Good thought, thank you, this method definitely called for grated parm (not the shakey canister kind), but I think maybe I didn’t have enough pasta water to start with, and I kinda suspect my temperature may have not been quite right as well. I’m probably going to try the more “traditional” version next time, I didn’t realize this method was kinda unusual! Haha. fingers crossed
Yeaaa I think you’re right that I didn’t start with enough pasta water so it didn’t come together properly when I added the cheese! Another commenter shared a more “traditional” method, I think maybe I’ll try it that way next time. Thanks for sharing your thoughts!
Ohh okay! Maybe I’ll just try that more “traditional” method next time, your explanation of it sounds less difficult than I thought it’d be haha. I like that your way would use all the flavor that’s still in the pan from our chicken, too! Thank you for sharing your experience! :)
Ah yea, that makes sense. If I try using this method again I’ll def keep this in mind! Thank you! :)
Hmm when we started adding the cheese, it was just the carry-over pasta water from scooping it out of pot (and the melted butter), so probably just like a 1/4 cup or so? Then we ended up adding about 3/4 of a cup while mixing in the cheese after realizing it was getting gloopy.
Should we have added more pasta waster before the cheese?! I will feel so silly if it turns out that’s all we needed to do, because the big pot of pasta water was right there… Haha.
Ohh, okay! So you think it’s possible we did lose too much heat while trying to do it via the bowl huh? It’s funny it sounds like if it’s too cold or too hot it’ll make it gloopy/stringy! Haha.
Yea, I definitely don’t care about impressing anyone/showiness, just going for yummy & easy, heh, and if doing the sauce in a separate lil pot’s working well for you, I’ll probably try that out next time! fingers crossed
Thank you for sharing! :)
Oh! So maybe it still had too much heat when we added the cheese then!
The butter melted within about ~30-45 seconds and I thought we needed to hurry, so the pasta had only been out of the water for a minute or so before we started added the cheese… It was definitely giving squishy gloops and watery whey! Haha.
Do you usually wait like 2mins or more before adding the cheese? Thank your for sharing your experience!
Yea, I don’t think anyone’s suing over this…
Haha I was like “finally, something I can share to policial optimism!”, then realized that’s what community was showing me this post.
This is great news though! Ty for sharing, and for the well-curated community. :)
Article that’s linked in the OP article link: https://www.kjrh.com/news/local-news/man-with-a-gun-dies-after-being-shot-by-police-near-51st-and-sheridan
Including this because it adds more context (*).
The officers knew the call they were responding to included someone with a gun*, and “she told the police that he was autistic, that he was in crisis.” and then somehow within 1 minute of of them arriving, they tried to de-escalate* then decided (or knew?) it wasn’t possible, responded with lethal force, then didn’t give any medical care for 9 minutes?
Forgive me if this is an ignorant question, but don’t they literally have several non-lethal options that would’ve still stopped any immediate threat? And if what’s in the articles about the context is correct, shouldn’t they have gone into it more prepared to respond to a distressed person?
“I didn’t know what to do because it was beyond what I could do on my own,” Tyler said on Feb. 11. "I thought I was trying to save his life by dialing those numbers (911). But I sealed his fate.
Heartbreaking. 🥀
Damn indeed, this all looks delicious! The eggs look like they’re cooked perfectly (for how I like them at least haha)! Well done! :)
“It’s a wash” means that the positive and negative results of a situation cancel each other out, leaving you with no net gain or loss.
Similar to “breaking even” if you’re familiar with that one. :)
Yea… I’m not familiar with this source, and initial searching doesn’t give me confidence… Also, reading the article, it contradicts the headline…
“What you just observed was a distinct and concerning neurological event, and you got to watch it cross both hemispheres in his brain,” Garrison stated in a video posted to YouTube that has since gone widely viral.
Garrison was firm about the limits of what he could conclude from video alone. He stopped well short of claiming Trump had suffered a seizure or experienced dysphasia. “I’m not insisting that’s what’s going on with him, but it is clearly something neurological, whether it’s post-stroke or something else,” he said.
I think this is what they intend to be the “leak” that will “shock” us? Even though we’ve heard a bajillion similar stories at this point?
