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They also yada-yada'd the brutal animal Amado was. He was played by such an extraordinary actor that made him such a likeable character.....because they never had Amado actually DO that many horrifying things, when he did SO MANY and that's how he got in charge and stayed in charge. I need Pacho Herrera to just show up in random shows for cameos. He's amazing. And I will never tire of anyone calling Chapo "Chapito" because the actor playing him is actually super adorable. It felt like every plot line except for Walt's was sidelined somehow. It wasn't that there were so many storylines to track, it was just that every storyline somehow got short shrifted except for fucking Walt's, and he is BY FAR the worst central character of the show on every season. Even Murphy was better than this guy. The actor playing the kid brother was fucking awful. The reporter was fucking awful. Walt's girlfriend was fucking awful. The women of Juarez deserve an entire miniseries or series for themselves. They deserve way beyond being a minor storyline in a show about drug cartels, even if their deaths were cartel related or adjacent.

I'm kind of on board with this theory. It's always been a leap of faith that Greg would have been so readily and easily embraced into the family, so it has to be for a very specific reason. And when he walked away from grandpa's money, I thought it was foreshadowing that he would end up better off in the end.

It could be discontinued, or it could also be product expiration dates beyond a certain point. Grocery stores return or purge product that hits certain expiration dates. If it's not a high demand item, companies may also have elected to stop making it if they are facing shortages. Like the current situation with Coke and Pepsi only making their more popular formulas since they have a shortage.

Ina Garten. Start there. She's always solid.

We do have excellent housing costs compared to both coasts!!

No kidding. What is she supposed to wear around her children and stepchildren? A burqa? Jesus, the sexism is stifling.

YES. I think they have the best fast food burgers next to In N Out.

I have mixed feelings on plant based ice creams. I enjoy the option to eat fewer meat based options, and I will agree with you on the flavors-vanilla isn't your friend here. I have been pleased with some of the oat and coconut milk options I've tried over soy or almond milk variations. There is an oat milk oatmeal cookie flavor that's great, and a S'mores one that was also rather good amongst the ones I've tried. The biggest thing missing from plant based options is the softness and creaminess of real dairy. You have to let it get a little soft since it's rock hard, and the mouth feel is so much better with dairy. I've also tried some of them with the hope they would suffice as a lower calorie option for ice cream, which I crave in the summer but am looking to lose weight, and they do suit that craving well enough. However, I will save up calories any day for a good DQ blizzard over the plant stuff.

I just googled it and it sounds like perfection!! I love a whipped cream filling/frosting over regular frosting, as regular is just too cloying for me in anything more than minimal amounts. (I'm the best kind of friend to have if you're a frosting fiend, you can have almost all of mine!)

There are shortages everywhere in foodservice right now, for multiple reasons. Plastic is up, steel and aluminum are up, lumber (for pallets) is up over 300%. Bad weather last winter in key areas. The Panama Canal boat delayed another boat with a key ingredient that is needed to produce starches for industrial, foodservice, retail markets. My company is facing a crisis like we have never seen with this ingredient. THat, on top of the Texas freeze, where some of the other ingredients to make starch are produced, was not able to get back to full capacity until April. We make puddings/cheese sauces/dips, but think of how many other products utilize starch-baking mixes, pudding mixes, gravies, sauces, etc. This is going to be bad until at least August and may linger until October. Don't be surprised if there are lots of random, unrelated ingredients short in restaurants and the grocery store here and there for the forseeable future. The fact that our shortage is being treated as "not a big deal" to our distributor partners tells me we are not even close to being their biggest headache.

This sparkling grapefruit from Fever Tree is SO GOOD. 30 calories, perfect mix amount for a 1.5/2 oz pour of vodka or gin. Perfect for summer! This is Great

"Never go with a hippie to a second location." That episode is *chef's kiss.* I hate that it took a dark turn with the suicide, but if that's what it takes to get Ava to be less of an asshole, well...

I had to to share the incredible 2 recipes I tried and LOVED the last 2 weeks. Chocolate Oatmeal Moon Pies These are SO good! I'm not usually a marshmallow lady, but these were seriously so amazing. I would suggest storing them in the fridge to keep the marshmallow from getting messy in your storage container. The cookie dough was so good I told my fiance we would be lucky to get any onto the pan. They have chocolate, oatmeal, cherry, and pecan and they are dense but soft, chewy, just the perfect cookie. Considering entering them in the local domestic arts competition for the county fair. Black Forest Cake I was asked to make one for Father's Day and when I say no one could stop eating this, I mean it. Everyone begged to take a slice home. The chocolate cake alone is worthy of worship. I really like Sally's Baking Addiction and have had some major wins from her recipes (there is a lemon blueberry cake that is also amazing). Does anyone else do the county fair competition thing with their baking?

