I also make Starbucks imitation egg bites, pot de crème, crème brulee, infused alcohol (I made a marshmallow bourbon last winter and a lavender vodka), cheesecake.
Some other things I can't remember.
Pros: Don't have to turn the stove or oven on on hot days. Also cooks things to the perfect temperature and doneness. Perfect medium rare steaks? Yes.
Cons: Don't cook everything sous vide.
If you're curious, you can download the Joule app onto your phone and peruse the recipes they have there without actually having a joule.
Protein is an issue in our family as well. DS1 will eat deli turkey, but pretty much no other meat. Ideas that don't involve meat:
Edamame Edamame "hummus" Fish sticks (not sure if you eat fish) Tofu Soy butter (could do this with jelly for a sandwich or use cream cheese/jelly) Cottage cheese Greek yogurt Cheese quesadillas
I don't really care one way or the other, I'm just glad they put one out at all. I admit that I like seeing photos of the kids But as to the pregnancy thing, she's been out and about a lot lately so she seems to be feeling much better. Seems like it would be fairly easy to have a candid snapped in the garden but what do I know. lol
I was out and about every day I was pregnant with hyperemesis. I still lost 35+ lbs and even though sometimes I managed to put on make up and not look like I was going to die, I still wanted to die.
Please stop with this about 'she looks fine or must be feeling better because she's out and about'. Or 'I don't get the she's pregnant so doesn't feel like taking a photo.' Hypermesis gravidarum is a fucking nightmare.
Post by spunbutterfly on Sept 28, 2017 23:16:58 GMT -5
I rarely post these days, finding time to be on a computer rather than phone is nearly impossible. But I'm in Ballard too and used to run when I had more time and less kids. There's the hot chocolate run at some point, the FroYo run in the summer. There's a briefcase run in Fremont with beer at the end.
However, question, what stabilizer do you use? I haven't had any luck with Avocream stabilizer and have had to play around and adjust a lot.
My favorite go to book is Bi Rite creamery, but their percentages are off the charts for butterfat, though they seem to use markedly less sugar than most other brands. I make 1-3 flavors of ice cream a week and tend to give a lot away as I figure out my own base.
I'm working on a fig bourbon with candied ginger right now and need to make another batch of peanut butter with fudge ripple.
I like Cremodan 30 for ice cream. You can get it on Amazon for $40, and it will last you for months. The trick with it is that you have to heat the base to 180F to activate the gums in it.
Thanks! I got gunshy from purchasing any new stabilizer after my experience with Avocream (it produced super gummy, taffy-like ice cream which, while the flavor was great, the texture was so not what I wanted).
One of my favorite chocolate recipes. It tastes good either with natural cocoa powder (milk chocolate flavor) or Dutch process (more dark chocolate flavor).
There's a new ice cream book out, called "Hi My Name is Ice Cream". It gets deep into the science of it but I've made a few of the recipes with my home machine and they are great.
I nerd out to the science in this book.
However, question, what stabilizer do you use? I haven't had any luck with Avocream stabilizer and have had to play around and adjust a lot.
My favorite go to book is Bi Rite creamery, but their percentages are off the charts for butterfat, though they seem to use markedly less sugar than most other brands. I make 1-3 flavors of ice cream a week and tend to give a lot away as I figure out my own base.
I'm working on a fig bourbon with candied ginger right now and need to make another batch of peanut butter with fudge ripple.
I don't see it as lack of compassion or understanding as much as privilege. It's privileged to not have to think about these things as a daily, hourly would be/could be. When your entire world runs on not having to second guess people's motivations, it's likely easy to think people are being over dramatic. This isn't a pass for these people, but it literally boils down to privilege rather than whether that person is "good" and compassionate or not.
I bet any person of color could read this and know immediately that most non-POCs would call this dramatic. I bet even this man's non-POC friends would side eye and consider him and his family dramatic.
I do think there is a lack of compassion involved. When people see a video of excessive violence towards a person of color and they say, well they should of just obeyed...that is not just privilege speaking.
