Happy Father’s Day to all the dads out there! Wishing you all a relaxing and joyful day — you deserve it! And if you’re not a dad but HAVE a dad, why not mow the lawn for him while he watches a ballgame, reads a book or kicks back with his beverage of choice? Hello, friends! A couple of weeks ago, while assessing my plants, I cringed when I spotted scale …

Thank you for the thoughtful feedback on my last post. The dopamine boost your words provide is always much appreciated. As loyal readers have surely deduced, debate is central to aesthetics. On most topics, professional opinions vary wildly. In my writing, I aim to present dissenting voices (in all their authenticity) rather than attempting to shape a clear (but artificial) consensus. As a conduit for expert voices, I feel it’s not my place to amplify one over another.

Leave a comment Hey everyone, hope you’re all having a great week? Happy Thanksgiving to those of you in the US. Something I have been meaning to do for quite a while is transfer all the recipes from my old Patreon page over to Substack, so that everyone who made the move with me, and everyone joining on Substack, would have continued access to those recipes. Black Ses… ncG1vNJzZmidlJm4qrnBnqlnq6WXwLWtwqRlnKedZL1wwMeeZKmZpKeysLqMmqmcoJmrsg%3D%3D

Take three circles and smoosh them close until they’re all touching—tada, you’ve made a circular triangle. Circular triangles are the Shape of the Week. Congrats to circular triangles, long may you reign (for a week)! More specifically, the Shape of the Week is the circular horn triangle, which means all its corners are incredibly pointy and its sides are concave (i.e. “all internal angles equal to zero”). If you connect the vertices with circular arcs in different ways you get different circular triangles.

Click here for the WTC recipe index, and scroll to the bottom of this post for a printer-friendly version of today’s recipe! It’s beginning to look a lot like autumnnnnnnn! (Sing that in your best Bing Crosby voice.) We were due for a REALLY easy, really fast sheet-pan chicken recipe that celebrates the season. I mentioned this in the “fall in love with squash” post a couple weeks back but I really adore delicata squash.