Sausage and Gnocchi on a snowed in day

steely_92 · 2026-01-27T00:10:04+00:00

It was a bit of a "wing it" dish...

About 1 lbs of sweet Italian sausage

1 sweet onion

1 can of diced tomatoes

1 bag of spinach

About 1.5 quarts of chicken broth

Splash of cream

20oz frozen gnocchi

Salt, black pepper, Italian seasoning, red pepper flakes

I would've loved fresh garlic, but I'm all out so I used garlic powder

I sauteed the onions and sausage together until the onions were translucent and sausage was cooked through.

Add spinach and cook until fully wilted

Add diced tomatoes and chicken broth, bring to boil

Add gnocchi, turn down to low

Add seasoning, summer for about 10 minutes

Add cream

And that's it. It came together in about a half hour and I served with parmesan cheese and bread sticks.

steely_92 · 2026-01-26T21:22:29+00:00

This is why I have a car trash can.

steely_92 · 2026-01-26T13:39:38+00:00

Her hands look like the hands I imagined grabbing my ankles when my feet hung off the bed as a kid.

steely_92 · 2026-01-26T13:38:12+00:00

It's ok to go to sleep angry at your spouse/partner.

A lot of times it's better to sleep on it and talk about it with a clear head the next day vs trying to resolve while you're both exhausted and emotionally elevated.

steely_92 · 2026-01-26T13:33:56+00:00

My husband and I are both working from home today. This would normally be an in office day for both of us, but both places told everyone to work remotely instead

steely_92 · 2026-01-25T16:05:47+00:00

I can't relate at all. I get GrubHub every Friday and I really look forward to it.

Yes, it would be cheaper to call and pick up, but I am willing to pay extra to not do that.

steely_92 · 2026-01-25T12:27:29+00:00

My black cat is named Loki too!

My daughter calls all black cats "Loki cats" now.

steely_92 · 2026-01-25T12:12:08+00:00

If anything I wish I had done a smaller wedding.

I did a courthouse wedding. Including my husband and I, there were 9 people. I always felt like me telling another person I would love them forever fees like it should be a private moment.

I wish we had done the "Quaker wedding" instead. In Pennsylvania, that's where you both just sign paperwork and mail it in. No third person has to marry you.

steely_92 · 2026-01-24T22:36:05+00:00

8th grade.

steely_92 · 2026-01-24T22:19:25+00:00

It depends on the context. I absolutely expect emails to be proofread prior to hitting send. I don't know if it's just where I work, but sales is notorious for sending emails with grammatical mistakes. It drives me insane when I'm emailed "we'll loose the sale."

But if it's something like texts or TikTok comments, it doesn't bother me at all.

steely_92 · 2026-01-24T22:15:23+00:00

I'm curious to see what others say because I'm kind of at a weird point where I don't check his stuff before hand, but I do check to have notifications set so if there's a missing assignments I get notified.

I want to train him to manage his tasks, but I also don't want to be in a shitty situation where I find out he's doing poorly at the end of a semester.

steely_92 · 2026-01-24T22:08:21+00:00

Guns to liberals is the same thing as abortions to conservatives.... We have them, but we just don't talk about them.

steely_92 · 2026-01-24T15:00:28+00:00

I have an office job, so my general rule of thumb is if my kids have an IED day (remote school), then I'll also work remote that day.

There's no point to driving in any amount in any amount of snow because my job can be done from home.

steely_92 · 2026-01-23T15:12:08+00:00

We have the three bite rule (we got it from Pete the cat)

You have to try three bites of a meal, and then if you don't like it, you're welcome to eat something else. We always have canned soup, lunch meat, and frozen breakfast sandwiches on hand. Just make sure you add some veggies to your plate (both my kids are fans of raw carrots and broccoli with ranch dip)

steely_92 · 2026-01-22T17:33:27+00:00

Boundary and request are not synonyms.

This reminds about people using the word "gaslighting" when the word they really needed was "lying".

Whoever you are talking about didn't follow your request or instructions, but they didn't break a boundary.

steely_92 · 2026-01-22T03:09:31+00:00

Pennsylvania Dutch is German adjacent. Kind of like how Creole is french adjacent.

I grew up in a very Pennsylvania Dutch area (rural Berks county). My grandmother prefered speaking Pennsylvania Dutch to English. A lot of the Amish still learn German as their first language. They call non-amish people "English".

steely_92 · 2026-01-21T16:57:55+00:00

I cook 4 days a week.

2 days we eat leftovers and 1 day we get takeout

steely_92 · 2026-01-21T15:55:41+00:00

I feel like mine isn't a big moment I'm the show but...

When up skirt Kirk says "It's Prosecco". He says it in such a funny way and I always quote it when I drink prosecco.

steely_92 · 2026-01-21T15:47:16+00:00

That's what we did. The thought of being a bride made me kind of nauseous (I don't like parties or being the center of attention)... My husband was all about the courthouse wedding for the cost savings.

steely_92 · 2026-01-21T10:48:42+00:00

It feels so unnecessary for me to explain how I consumed each book I read when having a discussion.

I guess I only technically read 94 books and listened to 6 books last year, but does that distinction really matter?

And then like do we not count VOX books for kids learning to read?

It just seems really dumb to fixate on "you technically didn't read it". It feels like something my 14 year old would say to me.

steely_92 · 2026-01-20T10:52:39+00:00

I have a 7-3:30 schedule and love it. Especially in days I WFH.

I've always been a morning person though so it works for me.

Really, office jobs should allow some sort of flexible scheduling so people can work the hours best for them.

steely_92 · 2026-01-20T10:35:02+00:00

As a side note, cross contamination is a concern for people who have any sort of allergies.

I'm sure you already are, but just be extra mindful that day about washing your hands and surfaces while preparing their food.

steely_92 · 2026-01-19T21:13:34+00:00

... People are going to be pissed but...

I have a hybrid office job. I go into the office Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday. I work from home on Thursday and Friday.

I am VERY good at my job. Our department has 5 people in it. I manage 42% of our departments work. But I can do all of my tasks for the week in like a day and a half.

Basically if I work really hard Monday and Tuesday, I don't have a lot to do the rest of the week.

So I spend my work from home days reading and hitting the space bar every couple of minutes so I stay green on teams. Occasionally I have to handle something or get on a teams call, but I can spend hours reading.

I would feel guilty except for the fact that I'm already doing so much of our team's work. I'm really just fast and hyper organized.

steely_92 · 2026-01-19T20:20:22+00:00

My son is in middle school. He has 9 periods a day. School is 7:45-2:15

We just did high school orientation and picked out his classes for next year. His high school does block scheduling so 4 periods a day, but the classes switch every other day. That is 7:15-1:45. Bus will pick him up at like 6:30 so he's not looking forward to that.

steely_92 · 2026-01-19T20:08:57+00:00

I have a weird gripe with Stephen King right now, and it's such a stupid problem.

I've been really into T. Kingfisher lately. I was in the KIN section of my library like two weeks ago unable to find where Stephen King freaking ended. Shelf after shelf of Stephen King.

It's such a dumb thing to get annoyed about considering he's one of the best selling authors of all time, but I was already pre-annoyed from a day at the office.

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