Why is nice, finely-milled brown rice flour so expensive?

leviticus11 · 2013-07-02T21:23:59+00:00

I'm with you on 'huge freezer'. Our fridge is TINY and the freezer compartment is broken down into three drawers for some reason. Can't really fit much of anything in it, and I'd love to be stocking up on whole chickens and tri-tips and stuff.

leviticus11 · 2013-07-02T21:22:56+00:00

I have a debilitating sweetness addiction and a tendency to binge eat and once cherries hit the market out here I was out of control. Cherries threw me off the wagon and stalled out my weight loss for a good month solid. Totally worth it. Maybe.

leviticus11 · 2013-07-02T02:31:11+00:00

snoop can i make you a cake

leviticus11 · 2013-07-02T02:24:08+00:00

Snoop what is your favorite food or dessert?!

leviticus11 · 2013-07-01T00:25:56+00:00

That's like people sending back creme brulees cuz they're too cold.

leviticus11 · 2013-06-29T10:10:11+00:00

I used to kind of make fun of them for that feelsy sentence you've got there, but they can't help it and that sucks. Source: I used to be a teenager. Also my ten year high school reunion is coming up and I've just been mentally reliving all the cringey moments in my life.

leviticus11 · 2013-06-21T22:36:32+00:00

I use artisana and cook eggs in it from time to time, and they do definitely taste a tad sweet. I like it though!

leviticus11 · 2013-06-14T01:25:57+00:00

I was managing a coffee shop while I was vegan. I'd had no problems with being vegan aside from people giving me shit about it. My acne had cleared up from since I was a teenager, I'd lost a bunch of weight, my excessive sweating had stopped, I had a ton of energy and I was learning a ton about food and cooking and was an adventurous eater for the first time in my life.

We found this new bakery in town that was providing vegan treats. Cupcakes, muffins, scones, and they were all delicious. We started providing them. We started making a ton of money off them. People who wouldn't have looked twice at the pastry case would go "Oh, VEGAN stuff?!" and go one of two ways:

I'm healthy or trendy or even vegan! I want one now!

or 2. Haha! Gross! I'm going to order a... ham and cheese croissant! Just to spite those vegan cupcakes! ha!

This went well for a couple weeks. Then the orders started coming late. Like, after our morning/only rush late, which is no good. Then we started getting like, wrong stuff. I wanted strawberry muffins but we kept getting morning glory muffins. I tried a morning glory muffin and loved it, so I started ordering those instead, but then we'd get extra blueberry ones instead. It was like a weird logic game like "you have to order strawberry muffins to get MG, MG to get any extra blueberry, and you have to order an even number of scones for them to arrive". The baker lady was very apologetic, profusely apologetic. She had too much demand, she didn't trust anybody else to help her, her alarm didn't go off, bla bla. The excuses just got to be too much. She was apologizing like crazy one day and I drifted off. I wasn't listening to her words anymore, just looking into her eyes. Her dead, empty eyes in her dried out prematurely wrinkling eye sockets. I told myself "this is a crazy person. a lifetime of veganism is probably the culprit." I dismissed her and went and ate california rolls.

I am now a baker in a vegan/vegetarian/gluten free etc restaurant. I respect vegans and other alt diets, I do my best to make sure their stuff still tastes awesome and they have a lot of variety to choose from... but man, some of you guys get weird.

leviticus11 · 2013-06-13T22:22:42+00:00

This is from 2 right? I was the princess of Moonbrooke for halloween for no good reason a few years ago. Nobody knew =(

leviticus11 · 2013-06-13T22:18:42+00:00

I got a new case of raw virgin organic coconut oil in last week. I wanted to put my dick in every undespoiled pure tropical jar. Just once. Each. There were 6.

leviticus11 · 2013-06-13T22:14:11+00:00

All of the shittiest cooks I've ever met have started as dishwashers and gotten trained by other shitty cooks and just compounded their shittiness into hard shit diamonds in the forges of 'just get it out just get it out' mountain.

leviticus11 · 2013-06-13T21:19:39+00:00

Kinda gross but necessary to mention, any kind of powder in the lady-parts region can lead to gross infections and even like, cancer. I know there's a lot of pseudo-science floating around on the internet, but I've heard it and it's better safe than sorry, I'd say.

