ImageThere is a routine now to commemorating a year’s end on the internet: a flurry of hyperspecific in-out listsgoc (game of chance), prescient trend forecasts, final photo dumps, the Reels and TikToks that turn the most memorable moments into split-second blips of romantic montages set to the zeitgeistiest tunes.
Resolution-making is still very much in, whether you do it the old-school way — on the first page of a new notebook for a new year — or hastily thumb them out in the Notes app of your phone. I like to do mine in this newsletter. Last year, a reader told me about her friend’s approach, which informed a handful of resolutions I presented to you all. “I’m heavily leaning into the idea that resolutions can be silly side quests that just exist to wedge more joy into my life,” she wrote. I hoped we’d all find more labors of love, treat ourselves and live a little luxuriously in our kitchens in 2024.
I can’t say I personally excelled at any of those resolutions. 2024 was a doozy! But in my search for self-improvement — and silly side quests — we’re back with more.
Dare to prepare: A big batch of beans (in the oven, on the stove or in the slow cooker) to eat throughout the week in breakfast burritos, over lunchtime rice bowls and tucked into loaded sweet potatoes for dinner is a strong start to a meal-prep habit.
But I’m also aspiring to look ahead to the days you can’t exactly plan for: when you’re too sick to cook. I see 2025 as the year I stock the freezer with stocks and soups galore, preferably spiked with soothing ginger and turmeric. Gentle soups, like Andy Baraghani’s golden potato and greens soup and Naz Deravian’s white bean, rice and dill soup, and soups with a kick, like Naz’s dal adas (spicy red lentil tamarind soup) and David Tanis’s spicy carrot-ginger soup.
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Ms. Harris may give remarks about border issues during the visit, according to the people, who insisted on anonymity to discuss a trip that has not yet been made public. The people said final details about exactly where Ms. Harris would visit or what else she might do on the trip have not been decided. The Harris campaign did not immediately provide a comment.
“What he said or didn’t say is between him and the people of North Carolina,” said Mr. Vance, former President Donald J. Trump’s running mate. He added: “I’ve seen some of the statements. I haven’t seen them all. Some of them are pretty gross, to put it mildly. Mark Robinson says that those statements are false, that he didn’t actually speak them. So I think it’s up to Mark Robinson to make his case to the people of North Carolina that those weren’t his statements.”
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