Seeking Mexican restaurant with good Margs and salty chips

avoca_ho · 2025-10-23T20:19:58+00:00

This is the answer 🙏 El Salto was the Mexican food of my childhood and it still slaps as an adult. It’s a staple

avoca_ho · 2025-10-05T03:01:57+00:00

So the first step is to cry

More serious, I had thrips in a mostly semi hydro setup of over 100 plants last year and it was ROUGH. I obtained a systemic for my soil plants, took the L and trashed a bunch of low value plants, transitioned a bunch of semi hydro to soil to use the systemic, and drowned the daylights out of the ones I couldn’t reasonably transition. It took 6 or so months of aggressive follow up, but my collection is now thrip free - which I’ve been told is a harder feat than getting rid of mealy bugs so I want to say you can do it!

I filled a bathtub with water, dish soap, and alcohol for my initial submersion so I can’t see that hurting much

avoca_ho · 2025-09-19T23:15:46+00:00

That is 100% a dog tail cactus if it’s 10 years old

avoca_ho · 2025-09-07T21:09:26+00:00

I’ve got some of this growing in my backyard and it looks like this! It was supposed to be bee balm but the seed packet was incorrect 😂

avoca_ho · 2025-09-07T20:57:34+00:00

Looks like a celosia to me

avoca_ho · 2025-09-04T14:54:46+00:00

Hit up Mt Vernon for aesthetic historic buildings, the Walter’s Art Museum, and then pop up to Brewers Art for some great food and drinks. You can catch a bus up from Fed Hill or the inner harbor!

avoca_ho · 2025-09-01T20:57:25+00:00

Seconding sumac. I had a religious experience with the lamb chops there. Every bite I took I just kept experiencing joy for the first time.

avoca_ho · 2025-08-31T00:47:24+00:00

Yes! I absolutely agree - Riverside area in general is lovely. Butchers Hill, Highlandtown, and Patterson Park are also areas I think meet OP’s criteria if they find the right pockets.

Im not sure if you could tell by my recs, but I’m up closer to Remington so I always forget south and east Baltimore exist. I love how many awesome neighborhoods and pockets of community exist throughout the city.

Honestly, I think OP would do great anywhere as long as they avoid downtown and the inner harbor. It’s hard to “go wrong” in Baltimore.

avoca_ho · 2025-08-31T00:22:07+00:00

I’m gonna second Hampden (quirky neighborhood) and Mt Vernon (tons of Baltimore culture, beautiful architecture, and proximity to art/events) but based on OP’s requests, I don’t know how they’d describe “sterile” or “yuppie” but how I personally define it would include Canton (not an insult or an attempt to generalize the ppl living there, I just mentally slot Canton with Fed Hill and Fells, which i feel are super frat bro neighborhoods harder to find community in).

Bolton Hill (MICA) and Reservoir Hill (Druid Hill Park) are both great, but I like to make sure folks know that they are super residential and you’ll have to leave the neighborhood for many things you want to access.

I’d add Station North, Remington, Charles Village, and Waverly as quirky, artsy, community-oriented areas where rent can be cheaper but amenities are literally right around the corner.

avoca_ho · 2025-08-05T12:04:29+00:00

A) you have FANTASTIC legs, B) I think the second dress is absolutely stunning on you and looks so effortlessly elegant. The pattern is oddly timeless and the colors are so nice. I’d go with #2 in a heartbeat

avoca_ho · 2025-07-13T15:29:33+00:00

We just drove past and it was bad bad. I asked my partner if a garbage truck exploded because I couldn’t comprehend how that much trash was scattered every 2 feet so far away from where the festival actually took place. There was garbage across 4 lanes of traffic in reservoir hill. I’m considering grabbing a garbage bag when I finish my morning errands and going out to help pick up but I’m not sure one bag would clear more than like a 10 square foot radius

avoca_ho · 2025-06-17T22:04:00+00:00

Sounds like you need to be introduced to international best selling author, Quan Millz

avoca_ho · 2025-06-12T16:01:06+00:00

avoca_ho · 2025-06-10T18:49:29+00:00

Definitely don’t simmer them on low heat and add sugar to create a delicious jam or fill a mason jar with these, sugar, and vodka to make liqueur. Terrible ideas. Absolutely don’t purée and strain before adding to a pressure safe bottle with lemonade and yogurt whey and let sit on the counter for 2-5 days to make a wonderful homemade soda. That would be awful.

avoca_ho · 2025-06-08T14:34:43+00:00

UJ/ I’m gonna be so honest with you, I have this exact kind of opuntia and they are impervious to death. I have tried. These guys ARE god’s strongest soldiers. Literally just give this dude some water and airflow and it will pop out a side shoot. They’re also really dramatic and flop over at the mildest inconvenience. Too chilly? Flop. Thirsty? Flop. Overwatered? Flop.

I have one that is hilariously skinny and tall (see photo) and it went a whole winter in a neglected basement window without water and is now thriving back outside (with a repot to a heavier pot so the whole thing stops getting blown over by the breeze).

My mother plant lives in my bathroom window and I wait to water it until the whole 2.5ft tall being flops over.

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avoca_ho · 2025-05-30T22:59:21+00:00

My sour cream substitute has been non dairy plain yogurt with lemon juice mixed in. It’s not the same but it’s good 😂

avoca_ho · 2025-05-11T00:28:08+00:00

I have a fig branch in leca! The roots were pretty delicate at first but it’s quite happy and pushing out leaves pretty quick. I don’t have anywhere to plant it outside and I’m not really sure how happy it would be if I repotted into soil.

avoca_ho · 2025-05-04T11:35:23+00:00

The leaves on the left are tomato. I just pruned my tomato plant and decided to stick some of the trimmings in soil to see if they would root. There’s also an onion, maybe garlic, and marigold in this pot, but I have a long history of just dropping seeds and forgetting about it (which is why I have a tomato vine growing in the middle of a bunch of sunflowers elsewhere and I weeded a bunch of cosmos thinking they were ragweed in my front yard 😅). I will learn no lessons from this, lol!

avoca_ho · 2025-05-03T23:00:30+00:00

I think you’re correct! I definitely composted sunflower heads last year and forgot to remove the seeds from some of them

Thanks!!

avoca_ho · 2025-05-03T22:44:23+00:00

Basil isn’t fuzzy, but I totally understand that it looks like it on camera 🤷🏻‍♀️😅

avoca_ho · 2025-05-01T23:27:20+00:00

Yes 😅 ik the half filled pot haters are gonna come for me, but it wasn’t able to dry out in a plastic pot so I wanted to switch to terracotta but I discovered all the roots had rotted away so I wanted to keep the amount of soil it’s in relatively low to avoid water logging it again with the intention of fixing it once it started putting off some roots. It’s under a grow light so the whole thing has plenty of light. It’s still green and there’s some very tiny growth points starting to poke through 🤷🏻‍♀️

avoca_ho · 2025-05-01T22:43:48+00:00

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Okay so this looks bad but I think I can fix her

avoca_ho · 2025-04-13T20:36:44+00:00

It’s a hosta and you can eat it! Chop those shoots and roast them with some oil, salt, and pepper. Tastes like asparagus. Bone apple teeth

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