The Gutless Home Chef
@gutless.bsky.social
A doc took my cancerous tum but I still cook, eat, and post vids/pics of yummy noms. Canadian 🇨🇦. One wife, one kid, one doggo. New to knitting 🧶 and nails 💅. Obsessed with movies, books, and games. This is a safe space for 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️!
#5SecondReview: Heavy Metal
This exploitative, music-fueled, Canadian-made (Candy! Reitman! Levy!) sci-fi fantasy was the epitome of forbidden fruit for me as a kid. So of course I watched it on Superchannel when my folks weren’t home. This rewatch with my film school kid cast it in a new light.
This exploitative, music-fueled, Canadian-made (Candy! Reitman! Levy!) sci-fi fantasy was the epitome of forbidden fruit for me as a kid. So of course I watched it on Superchannel when my folks weren’t home. This rewatch with my film school kid cast it in a new light.
November 21, 2025 at 12:15 AM
#5SecondReview: Heavy Metal
This exploitative, music-fueled, Canadian-made (Candy! Reitman! Levy!) sci-fi fantasy was the epitome of forbidden fruit for me as a kid. So of course I watched it on Superchannel when my folks weren’t home. This rewatch with my film school kid cast it in a new light.
This exploitative, music-fueled, Canadian-made (Candy! Reitman! Levy!) sci-fi fantasy was the epitome of forbidden fruit for me as a kid. So of course I watched it on Superchannel when my folks weren’t home. This rewatch with my film school kid cast it in a new light.
#5SecondReview: King Sorrow
Hill’s best? Maybe. It also reads very much like one of his dad’s books. In a good way. It’s an epic modern fairy tale with beautifully constructed characters, heartbreaking twists, and a torment-loving dragon who’s bound to go down as an archetype of the species.
Hill’s best? Maybe. It also reads very much like one of his dad’s books. In a good way. It’s an epic modern fairy tale with beautifully constructed characters, heartbreaking twists, and a torment-loving dragon who’s bound to go down as an archetype of the species.
November 18, 2025 at 11:17 PM
#5SecondReview: King Sorrow
Hill’s best? Maybe. It also reads very much like one of his dad’s books. In a good way. It’s an epic modern fairy tale with beautifully constructed characters, heartbreaking twists, and a torment-loving dragon who’s bound to go down as an archetype of the species.
Hill’s best? Maybe. It also reads very much like one of his dad’s books. In a good way. It’s an epic modern fairy tale with beautifully constructed characters, heartbreaking twists, and a torment-loving dragon who’s bound to go down as an archetype of the species.
#5SecondReview: Machines Like Me
This one has some interesting thoughts on where we might be in 10 or 20 years with AI-driven robots (even though it’s set in an alternate history version of the 1980s). Machine intelligence, ethics, consciousness, determinism, and identity. Good stuff.
This one has some interesting thoughts on where we might be in 10 or 20 years with AI-driven robots (even though it’s set in an alternate history version of the 1980s). Machine intelligence, ethics, consciousness, determinism, and identity. Good stuff.
November 18, 2025 at 3:11 PM
#5SecondReview: Machines Like Me
This one has some interesting thoughts on where we might be in 10 or 20 years with AI-driven robots (even though it’s set in an alternate history version of the 1980s). Machine intelligence, ethics, consciousness, determinism, and identity. Good stuff.
This one has some interesting thoughts on where we might be in 10 or 20 years with AI-driven robots (even though it’s set in an alternate history version of the 1980s). Machine intelligence, ethics, consciousness, determinism, and identity. Good stuff.
Made a sourdough crust pizza with cremini mushrooms, brie-infused salami, red onions, arugula, caramelized red onions, and a balsamic drizzle. 😋
November 16, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Made a sourdough crust pizza with cremini mushrooms, brie-infused salami, red onions, arugula, caramelized red onions, and a balsamic drizzle. 😋
🧶Knitting update!🧶
Finished my first knee-high sock!🧦
If you’ve ever fretted over having stubby legs, just knit one of these. They go on *forever.* more than 300 rows. One sock used an entire 100g skein. Made me feel like I must have Rockette-length gams!
