I had to plan ahead for my election-related stress-eating on Tuesday because my car goes in the shop on Tuesday afternoon. I laid in my stress-eating items ahead of time.
On Tuesday, my feelings are going to taste like kettle corn.
I had considered making a pecan pie as a “break glass in case of emergency” option for moments of desperation, but it’s too sweet to eat much of it, so I had to go with Haagen Dazs cookies and cream ice cream for that.
I thought I might also make my signature sour cherry mojitos, but I think I’ll save those for later this week when we can celebrate some victories. They won’t all be victories, but hopefully there will be enough!
How about you guys? When you eat your feelings, what do they taste like?
And if you’re too evolved to stress eat, what are you doing on Balloon Juice? :-)
Open thread.
Layer8Problem
It’s either lasagna or Haagen Dazs mint chocolate chip ice cream. Or homemade chocolate chip cookies. Or chocolate chip blondies. Damn, that’s a lot of chocolate chips.
WaterGirl
@Layer8Problem: Except for the possible lasagna, I’d say you have zeroed in on the chocolate chips as the hey for you.
phein63
Chocolate pudding. If you’re stressed enough, the stress works off the calories, so there’s that.
MisterForkbeard
It’s my daughter’s birthday tomorrow, so stress eating will be:
1) Cake
2) Probably quesadillas
Marmot
Actual question: Should I watch on election night, knowing that many races will remain uncalled at the end of the night?
My feeling is no, but I’m open to contrary arguments.
EDIT: If I do watch, guaranteed I’ll eat and drink the fridge.
Omnes Omnibus
A version of this….
WaterGirl
@phein63: Plus, I think food groups and calories don’t count, either, in times of stress.
EarthWindFire
Potato chips, nacho cheese doritos, and take 5 bars. All about the salt when stress eating.
CaseyL
I’ve been stress eating already, and it was Haagen Dazs chocolate. (My doctor is going to be very upset with my next A1C, but: my planet is dying, my country is going full fascist, and my cat is dying. Carb counts are really not my top concern right now.)
NotMax
In true foodie praxis, they taste like chicken.
;)
Scout211
Okay, bye! 🤣
I actually will be stress reading romance novels instead of stress eating. I will have to load up my kindle tomorrow morning to prepare.
We are supposed to get a major winter storm here in the west tomorrow, especially California and Nevada. Wind, rain, and higher elevation snow. The news is full of “how will this effect voter turnout?” stories.
I’m glad that Democrats typically vote early and/or mail in their ballots.
WaterGirl
@Scout211: We don’t judge.
WaterGirl
@Omnes Omnibus: That was different.
NotMax
Election night tradition in the family during my misbegotten youth was to gather round the cathode ray tube with pitchers of ice cold apple cider, giant bowls of walnuts awaiting shelling and a half dozen or so nutcrackers all at the ready.
No idea how or why that came to pass.
Qrop Non Sequitur
No food based plans. Gonna keep myself distracted with hard gaming late into the night.
Tom Q.
@CaseyL: I relate. My cat’s health is teetering, as well, which I hardly need on top of election anxiety.
Once returns start rolling in, eating anything will be difficult. I will, however, keep a bottle of Jameson nearby.
Tom Levenson
Dumplings. Lots of dumplings.
Gonna do my best to consume no media other than junk series TV until sometime on Wednesday.
Geminid
@Scout211: There should be sunny weather here in the Mid-Atlantic. And cooler than the last few days, which have been in the 70’s.
Elizabelle
Sour cherry mojitos. Tell me more!
Pasta is good for whatever ails one. It is a sacrament.
Also have some 1/2 price Halloween livery Reeses cups.
WaterGirl
@Tom Levenson: How do you make dumplings that aren’t part of a chicken dish?
Cheryl from Maryland
I voted by mail last week, and so tomorrow I go down to meet with the headstone people for my husband’s grave. Stress eating during the election will be whatever the hotel provides. Wednesday will be my husband’s burial. I plan to stress eat on Wednesday at a fancy French restaurant. Thinking of old-school Trout Menuriere. I find stress can be reduced a bit by the playlist I made for him.
