Since it’s important for health to consume some of the green stuff, it’s helpful to find out how you dislike it least. For instance, cooked spinach is just as revolting as raw, but you only have to swallow about a quarter of the amount because of shrinkage. Broccoli and Brussels Sprouts are better if you roast them until they mostly taste like brown. And shrinkage happens there, too.

Zucchini is a green vegetable that’s less offensive imho, and can hide in a spaghetti sauce without ruining it.

Don’t go with any recipe that “celebrates the delicious flavor” of anything you don’t already like.

You can also be your own mom and puree veggies into the gravy/sauce of your meat.

Anyway, good on you for eating the veggies first. It’ll also start filling you up, so the steak will feel more satisfying.

Maybe if you think real hard about a person going into a seizure and flinging themselves backwards, it’ll pop back in your head the next time you go to type “seize” and help you remember.

If you have all the lights on, that one little light won’t bother you as much because your pupils aren’t dilated.

Oh don’t you hate that? Happens too often, especially typing on my phone and the cat or the spouse needs is asking for something so I’m rushing to finish and BLARGH! It’s ruined!

I guess I got here too late, but in a case like this perhaps the most helpful thing you can do is call ahead and warn everyone “the migra are coming, the migra are coming!” like some kind of modern Paul Revere. That way, the legal citizens can be ready to stall and be unhelpful while anyone with reason to fear can scatter. And if someone is legal but brown they can grab the papers that prove they’re not supposed to be scooped up as well.

Probably because when you were a baby you put everything in your mouth, so the data bank is large

Terry Pratchett.

First drink a pint of water, your brain needs to be hydrated. But you don’t want to be needing to pee during the interview so push the water early and then stop. As for food, carbs will make you sleepier than protein or greens.

Napping would leave me sleepier and disoriented but ymmv.

Maybe a banana sticker would stay on long enough to identify a repeat offender, and would be shed with the skin if it didn’t fall off or wear/scrape off. Meanwhile keep plugging those gaps.

When all the cars have stopped, that’s the safest time for the cyclist to slither up to the front of the line. At 20 mph on a crowded freeway, it’s a little more dangerous but legal in CA as long as they don’t go more than (iirc) 20 mph faster than traffic. At 65 mph on a still-crowded LA freeway, having a bike race past you doing 90 can be disconcerting to say the least. At least you know if they cause an accident and you’re injured, they’ll probably be your organ donor.

Ugh.

No.

Just no.

But these things are completely subjective and you have the right to your own desires.

Squashy Soup. Equal amounts zucchini, butternut squash, and yellow squash cut in bite-size chunks. If you have to buy too many zucchini, you can skip the yellow squash, or vice versa, but you need some kind of orange winter squash. Frozen will do. Pour in enough chicken broth (the kind with salt, or water+bouillon will do) to almost fill in all the spaces but not quite cover. Add ¼ tsp sugar per zucchini in case the zucchini are bitter. Bring to a boil, boil 7 minutes, then turn down the heat. With the back of a wooden spoon or a spatula, press the pieces against the sides of the pot to squash them, they will thicken the soup. It can now simmer on low until you’re ready for it.

Put a piece of toast (sourdough is best but what you have) in your bowl, add a handful of grated cheese, (I like colby-jack or cheddar but whatever you have) and ladle squashed squash soup on top.

So far I’ve only blocked users whose names and posts indicate they’re just here to post porn. Nothing against them, I just want to look at All once in awhile without accidentally (clumsy old-lady fingers) opening someone’s vulva or ass. Nazis I downvote and/or report and/or yell at.

You said you’re the only person in the kitchen when you’re cooking, so do as you will.

The day you have kids in your home, please put a saucer or something next to the stove to rest your spoon on, and turn your pot handles towards the back corner, so you can reach them but a small person can’t. I’ve seen the damage boiling oil did to a small child’s face and scalp. Even a year later it was still horrific and painful.

There’s probably a wiki article, but it’s a mold that grows on black bread, not black mold on white bread. I don’t know about it killing people but it was the Middle Ages, who’d notice another death?

Black bread mold hallucinations were pretty much the basis of a lot of religious epiphanies and witchcraft during the Middle Ages.

https://www.foodandwine.com/how-to-add-flavor-to-soups-and-stews-with-parmesan-rinds-7373158

Mom’s gown, new shoes, Grandma’s pearls, blue garter

“…and a sixpence in her shoe.” It was a silver one from 1910.

Since you’re parsing it out, keep in mind that a Pizza Hut delivery driver in Missouri makes $16.64/hr while one in Los Angeles makes $18.64/hr. But I live in West Los Angeles and tip about 18% because it’s a bitch to get through traffic to my street, especially at dinnertime, and there’s no parking. I tip the same percent for weekly groceries from Yummy.com even though the total is much higher so the tip is about $50 because they’re picking out the items, bagging, driving several miles and lugging several bags to my door. If I had to do it all myself I’d damn well tip myself that much!

California has a multitude of climates. You can take a tram from Palm Springs desert to Idyllwild and play in the snow. Or drive from the beach through the farmlands and wine region to the Sequoias. What we don’t have is reliable rainfall, especially in the regions that need it most. There are very few years when we get the “average annual precipitation,” instead it’s either drought or flood. Some of the worst corruption historically has been about managing floods or stealing water. Very recently we have started trying to do a better job of capturing and storing it for later use and replenishing the groundwater.