It's A Mess. Really.

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Oh, I am in.

WANT. :)

You can lie when you name things

Free PDF at the Biodiversity Heritage Library

#i was sceptical for a minute cause these illustrations don't match the plants in every case#(rounded dandelion leaves serrated willow leaves same leaves on crocus and aloe etc)#but these are the section headers NOT illustrations/representations of individual flowers#anyways. found a link. gorgeous book.

on another note, watched The Mummy (1999) the other day and I couldn’t help  feel like the O’Connells and the Addams (Addams Family Values (1993) would get on really well ya know? The O’Connells are basically the pastel adventure version of the Addams, surely they would just be vibin’ over tea and crumpets in an extremely haunted mansion having a ball of a time

Jonathan and Fester and Cousin Itt watch from the bar, where Lurch and Thing are making the drinks.

this is in perfect iambic meter and sounds like the first line of a weird poem

On the one hand I kind of want 9pm pancakes but on the other hand the kitchen is so cold...

Nothing will warm the kitchen up quite like running the stove to make 9pm pancakes

Yeah but then I'll eat too many (it's hard to proportion one person's worth of snack pancakes) and feel all dense and weird inside for the rest of the night.

Pancake refrigerate surprisingly well. You can cook too many and eat only enough.

I'm just air frying some sausages instead. This means I can leave the kitchen while they cook and I don't have to go for a walk in the dark and wet to pick a lemon from the orchard.

Why would you need a lemon to make pancakes?

Gotta put something on the pancakes. I'm not gonna eat a plain dry pancake.

...but lemon?

Yeah lemon juice and sugar

i see you are experiencing the incomprehensible bluescreen some people have when informed of the Literal Best Pancake Topping Ever (my latvian friend had literally never heard of this before coming to ireland and for like 2 days around pancake tuesday was like "y'all are so fucking weird what even is this combo" about it being the default and beloved configuration here)

It's such a good combo that Americans make a whole drink out of it and people don't understand it on pancakes? It's like, THE classic pancake topping second only to maple syrup (which is way too sweet for me).

I’ve never heard of this, but it sounds incredible. Do you mix the sugar in with the lemon juice before pouring it on? Is it a lemon juice and powdered sugar on top situation? If you’re mixing the sugar and lemon juice before pouring on, is it enough sugar to make it thick like syrup, or is the texture closer to lemonade (American style like you referenced rather than the soda)?

I squeeze a wedge of lemon over the pancake like you do with chips and then sprinkle on a bit of sugar to take the edge off the sourness of the lemon. You can butter them first or not depending on moisture preference and how much you want the lemon to soak in.

Is this the time to share that I grate cheddar cheese into my pancake mix?

It is never the time to share such horrifying truths

Wait. Back up. What do you mean, "like you do with chips"?!

also the sugar is commonly icing sugar so it sprinkles properly but I suspect Derin’s using table sugar.

Do I seem like the sort of person whose life is together enough to own more than one type of sugar

YOU ARE A PUBLISHED AUTHOR. that seems like the kinda person to own more than one type of sugar????????

why is the coffee grinder involved here. do you grind molasses to make brown sugar. is that how? inch er esting.

Molasses is a liquid. You grind plain sugar to make caster sugar.

Are we just not gonna talk abt the cheddar cheese pancakes?

Correct, we're gonna gloss right on past.

I love how you call high-income writers Spiders Georg instead of. you know. an outlier.

As a writer, I know my audience.

So is there one kind of chips that is more commonly refered to as "potato chips"? Which one is potato chips? My guess would be "fries"-chips, because "crisps"-chips are not necessarily made of potatoes.

I hate to say this but unfortunately you guessed wrong

The fries kind are sometimes called hot chips though, which means that I used to interpret "eat hot chip and lie" very incorrectly.

Wait, it's not about eating hot chips but about spicy crisps? That's insane and way less appealing a lifestyle.

I know right?

Never tried it with added lemon, but my family has always done French toast with butter and sugar (granulated), so I can definitely see the appeal. The citric acid would be a good flavor profile. Not generally a fan of lemon as a flavoring though, so maybe I'll try it next time with one slice lemon, one slice orange just to get a side by side on different citrus.

actually fucking disgusting that glasses cost any money like if you actually think about it for more than a few seconds it is so unconscionably inhumane. this goes for things like insulin and mobility aids and hearing aids too ofc but fuck man, fucking glasses? the thing you need to fucking see? its genuinely sickening and inhumanly evil that those cost ANYTHING.