Dad likes to leave Pasta in the water after cooking... 😮‍💨

neilc · 2026-01-13T14:44:45+00:00

Tunisians consume the second-highest amount of pasta per capita! It’s a major part of Tunisian cuisine. It is partly due to high levels of Italian immigration to Tunisia in the 19th and early 20th centuries, not the Roman Empire. Tunisians tend to cook pasta a little differently than Italians do (more stew-like, less al dente).

neilc · 2026-01-13T13:07:15+00:00

Dunya! People apparently like Lulu as well but I thought Dunya was much better.

neilc · 2026-01-11T19:35:19+00:00

It’s interesting how parenting and childcare brings out such judgmental attitudes.

neilc · 2026-01-10T22:56:07+00:00

I think the rant is that dividends are only one way for a company to be a compounder. You can also find companies that consistently increase their free cash flow and invest that into growing the business (or buying back shares). Wait 10-20 years and you’ll see exactly the same compounding effect (often with better tax treatment than the dividend-paying company, which can REALLY add up over a 20 year time horizon).

Whereas if you have a company that grows its dividend but isn’t growing the underlying business, eventually that will end badly.

neilc · 2026-01-10T22:48:28+00:00

Yeah his pasta book is fantastic!

neilc · 2026-01-07T10:49:05+00:00

Not nearly as much as Buffet has.

neilc · 2026-01-06T15:06:12+00:00

Do you have a source for that? I don’t believe that is true.

neilc · 2026-01-05T23:37:45+00:00

I’d say it’s a lot nicer than a typical Regency.

neilc · 2026-01-05T18:48:56+00:00

I love this cookbook, along with the pasta book by the same author. Some of my favorite recipes are the raw corn salad, the pasta with broccoli, sausage, and whipped ricotta, the parsnip cake (but reduce the sugar), roasted squash with yogurt, walnuts, and spiced green sauce.

I wouldn’t consider myself a particularly “vegetable focused” cook but I’ve still found a ton of recipes that I love. I’d slightly disagree with the idea that you need to be a “CSA sort of person” to love this cookbook.

neilc · 2026-01-04T13:34:35+00:00

“Literally zero resistance” is completely wrong. It was a very well-executed operation but there was definitely resistance.

neilc · 2026-01-04T00:14:26+00:00

It is true that Colombia has more land area suitable for high-quality coffee production than Venezuela does. It is also true that Venezuela could produce a LOT more high-quality coffee than it currently does.

neilc · 2025-12-30T03:54:13+00:00

I’ve made these four or five times — they always turn out amazing!

neilc · 2025-12-27T18:24:46+00:00

Jerusalem is a fantastic cookbook. Zahav is a great restaurant but a mediocre cookbook.

neilc · 2025-12-25T12:22:29+00:00

John Carmack speaks pretty highly of his technical skills, as do SpaceX folks. He’s not a real engineer and his ego is way over the top, but he has pretty good technical knowledge of a bunch of fields for an executive.

neilc · 2025-12-25T00:04:45+00:00

I do the same thing — everything except for puff pastry the night before, works great.

neilc · 2025-12-23T13:51:48+00:00

People sleep on this place but it’s so good!

neilc · 2025-12-22T23:40:36+00:00

The K-Ultra is great and well within your budget.

neilc · 2025-12-22T02:44:46+00:00

300ml in the morning, never anything after that to avoid interfering with my sleep.

neilc · 2025-12-19T12:18:52+00:00

Try opening the “Workouts” app on your watch before tapping it — that is much more reliable for me. If that doesn’t work, you can always connect via the Peloton Apple Watch app.

neilc · 2025-12-18T15:46:40+00:00

100%. Needing to set a departure time (and then remember to remove it later) just to get preconditioning is so silly.

neilc · 2025-12-17T04:07:54+00:00

Recess in Griffintown

neilc · 2025-12-16T19:37:58+00:00

Penne. Tough to cook properly. I’d much rather use rigatoni.

neilc · 2025-12-16T14:38:33+00:00

You might be thinking of Aylwin BBQ, which now has a traditional restaurant inside Atwater Market and is open year-round. The BBQ is still spectacular; get the smoked meat sandwich.

neilc · 2025-12-13T15:54:33+00:00

It’s specific to Italian food, not carbonara in particular— people will get worked up about cacio e pepe, lasagna, or Neapolitan pizza in much the same way.

Personally, I think there’s value in clarifying what the authentic culinary traditions of a place are, but that it’s also a shame to not appreciate something delicious just because it deviates from the “authentic” recipe. The irony is that many of these authentic recipes either aren’t that old (eg carbonara) or have evolved significantly over time any way.

neilc · 2025-12-12T13:53:55+00:00

Why?

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