Fits like a glove, though! ☺️
Finished my first knee-high sock!🧦
If you’ve ever fretted over having stubby legs, just knit one of these. They go on *forever.* more than 300 rows. One sock used an entire 100g skein. Made me feel like I must have Rockette-length gams!
Fits like a glove, though! ☺️
November 15, 2025 at 12:18 AM
🧶Knitting update!🧶
Finished my first knee-high sock!🧦
If you’ve ever fretted over having stubby legs, just knit one of these. They go on *forever.* more than 300 rows. One sock used an entire 100g skein. Made me feel like I must have Rockette-length gams!
Fits like a glove, though! ☺️
Finished my first knee-high sock!🧦
If you’ve ever fretted over having stubby legs, just knit one of these. They go on *forever.* more than 300 rows. One sock used an entire 100g skein. Made me feel like I must have Rockette-length gams!
Fits like a glove, though! ☺️
Not all feet wear capes. (But mine do.)
November 11, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Not all feet wear capes. (But mine do.)
Whipped up a coconut chicken curry for the fam!
November 10, 2025 at 2:54 AM
Whipped up a coconut chicken curry for the fam!
#5SecondReview: Foundation (S3)
Every season takes big leaps of faith in time, characters, and plot, pushing what audiences are willing to accept, and season three is no different. Some major changes, but they make sense given how much has changed in science and society since Asimov’s books.
Every season takes big leaps of faith in time, characters, and plot, pushing what audiences are willing to accept, and season three is no different. Some major changes, but they make sense given how much has changed in science and society since Asimov’s books.
November 9, 2025 at 1:02 AM
#5SecondReview: Foundation (S3)
Every season takes big leaps of faith in time, characters, and plot, pushing what audiences are willing to accept, and season three is no different. Some major changes, but they make sense given how much has changed in science and society since Asimov’s books.
Every season takes big leaps of faith in time, characters, and plot, pushing what audiences are willing to accept, and season three is no different. Some major changes, but they make sense given how much has changed in science and society since Asimov’s books.
The box shrub stone planter I built a couple of summers back suffered an attempted murder by a careless driver last night. So I got to play Adult Lego today!
November 6, 2025 at 6:39 PM
The box shrub stone planter I built a couple of summers back suffered an attempted murder by a careless driver last night. So I got to play Adult Lego today!
#5SecondReview: Slow Horses (S5)
My sole beef with this show is that it lasts but a day or two. I adore all the characters (except Roddy Ho, who I find myself wishing might die every episode). I continue to have a huge crush on Kristen Scott Thomas. And Gary Oldman is just…gold, man.
My sole beef with this show is that it lasts but a day or two. I adore all the characters (except Roddy Ho, who I find myself wishing might die every episode). I continue to have a huge crush on Kristen Scott Thomas. And Gary Oldman is just…gold, man.
November 5, 2025 at 4:54 PM
#5SecondReview: Slow Horses (S5)
My sole beef with this show is that it lasts but a day or two. I adore all the characters (except Roddy Ho, who I find myself wishing might die every episode). I continue to have a huge crush on Kristen Scott Thomas. And Gary Oldman is just…gold, man.
My sole beef with this show is that it lasts but a day or two. I adore all the characters (except Roddy Ho, who I find myself wishing might die every episode). I continue to have a huge crush on Kristen Scott Thomas. And Gary Oldman is just…gold, man.
I have combined two of my passions--knitting and RPGs--to create...YarnQuest!
My character, a Level 1 Knitter (subclass: Lace Weaver), is below. I hope to grow my skills, abilities, attributes, equipment, and fibre crafting MAGIC over the years to come. ☺️
Blanks sheet attached if you want to join!
My character, a Level 1 Knitter (subclass: Lace Weaver), is below. I hope to grow my skills, abilities, attributes, equipment, and fibre crafting MAGIC over the years to come. ☺️
Blanks sheet attached if you want to join!
November 3, 2025 at 11:17 PM
I have combined two of my passions--knitting and RPGs--to create...YarnQuest!
My character, a Level 1 Knitter (subclass: Lace Weaver), is below. I hope to grow my skills, abilities, attributes, equipment, and fibre crafting MAGIC over the years to come. ☺️
Blanks sheet attached if you want to join!
