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yeah wtv i’m a buzzfeed apologist but the worth it series is genuinely so good. it’s a nice concise format starring good food and bc 2/3 options are tenable meals that don’t cost hundreds of dollars there’s always good food recs in there. i used to just watch them as background noise as i would eat, but recently i’ve come to appreciate how well made they are—especially as the show progressed
Feb 2, 2024
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i would watch those cooking compilations for hours a day during quarantine. i even bought the cookbook
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In college, I was really struggling with debilitating depression and anxiety. The life transition as a socially maladroit, possibly autistic person was hard to deal with. To get myself to sleep, I would watch Good Eats every night until I conked out. For me, the show embodies passion and comfort, curiosity and enjoyment. The idea that looking closely at the world isn't the cause of fear, but rather the cause of joy. I learned to love cooking from the show.
Ten years later and I'm in a similar place in life, albeit wiser and more self-awareness, but with Good Eats still reminding me of all that I value in the world.
May 19, 2025
Everyone knows how miserable to Google search algorithm has gotten. Youtube and especially YT shorts is the best resource I’ve found for recipes, especially those outside of my own culture. It’s refreshing to see multiple people making food in their home kitchens. It feels like they’re opening a door into their home to cook me a meal or sharing the recipes of the mothers and grandmothers with me. You may not get exact measurements but if you’re fairly comfortable in the kitchen there is no better way to discover and follow new recipes. I will usually start with a larger/more popular creator to get a general idea of amounts and ingredient substitutions then corroborate with videos that only have a handful of views. It also gives you ideas of the equipment people use and feels like a beautiful intimate slice of life. Another bonus is I’m exposed to interesting new music through this videos that would have never popped up in the algorithm organically.
For Indian recipes, Shwasti is a good starting place but the youtube shorts of people in their home kitchen like this have really helped me level up my paneer bhurji. I watch a lot of videos from Hebbar as well.
Misir Wot (Ethiopian Red Lentils) is another of my favorite discoveries from scrolling and the best recipes I’ve found have been from videos like these.
The absolute star of the show was this Mhadjeb (Algerian flatbread with an onion and tomato filling) that freezes very well and is totally vegan. I did use the baking hermann recipe (the first short I saw depicting this dish) for the dough as I am not as comfortable with doughs and needed grams, but for the fillings and the actual assembly method I found shorts to be most helpful.
The internet can often feel bad and gross but this is one of those time I feel intense gratitude for the widespread access to smartphones.
Oct 11, 2024
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if you think you’re the smartest person in your friend group you’re weird and annoying. the best friendships come out of mutual awe and respectability. be friends with people who make you want to know more things.
Jan 29, 2024
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i will never be in a situationship in the same way i will never be in the land of oz--it's just not real. i think using the word doesn't let you self-reflect in a way that is truly helpful. i was telling my friend about the awkwardness of seeing an exhook up in a relationship bc i thought we had mutual feelings and she said "oh your exsituationship" and i thought (for the first time) no, we had clear boundaries i just got my hopes up. my point is that instead of using situationship as a catch-all for not quite dating or wtv failed prospect, take it as a moment to reflect on what exactly went wrong. idk if this is profound or not
Jan 30, 2025
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idk if any of this will be remotely helpful, but this is generally how i see socializing
to find friends:
1. do something consistently
2. do something where other people are also (generally) by themselves
3. do something that requires discussion
exercise classes, coffee shops, open studios, libraries, organizing/protesting/charity work; really to acquire friends you just have to do things that's it. do things you like so you are around people who share similar interests and thus will have a higher "friend hit rate" but really the most essential point on the list is the first one (the other two are nice bonus'). with enough consistency you become noticed and then boom.
on becoming friends:
1. open invites
2. follow ups
now that you've just met some people, get them into your circle by open inviting them to things. if you're going out later that night, offer for them to join. if you're both in a pottery class maybe offer an open invite to a gallery you're visiting. this is how you shift casual acquaintances to actual friends. the important thing is to concretize your plans tho. you're not trying to pressure them but you do want to make them feel like it was more than just a vapid offer, so after you suggest it wait a bit and follow up with details. this also goes for the reverse of being given an open invite.
on being friends:
1. do
the best piece of advice (which might have come from pi.fyi) is that sometimes you just need to be the doer. maybe you see a tiktok about a picnic with friends and you think dang wouldn't it would be cool if my friends did that. well, there's nothing stopping you, you have to be the friend that does stuff. obviously this is a little time consuming and exhausting but generally people want to pay it forward so once you get the ball rolling on the friend group doing stuff, people usually follow suit
also fear is the mind killer, go forth and be
Jan 27, 2025