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BayBayFriend @baybayfriend.bsky.social · 8h
God Save Colleen, Butternut Sage Ravioli with Dijon Candied Walnuts. 


Longtime fans of the blog may notice that this is the first recipe I’ve featured that calls for sage! For years, I’ve been gesturing at a vague distaste for sage. (For my White Bean Soup with Brown Sugar Garlic Bread, I said, “Those with a naive palate could also add some sage, and perhaps later, Brad will ask you on a drive to Lover’s Lane.” How unspeakably rude!) You see, it’s time I come clean. It’s my husband who doesn’t like it. Actually, it’s my husband who claims he doesn’t like it.

His list of professed dislikes is infinitely long and includes spinach, mushroom, lettuce, tomato, paprika, carrot, curry powder, corn, avocado, fish, tarragon, oregano, broccoli, and much, much more. As a food lover, it has been difficult to work within his parameters, but any good chef loves a challenge. And though it stings my heart, every meal…

ADS: Paper money being KILLED in 4 nights. 

Drinking trick. Appearance of amazing drinking. 

Stop squeezing your bags! Gentle munch dot com. sloughed off into the garbage is a chance to try anew.

Imagine my surprise, then, when a few weeks ago, while out to lunch with his boss, I watched my husband happily eat a Cobb salad.

Having chosen the venue, the boss, a domineering galoot, ordered for the table. Tomato! Lettuce! Boiled egg! Some of my husband’s most reviled things, I thought. But I observed as he cleaned his plate with a smile, and as he dutifully laughed at the horrid oaf’s unrepeatable jokes.

Picture a hopelessly picky unitiate, ducking under the napkin to come face to face with an ortolan! The disgust of such a person does not begin to rival what I felt that afternoon. I said nothing of the incident. But I have been running my own set of private experiments.

The trouble, I realized, often begins when my husband asks me what’s in our meal, before even taking the first bite. Chefs delight in relaying the provenance of a dish! The preparation! The technique! But he has been using this all the while to torture me. To latch onto one dash of an herb, as a frustrated cop might a pinch of jaywalking, to sentence the whole dish to the bin.

So I have been making fabulous, decadent meals, and lying about…

ADS: Lovable Mouse Fan. 

What’s in homes to choke everyone? Your gasping family begs for the butter technique. 

YOU CAN STOP THEIR BIRTHDAYS, YOU KNOW.

what’s inside. I’ve been preparing whatever my heart desires, but when asked, making sure to stick to only to those ingredients which I know are pre-approved. Curries! Gazpachos! Do you know I made a haddock stew and said it was chicken? All lustily consumed as if he‘d never eaten in his life. How could I have ever married this inattentive rube, who would rather eat half the ingredients of two “Woppers Junior” than an artfully composed meal made by his meticulous wife?

Now, I know my husband has been lying about his distastes to anguish and vex me, so he’d have found some objections sooner or later. For this reason, I built in release valves at regular intervals. I cooked some of his favorite things—things that he frequently requests and adores, and said I’d experimented with a grating of nutmeg or a sprig of sage. (He hates sage most of all.) So he got to criticize me, and I got to watch him sadly get up, and with legs animated by pride, fight through the quicksand of our kitchen to set his full plate back on the counter. 

Do not despair, foodies! Myself, my friends, and our neighbors have frequently eaten well due to this hideous habit of his. Though he does sometimes like to employ the trashcan for more severe offenses, he couldn’t bring himself to scrape his beloved meatballs away, as if his mind was hoping it would change itself.

ADS: HUH?? I guess you’re still using expired crud. 

It pays to behave. Yum!


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Move away from this geographic feature known for spewing who knows what.Then came today’s recipe, my butternut squash and sage ravioli with candied dijon walnuts, made just last night. A quick one, as I wanted to leave time for quite an after dinner speech.

Plates licked clean, I began coyly. “I’m surprised you liked that so much. It had quite a bit of sage in it.” He sputtered. I rose.

“Because of me, your life has been full of all good things. Your heart full of love, your home full of children’s laughter, your table full of friends, and for the past two weeks, your belly full of sage! And mushrooms! And everything that makes life worth living!”

He slept at a hotel last night. His boss wouldn’t answer his calls.

I dedicate this recipe to CarolFromBristol who scolded me months ago for referring to my Crispy Duck with Black Cherry Gastrique as life-changing. “please. a recipecan never change you[sic] life,” you said.

Carol, a recipe can make you cry. A recipe can put hair on your chest. A recipe can lift your feet off the ground. A recipe can make your cat leave home and a different one can make it come back. A recipe can take an actor to bed. A recipe can change your life.