My character, a Level 1 Knitter (subclass: Lace Weaver), is below. I hope to grow my skills, abilities, attributes, equipment, and fibre crafting MAGIC over the years to come. ☺️
Blanks sheet attached if you want to join!
#5SecondReview: A House of Dynamite
Explores the 20 minutes leading up to a long-distance nuclear strike on the US, as seen from three sets of perspectives. Not Bigelow’s best (I’m a huge fan of hers), but still very tense and watchable. With a bold ending. Good ensemble cast, too.
Explores the 20 minutes leading up to a long-distance nuclear strike on the US, as seen from three sets of perspectives. Not Bigelow’s best (I’m a huge fan of hers), but still very tense and watchable. With a bold ending. Good ensemble cast, too.
November 2, 2025 at 3:11 AM
#5SecondReview: A House of Dynamite
Explores the 20 minutes leading up to a long-distance nuclear strike on the US, as seen from three sets of perspectives. Not Bigelow’s best (I’m a huge fan of hers), but still very tense and watchable. With a bold ending. Good ensemble cast, too.
Explores the 20 minutes leading up to a long-distance nuclear strike on the US, as seen from three sets of perspectives. Not Bigelow’s best (I’m a huge fan of hers), but still very tense and watchable. With a bold ending. Good ensemble cast, too.
#5SecondReview: Bugonia
Stone + Plemmons + Lanthimos = magic
No spoilers. Exactly what you’d expect and hope to experience from these three. One of my favourites of the year.
Stone + Plemmons + Lanthimos = magic
No spoilers. Exactly what you’d expect and hope to experience from these three. One of my favourites of the year.
November 1, 2025 at 8:13 PM
#5SecondReview: Bugonia
Stone + Plemmons + Lanthimos = magic
No spoilers. Exactly what you’d expect and hope to experience from these three. One of my favourites of the year.
Stone + Plemmons + Lanthimos = magic
No spoilers. Exactly what you’d expect and hope to experience from these three. One of my favourites of the year.
Wifey put the kibosh on my original costume idea, so this is the fallback I dug up from my tickle trunk (aka my closet). I call it “Me, if I were adjacent to English nobility. And had horses. And liked to hunt. Using bloodhounds.”
October 31, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Wifey put the kibosh on my original costume idea, so this is the fallback I dug up from my tickle trunk (aka my closet). I call it “Me, if I were adjacent to English nobility. And had horses. And liked to hunt. Using bloodhounds.”
Friends, let’s talk about car knitting—in the dark! 🚙 🧶
I pulled out the cable knee-high socks I’m working on as my wife drove. I thought it was going swell! Then I get home and see I’ve got this little wiggly disaster.
No one will see it under my pants, so I figure wtf. Just leave it. Thoughts?
I pulled out the cable knee-high socks I’m working on as my wife drove. I thought it was going swell! Then I get home and see I’ve got this little wiggly disaster.
No one will see it under my pants, so I figure wtf. Just leave it. Thoughts?
October 29, 2025 at 12:20 AM
Friends, let’s talk about car knitting—in the dark! 🚙 🧶
I pulled out the cable knee-high socks I’m working on as my wife drove. I thought it was going swell! Then I get home and see I’ve got this little wiggly disaster.
No one will see it under my pants, so I figure wtf. Just leave it. Thoughts?
I pulled out the cable knee-high socks I’m working on as my wife drove. I thought it was going swell! Then I get home and see I’ve got this little wiggly disaster.
No one will see it under my pants, so I figure wtf. Just leave it. Thoughts?
#5SecondReview: Singularity
This was a a fun read. A contained, complete graphic novel with its own custom soundtrack (available on Spotify). Digs into some big ideas about life, the universe, and everything by exploring a godlike being’s seemingly infinite lives.
This was a a fun read. A contained, complete graphic novel with its own custom soundtrack (available on Spotify). Digs into some big ideas about life, the universe, and everything by exploring a godlike being’s seemingly infinite lives.
October 27, 2025 at 10:59 PM
#5SecondReview: Singularity
This was a a fun read. A contained, complete graphic novel with its own custom soundtrack (available on Spotify). Digs into some big ideas about life, the universe, and everything by exploring a godlike being’s seemingly infinite lives.