NutmegAgain
I am very lucky–I have something to really look forward to tomorrow. No, not food! (I wish). I’m heading over to the Newfoundland shelter to meet a few doggies, and see who feels like a good match. How exciting is that? (and yes, of course I will be voting)
Omnes Omnibus
@WaterGirl: Delivery.
UncleEbeneezer
@WaterGirl: Trader Joe’s has decent frozen soup dumplings (you can also get great ones at H-mart if you have one in a nearby city) or even better, order from Din Tai Fung, if you have one nearby.
NotMax
@Tom Q.
Petition the fates election cocktail?
:)
Qrop Non Sequitur
@WaterGirl: Stuffed meat dumplings. Beef stew w dumplings. I’m sure there’s more.
WaterGirl
@Elizabelle:
UncleEbeneezer
Stuff like tacos, pizza, burgers and wings would be my stress food.
But tomorrow is the day my wife finally gets back from Texas and it’s gonna be rainy and cold here so I’m planning to make us Japanese curry for lunch and then Tteokbokki (Korean rice cakes in spicy sauce) for dinner. Both are great for cold, gloomy weather.
UncleEbeneezer
For anyone who wants a ray of hope/sunshine about young voters, Jill Wine-Banks and Victor Shi interview Santiago Mayer about #VotersTomorrow and their efforts to get Gen-Z voters engaged.
bbleh
Beer, accidentally-vegan popcorn (olive oil, garlic powder, salt, brewer’s yeast), beer, some kinda nuts, beer.
Citizen Alan
And this afternoon, I finally realized that I scheduled a Zoom interview for the morning after the election, so I can’t even drink tomorrow night. Dammit! OTOH, it’s for a job in Texas, so I won’t be heartbroken if I don’t get it,
WaterGirl
@Cheryl from Maryland: Oh, Cheryl. I have no words except I am sorry.
🐾BillinGlendaleCA
I hope to watch “Get Back” if I can get my blu ray drive to work.
WaterGirl
@Omnes Omnibus: Where does one even order dumplings? Maybe dumplings are asian food?
SiubhanDuinne
Curious if any jackals plan to get up early tomorrow morning to watch the lunar eclipse.
WaterGirl
@UncleEbeneezer: She will be so glad to be home, and you will be so glad to have her back. Happy day.
daize
@SiubhanDuinne: Yes! Though I often plan such things and, well, the flesh is weak…
WaterGirl
@Citizen Alan: Out of the frying pan, into the fire?
daize
@Cheryl from Maryland: Your playlist is a lovely tribute. I’m so sorry for your loss.
UncleEbeneezer
@WaterGirl: Yes. Very popular in Chinese and Taiwanese cuisine. Shanghai-style soup dumplings are one of the greatest dishes ever.
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
When I’m stressed I lose my appetite. I think I binge watch Brutalmoose’s funny food review videos tomorrow night
Omnes Omnibus
@WaterGirl: They are.
MagdaInBlack
When I’m really really stressed, I can’t eat. However, I do have some Trader Joe’s Cookie Butter Ice Cream that will suit this situation., because I am still cautiously optimistic.
NotMax
@SiubhanDuinne
No need. Show starts shortly after 10 o’clock here.
/lucky live Hawaii
Geminid
@Citizen Alan: Good luck with the job interview!
MattF
My chocolate goto is Talenti double dark chocolate gelato. The ingredient list includes vermouth. There’s a pint in the freezer.
Omnes Omnibus
Wisdom from Liam.
And Demi.
eclare
Anything with melted cheese is my go-to.
Ivan X
Eating? I’m drinking. Usually on election nights it’s like Xanax, alcohol, let’s make sure I’m full blown unconscious before results come in. Wake up in the morning, read the news. The slow drip of results over the evening I find to be torture.
2012 was the the first election when I felt like even if we won, there wouldn’t be anything to celebrate. Thanks to McConnell’s Senate, which prevented all possibility of good, all we’re doing is slowing down what feels like an invasion. I mean, that’s well worth doing, but these fucks are like the Terminator, they’ll just keep coming with worse faith actors until they get the dam to crumble. (Ok, so the Terminator didn’t crumble any dams. I’ll mix any metaphors I dam well please.)