The ability to empathize with someone and their experience without having gone through it yourself is part of being compassionate. We invoke it everyday for other situations, other fears, other concerns. I am not sure why we would give it a pass when it comes to matters of race.
Its weird. For me, saying people lack compassion feels like an out, like inexplicably, it means they can't change. while if it's framed as a privilege issue, it feels more educatable? Overcomable? It feels there's more these people can do to try and see the world through another's experiences than saying they innately lack compassion.
This is in no means like having to sleep in your office overnight for fear of your life, but it speaks to the dismissiveness of people when it comes to race playing a part in situations.
My brother is constantly mistaken for being a waiter at higher end restaurants in the Seattle area. He brushes it off, but of recent memory, we were at a restaurant for my mother's birthday, this one woman and her family refused to believe that he wasn't a waiter and kept insisting he bring them more water and started to place their order. He apologized to them but continued on to the bathroom and ignored them afterwards.
On Father's Day a few years ago, my family was sitting at a table in a restaurant, as in we had already been seated, when I had to go to the car to get something. I came back, sat back down at our table and found that the restaurant's GM had followed me and told me that we needed to wait to be seated. Never mind our table was already "settled". Water, utensils, my son playing on his Kindle Fire. He saw all of that and assumed we had just seated ourselves and I figured it was race that played a part cause no one else was being asked this crap. But no one else was not white in this restaurant.
Opening my front door before we started ignoring any knock if we weren't expecting friends, and having the salesperson/pollster/environmental activist assume this wasn't my house. Because I'm young looking and Asian in a predominately white neighborhood.
These are all hugely innocuous events in comparison, but it speaks to what they talked about in the article of having to constantly wonder rude or racist.
Oh, yeah sorry I wasn't trying to compare it to sleeping in the office because you are afraid for your life. I was just trying to say that folks are overall dismissive of the feelings of POC. Sorry if it came off as I was trying to compare the two, that wasn't my intent.
No need to apologize. I was trying to bolster your comment about how this kind of constant wondering is exhausting and the micro aggressions in daily life make situations where your life could actually be on the line that much less dramatic. Cause if people do little things on a constant daily basis that question your right to be where you are or treat you in such a way, when big things happen, it's not being dramatic to assume you are going to be treated that much worse too, particularly, especially in the case of black men out "after hours". ;-; This world is so fucked up.
I feel like it is not even people thinking he is being overly dramatic, but they just act like this stuff is no big deal. I mean DH is constantly thought to be a waiter or the "help" and other folks are very dismissive of it. It is frustrating to say the least. They act like he shouldn't care, shouldn't be upset, because it was "just a mistake." I mean people constantly think he is "less than" just because of his skin color, that eats away at you.
This is in no means like having to sleep in your office overnight for fear of your life, but it speaks to the dismissiveness of people when it comes to race playing a part in situations.
My brother is constantly mistaken for being a waiter at higher end restaurants in the Seattle area. He brushes it off, but of recent memory, we were at a restaurant for my mother's birthday, this one woman and her family refused to believe that he wasn't a waiter and kept insisting he bring them more water and started to place their order. He apologized to them but continued on to the bathroom and ignored them afterwards.
On Father's Day a few years ago, my family was sitting at a table in a restaurant, as in we had already been seated, when I had to go to the car to get something. I came back, sat back down at our table and found that the restaurant's GM had followed me and told me that we needed to wait to be seated. Never mind our table was already "settled". Water, utensils, my son playing on his Kindle Fire. He saw all of that and assumed we had just seated ourselves and I figured it was race that played a part cause no one else was being asked this crap. But no one else was not white in this restaurant.
Opening my front door before we started ignoring any knock if we weren't expecting friends, and having the salesperson/pollster/environmental activist assume this wasn't my house. Because I'm young looking and Asian in a predominately white neighborhood.
These are all hugely innocuous events in comparison, but it speaks to what they talked about in the article of having to constantly wonder rude or racist.
