We may earn a commission from links on this page.There are days when cooking up three individual meals and finding snacks in between feels like too much work. When I need to lighten my cooking workload, my go-to move is to reduce the amount of new meals I make in a day. For my household, that would be this slow cooker grazing soup. Crock-Pot SCCPVL610-S-A 6-Quart Cook & Carry Programmable Slow Cooker $69.99 at Amazon Shop Now Shop Now $69.99 at Amazon What to expect from a grazing soupThe point of a grazing soup (or stew) is that its filling, simple, and something that you can make as a great big batch for snacking on throughout the day. You could do this in a large pot or Dutch oven on the stove, but I prefer using my slow cooker because its more hands-off, and once its finished, the cooker automatically clicks over to keep warm for as many hours as I want. Its certainly safer than keeping my stove flame on for six hours. Grazing soup ingredients stand up to long durations of low heat. Credit: Allie Chanthorn Reinmann The key to a grazing soup is choosing ingredients that dont deteriorate over the course of the day. You can use my recipe below, but if youre creating your own version of a grazing soup, consider the types of ingredients youre using. Carrots, celery, many cruciferous vegetables (like cauliflower and kale), beans, and bitter greens are good candidates that hold up in liquid. Potatoes can work too, but some potatoes stay together better than others. Opt for waxy potatoes (red potatoes are a good choice) because they have a lower starch content and hold their shape in liquid.How to keep it interestingIf eating the same soup all day sounds like a bore, you can still reap the benefits of not cooking multiple times while adding a bit of variety. You can do this with pre-made accoutrements or with (what Ive decided to call) soup evolution. Credit: Allie Chanthorn Reinmann Adding pre-made accoutrements might be a scoop of leftover pasta or rice you didnt finish from earlier in the week. If you keep hard boiled eggs in the fridge, slice one of those into your bowl. I often keep Trader Joes frozen turkey meatballs in my freezer. Theyre fully cooked so maybe a half hour before my next graze, Ill drop a few of those into the soup to heat up.Soup evolution is adding a new bulk ingredient to your grazing soup as it begins to run out. Halfway through the day, after the soup has decreased in volume, I might dump in a can of chickpeasaquafaba and all. Maybe before dinner, you add a bag of frozen pelmeni, or a half-cup of raw pastina to the stew and it absorbs the rest of the broth to become a thicker dish. The soup essentially changes over from one major component to another, while still keeping a percentage of its former self.Lately, Ive enjoyed this red lentil soup with a chickpea evolution in the evening. Enjoy your grazing soup early and often throughout the day.Red Lentil Slow Cooker Grazing Soup RecipeIngredients: onion, minced2 waxy, medium-sized potatoes, cubed cup chopped carrots cup dry red lentils2 cups lacinato kale, de-stemmed and roughly chopped4 cups chicken broth teaspoon salt teaspoon MSG teaspoon garlic powder teaspoon cayenne pepper powder2 teaspoons lemon juice1 can organic chickpeas (optional), not drained1. In true lazy slow cooker soup fashion, dump all of the ingredients, except the lemon juice and the can of chickpeas, into the cooker.2. Cook the soup for 2 hours on high heat, stirring occasionally. Click the cooker over to the warm setting for the rest of the day. Just before eating your first bowl, stir in the lemon juice.3. If you notice your soup is running low and you dont want the party to end, stir in the can of chickpeas with its liquid.

Substack tested live video last year, allowing Substack Bestsellers (the companys top users) to stream video and connect with a live audience and even collaborate with other Bestsellers. Now, the feature is open to every Substack publisher who wants to go live. The only primary requirement besides needing an account is having at least 10 free subscribers.Publishers who go live can read comments as they come in, similar to Twitch. They can also collaborate with other publishers by asking them to hop on a call. Currently, Substack is only supporting up to three people in a single call.After your stream ends, you get a copy of the VOD and also some AI-generated notes. The VOD can be posted as its own post to ensure readers and fans who missed out can experience the stream on their own time. The VODs are made public by default when shared as a post, but they can also be paywalled. Substacks AI can generate clips you can share to attract viewers to watch the main VOD if youre interested in promoting your content elsewhere.Substack claims that its Bestsellers are happy with the feature, which allows them to engage with their readers and viewers better than before. The full impact of live video on Substack still remains questionable until more publishers try it out. Given how many options there are for streaming live video these days, its far from a sure thing itll catch on here.This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/entertainment/streaming/substack-is-now-letting-all-publishers-broadcast-live-video-165321645.html?src=rss