The Biden admin with both houses of Congress held by Democrats, has tempered my pessimism somewhat, but christ alive, it’s not like there are one or two R scumbags in congress, it’s like 95% scumbags. Just atrocious actors everywhere.
Honestly, I’ve become kind of numb to this shit. Whatever happens, happens. The fact is that I’m not living in the country I thought I was, and it turns out that instead 40% or so of my fellow citizens are ok with politicians who don’t believe in fair play, principle, patriotism, honesty, or even democracy, forget whatever their odious “policies” might be. And the legal hackers in the GOP have figured out how to game the system so that 40% is enough. I’m lucky enough to be insulated in my blue bubble.
Sorry to be maximum Eeyore but I’m not actually hopeless about tomorrow or anything. I’m rooting for us and I think it could happen. I just feel like god damn, the America-hating zombies are everywhere and multiplying. I hate it.
Geminid
coin operated
Cream of Tomato soup and toasted-cheese sandwiches. Going to be cold and rainy in Las Vegas so perfect weather/comfort food.
Oh…and we always have 2-3 varieties of stew in the freezer. Married now, but I’d always said that a bachelors two best friends were a crock pot and a food saver.
eachother
We Three just came off Main Street where we were holding our VOTE signs for people going home to see. 200 thumbs up in an hour and half. How many more saw the simple message? Possibly a couple thousand.
Then the cold and a nice round number of thumbs turned us homeward too.
WaterGirl
@SiubhanDuinne: I have kind of missed the news about that. Do you have to live in a special location to see that? What time is it happening?
WaterGirl
@Omnes Omnibus: Okay. I hear dumplings and i think of dumplings in the polish-bohemian neighborhood I lived in.
Tom Levenson
@WaterGirl: Fuschia Dunlop’s Sichuan wontons in aromatic soy and chili oil sauce, from her Every Grain of Rice cookbook. I user seasoned ground lamb (vaguely kofta spices) rather than pork.
May try a fried and steamed gyoza recipe tomorrow, though. Life on the edge!
steppy
@SiubhanDuinne: Yes, but only because I will be getting ready to clerk at my polling place. Polls in Pennsylvania open at 7 am, so I will be up pretty early.
No opportunity to stress-eat/drink until after we reconcile everything. Polls in Pennsylvania close at 8 pm.
MattF
@SiubhanDuinne: I watched a lunar eclipse in my neighborhood several years ago. Explained to a small crowd how a dragon eats the moon and then excretes it.
WaterGirl
@MattF: A pint of gelato or a pint of vermouth in the freezer? :-)
NotMax
@UncleEbeneezer
Also too: often boiled, sometimes fried, they’re always kreplach!
Tom Levenson
@UncleEbeneezer: They are. Not making those myself. But other wontons and fried dumplings…that I can do.
Pretty good nearby restaurant to pick up the soup dumplings when craved.
SpaceUnit
@Ivan X:
Not sure that Xanax and alcohol are a good mix.
Frankensteinbeck
I’m assuming that the important races won’t be fully counted for days, so I’m trying to ignore election night itself.
EarthWindFire
@Cheryl from Maryland: I’m so sorry. Judging from that playlist, Wayne was a great guy.
SiubhanDuinne
@WaterGirl:
Here’s a WaPo article (gift!) about it, which should, I hope, answer all your questions.
Geminid
@SiubhanDuinne: I’ll be up early enough. Thanks for mentioning this. I was planning on looking for the eclipse tomorrow evening.
I like the Election Day theme: a Red Moon eclipsed by the Blue Earth!
Ohio Mom
I like to say I’ll be going to bed early tomorrow night but I will probably be here soaking up the anxiety.
WaterGirl
@Omnes Omnibus: That was sweet from Liam.
MattF
@WaterGirl: It’s a pint of gelato, but I’ve got adequate supplies of alcohol as well.
