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I try this with green onions all the time. They get a tiny spurt of life and then get gooey and gross no matter how much or how little attention I give them. Cursed!

If you live in Texas (and maybe other SOuthern states, I don't know), Fiesta is hands down the best. I can get 6 months worth of chickpeas for $2 and 6 months of quinoa for maybe $8? Don't even get me started on lentils. I go to the HEB (our Star/Shaws, Krueger, Albertsons equivalent) every week and a half or so for my produce because the selection is strangely broader then, but for pantry staples and spices I stock up at Fiesta every 3 months or so. Did I mention the pirates' stash of saffron I can get there versus the arm and a leg at my regular place? Fiesta is a treasure trove because while it's marketed mostly as the Texican grocery, it has huge European, Middle Eastern, Indian, African, and Carribean selection. The Asian selection is decent, but Austin has a million gigantic Asian grocery stores for a broad selection.

This will sound ridiculous, but...I HATE THOSE DAMNED FRENCH AND ENGLISH COLONIAL MONKEYS! I want to smash every creepy monkey I see. Why?! Why must they haunt me so???????????

I just- what? While AT was my go to, I still read TK every day and RN, OD, and UP every two days. Why isn't all the content for AT together? It just makes no sense. Rather than further chopping it I've always wanted to be able to view everything from all the channels of all the sites. The new design just feels so cold and cataloged. It's not inviting. Sad

I've been thinking about doing this, but having worked in retail/resale for so long in the past, the reversed hangers make me angry and fidgety. I do have a new rule now though- at least once a week I wear one of my skirts and one of my dresses. I have beautfiul things, but in the morning rush I just forget them and go for comfort.

CrazyLady, coconuts are considered a tree nut, so the overlap between people with almond allergies and coconut is pretty large. Like my boyfriend, who could not resist my macarons, even when he broke out in hives.
And, sadly he's also allergic to pumpkin so this recipe is of no use to me.
BUT-
We've been making sunflower seed flour for macarons. We've been pretty successfully.

Finally! Every time I see a post about chalkboard paint in the kitchen I start screaming irrately about wax pencils. All you need is a scrubber and 3 seconds to remove the wax when you do the dishes.

Ugh, I am so damned tired of seeing chalkboard paint on food storage.
It's called a wax pencil people.
No smudging, but still erasable. No risk of chipping and contaminating. Usable on many many surfaces and preexisting containers. And it's ridiculously cheap.

I bought barberries for an Uzbek pilaf that was just...wrong. What can I do with these guys? Sub them for cranberries? I have no idea.

I have a similar issue. We put the entertainment focus in a corner and the couch at an angle diagonally across the room so the the front door opens to the walk way behind the couch through to the next room. It only works because we don't use our fire place. When we can afford it we're definitely getting a smaller couch.