Because they think he is being dramatic and that nothing would have happened to him.
It is like white officers who swear they only see blue when it comes to black officers, but when you ask them what they see when that black officer is not in uniform and it is like they never considered that possibility.
I know you're right but the lack of compassion and understanding of some people is mind boggling. Then again, we all know people who have to experience something first hand to actually get it, so...ugh.
I don't see it as lack of compassion or understanding as much as privilege. It's privileged to not have to think about these things as a daily, hourly would be/could be. When your entire world runs on not having to second guess people's motivations, it's likely easy to think people are being over dramatic. This isn't a pass for these people, but it literally boils down to privilege rather than whether that person is "good" and compassionate or not.
I bet any person of color could read this and know immediately that most non-POCs would call this dramatic. I bet even this man's non-POC friends would side eye and consider him and his family dramatic.
One of the jurors said it was 2 to 10. So TWO people gave up. I want to know why.
Me too. This has really made me think about jury deliberations being private.
ETA: should they still be? Should they be video or audio taped? I think knowing what goes on in a jury room could be an important step.
I feel something like that opens up a lot of people to become targets either way. For the people who voted guilty in this case and the ones who voted not guilty.
Not that I don't want to know why, but... it seems like it could be seriously dangerous, even if it's just distorted audio.
But fuck this verdict. I wish I were surprised. Fuck it all.
Post by spunbutterfly on Jun 17, 2017 19:13:58 GMT -5
This is something that's been going on for a while I think. I had activated charcoal ramen while in Vancouver a decade ago. Supposedly it balances out with the saltiness to prevent bloating (after eating ramen) or whatnot.
There's also a place in town that does vegan ice cream and one of their flavors is the activated charcoal salted caramel which tastes good, but I eat it for the salted caramel part and not the charcoal part.
Post by spunbutterfly on Jun 17, 2017 19:10:23 GMT -5
People who don't return their carts are irritating. Especially in a crowded parking lot, especially "in between" spaces. Our spaces are tiny. You put a cart "in between" a space, and there's no room for a car to park without hitting it. The only time I've done this/do this is when the person who wants to take my spot tells me they will return my cart for me/use it themselves, I imagine to hurry me along in putting two kids and groceries into the car so I can vacate faster.
Amazon's business model is to make Amazon your life. Seriously. Jeff Bezos notoriously does not care about making money as much as getting Amazon into every aspect of everyone's life to the point you wonder how you can live without Amazon.
Well to date I have managed to live just fine without it. I have never u derstood what folks were ordering from there that they needed a subscription for shipping or whatever. And trust me that I am not in stores all of the time buying shit that Amazon could be delivering. Maybe its because I am single and so my needs are smaller than that of a family?
I order things I don't want to track down where to buy them from a brick and mortar store. Specialty bakeware and cookware. We get better deals on some things like a kid's bike at Amazon versus Target or a brick and mortar sports store.
My most recent orders are as follows:
2lbs of glucose syrup (for ice cream and gummy bears) Zeroll ice cream scoop (only other place to get it in town was either Sur La Table downtown, parking is a bitch or Williams-Sonoma across town, which is harder with kid schedules to deal with). Modernist Pantry's sorbitol powder (to make gummy bears at home with) Commercial ice cream stabilizer (I make ice cream at home) 100 8oz ice cream containers (so I can give away the ice cream I make to friends and family) Kid bike (20 dollars cheaper than at Target) Pressure washer (Cheaper than Home Depot, and plus don't have to load it into a car and unload. It just showed up on our doorstep.)
So a lot of random things, but mostly specialized goods I'd have to run around town looking for or goods that just are cheaper through Amazon. We pay 100 dollars a year for Prime, but we also use Prime Music and Prime Video a lot, as well as utilize the local Amazon Fresh grocery drive thru options, and the Treasure Truck (recently, 4lbs of organic never frozen wings for 15 dollars and before that). Prime Now is also something available if you have Prime, which does local restaurant deliveries for cheaper delivery/service fees than other food delivery services, as well as near instant gratification (within an hour or two) on goods when I just can't leave the house (due to two kids).
