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4 days agoTo this day my ex still sings along “kissin’ the night away…” You made my night, OP. Thank you!
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Cake day: September 1st, 2025
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3·5 days agoOh my… thank you so much for that recipe, I don’t have that in my arsenal.
Bookmarked, archived and saved in PDF just in case the internet takes a nap.
If you can freeze it, you can gift it!
We plan our holiday menu and gifts during Labor Day weekend as we’re cooking out and chowing down. Since everyone in my family has a chest freezer in their garage, whomever is hosting Christmas will make that freezer available so we can put our beautifully packaged and labeled gifts inside.
We’ll bring our own cooler if it’s unseasonably warm and make extra ice to put in plastic zip bags.
For our cousins’ significant others, my dad modified a cardboard box to fit a lasagna with room for ice; I’ll be gluing the instructions on the box later on. They don’t know they’re getting it so my dad’s preparing a container for transport. They’re the only ones who have to travel for over an hour.
My aunt got her reusable insulated bags from the grocery store to use for her frozen pot-pies. After her pot-pies are wrapped and frozen, they go into that pre-frozen insulated bag back into the freezer.
I think your frozen cobbler is a great idea! I’ll be borrowing it soon. I hope I answered your question. This is an awesome post with great ideas. Bookmarked!
Ever since Covid, my family and I have been exchanging food as gifts. Grocery-hopping to stores with empty shelves scared our grandparents, so a new family tradition was born.
These gifts consist of homemade pies, cookies, breads, pastries, dried figs from a relative’s tree, frozen chicken pot-pies, ginger marmalade, honey purchased from a family farm and bean soup in a mason jar (dry). A cousin who doesn’t cook will be gifting us with empanadas purchased from a co-worker; she’s very creative with packaging and makes her gifts look like they came from an expensive boutique. Our younger cousins are making soap, peppermint bark and sewing gift bags.
My brother is waiting for the price to drop on a certain wine. When it does, he pays a visit to the store manager who gives him a discount if he buys a certain amount. My mom is making her signature mini fruit tarts and placing them in holiday tins she purchased last year for about 50-99¢ each. She also wants to make madeleines.
This year, we’re adding DIY fresh fruit baskets at the request of our grandparents. The kids are getting money stuffed inside an origami frog (last year’s crane was a failure). I will be making several frozen lasagna (9x9) and mini loaves of banana bread baked in holiday-themed stoneware (very inexpensive).
My entire family would absolutely welcome you and your pickled okra; we don’t have a pickle guy. We have my uncle who made pickled bitter melon… it wasn’t bad.
EDIT: My dad made vanilla extract during lockdown, it took almost 2 years but it was a hit!
Wow, thanks!
Your taste in music is as eclectic as mine. It’s nice to meet a kindred spirit.
3·13 days agoNo. 4
I’ll take two dozen of those, please. Thank you.
Great tip, thank you.
This is all I could find that hasn’t been retracted (yet):
The quiet street where Robinson lived with his parents is now the subject of intense scrutiny. Officers from the Washington City Police Department kept media and neighbors on the other side of the street.
Neighbors were largely tight-lipped about the family, but many of those who spoke with USA TODAY focused on the family’s faith – they are members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, whose members are known as Mormons.
And that faith helped lead to Robinson’s capture.
Got it, thank you so much! I agree with your statement regarding the bark as I was looking at the photos from Wikipedia.
I’m delighted to see that iNaturalist works on birds as well; my references are mostly books and journals with questionable illustrations and photographs.
Thank you so much, you’re lovely!
Sadly no, I typed up the description on Brave search; it took a while because I used common words:
“Mushrooms that grow on tree branches sideways possible orange color” and variations of without using punctuation and the +/- symbols.
Now that you mentioned it, if there is a computer vision app you can recommend I would very much appreciate it. I’m not tech savvy and using an old iPhone if that helps. Thank you.
Oh wow, I didn’t know those guys grew on upper tree branches. Nice photo, thanks for sharing.
You’re on a roll! I love your picks, thanks for sharing! 👍🏼
I’m curious as well and guessing maybe ~~ birch polypore, birch bracket, or razor strop ~~?
Fomitopsis betulina https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fomitopsis_betulina
Perchance adding a footnote or an amendment to the rules on the sidebar, e.g. “The Golden Rule: If you have nothing nice to say, don’t say anything at all.”
There will always be be Debbie Downers, Negative Nellies and Angry Adams waiting to rain on someone’s parade. Having read plenty of Lemmy drama, a common complaint is that the rules are “impossible for a user to follow unless it is made clear” and “disagreeing with [mod’s name] gets you banned”.
We all know that sometimes there are negative aspects of that Uplifting News but common sense dictates that I keep that negativity to myself and gladly upvote anyway. Am I glad that Huntington’s disease is treatable? Of course! Am I going to tell Lemmy about not-so-nice things I learned from the physicians in my family? Oh no, not a chance. Why not? There’s always someone in Lemmy hoping to read about a cure for a disease that their loved one was diagnosed with. Who am I to take that hope away from them?
For the sake and sanity of both users and moderators, I agree that the rules should be made clear(er) so neither moderator nor user can feign ignorance.
For example:
“Your comment was removed for breaking Rule 1a: Spreading negativity; Rule 12c: Citation without Source(s); Rule 99x: Toxic comment irrelevant to post”
1st Offense: Comment removed and greet someone a Happy Cake Day, no time served 2nd Offense: Explain your strengths and weaknesses in two paragraphs, due in 24 hours or 7-day ban. 3rd Offense: Thesis on the Effects of Positive Thinking, due in 72 hours or 1 year ban.
Disclaimer: The moderators of Uplifting News community reserves the right to update rules, remove content and ban users.
OP, I commend you for this inclusive post and your proactive approach towards making this community better. Everyone on this thread has made insightful comments. Laws change and evolve everyday in this world that we live in, there’s no reason why the Uplifting News community can’t do the same.
Thank you.