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I’m on a local creamery kick (Humboldt creamery is a fave) but I also really like the organic store brand at Safeway. Knudsen in a pinch. Nancy’s is too tangy for me, Trader Joe’s too whey-y, and (although I keep trying to like it) the crystal just lacks the right silkiness but I like the short ingredient list..

I’m typically a Montezuma 100% girl, but I also like the Valhrona 85%. This one is 70% (lighter than I usually like) and 9$ a bar and has to be ordered online, but it’s pretty life changing. https://www.ritualchocolate.com/shop/nib

Comfort lazy dinner, fizzy style. *Base is couple handfuls of baby spinach, sprayed with the only OO spray I like (Tuscan, from Trader Joe’s) and a few grinds of everything seasoning. *Roasted kabocha. More seasoning. *cottage cheese - current fave is Humboldt Creamery 4% (I like fat.) *drizzle of pomegranate molasses…

This I could totally get down with.

I had an actual DREAM about green beans. No kitten. I think it was trigggered by the ‘obsessed with’ thread’s discussion around pickled stuff including green beans. Weird. I haven’t dreamed about food since I was a dieting teenager in the ‘low-fat 90s.’ My macros were SO SCREWED and I lived on weird fat free faux foods and…

I still drool over the memory of pickled green beans, garlicky and spicy and mustard seed studded and awesome. Childhood. Never found them ‘quite right’ in stores. Haven’t thought to make them, although I have been doing a ton of ferments. Thanks for the reminder!

I love you guys for this. I’m soooo brand specific for my CC, but I can rarely remember which one I really like best... I’m constantly comparison testing.

California, and a crazy expensive area because SF proximity. Asian stores for the WIN- $1-ish at Ranch99.

Produce Status update. Adjusting to new commute is killing my food vibe - thank gawd it’s temporary and I’ll be working flex.... losing 3 hours a day has made for new challenges. Still eating all of the plants, but super unsexy no photo style. (The protein bar I woke up with IN MY HAIR was also direly unsexy.) Working on…

This sounds SO GOOD.

Zero experience, but I do remember someone here mentioned them.

My fave recently is braised with a bunch of mushrooms in a bit of coconut oil or whatevs. With seared chicken thighs. Ginger, garlic, splash of Tamari or soy, maybe some sriracha. One of my totally hacked meals.

That’s serious bonus point material, there.

Keyword ‘normal.’

I need a spare VAT of that. Stunning. Beautiful. But I’m gonna need a backup bowl. Or three.

‘I’ll have what she’s having.’ - bonus points if you *are of the era* to get this quote ;)

Ooh, I’m gonna look for Armenian cukes/snake melon now! That I have not tried. Thanks!

All the Greens Green herby salad, kabocha squash, avocado and tahini drizzle to top it. Salad is: Baby spinach, shaved fennel, shaved purple cabbage, crumbled smoked tofu, sprouts (clover and micro greens), cucumber, snap pea, snow pea, herbs are fresh: mint, cilantro, dill, green onion. Tahini dressing. Not pictured: the…

I beg to differ with mint. Certain types of mint are meh. But, good fresh mint- it tastes like springtime. Like promise. I go thru an absurd amount of it.

I do the ‘summer roll DIY buffet meal’, but I use spiralized daikon radish for the ‘noodles.’

Yessss. My favorite application. I also like pulled pork ‘cut’ with jackfruit!!

Ok, suitably inspired- thanks so much!!

Photo of this rig? Love the idea. My problem is nothing survives in the heat here. My cacti got sunburned... but I could maybe grow indoor with appropriately pretty situation.

Add frozen banana. Goes well with both peanut butter and cereal. Frozen strawberries could be nice too- PB&J? Berries in cereal? I got curious and had to look the brand up. Definitely not my style (I have a super weird palate, so that doesn’t mean anything) and catering to ‘blueberry toaster pastry’ type flavor fans.…

Of course you have the beautiful skewers. Finishing with tahini drizzle? I blame you for the fact that I’m obsessed with tahini. I don’t remember being THIS into tahini before seeing it on your plates.

No thoughts, just some serious eye rolling. Next level eye rolling. I’m old enough to remember the ‘military diet’ (involved hard boiled eggs, hot dogs, vanilla ice cream), the ‘cabbage soup diet’, that weird fruit diet where on day 5 people ate an entire watermelon... slimfast! Nutrisystem! There have been some very…

Dog running is delightful. I highly recommend it. Start feeling grumpy mid-run? Achy? Distracted? Look at the dog. Channel the joy. Explore together.

Experimenting with semi-prepped fresh herb storage methods. Mint (stemmed, washed, dried, stored in a paper towel ‘sleeping bag’ in glass) has been really successful. Had to suffer thru like 4 minutes of poorly shot YouTube vid to get the method, but like the results. Cilantro & Italian parsley: lately I’ve been stemming…

But did y’all EAT the hogs? Is that a thing? We raised pigs one year... I’ve heard wild hogs are super ornery. On topic: This weekend’s mission is to try the new ‘plant based’ egg product in stores. ‘Just egg’ from mung beans. Gonna make a plant frittata. Honestly, I’m not huge into eggs except poached, although I…

I’m not sure it’s even possible for me to not look like a savage. Somehow I ALWAYS do something that reveals my farm kid roots. It doesn’t matter how many forks are on the table or how fancy the frock. I feel like I have the insider secret to your adhering like a champ to both the principles of volume eating AND photogenic…