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KitchenBeard @kitchenbeard.bsky.social · 3h

Asking myself if i have time tomorrow to make rainbow gem cookies. #gbbobakealong

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KitchenBeard @kitchenbeard.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

There’s a new baby in the GBBO opening.

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KitchenBeard @kitchenbeard.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"By that point the work bench is getting full so I take a look at what I have. I know what I need to do now. The voice in my head says “Let’s go.” kitchenbeard.substack.com/p/quick-ench...

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KitchenBeard @kitchenbeard.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Spent a couple of hours today helping friends at their vendor booth at the Folsom Street Fair . My job was to be spokesmodel and to get people into the booth. On two separate instances, I got to talk to people from deep red states who were just so goddamn happy to be there. 1/2

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KitchenBeard @kitchenbeard.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I made pulled pork last weekend, and tonight I'm making enchiladas with the leftovers.

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KitchenBeard @kitchenbeard.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Put 3# pork shoulder in a dry rub. Gonna let it sit overnight. Will pop it in a low oven with my own chix stock in the morning and also get a pot of beans going. Dinner ready by 4.

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KitchenBeard @kitchenbeard.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I haven’t made pulled pork in over a year. Must change that this weekend.

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KitchenBeard @kitchenbeard.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

When was the last time you wanted to get on a bus and take it as far as you could go and then do the same on the next one and then do the same on the next and then do the same on the next one and then do the same on the next one and just keep going and never looking back?

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KitchenBeard @kitchenbeard.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

We thought about keeping the lease on the house after she died. After all, it was the closest thing we had to a homestead. Despite all its quirks, we loved it because all it’s odd angles and weird ways were a reflection of the odd weird ways of my family. kitchenbeard.substack.com/p/my-mothers...

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KitchenBeard @kitchenbeard.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I’ve been walking around short tempered and weepy all day. Just on the tipping point of either exploding in anger or bursting into tears. Very unlike me but then I realized what day it is and I cut myself some slack.

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KitchenBeard @kitchenbeard.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Made my 1st recipe out of the Escoffier. Haricot rouge. Didn’t follow it exactly due to it calling for wine but stayed true beyond that. Easily some of the best beans I’ve ever made. Served with bratwurst & rice with parsley and spinach. I’m happily quite full culinaryexplorer.app/r/2156-red-b...

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KitchenBeard @kitchenbeard.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

It kind of sticks in my craw that in the opening credits of "9 to 5" everyone's alarms are going off at 7am and all I think is "Those bitches get to sleep that LATE?"

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KitchenBeard @kitchenbeard.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

I collect antique cookbooks & had to come up with a way to protect them from dust, moisture & light. This barrister popped up on Marketplace last week and I bought it last night for a price I could manage so I can store books with intentional care & fret a little less about taking care of them.

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KitchenBeard @kitchenbeard.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

What I hadn’t counted on was my middle-aged eyes not being able to see the eye of the needle when trying to load the machine. Like totally unable to see it. The instructor had to reload my machine 4 times for me and I began to feel embarrassed & frustrated. kitchenbeard.substack.com/p/resurfacin...

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Resurfacing - Part 2

On a recent Saturday night at 11 p.m., I was bent over my dining room table muttering under my breath (and frequently quite out loud) as I was trying to insert a tiny piece of string into a hole that ...

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KitchenBeard @kitchenbeard.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

I may have just spent 4 figures on this one book.

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Stardust 🌏🎬 @stardustbluepr.com · 17/08/2026

Hopping into Monday.. Kangaroos on the sea at sunrise. Australia 📹 jeroen.fritz on IG

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KitchenBeard @kitchenbeard.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I took a sewing bootcamp class yesterday and came home with all this that I made. And then because I’m a competitive obsessive person I sat up until 11 doing it again with my own fabric on my own sewing machine including an hour trying to thread the fucking thing with late middle aged eyes

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KitchenBeard @kitchenbeard.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

My latest acquisition as a reward to myself for getting an A average in the certificate program. The Royal Cookery Book Jules and Alphonse Gouffé 1869

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KitchenBeard @kitchenbeard.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Tomato and nectarine salad with goat cheese, pistachios and a labneh, Meyer lemon and zatar dressing

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KitchenBeard @kitchenbeard.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

In January I weighed over 200 pounds. With the new job, I started walking to work most days. Sometimes I walk home too. 45 minutes each way. Today I weighed 185 pounds. The last time I weighed 185 was after several days of food poisoning. I'm pretty proud of myself.

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KitchenBeard @kitchenbeard.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Dinner. New York strip. Cauliflower purée Portobello and leeks. All cooked in plenty of butter. Herbs from the backyard. Decided to pull out the pretty plates because if you’ve got them, use them. Intentionally plated to give my brain something to focus on and quiet some very loud noise.

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KitchenBeard @kitchenbeard.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

When a brand changes hands this many times, the name becomes the product and the pan becomes a cost to be managed beneath it: thinner steel here, an offshored handle there, a warranty rewritten by lawyers instead of engineers, and so on… www.worseonpurpose.com/p/your-cookw...

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Your Cookware Got Worse On Purpose

One buyout firm quietly collected Pyrex, Corelle, Instant Pot, and Oneida. Farberware is a name on a 200-year lease. And the pans still worth buying.

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KitchenBeard @kitchenbeard.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Whole wheat spaghetti cooked down in tomato sauce with pan roasted carrots, onions, walnuts and capers.

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Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

The end of consensus reality, baby

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KitchenBeard @kitchenbeard.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Made dinner for a friend. Treviso salad with walnuts, goat cheese and smoked trout. Garlic sausage with black lentils and polenta. Dessert was browned halumi with ricotta, pistachios, honey and lemon.

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KitchenBeard @kitchenbeard.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

I’ve been trying to be a tourist in my own city so I spent a morning at SFMOMA to see the Matisse exhibit & have a nice leisurely stroll through everything else. Always a little disappointed with how the photography section feels like an afterthought. Still, lovely way to spend a holiday morning.

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KitchenBeard @kitchenbeard.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Hiked up to the top of Bernal since it’s such a beautiful day. Work projects can wait. Sun and air in my lungs makes my brain quiet down.

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KitchenBeard @kitchenbeard.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

And then you realize one of the reasons you stopped working on your cookbook is you got overwhelmed by the volume of work it was going to take while trying to balance real life and then you ask yourself today "Why not just do a smaller version?" and your head begins to spin.

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KitchenBeard @kitchenbeard.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

My roommate had a friend over to cook dinner last night. At one point I walked in the kitchen & it was kind of a mess and I had to look away & trust in the cleaning gods. It was mostly cleaned this morning but I still had to remind myself I’m not a pro cook anymore & to not be a controlling freak.

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