• chiliedogg@lemmy.world
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    My ex’s Mom is a vegetarian (who also doesn’t believe in using GMOs or a microwave) and her Dad has celiac and legitimately can’t do gluten.

    I hate trying to cook for them, and I REALLY hate it when they cook for me. Her Dad made these “dessert” balls that are made from flax seed and sadness the first time we met and I pretended to like them to be polite. Now he always makes me a bunch of them and I have to choke them down with a smile. I’ll bee seeing them Friday and know I get to look forward to chomping on birdseed.

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      Then you have people from the opposite end of the spectrum. One time I received “protein cookies” from a friend and it was just baked chocolate whey protein powder 🤣. You’d expect something like that to work okay-ish, but it was a very, very sad cookie with way too much sweetener.

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        I don’t know how to cook for shit (I once set pasta on fire) but I feel like even my dumbass could figure out how to make that work. Motherfucker needs to refine their recipe.

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          🤣. Htf does pasta even catch fire? There’s usually moisture at all times.

          Well I will say that the cookies were safe to eat at least. I think they are in the process of making it work atm.

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            I managed to boil the water down a tad bit too much cause they weren’t softening, some of them were stuck to the side of the pot and caught fire. From there it was a simple matter of energy burnoff.

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                In our old office we had a stove in the break room. A coworker managed to forget she was boiling eggs and smoke out the building 3 times in 4 months.

                We finally bought her a gimmicky egg cooker that would turn itself off.

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      If they’re your ex’s parents, I’d have thought you’d be rid of them and their terrible cooking.

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        We’re still best friends. Just no longer romantically attached.

        We’re Ace, so it’s less of a transition than for most couples.

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        Because he’s a very sweet man and really enjoys sharing them with me. I’m not gonna take that away from him.

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      i use a lot of flaxseed and have experienced the “ah shit too much flax” very often

      flaxseed-based dessert should be an internationally recognized war crime