I water bath can them. My other types of tomatoes dont do this, just the romas. its like the tomatoes are floating over a translucent fluid, and no longer fill the whole jar even though theh did before canning. It's only peeled whole tomatoes, citric acid, and tomato juice.
I have a company meeting & potluck coming up where I have to arrive at 9am, but the potluck part isn't until 12. It's being held outdoors at a park, and there is not going to be anywhere to reheat food. It's also about an hour from my home. So altogether, I need to keep the food warm for about 4 hours. I'm making chicken tamales, if that's helpful context.
I have four small square pizza stones that I usually put together to make one normal sized stone. If I heat them in the oven, wrap them in foil, wrap them in a towel, and place them in the bottom of the cooler will it 1) help keep the food warm for hours and 2) not melt the inside of my cooler?
I'm also planning to "preheat" the cooler with hot water, and fill in any gaps with kitchen towels. Is there anything else I can/should do to keep them warm for that long (without spending a bunch of money)?
Day old, cold spicy potato soft taco from taco bell.
I moved to the city I live in 10 years ago in my early 20s, and met my friend at work. We quickly became close and started hanging out outside of work and spending our lunch breaks together. We would have sleepovers at eachothers apartments, go to concerts and events, and stay up/go out all night together often. She is so funny, smart, and confident, and I really do love and value our friendship. Usually when I make friends with someone at work, the friendship fizzles out shortly after leaving the job, so I'm happy this one didn't do that.
My friendship with her is the longest I've ever had, and I do want to keep it. The thing is, the city we live in is her hometown, and I moved here from 2000 miles away, knowing literally nobody. I have other friends, but none I see as often as her, or feel as close to. I also have friends back where I'm from, but I haven't been back in 10 years, and i rarely even talk to them anymore. Most of my friends here are people I've met through her, and I don't even know if they consider me their friend.
She has several childhood best friends who definitely are closer with her than I am, understandbly since they've been friends for 20+ years. This was made really clear to me when I wasn't one of her bridesmaids at her wedding, something that honestly surprised me. If I were to have a wedding, she'd be the only person I'd even consider to be my maid of honor. That was kind of a reality check for me. I obviously perceive our friendship to be much deeper than she does.
I honestly struggle with feeling jealous and embarrassed, and that makes me feel so silly. She's not unkind to me or anything. She just has closer, longer standing friendships than I do. And that should be ok. But I think I've always struggled with this feeling throughout my life - I always seem to think I'm closer with people than than they do. I don't really know what to do about that.
This doesn't feel like something that's even worth bringing up to her because i dont want to push her away by being a needy friend, and she hasn't done anything wrong.
I got my hair cut recently and its bad, so bad I don't want to go back to the salon I got it done at to get it fixed. Think of - I asked for a bob and they gave me a mullet. So far away from what I wanted that what I wanted isn't even possible anymore. This is the first time in my life I've cried over a haircut (dramatic, I know). I'm supposed to go an event where I'll be photographed in a week (the reason I got the haircut to begin with) and want to get this fixed ASAP.
Where would you go to fix a messed up haircut? Somewhere that can find creative solutions. Is there somewhere you just really trust? I don't even know where to start.
I live in a large American west coast city in a neighborhood with a lot of outdoor cats. Most of them are not a nuisance and are pretty cute, aside from one. This one cat is literally terrorizing our house at night and making our lives hell. The smaller issues are that he pees and poops in our yard, vegetable garden, and on our front porch.
The bigger issues are that he antagonizes our indoor cats through the windows, and sprays on our windows, making our cats go into a frenzy and attack each other. This happens almost every other night. On top of that, he has killed three families of house finches (protected native birds) that nested on our porch. We put out cat repellant powders and bird spikes on our porch near the bird nest. It doesn't stop him.
