My wife got me a handmade leather belt shortly after we started dating 10 years ago. I have worn it daily and its still in great shape. About two years ago I finally had to start using the next tighter hole as it has stretched, but theres definitely another 10 years of life still in it

I found a few stores that dont allow redeeming fuel with that phone number. Makes me think they set the account up for people to use, or the poor person who actually has that phone number got upset after their fuel points kept getting stolen

The biggest thing with getting better at cooking is to just find a recipe that looks tasty and go for it. Follow the directions and see how it comes out. Try to understand the directions too. Why are we cooking things in X Y Z order? Why are we cooking at this temperature? Etc. You might still mess stuff up, Ive been cooking at home for 10 years and still have meals I just have to trash because theybare unsavable, but try to figure out what went wrong, and then try making that meal again but looking to fix your mistake.

There are also some great cookbooks and resources out there to kickstart your journey of understanding cooking. Salt Fat Acid Heat is a fantastic book that dives into the four pillars of what makes something delicious. It was also adapted into a Netflix series so you can watch that as well. The Food Lab is all about nerdy food science. Kenji Lopez Alt has spent his time figuring out the science behind cooking so you dont have to. Also, a lot of info from the Food Lab is also available on Serious Eats's website, where Kenji was a writer for a long time.

Also if you have kids, get them involved! Learn with them so they have a jumpstart on being comfortable in the kitchen!

Now to answer your actual question, my go to recipe is pizza. Ive been making it pretty much every week since I was 22. I've built up a collection of tools for pizza making, so I have a propane oven that reaches 900°F for neopolitan pizza, a baking steel for regular oven pizzas, pans for south shore bar style pizzas, etc. Its all nice to have but you can make pizza on a cookie sheet or in a cast iron pan. The first pizzas I made were store bought dough in a greased cast iron pan with jarred sauce and some shredded mozz. Nowadays I make my own dough and sauce.

For an easy NY style pizza I use Kenji Lopez Alts same day dough recipe (https://youtu.be/uXkT8LbCPOY), and for the sauce I do

• 1 28oz can whole peeled tomatos (I like Cento, but look for brands that dont use Calcium Chloride or Citric Acid in the ingredients)
• ~2tbsp Olive Oil
• Like 2-3 tsp of kosher salt Blend all that with an immersion blender in the can of tomatos (might have to pour out some of the liquid in the can).

Often times Ill just leave it at that, but you can also add dried oregano, dried basil, a pinch of sugar, or some red chili flakes to spice it up.

Thats always the first one to go when I get my springtime order. I try to make it last but its so good its hard to not reach for it

Ive been mostly doing western style with an infuser basket and a temperature controlled kettle, but I also have a gaiwan for when I feel like sitting down and doing a gongfu session.

Spring/summer Im mostly drinking chinese greens (longjing and biluochun) and high mountain oolongs (alishan, baozhong, dong ding). Fall/wintee I might still have those occasionally but Ill do more wuyi and dancong oolongs (shuixian, duckshit), and the occasional ripe puer

I live in the area and while I dont have the exact numbers, Great Barrington and the surrounding towns are very predominantly white. The school is named because WEB Du Bois was born in Great Barrington

For me, Dominos is never a place I would consider getting pizza from if I want pizza. I get Dominos when I specifically want Dominos and a regular pizza wont scratch the itch for the salt bomb that shares a passing resemblance to pizza.

Same thing goes for taco bell. Id never consider it an option if I want mexican food, but sometimes its what youre craving

You dont have to switch but if someone is paying for Proton than they can utilize it for no extra charge

Mighty Mighty Bosstones and Reel Big Fish are both classics. Im also a big fan of Madness. For Ska-Punk you cant beat Less Than Jake

I use them only for voip numbers, have never used their email, credit card, vpn, etc services. For the voip numbers its been fine. Their android app is tolerable at best, I dont always get notifications for text messages, and theres no group messaging for SMS, which can cause hassles since I use one of their VOIP numbers for work. Id give it like a 6/10, I find it hard to recommend based on my experiences, although Im also not really putting in any effort to switch away from them

My takeaway is that its not a penalty because Havertz "initiates" the contact by running past Wan-Bissaka, so its no penalty, but when José was running and happened to kick David Luiz's knee, it was Luiz who initiated the contact and so straight red. I know that was years ago and rules change and everything, but that red card still keeps me up at night occasionally

I agree with everything. I started following Arsenal in 2010 and watching Walcott just outpace everyone made me fall in love with him very quickly. He definitely had some great moments for the club and contributed greatly over his decade here, but hes still a tier or two below those who are enshrined outside the Emirates

Iconic. I dont know if Theo accomplished enough with us to warrant a statue, but if he did, this needs to be it

Coaching would be great but I want to see one more run slicing through the midfield with an inch perfect pass to release Jesus through on goal, and I dont think hes allowed to do that as a coach

Farewell season at Oviedo followed by a farewell season at Arsenal? I hate the way his career with us ended and would love to see him pull the kit on one more time

I am not a naysayer so I cant answer that part of your question, but as for what I do with our bidet: theres a little knob that I turn that starts the water spray at my butt, sometimes I might have to adjust the way Im sitting for it to hit the right area. For regular poops I spray for only a few seconds, but for gnarly ones I might do 10-20 seconds with some moving around to cover the whole area. Once I consider myself sprayed, I grab a few squares of TP and wipe to dry. Flush, wash hands, done

I opened this in Connect's in app browser and got a whopping 4%. Good reminder to change app settings to use your browser instead of whatever their internal browser is

Apizza definitely makes sense for CT but I think lobster roll would also make sense there. Different from a Maine lobster roll, but better IMO, and also the original

The latest I saw is that Juve are interested and he turned down the Saudis in favor of Juve. Shocker that its Juve that are interested in him, of all the big clubs

As an Arsenal fan I hope we move him on this summer. With Rice and Havertz we have better midfield coverage now, and I just want to be able to watch Arsenal without knowing that one of the players Im rooting for is in all likelihood a rapist. I hope the women get justice and Im ready for this circus to be gone from the club