Yess! Our local convenience store honored it, too! It had to be the complete image, if it was partially cut off, it didn’t count! I didn’t know it was never the intent… I remember going through the bin trying to see which ones had a star visible without unwrapping them… Haha.
And now this is reminding me of also trying to peer up through the 20oz soda bottles without opening them in hopes of being able to read the inside of the caps so I could get a free one. Heh.
Wow, this is beautiful! Well done! :)
Here’s the info from https://cribb.substack.com/p/how-to-become-earth-citizens
We are now living amid the greatest emergency in humanity’s million-year tenure of the Earth.
This is a compounding catastrophe created by our relentless exploitation of the planet’s finite resources, natural systems and resilience - and the terminal overpressure of our exploding numbers. Collapse, according to Bill Rees, may prove inevitable.
Yet no government or global organisation has a systematic plan to address it – or any way to arrest the compounding damage.
World science has been warning us for over half a century that we are hurtling towards disaster, driven by ten catastrophic risks. However, these risks, described below, are rarely discussed together or even seen as part of the same process.
All ten threats are propelled by four main forces: overpopulation, overconsumption, overpollution and money.
Because they are so deeply interlinked, they cannot be resolved one at a time – but must be solved together - and by integrated solutions that make none of them worse.
1. Extinction
Our civilisation is switching off the Earth’s life support system.
Three quarters of large wild animals are already gone, in just a few decades. So are most birds, fish, reptiles and frogs.
Humans and our livestock now make up 96% vertebrate life on land.
We are transforming forests into deserts and oceans into dead zones.
We are poisoning the biosphere, which threatens our own existence too.
2. Resource scarcity
Every year, in just seven months, human consumption surpasses what the Earth can renew.
Together, we use 105 billion tonnes of materials annually - 12.8 tonnes each - destroying soils, water and wildlife along the way. Our resource consumption has quadrupled since 1970. It is projected to soar to 160 billion tonnes by 2050.
Acute freshwater scarcity now affects over half the world’s people. Under humanity’s dominion, the forests are falling and the oceans are dying.
3. Global Poisoning
We are poisoning every living thing, every day. Especially our children, whom we fill with plastic microparticles and other toxins even before they are born.
Human chemical emissions exceed 220 billion tonnes a year, five times larger than our climate emissions.
They kill 14 million people annually (WHO). This is the largest mass homicide in history. Nobody cares.
Neurotoxins are increasingly linked by science to a 13 point loss in human intelligence since 1975, guaranteeing a dumber race.
4. WMD
The world spends $2.7 trillion a year on new weapons.
12,000 nuclear warheads menace all life on our planet. Even a small nuclear war could kill 2-3 billion people, mostly by starvation.
The Doomsday Clock now sits at 89 seconds to midnight – the closest humans have ever come to absolute annihilation.
5. Hothouse Earth
Despite all the promises and good intentions, emissions of greenhouse gases continue to rise sharply. The world is on track for +2°C by 2050 and +3-4°C by 2100. Beyond that, scientists are warning, it could reach a point of no-return, becoming totally uninhabitable to large animals, including humans.
So far, climate predictions have seriously underestimated actual temperature increases.
Under such hostile conditions many food and water supplies will fail, causing nations and societies to collapse and refugees to flood worldwide.
Methane from melting permafrost, the ocean floor and tropical wetlands is already venting. This means the Earth is now heating itself - and there is nothing humans can do to stop it.
6. Food scarcity
Our modern food system wastes over a billion tonnes of food a year. At the same time, it destroys the soils, water, ecology and the very climate it depends on. It is engineered for its own destruction.
The stable climate on which our food supply depends is already extinct. The new one is hostile to farming. Water and soil to grow food are running out. Just feeding a single person for one day costs the Earth the loss of 8.2 kilos of topsoil. In 2024, 295 million people faced acute hunger.
We must urgently replace our present system with renewable food that recycles all its nutrients and water, uses far fewer resources and is climate-proof.
7. Uncontrolled technologies
We are unleashing a swarm of dangerous new technologies — AI, global surveillance, robot killers, nanopollution, man-made viruses, geoengineering.
These have no regulation, ethical or public oversight or means of control. Nor do the greedy billionaires who promote them and tout their benefits while ignoring their downsides.
