u/PineappleBliss2023

Hello!

I rent my house and I want to hang some shelves in my bedroom. I’ve gotten away with just using standalone storage for a time but it’s a small house and clutter stresses me out.

My walls are hard and textured so command strips don’t typically work very well. They’re like, painted but with little bumps. My landlord painted it himself so I don’t know if the bumps were intentional.

I don’t know how to drill or anything, although I own some kind of drill I got off of amazon a few years ago. It’s pink 💁‍♀️ I have anxiety about drilling into a wall and electrocuting myself. I had a stud finder but it didn’t seem to work very well.

Any advice would be helpful. I’d really like to find some adhesive that will hold a shelf and work on lightly textured walls but I’d settle for a talk through on how to drill for some floating shelves.

We seem to get quite a few posts from people who have called 911.

We can’t tell you why something happened. We can’t tell you what should have happened. We can’t tell you anything about your 911 call because we are not your dispatcher, we are not at the agency you called.

Quite frankly it’s rude to come into a place where people of that profession go to vent and blow off steam and support each other and ask for us to armchair dispatch a situation that they’re likely not giving the full picture of.

It’s like walking into the break room at your local restaurant and demanding to know why a restaurant on the other side of town messed up your order.

I am not a dumb person but I am an idiot in the kitchen.

I never learned to cook. My mom was a single mom who cooked by browning hamburger meat and added it to boxed Mac and cheese or popping in a stouffers lasagna.

Unfortunately, my mother is now disabled and we primarily ate out for a while but it’s expensive and makes my body feel bad so I’ve been trying to learn to cook for us and it’s been a *process*. Yesterdqy I burned garlic so bad it stuck to my non stick pan. This is all to give you an idea of how basic my cooking skills are.

I want to make *good* food. I want to make food that is satisfying to eat and use good ingredients. A lot of recipes call for freshly grated cheese.

I hate grating cheese. I was recently gifted a rotary cheese grater that suctions to the counter and it has greatly improved the grating experience. The one problem I am still stuck with is when I grate the cheese a decent amount of it misses the plate I am trying grate onto and ends up on the counter. How does one avoid sprinkling the counter with rotary grated cheese?

Also, I have learned that onions add a lot of flavor but I hate the texture. I read a tip that grating the onion into a paste gives you the flavor without the squishy onion pieces. I tried this today and I have never regretted a life choice so quickly and so passionately. My eyes still itch.

The tl;dr of it all is I’m looking for suggestions for how to grate cheese neatly and also how to add onion flavor without squishy onion pieces.

Thanks in advance.

This is the recipe I followed tonight for baked spaghetti to satisfy posting requirements:

FOR THE SAUCE:
1 medium yellow onion
3 cloves garlic
1 tablespoon olive oil
1 pound lean ground beef
1 teaspoon Italian seasoning
1 1/2 teaspoons kosher salt
1/4 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
1 (32-ounce) jar marinara sauce (about 3 1/2 cups)
1/2 cup water
FOR ASSEMBLY:
8 ounces low-moisture mozzarella cheese (about 2 cups shredded)
2 ounces Parmesan cheese (3/4 cup freshly grated or 1/2 cup store-bought grated)
12 sprigs fresh parsley (about 1/3 medium bunch)
1 (15-ounce) container whole-milk ricotta cheese
2 large eggs
1/2 teaspoon kosher salt
1 pound dried spaghetti