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Clustered Columnstore Depression @clustpression.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I also did pork katsu tonight. Homemade tonkatsu sauce is great (hummus is okay too) Happy I could get a good crust with relatively low oil because it's scary to fry with a lot 🍜 #food #cooking

Fry station. Have some pounded out thick-cut tenderloin, corn starch+ flour, egg+buttermilk, and panko+spices

I think I may have put too much non-egg in the egg mix but it still turned out well

Cutlets being fried in a small-ish amount of oil. I usually do this in the wok but it makes me nervous because of the rounded shape. This is much safer

Cutlets all crisped up. I thought I overdid them a bit but they turned out good

Final plating with cabbage, rice, and some katsu sauce (and hummus)

I got the katsu sauce recipe from Babish (Alvin) and never looked back. Oddly I have a hard time finding another katsu recipe that has fruit and isn't just ketchup+Worcestershire:

https://youtu.be/Nne4vRy0DCE

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Clustered Columnstore Depression @clustpression.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Spent part of the day boiling some chickpeas for hummus. I've got a giant tub of dried chickpeas from 2020 I'm trying to go through (it's so much chickpea...) Good hummus tho. We'll see how it is after it cools down 🍜 #food #cooking

The giant tub of chickpeas in question. This recipe is only about a cup of chickpeas 😐 I need to make more bean salad

Dried peas after soaking. Just a little baking soda and salt in water

Boiled for about 2 hours with some aromatics. The carrots and garlic and some of the onion got blended too

Chickpea cooking recipe (didn't feel great about the hummus recipe here, though I did keep the blended carrots):
https://www.seriouseats.com/israeli-style-extra-smooth-hummus-recipe

Hummus recipe:
https://www.inspiredtaste.net/15938/easy-and-smooth-hummus-recipe/

I didnt want to get out the blender so this was just using an immersion blender

Still pretty smooth considering it wasn't very powerful

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Clustered Columnstore Depression @clustpression.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

First time making rice balls using the power of love (kuromi x my melody rice ball maker). 3 flavors: chicken with tonkatsu sauce, egg salad, and classic tuna salad Real tasty but a little rice heavy (but I guess that's the point) 🍜 #food #cooking

3 flavors
Chicken with some homemade tonkatsu sauce. This is just regular cooked chicken mixed with it and some of them I added some cabbage. It was fine, but the least of the 3

Classic tuna mayo (tuna, mayo, and some spices).

Egg salad (egg, mayo). Surprisingly really really good but maybe that's cuz I haven't had egg salad in a while

Rice and the rice ball maker provided by my SiL which worked surprisingly well

All the rice balls I could get out of 2 cups of dry rice. Pretty good for my first time, but I'm sure next time will go better

Added some furikake. Later ate it with some fermented chili paste too 💯💯💯

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Clustered Columnstore Depression @clustpression.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Stir fry, glad I feel well and rested enough to do some cooking again (that isn't just like, sandwiches) Always worried I added too much salt and it never turns out to be enough salt 🍜 #food #cooking

Velveted chicken, a bunch of allium, carrots and red bell pepper. Only thing I'd change is cutting the carrots into rounds instead of doing a roll cut

Chicken has been blanched and seared and the alliums are cooking in the wok. I pretty much leave it on max heat the entire time

Here's the result pre-sauce. I always end up making a huge amount but we ended up eating more than half

Didn't get plate shots, but here's what was left over. Could have used more cornstarch to thicken the sauce

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Clustered Columnstore Depression @clustpression.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I think it's because I've been getting over Covid but I have been just exhausted the past couple of days. Hopefully doesn't last so we can stop eating out...

