Episode 23: The Breakfast/Rapper’s Delight Edition
We like to mix things up a bit. And by that we mean record our podcast on a different day, at a different time, like Sunday morning. Judging from our beverage choices, we also like to keep you on your toes and change it up. Like who knew Kelly was classy and kept champagne on hand to make mimosas? Or that Autumn was secretly West Side and drinks Gin and Juice like a true playa?
Autumn shares her recent adventures in the kitchen, including a pomelo-poppy seed cake AND a mess (Kelly is obviously rubbing off!)
Her adventures also star a whole flat-rate box of gorgeous mail-order meyer lemons from these lovely ladies (check them out!) and preserved lemons. Besides lemon curd, what would you make with a box of meyer lemons? Leave us a comment and let us know!
Do you know the laws regarding Everclear sales in your state? We didn’t!
Doooo youuu haaaveee friends that teeeeext liiiike thiiiis? Elongating vowels via text: drag it out or complete drag? We explore why we feel compelled to do this thanks to this article by Jen Doll (who wrote the piece on baking with love from episode 1). We also ponder: is elongating vowels the new emoji?! HOW DO YOU FEEL ABOUT EXCITED TEXT?!
Along those same lines, online communication might be better if the English language included these 8 New and Necessary Punctuation Marks.
Let’s talk comfort food. Kelly was sick last week and made chicken soup and stock. Autumn thinks of rice & beans from her childhood. What foods do you make or eat to warm the soul? What pieces of writing have the same effect?
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I need to gush a little. Tuesday is my day off this semester, so the Alphabet Soup podcast happening on Tuesday just makes lazy day even better.
So, about comfort foods — I don’t really have any, but the discussion on “white” rice and fagioli reminded me of how my mother makes lasagne. I never liked lasagne until I had it other places, just didn’t know why. One day, I figured out that my mother uses…wait for it…American cheese. Not in addition to other cheeses. As the only cheese.