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Sheetpan Tacos

My favorite type of cooking is not, and this was the perfect recipe for it.

Cooked the meat the night before. All that was required today was knife work and assembly.

Warm the shells before assembly to avoid tears. Brush both sides with olive oil. Smear with sour cream and hot sauce.

Add cheese and meat to one half. Top with more cheese, onion, bell pepper, sour cream, and hot sauce. Fold. Top with more cheese.

Bake at 400°F for 20 mins.

Topped with sour cream and Herdez Avocado cilatro sauce. Plated with lettuce, tomatoe, onion and bell pepper.

Somebody gon have to take that avo-cilo sauce from me. I hate avocado and cilantro. One tastes like mush the offer like soap, but I'm processed together in a sauce, fantastic. I had it at a restaurant (inhouse made), and I went through a quarter of the bottle.

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Pasta alla Carbonara

I did it. It's good. Will I make it again? Probably not, or if I do, I'm adding what I want.

I followed the Pasta Queens recipe.

I made way too much. I did three yolks. Should've just done two. Might invest in a pepper mill.

Had it with a bowl of Caesar salad and a wedge of bread.

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Uncontained 2025

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Can these people stop fucking each other!!!

I get that it's a thing on shows because it's cheaper and easier to have your characters' love interest already be in the castlist, but this is too much.

Good lord I think in the season and a half (started at S3:E8) I watched I think all of the characters except the gay one and the black ones (heavy side eye) have slept with at least two people a piece who work in g.d. hospital. I can't take it anymore. It's becoming incestuous.

Is it this bad on Grey's?

Also, I've been watching this show for at least 16 episodes, and not once have they mentioned the cost or had a patient freaking out because they can't afford surgery. But there is a free clinic, so what is that about?

Is this what it's like to have national healthcare?

If this were American, most of the procedures would be the staff figuring out how to game the system or people leaving because it costs too much, and the debt would drive them into our further into poverty. I hate it here.

I'm on S5 now, and of course, the new people are banging. It's a heavy eye roll and groan from me.

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I love the bird. Two days in a row. Two ways.

I've been eating at the diner table and not hunched over on the couch, and it feels so much better.

I feel like a person. It's making me feel worthy of being alive. Using a knife and fork and sitting yup straight to eat my food has changed my brain chemistry.

I do it for breakfast, too. It's great. It helps get you ready for the day.

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Oven baked chili cheese dogs

Garlic butter on the buns (butter, jarlic, garlic powder, parsley, dill. Sprinkle with cheddar.

Favorite canned chili, cheddar, and hotdog

Onion strings and zesty sauce

Thinly slice onions and soak in butter milk, 1 hour

Coating: flour, rice flour, corn starch, onion powder, garlic powder, salt, paprika.

Zesty sauce drizzle: Look up a burger king copy cat, and modify to your liking.

350°F Bake buttered buns for five minutes. Assemble dogs. Bake 20 minutes.

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I was watching a true crime show that is told from the point of view of "how could this happen here?" And that sentiment rubs me the wrong way. Maybe it's because I'm Black and the "safe" neighborhoods are always white.

It's so irritating hearing people talk about neighborhoods of color, from outsiders, like they are just these dens of iniquity and danger. Like the people living in them are just criminals in waiting. Like the white neighborhoods are bastions keeping the unsavory element out. That when something bad happens, it's an anomaly, a horrible tragedy. Not that their neighborhoods have just as many unsavory elements as everywhere else and that they are under policed.

There are no unsafe neighborhoods. Every neighborhood is safe. It's certain people in them that aren't.

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Spoilers for I Know What You Did Last Summer (2025)

My only complaint is that Karla's line is about therapy (what???) and not her going, "I always said Ray was sketchy." She did not like Ray from jump. Vindication.

I knew something was off with him when he said that being married to Julie was the worst time in his life. Like bitch, I know that's not true, she's Jennifer Love Hewitt.

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I do not care for real-world product name drops in books. It takes me out of the story.

Though I don't mind if it's vehicles. They are all boxes with wheels to me, so a brand name or model helps me understand what I'm looking at.

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30 Days of Found Footage Horror 2000s to Present (2025)

Day 3: Butterfly Kisses (2018)

A director discovers a box of videotapes showing the creepy film project of two students that stars a local horror legend.

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I finally watched Buffalo '66 after hearing a certain demographic rave about how incredible it is and. . . Meh.

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I've been thinking about what to do with my movie tickets. I was thinking of a shadow box or a tall vase. Anything that would keep them out of direct light and wouldn't get too cold or hot. Then it hit me fishbowl.

I was going to go looking for one, then I saw this jar my niece got from someone's open house (it was full of gumballs). Sometimes, things just fall into your lap.

Conclave, bay-beeee.

I love being able to see all the movies I've seen. Some were so faded I had to write what it was on the back. These are from maybe 2011 onward

I hate these new paper tickets. They are too big. Go back to the cardstock.

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t h e b a y, 2012 🎬 dir. narry levinson

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The Battery (2012) by Jeremy Gardner.

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Ruairi and Ethan team up is the definition of, two dumb bitches telling each other exactly.

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I'm 12 minutes into this movie, and I see my family, and I don't like it.

I hate it here.

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I come from a family of big personalities. The problem is the personalities all suck.