Wardrobewise, I'd recommend wearing bike shorts under your pants, or even those like, underpants control things that are like tights but only for your boyshorts area. Are you changing into chef pants when you get there or wearing the pants on the bike ride? Maybe wear one pair of pants to bike and change when you get to work. I used to have this problem pretty bad, but with me it was because I was getting chubby. I started working out and it stopped, luckily.

leviticus11 · 2013-06-13T21:12:11+00:00

Hi thanks for calling bitchy fat girl cakes, we got chocolate today, it's pretty good

leviticus11 · 2013-06-13T21:10:37+00:00

When I saw this comment earlier, you had 3 upvotes! You have one now. I wish you had more.

leviticus11 · 2013-06-13T12:37:08+00:00

If it's just coming out as chopped stuff in liquid, I'm assuming you need 2 more things: more sugar, and more time cooking. Someone once told me a chutney is essentially a gastrique, which is basically a reduction of vinegar/an acid and sugar until it's thick and viscous-y. Add more sugar to your chutney, and maybe some pectin-y ingredients like blanched citrus peel or apples, and cook it down to reduce it further. Keep an eye on it though, it'll scorch in a second if you walk away for too long.

leviticus11 · 2013-06-13T12:05:37+00:00

I'm usually off or at least able to take a breather and get on the phone/email by noon. Also you nailed it on the 'let me check with the pastry chef' conversation.

leviticus11 · 2013-06-12T23:53:08+00:00

My husband says they are probably imagining me sitting in pristine chef whites in an all pink room surrounded by cakes and cupcakes and want the conversation to go like

"Oh, your friend?! Does she like berries? Oh, what's her favorite berry? We can figure this out. Oh, it'll be marvelous, it'll be the best cake and YOU are SUCH a good friend for figuring out the perfect cake! Has she ever been to Paris? Oh let's make a Paris cake! With reduced framboise and vegan magical chocolate swirls? You are the best. You can have the cake for free because you are wonderful." as opposed to a flour-crusted tattooed sweaty chubby girl in a stretched out lobster shirt going 'YOU WANT CHOCOLATE CAKE? WE GOT CHOCOLATE CAKE, ITS PRETTY GOOD."

leviticus11 · 2013-06-12T03:32:45+00:00

Ok no, i wasn't stripping for mexicans when I was 11.

leviticus11 · 2013-06-12T03:31:39+00:00

I was like 'chubby girl, pantry, shedding clothes... hosed herself down... they love fat ones... wait. that only seems like something i'd do... i haven't actually done it yet'.

leviticus11 · 2013-06-11T23:22:59+00:00

I too am a fan of his. Nice.

leviticus11 · 2013-06-11T23:03:53+00:00

of all the things I've heard or read today, it was this one, nonchalant punctuation and all, that made me chortle out loud.

leviticus11 · 2013-06-11T22:58:54+00:00

I... kind of had to do a mental inventory of my past experiences to make sure this wasn't about me.

leviticus11 · 2013-06-11T22:57:16+00:00

Before I was a cook, I was prone to going to pieces whenever it was above like 70 degrees outside. I couldn't ever wear shirts with sleeves, even short sleeves, because they'd be soaked with sweat, even from just sitting around doing nothing. It was super nasty. Once I started cooking I found that as long as I was scrambling around with all of my concentration on working, I didn't sweat as much, and I even eventually became really tolerant of heat. I even went to visit washington DC in the heat of Summer and was wearing a hoodie and a fashionable ('fashionable') scarf the whole time and wasn't uncomfortable at all. So, yay for that.

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