u/Raging_Apathist

Link to her Instagram post in comments.

These were $6 each and one of them was short by a dollar, but I don't care because that's a trivial amount...and the other one was a wildly good deal.

Bag 1: 2 cinnamon rolls and 1 chocolate chunk cookie (regular price $17)

Bag 2: blueberry crumble pie (regular price $36)

I can't eat an entire pie, but thankfully I have friends and neighbors to share with!

This morning I dreamt about a beverage called "Find the Horsey".

In this dream, I saw two things:

Thing 1: a clear glass bottle (looked like a liquor bottle) that was close to empty, had only one very simple label that said "FIND THE HORSEY", with a small black plastic horse floating around near the bottom of the bottle

Thing 2: a small clear plastic disposable cup (like a punch cup)

The liquid was a rather light brown color, like weakish tea.

Unfortunately, this was a super short dream that didn’t involve me actually drinking it, so I can't tell you what Find the Horsey tastes like or if it really is alcohol.

I know how bad I am at drawing, so I didn’t try to make this "art" any better than what I could do in two minutes on my fridge whiteboard.

I just now remembered the recent Hangover Special post with Horsey soda, so...maybe that inspired my dream brain.

I love both of these places!

Station Pizzeria is a bit of a longer drive than I prefer (50ish minutes round trip), but their pizza is excellent, and I had time to kill today when their bags were available.

Solomon's is just down the road from me; I can get there and back in under 10 minutes. I love all of their breads, and the pear chocolate pastries are my favorite...so I was actually excited to get three of the same thing.

Between me and my ravenous teenager, the pizza will be gone by tomorrow at the lastest. Over half of the bread and pastries went in my freezer.

Everything from both places adds up to pretty much exactly three times the regular price.

Box 1: 20 donuts, 18 cake and 2 raised. A box of a dozen cake donuts is regularly $24.28, a half dozen is $13.63, and raised sugar donuts are $2.29 each, adding up to a total of $42.49.

Box 2: 14 donuts. I don't want to do a bunch more math, but I think a fair estimate is a half dozen raised ($12.96) and a half dozen specialty raised ($18.97), totalling $31.93.

Between the two bags, that's over 6x the regular price.

This was my second time getting this bag. I don't get donut bags very often because as much of a sugar fiend as I am (as is my kid), there is a limit to how many donuts we can eat, and we also have limited freezer space.

The shop is near where I bought my first house, so it's fun to drive across town and check on things in the old neighborhood.

My estimated price is an average of three different dozens they offer. What I got was pretty much equal parts of all three. I added a buck or two to account for the cinnamon roll.

I told my kid in no uncertain terms that he is not allowed to touch the cinnamon roll or the maple bacon long john until I've had my half of both.

I am rather new to knotting colorwork sweathogs. My circular noodles chode is a wee too smol, around 299’ so it’s hard to tell if the floats are too tight because they’re often scrounged up. It’s been extremely hard and emotionally draining trying to find a longer chode that is also compatible with my noodles, and vice versa. I’ve been making sure to leave a little extra length when making farts but i’m still unsure. Any thots?

This was my first time getting bags from a Holiday other than the one closest to my house, because their bags have almost always been excellent so I saw no reason to venture further.

But I saw this location has a 5.0 rating, which I've never seen for this chain before (my neighborhood one is 4.5)...so I was intrigued.

All of the sandwiches and burgers have a best by sticker with today's date, so I put a few in the fridge for my kid and I to eat today/tomorrow, and froze the rest. I've frozen and reheated these in the past with good results.

The carrots are also dated for today. The date on the donuts is about a week from now.

I might get this one again, but probably only if I have other reasons to be in that area. I am absolutely NOT complaining, it's an EXCELLENT haul...but we can only eat so many gas station sanwiches and I don't have a ton of freezer space.

I wanted to finish up some odds and ends from my fridge/cupboards last night, so I made a few varieties of cucumber boats.

I had a lot of topping combo ideas, but I settled on just these three...I'll try others in the future for sure!

Mayo, chicken, tomato, pepper

Cottage cheese, chicken, pickled red onion, pepper

Dill pickle cream cheese, chicken, okra chips, pepper

For dessert, plain Greek yogurt with caramel puffcorn and frozen strawberries.

As I added more and more and more of everything, I could tell I was going too far and would probably run into a structural integrity issue, but I didn't expect it to happen before I even took one single bite.

This happened last night and no, I will not learn from this mistake...because it was delicious. I might even do it again tonight, on purpose this time.

