Scientific method
Michelle walked into today's session asking about Jake's mysterious glass bottles lining the kitchen counter. "What's your boyfriend fermenting now?" she said, eyeing the setup li…
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Masa disaster protocol
Jake announced this morning that he wanted to learn how to make tamales. Not the easy kind from a box, actual tamales with masa from scratch. I should have been suspicious when he…
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Masa and mayhem
Carmen knocked on my door at 10 AM with a grocery bag full of corn husks and a determined look. "Today's the day we finally do this," she announced, dumping everything on my kitch…
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Clay and concentration
Never thought I'd be sitting on my yoga mat with a ball of clay at 2pm on a Saturday, but here we are. Sarah's been talking up this pottery class for months, and apparently it's f…
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Three hours and a cloud of flour later
Decided this morning I was going to make pasta. Not buy pasta - make pasta. From actual scratch, with just flour and eggs and whatever magic turns those two things into something…
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Assembly required
Jake suggested we needed a proper coffee table for the living room. 'How hard can it be?' he said, scrolling through IKEA's website. Famous last words. Three hours later, we're su…
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Learning curve
Apparently there's a reason Italian grandmothers make this look effortless. I've been at this for two hours and my kitchen looks like a flour bomb went off. Learning curve The dou…
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Flour power
Decided today was the day I'd finally try making pasta from scratch. How hard could it be, right? Famous last words. Flour power Three hours later and I look like I wrestled with…
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Flour everywhere
Jake found a pasta recipe on some cooking blog and announced we were making dinner "the Italian way" tonight. Never mind that neither of us has ever made fresh pasta before, or th…
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Sunday gravy success
Jake's been talking about his grandmother's Sunday gravy for months. Every time we'd have pasta, he'd get this wistful look and say "Nonna's was different though." Finally asked h…
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Precision brewing
Carmen arrived this morning with her grandmother's French press and very specific opinions about water temperature. Apparently my usual method of "dump grounds, add hot water, hop…
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Kitchen experiment
Carmen showed up this morning with a grocery bag full of corn husks and her grandmother's handwritten tamale recipe. "How hard could it be?" she said, spreading everything across…
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Blue people and long lines
Never thought I'd be the type to wait three hours in a parking lot for a movie, but here we are. Carmen bailed last minute (something about "needing actual sleep"), so I'm flying…
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Saturn has rings
Walking past the physics building after my shift tonight, I noticed this weird dome thing on the roof with a warm glow coming from inside. Turns out it's the campus observatory an…
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Blades of glory (or terror)
Decided today was the day Carmen and I would finally try ice skating. She's been talking about it for weeks and I kept making excuses because honestly? The whole concept of balanc…
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Vertical learning curve
Carmen dragged me to Triangle Rock Club this afternoon with zero warning. Just showed up at my door with climbing shoes in two different sizes and announced we were trying somethi…
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