WaterGirl
@eclare: Interesting! Maybe I’ll have pizza tomorrow in your honor.
ian
insanely hot curry
eclare
@Frankensteinbeck: Same here.
🐾BillinGlendaleCA
@SiubhanDuinne: Won’t be able to see it here or pretty much anywhere in California due to rain/snow.
WaterGirl
@Ivan X: I think it’s going to go a lot better than a lot of people think it will. I think we can win the house and the senate. I don’t pretend to know that we will, but I do think we can.
I am really hoping that’s not too long for a rotating tag.
UncleEbeneezer
@Tom Levenson: I’m fortunate to live in San Gabriel Valley, so we have a huge Asian-American population and countless great options for dumplings, noodles etc. Seems like a lot of work to make so I just let the experts do it and pay them accordingly :)
WaterGirl
@Tom Levenson: I think you should have to cook for us, all the time.
edit: Would that be too much to ask?
Nicole
Red Vines are my stress food of choice.
Fortunately for my stress level, I’m doing a play reading tomorrow at 7 so it will keep me off the intertoobs until later in the evening. And away from the Red Vines!
SpaceUnit
I hadn’t really thought about a special election night meal. I’ll probably be watching the coverage and chewing my fingernails.
UncleEbeneezer
@WaterGirl: Perogies!!! Love them.
WaterGirl
@SiubhanDuinne: Thank you!
Old School
@Cheryl from Maryland: Sorry for your loss and I hope the Trout Menuriere is excellent.
dnfree
@EarthWindFire: Take 5 bars! I can never find them anymore.
Otherwise, Cheez-Its. Original flavor.
WaterGirl
@UncleEbeneezer: I love pirogies, too. Hard to get good ones around here. :-(
thruppence
@SiubhanDuinne: I’ll set my alarm, but lunar eclipses are such slow burn events, I’ll probably go out and look at it until I get cold, then say wow and go back inside.
karen marie
Oh, oh, oh – don’t make a pecan pie, make butter tarts instead! Similar to pecan pie but way less sweet, and fantastically delicious! I use this recipe for maple butter tarts. I put raisins in the bottom of the casing before adding the filling. You can add pecans instead, if you like. Butter tarts: Not just for breakfast! I use Sally’s butter & shortening pie crust. It never fails. In my experience, it’s better than a pure butter crust.
I’ve been too depressed to fill out my ballot but I’ll have to do it tonight, to be dropped off tomorrow. Yech.
Old School
@SiubhanDuinne: I should be getting up for the eclipse. My daughter, Middle School, wants to see it, so I’ll make sure there aren’t clouds and then see if I can wake her.
WaterGirl
@dnfree: I saw Cheez-its and my mind flew to crunchy cheetos. If the key races take too many days to resolve, I maybe to call in the big guns – a bag of the crunch cheetos.
trollhattan
I’ll go with carnitas anything, emphasis on a ginormous burrito. And no rice filler. Or a carnitas dinner plate with grilled onions and corn tortillas on the side, a salsa variety at the ready.
A somewhat bitter IPA cuts through that grease like a surgeon’s scalpel, making them co-travelers.
Albatrossity
Ice Cream, preferably the Espresso Chocolate Chip from the KSU Dairy Store. There’s really nothing like ice cream from an ag college dairy store…
SpaceUnit
@WaterGirl:
I too am optimistic. I’m hoping Dems do so well that TFG reads the room and decides the jig is up, flees to Mother Russia and takes the MAGA movement with him. Fingers crossed.
WaterGirl
@karen marie: Yes! Get that ballot done and report back. :-)
trollhattan
@Old School: [Sigh] Hits here at 1:09 on the first night of real rain in since forever.
SkyBluePink
@WaterGirl:
Re: Puzzle board conversation from the other day.
Just received a catalog from bitsandpieces.com that has several puzzle boards.
ChuckInAustin
I’m in Austin, so…chips and queso
frosty
I don’t plan to watch any election results; I’ll follow along here and maybe on Wonkette. Late night stress / non-stress eating is usually bourbon on ice and potato chips. Sadly, I’ve disgraced my PA roots and abandoned Utz and the other Hanover snack foods for Cape Cod Original chips.
