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Do you have any food preference HCs? Like I think Craig would be a very picky eater, wouldn't like much seasoning, etc. Kraft mac n' cheese, chicken nuggets, and pb&j sandwiches are his best friend. Was curious if you have any ideas like that about him or the other characters bc I've been loving reading your HCs so far :)

hmm,,, i have a coffee preference post here regarding stan and kyle, but here are some other hcs i have (:

Kenny:

he has a very diverse pallet. he likes just about any food you give him unless its like, boiled unseasoned potatoes, but he'll still eat it. not particularly picky, but he does have preference for spicier foods or anything with loud and/or complex flavor profiles. he loves flavor bombs!

Cartman:

sweets and savory all the way. hes a southern comfort food enjoyer and a fructose fiend. everything from fried chicken, shepards pie, and ham to ice cream, and blackberry cobbler is on his wishlist. hes mildly picky in that hes not a fan of middle eastern or mediterranean food or things that are "out of his comfort zone." but he's still a big spice eater and loves mexican food in particular.

Kyle:

he was raised to not be picky because it's considered rude, but he's pretty picky in nature so he just learned to get around it. has some sensory issues regarding some cooking styles of vegetables and texture stuff. cant do cooked celery or onion because of the texture unless its finely minced, pureed, or powdered. not a fan of fish because he ate so much of it growing up, and because his mom would make these salmon patties that had would have bones in them so now any time he eats salmon or any fish he feels the need to vomit. (these are real btw. my family and many others made them. they had bones that you were supposed to just eat because they were crunchy enough to do so. nightmarish food istg.)

he also goes kosher in middle school when he connects more with his faith so... no more denny's bacon specials lmao.

Stan:

definitely more picky then the other four when it comes to flavor. doesn't like spicy foods and hates the texture of onions so he has to use minced, pureed, or powdered in recipes. he has the cilantro gene which makes visits to kyle's family for dinner pretty embarrassing. he doesn't like to make a big deal about it but he HAS to tell ms broflovski because if something even has a whiff of cilantro the entire meal tastes like soap and stink bug chemicals. sheila is very understanding of this and doesn't mind too much because the flavor of cilantro can be easily replicated with other herbs/spices. also has a huge vendetta against celery. it does NOT just "taste green" kyle, it's WEIRD and SHARP and the cooked texture is GROSS! hates steamed broccoli but tries to get over that in high school by eating it in frozen meals to get accustomed to it. not a big fan of things that are too sweet. sweets are best when they're just sweet enough to be yummy but not overpowering or super rich. the only "rich" sweet he likes is chocolate torte, and ONLY with black coffee to balance it out and it HAS to be in small alternating bites: like bite of torte, sip of coffee, bite of torte, sip of coffee, and so on.

Craig:

very restricted diet that sticks mostly to bland safe foods. every day for lunch he eats one of those uncrustable pb&js or honey and peanut butter. surprisingly a lot of his safe foods are vegetables of some sort because he ate them a lot as a little kid so hes accustomed to them and they feel "fresher" than other foods that can be overstimulating. they cant be cooked though, only raw. so he loves those veggie platters. broccoli is crossing the line a bit for him though because of the odd texture, so that's iffy for him. carrot sticks, celery, and ice berg lettuce are great though. some other non-veggie safe foods are white meat chicken or turkey, and instant mashed potatoes. he cant do normal mashed potatoes because they taste almost... smotheringly starchy?? the same with baked potatoes. but instant Idahoan brand instant mashed potatoes are lighter and smoother with a different taste. he can do cooked green beans as long as they still taste green and weren't cooked in a broth/grease of any sort, but he cant do peas because they're too mushy and weird.

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magicvet · 1 year

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Perhaps people would find it strange, but Corey enjoyed the fact that barely anyone had seen him in the Town Center during the Founders’ Day Faire. He had a cup of ice cream, the first of the season, finally the weather improving just enough for the frozen flavors to not bother him. So he enjoyed it in full, just walking around the Faire grounds, people-watching. A familiar face here and there was spotted. Some noticed him and some did not, some he’d exchanged a word or two with, some he didn’t bother pestering on their fun day out. In the end, he clocked out early, like the old man he was, slipping away among the first few people who had elsewhere to be and couldn’t stay until the end.

He avoided any crowds, he avoided any commotion, he even missed the usual traffic jam common for around this time on the streets and on the way to his home in Dillon. When he got home, he could continue on with his routine. He had a meal, leftovers from yesterday’s lunch, had a cup of tea, had a shower. He vacuumed. He cleared out Bob’s outdoor aviary. The large raven with the wingspan of almost four feet greeted him with an imitation of a few eerily human-like sounds as per usual. Though Corey did find it odd that Bob wasn’t as talkative as he could usually be. He watched a show. Someone recommended to him to watch Vikings. He wasn’t feeling it, but since he hated not finishing what he'd started, he would suffer through all seasons. Maybe it would improve. He really should’ve known, the show was called ‘Vikings’ after all. But he secretly hoped that it was a history-heavy show after all. It wasn’t really.

He went to bed early, none the wiser, not turning the TV on for the news today. In the morning he got up with the roosters, showered again, had breakfast and another cup of dark tea. He fed Marlowe, the elegant gray Norwegian forest cat who wasn’t feeling particularly chatty with him either, another oddity he didn’t think much on. He went to work and only there, upon noticing that a few of the staff had called in and wouldn’t make an appearance for their scheduled shifts, did the news of the previous day surprise him. Everyone at the clinic and shelter had their own version and experience of yesterday to tell, and they did so at every corner and in every room at the clinic - the place was practically buzzing with all the stuff Corey had missed. And all Corey could think about was how he didn’t know what to think of it.

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lovemesomesurveys · 3 years

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“The rest of your life” Are you independent or dependent? Both, but definitely more dependent. Even more so these past few years.

If you could put your life into a category, where would it go? I feel like this would be easier to answer if you gave a list of categories. I don’t know what kind of insight you’re looking for. <<< Yeah, I have no idea how to answer this.

How many animals do you have? I have one doggo. <3

Are you popular? Nope. Never was and that’s perfectly fine.

What time were you born? Around 430PM.

Have you had any candy this week? Nope.

Are you more afraid of tornadoes or hurricanes? I’ve never experienced either one, but they both sound terrifying.

Do you like those nerd glasses? I don’t know what “nerd glasses” you’re referring to.

Have you ever been in a fist fight? Nope. Or any kind of physical fight.

What color is your house? Beige.

When was the last time you saw a rainbow? Hmm. I don’t remember.

Have you ever ate a crayon? Nope.

Ever rode in a helicopter? Yes, after my accident I had to be flown to another hospital.

Do you like rabbits? Sure.

Do you like mushrooms? Nope.

“It’s like you step into the room and just press play” What was the last movie you cried at? On Halloween I rewatched It Chapter 2 and the ending always gets me in the feels with what happens to Eddie, when it shows the loser’s club as kids and then adults, and the letter from Stanley.

What ice cream flavor best describes your personality? Vanilla cause I’m plain and simple and “innocent”, ha.

Would you rather work for a small or large company? I don’t know.

Where's your favorite place to buy clothes? Boxlunch and Hot Topic.

How many languages do you speak? Just one fluently. I can speak some Spanish, though.

What was the worst movie you've ever seen? Hm. There’s been several wtf movies, but I don’t know what I’d say was the worst. I don’t feel like thinking much about it.

What video game have you played the most? Mario bro games and most recently Animal Crossing: New Horizons. I’ve been playing that just about everyday for a lot of this year.

What was your favorite TV show as a child? Nick Jr shows, Playhouse Disney shows, Arthur, The Big Comfy Couch, Tiny Toon Adventures, Animaniacs, Bobby’s World, some Cartoon Network cartoons, and Saturday morning cartoons like Recess and Pepperann.

What's your favorite sport? None.

If you were given a brand new yacht, what would you name it? I have no idea.

Do you believe there’s life on other planets? Not in the form of ugly green creatures with odd shaped heads.

What was the worst place you ever traveled to? Hm. I haven’t been anywhere I didn’t really like.

What is one thing you’re really bad at? Life.

Do you believe in angels? Yes.

Would you rather be a famous actor or musician? Neither.

“where have you been all my life?” If you could have invented one thing, what would it have been? I don’t know.

What's your favorite exercise workout? I don’t have one. I don’t exercise :X

What's your favorite thing to do? Some things I like to do include surveys, reading, watching YouTube, scrolling through Tumblr, and checking my social medias.

What did you do for your 17th birthday? I’m sure dinner with family. Probably invited my aunts and cousins over.

Does your local Wal Mart have benches in them to rest? Yeah.

Was your favorite stuffed animal really a teddy bear growing up? I got more into stuffed animals as I got older to be honest when I started collecting giraffe stuffed animals.

If your house was haunted, what would you do? Uhh I don’t know.

Are you crazy in love currently? No.

Are you good at swimming? No, I can’t swim.

What's worse: Slow internet or slow walkers? Slow internet is suuuuper frustrating.

What is the rudest thing a guy has ever done to you? Use me and play me.

Do you sleep with the sheets tucked in or out? Out.

What do you do to fall asleep faster? I don’t have much say when I fall asleep, but to try and help with that I listen to ASMR.

Do you carry a bottle of water wherever you go? No.

Ae you afraid that one day you might get cancer? It is something I’m afraid of. I’m someone who tends to think it’s always a possibility whenever something is wrong or I’m really sick.

“Letters to Juliet” Are you a fast or slow walker? I’m a fast wheeler.

Do you usually have to wear a belt with your pants? I never wear a belt.

Does it bother you when people's underwear hangs out? Kinda cause as someone in a wheelchair I’m at the level of a lot of people’s behinds lol and yeah, I don’t particularly want to see their underwear. Even worse if their ass is hanging out.

Are you usually the person to try new things with your hair? No.

When's your birthday? July 28th.

Do you own a bobble-head toy? Yes.

What color was the towel you used to dry off with today after a shower? I haven’t showered yet today.

Has anyone ever walked you home? Yeah.

Have you ever liked someone and they were taken? Yes.

When was the last time you went fishing? I’ve only tried it once, briefly. It wasn’t my thing.

True or false: You've read the book Lord of the Flies? True.

Have you heard of the band Yellowcard? Yep.

Have you ever seen the show Teen Wolf? I never got into it.

Do you have any quotes, lyrics etc on your walls? No. Are you a fan of Star Wars? Yes. I finally caught up on season 2 of The Mandalorian so far last night.

“Our parents never let us cross the street, but we did it anyway” Has anyone ever told you that you have nice hair? Yes.

What brand of camera do you own? I use my iPhone XR.

Is there something you're not looking forward to? My next doctor appointment.

Have you ever read the book Thirteen Reasons Why? Yep, back when I was in high school.

