Mise en place is essential in my mind and one of the most important skills I learned early on in culinary school. At home if you don’t want to dirty a ton of dishes, you can organize ingredients (veggie ones anyway, still need bowls for spices/liquids) into small piles on your cutting board. Then just grab a bench scraper or the side of your knife and toss the ingredients in as needed.

Also, get a kitchen scale. You won’t need it all the time but it’s so much easier to just stick a pot on top of a scale and add 500 ml of chicken stock than it is to have to measure 2 cups in a separate container. This is especially good if you’re looking to blanche/simmer something in a flavorful liquid like stock or broth

I’ve dealt with brain cancer on and off for most of my life, and for a while things were looking pretty bad. I’m good now, but I think I came to terms with my own mortality pretty early on (around when I was 16). As someone now rapidly approaching 30, if I were to go tomorrow I feel I’d be OK with that, though I would worry about how my fiancée would take it (or not, I’d be dead so I wouldn’t care about much of anything). I’m still looking forward to many more adventures but when my time is up, so be it.

Barrett, for starters. Nominated 38 days prior to the 2020 election, and confirmed just 8 days prior.

My parents still have these! Lots of nostalgia there

Dude, I wish I lived in a civilized country. My cancer treatment would have cost somewhere in the range of $5 million without insurance. Healthcare is a human right

You’re missing a few zeroes there I think

Png is cool, but have you considered .cr2?

Bro, I’m 28 and I feel this way. It’s like I became uncool overnight