Like fossil fuels before them, these tools can each inflict vast global harm if misused or unregulated by society.
8. Pandemics
Since 2000, we’ve had nine pandemics. Several are still running. More are on the way.
All pandemics are man-made: they mainly result from overpopulation, overcrowding, environmental destruction, global travel, misinformation and bad science.
Rogue scientists continue to create deadly new viruses.
WHO warns the next pandemic may be worse than COVID.
9. Overpopulation
The human population has tripled in a single person’s lifetime.
Each year, we add 70 million more people to a planet already strained to breaking point.
An animal is reckoned by science to be overpopulated when its demands begin to destroy the environment it inhabits and basic needs for its survival. Humans are now considered by many authorities to be well past that point, and thus overpopulated.
Mass migration could run into the billions as climate, conflicts, resource and food scarcities and sea level rise displace entire regions.
10. Misinformation
To add to our confusion, lies have become a https://cribb.substack.com/p/the-black-work-of-big-oil.
The fossil fuel sector pioneered paid disinformation. Politicians, media and other corporates have seized on it.
Mis/disinformation now poisons public discourse, disables democracy, kills individuals and prevents society from taking actions urgently needed for our own safety.
The Human Emergency
All these megathreats are connected and must be solved together, not one at a time. That way lies only disaster. The Council for the Human Future describes this constellation of threats as ‘the human emergency’.
Global action by a united humanity is not only necessary – but possible. The internet enables global discussion, rational decision and positive action. (As well as lies and nonsense).
Beneficial solutions to the main threats already exist and some (such as abandoning fossil fuels) are well-known – but, as yet, there is no global plan to implement them.
A plan
If we want to survive, humans must first agree to survive. Without a strong global consensus on how to secure our future, there is no safe way forward.
We must agree to tackle all ten catastrophic threats to our future, together - and as a matter of absolute urgency.
That is why the Council for the Human Future considers we need an Earth System Treaty – a single, binding, legal agreement to act on ALL the threats that surround us.
An umbrella agreement that any individual, as well as any group, company or nation can sign and pledge themselves to.
This would be the first truly global act of democracy, open to all members of our species, an agreement to secure our children’s future.
The Treaty
An Earth System Treaty is an agreement among rational, concerned citizens to work together to prosper on a habitable planet.
It seeks to safely abate each of the ten massive risks which confront us – and commits us to taking safe action to remedy them all.
Especially, it binds us to lowering human numbers and moderating our consumption of resources by re-use.
It commits us to living within the safe boundaries of the Earth, as defined by the Stockholm and Potsdam institutes and many others.
Its aim is to ensure our grandchildren can survive on a habitable planet - instead of a ruined one.
It is among the most important, inspiring and noble causes ever undertaken by humans.
Earth Citizens
The Council for the Human Future also considers that now is the time for a new kind of human to emerge – the Earth Citizen.
An Earth Citizen is one who believes in preserving a green, habitable Earth, rich in plants, animals and other diverse species, for our grandchildren.
Not the charred, desecrated cinder we are presently creating for them.
An Earth Citizen supports positive action against all major threats to human survival and the Earth system that sustains life.
An Earth Citizen has a personal commitment to do something positive, every day, to help build and secure a sustainable Earth in future.
An Earth Citizen is loyal to our common humanity and the planet that gives us life, rather than the competing nations, religions, businesses and cultures that would destroy it.
Let us all strive to become Earth Citizens – and uphold these simple values.
Unless we first agree together to survive, we probably won’t.
McDonald’s fruit & yogurt parfait. For $1. I loved those things. Yes, I can just get yogurt, granola, & fruit and make my own, but they’re not the same. Haha.
You answered what I was confused about in your post. I just had to re-read/let it marinate. I’m on piefed.social now, thanks again for your help! :)
Ah okay, that makes sense. The parm we got was marked “aged over 10 months” and it did seem a bit less dry than some of the more aged ones we’ve used in the past. We did just use the smallest side on the box grater though, not a microplane, so it’s definitely possible that it needed to be more finely grated. And that’s a great tip about just doing it w the pasta water at first, then adding in the butter, that sounds like a safer way to do it. And I’ve heard folks talking about using the sodium citrate in cheese dishes before but I’ve never actually tried it… Thanks so much! :)