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Clustered Columnstore Depression @clustpression.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

While I'm sick I figured I'd try a steel soul run in silksong. I died at Moorwing :C Did a lot better than I thought I would tho

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Clustered Columnstore Depression @clustpression.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

It's so rude that I started working on improving my habits by waking up earlier and taking walks, and today I'm sick 😤

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Clustered Columnstore Depression @clustpression.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I'm tired today so I only got one picture, but tonight is bean salad This one also has some basic tzatziki which is tasty but not in the pic. Goes great with bread or rice 🍜 #food #cooking

Bean salad in a bowl

Recipe:
https://www.bushbeans.com/en_US/bean-recipes/greek-dense-bean-salad

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Clustered Columnstore Depression @clustpression.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

This post inspired me to go get some Ajvar and try it out It's pretty bitter, but I can also akin that to me not really liking eggplant. Gonna give it the ol' college try on whatever applications I can find, so guacamole today It adds a really nice flavor - maybe this is how I start to like 🍆

Azbar I bought at a local Euro mart. They had a surprising variety

Upside down pre-guacamole with a big glob of a Ajvar

I don't have a picture of it mixed because the color was so unappealing but it did taste good!

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Clustered Columnstore Depression @clustpression.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

We're in the whole cake island arc of one piece. My wife has never been a Sanji fan due to his reactions toward women, but this arc really lends itself to "this man got 10x hotter when his life fell apart"

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Clustered Columnstore Depression @clustpression.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Chicken pot pie soup with biscuits tonight. It came out exceptionally well, just don't tell my Dr about the butter and cream 👀 🍜 #food #cooking

Biscuits all rolled and cut. I used the ATK recipe

I think it's this recipe:
https://www.americastestkitchen.com/recipes/8496-ultimate-flaky-buttermilk-biscuits

But I copied it from an old Babish video since I don't have an ATK account (lol):
https://youtu.be/NMbMT9tY8-Q

Delightfully flakey. Generally do recommend adding a bit more salt than the recipe

It doesn't look like much without stirring, but this soup was bomb

I kinda used the below YouTube short recipe along with some inspo from another?
https://youtube.com/shorts/A6gXjkbPsjY
https://natashaskitchen.com/chicken-pot-pie-soup/

That said, I kinda just went for it. I added peas and a can of straw mushrooms (I recommend highly), and I used less roux and more water so it wasn't nearly as thick. I also always increase the veggies substantially and in this one I used a bunch of sage and tetragon which was a great flavor

My bowl and a side of biscuit. You can actually see the chunks in this one

I also ended up with a gallon of extra soup if anyone wants some 😅

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Clustered Columnstore Depression @clustpression.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

It's such a tragedy having high cholesterol and also cupcakes in the fridge

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Clustered Columnstore Depression @clustpression.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

More red sauce n spaghetti, gets better every time I make it That being said, I used so much onion and garlic it kinda fumigated the house for 4 hours, but aside from that, great result 👌 🍜 #food #cooking

Various alliums cooking in a bunch of olive oil (not using butter to try and be slightly healthier)

I used a big onion, a whole head of garlic, and all the leftover onion in the fridge so it was....pungent

Sauce after cooking for 4 hours

Recipe:
https://www.seriouseats.com/the-best-slow-cooked-italian-american-tomato-sauce-red-sauce-recipe

Peas and spaghetti for dinner. Took some sauce and mixed it with ground beef n turkey. Also mixed in a quarter cup of blended red lentils. Peas are just peas with some salt n pepper

Rest of the sauce is getting frozen

Just a quick show of the bowls. Put some parmesian on the spaghetti

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Clustered Columnstore Depression @clustpression.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Spent most of yesterday cookin'. Made carrot souffle and carrot cake cupcakes for my SiL's birthday as well as some chicken for easy meals 🍜 #food #cooking

Finished Carrot Souffles. Much better than it sounds

https://www.lifeloveandsugar.com/carrot-souffle/#tasty-recipes-100424

Carrot cake cupcakes. I used the following recipe, and just portioned out cupcakes and baked it about half as long. These are always super tasty and the recipe is very easy

https://sugarspunrun.com/best-carrot-cake-recipe/#recipe

Simple marinated chicken under the broiler until a little charred

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Clustered Columnstore Depression @clustpression.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Got my physical results back and it looks like my triglycerides are high again 😐 Higher statin and more olive oil and fiber for me I guess.