Do you wear white pants? No. I avoid wearing white cause I’m a slob haha.

When was the last time you were really angry? My doctor pisses me off. I don’t know why it’s so hard to get a call back regarding some lab results. I call and they say they’re waiting for the doctor to look over them and they’ll call me back to let me know but ugh it’s been taking days.

Have you ever made a 3 pointer in a basketball game? I’ve never participated in a basketball game.

Do you think you look better with your hair up or down? Down, but I always throw it up because it’s easier to deal with. I don’t have the energy or motivation to style or do anything with it.

Do you warm up before you hardcore exercise? I don’t hardcore exercise. Or exercise at all.

Do you want a pair of Converse shoes? Not currently.

Are you more of a studs or hoops type of person when it comes to earrings? Studs.

How many shirts do you have of your favorite band? Two.

Turn on the TV. What channel are you on? It’s already on, it’s currently on The Hallmark Channel.

Have you ever wore a tie before? No.

What did you have for breakfast this morning? I haven’t ate anything yet today, it’s only 5:28AM.

“For the Krusty Krab” Are you good at art? Nope, not at all.

How many times have you read your favorite book? I don’t reread books, actually.

Name one thing that you really hate. My health.

Have you ever tried walking on stilts? No. That would be impossible for me.

Is there a war that you find interesting? I’ve read the most about the Civil War and Abraham Lincoln. Especially for one of my community college history classes because the professor was a big Lincoln buff and I did a paper on Lincoln and the war.

Would you rather live in the city or country? City.

Do you think $7 is too much for a movie ticket? $7 is okay, but our movie tickets are more than that.

Would you like to be a newscast person? No. Fun fact: I was one of the newscasters on my elementary school’s news program when I was in the 7th grade, though. I enjoyed it, it was fun. It was nerve wracking, too, cause I went to a k-8th grade school and the news program played in every single grade/classroom.

Do you like word searches, coloring or crosswords better? I enjoy word searches and coloring.

Close your eyes and press a random key on the keyboard. j

How many William’s do you know? I don’t know any.

What time did you wake up this morning? It’s 5:34AM, I haven’t gone to bed yet.

Do you enjoy crutches? I’ve never used them, but does anyone actually enjoy them? They’re beneficial and necessary for some, so it’s great that they exist, but I don’t know if anyone actually enjoys them.

What's better: Snapple or Arizona tea? I used to love Arizona teas when I was a teenager. The green tea and the watermelon flavors were my favorite.

Make a word out of the word: Dinosaur. Sound.

“she said I love this song, I’ve heard it before” When you were younger, did you play with legos? Yeah.

Do you like Trix cereal? Yes. I haven’t had it in several years, though.

Do you get nervous easily? Yesss.

How long is your Facebook password? Uh, I’m not sharing that.

Do you like the movie Mean Girls? Yes.

How do you want your wedding to be? I don’t plan on getting married.

Have you seen the movie or show Catfish? Both. I love the tv show.

Do you hate it when you arrive to something early? No, I hate when I arrive to something late.

Have you ever been on Omegle? Yes.

Are you still in love with one of your exes? Nope. I moved on years ago.

Do you think it's attractive when guys wear beanies? It can be, sure.

What's something that makes you feel shy in public? Being in crowded places is one.

Do you like the shows on MTV? I like Catfish and the Teen Mom shows.

If you could go back and relive one day, what day? Hm. I’d have to really think about that if it was just one day.

What's one word you hate to be called? Sensitive. I know I am, but I hate being told “I’m too sensitive.” Plus sometimes it’s like, “no, maybe you’re just mean?”

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carefreeblackho · 4 years

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Espresso has Become a Relentless Power all Throughout the Planet.

In excess of 2 billion cups of espresso are tanked each day across the globe – affirms that it's a beverage, however the soul for some individuals, and living without it would be incomprehensible. http://reviewmycoffee.com/

Presently it's an entirely different world with its own fragrance, flavors, and celebrations, which have taken perpetual residency in our lives.

In case you're another individual from its high roads, you may be mistaken for the language of the espresso menu and asking yourself, what the heck is macchiato? Would it be a good idea for me to arrange this beverage with luxurious finished froth? Will the barista believe, I'm a weakling on the off chance that I request a beverage with loads of milk?

Take a full breath; in this guide, I've laid out practically each one of those beverages you find at your neighborhood caffé menu, so in the future you'll realize what to arrange – and anticipate.

Essential Coffee Drinks

Dark Coffee

Dark espresso resembles a delightful dark dress in the drinks world. From easy to refined, it goes including ports transportation to rooms, polytechnic to humble community coffee shops, American cowpokes to French Press models. It's an ageless work of art – so regardless of whether you're attempting to beat the odds, you can in any case have a cup of joe prior to taking off to the drives. Essentially heat up some water and add espresso (beans, grounds, or leaves) to it. Refine cautiously – and you're prepared to grip fingers around your ideal cup of caffeine. No seasoning, it'll knock your socks off! On the off chance that you see it interestingly, you may think it tastes severe or ashy, yes it likely does. Yet, the normal pleasantness and other flavor ascribes are interesting to this beverage.

Besides, you may discover numerous valid justifications to drink dark espresso, however the medical advantage of eliminating dairy and sugar will likely start your longing to find out about the flavor subtleties of dark espresso.

However, in the event that it's consuming your tongue or your taste buds aren't tolerating its taste, you can add the cream or milk and sugar or fake sugar to change the blessing to coordinate with it to your style.

Ultimately, it will not damage your wallet as you'll as a rule discover it as the similarly least expensive alternative in the greater part of the caffé menus. Learn more

Turkish Coffee

With regards to espresso, Turkish espresso aficionados love to cite;

Despite the fact that bistros offering coffees, level whites, and cappuccinos have gotten mainstream in Istanbul, still, Turkish Coffee is a critical piece of their way of life and an ideal expansion to any profound discussion with loved ones.

Turkish espresso culture and custom have the UNESCO World Heritage status due to their exceptional planning and preparing strategy. In this way, regardless of whether you haven't went to Turkey ever, you presumably heard the reference or even attempted it.

However, on the off chance that you don't have a clue, when you'll allude the nose-ringed barista about "Turkish Coffee," more often than not, it implies you're requesting a thick, dark espresso.

In any case, in the event that you need to give it a shot at your home, it will not expect you to have any unique barista abilities to make a serious mug of java.

Here is the breakdown of steps:

Essentially bubble one cup of water alongside two tablespoons of coffee beans in a cezve, a little pot with a long handle, generally made of copper – it's otherwise called ibriks.

Since sugar is never added, you'll need to indicate the amount you need to add. You can get it with no sugar, one sugar 3D shape for semi-pleasantness, or two 3D squares for sweet Turkish espresso.

As the espresso arrives at the bubble, let the froth rise and eliminate it from heat before it's going to spill. This ensures your espresso will have full froth, and without it, it's absolutely unsatisfactory.

You can rehash the third step a few times.

Serve it in a little cup; it never implies it's to be burned-through rapidly; taste a bit, converse with your buddies and rehash.

Cold Brew

It's something other than the cool, it gives you caffeine-taste of frosted espresso. Begun from store coffeehouses, it could have its spot on the Caffe menus of major groups like Starbucks and Peets.

The flavor is one of those small bunch of reasons why Cold Brew detonated throughout the most recent couple of years, and with the primary taste, you may think why individuals didn't cold blending espresso a very long time prior.

It's most likely going to be your best-cherished beverage If you're a devotee of a smooth, offset mug of espresso with low causticity, covered with a rich body.

You will not need to ask your organs to co-work for this beverage, It's essentially distress free in any event, for a fretfully unfilled stomach.

Basically, in case you're delicate to corrosiveness, Cold Brew is your lifeline.

Weaken the concentrate with milk, and you'll have your frosted latte prepared to taste. Or on the other hand, blend the move in with your soul of decision, and you'll have another form of Cold Brew (charged mixed drink) prepared to chug; it's so delectable!

All in all, what I mean? Flavor prospects are perpetual with Cold Brew!

Frosted Coffee

Stand by! Cold Brew isn't the Iced Coffee?

Frosted espresso can be any type of espresso – trickle, pour-over and even coffee. However, chilly brew is a particular style of frosted espresso or a frosted espresso method. One isn't superior to other people; they are made diversely and have unmistakable preferences.

At the point when you ask the barista for a virus brew espresso at a café or bistro, you'll be given out a mug of java delicately blended with frosted shapes.

Its approach is essentially the immediate openness of cold water with espresso beans for around 12-16 hours to guarantee the best and tasty experience of cold mix. When the soaking closes, the concentrated fluid is blended in with water to make you a solid and delish cup of cold brew.

Then again, when you'll arrange a frosted espresso, frequently you'll be presented with a hot espresso poured over ice, yet it tastes excessively weakened so the vast majority of the java consumers currently incline toward espresso fermented at twofold strength (by utilizing the twofold measure of espresso), however it can likewise be the trickle espresso that is administered straight ridiculous precious stones or chilled in the cooler and presto Reviewmycoffee.com !

You'll see a lot of frosted espresso fortes in a large portion of the cafés as it doesn't require some investment to mix one cup, you point your finger at the bill of admission.

Assortment of Espresso Based Drinks

Coffee is the foundation of a variety of mouth-watering juiced drinks.

In case you're new to the espresso world, you most likely noticed the java sweethearts mentioning the talented barista for "single-shot" or "twofold shot." at the end of the day, they were really requesting the little focused punch of each one of those normal cancer prevention agents in a delectable bundle – the coffee.

All in all, for what reason do individuals cherish coffee? You can't deny the spirit contacting fragrance of newly preparing shot, its taste, gigantic jolt of energy, less caffeine per ounce, crema besting, and above all, the punch of many medical advantages in each taste.

The greater part of the delectable strengths create from coffee, and that is the reason they are ruling most of space on the menu. It's the type of substance of each latte, cappuccino, and a lot of different varieties – mocha or level white, we can't get enough.

In any case, before jump into the ocean of coffee drinks, you simply need to know how master baristas create fulfilling coffee shots to make your most appropriate mug of java.

The interaction includes delivering a concentrated fluid by constraining the water at an ideal temperature (190 to 196 degrees Fahrenheit) and pressing factor (normally 9 to 15 bars) for 18 to 20 seconds through entirely fine espresso beans.

An appropriately extricated shot looks delectably smooth, covered with a smooth crema and an extraordinary fragrance. With the main taste, you'll surely fall in ceaseless love with this cup of joe.

How about we discover how baristas all throughout the planet utilize this Italian designed marvel to make those delish claims to fame that sparkle like stars on the cafeteria menu.

Ristretto

"Confined" or "restricted" in Italian methods, it's basically the primary portion of a full coffee shot while utilizing a similar measure of espresso beans. Connoisseur espresso aficionados regularly incline toward ristretto as it gives you a sheer quality alongside the rich and fragrant kind of espresso beans.