I've been using Amazon and Amazon Prime since 2006 though and it's slowly taken over most shopping in our household.
Oh ETA: Prime Now also delivered champagne to my hotel room while we were in New York and I had one baby sick with a fever and a cranky jetlagged kid. It was heavenly.
From Microsoft in the last two years? Most people I know are jumping ship from Microsoft cause morale and the culture has gotten so terrible since they started laying off thousands of people a year.
Yes. Some have cycled back to Microsoft already.
Wild. Most former MS Amazonians I know don't even think about leaving Amazon now. It feels almost cultish to me. ;p
All my friends who have jumped ship from other tech companies in the area to go to Amazon in the last two years have drunk the koolaid and love working there, in spite of the fact Amazon pays their employees marginally less than others here and they have incredibly draconian terms with regards to their signing bonus and stock vesting plans. Like. Every. Single. Damn. Person. I know who works for Amazon right now can't stop singing it's praises even while working 14 hour days.
See, I hear the opposite but a lot of the people I know went from Microsoft to Amazon so they are quite spoiled. They all say Amazon is a sweatshop and they plan to get out after a few years.
From Microsoft in the last two years? Most people I know are jumping ship from Microsoft cause morale and the culture has gotten so terrible since they started laying off thousands of people a year.
i'm more worried about amazon's business model in general (before / despite ) the WF merger.
I just find it interesting that JUST b/c they built the biggest, best website they are the default seller for almost any & every product. As a consumer, this is great. I wonder how much of Amazon's sells are from stuff htey actually buy/own and then sell vs. where they are just acting as a pass-through (storefront) for other sellers, who hold inventory, manage the shipments, etc.
Amazon's business model is to make Amazon your life. Seriously. Jeff Bezos notoriously does not care about making money as much as getting Amazon into every aspect of everyone's life to the point you wonder how you can live without Amazon.
It makes me wonder how LGBT friendly is. I know many people on the LGBT community who worked their way up at Whole Foods. This was also true at the grocery chain where I worked.
Honestly I've never heard about anyone who enjoyed working at Amazon but that is of course anecdotal.
All my friends who have jumped ship from other tech companies in the area to go to Amazon in the last two years have drunk the koolaid and love working there, in spite of the fact Amazon pays their employees marginally less than others here and they have incredibly draconian terms with regards to their signing bonus and stock vesting plans. Like. Every. Single. Damn. Person. I know who works for Amazon right now can't stop singing it's praises even while working 14 hour days.
This was my thought as well. Although apparently my local one does if you order over a certain amount?
We get Whole Foods delivery locally through Instacart – it's nice because while other stores Instacart uses mark up product prices to cover the service costs, Whole Foods' prices are the same as in store, so the $5.99 delivery fee is worth it for the convenience of not having to actually go to the store. I wonder if their arrangement with Instacart will end as part of the Amazon deal.
Or, alternately... I wonder if Amazon buys Instacart.
Post by spunbutterfly on Jun 2, 2017 21:08:30 GMT -5
It's a tangent from the post, but I thought I'd mention, when I was pregnant with my second child, I decided there was no way I could have another child again with severe hyperemesis and asked for a consult with an OBGYN (I delivered with midwives at a birthing center with obgyns) for a tubal ligation if and only if I ended up in a c-section. One of the most surprising things I learned was that, as someone with private insurance, I could decide up until the moment they cut whether I wanted a tubal done or not. Anyone without private insurance would have to decide and sign a consent form something like 30 days in advance and when I let the doctor know of my surprise, she said the rule (law?) was due to the abuse of labor and delivery doctors in the past, who would perform a tubal ligation while a, generally, lower income or non-white woman was having a C-section, without permission and never tell them.