ETA: I’ll be sampling my food items fairly early when I get back from Allentown tomorrow to take on one or more canvassing shifts again. They’re much better and more organized than the locals down here; maybe because it’s hosted in the IBEW hall. Also, they feed us!!!
karen marie
@NotMax: Washington State?
I spent Christmas in Richland, Washington in the late ’70s and spent the week shelling walnuts. It was great to have the giant bag of shelled nuts to take home but painful.
MagdaInBlack
@karen marie: Oh my lord, I do love butter tarts. I used to make them, but haven’t in years. I used either raisins or currants, if I could find currents
Eta: I think I used chopped walnuts, sometimes. It’s been awhile.
WaterGirl
@SkyBluePink: Oh my god, so many choices!
WaterGirl
@ChuckInAustin: ooh, do you make your own queso? do you have a recipe?
David 🌈☘The Establishment☘🌈 Koch
Captain Crunch
Also, sometimes I feel like a nut, sometimes I dont. Almond Joy has nuts, the Mounds dont.
narya
@SiubhanDuinne: Me! I’m usually awake at 4:00 ish anyway, so I’ll just haul out of bed and head out early for my morning walk.
I don’t stress eat all that much, but my comfort meal is pasta and veggies (broccoli or spinach are best) with a pile of Parmesan on top.
Tomorrow I’m going to watch something on Netflix. No idea what yet, but there’s no way I want to watch the returns, especially not early in the evening. I’ll probably peek in here once in awhile.
piratedan
family size bag of Ruffles and 16oz of green onion dip, suitably chilled
zhena gogolia
@🐾BillinGlendaleCA: that is an excellent plan. It’s gotten me through two postop periods
PaulB
Homemade chocolate chip cookies but I always leave the dough in the refrigerator for 2-3 days before baking, so the most I could do tomorrow would be to mix up a batch for baking on Thursday or Friday.
As an alternative, I may bake some muffins instead: chocolate chip (of course), oatmeal-raisin, blueberry streusel, or plain muffins with a jam filling. Let ’em sit for just a few minutes, then open them up and slather with butter.
UncleEbeneezer
Since we are talking food: Am I the only one who tries to match my tv/movie watching with the cuisine we are going to eat while watching? If we are having Korean for dinner (which is often) we have to watch a K-drama. If we are having burritos, I wanna watch Narcos: Mexico. Etc. My wife thinks I’m overly insistent about this, lol.
SpaceUnit
@frosty:
Something I really miss from PA is the Snyder’s of Berlin BBQ potato chips.
I don’t know if they even make them any more. They were probably banned as a health hazard.
HinTN
@Omnes Omnibus: Shades of Tom Lehrer. Very nice!
UncleEbeneezer
@frosty: What about TastyCakes?
Confession: I never really thought they were anything special when I lived in Philly.
HinTN
@SiubhanDuinne: Yes!
UncleEbeneezer
@SpaceUnit: Cheese-Steaks, WaWa subs and Philly soft-pretzels (Wawa’s being my favorite).
These are some of the few things we don’t have much here in Los Angeles. We only have Jersey Mikes and other chains that don’t do them justice, imo.
WaterGirl
@UncleEbeneezer: What I want to drink often has an impact on what I will eat, but never TV.
Well, one exception. When one of the hobbit movies was first released years ago you could pay to see it on cable. We did a whole hobbit menu for that one, and it was super fun.
Kelly
Sour dough toast dipped in olive oil and balsamic vinegar
Omnes Omnibus
@WaterGirl: Aside from mushrooms, what did you have?
NotMax
re: above
Did someone say ice cream?
:)
frosty
@UncleEbeneezer: Philly’s on the wrong side of the river!
ETA but worth the drive for the soft pretzels and cheesesteaks.
narya
@UncleEbeneezer: When I was a kid, they were wrapped in wax paper, and you could only get them a certain distance from Philly; my hometown was within range. I love them.
Cheese steaks are awesome. I’ve only found one place in Chicago that has a vague clue how to make them–and they’re transplants from Philly. I make my own these days, with venison and camembert and caramelized onions, on a really good baguette.