Try not to be messed with "close to nothing"; this fun-size shot is loaded with a particularly incredible punch.

A solitary ristretto shot ought to be 15 ml, while 30 ml for a twofold shot.

Doppio

In Italian "doppio" signifies "twofold," it implies you need twofold shots of coffee. It's separated utilizing a twofold espresso channel in the portafilter so you get 60 ml of coffee served in a demitasse cup which is double the measure of a standard coffee shot, 30 ml.

Presently numerous coffeehouses all throughout the planet just offer twofold coffees to beat the quality control issues. Regularly, it's additionally called as "standard twofold," so you don't have to confound if a barista utilizes this term to affirm your coffee drink.

Americano

From the outset, it's idea to call "Caffe Americano," however throughout the long term it has been abbreviated to simply "Americano."

In any event, when you demand the barista in an American manner, you'll in any case be presented with an Italian beverage, arranged by weakening the coffee shot with heated water, that is comparative in strength however extraordinary in flavor to ordinary trickle espresso.

The strength of Americano is subject to the quantity of coffee shots and the measure of water added to coordinate with your taste.

Lungo

Dissimilar to ristretto, it signifies "long" on the grounds that you'll get the coffee drink with considerably more water, which for the most part brings about a long mug of java. This isn't the quality element yet basically the piece of individual inclination.

From my experience, most of the espresso darlings request a "lungo" just to appreciate a less extreme "coffee" in a cup while as yet having the taste and characteristics of coffee.

Caffé Crema

You'll discover Caffé Crema exceptionally unprecedented in the Caffe menus on the off chance that you have a place with the English-talking world, and this is a direct result of the critical contrast of granulate when contrasted with standard coffee. Caffe may rather serve you with Americanos or long blacks.

In Italy, throughout the mid year, the majority of the customary cafés present with this coffee variation, Caffé Crema.

You'll presumably discover less English-language guides on the most proficient method to mix Caffé Crema. Its preparing strategy includes extricating the coarsen grounds (go against to totally fine justification) for a similar time as we accomplish for coffee shot, however it brings about a more prominent volume mug of java.

Barista can give some different varieties of this beverage on demand, by temping less or removing for somewhat more than expected.

Bistro Zorro

Practically like Americano however it actually total opposites. The significant distinction is that Café Zorro contains twofold shot and boiling water in the equivalent proportions that give you a more focused and less weakened twofold coffee.

Notwithstanding, in Americano, heated water is added to make the beverage weakened and taste-like dribble espresso surface.

Bistro Cubano

As the name demonstrates, this beverage is started from Cuba and alluding this kind of espresso, implies, you're requesting for a coffee shot that is improved (customarily with the regular earthy colored sugar which has been whipped first with the drops of the most grounded shot of coffee).

This beverage is a piece of noticeable social and social action in Cuba and especially in Miami, Tempa and Florida Keys (Cuban-American people group).

Generally, it's made utilizing an electric coffee machine or regularly in Moka pot with hazier dishes.

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Top 25+ Recipes to Cook This Month

Welcome to April, a month that is constantly crossed with logical inconsistencies, yet never more so than this year. It for the most part blows in nippy, however with the guarantee of sun, daffodils, and open ranchers markets. This year my neighborhood is in blossom, however shockingly peaceful, as we keep to our homes and hold up out the covid-19 emergency. What is there to do however cook? I think nearly everybody I know is heating brutally, yet in addition getting somewhat fatigued of isolate cooking.

Soba Noodle Broth Bowl

So how about we start crisp today, with 30 plans to involve your hands and kitchen this month. From spring moderate cooker chicken to pasta with a pile of greens, and breakfast deviled eggs to the best potato serving of mixed greens for spring, here are 30 thoughts and plans to assist you with anticipating cooking in the midst of the peculiarity of now.

All of these thoughts is expansive(- ish) with a couple of explicit plans as alternatives, contingent upon what you have and how you're supplied at this moment.

Plans for a Holiday at Home

April is a month of both fasting and devouring, as three of the world's incredible strict conventions hold consecrated festivals. Passover, Easter, and the principal seven day stretch of Ramadan all fall in April. Clearly none of us will celebrate with loved ones this year, yet even more motivation to stick to the flavor of customs and make the nourishment we love. So we should commence with some motivation for these special seasons you might be watching.

Kitchn Cooking School is in meeting! Join whenever to get 20 exercises every day to help you on the excursion of turning into the cook you've for the longest time been itching to be. Everything begins the Monday after you join, so be watching out for your first exercise!

Step by step instructions to Make Honey-Glazed Ham in the Slow Cooker

An entire ham!

Truly regardless of whether it's simply you, or you two, or a little group of four. An exemplary nectar heated Easter ham is an extraordinary thing to get this April (here's our manual for purchasing ham). Coating it, heat it, and afterward slash up all that meat you don't eat for capacity in the cooler. Bundle into holders or sacks with only enough for breakfast dishes, pan-sears, and other future cooking.

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Sweet Braided Czech Bread with Almonds and Raisins

A rich, expound bread venture

On the off chance that you haven't saw, everybody is by all accounts heating at the present time. Regardless of whether you float towards the moderate development of sourdough bread or the speedier delight of no-manipulate bread, this is the month to truly put it all on the line. Easter has a terrific convention of twisted, excellent breads, as well; I will make a tremendous Czech-style houska for my little family one week from now.

Sweet Braided Czech Bread with Almonds and Raisins

The most effective method to Make Challah Bread

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Exemplary Easter Cake with Coconut and Jelly Beans

An incredible Easter cake

Regardless of how you observe Easter, it's an incredible reason to prepare a cake. Meghan our Associate Food Editor says. "We will be proceeding with the custom of preparing our yearly rabbit cake for Easter this year." You can go all cushy and adorable with a retro exemplary light, fluffy cake, or tasteful with our most idiot proof bundt cake.

Exemplary Easter Cake with Coconut and Jelly Beans

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Gluten-Free Sticky Lemon Cake

Matzo ball soup (for Passover and past!)

Not only for Passover! Matzo ball soup ought to be on your hit list these early, nippy long periods of April. A definitive solace nourishment, and one that utilizes every one of your pieces and bits to make juices. On the off chance that you need to step up, Leah Koenig's shallot-shiitake matzo balls are one of my preferred things I've at any point tried for the site.

Vegan Matzo Ball Soup

Chicken Soup with Shallot-Shiitake Matzo Balls

Slow Cooker Brisket and Onions

Brisket (go with the moderate cooker)

See, I realize you may as of now have a brisket formula revered in family custom. Provided that this is true, disregard me. Be that as it may, for anybody all alone with brisket this year, may I recommend this moderate cooker formula, one of my untouched top picks (swap genuine for Passover tamari for the soy sauce).

Slow Cooker Brisket and Onions

Delicate, Melt-in-Your-Mouth Instant Pot Brisket

Medjool Date and Apple Charoset

Charoset, to improve

This nut and natural product blend is a basic piece of the Seder plate, yet in addition a succulent and splendid taste of Passover to the individuals who celebrate. Make a twofold bunch and, on the off chance that you need to get wild, go Ben and Jerry's and make dessert with it.

Apple Walnut Charoset

Medjool Date and Apple Charoset

Charoset Ice Cream

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Matzo brei for breakfast

A definitive solace breakfast nourishment for the morning after Passover Seder and all through Passover.

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Biryani for breaking the quick

Ramadan begins the night of April 23 and in numerous societies, biryani is a customary dish for breaking the quick. By and by I would take any reason to eat biryani and I particularly suggest right now Pot sheep adaptation from Urvashi Pitre.

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Vegetable Biryani Rice

Down to earth Dinners (But Make Them Spring)

While I intend to eat off my vacation ventures for at any rate a week (and my Easter candy for seven days after that!) April is likewise an opportunity to revive our formula records. Here are down to earth yet at the same time crisp thoughts, that break with winter's soups and bean stews yet fit in your extra-bustling haven at-home life.

Slow Cooker Spinach and Artichoke Chicken

Spring chicken (in the moderate cooker!)

Kelli, our Associate Food Editor, cherishes this moderate cooker chicken. "This moderate cooker chicken is my outright most loved supper at the present time. I mean simply take a gander at it, between the artichokes, lemon, spinach, and white wine, it shouts spring. The formula calls for boneless chicken bosoms, however I typically swap in boneless thighs."

Slow Cooker Spinach and Artichoke Chicken

Slow Cooker Pesto Chicken

Slow Cooker Chicken Piccata

Soup, made rich with an egg

Spring soups need to take a break from overwhelming winter bean stews and I love spring soups improved with eggs rather than a great deal of meat. Lauren Masur our Staff Writer particularly cherishes Greek-style egg and lemon soup: "This is my preferred soup ever when I'm feeling debilitated," she says.

Instructions to Make Greek Egg and Lemon Soup (Avgolemono)

Soba Noodle Broth Bowl with Miso-Butter Mushrooms

Gingery Poached Egg Soup

Smoky Roasted Vegetable Hummus Bowl

Hummus as a supper

Only an update: hummus can be the base of an awesome supper. It's not only a plunge, not only an a hors d'oeuvre. Heap simmered vegetables and a smidgen of extra meat or cheddar on a bowl of hummus and ta-da — an exquisite, fulfilling supper. (Here are five all the more smart thoughts as well.)

Smoky Roasted Vegetable Hummus Bowl

Mediterranean Hummus Bowl with Chickpeas and Soft-Boiled Egg

Broker Joe's Shawarma Chicken Hummus Bowls

Lemon Braised Chicken and Beans with Mint Pesto

Dried beans, spruced up

There's been such a sudden spike in demand for beans during this across the country shutdown; odds are acceptable you have some in your wash room as well and might be becoming somewhat ill of them. However, don't abandon beans; they can change perfectly to spring. I love this lemon and mint number, to begin.

Lemon Braised Chicken and Beans with Mint Pesto

Green Pea and Chickpea Falafel

Slow-Cooker White Beans in Parmesan Broth

Fresh Pan-Fried Beans with Wilted Greens

Bacon and Egg Fried Rice

Singed rice, livened up with your extras

Singed rice is a fantastic method to go through small amounts of extras; far beyond the aggregate of its parts. Bacon and Egg Fried Rice

Singed Rice with Thai Basil and Tofu

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Simple Sheet Pan Chili Garlic Roasted Shrimp and Broccoli

Spring sheet skillet suppers

Sheet skillet suppers get a spring makeover with these three, one a fiery and garlicky shrimp and broccoli circumstance that Sheela says is as yet the most loved in her home. Or on the other hand attempt a salmon supper or this game-changing approach to cook gnocchi.

