I had a week off of work and Connecticut CouchSurfing was throwing a CouchCrash that coincided; I listened to the universe and made a point to attend. I was going to bring my live-in significant other and we started pricing out all the travel options that would get us to Connecticut in time for the CouchCrash and then me back home in time for work ( Read more... )

You know the old Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy saw about always travel with a towel? Well, if you run hot naturally and fancy a square one that you cannot use as a blanket (that's not me), a shemagh will do you.

Not only can it be used as a hat, a scarf, a dust mask, a small sitting blanket, a bag via furoshiki knotting techniques, a pillow ( Read more... )

Let there be /r/NoScrapLeftBehind with this way to render apple cores and peels into usable jam. Cook it in the Instant Pot for easy cleanup and a generally hands-off experience. And to make it even more NoScrapLeftBehind, try cleaning your Instant Pot's inner pot with just water as a first rinse to get some jam-juice to drink.

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Why would you cook an egg in a microwave? Because children sense when you are involved in a time-sensitive task that requires your concentration and attention and seize the opportunity. But with a microwave, you're not (involved in a time-sensitive task that requires your concentration and attention) and all you sacrifice is that small bit of ( Read more... )

This is the start of a new series to be used as a resource for any who are in the position I am in. I'm an extrovert in a romantic relationship with someone so introverted that he'd be perfectly comfortable as a hermit. Given my druthers, I'd bring him to social exhaustion. Given his druthers, I'd go crazy for want of human contact. Oh, and he's ( Read more... )

IN SEASON ALERT! It is the beginning of April and the ingredients you'll need are in season so that means they are cheap and plentiful!

As a vegetarian, I substitute proteins a lot. One of the substitutes I like to make is seitan (aka wheat gluten; GLUTEN y'all!). And occasionally one needs to spice that seitan with beet root powder; for color and ( Read more... )

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I can never, ever get tortellini right on the stove top. It either is too gummy or not fully cooked. But with an Instant Pot, it is perfect, every time. And you can too!

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There are many ways to defrost frozen bagels and using your Instant Pot to do it seems very cumbersome. But me being me, I've been in a situation where I had my Instant Pot to cook with and nothing else, namely: travel.

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This is a vegan Lebanese dish of spiced lentils, though Egypt has a similar dish (different spice profile, natch). If you have lentils, onion, garlic, rice, and some olive (or other high temp) oil kicking around and you want a quick and filling meal, this is a good dish to try.

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