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nathan @wiseposter.bsky.social · 2h
getting some of your own blood in your food is recycling
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nathan @wiseposter.bsky.social · 3h
i am going to become a vengeful spirit if i don't start getting some email replies
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Mike.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ @dumbmike.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Do you want to view ✖️ Men ✖️ Women ✖️ Couples ✅ Tom Bombadil tomdabomb: hey guys tomdabomb: almost at goal Hornystud: boots LuvrBoi: show boots irl12inch: yellow boots NOW tomdabomb: ok singing goal reached tomdabomb: this one is called "the river-daughter" Hornystud: NO irl12inch: NO MisterCocks: NO
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nathan @wiseposter.bsky.social · 17h
just heard a classic owl. very nice
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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I'd go grocery shopping but I'm listless
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nathan @wiseposter.bsky.social · 17h
bots that just spam every single news link on Earth to no one should just be automatically banned. but the mods are asleep at the wheel!
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nathan @wiseposter.bsky.social · 23h
whats your dump stat bro? what are you dumping???
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warning heeder @stakenut.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
bro your camo is all wrong
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keith @ne0scythian.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
raccoon made itself a home in a very silly place in a concession stand in Riverside Park
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venomous laura @lauracreature.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
curlytop ironweed (Vernonia arkansana) coming soon to a Little Rock library mini meadow near you
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doing bad jesse ventura impression at dinner @wagyuhotdog.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Moe Be Dick? He sure is one to curly and Larry
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Dr. Money 5 Nothing @bug-deal.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
with great power comes great corruption.. -evil spider man
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nathan @wiseposter.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
fluent in legalese. i speak pidgin snark. and my other car, is a cup of COFFEE!!!!
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nathan @wiseposter.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
nice timbers. shivered?
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Oregon Zoo @oregonzoo.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Kallik is a bearrel of fun
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hammancheez @hammancheez.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Timeline cleanse
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doing bad jesse ventura impression at dinner @wagyuhotdog.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Good thread
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deuteronomy @thuleanperspective.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Nobody thinks about elves more than me. Ok, maybe him. But I would argue that if you’re thinking about their race then you’re primarily thinking about race, not elves
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nathan @wiseposter.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
i need food with buffs. i need 180 seconds of 15 health regen & 35s of 40% attack increase. i need eat food from my quick bar during combat
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nathan @wiseposter.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
you can tell when the labor market is bad by how many petty freaks come out to talk about job-irrelevant bullshit at the job interview
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BayBayFriend @baybayfriend.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Patreon is flippin popping off. We’ve got a contest cooking. Back catalog of 17 weeks of Grassy’s blog, wallpapers, and more. Your support has been unbelievably humbling, and we’re starting to enter a range where I can take tiny bits of time off to work on my little guys, which makes me want to cry
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nathan @wiseposter.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
job interview move: place revolver with 1 bullet on table. if they try to avoid icebreaker games, calmly open your coat to show business gun
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nathan @wiseposter.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
do not in jest? of course not. i am completely serious about eating silica packets.
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Chert @chert.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
this gull was like the size of a basketball. beast of the tides
white gull with a black beak and brown speckles on wings and tail feathers, wading on pebbles in shallow water
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nathan @wiseposter.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
let me know when everyone decides what the best show is. i'll just watch that. no need to discuss.
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molly @bugmom.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
sorry for my outburst here's a bug
my hand holding a polyphemus moth
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J HELL P @jlp.systems · 23/01/2024
Google maps screenshot with McDonald’s highlighted. Rating, 3.5. Featured review: “It kept my burger warm for long.”
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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I do think you basically charge a few of them with the cybercrimes they're committing and the "alignment" problem does suddenly start to disappear.
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Uqbar & Jeff @borgmamel.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Will Wood? more like Won't Wouldn't
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diurnal moth fan @jess-d-ripper.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
FUCK this one is dark
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nathan @wiseposter.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
rant mode activated. just playing im normal
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Tami Wicinas @tamiwicinas.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I am pleased with how my betta fish dish came out. I’m having a lot of fun playing with the glaze on these fish!
Ceramic dish sculpted in the shape of a betta fish. The glaze ranges from green to blue to purple.Close-up of betta fish dish.
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nathan @wiseposter.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
guy who cant see very good but only read the idiom a couple times: must have been something in the wafer.
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nathan @wiseposter.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
crashing into someone's dog door at full speed and then saying "sorry wrong house"
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nathan @wiseposter.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
just ran out of venge. should i go back to the station and fill up or just revenge.
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nathan @wiseposter.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
if i ever get delayed on a flight or even a bus ill be posting like artillery fire just hit my position
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nathan @wiseposter.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
trying to come up with a 4 second summary of how stupid it is that this garbage is cooking the planet seemed impossible until now
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nathan @wiseposter.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
whoever was on egg supply duty for the early october date eggs must have really hated eggs. i feel ya. but ill be grabbing intact cartons
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Nitro 🐻‍❄️ 🔜 Asfurmeet @es.nitrobear.gay · 06/08/2026
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Azure Emerald Empire @azureemeraldempire.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
You have a new message on MyNemesis. Subject: You thought you could hide from me?
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/09/2026
11/ Even Navatek’s executives were surprised at how far their money went in D.C. “It was eye-opening for me, frankly. ‘Oh my God, all of it is for sale. It’s all for sale,’” former executive Eric Schiff said.
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nathan @wiseposter.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
im not protecting my screen anymore. it has to learn sometime.
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nathan @wiseposter.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
it would be so cool if you could escape certain death by shedding a tail. if that happened to me i would just die.
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Billy Jor-El @davehumbird.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Oktoberfest fever catch it
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nathan @wiseposter.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
i am now in a war against the tree of heaven
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The Sisko @patbits.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
imagine if a ceo went to jail for literally anything lol
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nathan @wiseposter.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
intrusive thoughts about what kind of invasive plants are growing outside right now. i must hunt them down.
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Katie Hodges-Kluck, PhD @klhkhistorian.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
**Lights Out Alert Sunday & Monday Nights** Birdcast is estimating 300-400 million birds will be in flight.
From meteorologist Eric Snitil

**Lights Out Alert Sunday & Monday Nights**

"Heads up birders, I would not be surprised if the biggest bird migration night of the year happens over the next 2 nights. Birdcast is estimating 300-400 million birds will be in flight. That is a lot, but the pattern could not be better for migratory birds. A massive area of high pressure will turn the low level winds from the northeast to the southwest across most of the US. The last time we had anything similar to this in the fall was early October last year when a record 1.25 billion birds were in flight. I doubt we get to that level, but I suspect the number will top 500 million especially Monday night which looks to be the bigger of the two nights. You can help by turning off those outdoor lights on big migration nights, and the next 2 nights is about as big as it gets."
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shaun @shaunvids.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
*gripping a usb hard drive and pretending to wrestle with it* guys help i got skynet trapped in here. bail me out quick
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