Simple Sheet Pan Chili Garlic Roasted Shrimp and Broccoli

Firm Sheet Pan Gnocchi and Veggies

Sheet Pan Crispy Salmon and Potatoes

Prepared Risotto with Peas, Asparagus and Pancetta

Prepared risotto (hands-off, all solace)

Risotto is a go-to dinner for us all year yet the effortlessness and solace of prepared risotto is actually what I need at this moment. These three truly feel directly for spring.

Prepared Risotto with Peas, Asparagus and Pancetta

The most effective method to Make Easy Oven-Baked Risotto

Prepared Mushroom Risotto with Caramelized Onions

Simple Lemon Bundt Cake with Fresh Lemon Glaze

Sweet Treats

You've heated banana bread, chocolate chip treats, and an excessive number of dish of brownies. Time to switch things up! Start with the no-prepare stuff at that point gradually work once again into pies.

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[ dylan wang · cismale · he/him · 19 ] ❝ hey !! did you see four / jian liu walking into the woods ?? i’ve heard they’ve been described as well-meaning by their close friends . but , i’ve also heard that they’ve been described as pretty enigmatic by others . if there were three things that could describe them , it would be blood dripping into murky water , lovecraftian horror , and chugging coffee at odd hours of the night . here’s to hoping they don’t get trapped in the upside down !! ❞

hi i’m bailey and i’m a literal snail . welcome to my dumb intro !

cw : kidnapping , human testing ?? you know , hawkins lab usual . also , pretty long because idk how to stop rambling .

the night of may 14th , 1966 , two members of the CPC welcomed their first child . the couple tried and tried for years , and were finally given their long awaited little boy : LIU JIAN . he quickly became the light of their lives . however in just three years , that light would be ripped away from them .

he was taken to america — a small town where no one would suspect , a small town harboring a secret . hawkins , indiana . he was terrified , confused , and wouldn’t stop crying until they eventually sedated him . there were whispers , rumors , about a small child in china with possible ... gifts , and naturally within their previous ( and ongoing ) tests , they needed to see for themselves . and they couldn’t let the communists have this , if it was true .

it was .

NUMBER FOUR , they assigned him . he was no longer jian , no longer a simple child . through grueling experiments , pushing him past exhaustion on multiple occasions , they found he’s gifted with TELEPATHY . at first it was hard to understand in translation of a child who didn’t speak english , but the more they practiced , it became more apparent when focused .

four was subsequently taught english in the lab as he aged , because while translators were available , it was “ easier for them all ” if he learned . they were correct in that , but it didn’t make the real situation any better .

whatever memories of his parents he had were slowly but surely leaving . whatever memories of a short lived childhood he had were gone .

at the age of eight , they unlocked a new ability — PAIN INDUCEMENT — a sub-power of mental manipulation , stemming from his telepathy . two of the scientists at the lab had the misfortune of experiencing it firsthand as it began to manifest from finding himself in a position of danger , since it was during a time he wasn’t behaving as he was expected to .

they decided to experiment even more , of course : the limitations and circumstances of this newly developed ability . as it would turn out , four can only access pain inducement when he’s angry / feeling threatened , presumably as a result of fight or flight instincts .

he didn’t have much contact with the other children , other than intervals spent in the rainbow room , and as he grew older and more distant he didn’t care . soon enough , he stopped playing and speaking to the others even when they were given that small time . he kept to himself , drawing in a corner . he liked art . his drawings would often consist of grotesque monsters ; dark and wildly scribbled , as if he was in a rush to get down what he envisioned .

while time went on , more and more children escaped the lab , leaving four one of the last remaining . it wasn’t that four didn’t want his freedom , to have more than this life of being an experiment , it was that he was kind of scared of it ? it was an overwhelming thought , no matter how curious he was of the outside world ...

after eleven’s monster encounter and gate opening situation , four felt ... anxious . he didn’t know how to describe it other than feeling sick , but not actually being sick . so he never tried , knowing it would sound even more ridiculous . instead , he once again turned to drawing , using the creative outlet as a way to express himself and make up for what his words lacked . however , it only got worse when the monster escaped and lab investigations of the newly quarantined area began .

in a well-timed space after the chaos , he disobeyed the order of staying away and found himself on an adventure down into the madness . just to see what was causing all of this , you know ? just one glance . it was almost too easy to slip past any form of security , but it was a rush of adrenaline that he never thought he could enjoy .

the next day he began drawing the gate , trying to imitate the look of it with the few supplies he had around . it wasn’t exact enough to sound off too many alarms in the scientists that saw , but it was enough to question if eleven wasn’t the only one who could contact the other dimensional creature . for a few days , they forced him to try and contact the monster . they wanted to see if four could reach out to it telepathically , to try and lure it back — for a little while , it seemed like there was potential , but in the end whatever close calls they got were simply just that .

alright so .. i would say .. some time after the events of season 1 and like mid season 2 , four finally escaped and fled deep into the woods . with everything going on and with him already being silent and withdrawn , it wouldn’t have been too shocking if nobody really noticed him at first ?? like he’s pretty hard to miss , standing at 6ft and looking ... like he very obviously shouldn’t be there , but . you know , circumstantial .

at some point he was taking shelter in someone’s shed , because he was cold but he was also still cold and it didn’t exactly help much but it was better than being totally exposed . in order to get warmer clothes / food , though , four did use his telepathy in order to make people want to give him stuff . or to get out of some type of trouble ?? like power of suggestion and things like that , basically .

fast forward to currently , he’s still basically lurking in the woods by himself , but he did find this nice older woman that let him stay in her guest room occasionally before she passed . now he just ??? kinda chills around it , but also has started venturing out into town ... only to be , admittedly , slightly overwhelmed by the new starcourt mall .

so personality wise : he’s really ... i wouldn’t say shy , but rather .. secretive and hard to read for the most part . doesn’t know proper ways to express himself . also doesn’t mean to seem cold or aloof though !! like genuinely he’s a nice kid and his intentions are for the most part good , but he definitely goes about things the wrong way ? i would describe him as a chaotic good ravenclaw , at best .

his astrology is taurus sun , pisces moon , sagittarius rising meaning he’s particularly creative and likes to have an outlet to express himself . he doesn’t like rushing into things , but that doesn’t necessarily stop any impulses from taking over here and there . the trio of signs are as complimentary as they are contradictory , and i think it captures him as a person so far : curious but reserved , withdrawn but wanting to experience life in a new way .

if he’s ever exposed to d&d , he would probably be a rogue .

at the lab , some of the scientists probably started calling him “ monster boy ” as a not actually funny joke , because monsters were pretty much the sole content of his drawings . idk he’s very innately into horror stuff , which is almost ironic .

in terms of sexuality , he’s technically demi biromantic / demi bisexual , meaning he needs a solid bond before even potentially thinking about that sort of ish . but also because he has absolutely no experience with it whatsoever , he’s painfully oblivious to it in all forms and has no idea lmao

uh .. he still goes by four , mostly . he vaguely remembered his birth name but will only use it if he absolutely has to ?? it’s still a really foreign concept to him that he technically has a name and not just a number ? he’s sort of self conscious about said name though , because people who do know it have mispronounced it at some point or another , i’m sure . so either he goes by the usual four ... or maybe a simple ‘ ji ’

somehow has gained an addiction to coffee , and he ( obviously ) also doesn’t know what his favorite ice cream flavor is , that’s possibly gonna be a bit of fun to figure out , maybe !

#me ? actually writing a good intro ? unlikely #it's all a bunch of words thrown together trying to desperately make sense #hawkins;intro

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Cakewalk (1/15)

Summary: Sonny runs “Carisi’s Sweetstop.” Rafael runs New York Barba. Somehow, they get caught up in each other’s lives.

Warnings (Whole Fic): past character death, grieving, guilt, homophobia, referenced bullying, referenced sex crimes, blackmail, outing, past abuse

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A/N: It picks up more after the first chapter or so! // Odd chapters are Sonny’s POV, even are Rafael’s

Monday morning at four thirty, Sonny unlocks the door of Carisi’s Sweetstop. He’s not fully awake yet, but he’s close from the brisk walk down the street between his apartment and work. It’s warm inside, thanks to a night without the expensive AC, but not hot enough to melt the candy or affect the fridges of dough, batter, cream, and soda. He keeps fudge in them too on particularly warm Summer days, but luckily it hasn’t come to that yet this year. He bumps the door shut with his hip and stumbles to the back to set his bag on the counter and fumble in the direction of the lightswitch inlaid on the back wall.

When he flicks on the light, warm yellow bathes the pictures behind the counter of all the owners in order above their aprons. He smiles to himself at Nonna’s picture on the wall as a young woman. She had been formidable even then, wearing a dark skirt, a plaid shirt, and a purple apron with “Carisi” on it in white cursive as she flexes and laughs at the camera. To the right of her is a picture of himself. Before it was his, it was his grandmother’s, and her mother’s before that, and her mother’s before that, back countless generations from the first Carisi to set foot on Staten Island. Although he had been working here since he was little and running it for a couple months before the photo, it was his first morning as the official owner. It’s not obvious in the print, but his cheeks were puffy and there were bags under his eyes from a sleepless night.

He picks up his green apron that Nonna made him when he turned sixteen. Ten years ago, she had seemed invincible. Its sturdy strings are woven into a knot against the small of his back, keeping it in place to protect his clothes while he bakes. It’s Monday, which means the daily treats are macarons, donuts, and in warm months, ice cream. Colder times bring hot chocolate instead, but not when the sun hasn’t risen and the temperature is already in the eighties. He made the donut batter already, and doesn’t need long to pour it into the pan before he starts on the macarons.

Before heading into the kitchen and pulling out all the ingredients, however, he pauses to pull out his phone and press play on New York Barba, his favorite podcast. Although he never made it to law school, he still likes to read the law review journals and listen to the talk shows. Call him weird, but he loves New York Barba for a multitude of things: the name (a pun on the bar association), the topics (every important or interesting verdict that week), the jokes (the host has a sarcastic sense of humor that rivals Sonny’s own), and the host himself (Rafael Barba). Rafael used to be an ADA, and every now and then he mentions some of his favorite techniques in court. One boring afternoon, he got it in his head to look up the man’s career and was astounded to find a high win rate, infamous attitude, and someone who wanted to change the world. He doesn’t understand why someone like that would just quit, but if Rafael ever gave an explanation, Sonny can’t find it. He always saves the shows, which come out during mass on Sunday morning, for background at the start of the work week.

“Welcome back to New York Barba, this is Rafael on air. Before I get into the usual stuff, please tell me you’ve all been keeping up with politics lately.”