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Clustered Columnstore Depression @clustpression.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

This past week has been so busy at work, but I did a couple deployments and troubleshooting and also made a logging presentation for Monday so that'll be nice

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mankrik's wife guy @byelacey.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

it's allergy season 🍃

four panels of a great pyrenees dog in various stages of itching or sneezing or chewing his feet. the text reads "bothered. unmoisturuzed. unhappy. out of my lane. unfocused. suffering"

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Clustered Columnstore Depression @clustpression.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

More salad. Today it's a caprese salad as a tribute to the late Salad n Go 🫡 🍜 #food #cooking

This was a good balsamic vinegrette recipe
https://www.seriouseats.com/soy-balsamic-vinaigrette-recipe

As for the chicken, this recipe is basically tandoori chicken without the curry (I made it a day or two ago)
https://www.cookingclassy.com/yogurt-marinated-chicken/

Dressing all mixed up. I actually halved the recipe for this one

Big-ol salad. This has spinach, romaine, mini san marzano tomatoes, chicken, dressing, and those little mozerella balls. I forgot to add in the basil 😤

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Clustered Columnstore Depression @clustpression.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Good tacos. Did trim q bunch of fat off the cheeks but that seems to be normal (I also made some pickled onion and radish) Eventually I might try a basic barbacoa with no peppers or onion or anything since I think that's how it's usually made with cheek meat 🍜 #food #cooking

Barbacoa after going for about 5.5 hours. Recipe is below and some more info is in the original post

https://www.seriouseats.com/tender-beef-barbacoa-chipotle-tacos-recipe

Beef after chopping and trimming. I saved some of the juice for some other application

Maybe the most worrying part is that I dropped a star anise in there when cooking and I haven't been able to find it ._.

Some fresh tortillas for the tacos. These are just from the store

Some tacos with a lot of toppings and some pickled radishes that look a little bit like sliced sausage

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Clustered Columnstore Depression @clustpression.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Prepped some barbacoa. With any luck, we'll have something good in like 6 hours 🍜 #food #cooking

Most of the veggies and spices. Didn't get the garlic yet for this pic

I used the below recipe from Kenji but I used half chuck and half cheek. I'm curious is the chuck will just get in the way of the cheek but we'll see

https://www.seriouseats.com/tender-beef-barbacoa-chipotle-tacos-recipe

A seared up chuck next to some cheek meet still in the package

Wanted to see how it turns out with both

This is the aftermath of putting all the braising ingredients together before blending, missing like 2 cups of water

Here is everything ready to go in my big ditch oven. I'll see it in 6 hours 🫡

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Clustered Columnstore Depression @clustpression.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

I just cannot imagine a situation where I would enjoy or even feel not-bad about writing prompts for an AI as part of my job

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Clustered Columnstore Depression @clustpression.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

I have learned that OnePlus is about to leave the NA market and I need to decide if I want to get a 15 or cut my losses now :I

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Clustered Columnstore Depression @clustpression.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

I want to make focaccia but I have work tomorrow and an event Tuesday night and a Dr appointment Wednesday and also my fridge is very full :C

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Clustered Columnstore Depression @clustpression.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Trying to use more varied proteins, so here's some Mexican (Spanish) lentils. They're Mexican cuz I used Mexican Chorizo instead of Spanish Surprisingly good. Goes great with Cheese and sour cream 🍜 #food #cooking

Mise en plais. Carrots and potatoes at the top; onions, bell peppers and leek (didn't have celery) at the bottom; a cup of lentils and seasonings

The recipe is from Kenji at this YouTube short. Made a short transcription below

Ingredients:
* 1 Spanish chorizo or sausage
* .25 cup olive oil
* .5 onion chopped
* 2 celery stalks chopped
* 1 red bell pepper chopped
* 3 garlic cloves sliced thinly
* 2-3 carrots with a roll cut
* 1 tbsp tomato paste
* .5 tbsp smoked paprika
* 1 bay leaf
* 1-2 gold Yukon potato cubed
* 1 cup lentils
* 1 quart water or chicken stock
* 1 tbsp Sherry vinegar (or any other type of vinegar)
* Salt and pepper to taste

