Emchap's Shit from the Internet 02/16/22 🍠
I spent all of yesterday in a literally 10-hour Zoom meeting; to buy our compliance, work allowed us to expense lunch. Having not wanted to make lunch, I was pleased by the turn of events. I ordered a sub from Safeway, because I am a bitch who loves a sandwich.
Having grown up in Publix territory, I was expecting a nicer version of a Subway footlong. What arrived was, to my surprise, the size of a newborn child. It was fully 18 inches long and probably 9 inches wide. It was thicc.
The sub had cost something like $8, so as far as I can tell this has to have been a mistake or Safeway is really losings its shirt on the deli counter. I have never felt quite so much like a hobbit as I did yesterday at lunch, dinner, and lunch again when I ate that stupid giant Italian sub for three meals. It was the sort of meal full of hard meats an bread and cheese that one might pack to go on an Adventure, except that I hadn’t left my house, and I was sort of worried that it might kill me.
I finally finished the thing off today at lunch; it put up a formidable fight but was ultimately no match for my love of deli products. For dinner I will be having a sensible soup, and I hope to recover some of my sense of equilibrium in this vale of wrath and tears.
Shit to read
Having never read a Sally Rooney book, I nonetheless enjoyed this piece on how she handles her characters’ bisexuality in weird ways.
People getting mostly inexplicably mad online is my favorite thing.
I enjoyed this piece on why the woman who wrote the weightlifting program that led to me starting to lift started lifting herself.
A really lovely piece about Atlanta’s first Indian restaurant; the brother-in-law and sister mentioned in the piece were my neighbors when we first moved to Atlanta, and could not have been nicer people.
Shit to eat
Cut up an onion.
Melt some butter
Combine, stir until soft.
When that’s done, put four tablespoons of red curry paste in with it, and stir. Be thankful you ordered tiny liquid measuring cups, as it’s much easier than trying to wedge a tablespoon measure into a curry paste container.
While that’s happening, peel and chop a sweet potato you found in the back of the fridge. Add it.
Take a bag of carrots, similarly abandoned, and peel and chop them. In they go.
Add three cups of vegetable broth (or three cups of water and a glob of better than bullion); bring to a boil while covered.
Lower the heat and let simmer for a half hour. Your house will smell great.
When that’s done, take off the heat and toss in a can of coconut milk.
Immersion blend.
Taste, salt, maybe add some lime.
Serve with cilantro and enjoy the best soup.
(Adapted from Budget Bytes’ Thai Coconut Curry Carrot Soup)
Shit to watch
How in the fuck did this show get made.
Shit to buy
Do I need more of these dresses no do I want more of these dresses look