My groceries (pic related) cost $100 after tax and tip today. How the frick is anyone else surviving?

Simple question

Making chili

Pretty basic

The spice mostly comes from 3tbsp of cayenne pepper which hasn't been quite enough for my liking before and when I've added tabasco and more cayenne it doesn't really seem to change things much either

I bought some habanero peppers and I'm getting ready to start things but I'm having second thoughts

With two pounds of beef how much habanero should I use

Should I just slice it up or should I like completely pulverize a pepper or three and toss it in

Is habanero going to overpower the rest of everything and kill my mayoid tongue

I had habanero on a burger a few times and it's always very hot so I am nervous

!grillers

Made In 8” non stick in cobalt blue (cookin eggs in chink chili oil)

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The offending post: Little country boy trying his hand. How'd I do with spaghetti and meatballs?:

Frick that fake tilt shift, who thinks it looks good? 75% of the picture is blurred. I also hate the title, but that's not why we're here.

The top comment:

Good but not Italian, we don't put meatballs on spaghetti, that's american [+81]

So you're telling me that in the entire history of the nation of Italy, no one has ever put a meatball on top of spaghetti? [+4]

We first eat pasta, then as the second plate we eat meatballs [+1]#

That's the dumbest thing I've ever heard. So basically if you have two Italian foods and you eat them separately, it's Italian. But if you put them on the same plate it's not Italian. Like I said, dumbest thing I've ever heard. [+1]

Well my nonna used to make spaghetti and meatballs ...

Death to all nonna-posters

you can do whatever you want with your food, but it's not Italian. [-1]

The gatekeeping in this sub is off the charts. [+1]

Enter /r/iamveryculinary

Did somebody say "gatekeeping" in a food subreddit? /r/iamveryculinary's monitoring dashboard lights up like a Christmas Tree and it gets reposted there: Someone posted meatballs in the Italian sub. The whole thread is bickering and probably unseen gesturing.

As always the comments are full of hilarity, these really are witty redditors:

If an Italian makes a ball out of meat, they die instantly.

No, the spontaneous combustion only happens when the meatballs touch pasta.

Hot take: if we subtract all the dishes that get eliminated by that sub as "not Italian," Italian cuisine would not be voted the most popular cuisine in the world any more

Where would Italian cuisine be without hot pockets and the Little Caesars lunchtime special?

My hot take is that I don't think Italians do themselves any favors by hyping up Authentic Italian Cuisine(tm) so much. I've been to Italy and I was actually mildly disappointed by the food there at first, I think because it was so ridiculously hyped up in my head.

I'd love to see this Redditor's holiday pictures

Wait until you see all the mean comments I get for my perfectly dark and precisely reproducible roux for gumbo. The Cajuns go beserk when I say I made it in the microwave instead of wasting 30 minutes stirring it on the stove like their memaw, lol. This is, of course, after they've tasted it and liked it.

This post is sponsored by this week's anti-gatekeeping campaigner @Not_a_R-slur. I'd like to thank @Lappland for his weeks of dutiful service and I wish him a happy retirement.

!MasterChef rate my coloring, texture etc

!thin I'm going to bulk up finally

A perpetual stew, also known as forever soup, hunter's pot[1][2] or hunter's stew, is a pot into which whatever foodstuffs one can find is placed and cooked. The pot is never or rarely emptied all the way, and ingredients and liquid are replenished as necessary.[1][3] Such foods can continue cooking for decades or longer, if properly maintained. The concept is often a common element in descriptions of medieval inns. Foods prepared in a perpetual stew have been described as being flavorful due to the manner in which the ingredients blend together.[4] Various ingredients can be used in a perpetual stew such as root vegetables, tubers (onion, carrot, garlic, parsnip, turnip, etc.), and various meats.[3]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perpetual_stew

I tried one of the world's oldest soups, a broth that's been kept simmering for 50 years by 3 generations of a family. It's now one of my favorite restaurants in Bangkok.

recipe on https://cooking.boymoder.biz/recipes/milk-bread.html soon (maybe tonight (maybe tomorrow))

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Yes that is the actual name of the drink. @FrozenChosen mentioned it the other day and it sounded awful so I picked one up to try.

Visual

I wouldn't normally pour something like this into a glass but I had to see what unholy color it was and it didn't disappoint.

I think it's best described as a cloudy, slightly bloody pink lemonade color.

Smell

Strong artificial strawberry. Think strawberry Nesquik.

Taste

Honestly it isn't as bad as I was expecting. It doesn't have the chemical aftertaste you get from a lot of zero sugar drinks. The fake strawberry flavor isn't overwhelming. I pretty much never drink Monster so I won't be getting it again but I was expecting it to be a lot worse. 6/10.

Not pictured: garlic chili oil, sriracha, truff black, and truff hot

Made this cookie cake (from scratch no mix ) for gameday

The art isn't very good (it's supposed to be Manic the Hedgehog ) but it tasted good after cutting it up

Pre-heat oven to 350 or don't, just leave it in there a bit longer

Open your package of Tikka Masala and put in a skillet

Put skillet in the oven for 30 or so minutes

Bon appetite!

Last year my 'mulled wine spice'-themed Thanksgiving dinner line-up turned out really well so I'm going to repeat it, but I have more people flying in than last year so need to make a turkey in addition to duck, and I forgot the stuffing recipe I followed so any suggestions would be helpful. Any feedback in general would be nice tbh.

Roast Turkey

• Dry brined and roasted the day before. If anyone has a good roast turkey/turkey dry brine recipe please share.

Roasted duck

• Roasted following this recipe but dry brined for 24 hrs with salt, brown sugar, orange peels, garlic, cinnamon, star anise, and ginger slices

Stuffing

• Probably a sausage and rustic bread or baguette one. It's hard to go wrong with stuffing but if anyone has a good recipe please share.

Braised red cabbage

• Braised on the stovetop for over an hour with star anise, maybe a slice of ginger, cloves, juniper berries, and whatever I adjust it with.

Honeynut squash puree

• I used sweet potatoes last year, but I'm going to probably use some honeynut squash I grew in containers this year. Or maybe just stick with sweet potatoes and use the honeynut squash for something else.

Braised kale or arugula salad

• Gotta add a green to feel like you're less of a fatass. I'll probably make something easy (the arugula salad last year worked well with everything else) but I'm open to suggestions if anyone has them. As long as the suggestions don't involve green beans.

Gravy, redcurrent jelly sauce, cranberry sauce

• Gravy made with turkey drippings from the day before, redcurrant jelly sauce made by mixing redcurrant jelly and white wine, cranberry sauce from a jar

Some sort of grocery store dessert

• Maybe I'll be able to find some pumpkin pie

Thoughts? Does anyone have a line-up they're proud of?

It’s this new thing I’m trying out called “being gay for kitty”