SpaceUnit
@UncleEbeneezer:
The only thing I don’t miss from Pittsburgh is the kielbasa. Mind you, I don’t really hate it but I don’t want it three meals a day.
emmyelle
My feelings are going to taste like a very earthy gin, a high-end dry vermouth, and some lemon peel-stuffed, vermouth soaked olives in a chilled glass, with a can of smoked oysters.
Delk
@narya: Monti’s?
NotMax
@emmyelle
If you ever come across them, anchovy-stuffed olives are da bomb.
narya
@Delk: no, Philly’s Best.
UncleEbeneezer
@narya: We have a place called Big Mike’s Philly Steaks that is very good (owner is from Philly and gets rolls shipped in) but it’s down in the South Bay which is far from where I’m at. I miss having killer steaks (and pizza) on just about every corner. I lived in Philly Suburbs (Ambler, Jenkintown, Blue Bell) but even there, there are countless great cheese-steak/pizza/sub places.
UncleEbeneezer
@narya: Philly’s Best are good. We used to have one near my work in Arcadia, but it closed during Pandemic.
Nicole
@SpaceUnit: If you miss them too much, you can order them by the case on Amazon:
https://www.amazon.com/Snyder-Berlin-BAR-B-Q-Barbecue-Potato/dp/B074G3JY73
:)
For me, it’s Middleswarth. I still buy them from time to time when I’m visiting my stepmom. I like the plain flavor best, go figure.
NotMax
@emmyelle
Bols?
;)
narya
@UncleEbeneezer: And you could get a slice! One year a friend and I had a 6-game pack of Sixers tickets. I lived right off of South Street (on a tiny block of Passyunk that butted into/ended at South Street) and I’d grab a slice or two on my way to the train to meet him at the Spectrum. There were at least two other joints within a few blocks, plus I was maybe two blocks from Jim’s Steaks.
SpaceUnit
@Nicole:
Great. You just hooked me up with a heroin dealer.
I’m dead.
WaterGirl
@Omnes Omnibus: No mushrooms! I get deathly ill when I eat mushrooms.
We had some kind of odd beer-like drink. Glog? Grog? I can’t recall. Mostly I remember that we had several courses… breakfast. second breakfast, etc. It was a long time ago, a happy memory without a lot of details about the actual food.
Omnes Omnibus
@WaterGirl: Hobbits love mushrooms. Just saying.
eachother
Delete Columbus Day. Write in Election Day. Three day weekend.
Rearrange current thinking and set-back the attitude to the time when voting was being made easy only.
emmyelle
@NotMax: St. George Terroir. And Grassoti vermouth if I can find it, Dolin if I can’t.
emmyelle
@NotMax: I have, and agree. Not for every night, but sometimes you just feel like salty fish. I mostly think of them, and blue cheese stuffed olives, as something to take the edge off bad vermouth and bland vodka.
NotMax
@eachother
Move it to a Monday?
No thanks. Plenty of folks leave home for a three-day weekend and would return too exhausted, too late, or both for voting.
eachother
@Cheryl from Maryland:
We enjoy many of these songs in common.
I’ll crank them for you and Wayne.
Quiltingfool
I’m going to stress quilt. After I vote, of course!
I’m in Missouri, red as a baboon’s ass, so you can figure how our elections will go. I’m hoping some of the ladies running for Missouri state seats win, like Jess Piper in the NW corner of Missouri. And I’m pulling for Trish Gumby (over Ann Wagner) in St. Louis. And if Jesus is my buddy, the odious Eric Schmitt would go down in flames…
NotMax
@emmyelle
Sacrilege, but over the years I’ve grown quite fond of using little pickled green tomatoes as a martini garnish.
UncleEbeneezer
@narya: A 6-inch cheese-steak and a couple slices is a perfectly cromulent meal :)
Philly also has very good buffalo wings at most bars. I miss those.
emmyelle
@NotMax: I could see this, I totally could. But let me ask-gin or vodka? I’m perfectly willing to go rogue with vodka (and after all, a martini is made with gin, where as a “vodka martini” is already going rogue), but I like to play it classic with gin. Regular pimento-stuffed olive, twist, or twist-stuffed olive only. No cheese or fish or birthday cake or whatever the hell else people put in “vodka martinis”, but I could see the pickled green tomato thing working well with vodka.
