skinnylatte

skinnylatte, 3 days ago to animals

Daily Pupperazzi photo of Cookie

#DogsOfMastodon #Dogs

skinnylatte, 3 days ago to animals

Cookie got a clean bill of health from the vet, who saved her when she had a close shave last month! She said Cookie is doing really well, though her issues are still ‘a ticking time bomb’. We are hoping we can manage them medically and keep her happy and comfy before that happens. I’m really glad to have extra time with her.

#DogsOfMastodon #Dogs

skinnylatte, 3 days ago to random

Me: ‘I’ve been baking so much bread with spelt. It’s like I put a spelt on you, or something’

Wife: ….

skinnylatte, 3 days ago to animals

My mailbox location has a chair just for its cat

#CatsOfMastodon #Cats

skinnylatte, 4 days ago to animals

You may think I wait for my cat to yell at me so I can take photos of her.

She simply yells all the time.

#CatsOfMastodon #Cats #Torties

skinnylatte, 4 days ago (edited 5 hours ago) to random

I made a chard and potato pesto soup with stock I made, with pesto I made, and ate it with bread I made. Delicious!

skinnylatte, 4 days ago to random

The library posted a video of them receiving a book that had been loaned out for 70 years. The person’s family returned it after they passed. Now when I procrastinate about returning a book, I think about that video.

skinnylatte, 5 days ago to random

Even though I never cooked when I was living in Southeast Asia (you.. really don’t need to), paying attention to food procurement and techniques helped me level up when I started cooking when I left that region.

(Eating street food there is often cheaper than buying ingredients and cooking yourself. In almost all SEA cities)

There’s a lot of stuff I felt I just ‘knew’ because I was around people who dealt with food all the time

skinnylatte, 4 days ago (edited 6 hours ago) to food

Growing up in Southeast Asia means that on the hottest day of the year, all I want to eat is the hottest (temp) food I can get. So, pho for breakfast it is.

In general all breakfast foods should have reached boiling temp for me, and be eaten with as much chillies as possible; never ever sweet

#Food #SanFrancisco

skinnylatte, 4 days ago to food

After 6 years of wondering ‘why am I much more depressed in SF than in Singapore / Malaysia / Indonesia’, I’ve done everything, seen everyone, done all the therapies, but I’ve just realized that the difference is ‘I don’t eat noodles for breakfast every morning’ in only one of those places.

So, I rectified that today and it’s looking like my theory has legs. And noodles. And happiness.

#Food

skinnylatte, 4 days ago to food

My #Tenderloin breakfast / lunch picks.

Note my idea of breakfast may be quite different!

• pho at pho2000
• banh mi or bun bo hue or chao long at Mong Thu
• kwayteow radna at Lapat’s
• relleno negro stew at Los Yucatecos
• bbq pork shoulder and rice, or khao soi, at Sai Jai Thai
• the brunch at Lapisara (try the laab burger)
• the $9 Latin fried rice and roast chicken at Cantoo
• salted egg yolk croissant, or banana bread, at sweet glory
• sandwiches at Salty’s

#Food #SanFrancisco

skinnylatte, 4 days ago to random

LinkedIn is perplexing in many ways, but LinkedIn influencers who post photos of themselves with every deep thought, truly freak me out

skinnylatte, 4 days ago to animals

We adopted a 11yo cat thinking we’d give her a comfy retirement. This was 6 years ago. She’s found a new phase of life: yelling at birds from the couch while cuddling a human.

#CatsOfMastodon #Cats #Torties

skinnylatte, 4 days ago to random

I meant to send someone ‘get in touch’ but sent ‘get in tofu’

skinnylatte, 4 days ago to random

A local bakery I follow posted a pic of a nudist standing next to their shop (with consent). All the comments are about ‘fun buns’ except for the one single kink-shame

No kink at Pride people are exhausting, worse when they are queer

skinnylatte, 5 days ago to random

Annoyed that all the Indian and Malaysian and Thai and Singaporean and Indonesian aunties in my life who refused to give exact measurements and times and said ‘it’s done when it’s done’ actually had the best cooking advice

skinnylatte, 5 days ago to random

I have a really good friend who is Syrian. I love the Syrian sense of humor.

I was telling him about how I feel as though in a world of super specialized people at this stage in my career, I feel like an oddball. He says, ‘you’re like fusion food. But you have to have a clear and easily understood story. Who you are, what you’re selling. Otherwise, you will be confusion food.’

skinnylatte, 5 days ago to random

It’s not lost on me that many electeds in San Francisco are simply latching on to the first available Chinese American person, usually conservative, and then saying all Chinese Americans want tough on crime pro-police politicians like them (and ignoring other types of #AAPI people who do not want those things)

skinnylatte, 5 days ago to random

Interesting public service role based in the Bay Area, working with the government of Flanders to promote links between American and Flemish companies (college friend of mine works here!)

Could be interesting for someone tech-adjacent looking for a more international role without necessarily relocating (I think the salary estimates are based on EU salaries, but this role might be different)

https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/1643002722/

skinnylatte, 5 days ago to animals

Cookie, in spite of her name, also loves all fruit

#DogsOfMastodon #Dogs

skinnylatte, 5 days ago to food

15 years ago I was making travel / food videos for fun. I want to do it again, but I’m scared of becoming a ‘YouTube creator’

https://youtu.be/ACjIDnX8rPo

#Food #Travel

skinnylatte, 5 days ago to random

Me: I don’t understand why anyone eats the frozen food at Trader Joe’s

Also me: *makes a meal from frozen foods from Japan, China, India and Korea’

Culturally relevant convenience food that hits your flavor profile is important (I don’t love the Chinese or Thai stuff at TJ’s, it just tastes weird to me)

skinnylatte, 5 days ago to random

I guess the internet is full of ‘15 min easy recipes’ for a reason, but I want ‘15 hours difficult recipes’ because that’s how I enjoy cooking

skinnylatte, 5 days ago to random

I was yelling about the NAR Christians for the last decade in Singapore, where local acolytes also have implemented versions of this theology (there’s a cinema with evangelical Christian certified content for example)

You can’t divorce that movement from the parent theology, which is this stuff. Except in Asia it becomes 80% about prosperity, 5% about God, 15% about MLM

https://www.texasobserver.org/new-apostolic-reformation-texas-leaders/

skinnylatte, 5 days ago to Bread

I struggled to find spelt bread recipes that weren’t boules (fun to make, but I personally don’t love making, eating or shaping boules)

Made a spelt flour pain de mie, which turned out excellent! Kind of just winged it with the King Arthur whole wheat pain de mie recipe, and it’s now something I’ll write up and make regularly

#Bread #Food #Baking