Emchap's Shit from the Internet 12/8/21 đ
I am feeling very âsmooth brain, no thoughtsâ today. Work and the dark have made me much less interesting of late. So, thatâs all the essay weâre getting today.
Shit to read
The great resignation is mostly just service workers job hopping to better gigs, which seems very good.
This review of a bad fine dining experience made me cry laugh. Wait until you get to the mouth.
True crime has rotted peoplesâ brains.
MLMs but make it eco vibes.
I enjoyed this list of useful kitchen items for those considering gifts.
This piece I think best summarizes the multiple tragedies of the false conviction for Alice Seboldâs rape.
The AV Club being taken out back and shot bums me out.
I loved this piece about the failures of Clubhouse and why VCs canât build enjoyable social networks.
Shit to eat
Decide you want to make a lemon cake with lemon curd between the layers.
We will ignore the cake, because it was a disaster, curses upon Mark Bittman.
But the lemon curd!
Zest two lemons. If you, like me, finally bought a microplane, it wonât be as hard as you feared.
Put the zest in a thick bottom saucepan with 150g sugar.
Massage them together with a quarter teaspoon of salt (or a half teaspoon if you have gotten your shit together enough to stop buying Mortonâs, which I havenât).
In goes 3/4 cup of lemon juice.
Add in 4 yolks and an egg.
Stir stir stir until itâs all lightened up.
Onto the stove it goes over medium, whisk forever.
Once it registers 170 F (which took twice as long for me as the recipe said it would, who knows), take it off the heat.
Cube a stick of butter and stir in each piece one at a time off the heat.
And in goes the vanilla.
Think about how youâve avoided making lemon curd for years because of a disastrous failure of a double boiler version of curd which ended in you crying as water overtook the bowl of curd.
This is better.
Eat it off a spoon until it goes into a cake.
(Adapted from Dessert Person; you can see Claire making it here.)
Shit to listen to
This very charming famous person karaoke video.