I do this with all sorts of mostly liquid food stuffs. I make a big giant batch and freeze it into various portion sizes to make quick healthy meals later. My favorite ones to make are:

• Chicken pot pie filling

• Spinach/basil pesto

• Kale pesto

• Falafel

• Lentil burger mix

• Cilantro sauce

• Ginger syrup

I either use a silicone cupcake tray to make 1/3 cup pucks or I use different size takeout containers that fit the portion size. Either way, it means I can keep churning out healthy foods/sauces in the summer from things in my garden and still enjoy them in the winter when produce at the grocery store isn’t as good. I usually can anything acidic like tomato sauce or apple sauce, but anyone can freeze that as well.

And then there’s you did everything you possibly could yourself and you did your best and saved tons of money, but now you actually do need to pay someone to do the thing you don’t trust yourself to do so you saved money just for the thing, but no contractor will agree to come do the thing because demand is high and they would rather do commercial projects. So yeah… You can’t even pay a pro and you’re just fucked 🤷

JD Vance puts his cast iron in the dishwasher pass it on

We still have one in Illinois but I’m not sure how it’s still holding on. Used to love going in there. Loads of specialized parts and equipment as well as staff that were super knowledgeable and helpful. But at least we have Microcenter now… Which is like if you took a Fry’s and scaled it down and made it work more like a car dealership 😭😭😭

Is it sad that I know “chiaroscuro” from Strongbad emails?

JD Vance puts his cast iron in the dishwasher pass it on

The whole chart is rather fascinating and eye opening: Vehicle visibility

When I was a kid, my mom either bought or was gifted a little plush snowman that would say “Happy holidays! Happy holidays!” When you squeezed it. It would maybe get squeezed a few times in December and then put in a bin until the following year. No one ever changed the batteries and it still worked each year for many years. Then it started to run out of juice. And slowly over each year it would sound more and more demonic, but it always played at least once before running out of power. It’s now been more than 25 years and we still check it each year to see if the demonic snowman is still alive. I’m not sure it will ever die if it was never alive in the first place…

This.

I KNOW WHOOOO I WANT TO TAKE ME HOME

90% of my job is making finalist presentations for our sales department. The amount of times I receive the power point they put together and half the text is bold… I always think of that scene from The Incredibles. When everything is in bold… nothing is.

SOMEBODY GET ME A JUMP ROPE STAT!!!

JD Vance is a closeted childless cat lady pass it on

Not 3 years ago, I had a landlord who was very low key and hands off. This was great in the sense that we could do whatever we wanted to the apartment and he wouldn’t care, but we had to write him an actual check each month. Considering this apartment had everything we wanted with all the sprinkles for an incredible price, I was totally down to write a physical check if that’s what the guy wanted. Plus you can typically get your bank to write and send checks automatically which we ended up doing after a while. Ended up staying for 5 excellent years! 10/10 would write checks again.

I read a different article a few months ago about how cars are now so heavy that guardrails do absolutely nothing to stop them anymore. And while I’m all about small cars for a number of reasons, electric cars are super heavy even if small which of course is growing in demand. I’ll just be glad to move back to the city soon where I can take public transit.

First sentence: wow I absolutely agree. It’s such a shame that mothers have to go back to work so soon after giving birth. We should work toward guaranteeing parental time off for all parents.

Second sentence: yeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaah… Um… Nevermind.

Not for Chicago it doesn’t 🤣😐… 😭😭😭😭

So we’re posting classics today huh?

Goddamn how old is this video now? I remember watching it on some wacky ass website full of silly videos because YouTube hadn’t been invented yet.

You ever drink Bailey’s from a shoe?