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Cake day: July 1st, 2023

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  • There is no good local takeaway in my current area. I briefly lived in an area that had a decent place (not even great, just a notch above the chains) and it ruined crappy pizzas for me enough to take up pizza making. I mean don’t get me wrong I’ll still do little Caesars from time to time if I need cheap calories, but if I want real pizza I’ll make it myself.



  • I’m with you on Skullcandy headphones. It’s not just that they’re cheap, there’s better ones for the same or less. Anker soundcore are my go to - pretty good and very affordable. Mpow honestly weren’t bad, I’d get them before Skullcandy. My low-mid range Sony’s have been great and shockingly durable.

    But my skullcandies all sounded like listening through a pair of socks, and the controls were awful when they did work, which wasn’t very long.











  • I used to struggle with picking seasonings too, but here’s a strategy that I picked up from the internet somewhere:

    1. Decide which basic flavor(s) you need
    2. Pick an ingredient that will satisfy one or more of those flavors.

    Here’s a baseline “basic flavors” that should always land you a flavorful meal:

    • heat (eg peppers, wasabe)
    • acid (fruit, vinegar)
    • salt (table salt, soy sauce)
    • fat (butter, bacon grease)

    But there’s a few others that might come in handy, like:

    • sweet (sugar, honey, fruit, many veggies)
    • mint (thyme, rosemary, basil, black pepper)
    • bitter (grapefruit, many veggies)
    • savory (soy sauce, meats)
    • whatever flavor alliums have (onions, garlic)

    Of course, figuring out which basic flavors you need is still a skill to develop, but this two-stage process helped me a lot. Plus, if you’re trying to stay traditional, then the second stage where you pick the ingredient may already be chosen for you. Mexican food needs acid? Lime. Italian needs heat? Red pepper flakes. Asian needs salt? Soy sauce.

    TL;DR: Don’t go straight to choosing ingredients you need, instead choose a basic flavor you need then pick ingredients that will satisfy that flavor.