Kinkling day. I definitely don't adapt naturally to video editing or hearing my voice but my goal for the year is to make 4 cookbook videos. This one is kind of a bonus side tangent. www.youtube.com/shorts/Y0Piv...

love @nicmiller.bsky.social paczki roundup here - I had logged in to comment before even realizing my recipe is mentioned. tales-from-topographic-kitchens.ghost.io/its-tlusty-c...

This is quite an AI summary

2026 is my pivot to video year I guess, only a decade plus behind the times. I just somehow finally have the capacity to learn new things (badly) www.instagram.com/p/DUQq9xejeGj/

January is rough but so far this year I got to throw rocks through surface ice on a river AND poke puffball mushrooms with a stick, on two separate hikes so who knows what joys await.

optimists "the public is in agreement on this"! me, glass-half-empty person:

if I shot every driver I felt threatened by—hell, every driver I *was actually* threatened by—I'd be the biggest mass murderer in history

me: ok January time to hunker down and cut back on spending, save some money health insurance company: lol no

apparently its faded to white anyway but I think it'd be a hilarious flex with all the NASA cuts if some country went to the moon and removed the american flag

I spent a lot of last winter/spring reading/transcribing letters like this. I messed around a little with AI transcribers and I think it is one of the few useful applications (although such uses will never be prioritized or funded) but obviously a human eye can never be fully replaced

no, its verraylich a confpiracie

started my week off with a basement organizing rampage that I couldn't quit. "I'll just go put a few more things away." Listening to the Britney autobiography and finally clearing out all the tools and garbage. Waiting for the sign to be done.

Hasperat Guys, obviously

I have my ingredient parser working so well but I feel like I spend way too much time noting all of the bajillion ways people name things like "soda" for "baking soda" or "Crisco oil" vs shortening, its fun turning this stuff into data... to a point.

New post up: tribute to longtime Sun columnist Virginia Roeder, who died in late November oldlineplate.com/crab-cakes-c...

I spent a lot of 2025 reading letters like this and I am glad I will not be spending much if any of 2026 doing so.

Started trying to do reporting on my cookbook extractions and it became apparent that I finally needed some unit conversions. Doing so instantly made things so much more interesting. I checked for typos but the ginger ale thing is solely due to recipes for large volumes of punch

I'm not aging it a year but it'll have to do.

can vouch for this; tried to take a picture but it was too much to capture!

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i've had two people in the past week tell me my public speaking has become much more professional and relaxed. One who first saw me in 2022 and thought I was new to it then (started in 2018 actually!) But needless to say.. nice to hear!! Old Line Plate, now with 30% less "um".

i was intrigued to try this place (and get sufganiyah) but all the weird AI food photos.. idunno www.croustillecafe.com/online-order...

I was looking thru my fb archive and got reminded of this fun fact

I decided we are going to make the damn train garden map next year so please feel free to help me gather locations: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

people always bring up that cheesy Die Hard/Christmas movie debate when Lethal Weapon literally has a carton of eggnog getting shot from a helicopter

i thought this was one of those things anyone would do but maybe not: to find out if an item is really on sale or just a fake markdown you can sometimes look its page up on archive.org wayback machine

for black friday I'm selling books and tea towels for the same price I always do because its the cheapest I can sell them already. oldlineplate.com/shop/

why do I keep getting ads for waterproof jewelry as if that's some kind of unique feature. most jewelry is made of metal.

I recently learned from instagram and tiktok that zoomers aren't havin it about the "lost" colony of Roanoke and its like the first time I relate to the younger generation

i cannot quit the neighborhood facebook group solely because I like rubbernecking at the antics of one unhinged person and if you live in Charles Village/Remington you 1000% know who it is

gating alleys sucks. it privatizes public property and is anti-pedestrian.

I need everyone to stop buying shit like this please

i'm going to take some indulgent relaxing time this weekend to unplug and completely NOT think about how much the people in charge of this country loathe women, and how even if trump wasn't in the emails we'd all assume it was by chance because he very openly hates women, yet somehow its not enough

Ok now I know the Epstein stuff is successfully dominating the discourse because I didn’t hear until secondhand that the McRib is back. Nice try McDonald’s

Megyn Kelly: "he was into the barely legal type. Like, he liked 15-year-old girls." Yo the thing about "barely legal" is that there is no such thing as "barely illegal".

Seems a good time to post this again.

whenever I see someone hate on canned pumpkin just because it is like, butternut squash and not pumpkin, I think "there is a person who values authenticity over flavor." which is cool for them but I'll pass on their pies

new post on the blog... another cake, this one very different than the apple cake! An orange-filled cake from a Smith Island woman. It has layers! oldlineplate.com/orange-layer...

I planned this to be my last year of selling books and crafts at markets. I’m enrolled in one last market where I usually do well and it funds months of my work. … then I found out that this year the Christmas Parade is that day and now I’m basically having a crisis

Oh, *experts* predict this? Uh.... don't more millennial and Gen Z candidates HAVE TO run for office? Were more boomers going to run for office? Next thing you'll tell me more teenagers are going to enter the job market

Helicopters are the leaf blowers of the sky

I left work and saw the smoke and thought it was my old block, 25th and Howard so I walked down there. saw it was fawcett and walked home 5 blocks north... regret the detour because the smoke got worse and worse; had to change clothes!

We have a this guy in Maryland his name is John Merryman

the place in Frederick that he sued and made to change their name to "Beef n Buns in Paradise" gets the last laugh www.beefnbunsnparadise.com

something I think about kind of a lot is how people used to say it was creepy to go on amazon and have the site remember your name

I am reposting this link because I have made this apple cake three times; most recently for family over the weekend and someone brought my grandmother some and she emailed me about it. its so good and so autumnal. oldlineplate.com/sugar-top-apple-cake-lucretia-harris/

many are saying this

there was a time i never thought i could hate a politician more than i hated that guy. in retrospect, very naive of me

the Mamdani campaign wasnt mean enough to do this, but finding out Wallace Shawn was canvassing makes me feel like there was a real missed opportunity for My Dinner With Andrew

I went ahead and listed the little books I made to accompany cemetery tour. Contains 19 profiles and recipes (some from tour, some not) lots of imagery. 5x7 because I love cute things. I may expand and revise this later into some larger project who knows. oldlineplate.com/product/gree...