My Human Barometer superpower probably just saved a bunch of our garden tools and other supplies from getting soaked/soggy/rusty in an unexpected storm, so I guess my central nervous system has earned its keep for once.

In honor of Opening Day, it’s a bun(d)t cake!

Went down to Sandy Hook this afternoon in hopes of seeing the seals before they head north again (there’s a spot in the bay where they like to haul out on the rocks at low tide) and also got to see my first osprey of the season! All this on top of last week’s (blurrily photographed) oystercatcher.

I did a bit of recipe testing for this book, and I hit that preorder button so fast—I am really looking forward to baking all the recipes in it when my copy arrives!

It was like a breath of fresh air to watch a team who was actually out there playing loose and having fun win the WBC.

Baseball is supposed to be fun. If you are not playing it in a manner that results in having fun, you just seem like a weirdo honestly. You just are out there with your little pants and your helmet and your comically large glove

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Yesterday, it was 85 degrees and we had thunderstorms overnight. Today, it’s snowing. Just a perfectly normal March.

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Thinking about this again and how exhausting it is to have to constantly be vigilant about this kind of stuff on top of everything else that’s going on. The big funnel is REALLY big.

I looked at that Polish food blogger’s social posts at the right/wrong time. I really liked the recipes, but I just saw some video that looked like it might be at the start of a makaron z truskawkami to MAHA or perhaps a rosół to radicalization pipeline. I’m kind of bummed out about it.

Calls made (although I need to circle back with @kim.senate.gov on Monday because the voicemail wasn’t working). Now to figure out something to do that isn’t doomscrolling.

I really enjoyed this one!

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Trying to beat out the blizzard and get some milkweed seeds in the ground. I’ll also be trying some winter sowing in cranberry juice jars to hedge my bets.

I’ve been considering getting a waffle maker for a bit and there doesn’t seem to be much consensus in the reviews. I’m trying to decide between a big splurge-y All-Clad, a flippy Cuisinart model that is on a good sale this weekend, or the Hamilton Beach one @smittenkitchen.bsky.social swears by.

Thinking about how many cast members were themselves refugees and knowing that the outcome of the war was not certain at the time wrecks me every time I watch this scene.

That was mind blowing on so many levels, including how they created a set that complex and evocative on a Super Bowl halftime time scale.

Continuing with my New Year’s resolution to make at least one recipe I have never tried before every month, here’s the mirepoix for the Cook’s Country pasta e fagioli for two. The finished soup is tasty but not at all photogenic (I subbed dried beans for canned and overcooked them in the IP).

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What drives me even more bonkers about the hallucinated references is that there are lots of citation generators out there if you don’t want to do it by hand! PubMed even has a button that will do it for you right there in the sidebar! You don’t need the software that confidently lies to your face!

Trying to untangle a hallucinated reference sure is a waste of time and an exercise in frustration. Sure, I knew academically (ha!) how bad it is, but I can’t find a paper to check whether the citation is correctly styled if the authors, journal, and DOI are all wrong! #AmEditing

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I may pop out again, but the aurora conditions aren’t looking promising here tonight. There’s enough cloud cover to really capture and reflect all the light pollution from the city.

Yes, I totally did impulse-buy a Dolly Parton frozen cheesecake for dessert tonight in honor of her birthday.

I was already on Team The Gambling Apps Are a Scourge, but finding out that people were betting on (read: against) my Mystery Hunt team feels pretty gross, actually!

Even if I really, really want pound cake, 10 pm is probably too late to start baking one when it’s a school night and all the butter is in the freezer, isn’t it?

“Is this a dagger which I see before me?” No, it’s a superscripted letter “t.” I suppose I do have to admire the scrappy, can-do spirit behind it all. #amediting

I always enjoy the portion of the Sheep to Shawl broadcast when they visit all the sheep in their pens and introduce them to the TV audience.

I’ve been idly watching the PA Farm Show animal competitions while waiting for the Sheep to Shawl rebroadcast and marveling at how fluffy they get all the cattle for the show ring. The grooming on the market (meat) lambs (closely shaved, except for the legs) is also fascinating to me.

At 10:11 pm ET Monday, we will be closer to the first pitch of the 2026 MLB season than we are to the last pitch of the 2025 World Series

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Honestly, this Galette des Rois may have just turned my whole day around. I don’t think I have ever gotten this much puff before (I bake pastry to keep me humble) and the whole house smells like butter and sugar and almonds.

About to find out how thoroughly I managed to crimp this pastry!

My confusion over how long you can wait vs should wait to get vaccinated after a Covid infection means that we missed the window to get Novavax. So that’s really great.

I made the rough puff pastry last night and the frangipane filling this evening. Tomorrow, I just have to assemble and bake and we will have Galette des rois for Three Kings’ Day.

It is so inconsequential and stupid in the grand scheme of things but finding out that the white rye flour I use has been discontinued is making me seriously consider giving up baking.

Made my calls and then decided to start gradually making a galette des rois. So far, I’ve cubed the butter and started chilling the dry ingredients for the rough puff and made the almond paste that will go into the frangipane.

The crowder peas from @billhookunion.beanyear.com were a bit of a revelation—they were earthy, but I didn’t taste the savor of sweaty sock that I find so unpleasant in black-eyed peas. I think I’ll have to try to get my hands on some lady peas, too, for comparison.

Excited to get a jump on my New Year’s resolution to try at least one new recipe per month with Bean Box 6 from @billhookunion.beanyear.com and Recipes From the American South by @koshersoul.bsky.social

This whole thread is beautiful but this is what I am going to bring with me into 2026.

My mother loved the glass wreath ornament I got her from @nora.zone and it looks great on the tree! Cardinals are one of her favorite birds, so I knew she had to have it.

My Bean Box 6 arrived yesterday (ahead of the tracking estimate) so I will be ringing in 2026 with beans!

I should never have doubted the healing power of a baked potato.

My babka will never be the equal of the ones made by the Little Servant Sisters of the Immaculate Conception, but I am definitely improving (and improvising—this has blueberries and apricots instead of raisins). This is from King Arthur; I think I may try the recipe from Dobre Dobre next time.

Posting to remind myself (and maybe anyone else who has had a similarly challenging year and needs to see this) to be gentle with myself and not to run myself into the ground chasing holiday perfection. It’ll be just fine even if we are simply having an adequate Christmastime.

The shower curtain raised-bed cover experiment is enough of a success (I picked scallions in the snow!) that I might shell out for a proper cover and frame/hoops. I should probably move the cranberries somewhere they can get their proper cold hours, though.

I realize that I am long out of academia and that I had the privilege of being trained by deeply ethical and brilliant scientists when I was on that track, but the thought of citing a paper without reading it to confirm what it actually says for myself gives me hives.