Throw a couple cups of milk in a pot, start to heat on medium/medium high (don’t let it boil.)

While that’s heating, take about half a cup of milk, and a couple fat tablespoons of flour and whisk it together in a separate bowl. It should be thick, but not real lumpy. If it comes out like mashed potatoes, add more milk.

Once the hot milk starts to bubble on the stove, slowly whisk in about half of your flour mixture. Let it come back to a slight bubble and see how thick it is. If you want it thicker, add more of the flour mixture. Once it bubbles for a minute or two, that’s almost the final consistency as it’s going to thicken a little as it stands. Add salt, pepper, garlic powder, etc. to taste. Turn the heat off. Add a bunch of shredded cheese. If you heat it with the shredded cheese in it, you run the risk of the sauce breaking. Check it again for flavor, and if it thickens up too much as it cools, you can always add a little more milk.

One of the biggest mistakes that people make is heating up a sauce too much after it has the cheese in it. This can make the cheese break and get gross. I also have zero issue with using pre-shredded cheese this way either. And bonus tip, if you throw a slice of American cheese in there, it’ll have enough sodium citrate to help make it a very smooth cheese sauce.

Different cheeses depending on the end goal. If you dehydrate cheese it can be ground into a powder. I’ve seen cooks on various shows do this to recreate powders for popcorn seasoning, home made Doritos, Cheetos, or even for long term prepping/storage. Makes it easy to create sauces in a pinch as well.

Oh damn. TIL, thanks.

You don’t know how I make my pasta.

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Without digging deeper to find out what this salt was purposed for, they also make salt for non food products, and likely non human ingestion as well (animal salt licks and such.)

They also make salt products for de-icing roads/sidewalks, so this sale may not have been destined for food.

We made our entire cult out of cats 😁. If we ever end up with a non-cat, they’re first up to be sacrificed lol.

I used a bright white base coat with heavy application of a black wash, letting it pool to the edges of the robes. Then I went in with the Black 4.0 under the robes and inside the hood. Most visible on the back, I also used it for those branching “crack” like details. The base is also Black 4.0, but I took the picture under a REALLY bright light (and in the first image you can see the spots where I was too impatient to wait for the base to fully dry lol.) Under regular lighting the black is incredibly flat and the underside of the robes really does disappear.

The lanterns are painted silver with a black wash. For the glowing part of the lantern, I started with a bright white base, then layered the blue glow in the dark pigment, then a clear gloss over it.

I loved working on that piece, even though I often felt like screaming trying to get the right angles to paint one part and not fuck up something else lol.

It’s The Watcher from Kingdom Death Monster.

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Unfortunately I haven’t used any image hosting sites in years, so I did this quick. I’m open to recommendations!

If the story is true, Anish Kapoor got his hands on some and dipped his finger in the pink, flipping off Stuart.

In response, Stuart released a glitter made of shards of glass. Lol

I bought some lol. It’s a truly pretty, perfect pink.

I’ve made an unspeakable number of purchases from Culture Hustle over the last couple years for a variety of pigments and specialty paints (like Black 4.0 and glow in the dark and UV reactive pigments.) I paint board game minis for fun lol.

Massage therapists hate spray tans.

Hyperpalatable is a new one for me. Overall I think it’s going to be a hard sell to convince people that “food that tastes less good” will be much of a motivation.

As a mom, I think that having a lifestyle where both parents didn’t have to rely on multiple jobs and overtime to survive would allow families to enjoy life and not have to seek out bursts of dopamine from the foods they eat as a bandaid.

Lol when it was discussed with the funeral home folks (who gave us the shovel to dig with - left it leaning against the back door of the funeral home the morning of) they just said to let them know when we were done so they could document what was left there for the records.

Yes. This happened in a very, very rural area lol.

My mom used to do arts and crafts things with gourds. When she passed there were easily over a dozen laying around the house plus a giant one she had started prepping, but never finished.

She was cremated, and the plans were to bury her in the plot she already had next to my dad. State or county requirements, however, that works, allowed us to be the ones to dig the hole to actually place her urn in the ground. When the time came, her five children, their spouses and many grandchildren gathered to dig a great big hole in the ground. We ended up taking the big gourd that she had been working on and placed it in the ground, then as we filled that with dirt we placed her urn inside the gourd. In the end everyone took shovelfuls and handfuls of earth and covered her up.

I can never look at a gourd without thinking of my mom.

Brain dead? Dead inside? Soulless? Checks out.

Congrats! I fucking gagged.

I wonder if he applies his foundation with his hamberder bun, then eats it?

It can be both. Spray tan can wash off unevenly if you bathe, so make up evens out the finish.

Not that I’m assuming he showers that much, but I imagine he at least wipes the grease away from his mouth on occasion.

Cancer is a good one for weight loss too.

Never comment on someone’s weight unless you 1) know them personally and they’ve shared their goals with you, and 2) see them achieving those goals and you know they’d appreciate the support. Otherwise it’s fine just to mind your own business and not say a damn thing, because maybe you just don’t know.

Yikes! The use of the term “packet” was initially confusing to me. Here in the States it’s not uncommon to see small packets of a single dose of over the counter medicines in gas stations and convenience stores for when you’re not at home and something comes up. The directions for extra strength Tylenol are 2 every 6hrs (1000mg dose) not exceeding 3 doses per day.

I was thinking “4 packets over 3 days, what’s the big deal?”