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When Doritos announced it was bringing back its long-running Crash the Super Bowl contest, which originally ran from 2007 to 2016, it felt like a no-brainer. The original contest challenged fans to create their own big game Doritos ad, with finalists to be voted on by fans, and the winner got $10,000 and a trip to the Super Bowl. It was a massive hit every year for about a decade. The basics remain the samecreate your own Doritos adbut this time the prize is $1 million, along with that trip to the Super Bowl in New Orleans.Now the brand has announced the three 2025 finalists. First up is Abduction by Dylan Bradshaw and Nate Norell. Here we see a guy get into an extraterrestrial tug-of-war over a bag of his favorite chips.Next is Charades by Mark Blitch from Wylie, TX. One man just cant seem to get the clues his family is throwing at him.And third is Barbershop by Zach Shenouda and Ryan Robinson, senior students at the University of Southern California film school. Its a not-so subtle nod to a Crash the Super Bowl classic from 2014 called Finger Cleaner.Beyond the finalists, Doritos also recruited a few Kansas City Chiefs to hype the campaign. Patrick Mahomes and his teammates Chris Jones, Xavier Worthy, and Creed Humphrey go full focus group on the finalists, without giving anything away.First to put fans firstCrash The Super Bowl was the first Super Bowl campaign to introduce the idea of getting fans actively involved. This is now common practicelast year alone there was DoorDashs award-winning DoorDash All the Ads contest, FanDuels second year of Kick of Destiny where you could bet on the outcome, andMiller Lites QR-coded T-shirt giveaway. Launching in 2006, it was right at the dawn of a user-generated content revolution that evolved into a creator economy that could hit $480 billion by 2027.PepsiCo Foods chief creative officer Chris Bellinger told me back in September that Crash the Super Bowl always revolved around putting control into the hands of fans. With the evolution of the creator culture, the advances in technology, it just felt like a great time to bring it back, he said. And this new generation of contestants not only has access to better technology and equipment, but many have already built an audience on social. Theyre putting out content all the time, theyve built a following, now they can take that audience on a journey to try and get into the Super Bowl, said Bellinger.Fans can vote onDoritosCrash.com through January 28, and the winner will be revealed in early February, ahead of Super Bowl LIX on Sunday, February 9.

Houses by Richard Neutra and Ray Kappe are among more than 12,000 structures lost in the ongoing fires in Los Angeles. Here, we roundup five of the most significant to have been destroyed.The Palisades and Eaton fires are the two largest of the several fires that have caused at least 24 deaths and the destruction of more than 12,000 buildings in Los Angeles since they began early last week.The fires, exacerbated by strong winds and drought conditions, have destroyed whole neighbourhoods, and hundreds of thousands of people have had to evacuate. Power outages and contaminated drinking water have affected thousands more.As of today, increases in wind speeds threaten to expand the ongoing fires.Above: a home designed by Richard Neutra was destroyed in the fire. Image via Los Angeles Damage Inspection (DINS) database. Top: the house before the fire. Photo copyright of Julius Shulman and Juergen NogaiGroups such as the Los Angeles Conservancy and Save Iconic Architecture are tracking the status of buildings deemed iconic or noteworthy in the midst of the "unfathomable" damage in the city.Many iconic structures that were under threat have now been marked safe including: Eames House and adjacent Eames Case Study Houses, Getty Villa, Craig Ellwood's Hunt House in Malibu, Buff, Straub & Hensman's Bass House and The Alfred Newman-Martha Montgomery House by Frank Lloyd Wright.Read: "The scale of the damage is unfathomable" say Los Angeles architectsMeanwhile, officials have been compiling data on a house-by-house destruction report. Many of the destroyed modernist homes are located in Malibu and the Palisades, while the Eaton fire destroyed many historical Spanish Revival and Craftsmen-style homes in the town of Altadena.Below are some of the most significant houses lost in the ongoing Palisades and Eaton fires:Photo copyright of Julius Shulman and Juergen NogaiThe Benedict and Nancy Freedman House by Richard Neutra, Pacific PalisadesRenowned modernist architect Neutra designed this small house in 1949 for two screenwriters.Built primarily with wood, the original structure had a single low volume with massive glass windows and clerestories. It was slowly expanded to become a two-level house over the years, remodelled by local studio Nonzero\architecture (studio bau:ton).View this post on InstagramA post shared by Save Iconic Architecture (@saveiconicarchitectureRobert Bridges House by Robert Bridges, Pacific PalisadesArchitect Robert Bridges designed this home to cantilever off a cliffside in the neighbourhood, supported by massive concrete pillars.It was built in the 1980s in the brutalist style but clad in California redwood.View this post on InstagramA post shared by Save Iconic Architecture (@saveiconicarchitecture)Keeler House by Ray Kappe, Pacific PalisadesSCI-Arc founder Kappe built this home for a jazz musician in 1991, using his own house nearby as a reference.The modern structure featured mostly wood construction and multiple tiers with terraces that cantilevered out towards the street. It was one of many Kappe designs to be destroyed, including the Culbert House in Malibu.Photo via WikipediaAndrew McNally House by Frederick L Roehrig, AltadenaBuilt for the president of technology company Rand McNally, this Queen Anne-style mansion in Altadena was one of the first significant works in the area and had become indicative of its late 19th-century architecture.New York-born architect Frederick Louis Roehrig designed the house, constructing it out of mostly wood with massive rotundas on one side.Photo via WikipediaScripps Hall by C W Buchanan, AltadenaAlso known as the Pasadena Waldorf School, this Craftsman-style structure was designated on the National Historic Register.The three-storey structure was made from wood and brick and featured the extruded rafters typical of the style when it was completed in 1904.The post Richard Neutra house among iconic homes lost during LA fires appeared first on Dezeen.

