Sam

Do you do the knife bulb smooshy technique

A partially eaten cheesy gordita crunch. The bokeh background shows a sandy beach, a sliver of the ocean, and the Pacifica Taco Bell Cantina.

A view of ocean waves breaking and turning to foam on the shore

Beachside taco bell afternoon, happy birthday to me!

Yeah! One of the best tomato sauces I've eaten, for sure. I think next time I might reserve less of the crushed tomatoes to add back at the end, but using the sauce it a baked pasta brought back all that maillardy goodness, woof

A dutch oven containing a cooked tomato sauce with visible pieces of basil. The inside walls of the dutch oven are covered with a browned splatter; a silicone spatula is partially submerged in the sauce.

A pan containing a thin base layer of tomato sauce, atop of which rest three rows of large shell pasta, six per row, each stuffed with a cheese and vegetable filling

The same pan as the previous image, but with an additional layer of sauce and cheese on top, browned from being baked

Three stuffed shells on a white background

Made one of those cook-for-six-hours tomato sauces yesterday, used it for stuffed shells today, oh my god... #puppychef (I followed the seriouseats recipes)

I've never had these before—it turned out really well! So decadent!

adding typescript annotations at the Ballmer Peak, let's go

Woof... (walkies)

I've been wanting to try making these! 👀

I played the gigue from the bach e major partita at a local coffee shop's open mic night tonight. The very piece which inspired yesterday's sadposting. It went pretty well and people said nice things to me 🥺❤️ so I'm feeling a lot better about it...

I can't imagine quitting but I also can't imagine improving. And at this point I think I would prefer *piano* lessons, if I were to take any. Mm.

Difficult to find joy in the violin when I pick it up, recently. Mostly aware of problems: pinching my thumb and first finger on the neck, tension in my jaw / difficulty supporting the instrument, intonation, articulation, rigidity in my right hand and the lack of control in relaxing it, ...

they're good socks!

ordered a bunch of socks to replace the ones I wear daily, which reminded me of this video from the last time I did that (August 2023)

I added a second wall shelf by my computer... I used a drill... So masculine of me...

Are the jackhammers outside your house making it difficult to focus? You may have ADHD.

Husband's suggestion was a giant windshield-wiper-esque mechanism into a ditch. I am open for counterproposals. We can pick the most cost-effective one.

The giant "keep clear" printed in the intersection outside my Costco demonstrably is not enough. My proposal: a giant trapdoor comprising the entire intersection; once between light cycles, all cars who've fucked up are plummeted straight to the earth's core.

He didn't fall for it :^( @oldrego.com

I have a "leave the house" task in my habit tracker for this purpose

Creating separate albums for "food pics in the dog bowls" and "food pics I can send my parents"

For puppies!

A close-up of some homemade focaccia. Salt crystals are visible on the golden-brown dimpled surface.

Homemade focaccia resting on a cooling rack.

Bread... #puppychef

Thank you 🥺 (what if I started plating my food into dog bowls, hmm...)

Not really, the feta is quite briney already!

That's the power of cheese for ya

Oh! The tiktok feta pasta, we do that too, it's great bsky.app/profile/paws...

Today I was trying to use up the remaining tomatoes from when we last did that, haha

That seems so sensible...

I put cherry tomatoes in a pot and they became a sauce. I also tried this thing my husband keeps telling me about where you put a parmesan rind in the sauce/soup, for flavor— I then had to google about whether you're supposed to remove it 😐 ... (mine had melted quite a bit) #puppychef

Up til 2am explaining the plot of Dune to my husband, oops

I am playing video game "Nine Sols" www.twitch.tv/Ehnu

I am playing video game "Nine Sols" www.twitch.tv/Ehnu