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In this update:

embark on a forbidden dinner

watch yet another social function sneak into your calendar

begin a new case (wait what happens to other one?..)

twist the arm of your unsuspecting helper

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...I think i had never written the word caramelized so often. Thank you for your answer!

Caramelized Onion Wisdom:

- just do a whole fucking bag of them at once, you WILL use all of it, and you don't want to run out halfway through the cold months.

- Open ALL the windows in your residence before this undertaking. It also takes like, three to four hours for me, so maybe pop on a playlist or smth.

- It takes several hours for me because my specific technique is to put in like 2-3 onions (chopped) in first, and adding one more chopped onion at a time as the cooking onions shrink and make more room. This means that by the time I get to the 12th or 20th onion at the end of the bag, the first onions are MEGA CARAMELIZED.

- Use yellow onions, cook with butter and fresh thyme, deglaze with brandy or sweet resiling and add a bit of balsamic vinegar at the very end for best results.

- I run mine through an immersion blender after I cook them because my autistic ass hates cooked onion texture, and I tolerate the caramelized mush better. I'm also usually using it as a condiment or as part of a sauce, I want that very smooth texture.

- I don't actually know the difference between freezing and deep freezing. I just put them in the freezer and gradually get to them when I get to them.

- the best container is a glass one with a re-sealable lid and on the small side. This is because plastic.can shatter in the freezer, and in order to use the onions, you take the container out of the freezer and let it defrost in the fridge, taking spoonfuls out as-needed. Small container means you are only using a bit of the whole stash at a time, so the whole doesn't go bad while thawed in the fridge if you're delayed from using it.

- the flavor really improves with freezing tbh. Gets a lot deeper and sweeter, and the texture gets finer so it blends into whatever sauce or dish even better.

Other nice things to have in ice cube form in winter:

Bone stock (which you can make in a huge batch by freezing bones as you collect them)

Gravy

Pumpkin puree

Cranberry sauce, because no human being has ever needed a whole can all at once

Rendered fat from when you make bacon (don't pour it in hot)

Butter with a bunch of herbs of your choosing

Coffee or tea, brewed strong, that you can just pour hot water over on your low-spoon days

Question: What is the greatest magic of all? Answer: Friendship, right? [B]: The greatest magic of all is not friendship, it's chronomancy, the ability to control and warp time. If friendship were the greatest magic, look, it's a pet peeve of mine (...)

Liking a specific sandwich does not gender you in any meaningful way. Loudly rejecting a sandwich because it would portray you as too effeminate or masculine, or demanding a sandwich as a way of asserting your gender identity -- that is the what I'm discussing, not the sandwich itself. A man eating a veggie wrap doesn't impact my data because that's actually very normal; men performatively rejecting a veggie wrap as too feminine is what the post is about.