While I know of the sexual connotation that’s not where my mind would go if I heard it as a nickname. No more than when a guy named Richard goes by Dick.

Yes. Put them in a sealed container or ziplock bag with a damp paper towel and they’ll be fine.

I think this is simplified since you’ve been going to this party for years. If she normally has non-alcoholic beverages also available just decline the drink at the party. If she doesn’t, because everyone always drinks the signature cocktail, give her a heads up ahead of time. “Hey, just so you know I’m not drinking alcohol right now. Would it be okay if I brought some ginger ale (sparkling water, whatever) to the party?” She will probably tell you not to worry, she can make a non-alcoholic version of the drink for you or will have something else for you to drink.

I’m a little embarrassed by this one, but I was in a hurry the first time and now it’s a favorite of my younger son. One Costco rotisserie chicken. Pull meat off the bones and shred. Add about a third of a bottle of Italian dressing. Dump a jar of fresh salsa into a strainer and add the liquid that strains out to the chicken. Toss, cover pan with foil, and stick in the oven until hot.

Yep. I hate that thing. Except that without it he’d be more likely to be dead, which would be so much worse.

You could have a thin bedspread that you take off at night but use to cover the whole mess when the bed is made.

That’s the base recipe I use too. I do use sodium citrate and don’t use an immersion blender . . . a whisk works just fine. I also add the shredded cheese by the handful, not one spoonful at a time. My youngest likes when I use the roux method for baked Mac & cheese. It results in a starchy casserole. If I want a texture that’s more like a dish of pasta than a casserole I use the modernist cuisine method. The flavor is more intense — it’s Cheese! rather than a cheese-infused white sauce.

I guess “badly written political propaganda thinly disguised children’s story” goes under “other” since there’s no tag for it.

Buns, not puns. No more posting without reading glasses.

I think this is pretty much the recipe I use. (I have the cookbook that she “adapted” it from. It’s David Chang’s steamed pork puns and they’re fabulous.

Julieroys says that 1819 says that, but when you click through to the 1819 article it actually says “Additionally, accounts bearing Copeland's pseudonym posted pictures of Copeland in various stages of undress on several pornography websites. Other sites included one of the memes featuring a minor. ” and “The sites contain other images posted from Brittini Blair's Reddit account, but 1819 News could not ascertain the age or identity of those featured.” It’s trying very hard to imply, but I tend to think if there were actual child sex abuse photos involved they would have said so. It doesn’t even actually say that the “other sites” where the meme with the (fully clothed) minors was found were porn sites. They just placed that sentence after the one about Copeland’s own photos on porn sites.

Have you seen sources that actually say there was child porn involved? Everything I’ve seen says that he posted pictures of boy-girl pairs implying they were the same person. Taking pics of a child from their parent’s Facebook page and incorporating them in your memes is wrong, but it’s not in any way porn. The article linked above has the faces blocked out, but the teens are fully clothed. The article also says that pictures he took from an adult woman’s Facebook page ended up on a porn site, but she was upset that her photos from her own social media were on a site with nudity and porn, not that her pics were porn. It seems like the author is trying very hard to imply there was sexual abuse of minors happening by putting statements about photos of minors next to statements about websites with porn, but it’s all innuendo and implication.

You can also get one of these pie rolling bags. I don’t usually use mine for one or two pies, but the day I had to make 20 I found it really useful.

The key with pie crust is not to let the fat melt and get absorbed into the flour. You want the crust to have flakes of flattened butter (or shortening, or lard) layered with the flour when it goes into the oven. So keep everything cold, cut your butter into little bits, and don’t overwork. I’ve found that how I roll it out actually makes more difference to the final result than what recipe I use. If I’m not using dough from frozen I stick it in the freezer for 20 minutes to get super cold. Then I roll it out gently, pressing the edges back into a circle as I go.

6 cups flour 2 tsp salt 1 lb butter 1 1/4 to 1 1/2 cups cold water Mix the salt into the flour, cut in the butter, add water slowly until it clumps together. Divide into six balls, flatten into disks, wrap in plastic wrap and freeze. You can do it in a food processor if your butter and water are very cold and you do just quick bursts so it doesn’t over-work.

I use a recipe that makes six crusts at a time, shape them into flattened balls, and freeze them. When you pull them out of the freezer they don’t take long to thaw enough to roll out and it’s almost as easy as buying a premade one.

Nope. A hot dog is a taco. https://cuberule.com

I was incredibly pleased that for a recent high school band trip all they asked was a signed note from parents saying that the student was allowed to carry and administer their own prescription and otc medications. If there was a med that the parents wanted one of the adults on the trip to carry they would do that, but it wasn’t required.

I think if you think of it as “making a suggestion of something to do together” rather than “issuing an invitation” you might be able to phrase it better. “Hey we’d love to do something with all of you that doesn’t involve food. Maybe the Christmas Village? Tickets are $30 and we could go on Thursday night or Saturday afternoon, what do you all think?”

A CV would also include a complete list of publications since you got your degree. But I’m assuming you’re not in a field where that is relevant or the request wouldn’t have seemed odd to you.

I made a cheese sauce with violife shredded mozzarella once. I think it would have worked for Mac & Cheese. I wouldn’t use real mozzarella in Mac & cheese, but although this was labeled as mozzarella-style shreds it didn’t have the texture of mozzarella and it was a more generic “cheese” taste.

Until my siblings and I were in our 30s we were all together with our parents on every Thanksgiving, Christmas Eve, and Christmas Morning. The first year my husband, kids and I were not going to be able to do .Christmas I was a little worried about telling my mom, because it would be breaking that streak. She said “I’m so lucky that I got to have all my kids together on holidays for so many years. When should we schedule an alternate family Christmas dinner and gift exchange?” And that is why all her kids, grandkids and kids-in-law want to spend time with her.

I have not. And I test fairly frequently, especially after known exposure.

If I understand correctly these aren’t post-it notes she’s showing anyone else, she’s just externalizing her own though process? if so I’d ignore it for now and see how next week goes.

I plan to be careful to make sure visiting me never turns into a chore that my grandkids (or their parents) resent. I will never try to guilt them into visiting more often, and when they do visit I will be pleasant company and not complain the whole time about how they want to sometimes do things other than dance attendance on me.