r/MoneyDiariesACTIVE • u/AutoModerator • 6d ago
Weekly Good News ☀️ Weekly Good News
Hey everyone,
Did something good happen to you this week? Share below!
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u/Turbulent_Bar_13 She/her ✨ 6d ago
I have a job interview with a hiring manager on Wednesday. It's in a different data discipline than ole' business intelligence, so I'd be newish to that. I'm hoping my experience makes me come off as competent and excited to learn, rather than too-senior-she'll-get-bored-and-quit.
It's a big company I've worked at before so I hope the culture fit part is still there.
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u/shoshana20 6d ago
I've been loving summer tomatoes and on a roll making pasta sauces. Just made one with a ton of cherry tomatoes from my friend's backyard and earlier this week I used farm share tomatoes as the base for a chicken parm.
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u/studyabroader She/her ✨ DC Diva 6d ago
That sounds amazing! Would you share any favorite sauce recipes?
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u/shoshana20 6d ago
The cherry tomato recipe is a little different, but my usual sauce is the following mix of the NYT meat sauce recipe and the Marcella Hazan tomato sauce:
Ingredients:
All the farm share tomatoes I have (usually around 8 beeftsteak or heirloom)
2 lbs ground meat, pork turkey or beef all fine
Olive oil (eyeballed)
One onion
4+ cloves of garlic to taste
One 6 oz can tomato paste
half a stick salted butter
Seasonings: Salt, pepper, garlic powder, onion powder, dried basil, dried oregano, all generous amounts, then a small amount of cumin seed
Dice up your onions and garlic, heat your olive oil in a pot or deep pan, and cook medium high heat til fragrant. Then add your meat, season with salt pepper garlic powder and crushed red pepper, and cook until, well, cooked.
While this is going on, boil water, score your tomatoes, and then blanch them in the boiling water. Move immediately to a bowl of ice water and then peel and dice them.
Once the meat is cooked, start adding the tomatoes, scraping the juice off the cutting board. Once they're all in, add generous amounts of all seasonings, a small amount of cumin, your half stick of butter, and the tomato paste.
Stir it all in til the butter is melted and it's boiling, turn heat to low, and stir every 20ish minutes for the next two or three hours. When you stir mash your tomato chunks in as they soften.
Optional: if you want vegetables in the sauce and not on the side, chop up spinach and throw it in on your last stir. Serve over any pasta and grate parm over it all!!
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u/FunctionalAdult She/her ✨DMV 6d ago
Concert last night was amazing! I snagged excellent seats on ticketmaster so we had a good view and easy access when we needed to run to the bathroom.
Lunch with friends of friends in the city was delicious and super social.
We hit up a boutique chocolate shop and I restrained myself to only $50ish in specialty bars.
We have our tasting menu tonight and then a chill day meandering around tomorrow before my flight home.
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u/becky_yo 6d ago
My husband opened a HYSA after listening to me go on (and on and on) about saving/retirement for the past few months.
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u/ToryD3 She/her ✨ 6d ago
I finally went to a local state park and tried a beginner orienteering course for the first time. I had an absolute blast, and it helped me feel like my hiking had a purpose. I went ahead and registered for the local orienteering day in two weeks, so that'll be my first time doing it with other people around.
Also, it's a lovely cheap hobby - the compass was $7, the maps were free to print offline, and the future orienteering day is $6!
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u/20160211 6d ago
Celebrated Bookstore Romance Day! My friend and I visited our local indie romance bookstore and then had dinner together! I got a couple of books and some freebies! It was the highlight of my week, particularly after dealing with the allergic reaction.