Maybe you solved a problem, or found something new you love, or something else entirely!
I used to cook super bland food and eventually started just tossing whatever seems good into the recipe while cooking. It usually works out somehow, especially with garlic and onion. Even something as simple as a half teaspoon of dried onion in a cheapo ramen pack does wonders for the flavor. I decided to try coating a burger in fresh diced onion while pan cooking (hate grill flavor sue me) and then scraping it off after and it adds a nice touch without being overwhelming. A splash of Worcestershire sauce into most anything involving teriyaki.
Oh VANILLA EXTRACT IN PANCAKES. If you haven’t done that yet you are missing out. That’s not really a wild invention but surprisingly few people I know have done it.
On a different note, I ended up taking a job completely unrelated to my comp sci degree. Always felt weird about it, but looking at coding job prospects now, I feel like I dodged a massive bullet.
Garlic and onion are the godly things in cooking.
If I’m cooking those (usually with butter but sometimes just oil) invariably husband or twin will be like “oooo what smells so good” and laugh at me when I’m “its onion and garlic, the same thing y’all find amazing every other time!”
I love onion and garlic so much I usually put in a whole onion when a recipe calls for half an onion and two garlic cloves in place of one.
My wife watches some cooking YouTube channel where they have some normal people competing with or against some professional chefs
The normals have picked up the habit of chopping up a “thinking onion” while they’re trying to figure out what to do for a challenge, because almost every meal can use an onion somewhere, and it gives them something productive to do instead of standing there freaking out
I’d recognize Sorted Food anywhere.
Ha, a fellow Sorted Food fan!
Quarter teaspoon of cinnamon in your pancakes for when you’re feeling fancy/cozy.
And let the batter sit for a few minutes while covered for fluffier batches.
My favorite way to make pancakes is with diced banana in the batter. It practically melts when it cooks!
On a whim, I did an internship at an architecture firm doing low voltage and media design while finishing my theatre degree. It opened my eyes to the possibility of working outside the entertainment industry. I ended up going back to school for a mechanical engineering degree and now I’m just over a year into my role at an industrial components company. I’d say it worked out pretty well!
Bit of a cliche one but I have been a pretty nerdy and sedintary person for most of my life. I decided to try working out at the gym, initially wasn’t super into it but then became addicted and now I spend quite a lot of time outside work on my fitness and really love it.
I was a depressed, obese, nerdy, uncoordinated NEET who ran his way into weight loss and joined the French Foreign Legion and actually finished his 5 year contract. And I’m still nerdy and uncoordinated. 😅
I can relate to a few things here (e.g. definitely share the lack of coordination), of course others very much not - it drives my curiosity through the roof: Any stories on what happens when you are with the FFL and have no coordination from start to end? I feel like there have to be some very good ones :)
You find out that regardless of how shitty you are, they need bodies so, as long as you’re not a ‘troublemaker’ and you just nod and keep your mouth shut, they’ll either encourage you to get better or tolerate you and find something less technical for you to do, lol. I got along well with many of my higher ups in basic and I pretty much begged them to send me to a ‘soft’ regiment, so I ended up a sapeur de combat (combat engineer?) in 1REG, and then I begged/convinced the captain to allow me to go full POG (honestly, you don’t want a myopic and clumsy soldier watching your back, lol) and halfway through the 3rd year I became a secretary. 👍
Also, that people who come from happy families and aren’t desperate/broken/suicidal enough for basic to the first year or so to feel like an improvement in their lives have weekly mental breakdowns and quit/run away very easily. See, there’s a silver lining to everything! 😅
sapeur de combat (combat engineer?)
Sapper in en-gb!
Putting salt on mango and pineapple.
I don’t live in a tropical region so imported tropical fruit can be a toss up. A colleague from tropical region told me to put salt on these fruit if they are too sour. Since then, I discovered a new way to eat tropical fruit.
Salty + sweet is the best food combo imho
Does getting married count? Pretty different than what came before.
Quit a job without a plan. That boss put me in contact with my next boss.
truthfully, the most important lesson I figured out as a young man
what would my mother do? what would my father do? I will do neither and if faced with difficulty… put my face into the rain and power my way through. doing what is right is usually hard. that’s how you know it’s the right choice.