Sonny laughs a little himself as he cracks the eggs and separates out the yolks. The store fills with the sound of Rafael’s insults about the current administration and the policies being shown to the world. There’s passion in his voice, strong enough that it rings true in Sonny’s chest like an echo. It drips like honey over the egg whites that Sonny whisks hard and fast into the frothy mixture that macarons demand. His sister tried to get him an electric mixer once, but he refused. It’s Nonna’s way or not at all. The first batch takes a few minutes to whip up after he adds the rest of the ingredients and a few drops of food coloring and flavor to the cookie part. Most of the flavors he does use plain frosting, but he’ll add flavor to that too if he’s in a playful mood.

“So, on to the latest failures of the wonderful NYPD,” Rafael says, voice so venomous that Sonny can picture his green eyes darkening and a scowl staining his face as the donuts are pulled from the oven and dumped onto the cooling rack. Sonny starts the glaze while they reach an acceptable temperature for it. “My dear friend and the leading candidate for another term as mayor, Alex Muñoz, has the lovely men and women in blue in his back pocket. He appears to have bought his way out of the investigation of some extracurriculars with his teenage intern in a poli-sci class at PS 129. Look up the reports- they’re public record- and you’ll see that the girl’s mother filed a report of statutory but the precinct dismissed it. Two hours before it was dismissed, the precinct was given a grant from the mayor’s office for improved facilities. I can’t speak to exactly what happened, but I think it’s obvious.”

“You’d be a better candidate,” Sonny tells the empty room.

He pulls the glaze off of the stove top and tilts the saucepan over the first two dozen donuts, coating all of them with sweet-smelling glaze and preparing them for when the shop opens. It’s nearing five, giving him only half an hour before he has to open up. Already, early joggers are running past and peering inside only to catch sight of the ‘closed’ sign and carry on with their routes. They’ll come back, they always do. Sonny listens to the rest of the cast intently while he puts everything in its place and starts to churn this week’s ice cream flavors, vanilla bean, strawberry, and mint chip. He’s thought about investing in a machine, but it falls under the same rule as the electric mixer. Nonna did it by hand, so he’ll do the same.

The podcast ends at five twenty-seven, just in time for Sonny to silence his phone, wash his hands, and return to the front of the store with today’s fresh treats. He runs up to the door and flips the ‘CLOSED’ sign to open. There aren’t many people this early most of the time, but he likes getting to chat with other business owners and morning shift workers on their way in, as well as the harried mothers picking up treats for their kids before school. He recognizes and greets his regulars, preparing their orders when he sees them walk in, disturbing the old windchimes made from broken glass plucked by Nonna’s careful fingers off the beach.

At six fifteen, Amanda comes in. She owns the kickboxing studio next door and stops by at the beginning and end of the day, as well as whatever free moments she can find between classes. Her loose tee shirt gets caught on the door, making her loudly complain as Sonny chokes back a laugh and fetches her the usual blueberry muffin and cup of orange juice. For once, she isn’t running late, so she’s able to loiter at his counter while she munches through her breakfast.

“I’m assuming you heard Barba’s show?”

“Yeah. Really heavy on politics this time, not as much law,” Sonny replies, as if he wouldn’t listen to Rafael rambling on for hours about the methods of tying ties. “Makes sense though, election season is coming up.”

Amanda wipes her mouth with the back of her hand to erase a smear of blueberry. “What’s your take on Muñoz?”

“Never liked him anyways.”

She gives him a knowing smile but doesn’t say anything else.

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36 Hours: 36 Hours in Mendocino County

Ninety miles north of San Francisco, Mendocino County is just far enough away to have narrowly escaped the Bay Area’s radical transformation during the tech boom years. In contrast to other formerly quiet Northern California backwaters, Mendocino maintains its rural identity and eccentricities, including its longstanding status as one of the country’s major marijuana-producing regions. Where there is big news, it’s largely culinary. The 30-year-old chef at Elk’s Harbor House Inn was recently named a James Beard award semifinalist for Best Chef in the West. Besides the Harbor House’s eight- to 12-course, $150 per person prix fixe dinners, there are cheesemakers, upstart breweries, exceptional farm stands — notably Fort Bragg’s Nye Ranch and Caspar’s Fortunate Farm — and farm-inspired restaurants, like the long-awaited, soon-to-open Fog Eater Cafe, which began as a farm pop-up, and will serve “California cuisine with a Southern twang.” After years of population stagnation, young people are moving in, or coming home, and committing themselves to Mendocino’s fertile soil and sea. It’s a second wave back-to-the-land movement and a welcome reprieve from the Bay Area’s buzz.

Friday

1) 3:30 p.m. Tall trees

Take Highway 128 through the Anderson Valley, to Hendy Woods State Park, where you can stretch your legs beneath the awe-inspiring giant redwoods or take a dip in the Navarro River. Then, backtrack to Boonville’s Pennyroyal Farm, the sister farmstead to one of Mendocino’s most beloved wineries, Navarro Vineyards. Sample rich goat and sheep milk cheeses, fresh and aged, exceptional pinot noir, and farm-made pickles and preserves. Sit out back, beside a gurgling fountain, and watch sheep meander beneath the vines. In the spring, a farm tour (11 a.m. daily) offers the overwhelming cuteness of nursing lambs and kids.

2) 6 p.m. Supper stop

For dinner, reserve a table at the Boonville Hotel, a former roadhouse that’s now a beautiful, family-owned inn with a wide porch, flickering fireplaces when the weather’s cool, and a seductive patio garden for outdoor dining during the warm months. The restaurant’s new chef, Perry Hoffman, is from Sonoma’s James Beard award-winning SHED and, before that, Napa’s Michelin-starred Étoile. Here, his prix-fixe menus (starting at $58) include lively dishes and unexpected flavor combinations. Imagine mussels with charred cabbage, grapefruit, fennel and seaweed or a whole stuffed quail with artichokes, shiitake mushrooms, bolting kale and brown rice vinegar.

3) 9 p.m. Change is brewing

After winding through the redwoods and along the coast, head for the former logging town of Fort Bragg, for some small town night life. The 135-year-old Golden West is a dive bar that was bought in 2015 by a couple who grew up locally and returned after living in Los Angeles. The bar has maintained its vintage character (neon signs, shuffleboard and pool tables, faded black-and-white photos of logging scenes) while upgrading its extensive liquor cabinet and serving excellent cocktails, and has occasional but unexpectedly good live music, as well as a Sunday Bloody Mary bar. Or, for a family-friendly pub in a tucked-away location, seek out Mendocino’s newest brewery, Overtime Brewery, which teams with Nye Ranch in making its exotic seasonal beers, like the “Thistle Dew” artichoke ale or Nye Ranch Cucumber Batch. Take a couple of crowlers — a 32-ounce can filled from the tap and sealed on site — of your favorite beer to go.

Saturday

4) 8 a.m. Super bloom

Tucked into a strip mall, Cafe Jaavy — the younger sister of the longtime local favorite, Los Gallitos — has colorful oilcloth tablecloths, a salsa bar and a breakfast menu that includes savory Mexican breakfasts like chilaquiles (tortilla chips simmered in a flavorful, mildly spicy sauce, served with beans and eggs, $9.50) and standout huevos rancheros with chorizo ($9.50), plus sweeter offerings like banana and berry crepes ($8.99) and generous smoothies ($4.50) made with fresh fruit. The Tropical, with mango, apple, pineapple, melon, chili and lime is particularly tasty. Then, head for the 47-acre Mendocino Coast Botanical Gardens, where 124 species of rhododendrons put on a spectacular show in April and May.

5) 11 a.m. Sweet soak

Drive south to Mendocino village to walk its photogenic streets and gawk at the immaculately preserved Victorians. Pop into Frankie’s for a scoop of locally made Cowlick’s ice cream. Among the cafe’s 16 rotating flavors are chai, Campari grapefruit sorbet, yellow cake batter and mushroom. Then, take a restorative soak in Sweetwater Spa’s communal — and clothing optional — eight-person redwood tub, sweat in the cedarwood sauna, or indulge in a massage (starting at $110 for 50 minutes). There are also private tubs ($25 per hour), which are enclosed but open to the sky; if a starry soak is your thing, Sweetwater is open until 9 p.m.

6) 12:30 p.m. Pizza pit stop

Next door, Cafe Beaujolais’s weekend-only takeout window, the Brickery, serves pizza ($13) with big, perfectly charred air pockets and daring toppings, like Moroccan-spiced rabbit and garlicky New Haven-style white clam pizza. On sunny days, the backyard garden is idyllic for sharing a pie and savoring a glass of rosé or a craft cider.

7) 2 p.m. Glass for the masses

Fort Bragg’s signature attraction, a former town dump that was transformed by time into a beach of gleaming sea glass, has been badly picked over and is no longer the dazzling sight it once was. For a glimpse of its former glory, head to the odd little International Sea Glass Museum south of town, where Captain Cass sells bags of so-called Seed Glass ($4.95) to replenish the beach’s supply. Across Highway 1, the Glass Fire Gallery displays fantastic blown-glass creations in the form of jellyfish chandeliers and mushroom-shaped table lamps. While in the area, go for a stroll along the newly opened Noyo Headlands Coastal Trail. After more than a century of the headlands being occupied by a sprawling mill site, the town now has access to its coastal bluffs, where California poppies blaze orange in the spring, when it’s also possible to spot migrating whales spouting offshore.

8) 3:30 p.m. Local treasure

For a dose of Mendocino’s wonderful eccentricity, visit The Larry Spring Museum of Common Sense Physics, a tiny two-room storefront museum that celebrates the life and work of the local inventor, lay scientist and World War II transport pilot, Larry Spring. In the same small building, Lost Coast Found has a charming selection of vintage home goods: midcentury stereos, cheery 1970s-era coffee cups, along with used books, postcards and miscellanea.

9) 5:30 p.m. Fresh caught

Have an early, California-style dinner by the water in Noyo Harbor, where you have a difficult choice of dining options. For fresh, crispy fish and chips, bundle up and sit on the riverside deck at Sea Pal Cove, where dinner guests include sea gulls, there are $5 pints of high-end craft beer, and views of passing fishing — and, in season, whale-watching — boats. A few doors down, Princess Seafood Market & Deli is a woman-owned and -run fishing operation with its own boat and seafood restaurant. Princess serves reasonably priced, locally caught seafood, including whole Dungeness crab ($27.95), barbecued Royal Miyagi oysters ($12.95 for a half dozen, and a grilled prawn po boy ($15.95). During chilly coastal evenings, the deli’s tented seating area provides heat lamps and freshly laundered blankets. Then, pick up a Coast Packet and take a gamble on a local performance. One of the joys of small town cultural life is the unexpectedness of what’s available from week to week, whether it’s the wonderful independent Flynn Creek Circus or a riotous political play at the Mendocino Theatre Company.