Garnish:
* Parsley
* Avocado
* Crema or sour cream
* Cheese like cotija

Instructions
1) chop Spanish chorizo and add to a hot pan with olive oil for searing

2) remove chorizo (leave oil) and toss in onion, celery, pepper, and garlic. Simmer for 5m

3) add in tomato paste and smoked paprika and cook for 2 minutes to cook out raw tomato flavor

4) add lentils, carrots, potatoes, liquid, bay leaf, and cook for 20m

5) add chorizo back in and add a splash of Sherry vinegar and parsley at the end

Sauteing the vegetables as the Mexican chorizo waits nearby

Cooked soup all together. Has a great stew-like consistency

Bowl with some jasmine rice. Goes great with sour cream and cheese and would probably also go great with avocado

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Clustered Columnstore Depression @clustpression.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

So I had a watermelon at home and my wife bought a watermelon on the side of the road while she was out so now I have a shitton of watermelon and agua fresca. My fridge is too full 🍉😐🍉

Watermelons - one partially cut up and the other patently waiting

Here's the cut up part of the watermelon and the rind which I just threw into one of our planters

The process of agua fresca-ing

I've used batches and a blender in the past but this time I just used an immersion blender and it was so stupidly much faster

6 liters of agua fresca we now have to drink. Maybe I'll take some of it for ice cubes...

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Clustered Columnstore Depression @clustpression.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Made the tandoori chicken. Flavor's great, though it's a little dry (owing to the white meat). Of course, if I turn it into butter chicken dryness is no longer an issue Honestly it seems like it was a good amount of Greek yogurt. I saved the juice after broiling for....something 🍜 #food #cooking

Pre-broiled chicken on a tray

I don't have a grill but even if I did this is easier 🤷 I also didn't use a grill rack because I did not want to clean a grill rack

Post-broiled chicken. Got some okay char on it

Side note, I bought a pack of those big silicone gloves from Costco and they are excellent for this kinda stuff

A full 2 quarts of tandoori chicken shredded and cooling off

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Clustered Columnstore Depression @clustpression.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Spent tonight prepping for a couple meals. The oats and dressing is for my wife and the tandoori chicken is a recipe I'm trying out 🍜 #food #cooking

Tandoori chicken marinating

I had a recipe for tandoori chicken but I lost it. Trying out the below recipe but with more spices and more Greek yogurt (maybe too much). This is breast meat too but it'll probably be fine

I'm basically trying to do an easy-ish version for weeknights. We'll see how it works out

https://www.whiskaffair.com/tandoori-chicken-recipe/#wprm-recipe-container-43718

Champagne vinegar because my wife really wanted some so I'm trying out a recipe. Super basic

https://www.seriouseats.com/champagne-vinaigrette-recipe-7499688

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Clustered Columnstore Depression @clustpression.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Finally back to do some cooking, and I made some Kenji salmon chowder. Basically clam chowder with Salmon instead. Made this partially because my wife and her sister like bread bowls Real tasty; I don't really like clams, but this was great with cubed salmon. 🍜 #food #cooking

Prepping veggies (table is a bit cluttered here)

Recipe - one is the recipe page and the other is a YouTube link to Kenji where he makes it

Some things I changed from the written recipe:
* Replaced celery with carrot and leek
* Added cream (like in the video)
* Pancetta instead of bacon (like the video)
* Sprig of thyme (like the video)
* Squirt of lemon juice at the end (like the video)

https://www.seriouseats.com/easy-creamy-one-pot-weeknight-salmon-chowder-recipe

https://youtu.be/9J-KAia4Oq0

Leeks, onion, and pancetta sizzling in the pan

Finished soup with salmon - I used frozen salmon from costco

Soup in a bread bowl (store bought)

