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Oh, holidays can be loaded, can’t they? What to make/get/do for Mom on Mother’s Day? What should we cook? Should we go out? These are common questions, and these recipes will help you answer them.
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You love your mom. Your mom loves her wine. Lately you suspect she might love her wine a little more than she loves you, but no matter; Mother’s Day is a perfect opportunity to repay her for all of the things you did growing up that caused her to develop a healthy relationship with wine in the first place. A bottle of her favorite is certainly a fine (read: lazy) idea, but with just a touch more effort you can secure your place as the grand cru offspring with any of the following vinous gifts, whether your mom takes her pinot grigio in a plastic tumbler on ice, is a rosé-all-day (more like all-year) kind of gal, or only drinks first-growth Bordeaux from highly-regarded vintages, but thinks the 2009s are a little over-hyped and ostentatious to the point of being almost blousy, you know?
Your mom’s tasting ability knows no ambition beyond “tastes like wine!” Her idea of a wine bar is a magnum of pinot grigio on the patio. Her favorite part of wine is the alcohol. She’s the coolest. These gifts are both light-hearted and light on the wallet.
Amazon/will’s wine accessories
Book: “Wine. All The Time. The Casual Guide to Confident Drinking”
Nicki Sebastian/Parachute
Amazon/Big Betty
Amazon/Bambüsi
Your mom isn’t afraid to ask for the wine list, but her refined system of evaluation is to choose the second least-expensive selection. She’s casually interested in learning what wine is about and isn’t limited by the word “dry” to describe what she likes. Also, she likes everything. She’s awesome.
Vivino
Book: “Wine Folly: The Essential Guide to Wine”
Wine Folly
Amazon/Le Chateau
Wine Saver Bottle Stopper System
Amazon/AKSESROYAL
Your mom won’t hesitate to go head-to-head with the sommelier. She has opinions about Russian River versus Willamette Valley Pinot Noir. She can name more Italian grape varietals than cast members of “Real Housewives.” She’s the best.
Vinebox
Amazon/Ivation
Book: “World Atlas of Wine”
Octopus Books
Coravin Wine Preservation System
Amazon/Coravin
No more eating Taco Bell in ignorance! Chain restaurants with more than 20 locations will now be legally required to display calorie counts on their menus. This law not only applies to fast food joints, but sit-down restaurants, convenience stores, vending machines, and even movie theater concession stands. Information about sodium and fat must also be made available to consumers as well.
The law is one of the last pieces of legislation from Obama’s 2010 Affordable Care Act to go into effect, as it has faced multiple delays over the past eight years.
Numerous chains including McDonald’s, Starbucks, and Chipotle have already started to implement menu labeling in anticipation of these new guidelines (which is how I currently know that an Oreo McFlurry has 570 calories, thank you very much). The FDA claims it will work with the restaurant industry in the coming year to help educate them about how to best meet these new standards.
While the goal of the law is to provide consumers with adequate nutritional information in order to help them make more informed dining decisions, researchers are unsure whether or not these new regulations will actually have an impact. A recent study from New York University found that only eight percent of consumers adjusted their orders after reading calorie counts. So yeah, maybe not.
However, these new regulations may be effective in getting chain restaurants to offer healthier options, given the newfound transparency of their menus. After all, if all your appetizers have over 1,000 calories, that’s not a good look. It will definitely be interesting to see what, if any, impact the law will have on shifts in consumer behavior and corporate responsibility. But regardless of the cultural outcome, one thing’s for sure: I’ll still be chowing down on a slice of Cheesecake Factory’s Reese’s peanut butter cheesecake….all 1,330 calories of it!
Elon Musk is starting a candy company. We can see you rolling your eyes at this prospect already, but he’s actually “super serious” about it. At least according to his latest Twitter tirade. And you don’t get more serious than social media rants.
I am super super serious
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 5, 2018
Musk also tweeted out the phrase “cryptocandy” without any context whatsoever. At this point it’s basically just an episode of “Black Mirror” waiting to happen.
Cryptocandy
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 5, 2018
While there’s no telling what the eccentric tech billionaire has in store for the culinary world, we can’t help but speculate at what marvels or horrors this aspiring Willy Wonka could bring forth. Will there be chocolate made from space rocks? Or sugar crystals cooked in hyper loops? We can’t even fathom what futuristic candy looks or tastes like, but it’s got to be better than what’s on convenience store shelves now, right? Let’s give Sweet Tarts and Pixie Sticks the tech-savvy upgrade they deserve.
Whether or not any of this candy business comes to fruition, you’ve got to admit, Musk would look pretty sweet in a velvety purple overcoat, while handing out golden tickets. But then again, who wouldn’t?
And speaking of Willy Wonka, it seems like Elon Musk just had an epiphany that most of us reach at middle school slumber parties.
It just occurred to me that the plot of Willy Wonka is really messed up
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 5, 2018
Really? You didn’t realize that a manipulative titan of industry with highly questionable labor practices and a penchant for killing off greedy children in streams of chocolate is “really messed up?” I guess this is what happens when you’re too busy shooting cars into space from the comfort of your own private island.
With just a few spices you can turn a plain ol’ roasted chicken into something special to make on a weeknight or for an outstanding dinner for company.
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We make pancakes weekly in our house. Most of the time, I substitute half of the all-purpose flour with spelt or whole wheat pastry flour and top our pancakes with fruit, but sometimes it’s nice to go with a classic like Buttermilk Pancakes.
For this recipe, I wanted to make fluffy, light, and airy buttermilk pancakes with crisp edges, and a slightly sweet, buttery flavor. Forty pancakes later, I was happy with my results: I finally figured out how to avoid the common pitfalls of dense, chewy, eggy, or rubbery pancakes.
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