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Nachos are a great group meal to eat with friends.

Pizza is a classic for a reason.

This drink is quick and easy to make, tastes like an éclair au café, and looks very pretty.

This dish is relatively easy to cook while bringing some very strong flavors and colors to the table.

This is a very straightforward chocolate brownies recipe.

This is the annotated edition of Eldritch Academia1.

This breakfast manages to both be delicious and give you the feeling that you are eating healthy.

“Writing is easy.

This dish is slightly fancier than my usual weekday dish but it is good enough to have spoiled a lot of restaurant Carbonara pasta for me while being relatively fast and easy to cook.

One day a famous government officer met a highly respected elderly master.

This is the perfect recipe to do when you have leftover egg whites1.

“I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro’s great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen’s Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to “order” than to justice; who…

First they came for the Communists And I did not speak out Because I was not a Communist Then they came for the Socialists And I did not speak out Because I was not a Socialist Then they came for the trade unionists And I did not speak out Because I was n…

Figures of speech (which you can find here) is a project done illuminations media for the Almeida Theater in which great actors read great speeches and it is absolutely fantastic.

Most activities can be categorized as either consumer or producer.

This dish is all about the pleasure of eating rice with Parmesan and butter, with some zucchini tossed in for good measure.

The cheapest kind of can opener you can buy in France is a single piece of metal with a sharp edge.

Note: There will be spoilers.

I finished The Birthday of the World and Other Stories by Ursula K.

I just finished reading The Alchemaster’s Apprentice by Walter Moers.

The Philips Sonicare toothbrush is the best electronic toothbrush I ever used.

This dish is very fast to cook, brings you the carbs you need, some greens (technically reds), and has a distinct enough flavor to fight monotony in your eating habits.

If you do your groceries on foot, a shopping trolley bag (with wheels) is a game-changer.

Crêpes are the perfect social dish.

The opposite of wanting something to be perfect is following the easy path: knowing that some things could be done to make your project objectively better but keeping the current version because it is “good enough”.

This pie dough is easy to make and tastes pretty much perfect for a US-style pie (with crust below and above the pie).

The classical technique to melt chocolate is to use a double broiler (also called bain Marie).

This should be obvious but… Ingredients: the butter you want to melt Technique: put the butter in a small bowl microwave until you hear some bubbling sound (30 seconds is usually enough) Credits: The technique seems obvious, I am not aware of any particul…

This dish is a worker: it is fast and easy to cook while being delicious and rich in vegetables and flavors.

Tackling a large project (this applies to anything including a book, a piece of software, or a movie for example) can be daunting.

Disclaimer: This guide is mostly about me keeping a trace of the process I followed to create this blog.

“A magician is an actor playing the part of a magician.” — Jean Eugène Robert-Houdin.

This cheese pie recipe is a family secret.

Clafoutis was my favorite kind of cake when I was a kid.

This is the pinnacle of self-indulging food.

Avocado toast is the most shamefully Californian dish.

The Krautburger is my favorite homemade burger of the moment.

Crumbles are pretty much impossible to miss and a great way to turn fruits (most fruits are suitable; apples, pears, and peaches are classic) and butter into a good cake.

I saw the Batman and… meh.

I watched Guillermo Del Toro’s Nightmare Alley yesterday and… It was ok.

Disclaimer: This guide is targeted at heterosexual men (with a focus on people looking for a relationship) and was written at the end of 2021 for a friend, the content might not apply to you.

Here are some heuristics I use in life and work: Play to your strengths; being balanced sounds nice but ends up being really unproductive/unpleasant.

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