ETA: For the same reasons the six week appointment includes the "are you abused" questionnaire in private, a husband's "permission" or discussion with a spouse or partner was not required.
Post by spunbutterfly on May 8, 2017 16:51:23 GMT -5
I'm in New York right now and am totally sad at being unable to do a whole lot of things because I'm here with two kids.
Things I wish I could do:
Strand Bookstore Bite Lipstick Laboratory Ramen Ya and/or Ramen Lab Her Name is Han Bar Bacon Two Little Red Hens' Cheesecake Death and Co PDT Harry's (the bar) Any damn show, but particularly Amelie (with Philippa Soo) or Waitress
Post by spunbutterfly on May 8, 2017 14:34:52 GMT -5
I had/have hyperemesis gravidarum. My mother had it, my grandmother had it. It's pretty much a genetic condition in my family it would seem. It sounds like you have HG too? I was throwing up pretty much 10x a day even without eating much of anything for my first pregnancy, but I lost 30-35lbs with my second pregnancy and after giving birth was at my pre-pregnancy weight.
I don't want to be the bringer of bad news, but all the women I know who have HG had it with their subsequent pregnancies. Some people don't have it again. But I find that to be the exception. The second pregnancy was much harder cause I had to be conscious enough to take care of a 3.5 year old. He got a lot of screen time next to me while I napped and vomited. At one point, he started mimicking my vomiting by running for the bathroom to pretend and I almost cried.
My husband is now snipped and we are done. My desire for a second child was greater than my fear of being sick, but I won't do it again. Not ever.
how can it be ok to make a ton of $$ in finance, take your knowledge of working and making a shitton of money in finance to government where you may have the chance to directly influence financial regulation and de-regulation, then hop back again??
I think that to imply that is always corrupt, you would have to show that the person intended on going back to working at a Wall Street bank and had knowledge of that while they worked in government. Obviously that is corrupt. But to finish out your term in the treasury dept than to go back and work in the industry where you have knowledge. IDK. And to take that example outside--don't people do that all the time? Should people who take government jobs and effect policy always have to work in public service or for a not for profit?
In tech, generally, there are a lot of non-disclosure and anti-compete clauses and other contract obligations in place to prevent people from jumping into a role that could use knowledge from their prior role (for instance, vice president of search at Microsoft versus vice president of search at Google) to gain leverage. I'm not sure how constitutional those contracts area in the first place, but the fact you can go from your role in one company to a role in another "company" (or in this case government) and then return and use all that knowledge you gained in the public sector for private sector gains is mind blowing to me, given how easily this can and is abused.
I mean, shit like insider trading is considered a crime, no? How is any of this any different, except on a much much bigger level because it's knowledge of policies that will be coming down the pipeline?
We have friends who just bought a house by Greenlake and paid almost $900k for a TINY house that needed the kitchen completely remodeled. I can't even imagine.
yep. greenlake is insane-r.
the amazing thing is that this neighborhood has historically been the CHEAPEST part of the whole city... and it still is. $500K won't buy you a single family home anywhere out of the 'bad' parts of Seattle - - West Seattle, Beacon Hill, Central District, Columbia City... and even then, it's slim pickings
It's about to get even pricier to own a SFH I think. My brother is looking to move cause the city is currently in debates to rezone his neighborhood (due to the incoming ST 3 light rail) to high density housing. I think this might make condos and townhomes and apartments for rent more sane in prices (possibly?) but drive up single family home prices even more than they are now.
Post by spunbutterfly on Apr 23, 2017 21:08:06 GMT -5
Lexington, KY is where I grew up. But I'm not entirely sure tech is going anywhere in that city. Lexmark was acquired by a Chinese company and has been laying off people over the last year or so. My bff and her husband left for a different city before their roles got deprecated because there was no other company in the city that could match their pay rates.
They were looking at the research triangle in NC, Austin, Seattle, and the Bay.
Three houses on my street have sold in the last half year for 100-150k more than asking. There's one more up for sale at the corner. Less than 2000 sqft 750k. O.O