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10) 9 a.m. The Greenwood Good Life

On your way through Mendocino, grab a takeout breakfast — an organic housemade bagel with lox and “all the veggies” ($12.50) or “market-inspired” quiche ($8) — at Mendocino’s Good Life Cafe. Sip your coffee to-go as you drive a breathtaking stretch of Highway 1 to the village of Elk, population 200. Tote your breakfast down to Greenwood State Beach to sit on a piece of driftwood, look out over the volatile Pacific and take a long breath of sea air. Then, visit Elk Greenwood Museum and Visitor Center — originally the town’s post office — to learn some Greenwood lore from the center’s knowledgeable docents.

11) 11 a.m. Wine Down

Take Philo-Greenwood Road back to Anderson Valley and taste your way out of town. The options can be overwhelming, but the redwood tasting room at Toulouse Vineyards and Winery is especially beautiful and its wines are excellent renditions of classic local varietals: Alsatian whites and pinot noirs. For three wineries in one Spanish-style plaza, stop at The Madrones complex, where Drew Family Cellars, Smith-Story Winery and the newly opened Long Meadow Ranch, which has estate-grown Burgundian varietals, share a plaza.

12) 12:30 p.m. History lesson

Cut east over Route 253 — a spectacular 16-mile drive across hilltops of moss-draped California live oaks — to Ukiah, Mendocino’s 16,000-person county seat. Dedicated to an extraordinary, but largely forgotten painter, the Grace Hudson Museum and Sun House displays Hudson’s striking and distinctly empathetic portraits of native peoples and immigrants, exhibits the work of local artists, and offers tours of Hudson’s Arts and Crafts home, which she called Sun House.

13) 2 p.m. Buddhist brunch

Head south to the City of 10,000 Buddhas, a former California State Mental Hospital that is now a Buddhist community and monastery. The campus’s distinctive arched entrance is undergoing renovation, but its roaming peacocks, evocative institutional architecture and Jyun Kang Vegetarian Restaurant, which serves tasty vegetarian dishes to a mostly local crowd, remain. Or hop down the 101 to Hopland, where Rock Seas serves an ever-changing menu that riffs on brunch classics — like coconut French Toast with star anise, coconut, brown sugar and mango ($12).

Lodging

In the last two years, two long-awaited new hotels have opened on the Mendocino coast. The Harbor House Inn, in Elk, is a 1916 redwood home which was originally built by the local logging company and designed to showcase the beauty of the region’s lumber. After an eight-year renovation, the inn reopened in May of 2018 with 10 rooms (starting at $355, breakfast included) and a destination restaurant.

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A Sister's Place Savannah Page My Rating ⭐️⭐️⭐️▫️▫️ Publisher Lake Union Publishing Publish Date February 14, 2017 SUMMARY How would you feel if you are in your mid 20's had to live in the same house with your sister for a year? That's what happened to sisters Gracie and Juliette Bennett. They would inherit their grandmother's, Mimi's house in Santa Barbara, California if they lived in it together for one year. This house, at 1402 Laguna Lane was been in their family for sixty-seven years. The girls loved this house because of all their fabulous childhood memories of sleepovers and holiday visits. But Gracie and Juliette were as different as night and day. One lives in New York City and and the other lives in Santa Barbara, California. One had a responsible career as a paralegal, and one was happy doing odd jobs like tutoring or assisting a caterer. They are different in everything from temperament to their choice of their favorite ice cream flavor. This challenge will test their will, their character, their abilities and their preconceptions. The sisters have been out of touch ever since going off to college years before. With the girls separated by thousands of miles there has been no sense of camaraderie, no shared secrets and no late night calls. Mimi's so much wanted her beautiful granddaughters to renew and re-establish their bond. She wrote them five heart-felt and encouraging letters-like only a grandmother can do-for the girls to open over the course of the next five seasons. The girls opened their first letter in Spring 2015. It encouraged to Gracie and Juliette to appreciate one of life's greatest experiences-sisterhood. REVIEW If you have a sister you would enjoy this sweet book. It's a heart-warming story about what it really means to be a sister. It's about maintaining and cultivating that sister bond, and always being there for each other. The characters Gracie and Juliette are well-developed and though different, both are very likable characters. The setting in Santa Barbara and particularly, Mimi's house on Laguna Lane sounds perfect, almost to perfect. Each chapter in A Sister's Place is alternately narrated by Gracie and Juliette. Within each chapter, the girls often flashbacks to childhood memories or past experiences. I had some trouble keeping track of all the transitions. I often found myself having to flip back to determine which sister was narrating, particularly in the first half of the book. Overall, I found A Sister's Place a very sweet book, but a little slow. Thanks to Netgalley and Lake Union Publishing for an advance reading copy of this book in exchange for a honest review.

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The Best Ice Cream In NYC

As you print out old photos from summers past and gently stroke them as if to say, “I’ll never forget you,” it’s important to remember that ice cream is still there for you. Plenty of ice cream spots around the city are open for takeout and delivery, including the best of the best.

Looking for soft serve? We have a guide for that too.

the spots Noah Devereaux Eddie's Sweet Shop $ $ $ $ Dessert in Forest Hills , Queens $$$$ 10529 Metropolitan Ave

We only recently learned that Eddie’s Sweet Shop is the oldest ice cream parlor in New York City - but, in retrospect, this makes sense. With its chandeliers, vintage wallpaper, and pharmacy-like candy counter, this place looks as though it hasn’t changed in the past 90 years. In the 1950s, people probably came here and thought, “How quaint.” More importantly, however, this Forest Hills spot serves big scoops of dense, classic ice cream flavors, and their Banana Royal is a massive pile of ice cream topped with whipped cream and sprinkles. It’ll make you feel as if you’re in elementary school and you just won a spelling bee.

Noah Devereaux Emack & Bolio's Ice Cream $ $ $ $ Ice Cream , Dessert in Upper East Side $$$$ 1564 1st Ave

We have a hypothesis that Emack and Bolio’s menu went through R&D with a focus group of particularly imaginative six-year-olds. This may explain the fact that you can order your ice cream in a cone covered in fruit loops and marshmallows. Our advice here is to be as outrageous as possible with your flavor and topping decisions. You’re eating ice cream, not choosing an insurance plan.

Noah Devereaux The Original Chinatown Ice Cream Factory $ $ $ $ Ice Cream , Dessert in Chinatown $$$$ 65 Bayard St

Like all of the most respected 42-year-olds you know, the Original Chinatown Ice Cream Factory has used its years to fine tune itself. Now there are three locations (Chinatown, the Lower East Side and in Flushing), all serving flavors like Chinese egg custard, red bean, and coconut fudge. While we love green tea oreo and the black sesame that comes with specks of sesame seeds, this is the kind of place where you should try new flavors every time you visit.

Mikey Likes It Mikey Likes It Ice Cream $ $ $ $ Ice Cream in East Village $$$$ 199 Avenue A

On a fundamental level, there are only two types of ice cream places. One type prioritizes base ice cream flavors, the other leans toward toppings and mix-ins (although this is, of course, a spectrum). For some reason, the latter also tends to have better names, and Mikey Likes It is a great example. Here, you can get a scoop of “Foxy Brown” with chocolate wafer cookies and a sea salt caramel swirl, or some “Pink Floyd” stuffed with strawberry and cheesecake. It’s a fun spot, and it’s perfect for when your standard ice cream place simply doesn’t have enough to offer.

Davey's Ice Cream $ $ $ $ Ice Cream in East Village $$$$ 137 1st Ave

Remember that ice cream spectrum we were talking about? Davey’s in East Village is at the other end of it. They serve straightforward flavors like strawberry, pistachio, and cookies & cream, and you can get any of these things in a banana split, a milkshake, or a brownie sundae with hot fudge. The lack of gimmicky toppings and mix-ins gives this place an old-school feel, despite the fact that it isn’t especially old - although if you’d like to try something a little more fun, you can always get a slice of peanut pie blended into a milkshake.

Alejandra Marin La Newyorkina $ $ $ $ $$$$ 240 Sullivan St

Known primarily for their paletas, La Newyorkina also serves scoops of ice cream - and if you ignore them, you need to reach inside yourself and wonder why that is. Once you’ve done this, order a scoop of horchata or Mexican chocolate ice cream, or get a sundae with caramelized banana and whipped cream. The ice cream at this Greenwich Village spot is rich and dense, and the tres leches flavor comes packed with chunks of cake that somehow stay fresh and fluffy, despite being frozen.

Emily Schindler OddFellows Ice Cream - The Sandwich Shop $ $ $ $ Ice Cream in East Village $$$$ 75 E 4th St

Some people think this East Village place gets a little too fancy with its flavors. This is, of course, a misconception. Odd Fellows is exactly as fancy as it should be, and when we taste their more-complex flavors, we’re reminded of Icarus’ father, Daedalus. Whereas Icarus flew too close to the sun, Daedalus knew exactly what he was doing, and the result was impressive and majestic without being ostentatious. And that’s the perfect way to describe Odd Fellows’ salty, tangy miso cherry flavor, which is a top 10 all-time NYC ice cream. The flavors (like cornbread and vegan matcha black sesame) change daily, so check their website to see what’s available.

Noah Devereaux Lady Moo-Moo $ $ $ $ Ice Cream in Bedford-Stuyvesant , Brooklyn $$$$ 365 Chauncey St.

Taking ice cream to-go is no new concept at Lady Moo Moo. For years now, this Bed-Stuy spot has been serving things like banana pudding ice cream and yuzu lemon sorbet from a takeout window on the corner of Chauncey Street and Howard Avenue. But if you really want to know why this place is great, focus your attention on their “Rooftop Honey” flavor. It’s pretty simple, and tastes like creamy gold.

Ice & Vice $ $ $ $ Ice Cream in Lower East Side $$$$ 221 E Broadway

A self-proclaimed experimental ice cream shop, Ice & Vice makes its flavors with ingredients like chili lime plantain chips and lemon charcoal. Thankfully, this LES spot knows how to make complicated things actually taste good. Our recommendation? Go with your gut. Like most major TV networks today, this ice cream shop knows how to cater to several different niche audiences at the same time. But just in case you’re curious, the last thing we tried here was the “Opium Den,” which is full of toasted poppy seeds and lemon bread croutons.

Sugar Hill Creamery Sugar Hill Creamery $ $ $ $ Ice Cream in Harlem $$$$ 184 Malcolm X Blvd

We don’t hand out awards for ice cream names, but if we did Sugar Hill Creamery’s A$AP Rocky Road would probably receive some sort of recognition. But you need to order it for the name alone. It’s stuffed with hazelnuts, marshmallows, brownies, and graham crackers, and it’s exactly what you want all over your face on a warm day in Harlem. Or, if you prefer, you can also get some peach cobbler, blueberry cheesecake, or strawberry ice cream with basil and lemon curds. Flavors change depending on the season, so check their website to see what’s available.

Noah Devereaux Brooklyn Farmacy & Soda Fountain $ $ $ $ Ice Cream in Brooklyn , Carroll Gardens $$$$ 513 Henry St.