The best part about gin is that the really great ones are still super affordable, especially when you compare it to bourbon or other liquor categories. My faves are Sipsmith, Hendricks, and a few local distilleries are making some quality stuff near me (Indiana). I also enjoy the Hendricks special gins they put out seasonally. I have been a little disappointed in Aviation and the Botanist. They were fine, just nothing special. I love Fever Tree tonics, especially the Mediterranean flavor.

It's also good to know which gins are better for what kind of application. I have found, for example, that some gins are just not as good in a gin and tonic but amazing with fruit/citrus flavors. I think Sipsmith is my favorite "all around" gin, but I also love Hendricks for G&T and general mixing as well. My fiance insists Haysmith is the best for Tom Collins. Best Gin Brands for Gin Drinks

I LOVE GIN. My favorite gin drink is the French 75, which I recommend making with Meyer Lemon Juice and rosemary simple syrup. However. I just made the best cocktail where I put strawberries in a blender, then strained out the seeds. I added some fresh lemon juice, simple syrup, and the strawberry mix with the gin. The best part is you can do with any berry and it's great! You can also use the strawberry mix to make a berry lemonade (1 cup sugar, 1 cup lemon juice, strawberry mix, fill water to 2 quarts) that makes it easy to mix. It's a little sweeter that way, but you can reduce sugar probably by half!

The Sackler family all deserves to be in prison, but so does that LifeTree doctor. That woman's husband and the pictures he took of his poor wife to convince her there was a problem broke my heart. I don't understand how that doctor was able to get her back into his care once the husband had gotten her off of the opoids. My mother passed away last year from metastatic breast cancer, but at the end she was on Fentanyl patches (constant) and oxycodone (as needed-and she did take those more sparingly). We were worried that she was addicted (I think she might have been), but her oncologist that was managing her brain treatments looked us in the eye and said "So? We need to treat the cancer and the pain first, and if she's still with us, we will treat the addiction then." It made sense, but I also sometimes wonder how much those drugs might have contributed to a shorter life span than we might have had with her. Fentanyl also might have given her the best quality of life in her last months, too, so who knows? The fact that these asshole executives have poisoned every part of the check and balance system is absolutely awful, especially for patients in pain like my mom. When I had a minor surgery, they gave me oxycodone to take as needed, and I made a concerted effort to suck it up and endure a little pain in order to take as little as I could. I mainly used it for sleep only after the first 2 days. I was terrified of the addiction possibility.

You are both evil and doing the Lord's work simultaneously.

Pre-pandemic, delivery service was still growing at triple digits YOY, and ghost kitchens were an emerging trend in most major metro markets in order to combat the massive foodservice labor shortage. It was no longer a term of derision as early as 2017. It has been on the market trend radar for quite some time now.

They were running DNA to match it to specific people for paternity, not to make sure Erin was also related to the baby or there were incestual links? If that makes sense.

Holy cow, those look amazing!!!

I wish Leah's bow had functionality. Like "look, this insane bow doubles as a mask! Instead, she looked like Goofy's sad girlfriend. While I think Ramona was trying too hard in the first episode with Eboni, why does Leah have a problem with her saying she connected with her? Even if they didn't speak singularly to each other a lot? You can feel connected to someone by listening to them speak and identifying and empathizing with them. You should know that, LEAH, by the number of fangirls weirdly invested in YOU that probably claim they have a connection with you. My fiance is now desperate for a backyard pizza oven that was cranking out those pies. How amazing did those look?????

My heart broke into 20 million pieces for Dawn. I am guessing that incident might harden her to think her daughter is gone for good, or to not believe it if Katie were to gain access to communication and try to call her mother. That was such an awful scene to watch, especially knowing how weak and sickly she is because of her radiation treatments. I feel like this episode was very centered on the parent/child dynamic that is so fundamental to who we are, how we're raised, how we turn out. Dylan and his parents with his not/son, Mare and her mother and her daughter, Mare and her son, Erin's friend and her mother, Carrie and her son, Colin and his mom. Dawn and the ghost of Katie. Mare's friend and her son. I found all of them compelling and real. With the exception of Dylan and his parents. I feel like it's a stretch that they raised such a shit. Maybe a kid with a big mouth but that cowed to authority, but not this piece of shit.

Not really a food hack, more of a technique. Use your fingers to separate egg yolks and whites. Not a water bottle. Not the shell. Use your soft fingers instead of hard edges that can break the yolks. I got that from Sara Moulton, circa 2000.

Totally agree-the Pepsi Zero Mango made me want to barf, but my fiance and his daughter both like it! I also agree with zero sugar sodas getting considerably better. While Diet Dr. Pepper is really good, I would encourage you to try the new Dr. Pepper Zero-one of the closest to the original formulas I think is out there and it's still fairly new. Finally, Coke has re-released Cherry Vanilla Coke Zero. I became obsessed during quarantine, then they stopped making it due to the aluminum shortage, now it's back, albeit in plastic bottles. Cans are SO much better tasting than the stupid plastic bottles.