Slow cooking caramelized onions 100% works. The liquid can be drained near the end for a flavorful broth, and you can leave the lid off for the last few hours to let any straggler liquid evaporate if you want them really jammy.

In my experience, slow cooker caramelized onions are pretty reasonable to make in bulk, then freeze into a lump in your freezer that you keep telling yourself you’ll totally use in a recipe until you forget about its very existence, rediscover it once it’s a freezer burned mess, and reluctantly throw out, telling yourself that surely next time you bulk prep caramelized onions for some recipe that calls for them, you will not make thr same mistake.

Er, I mean, have you tried slow cooking caramelized onions? It takes longer but it’s so hands off!

Right? You get the crunch from the hardshell but the structural integrity from the softshell, plus extra refried beans. These days, I more often make tacos from soft corn tortillas that I crisp up in a frying pan or air fryer first, but I’ll never turn my nose up at a combo shell.

Put a soft-shell taco on the outside, adhered to the hardshell with a layer of refried beans.

I’ve never had a bean variety I disliked, but black beans are my favorite and most common bean craving.

I think least favorite goes to baked beans, if I can count those as a kind of bean. I don’t like their weird sweetness + smokiness combo (sweet + smoky can be good, but here it never worked for me) and also I have a Pavlovian negative association between them and being dragged to cookouts where people were like “Sure, we have a vegetarian option! Baked beans! … It’s cool that they have bacon in them, right?”

If I can’t count baked beans because they’re not a variety of beans, then Lima beans. There are good Lima beans, but if you run into them in the wild, they’re probably mushy and poorly prepared.

As for black-eyed peas, I like to cook them up in an Instant Pot with seasonings of smoked paprika, nutritional yeast, chilli powder, and hefty amounts of garlic and onion, then stir in a cooking green at the end and eat them with corn chips or over cornbread. Oh, and drizzle them with a good extra-virgin olive oil and add a splash of lemon juice before serving.

“Your owner was able to buy a new bag, but unfortunately, by then the store had sold out of your favorite brand… Listen, I understand this is hard to hear…”

“I have some difficult news for you. You may want to sit down. … sit.”

Came here to make this joke.

and to no longer enter homes without a warrant, backing off two controversial policies

Illegal

Entering homes without a judicial warrant is illegal, don’t soften it with “controversial.”

I always learned that the point of salting water is to infuse salt into whatever you’re boiling. It super does not make water boil faster though.

TY, I wasn’t aware of that. That makes it slightly better, though still isn’t great.

From quick research, it seems like even domestic rat droppings can harbor some nasry viruses like hantavirus. You’d want it to be well-composted at sufficient temperatures before use to break down any pathogens, and that unfortunately just brings you back around to the composting problem.

Oh, I know some mushroom farms will just kind of give away their used growing media if you ask. Another resource to check for.

Meanwhile, with Google’s upcoming restrictions on ‘sideloading’ (I.E. installing apps that haven’t registered with Google, including paying them a fee and providing your government ID: see more at https://keepandroidopen.org/), soon the only way for users running Android to install apps that Big Brother Google hasn’t approved will be… enabling Developer Mode.

Enabling Developer Mode of course requires a 24-hour waiting period, so you can’t just turn it off real quick to use this app and then back on, either. (EDIT: Apparently the 24-hour waiting period only applies to the first time enabling developer mode. The rest of my concerns stand, though.)

If apps refusing to run in developer mode is or becomes a widespread thing…well, it ain’t good. And making it so that important publicly funded apps can’t run in developer mode would be an easy thing for Google to lobby for…

Some municipalities will have programs where you can get free or low cost compost; I’d ask around there, as well as look for local gardening clubs and mutual aid groups to see if anyone has some to spare.

Also, both rabbit and Guinea pig droppings can be pretty good soil additions, if you know anyone who keeps either as companions/fosters or a rescue organization for either.

Also also, if you have any friends who keep fish, the water left over from when they change the water out in their tanks is also nutrient rich

Looks cool! Having some trouble trying to sign in using my Lemmy, however. It keeps saying “Could not connect to your Fediverse server” when I plug in https://sh.itjust.works/. Is this a thing where Bubbles needs to fix something, SJW needs to fix something, or I just need to make a new account on it?

Wait, it did? Do you have a link? All I can find are links to older articles.

Medellín deserves so much more recognition in the Anglosphere than it gets, they have done so much cool stuff that should be a model for a lot of places.

Open some windows is talking about gui windows not ms windows. I don’t get the alternative thing at all. Its like that thing with ms not being able to trademark windows because windows is a common word.

I’m pretty sure that in this specific context, it’s actually referring to the physical windows that you would crack to let in some fresh air. I’m also pretty sure that this post was a joke, LOL.

Had me going until “Could you crack a Linux?”