Hopefully my Ankarsrum, my knives and most of my good pots and pans if I take good care of them.

Depends on the application: Steaks - carbon steel Sauces and the kind - stainless steel all clad Low and slow meat roasts - enameled cast iron Stir fry - stainless steel wok

I am not Spanish, but I learnt it while leaving there some years ago. And I like languages, so I did my best to learn it as well as I can. Years later, I met my now Spanish husband while living in Germany. When I went first time with him to Spain, to meet the family, they were having a big family dinner.

Before eating, everyone just talked with the others in small groups, and I happened to be talking with my husband’s uncle( he is one of those that strayed to the right side of politics and likes to believe conspiracy theories and I think he does not like immigrants). Anyway, I was talking to him for a while, probably about living and working in Germany, I don’t remember.

But at some point, my now husband comes into the mini group and asks him:“So? What do you think of her Spanish, it‘s really good, right?“ He got auch a face of confusion, trying to make sense of the words, I had to laugh. He finally asked:“But…is she not Spanish?!“ Oh the satisfaction! He would be the kind of person saying that he would definitely detect someone outside of Spain. I do speak as they do in the north, so I use verb tenses differently than them. And also have some regional words from the north in my vocabulary. So I could fool him easier because of that.

Talk and try to resolve the issues, don’t let them bottle up. Even if it is hard. It gets easier with time. And don’t blame and point fingers, rather tell the other how you feel when the other says or does something you don’t like.

That skimmed milk is healthier that full fat

Thank you for elaborating your idea. I understand now what you‘ve meant. I think for many people the teenage years are very difficult. I also had a short period of it thinking nobody loved me, which was not true at all! It is all the hormones and the changes. Luckily I got over it quickly.

But a lot of people feel lost still into adulthood. I don’t have kids yet, but if I do, I would hope I would give my teenagers enough love so that they feel safe and accepted however they are, so that they can evolve into mentally healthy adults. I did an online master in education once, and the things I mostly got stuck with is that, parents should always hug and express their love for their children, even if the children get embarrassed, it is a phase, but they have to feel safe and loved in their homes, to be able to fight all their demons outside.

Also a bonus thing I learnt: free time to get bored for children is essential, so that they have time to order their thoughts about the world and what they want from their life.

Is it an exclamation as in „what a kind community!“ or a question as in „what kind of community?“

My husband(he is also my best friend). We hug a lot. Feeling lucky to have found someone that likes the physical closeness as much as I do.

very well: Romanian, English, Spanish, German. More understanding than speaking: French, Portuquese, Italian. And I know some words(very minimal) in Hungarian. I wish I would be more fluent in French, since we go there from time to time, I wish I knew Greek, Danish, Hungarian, Arabic, Japanese and Chinese(I love Chinese food and often watch cooking videos althougb I don’t understand what they are saying).

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News flash, we are all unique. People just do not embrace that, they are afraid to step outside the uniforms. And sometimes with good reasons, since society tends tu put down whoever is not like them. I did not give a shit about that. And I was very social, more so than now, so I don’t know where you get that analysis from. I also did not wear piercings, died hair and all that. I just did not want to have to buy some expensive clothes because they were fashionable and extremely uncomfortable many times. That did not impede me to make friends, but it did allow me to stand for myself and not conform to stupid norms. My parents taught me critical thinking, taught me to be responsible, and encouraged me to be happy in whichever form I had(and I was and am) and to fight for my rights and against bullying.

Growing on a farm makes you more resourceful. You can also grow part of your food. You can also forage. I thing being poor in a big city is awful, being poor in the countryside is more bearable.

Depends on the country I suppose. If you have adequate summer weather and a bit of garden, those tomatoes grow themselves. Bread is relatively cheap where I grew up and my grandmother even made her own bread. And lard would come from self grown pig that would be split with several families. It is not the same to live in a big city where you have to buy everything, and be in the country or small towns, where you can supplement with own grown stuff.

Nowadays people buy everything, they have no idea how to grow some veggies, care for some chicken, can food for winter. Out summers and autumns were full of canning after schools and my parent’s work hours, or weekend, vacations. You would buy the veggies when they were cheap in the markets, or grow yourself, if you had some land( we had a small garden, but sometimes we would find some strips of land outside the town via friends and colleagues of my parents, where we could grow more onions, garlic, beans, etc.)

And we had community. If you had surplus, you would share it. With a good community is easier to survive and thrive.

Also a big topic, people don’t know anymore how to eat seasonal. I have no problems eating cruciferous, root vegetables and potatoes the entire winter. In summer, if I get good tomatoes, I eat a lot of them. But I don’t buy them in winter. They taste like cardboard.

Wild garlic ( Bärlauch in German)

Dealing with incompetents and sociopaths working in big corporations and trying to keep sane.

Oh yes, the Swiss have a f-ing Trash Police!! My sister lives there, and I am sorry for her. I hope I never “have to” live there. I am generally happy in Germany, just the social interactions are harder to make. Luckily I found my tribe with Spanish people. But as I said, real community is hard to make here. But I think it is a specific south German issue, they are closed off even for Germans from other parts of the world. Anyway, they are missing out some nice food and good jokes.

Yes, I also live like this now. If feels like a village. I don’t have the small community vibe though. It is not easy to make community in a south German city 😆 And there are always some neighbours that don’t like the wild style garden and prefer that you trim the outside bushes every so often. I wish people would mind their own business and help the neighbours, not make their life miserable just because they have different approaches than them.

Big crowded cities. As a young person I loved the idea of big cities with so much stuff going on. More than 20 years later I was cured of it by living in big cities and I yearn for more solitude and small communities.

I was a teenager back then and I did not think it produced the best music. But I was not mainstream, I hated being like everyone else, as if we were robots. I made a point of going against the stream regarding aesthetics, religion and cultural stuff. I hate uniforms to this day. I don’t get the young these days dressing the same as the others. Is it an education thing? I mean, as a teenager you are looking for yourself, trying stuff to see what you like. Why would you just copy what everyone does?!

Decomposing at old age in some field snd then a tree grows out of me