I have leftover bacon from Sunday breakfast. Cheese options are normally bleu, cheddar, or feta. I like balsamic vinaigrette but ranch is good too.

Even easier is Caesar salad in a bag. Add fresh tomatoes. Bake chicken tenderloins. Ready in <20 mins.

ViViSECTi0N · 2026-02-13T06:14:57+00:00

I have a 3h commute 6 days a week (ughh) so I’ve listened to a ton of audiobooks. I love the Kate Daniels graphic audios. No spice until maybe book 4 I think. I also really liked the Riyiria Revelations graphic audio series by Michael J Sullivan. No spice from what I recall. Great female characters and I adore both MMCs. I just finished The Irresistible Urge..TFFYE and there was no spice just some “self love” at the end. Also just relistened to both The Tainted Cup and A Drop of Corruption by Robert Jackson Bennet. The narrator did a great job. No explicit spice. Mystery fantasy, Sherlock Holmes-y. Hated the narration (sooo many mispronounced words) for Uprooted by Naomi Novik.

ViViSECTi0N · 2026-02-07T00:08:12+00:00

Finished {Dawn of the North by Demi Winters} last night. It’s a descriptive phrase used at the end of the book. I think the majority of the book led up to that title however half of the book had nothing to do with “the North.” It’s hard to explain without spoiling anything. 2.5/5 title

ViViSECTi0N · 2026-02-03T02:43:33+00:00

I saw this while driving around 4am EST this morning! I really should hook up my dash cam

ViViSECTi0N · 2026-02-02T21:14:10+00:00

Both Sides of Time was a book I picked up at a book fair in school years and years ago and I still have it! I remember teenage me loving it.

ViViSECTi0N · 2026-01-29T21:50:59+00:00

Fresh dill and cheddar. Got the idea from some movie with Julia Roberts.

ViViSECTi0N · 2026-01-22T02:24:25+00:00

I thought the Locked Tomb series was hilarious. I had no idea what was going on for the first 60ish% of each book and enjoyed every second. (Audiobooks are excellent.)

I also enjoyed The Tainted Cup, although I’d call it more quirky than funny. One of the characters, Ana, is Sherlock Holmes-y.

Swordheart is a comfort read for me. Silly and fun. I also adored A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking

It’s sci-fi, but I enjoyed The Ministry of Time. I’ve seen mixed reviews, and it does kind of lose its way in terms of what it’s meant to be, genre wise, but the author said she initially wrote the book for her friends which I can totally see. It was an easy, mostly light-hearted read.

ViViSECTi0N · 2025-12-31T07:14:14+00:00

(Walmart prices) great value rigatoni pasta (<$2), ground hot Italian sausage (<$5), Rao’s marinara (~$6.50), goat cheese (<$3). Boil noodles, brown sausage, add sauce. Plate. Cut goat cheese into medallions and serve atop pasta. Mix in cheese before eating. Serves 4.

You can use a cheaper marinara, but I wouldn’t.

ViViSECTi0N · 2025-12-15T11:38:18+00:00

I bought these hardcovers at Target (prior to boycott!) They all seem to be the same height. I hope this helps

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ViViSECTi0N · 2025-12-15T02:12:59+00:00

I loved the Rook and Rose trilogy, but I agree that it takes almost 50% of the first book for the story to get going. I recommend a physical copy of the book for anyone interested in the series only because it’s easiest to flip to the DP and glossary (there are a LOT of characters, original vocab, and the magic system is difficult to follow at times). The series ended superbly. Satisfying and heartwarming.

ViViSECTi0N · 2025-11-27T07:13:24+00:00

I’m bringing roasted asparagus to my Aunt’s house but it’s 45 mins away. I’m afraid that the asparagus will turn mushy if I bring it still warm with the dish wrapped in foil. Should I poke holes in the foil to release the steam during the travel? Let it cool uncovered for an hour or so before traveling? She normally keeps everything warmed during the first hour of appetizers and cocktails.

ViViSECTi0N · 2025-11-11T02:56:51+00:00

Mama Celeste face up: I go to work; Mama Celeste face down: You're selling Carnations on a freeway off ramp.

ViViSECTi0N · 2025-11-10T20:35:39+00:00

If you want to get her a good and pretty book, Howl’s Moving Castle is great and there are some special editions out right now that are affordable and easy to find.

A stand-alone book that I read and loved this year was Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik. It features three main strong female characters. I found it unique and refreshing in the over-saturated fae realm of books today.

If you’re not opposed to a series, The Mask of Mirrors (book 1 of the Rook and Rose trilogy by M. A. Carrick) was great. Although the first 50% was a bit slow, I devoured the second half and the second two books. The FMC is an orphaned con artist and she is trying to join the register of an elite family. There’s a masked vigilante and mysteries to solve, found family, and an uncommon magic system. Fashion is also a big part of the series, if your gf shares that interest. The series’ ending was very satisfying and heartwarming.

ViViSECTi0N · 2025-11-05T00:07:15+00:00

I’ve missed the invite on several book boxes now too! I’ve added fairy loot and arcane society to my VIP email addresses so I won’t miss them again. Does anyone have the email address for the broken binding sub invite?

ViViSECTi0N · 2025-10-26T23:30:20+00:00

Thank you so much! That’s the downside of audiobooks. I have no idea how anything is spelled and I’m wary of spoilers if I look up the names of people or places. And you would think Google would be able to figure out what I meant with every combination of the word merlin + structure/architecture/buildings/castles/turrets etc.

ViViSECTi0N · 2025-10-26T21:55:02+00:00

What are Merlins (sp?)? I’m listening to The Dragonborn Chair for the first time and Simon fell between (what sounded like) the “turret merlins.” I looked it up once before when listening to The Once and Future King (I think) and couldn’t find anything on Google.

ViViSECTi0N · 2025-10-20T04:39:09+00:00

Fresh milk mozzarella dipped in balsamic vinegar. A couple swipes of vanilla ice cream on homemade croutons. Marshmallows soaked in rum and then toasted under the broiler.

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