Jaybird
@emmyelle, we used to live right down the street for St George. I am asking myself why anyone might care about that as I type this.
Alameda also has a very good cheesesteak place. I went to college on the Main Line, and am still looking for a decent one here in Eugene. In a pinch, I can make a decent one myself – any suggestions?
NotMax
@emmyelle
Yup, vodka. For gin I break out the cocktail onions.
eachother
@NotMax:
How about Tuesday, Wednesday? Get a ticket punched for proof of voting and a chance to win prizes.
Make voting easy and accessible. An isolated Tuesday is weird.
It is easy to see narrowing voting opportunities and other willful diminishment over time is opposite making things more perfect in our union.
But it is in character historically.
cope
“Gourmet coffee beans enrobed in premium dark chocolate coating” according to the packaging. Crunch, crunch, yum, yum, mood elevated.
frosty
@UncleEbeneezer: Big Mike knows his stuff. The secret to a good cheesesteak is the rolls they make in Philly. I don’t know how they make them different but they’re definitely better.
cope
@UncleEbeneezer: For the last two men’s World Cup tournaments, my two teaching/coaching buddies and I would alternate gathering at each other’s place for various games. The host had to make a dish associated with one of the two teams playing. For example, in the opening Russia/Saudi Arabia game in 2018, I made a lamb and rice dish to represent S.A.. Good times gone though as one has moved away and the other is newly married and they are expecting.
Mo Salad
https://twitter.com/LFC19673841/status/1587603054316118019?t=iPx2a7OCtYHVapvRQFbxzw&s=19
StringOnAStick
@Kelly: Extra sour? Sounds lovely.
going to go climb up the local ski area a couple times and enjoy the early snow bounty. Then we’ll be going to the weekly Tuesday night play along jam, a great way to build skills by sight reading song charts and just going for it. It’s a solid two hour diversion. Then getting up and going into climb the ski area a few times on Wednesday. By then there should be some useful news.
Ivan X
@WaterGirl: aww, what an honor that would be! Nice to have the nomination, anyway!
We definitely can win. I hope we do!
Ivan X
@emmyelle: We share the same perspectives about martinis.
Kelly
@StringOnAStick: I’m heading to Silver Falls. The big leaf maples are done but I might get some fall color from the vine maple. I like that little canyon when the leaves are off. Opens up the views.
Tehanu
Starch. Butter. Green olives with pimento. Tuna salad with the aforementioned green olives and hard-boiled eggs. Did I mention starch? and butter?
UncleEbeneezer
@cope: That’s a fun way to explore and appreciate different cuisines/cultures.
UncleEbeneezer
@frosty: The bread/roll really does make such a difference. Same goes for Vietnamese Banh Mi. They are always pretty damn good, but when you get one with a fresh, crispy baguette, bruh…
Suzanne
My ultimate comfort food is pasta. Really most noodle shapes, marinara, meatballs…..amazing.
If I’m feeling really bad, it would be like almond croissants or cannoli or tiramisu.
Suzanne
Another comfort food: a giant breakfast burrito and red sauce.
I have mostly given up fried food because my digestive system hates it, but it is THRILLED to get eggs and chiles!
I am going to hot yoga tomorrow evening so I won’t be watching returns until later.
Rose Weiss
Same stress eating I’ve been doing for the past 2 years – popcorn with Parmesan cheese, smokehouse almonds, and nachos, all accompanied by red wine of dubious vintage.
Mj_Oregon
I plan to use the rest of my russet potatoes to make potato chips in the microwave and eat as many of them as I can get away with. Then I’ll go out on Wednesday and buy some more potatoes (LOTS more) to make more chips to use during the rest of the counting season. I rarely use my mandolin but geez, it sure does make potato chips easy to cut to the right thickness!
BQuimby
@WaterGirl: Potstickers=dumplings