You don’t come to Brooklyn Farmacy for a scoop of vanilla on a sugar cone. You come to this soda fountain in Carroll Gardens for an embarrassingly large ice cream sundae with pretzel rods sticking out of its sides. And even though you’ll be eating it out of a large to-go cup instead of a glass dessert bowl this summer, the ice cream base of each sundae here will still give you a better understanding of what “velvety” really means.

Van Leeuwen Artisan Ice Cream $ $ $ $ Dessert in Greenpoint $$$$ 620 Manhattan Ave

Flavors don’t get too wild at Van Leeuwen, but each one tastes like its ingredient in its truest form. Your first lick of strawberry, for instance, might taste more like strawberries than an actual strawberry. Do you remember those Gushers commercials from the ’90s? It’s kind of a situation like that in which, after consumption, your head might morph into a plump fruit (in a pleasant way). We don’t know how that visual would manifest for the earl grey, but you need to at least ask for a sample of this delicate, but creamy flavor. And for non-dairy eaters, Van Leeuwen has some of the best vegan ice cream we‘ve ever tried. The coconut cream base isn’t too overpowering, and just as creamy as the dairy-filled original.

Ollie's Ice Cream $ $ $ $ Ice Cream in Brooklyn , Bushwick $$$$ 158 Irving Ave

Dogs are great. Everyone loves dogs. So we fully support Ollie’s choice to serve ice cream for dogs. We have not, however, tried this dog ice cream, and we’re therefore only able to discuss Ollie’s ice cream flavors for humans. It’s wonderful. Thick, sweet, and even slightly fluffy, it should be your go-to frozen dessert in Bushwick. Get a few scoops and bring them down the block to Maria Hernandez Park. The kettle corn flavor with its salty caramel swirls is especially worthwhile, as is the red velvet flavor, which doesn’t really taste like red velvet but is delicious nonetheless.

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Do you feel bored with your life? I do feel that way, some days more so than others. Like some days even the few things I like to do, like Tumblr and surveys, just don’t cut it. Who’s someone you miss that you haven’t talked to in years? Ty. Do you miss anyone who was mean to you in the past? No. How do you feel right now? Tired. Do you have severe withdrawals from medications? I imagine I would if I had to stop taking my pain medication.

What’s the most weight you’ve ever gained from a medication? I’ve never had weight gain from a medication. Do you have a doctor you can trust? I just answered this in the previous survey. Wth is going with these surveys, man. So many will have the same questions, and not just the basic ones that like all surveys have, but ones that should be more random like this. What’s the stupidest decision you ever made? Oh where to start. The health related ones definitely top the cake. There were things I could have and should have done, but didn’t for some stupid reason. I should have taken better care of myself. What’s the best thing that ever happened to you? When my younger brother was born (cue the “awwwwww”). I was 9 and may not have been psyched about having a brother at first (sorry!), but he’s the best little bro ever. Turned out so much better than me. He should be the older one, honestly. I look up to him. And also of course all the doggos I’ve been fortunate to have in my life. How old were you the first time you encountered God? When I was a young kid, but I didn’t really understand it and then I got to be older and went through many years of being atheist and agnostic. I was led back to Him when Ty came back into my life in late 2015. Have you ever been filled with the Holy Spirit? I believe so. Have you ever had an encounter with the supernatural? No. How many tattoos do you have, and what are they of? I don’t have any. How do you get through hard times? * I dont rlly do anything all that different. Like, my overall routines dont rlly change, I still do mostly the same stuff on a day-to-day basis. I do try to find more comforting and distracting things to do, tho, and I try to be extra kind and patient toward myself when Im struggling or when life puts some bit of unwanted chaos in my path, ahah <<< Same for the first part about not doing anything different in regards to what I do and my overall routines staying the same, but also trying to distract myself more. I’ve been going through a really hard time for a long time, but here we are. That being said, I’m not doing anything to try and better it, and that’s where my issue is. What’s the most physically painful thing you’ve ever experienced? The pain after surgical procedures. What’s the worst level of emotional pain you’ve ever experienced? Losing loved ones and my depression, particularly these past few years. Have you ever been suicidal? Not actively. I can’t say I’ve never thought about it, but I’ve never seriously planned anything or tried anything. I’m too scared and I don’t want to hurt my loved ones. And truthfully, I don’t really want to die. I just want to start living. I want to not feel this way anymore and not have this battle with my mind and feeling as sad and miserable and crappy as I do. I want to live a live I’m passionate about and actually do something. Do you pray? If yes, to whom? Yes, to God. Do you ever feel lost and alone? “If you’re lost and alone, and sinking like a stone, carry onnnnn.” What do you miss about high school? I mean, I wouldn’t wanna go back, but there were some good parts. It had its ups and downs. What do you miss the most about college? I’ve answered this recently. Did you like high school? Like I said, it had its ups and downs. What was the name of the first dorm you lived in? I never lived in a dorm. What was the last thing that made you angry? Blah. Have you ever been the victim of a crime? Yes. I’m a victim of a drive-by shooting. Is your life worse than you could have ever have imagined it to be? I mean, I didn’t imagine my life being how its been these past few years... …or is it better, or just what you expected? No. Are you married? No. Are you hurting in any way right now? Yes. Are you currently missing someone? There’s a few people I’ll always miss. What are you wearing? Black leggings and a gray Nirvana shirt. What was the last flavor of tea you drank? Peppermint. Do you feel like youtube’s gotten boring lately? No. What would you change about your hair if you could? I just need to get it dyed and trimmed. Are you jealous of anyone? No. Do you have a secret? Maybe. If you could tell anyone a secret right now, who would it be? No one. Do you miss someone that you blew it with? Yes. I’ll always regret how things went with Ty. Is there a guy (or girl) you wish you hadn’t screwed things up with? Yeah, Ty. What was the best date you’ve ever been on? Coffee shop and bookstore dates with Ty. What’s the last great song you discovered? Hmm. Do you prefer color or black and white? I like both, just depends. Do you own a thermometer? Yeah. Has facebook gotten boring lately? Yeah it kinda is. Do you feel free to post how you feel on facebook? I don’t really post anything on there anymore, especially not anything personal or about my opinions on big topics. Which stereotype do you fit the most? Don’t know, don’t care. What is your favorite fast food restaurant? Burger King, Taco Bell, Chick-Fil-A, McDonalds, and Jack in the Box. I haven’t been into fast food; though, the past couple months, which is very odd for me. What is the most beautiful landscape you have ever seen? For my birthday we took a gondola ride up 9000ft and got the most beautiful view of the mountains, lake, and city. It was incredible. What is one place you have always wanted to visit? Hawaii. What was your favorite vacation you went on as a child? Disneyland. Who were your favorite celebrities as a child? I was the 12/13/14 year old with tons of posters all over my wall from magazines. What was the first CD you bought? I think the 1st one I bought myself was Ashlee Simpson’s CD, Autobiography. ha. How old are you? 30. What year were you born? 1989. Did you go to prom? Yes. Are you jealous of people who are ten years younger? I’m kind of envious in some ways. For one, they’re 20 years old aka babies and not old like me haha. But second of all, they’re really just starting out. I’m envious of the ones who are living their best lives and having fun and the ones who are starting college and making the best of it while also having a good social life. People at 20 still have so much time ahead to figure things out, and that I’m very envious of. If you could rewind time ten years, would you? It would be tempting. There’s so much I’d like to do differently. The thought of going through college all over again isn’t appealing, though. But man. Some changes that I’d like to change might make it worth it, though.. they would make such a big difference for me. Some of the things I’m dealing with now I don’t think I would be if I did some things differently. What do you miss the most about your past? I miss my childhood the most. Do you like getting older? Not at all. What is the last song you played on repeat? Hm. I’m not one to really play songs on repeat, so I don’t recall. Do you own a CD player? Nope. What hard thing are you going through right now, if applicable? My health and life stuff. What do you need prayer for? Good health and strength. Are you ok? “I’m not okay, I’m not o-fucking-kay.” What’s the best retreat you’ve ever been on? I haven’t been on a retreat. Do you love free falling? “Now I’m freeeeeee. Free fallin’.” Do you prefer slow songs or fast songs? I like both. Have you made any progress toward going after your dreams? No. I don’t even have any dreams to work towards right now. Who encourages you to go after your dreams? My family definitely would. They always have. Do you have regrets? Do I ever. Does anyone really know you? I don’t even really know me. I’ve changed these past few years and became someone I don’t know and certainly don’t like. I’m struggling with whether this is who I really am now, or am I like this because of my depression and health stuff? I really don’t know. Are you close to anyone right now? My mom and brother. What color is your trash can? The one in my room is white. Do you know anyone who is stuck-up? Yes. What color is your dresser? Brown. Are you more boho, hipster, sporty, goth, or girly? I’m just casual. What were your favorite clothing stores in high school? Hot Topic, Macys, JCP... I don’t really remember where else I shopped in high school. Do you drive a car? No. If not, do you wish you had a car? I don’t drive, so I have no use for a car. Do you own a computer? If yes, is it a desktop or laptop? I have a laptop. What color is your cell phone? Coral. How old were you when you first got a cell phone? 16. What is your favorite season? Fall. Do you wish you had a popsicle right now? No. I’m not a popsicle person. Or ice cream in general, really. I rarely have any. It’s been like 3 years since I’ve had any. Who was your favorite family pet when you were growing up? My dog, Scruffy. He was with us from the time I was 5 until I was 18. What’s your favorite color? Pastels, yellow, mint green, rose gold, and coral. Do you like pineapple on pizza? Nope. List five of your favorite youtubers. Nah. Who’s your best friend? My mom. If you don’t have one, who do you wish were your best friend? Is your heart hurting? Not physically, but yeah. What song are you listening to right now, if any? I’m not. At what time of day do you usually feel the most energetic? Never? What medication or drug has given you the worst withdrawals? I’m sure my pain med would.

