Results for: Feel good
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How To Cook Vegducken (Or: How to Spend Thanksgiving Heartsick and Far From Home)
“I get up off the floor, reach for a long, heavy leek and a cutting board and my favorite knife, its weight in my palm like an amulet. I feel like a stranger in my own life, but I have seven hours and eight dishes left. There is work to be done.”
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Wild Child West: Our Top 10 Road Trip Snacks
We’ve finally picked out our road trip snack shopping list, and it’s a thing of beauty.
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Holidays and Spice and Everything Nice: A Soul Food Recipe Roundup
“This recipe is one-fourth jollof rice recipe from an easy-to-follow blog, and three-fourths looking at my mom and constantly asking ‘IS THIS RIGHT?!?!'”
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Follow Your Arrow: Coffee Roaster Tara Brown on Courage, Connections and Simple Pleasures
“A-Camp was sort of a turning point for me. We were talking about building a year-round Autostraddle community and it was decided that I’d be the coffee roaster. I was like, ‘Well, guess I better get good at this coffee roasting thing.’ You can’t have mediocre coffee in a queer commune. I started actually writing a business plan the next weekend.”
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Pretty Much Every Manischewitz Product, Ranked
“It’s like biting into a decorative soap. Whoever decided this was an acceptable form of dessert was a sadist of the highest order. If anyone ever offers you one of these items, escape immediately; this person is trying to kill you.”
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Gift Guide: Kitchen Things for the Person Who Already Has Every Kitchen Thing
Every year you think “I’ll get them a whisk, or a loaf pan, or a mixing bowl.” But this year you realize you’re out of luck, because they already own literally every thing. No worries, friend; your luck has not run out just yet! It’s possible that person has one or two things on this list, but I guarantee you they don’t have all of them.
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50 Halloween Candies, Ranked in Order of Deliciousness
Handing out candy corn to trick-or-treaters makes you a monster.
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Matzo Brei: Nothing to Pass-over Here
How do you make omelets and French toast even better than they already are? Matzo, that’s how.
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Liquor In The V-Day: My Bloody Valentine
We present to you a V-Day drink that could be romantic, bro-mantic or no-mantic — either way, it’ll still be delicious.
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Liquor In the Gift Guide: Wine, Beer and Cocktails
You DECANT overlook the importance of a great decanter to a wine enthusiast. DECANT. Get it? Get it!? Get…no?
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The Secret Dairy-Free Agenda: Subverting Lactose at the Thanksgiving Table
“So what are you going to eat?”
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Get Baked: Bulkas (Yeast Buns), A South African Jewish Tradition
Let’s make bulkas together in anticipation of breaking the Yom Kippur fast on Saturday evening. This recipe includes a photo of Vanessa as a small child, a short instructional video, and an until-now top secret family recipe. L’chaim!
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Get Baked for Passover: Homemade Chocolate Covered Matzo
There was no chance I’d find any matzo in Venezuela, so when Passover rolled around we decided to make some of our own!
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Ode to My Pantry: Easter Eggs
Or more accurately, Easter egg leftovers.
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Get Baked: Vegan Pumpkin Cheesecakes and Vegetarian Tofurkey For Thanksgayving
Who doesn’t love a tiny pumpkin cheesecake that fits in the palm of your hand and smells like autumnal bliss? Plus a delicious buttery tofurkey!
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Liquor While At Her Family’s For Thanksgiving: Mulled Wine
As a non-normative person, there are a lot of traditions I get shellacked on. But one thing I can do is traditional alcohol. There’s so much tradition behind alcohol of all sorts, so much history and artistry. And one thing that screams holidays to me is mulled wine.
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Get Toasted with Autostraddle: The Holigay Drinkstravaganza
As the sign outside a metro Boston liquor store once said, “Because holidays are for family.”
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Get Toasted with Autostraddle: A Very Special Holiday Drinking Edition
Eight holiday drinks! One for each night of Hanukkah! Which is already over but don’t let that stop you from celebrating. Later on we can hunt for Easter eggs. What? I don’t know. Aren’t excerpts fun? I learned how to say ‘cheers’ in German!
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Get Baked with Autostraddle: Thanksgiving Edition
Six yummy and happenstancely vegan side dishes for your holiday feast!
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Get Baked with Autostraddle: Valentine’s Day Edition
Work your magic on Valentine’s Day with these four ridiculously irresistible recipes (with photos!) from our Team. Seriously, don’t read this if you’re hungry.