I offer absurdist edits of absurdist Heathcliff comics, make food, post political memes.

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Cake day: July 9th, 2023

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  • Thin wheat crackers.
    1 1/4 cup (141 grams) whole wheat flour, plus more for dusting 2 tbsp sugar
    1.5 tsp koser salt
    1/2 tsp paprika
    6 tbsp cold butter, cubed
    1/4 cup water, not hot, not cold
    1/4 tsp vanilla
    kosher salt for topping

    • preheat oven to 400f
    • combine dry ingredients in a bowl
    • whisk them together
    • add the cubed butter
    • with a fork press the flour into the butter cubes until you get a nice crumb
      ! Don’t use your fingers to work the butter in because it will melt the butter.
    • mix the vanilla into the water
    • mix the liquids into the flour mix
    • kneed it together just enough to get rid of any of the dry flour in the bowl
    • break into three or four balls
    • place on a silicone baking mat on a cookie sheet
    • roll them out as thin as you can (dusting with flour to avoid sticky or tacky dough)
    • gently cut with a butter knife (don’t cut your mat) into 1.25 inch (3 cm) squares
    • sprinkle with kosher salt
    • bake for 7-15 minutes, keep an eye on them so they don’t burn. They are done when they change color and just barely bend. They will bake through and dry out after about 5 minutes our of the oven.
      +store in air tight container for up to a few days.





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    We did really well for about 5 years. Zero fails. But then they flooded us. We took in some because they were on our wishlist. Then others came that weren’t adoptable. Fully half of “our” cats are actually long term fosters that belong to a rescue or the county because they were unadoptable and we knew we could deal with them.

    There was one that kept pissing in my bed. We sent him to a different rescue where that wouldn’t be an issue. We got two of his sisters adopted and one still lives here. In the next week our goal is to trap them in the bathroom and give them some flea meds.














  • This was covered by the other comments but for the record:

    Bronze cut has a lot more texture. This dramatically affects the ability of the pasta to hold sauce. If you are just cooking noodles and dumping sauce vs under cooking and finishing in a pan with pasta water then you will never see the difference.

    There’s an old Olive Garden commercial that talks about how the best olive oil is golden, the best parmesan is soft, and the best pasta is yellow. Every single one of those points was wrong.

    The best olive oil is green. The best parmesan is hard as rock. The best pasta is yellow with a whole lot of white flecks.


  • I was with you until homophobic. The essence of comedy is subverted expectations. Just because a gender reveal is subverted doesn’t make it homophobic. How many times have you been to a drag show and found out that a performer is actually a woman cosplaying as a man pretending to be a woman?

    Well, okay, maybe that’s not a common thing. But after having lived in Hillcrest I’ve seen a lot of stuff. But then again I never checked birth certificates to see if the woman was a man who transitioned to a woman pretending to be a drag queen.