And, of course, the girl lies about mushrooms because reasons and they have to break into her house to solve the case.

I know for a fact that one of my rabbits knows his name and that one of my other rabbits apparently thinks her name is “good girl”. I’ve tried to name train her but she doesn’t respond well to Clover. She might just respond more visibly to good girl because she gets good girled when she’s being such a good girl though. But I couldn’t find my Wally so I said his name a few times and he just came running over, and normally will turn one ear towards me if I say his name.

My cat, at 18, should definitely know his name but I’ll be damned if I know how to verify that he does. He’ll give me a death glare no matter what I say to him.

Edit: ok I just tested Clover and she turned her ear to me so apparently she goes by both Clover and good girl. I got the expected reaction from Wally, and the 3rd rabbit Beignet didn’t react, but he only reacts to treats anyways so I’m pretty sure he knows I’m talking to him and doesn’t care. He’s probably part cat.

How far in are you? Is it good? It sounds interesting to me.

Edit: oh wait. Maybe this is too much for me… “The story is 700+ chapters, and repeating characters do not start appearing until the Vuxten chapters”

Oh good call I’m going to try some kind of potatoes and onions recipe for when it cools off enough to really cook!

This looks so good! I got a tagine for my birthday last year but haven’t used it as much as I might like because I don’t cook meat and most recipes are for meat dishes. It works really well to cook lentils though.

With one of those toys on a string. They jump around trying to catch it.

I use my toaster oven fairly regularly although to be honest it’s usually to reheat pizza. But one of these days I really want to upgrade it to one with a convection oven/air fryer in it. That just sounds like the best thing.

I actually read Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us by Michael Moss quite some time ago and it was really interesting. If this interests you and you haven’t read it, I suggest taking a look at it.

She’s already acclimated to you so I would suggest that you just bring her home and see what happens. Stay outside with her for a couple hours at first so she knows you’re there. Also I don’t know that the climate is like where you live but if you live somewhere cold please get her a little heated house and heated water bowl. The heated houses are more like a heated pad than actual heating but will help keep her safe and comfortable in winter.

So I meal prep weekly and this week I adapted a Thai soup recipe I have to use as a quinoa salad recipe and it’s really good. 10/10, healthy and delicious.

A lot of ultra processed foods are also ultra palatable foods so they’re high in fat, sugar and salt and very hard to stop eating. They’re also calorie dense so you eat past the point where you might become full with less calorie dense foods. I read this article earlier today and really liked it except that I thought the author went a little light on the judgement against this type of food manufacturing. Yes, we really do live in a world where it can be hard to both find and prepare “real” food, but the consequences of a western or specifically American diet have proven to be pretty intense.

It’s not entirely about demand. They screwed over their supplier and that’s a lot of it. You can buy from underwood ranch directly for $10/bottle plus shipping and they have it in stock so that tells me it isn’t just that jalapenos are unavailable. Maybe jalapenos are only unavailable to Huy Fong because nobody wants to sign a contract to grow for them.

I’ve tried it and it’s not exactly the same but I’m also not incredibly picky and liked it. There are also other brands of Sriracha in the store I shop at not so I’m just going to buy those. I don’t want to support Huy Fong (or however it’s spelled) specifically after what I heard about how they did underwood dirty. I mean if I find it at the store and it’s a good price I’ll buy it because this isn’t one of those social issues I need to be 100% principled on but I’m not going out of my way to get it.

Africa is, like, huge. So saying Russia is small because it fits within Africa doesn’t make it sound small to me.

Man, when I signed up for myspace and he sent me a nice message, that was super cool. Yay Tom!

It would not work for grocery shopping or sticking to the fridge like your idea, but I bought a blank recipe book and I’ve been writing in recipes I like with whatever modifications I make so it’s the version of the recipe I like and it’s great. I don’t need to do a meal plan though because I just meal prep one thing for the whole week.

I meal prep on Sunday but I’m also ok with eating the same thing 4 or 5 days in a row. If you aren’t ok with that then meal prepping is going to be a lot more work. I also strongly suggest making extra and freezing some in individual portions so if you do run out of food, or just really aren’t digging what you made, you can grab something out of the freezer.

And let’s not underestimate the power of making your own frozen junk food. Like frozen burritos? Make a pile of burritos (which is great because you can put exactly what you like and make them healthier) then wrap them individually in tin foil and freeze. Make a frozen pizza in a square casserole dish and freeze pieces. Lasagna also freezes really well. It’s a lot of work up front but it will keep for months so you have something easy to grab when you want it.

You can also precut things like vegetables if you will want to eat veggies later in the week, or if you’ll want to cook something fresh later but know you won’t do it if you have to spend a lot of time on it.

Edit: I forgot to say since it seems like storage space is an issue that you should make sure you have the most space efficient storage containers. A big circular container might not be as good as a rectangular one of the same volume that you could stack multiples on top of each other.