Only feedback was that maybe I should have cut the salmon a bit smaller. I also put some dill on top that isn't shown here

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Clustered Columnstore Depression @clustpression.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Been a really weird week with a plumber in and having to hold the fort while my boss is on vacation. I did make some Caesar dressing tonight though Also I think I've finally come to terms with the fact that coffee doesn't mix well with my medication so no more coffee for me 😢

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J. L. Westover @mrlovenstein.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Secret Panel HERE 🫠 tinyview.com/mrlovenstein/2026/04/22/working-from-home

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Clustered Columnstore Depression @clustpression.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Ignoring videogames today to clean out the fridges. Harder than expected 😐

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Clustered Columnstore Depression @clustpression.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

I've had brain fog and headache all day. This has been a hit and miss week for productivity to begin with 🥀

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Clustered Columnstore Depression @clustpression.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

I have made some good Mexican rice (but I keep forgetting to drop in my japapeño). Made banana bread too 🍌 🍜 #food #cooking

(most) of the banana bread ingredients. Flour off camera

Hypothetically I use this recipe, but I've modified it a bit. Close enough though:
https://natashaskitchen.com/banana-bread-recipe-video/

Banana bread before going in the oven. Phone keeps taking non-sideways pics for some reason. I used currants instead of raisins because I happened to have them

Mexican rice ingredients. Top right is some leftover chicken fond from the freezer for extra flavor

The resulting loaf and Mexican rice. Both turned out great!

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Clustered Columnstore Depression @clustpression.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Finally beat Eigong good lord (took like a weeklong break). Good game but very punishing I went back and fought Kaufu's boss and it's crazy how much slower it is. Honestly made it harder to party because I was expecting the attacks to be much faster

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Clustered Columnstore Depression @clustpression.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Making Mexican beans and rice today. The beans I freeze and eat for breakfast and they came out great The rice... I tried making it with brown rice instead of jasmine to see if it worked (heretical I know) and the texture is shot. I'll experiment some more... 🍜 #food #cooking

Frying up the rice with veggies, and the beans are almost done (started them earlier)

Added tomato sauce and about to add the liquid. Beans are just boiling down a bit

Beans taste better than ever and are ready for the fridge

The rice is effectively porridge but the taste is okay (maybe a bit oversalted)

I upped the water but I probably upped it too much. This pot doesn't lose a lot of water after all when the lid is on

I'm just trying to see if I can get brown rice to work for the slight nutrition boost. I'll give it a couple of tries and give up if I can't get it to be enjoyable (I don't have high hopes)

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Clustered Columnstore Depression @clustpression.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Sghetti I had a bunch of meat and red sauce I wanted to clear out of the freezer so easy meal tonight. Used up the rest of the meatballs from before too 🍜 #food #cooking

Blocks of frozen spaghetti sauce and frozen meatballs

Meatballs seared (they fell apart a little bit) and other meat also seared. Red sauce just needs to thaw now

Mixed the spaghetti with the sauce and added a little cream, but there's still a lot of meat sauce left over

Easy plating for an easy meal (microwave broccoli) I had a roll since there are still leftovers

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Clustered Columnstore Depression @clustpression.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Got a new big enamel dutch oven as a gift, so I celebrated with beef stew. Took longer than suggested in the recipe for the meat to be tender, but still very good and honestly not really a difficult cook 🍜 #food #cooking

Mushrooms cooking next to some beef haphazardly resting in a bowl after being seared

Recipe (I recommend 2.5 instead of 1.5 hours for the first cook if you're using chuck):
https://www.seriouseats.com/all-american-beef-stew-recipe

Main pot has aromatics, broth, and other flavorings. Recipe says to put in a whole onion and carrot and fish them out later, but I just dice them up fine and leave them in cuz who's got time for that?

Veggies on the right have been sauteed a bit for flavor, but won't get added for another 1.5 hours.

This was the final stew after an extra hour or two. Next time I'll let the beef go for longer first...

