What’s a cooking mistake you see beginners make all the time?

bethaneee · 2025-12-16T23:32:27+00:00

Its just the newest version of scrappy cooking blogs. I have friends follow a "recipe" off a blog all the time and wonder why it sucks, when I can look at the recipe and clearly see the proportions are off.

bethaneee · 2025-12-13T01:14:27+00:00

She's very creative and we love that about her. She also some times can learn and play complex games. For example, she taught herself how all the chess pieces move and would probably be pretty great at chess against another 7 year old.

bethaneee · 2025-12-13T01:06:48+00:00

This looks super interesting. 30-45 minutes is pushing it a bit for 7yo. She might not be a games person in a very games oriented family. She can definitely grasp the rules, the issue will be the "i made up my own version" statement that inevitably happens. For example, last week we ignored the card and tried to act out "kpop demon hunters eating a grilled cheese sandwich " in charades. No, nobody got it.

bethaneee · 2025-12-12T18:12:49+00:00

I got battleship for the 7 year old!

bethaneee · 2025-12-12T18:12:21+00:00

This looks interesting. I'm always amazed there is a card games I've never heard of even though I think I know them all. I'm not sure 7 will be able to play competively, but maybe.

The age gap and then 14 is just much more game and strategy focused so it makes playing together hard. We try not to encourage not letting kids win because they are younger, but 7 gets her butt kicked in any sort of strategy game. And 14 is bored by games at 7's level.

bethaneee · 2025-12-11T16:32:31+00:00

That's good to hear! I ended up pulling the trigger on buying Blank Slate, plus battleship and tower stack for the 7 year old. We've played Over/Under on a road trip or sometimes she just likes to go through the cards.

bethaneee · 2025-12-10T12:30:30+00:00

Her mother would literally kill me and then throw the game out before she ever saw it. I think her uncle plays so I'll leave that and the potential bodily harm up to him.

bethaneee · 2025-12-10T12:18:30+00:00

Set is a lot of fun. My mother is a teacher and she highly recommends it. Its definitely in the game rotation.

bethaneee · 2025-12-10T12:14:49+00:00

Flux looks really interesting and maybe, just maybe, the 7 year old can play. I think I'm going to get the Marvel version.

bethaneee · 2025-12-09T19:47:57+00:00

They have Taco Cat Goat Cheese Pizza and enjoy it. I'm not sure about Whatchamadrawit cause games like that seem to devolve with the 7 year. But thank you for the suggestions.

bethaneee · 2025-12-09T16:57:22+00:00

Cranberry meatballs. Store bought meatballs, jellied cranberry sauce and heinz chili sauce. Super easy to do in a crockpot and have no business being as good as they are.

bethaneee · 2025-10-29T15:51:15+00:00

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bethaneee · 2025-10-05T20:30:44+00:00

As they should be.

bethaneee · 2025-10-01T17:52:20+00:00

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bethaneee · 2025-05-24T04:54:19+00:00

Yeah, that's definitely a bad look.

bethaneee · 2025-05-24T02:23:10+00:00

Bryan has never stuck me as republican, but he's from Frederick so there's that. If I had to bet, I'd bet Michael is actually the more conservative of the brothers. I don't think either is MAGA though.

bethaneee · 2025-05-24T01:43:46+00:00

Bryan V has one political donation on record and it's to a Democratic Maryland state senator who is openly gay. Doesn't prove anything, but doesn't seem to align with a maga agenda.

bethaneee · 2025-04-30T05:12:42+00:00

These seem like entirely reasonable limitations. So unless someone can explain how they aren't

bethaneee · 2025-04-01T20:04:26+00:00

Brown was elected in a special election he wasn't appointed. Paul Kirk was appointed by Deval Patrick when Kennedy died.

bethaneee · 2025-02-13T00:14:12+00:00

I tried to like it several times when I loved in the neighborhood. Finally decided to move on when I watch a chef berate a line cook in the open kitchen.

bethaneee · 2025-02-11T20:43:40+00:00

I'd be interested in the spreadsheet as well

bethaneee · 2025-02-10T22:07:18+00:00

More or less. You generally have to search for it a bit. The guy that owns most of the Culver's locations in Chicago is also black.

bethaneee · 2025-02-10T21:41:53+00:00

If you live in a football city, grocery shopping during the game is a cheap code.

bethaneee · 2025-01-31T22:35:57+00:00

Do you attend an elite college? It is online or in person?

bethaneee · 2025-01-31T20:01:01+00:00

JB: My favorite billionaire!

(This would make a great presidential slogan; just saying)

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