I hit a breaking point a couple days ago when I was woken up at midnight by my cats loudly attacking each other. I ran downstairs and saw them fighting by the window and knew that cat was out there. I went outside and saw the fresh cat pee sprayed all over our porch, and blood and feathers streaked across the deck. I checked our security camera and sure enough, the cat had jumped over the bird spikes and killed another house finch that was sleeping in its nest. The sound the bird made was horrible. I sat outside on the porch crying for these poor birds for an hour in the dark. Since they're a protected species, we're not allowed to disturb or move their nest, so we just have to keep watching them lay eggs there and be killed, over and over again. We plan to put something up to stop them from nesting there next year, but its heartwrenching to watch this happen and not be able to do anything to prevent it right now.
I took the pictures I had of this cat and made posters that explained what the cat had been doing, and asked the owners to at least keep the cat inside at night. I know its somebody's cat and not a street cat because he wears a reflective collar with a tag. I talked with a friend who has an outdoor cat about this and she urged me to make the signs, saying if any of her neighbors ever complained about her cat she would keep him inside in a heartbeat. I put up 20 posters around a few blocks with my contact info in case the owner wanted to reach out to me.
The same day I had angry neighbors texting me and telling me I'm the "whiniest asshole loser in the neighborhood" for putting up these posters. I went for a walk today and saw someone ripped down almost all of the posters already.
I feel like I'm in the twilight zone or being gaslit or something. This cat is literally terrorizing our house, local wildlife, and my indoor cats are being hurt, and I'm being told by neighbors that I'm an asshole for asking the cat's owner to keep them inside at night. Not even all the time, just at night, which I thought was pretty normal practice. Am I really the asshole for asking my neighbor to keep their cat inside at night so it stops making our lives hell?
Does it exist? All the ones I see are either the toaster style (which just aren't as good at air frying imo, I have the Cuisinart one and it doesn't come close to our ninja basket style air fryer), or have a non-stick coating inside (which is just too fragile for me when it comes to cleaning and longevity). I want to upgrade from our ninja basket air fryer to something that will last longer and doesn't have a fragile/toxic non stick coating. I can't find a fully stainless steel one that is a basket style, not a toaster. And all the glass ones I've seen have a ton of plastic that will release chemicals when heated. Please tell me you know of one?
My ears are stretched to 35mm (1 3/8"), and I pretty much exclusively wear wooden teardrop shaped jewelry. I have never been able to find comfortable over-ear headphones. My ears obviously never fully fit in the headphones, which I guess is ok, but they all press my plugs into my neck and it ends up being painful after a while. I already take my plugs out when I sleep and shower, and would rather not have them out more throughout the day if not needed. I've done it before and end up forgetting about them, and if I leave them out for a few days it's harder for me to squeeze my plugs back in. If you also have your ears stretched to a size where they don't fit inside of over-ear headphones, have you found a pair that is reliably comfortable to wear with your jewelry in?
My ears are stretched to 35mm (1 3/8"), and I pretty much exclusively wear wooden teardrop shaped jewelry. I have never been able to find comfortable over-ear headphones. My ears obviously never fully fit in the headphones, which I guess is ok, but they all press my plugs into my neck and it ends up being painful after a while. If you also have your ears stretched to a size where they don't fit inside of over-ear headphones, have you found a pair that is reliably comfortable to wear with your jewelry in?
Before I sew the panels together and make the sleeves - does the mock neck look weird? I can't tell if its just one of those -overthinking it because I've been sitting with it so long- things, or if it actually looks bad.
Like, you walk in and it's already prepared, something I can grab on my commute without having to wait (edited to add: or order ahead). I usually just go to New Seasons, Trader Joes, or if I'm nearby, Elephant's Deli. Not a fan of Safeway's grab and go foods. What other options are there? New Seasons is getting old.
I had to share this with people who will understand my excitement. I was thrifting when this bag stopped me in my tracks. I picked it up and just stared at it for a minute. Ten hanks of Noro Nishiki yarn, a discontinued cotton blend, all still have the tag attached. It's beautiful!! I am still in disbelief that I found this - I never get this lucky at Goodwill!! And there is SO much of it! Definitely going to make a wearable, probably a top, open to ideas!