This was a a fun read. A contained, complete graphic novel with its own custom soundtrack (available on Spotify). Digs into some big ideas about life, the universe, and everything by exploring a godlike being’s seemingly infinite lives.
#5SecondReview: Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere
A small movie about a very big personality. Free of music biopic tropes—drinking, drugs, infidelity, egoism—and focused on friendship and mental health. Loses something in mainstream watchability, but is refreshing and authentic.
A small movie about a very big personality. Free of music biopic tropes—drinking, drugs, infidelity, egoism—and focused on friendship and mental health. Loses something in mainstream watchability, but is refreshing and authentic.
October 27, 2025 at 2:28 AM
#5SecondReview: Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere
A small movie about a very big personality. Free of music biopic tropes—drinking, drugs, infidelity, egoism—and focused on friendship and mental health. Loses something in mainstream watchability, but is refreshing and authentic.
A small movie about a very big personality. Free of music biopic tropes—drinking, drugs, infidelity, egoism—and focused on friendship and mental health. Loses something in mainstream watchability, but is refreshing and authentic.
#5SecondReview: Thirteen Ways to Kill Lulabelle Rock
Had very high hopes for this near-future story about a celebrity using one of her own clones to murder 12 other clones she created, but it turned out to be both more serious and a bit less insightful than I’d hoped. Fun cover, though!
Had very high hopes for this near-future story about a celebrity using one of her own clones to murder 12 other clones she created, but it turned out to be both more serious and a bit less insightful than I’d hoped. Fun cover, though!
October 23, 2025 at 12:55 PM
#5SecondReview: Thirteen Ways to Kill Lulabelle Rock
Had very high hopes for this near-future story about a celebrity using one of her own clones to murder 12 other clones she created, but it turned out to be both more serious and a bit less insightful than I’d hoped. Fun cover, though!
Had very high hopes for this near-future story about a celebrity using one of her own clones to murder 12 other clones she created, but it turned out to be both more serious and a bit less insightful than I’d hoped. Fun cover, though!
Beginner knitter update! 🧶
Making headway on my PurlSoho Little Cable Knee-High socks.
Going well, I think, though there’s a wee gap at the base of the cable. Need to learn if there’s a way to fix those in post.
Yarn is 50 Shades of Gay - Darker (merino) from a local yarn dying dude.
Making headway on my PurlSoho Little Cable Knee-High socks.
Going well, I think, though there’s a wee gap at the base of the cable. Need to learn if there’s a way to fix those in post.
Yarn is 50 Shades of Gay - Darker (merino) from a local yarn dying dude.
October 21, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Beginner knitter update! 🧶
Making headway on my PurlSoho Little Cable Knee-High socks.
Going well, I think, though there’s a wee gap at the base of the cable. Need to learn if there’s a way to fix those in post.
Yarn is 50 Shades of Gay - Darker (merino) from a local yarn dying dude.
Making headway on my PurlSoho Little Cable Knee-High socks.
Going well, I think, though there’s a wee gap at the base of the cable. Need to learn if there’s a way to fix those in post.
Yarn is 50 Shades of Gay - Darker (merino) from a local yarn dying dude.
#5SecondReview: Shivers
Few things hit like young Cronenberg. First time watching in 30 years, and it still freaks me out. Body horror, weird sexual stuff, unapologetically Canadian settings. And relentless. By the end, all I could think was, “Better nuke Montreal from orbit. Only way to be sure.”
Few things hit like young Cronenberg. First time watching in 30 years, and it still freaks me out. Body horror, weird sexual stuff, unapologetically Canadian settings. And relentless. By the end, all I could think was, “Better nuke Montreal from orbit. Only way to be sure.”
October 19, 2025 at 12:33 AM
#5SecondReview: Shivers
Few things hit like young Cronenberg. First time watching in 30 years, and it still freaks me out. Body horror, weird sexual stuff, unapologetically Canadian settings. And relentless. By the end, all I could think was, “Better nuke Montreal from orbit. Only way to be sure.”
Few things hit like young Cronenberg. First time watching in 30 years, and it still freaks me out. Body horror, weird sexual stuff, unapologetically Canadian settings. And relentless. By the end, all I could think was, “Better nuke Montreal from orbit. Only way to be sure.”
