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Pizza night.

Basically $3 per person and most of that is cheese.

Pizza 1: honey ham, home grown bell pepper, mushroom.

Pizza 2: pepperoni, mushroom, olive, banana pepper.

Cutting board: made from poplar. Made from passive aggressive spite. You should never frame a board like this one is. The normal swelling of wood as it absorbs and sheds humidity will cause it to snap itself apart. It was made in 2019 to test if a thin enough board could survive. I have only ever used it for cutting pizza because poplar is soft for a hard wood and every knife and pizza cutter leaves a mark. It's great for end grain boards but not face or edge grain.

Anyway, the board refuses to break despite more than 200 pizzas.

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Burgers, squash.
  • And I actually like cheddar with a little texture still in it on my burger.

  • Burgers, squash.
  • Cut, olive oil, homemade herb d provence. 400°f for about 35 minutes. Sometimes I will put them under the broiler for the last few minutes to add a little bit of texture, color and caramelization.

    You can go with chili powder, curry or whatever other seasoning you've got.

    If you like hummus though, then I have to recommend the one I posted a couple days ago with a link in the comments. Hummus made from squash is by far my new favorite.

    I do understand your squash burger issue. I almost intentionally phrased it that way to play off squash and smash.

  • Burgers, squash.
  • Could have been better with higher quality buns.

  • Burgers, squash.
  • Definitely not. We might have a few snacks but this is our only meal of the day and her plate looked identical to mine.

  • Burgers, squash.
  • I put it on right after flipping but it didn't melt enough. Since I was making sure to get a good sear I didn't want to mess it up by adding a steam dome.

  • Burgers, squash.

    Meat was free. Squash was homegrown free.

    Cost per person, $2.00 Cost per person if you had to buy everything: $6.75

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    Heathcliff without Heathcliff 7/10/2025
  • "HeAtHcLiFf IsN't PoLiTiCaL!"

  • Squash hummus, homemade bread
  • It has dramatically changed my opinion on squash. I was all "it's a thing I guess" to "this is amazing"

  • Squash hummus, homemade bread
  • Historically I have never used it fast enough to keep it around. I do keep sesame seeds on hand and I can do a quick toast and grind for some applications but for hummus I want a degree of creamy that's hard to get even with the best of home equipment. So for this one I substituted.

  • Squash hummus, homemade bread
  • Sorry. Got distracted by life and never hit send.

    The recipe.

  • Squash hummus, homemade bread

    Yellow squash hummus with homemade bread. I'm fighting through my squash surplus and the idea of hummus came up.

    At first I was worried about the texture being too, well, you might know, but figured I'd give it a try. I didn't have any tahini but I figured if I did that peanut butter substitution it might work enough to figure out if I should buy some. But I only used half the amount.

    The recipe I found called for two large yellow squash. I found that my garden and their imagination has two very different ideas on what large means. I ended up doubling the salt, lemon juice, cumin and olive oil. Recipe in comments.

    Did it work? Definitely. It is amazing. As I was plating mine my wife made an exceptionally rare request for hot sauce. Just a tiny amount. It was perfect.

    Definitely saving this recipe.

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    Chef's food 'decoration' at Chinese pre-school poisons 233 children
  • Chef obviously never watched Chopped! If you put a non-edible element on your plate you are just asking to get sent home.

  • Sunday edition

    This week's Sunday edition edit where I add Heathcliff to something is provided by @anekonamednancy.bsky.social who posted this the other day.

    If you are deficient in anime boobs or Canadian issues their posts have you covered.

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    fried chicken rice with sambal
  • Cool. I should go to West Java

  • 145 people at France music festival report being pricked with syringes after online calls to target women
  • Updated: toxicology reports have all come back negative for anything.

    I don't have a quality source because I don't know how to search for French stories but there was some English coverage on a podcast.

    If anyone has a quality report showing the toxicology results or the outcomes or updates on any of the arrests I'd love to see them.

  • Sleeping beauty bitcoin wallets wake up after 14 years to the tune of $2 billion
  • Two wallets. 10k BTC each. These wallets were created back when BTC was 78¢. When you spend $10k the IRS might ask questions. If you are "structuring" correctly you avoid spending $9,999 and $1 within a short time span or even in the same reporting period. 10k BTC back then was something you could buy that looked like it wasn't $10k but was really close. Spend it twice in two different wallets and if there are enough other transactions no one will notice.

    Anytime you see a transaction or set of transactions that add up to or are just shy of 10k USD, BTC or pretty much anything, there should be a little bell that dings in your head and causes you to think "this person is clearly thinking about US tax reporting laws and trying to dodge them."

    Who had all that money back in 2011 that decided that now was the time to tap those wallets that are worth a billion each? Obviously someone that hasn't needed the money until now. Someone that is planning on spending up to 2 billion. But not right away because if you try to sell 20k BTC in a hurry it will draw attention and potentially destabilize the currency. But you could sell it all off over the next year or longer without flooding the market.

    Who wants to spend up to $2 billion in the next year? What could you buy with that kind of money? Elon musk spent ~$250 million getting Trump elected. That's just an eighth of $2B. You could buy a lot of super PAC power with $2B. You could bankroll the primarying of every Republican that voted for OBBB. Weird that these wallets were dusted off so close to Elon saying he would primary anyone that voted for OBBB, and he has a strong affinity for crypto, and he had enough money in 2011 to buy that much BCT on a whim, and that he wouldn't have had to touch it to pay other bills as BTC went from 78¢ to more than $100,000 over the last 14 years.

    I wonder who these wallets belong to and what they will be used for?

    This is what conspiracy thinking looks like. It's me. I'm the one conspiracy thinking.

  • Grilled cheese and squish.

    Bread home made. Cheese is some home smoked halloumi. Squish is home grown ass and baked with some home made herbs de provence except I didn't have lavender flowers.

    Cost per person: $1 because at this point homegrown squish is basically free and the cheese was on clearance. If you have the ability to cold smoke cheese you never pass up clearance cheese.

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    Salad, bacon and apple cider vinegar dressing

    We ended up with a lot of free romaine today. Too much. Like an impossible amount. So we gave some to our birds and delivered some to three other people with livestock because it was a crazy amount.

    I took some and some kitchen leftovers and made salad. You can't see the hard boiled sliced duck eggs under the feta which is under the bacon and croutons. Because I suck at plating.

    Cost per person: $4.50, mostly because of bacon and feta. Can you order this anywhere? Yes but no.

    1
    Smoked sausage and pasta salad.

    Smoked sausage sandwiches with provolone. Escabeche and pickled sweet peppers from last year when a neighbor gave me pounds of surplus peppers.

    Cost per person: $6.03 not including any mustard or picked peppers. But, as you can see, this is an unreasonable serving size. One sausage per person with the commercial pasta salad would be $3.34 Can you get this anywhere? Maybe?

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