In 1930s Czechoslovakia, the Central Social Institution (CSI) of Prague developed a massive archive of social welfare data. They used cutting-edge (for the time) punch cards to record personal and social data of citizens receiving assistance. Researchers used this data to study poverty, unemployment and social issues.Accessing the archive was physically challenging, due to its size. The solution (designer unknown) came in the form of these motorized desks with cantilevered counterweights. These were electrically powered up and down, allowing clerks to get to the drawer they needed: According to Rare Historical Photos,"The [CSI] office consists of cabinets arranged from floor to ceiling tiers covering over 4,000 square feet containing over 3000 drawers 10 feet high (3 meters)." "The builder designed special electric-operated elevator desks which rise, fall, and move left or right at the push of a button, to stop just before the desired drawer. The drawers also open and close electronically. Thus work which formerly taxed 400 workers is done by 20 with a minimum of effort." You reckon anyone ever got stuck up there, while working late, after the maintenance crew went home?

After a period of ambiguity over the buzzword, the promise of cloud storage enticed many people to give up their reliance on local hard drives and SSDs, at least for files they need to be accessible anywhere they go. But while that ubiquity might be good for some cases, especially for online collaboration, but also had its downsides when it comes to speed, reliable access, and pricing.Network-attached Storage or NAS products tried to sell the idea of having your own personal cloud at home, but that really only worked if you either stayed only at home or had remote access to your home network from anywhere. This rather unusual portable NAS tries to take that even further by letting you carry that cloud with you and, even better or stranger, actually use it as a tablet computer with a tiny screen, even for just a few minutes at least.Designer: UnifyDrive (via Liliputing)Technically speaking, NAS devices are already mini PCs in their own right, with a CPU, memory, and custom operating system. Most of the time, however, you access it from a computer at home or remotely via an Internet connection, so just like mini PCs, they come headless or dont have their own monitors. The UnifyDrive UP6, however, is anything but typical and not only comes with a built-in battery, it also has a touchscreen on the side, literally.The UnifyDrive UP6 sounds more like a portable SSD drive in Hulk mode, fitting six M.2 2280 SSDs for a total of 48TB of storage. The choice of storage technology, versus more affordable hard drives, not only keeps the NAS compact but also resilient to movements and bumps. It is, after all, meant to be carried around, giving near-instant access to data either through a cable or a local wireless network. It even has Bluetooth support to let phones and cameras transfer data directly to it.Created with GIMPThe built-in battery lets you use the NAS without plugging it in but also acts as an instant UPS (uninterruptible power supply) for emergencies. The touch-enabled screen, on the other hand, lets you use the UnifyDrive UP6 directly even without a connected computer, managing and sharing files, browsing the Web, or even watching media stored there. Unsurprisingly, theres also an element of AI in the mix, allowing users to search photos and videos with facial recognition and natural language queries, all without even having to connect to the Internet.The post Portable NAS storage is also a computer with a built-in touchscreen first appeared on Yanko Design.

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