Marble rye/pumpernickel bread, cold shredded rotisserie chicken (mostly breast), mayo (Duke's), tomato, cucumber, avocado, basil, salt, pepper.

Dinner: sourdough English muffins with thick tomato slices, sautéed mushrooms (no effort on my part thanks to my kid, who didn’t keep them all to himself when he cooked them this time), fresh basil, and red pepper smoked gouda

Dessert: plain Greek yogurt with crumbled up bits of a Costco blueberry cheescake croissant that my next door neighborfriend gave to me (she knows what I like, and she likes to share!)

I made Town House Flipsides cracker sandwiches with Roma tomatoes and dill pickle cream cheese again. I assembled them pretzel side out this time, which enhanced the crunch factor. And I added pickled red onions because they're tasty and I have tons of them, so I've been putting them on almost everything.

I also had toasted sourdough English muffins with Duke's mayo, extra thick fancy tomato slices, basil, black pepper, and dried minced onion. Absolutely scrumptious!

Town House Flipsides with roma tomatoes and dill pickle cream cheese

Udon noods with a little sesame oil and soy sauce

Cottage cheese jazzed up with red pepper flakes, dried minced onion, Lawry's, and Cholula

Greek yogurt with raspberries and granola

The grocery store messed up my order and only gave me one tomato (I ordered three), otherwise I probably would've made more cracker sandwiches. I was also going to put avocado on them if the avocados I ordered were ripe...but they messed up and didn’t give me any avocados. Like, what the hell, man...don't come between a gal and her avocados!

I made the maple syrup Chex mix (link to original post in comments) because I am an adult with free will and free time, and I needed to order groceries today anyway. And also because I am very into all things maple.

I didn’t measure any of the dry ingredients (just went by vibes), but in total, they came up to around the 6 quart mark on my big bowl. Guestimated amounts:

Wheat Chex: 4 cups

Rice Chex: 4 cups

Corn Chex: 6 cups

Peanuts: 2 cups

Almonds: 1.5 cups

Pita chips: 2.5 cups

Pretzel sticks: 4 cups

I also didn’t measure the wet ingredients, which added up to 2 cups. It was something like this:

Maple syrup: .75 cup

Butter: .5 cup (there's only half a stick in the photo, but I ended up adding more because whenever something doesn’t taste quite perfect at first, butter is almost always the solution)

Soy sauce: .25 cup

Sesame oil: 3 tbsp

Liquid smoke: 2 tbsp

Cholula: 3 tbsp

I started out baking it at 250F because that's what most traditional baked Chex mix recipes say to do, but I kept increasing the temp to account for the sticky sauce requiring higher heat. I finished it off at 350F after about 80 minutes total.

It turned out really good...a little salty, a little sweet, a little bit of heat! The maple flavor wasn't as prominent as I thought it would be...not complaining, but if/when I make this again I'll probably ease up on some of the savory stuff to let the maple shine through a bit more.

Three pounds, six pints...hopefully this is enough to get me through the week.

Tuna salad ingredients with mini naan and rosemary olive oil Triscuits. Cottage cheese and avocado on the side. Greek yogurt with granola and frozen raspberries for dessert. Featuring Pyrex and Fiestaware because that's how I roll.

Inspired by the original post: https://www.reddit.com/r/somnigastronomy/s/0PqTH3xzxV

The standard Campbell's condensed vegetable soup available at my grocery has noodles in it, and I didn't want noods in this soup. I wanted straight up veg.

So instead, I bought a can of Campbell's Chunky savory vegetable soup (not condensed) and heated it up with a hefty glob of coconut milk and the requisite garam masala. The only other thing I added was a bit of salt.

I also had a loaf of sourdough bread that was getting stale, so I cubed it up and made croutons with olive oil, sesame oil, butter, salt, and curry powder.

It was extremely tasty and I will 100% be doing something like this again.

Celery, cream cheese, peanut butter, oven dried tomatoes, cheese balls, smoked gruyère...featuring my orange Fiestaware bowl, as usual.

The only effort involved was making the tzatziki, which was barely any effort at all...like maybe five minutes to peel and halve a cucumber, scoop out the seeds, shred the cuke in my little food processor, and mix in Greek yogurt, jarlic, dill, and lemon juice. I made almost a quart of it a few days ago and have been eating it with every meal.

Not pictured: a delicious piece of baklava from the grocery store where I bought the naan and tinned goodies.

This was 100% inspired by other posts I've seen here with tinned fish and/or mini naan.