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I Didn’t Have Eggs
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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.
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.
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.
🤣. 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.
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.
Please tell me that you were drunk out of your mind, lol.
Close I was running on 4 hours of sleep and had been awake for about 2 days.
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.
Flaxseed and sadness is a step up from cyanide and happiness
Is it though?
Why do you keep that lie up?
Because he's a very sweet man and really enjoys sharing them with me. I'm not gonna take that away from him.
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
If they're your ex's parents, I'd have thought you'd be rid of them and their terrible cooking.
We're still best friends. Just no longer romantically attached.
We're Ace, so it's less of a transition than for most couples.