Here it is after the normal 2.5 hour cook time. Even though the meat was a little tough it still tasted great

Side of white rice out-of-frame

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Clustered Columnstore Depression @clustpression.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Finally did some cooking after a week of cleaning. Salmon, sweet potato gnocchi, asparagus, and some quick rolls As usual, gnocchi and bread needed more salt, but overall turned out very well. I'm glad the gnocchi turned out at all since these were very wet sweet potatoes 🍜 #food #cooking

Sweet potato gnocchi from scratch

Gonna put all the recipe references below. I really recommend the salmon

Salmon (steveatvivaldi):
https://youtube.com/shorts/1sbcE6xSX2w

Gnocchi (internetshaquille):
https://youtu.be/-sLqIApgn_4

Bread:
https://modernmealmakeover.com/30-minute-dinner-rolls/

Dinner rolls. Finally think I'm getting this recipe to work really well. This one is just egg yolks since I still have that big carton. Still need more salt though - next time I'll probably do a full tablespoon

Salmon and asparagus. The asparagus is just cooked in a pan - super simple. The salmon is surprisingly good - just throw a bunch of stuff in the pan and 10m later you've got salmon and a sauce

Rolls and gnocchi. The rolls had a great texture and just needed some salt. The gnocchi was a little bland and part of the problem is that I tried to sautee them in a saucepan instead of a skillet so the butter sauce didn't really come together correctly

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Clustered Columnstore Depression @clustpression.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Day 2 of being back at work and I'm already ready for another week off

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Clustered Columnstore Depression @clustpression.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

As in watching the latest season of Invincible, I think I'm just drawn to stories with people who are earnestly trying to change for the better. Makes me think of Mob Psycho, or Steven Universe

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Clustered Columnstore Depression @clustpression.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Really good cleaning day today. I cleaned up the area in front of the back door and it looks very nice now. Lots of the stuff was moved to the garage but I got some good organizing done there too. Excited to continue tomorrow #cleaning #boring

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Clustered Columnstore Depression @clustpression.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Started playing nine sols after I learned about it from the attached post by chance (which is very funny) Damn if this game isn't hard. I haven't played Sekiro but I imagine this is what it's like (insane amount of parrying)

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Clustered Columnstore Depression @clustpression.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Nice meal for the family: salmon fillets, sweet potatoes, and a salad with carrot ginger dressing! Turned out very tasty. Salmon was a little overcooked, but my wife gets really antsy about temps so I overdid it a little bit 🍜 #food #cooking

Salmon marinating in a bag

Recipe (minus the bok choy):
https://www.seriouseats.com/dinner-tonight-broiled-honey-soy-teriyaki-salmon-with-boy-choy-recipe

Carrot ginger dressing. I wanted to make something like they have with hibachi restaurants, although I'm not sure I got it right. It has been a while since I've been to a hibachi place tbf

Recipe:
https://www.justonecookbook.com/carrot-ginger-dressing/#recipe

Sweet potatoes and salmon out of the oven

Final plating. I think the salad looked nice, but next time less dressing and more mixed

Family appreciated being able to eat a sweet potato whole with their hands (just like one of my Japanese animes!)

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Clustered Columnstore Depression @clustpression.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

I have now seen the last episode of TADC and I am a little bit sad (it was good)

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Josephine beckbook.com Riesman @josie.zone · 17/02/2026

Rev. Jesse Jackson's "I *am* somebody..." remains one of the all-time great pieces of 20th century rhetoric / agitprop And he could deliver it at a Black separatist meeting, the Democratic National Convention, or on god-blessed Sesame Street (see below 🥹) RIP to the Voice of the Voiceless

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Clustered Columnstore Depression @clustpression.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

I spent much of the day doing yardwork in the Texas heat after working out so I think I'm ready to be a substitute for some European soccer team 👍⚽

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✨Kirm✨ @antonballdeluxe.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Given all of the recent genAI discussion, I wish to repost this.

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