Caitsyth

When you taste a dish in progress what are your mental checks on what to add/subtract?

Kinda curious how a pro chef works with their palate

What is your biggest guilty pleasure prepackaged food/meal? I feel like everyone has that one thing like Kraft Dinner where you know it’s lazy but you just can’t resist sometimes

Oh this helps a ton, thank you!

Type I here too, and I have similar driving tricks like knowing which entrances are the least used for my garage and which times are the best to arrive. They help me quickly and reliably find a spot so I don’t start my day grumpy and risk getting worse, especially since there will be work stressors I can’t escape so easily.

I also had to get more selective with friends in adulthood since even just one genuinely shitty person in my main friend group caused me to have to leave within an hour of arriving to prevent any chance of spiraling into an outburst (almost happened once and decided to not play with fire).

Admittedly the one person was an unapologetically cruel asshole so a massive stressor on legs, but the whole thing taught me the valuable lesson of how we are allowed to change who we hang out with and I have a much healthier and genuinely fun social circle now.