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Local Roots, 2 July 2018

One time, Daddy Charlie lost his job, went on a nine month bender, and got himself involved with a PAWG from Richfield who - sorry about this - talked black. Sorry, I just - I don’t know what the right word is for when a white person affects a stereotypical inner city Afro-American accent and dialect. Thus, all I knew about Richfield was that white chicks who took on stereotype accents came from there. I would later wind up working with another white woman from Richfield whose Instagram was ninety percent black people, so... It’s like this: I believe in a gray race, that we should all be screwing each other until all our grand kids are coffee-colored. I don’t believe in compartmentalizing and blockading race and culture and, privilege checked, I understand how easy it is for me, a white dude, to say that. So I really shouldn’t turn a skeptic eye toward the white women of Richfield, especially knowing two of them and their actual backgrounds.* But, for real, talking “black” is pretty offensive and I still cringe when I remember that I had sex with that person. Don’t give me that look. I was once entangled with a Randian libertarian. That shit was way worse. ANYWAY!! I was looking to get myself a passport and it turned out that the closest passport office for which I did not need an appointment was in Richfield so I biked down there, paid the hundred ten beans for the passport and the fifty some odd processing fee and then I left Richfield city hall and I stopped, turned around, and asked the nice white lady at the information counter, “Hey,” I pointed at my helmet, “I’ve got a bit of a haul ahead of me and I was wondering if there was somewhere around here I could pick up a spot of lunch.” She looked off to the side briefly and then lit up, clearly this was the information request she was looking for. “Do you like locally grown ingredients?” “Absolutely!” From there, she sang the praises of this joint just a couple blocks from city hall, Local Roots. She suggested I try the turkey and brie and told me it came with a blueberry or a blackberry mustard (she couldn’t remember which) and recommended that I get that on the side because when she got it, they put it on too heavily. She told me they had a patio. I could bring my dog. She really repped for them and I think they owe her a check. So I go there and I look up at the menu board and this friendly lady at the register asks if she can help me and I tell her I’m just looking at the board. OK, let her know when I’m ready. OK, thay- [whistle from The Good, The Bad, The Ugly] Oh. There you are. Reuben. Or, rather, what they call “Pastreuben” because it uses pastrami and now I have to ask everybody to stop. Look, one variation on one ingredient - corned beef and pastrami are the same cut of meat, just prepared differently. One is brined, the other is cured - does not warrant changing the name. You know what a pastrami Reuben is called? A fucking Reuben! I know I’m a purist about this kind of shit but corned beef versus pastrami is not a sandwich altering choice. Like we all know it’s supposed to use Russian dressing, when was the last time any one of us bitched about thousand island? Not ever and that’s because it’s basically the same thing. Oh, sit down. We’re talking about salad dressing, not the Gaza Strip. One tiny variation does not flip the whole sandwich. I can support the name Rachael for the use of turkey, however, because it’s a completely different animal. Then there are instances like that warehouse district deli whose name we dare not speak that changed three of five ingredients to the Reuben and still called it a Reuben. Sorry, but a pastrami & Havarti with mustard and coleslaw on pumpernickel rye is not a Reuben. That’s a Randall or a Regina or something. Alas, today I’m not fucking around with a Reuben because I am not biking a Hobbit’s journey back home with a bellyful of sauerkraut sloshing in my guts and this lady at Richfield City Hall became very animated when recommending this sandwich, the way my mom gets when she recommends Army of Darkness.

My mom watches only two movies, this and The Goonies.

That and why would I want to try yet another Reuben? Let’s change it up. Let’s not be so predictable. Recall about a week back I had a hankering for biscuits and gravy and I was like, “Woah! A Reuben! Sure has been a long time!”? Yeah, can we not do that every fucking time? That would run the risk of this fucking thing being rebranded Reuben Bully and it’s bad enough that the title as it exists right now hardly makes sense. If I had to explain to my mom that I wrote something called Sandwich Bully, I’d have to spend at least three minutes on the title - and count a hundred eighty seconds, tell me how long that shit feels - and I came up with the title either when I was in that weird place between sleep and wake or on the toilet. I can’t even remember how I came up with it, there’s no way I could explain it, and then to change it to something that sounds like a low budget late eighties / early nineties indie film? No. What? You don’t - ? What do you mean you don’t see it? Reuben Bully sounds like Henry Fool, you don’t see that? Oh, now you do? OK, good. I order the sandwich I was recommended, gal at the counter asked if I want some bullshit, some greens, or some other bullshit on the side and I opt for the greens and would I like anything to drink? Well, the doctor this morning didn’t bust my chops on my drinking but he totally did and then I can’t have sugar anymore... Yeah. No fat, no salt, no sugar, and I’m not allowed to have a drink anymore to cope with the fact that I will never experience flavor again. He even gave me this funny fucking look because I copped to eating potato chips once a week with my GF. Potato chips. Once a week. I wish I was making that up but no. He gave me a funny fucking look for eating fucking potato chips once a fucking week. I ask her what they got for sody pop and she says, “Coke, Diet Coke, La Croix... That’s it.” Seeing as how La Croix tastes like shit - Oh, shut up, it does, too! - I opt for the Coke. Tell my doctor I took it with food. As I wait for my food, I peruse the rest of the menu board. They’ve also got a Cuban that reads legit and a pulled pork sandwich topped with coleslaw which is ironic because one of my homegirls texted me about “kholeslaw” right about that time (inside joke, I’ll tell you when you’re older) and there’s a muffaletta on the menu, too. Pretty much all of the lunch items look legit. If they had a sampler platter, I might have dared to take that on. Now, the part you’ve been waiting for, the part you always wait for, the part that justifies my numerous off-road digressions: How the fuck was the sandwich? The turkey was roasted and seasoned properly, it had a freshly sliced mouthfeel to it and the salty tang striding atop the umami notes. Nothing overpowering in the savory department. The blueberry mostarda - not mustard - was applied just enough to provide a sweet accent, like a bow on top of that brand new Sega Genesis with 16-bit “Blast Processing” sitting under the Xmas tree. The baguette was soft and airy, the crust powdery and giving, unlike other baguettes that send shrapnel every time you think about picking them up off the plate. Pero la estrella real de esta telenovela Mexicana** que abarca varias generaciones acerca de los salarios del pecado en un contexto de intriga política que satiriza las costumbres sexuales*** would be the Brie, particularly in the saltwater flavor of the intact bits of the rind (not the rind itself, think like the whitish bits of the watermelon). It was smooth, it was creamy, and the briny notes that sat on top almost made me want to say “fishy” when I first tasted it. The bread made sense as the delivery vehicle for this cheese and I believe that the turkey was also a support player for this. I’m just bummed that I’m finding really good cheeses after I realize I’m lactose intolerant. I mean, it’s OK. I can’t have ice cream anymore and I wasn’t really eating a whole lot of that but chances are the doctor’s going to take the fucking cheese thing from me, too... The greens? They were fine. They weren’t what I showed up for. I didn’t care for the dressing. But this turkey & brie with blueberry mostarda? I feel like I got my money worth but I’m not in Richfield all that often so it’s hard to say when I’ll go back even if their sandwich menu is legit. The lady at the Richfield City Hall Information Desk gave a solid recommendation. Give them your money.

* White girl who did “the voice” has a black step-dad which still doesn’t justify her doing that. Former coworker just doesn’t hang out with many white folks thus there aren’t many of them on her Instagram. ** I needed no help with that part. *** I went to Google translate for the rest of it, though.

#2018 #Richfield #Reuben #Cuban #Muffaletta #Misleading #Turkey & Brie with Blueberry Mostarda #turkey sandwich

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Hello, It's Me

✨Hello, It’s Me ✨

I’ve never been tagged in one of these and it looks like fun, so here I go!

I tag @digitalpixels

and @harrystylesgotmefuckedup And @truly--madly----deeply

1: Are you named after someone? Nope, but my Mom had two names picked out for me with the same middle name. She took one look at me when I was born and KNEW I was an Andie…so I like to think that I was born to be my name and I strive to live up to it.

2: When was the last time you cried? Day before last when relating more to a few articles than I have to anything ever in my whole life. Felt very limiting and releasing all at once.

3: Do you like your handwriting? Not particularly. Sometimes yes. Sometimes no. Seems as though everyone I’m close to has beautiful penmanship so, of course, I’ll be the odd one out. 4:What is your favorite lunch meat? Just lunch anything in general. I’m not picky. My best friend said prosciutto and darn it if that doesn’t sound AMAZING right now.

5: Do you have kids? I have a Benny, and he’s best dog - socio kid stand in - I could’ve ever asked for. Love that kiddo so much!

6: If you were another person, would you be friends with you? Lol, most likely. I crack myself laughing at my own jokes a lot.

7: Do you use sarcasm? Does a bear shit in the woods?

8: Do you still have your tonsils? Nope. 9: Would you bungee jump? Absolutely! As well as sky dive!

10: What is your favorite kind of cereal? Cereal. Usually Cinnamon Toast Crunch, but generally just cereal.

11: Do you untie your shoes when you take them off? YES! It takes better care of the shoe and makes them last longer. Plus I don’t like the way it bunches up my socks when I put on a shoe that’s still laced up. Drives me nuts!

12: Do you think you’re a strong person? Emotionally yes, bc I had to learn to become mentally strong through some absolute shit. Physically…if I have to be.

13: What is your favorite ice cream flavor? Vanilla. It goes with whatever topping you feel like at the time. But specially homemade vanilla!

14: What is the first thing you notice about people? Honestly, they’re continence and general attitude. I like happy people. And dogs.

15: Red or pink? Red, my friend is bringing me around to mauve lately though.

16: What is the least favorite physical thing you like about yourself? God don’t even get me started, I’ll be here all day.

17: What color pants and shoes are you wearing now? All black everything.

18: What was the last thing you ate? Subway, god bless. Lmao

19: What are you listening to right now? A surgery on YouTube. I’m a HUGE medical dork.

20: If you were a crayon, what color would you be? Cerulean.

21: Favorite smell? Gardenias at midnight and magnolias in the heat

22: Who was the last person you spoke to on the phone? This morning I talked to my better, more intelligent half.

23: Favorite sport to watch? EVERYTHING!!! I love sports more than I love some people in my own family. Sad, I know. I watch them all day, everyday.

24: Hair color? Brunette

25: Eye color? Blue

26: Do you wear contacts? Yes! I’m so freaking nearsighted it’s pathetic

27: Favorite food to eat? Anything my Oma ever made.

28: Scary movies or comedy? Comedy! I love to laugh and I’m a scaredy cat

29: Last movie you watched? Hell or High Water bc of Chris Pine. It was a hella good movie though.

30: What color of shirt are you wearing? All black everything.

31: Summer or winter? Winter bc I HATE, LOATHE, ABHORE the summer humidity and heat. I love cold weather.

32: Hugs or kisses? Always both!

33: What book are you currently reading? The Essex Serpent, Jane and the Unpleasantness at Scargrave Manor & also The Book of Life. I typically read a few at a time.

34: Who do you miss right now? The younger, more innocent version of myself, my best friend, and Niall. Always Niall. And Harry. I miss him too.

35: What is on your mouse pad? The aluminum casing that Mac made it out of. Aka the track pad on my laptop.

36: What is the last TV program you watched?- Sherlock season 4!!!

37: What is the best sound? A happy Benny, thunderstorms, rain in general and waves crashing on the sand.

38: Rolling Stones or The Beatles? The Stones!!! I love the Beatles as well, but not as much as the Stones.

39: What is the furthest you have ever traveled? Oooooh Canada….

40: Do you have a special talent? Number memorization and a very pictorial, visual memory.

41: Where were you born? MS

#hello it's me

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