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As you stroll the aisles of your grocery store, you might miss the Auria’s Malaysian Kitchen products. The brand’s packaging is humble, but the flavors inside pack major heat.

When I was in college and living in a tiny dorm room, my mother and I went to Target and bought a tiny cutting board, a tiny colander, and a 2-pack of tiny knives. We thought it would only make sense to literally downsize my cooking tools—I quickly realized how wrong we were. The dinky knives would cut an apple or a cube of cheese perfectly fine, but anything tougher (like, even thick-skinned citrus) was a nightmare.

In 2018, Big Milk was hurting. A rise in dairy alternatives like oat milk and almond milk helped lead to an enormous dairy surplus, which meant that the country was sitting on a whole lot of cheese—1.39 billion pounds, to be exact. 

Pie dough is one of those things, like poaching eggs and making biscuits, that can trip people up. Do it right and it's a perfect buttery, flakey shell for pies of all kinds. Do it wrong and it's a greasy, soggy mess that won't come out of the pan.

Nacho cheese is a gooey gift from the gods. It makes even the plainest tortilla chips palatable, and adds an element of delicious decadence to any food it touches. But do we really love nacho cheese enough to interact with an advertisement to eat it?

We all have our dreams, large and small. A lot of getting out of bed in the morning is fueled by the fear of not being able to pay for the room the bed is in, but also because it's nice to want things.

Are you amused by buying things in bulk? Like a six-pound tub of Nutella, or a five-pound bag of gummy bears?

Several friends have told me that this is the winter they’re going to “get into sourdough.” I commend them! Sourdough