Favorite aunt status: maintained. 😅 A few moments from a “babysitting” day with my nieces, air quotes very much required since they’re older now… but I just like to mess with them haha. Their parents were off on a cruise, so I stayed with them for a week and came in with my Mary Poppins bag of tric

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Sourdough is so easy actually 🤪🫠 Winging my sourdough again, this time with brown sugar and cinnamon, and it turned out really soft and really good. I think I know why: I didn’t stress about measuring or following every step, and I used David while he was hungry. No scale, no panic, just vibes, and

I just think it's so cool that all of these little plants came from me making dinner. I saved the seeds from what we were cooking with, sprinkled them onto the soil pods in my indoor Click & Grow garden shelf, and then forgot about them. That's it. Now I get to bring these tiny plants to my son's s

Hardly any measuring, just vibes. A little reverse psychology, maybe? 🤪 Yet ANOTHER sourdough attempt, this time from way outside my own kitchen. I'm "babysitting" my Gen Z nieces, and what kind of sitter would I be if I didn't leave them some fresh-baked bread? David, my starter, is famous for doi

Started out SO promising. Mixed the dough, did my stretch and folds, let it cold ferment in the fridge overnight, shaped it the next day, rested it in the fridge again, then baked. Good rise, good crust, even passed the squish test. And then I cut into it and the texture is just... dense. Gummy. He

Tried the easiest sourdough discard recipe possible. Also, huge news: my sourdough starter finally has a name!! David. Named after the "No, David!" books, because he gives does-not-want-to-listen energy and has since day one. Recipe Details: For every 100g of discard melt 1 tablespoon of butter

I’m a sourdough expert now…jk jk jk. 😂 This is loaf number four for my mom's classroom, since her whole room is frog-themed and she calls her students tadpoles, so obviously I had to make her a frog loaf. 🐸🍞Dyed the dough green, shaped him after cold-fermenting in the fridge, and used a dark chocol

No commentary needed when my crazy noises tell the whole story... 😆👍🫠 Zero talking, just my unhinged sound effects, because apparently that's the actual content y’all come for. Combined the videos into one full beginning-to-end saga, so you get the whole arc: inflate, survive, deflate, repeat.

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Sourdough police: tell me what I can do better! Also the starter still doesn't have a name, so if you have ideas, I'm listening....Randomly decided today was the day I'd bake my first loaf of sourdough, even though I'm not fully convinced my starter was ready. He's two weeks old, very bubbly, and I

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I may be vibrating by noon, but at least it's the right shade and the right strength…Tried one of those nitro cold brew pods that's all over TikTok Shop, the kind where you press down and it sprays pressurized cold brew right into your cup. Packaging looked fun, so I had to test it. Verdict: did no

Apparently this is my love language now: setting up inflatable play spaces in insane heat. This viral inflatable glamping tent pumps up by hand, stakes down, and every single video I found on this thing was just someone trying to sell it to you, so I figured I'd be the one to actually be honest. Di

Growing boy problems I guess 🤪 Still no name though, we're workshopping. Also, full transparency, I stopped measuring after day three and I've just been feeding him based on vibes ever since, because this series was always supposed to prove sourdough is attainable, not some precision science experi

Cannot wait for my starter to be ready to use I am SO IMPATIENT. Baked my focaccia in a loaf pan this time just to show off how pretty the slices turn out, and then immediately ruined the pretty part by turning it into the most insane sandwich of my life: tomato, shallots, turkey, Italian cheese, p

Debbie might have a boyfriend 🤭 My starter is smelling like stinky cheese feet, which apparently means he's alive, and also somehow means he's a boy now, no further questions. I also found an old packet of dehydrated live starter buried in my pantry and dumped that in to help him along, because if

Nobody really talks about how to do this in a simple way, sourdough always gets treated like this intense, unattainable hobby that only certain people are allowed to have. But I watched Serena Neel's sourdough tutorial, and she does it her own crazy fun way and makes it look genuinely attainable in

I don't get all the hate this Minecraft Crumbl collab is getting online. It's 5 cookies and a cake, guys. Yes, I'm biased, because my son is going to be so unbelievably happy when he finds an Enderman cookie in his lunchbox tomorrow. He is going to feel so cool walking into school with that. It's j

Crafting is how I cope. Four icons who shaped a huge chunk of my childhood passed away recently, and it's hitting differently even though I obviously never knew them personally. So today I did what I always do when I need to process something: I made clay magnets. Skipped the teeny, fall-inspired o