#5SecondReview: Angst (1983)
German. At 100% on RT. Tells the true story of a killer released from prison randomly attacking a family in their home. The camerawork is extraordinarily unnerving, and the brutality very hard to watch. Much of it is filmed in real time. Not for the faint of heart.
German. At 100% on RT. Tells the true story of a killer released from prison randomly attacking a family in their home. The camerawork is extraordinarily unnerving, and the brutality very hard to watch. Much of it is filmed in real time. Not for the faint of heart.
October 17, 2025 at 5:10 PM
#5SecondReview: Angst (1983)
German. At 100% on RT. Tells the true story of a killer released from prison randomly attacking a family in their home. The camerawork is extraordinarily unnerving, and the brutality very hard to watch. Much of it is filmed in real time. Not for the faint of heart.
German. At 100% on RT. Tells the true story of a killer released from prison randomly attacking a family in their home. The camerawork is extraordinarily unnerving, and the brutality very hard to watch. Much of it is filmed in real time. Not for the faint of heart.
#5SecondReview: Trapped In Space
Found this buried in the stacks of a used bookstore this summer. Something about cracking open an old, yellowing sci-fi paperback that’s so much fun. The smell. The campy writing. The illustrations. I love the idea that it was waiting 60+ years for a new reader.
Found this buried in the stacks of a used bookstore this summer. Something about cracking open an old, yellowing sci-fi paperback that’s so much fun. The smell. The campy writing. The illustrations. I love the idea that it was waiting 60+ years for a new reader.
October 15, 2025 at 3:20 PM
#5SecondReview: Trapped In Space
Found this buried in the stacks of a used bookstore this summer. Something about cracking open an old, yellowing sci-fi paperback that’s so much fun. The smell. The campy writing. The illustrations. I love the idea that it was waiting 60+ years for a new reader.
Found this buried in the stacks of a used bookstore this summer. Something about cracking open an old, yellowing sci-fi paperback that’s so much fun. The smell. The campy writing. The illustrations. I love the idea that it was waiting 60+ years for a new reader.
#5SecondReview: Annie Hall
In honour of Diane Keaton, we lifted our household Woody Allen ban for one night to watch Annie Hall. Keaton is its beating heart. Amazing talent. Charisma off the charts. And style still envied to this day. She’s gone, but she has a body of work that’ll live on forever.
In honour of Diane Keaton, we lifted our household Woody Allen ban for one night to watch Annie Hall. Keaton is its beating heart. Amazing talent. Charisma off the charts. And style still envied to this day. She’s gone, but she has a body of work that’ll live on forever.
October 12, 2025 at 3:50 PM
#5SecondReview: Annie Hall
In honour of Diane Keaton, we lifted our household Woody Allen ban for one night to watch Annie Hall. Keaton is its beating heart. Amazing talent. Charisma off the charts. And style still envied to this day. She’s gone, but she has a body of work that’ll live on forever.
In honour of Diane Keaton, we lifted our household Woody Allen ban for one night to watch Annie Hall. Keaton is its beating heart. Amazing talent. Charisma off the charts. And style still envied to this day. She’s gone, but she has a body of work that’ll live on forever.
Made more soup! Chicken noodle, with stuff that was already in the house, including a rotisserie chicken we hadn’t touched from earlier this week, some kale leaves, egg noodles that had been in the pantry for years, and extra veggies and aromatics left over from previous recipes. 😋
October 12, 2025 at 1:34 AM
Made more soup! Chicken noodle, with stuff that was already in the house, including a rotisserie chicken we hadn’t touched from earlier this week, some kale leaves, egg noodles that had been in the pantry for years, and extra veggies and aromatics left over from previous recipes. 😋
Little bit of knitting 🧶 while waiting bedside at the ER department. Good way to pass time and lower stress, I’m discovering.
And I think the new sock (Little Cable Knee-High form PurlSoho) I just cast on using a fancy merino yarn from my local yarn dyer is looking good! Fitting well, anyway. 😊
And I think the new sock (Little Cable Knee-High form PurlSoho) I just cast on using a fancy merino yarn from my local yarn dyer is looking good! Fitting well, anyway. 😊
October 9, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Little bit of knitting 🧶 while waiting bedside at the ER department. Good way to pass time and lower stress, I’m discovering.
And I think the new sock (Little Cable Knee-High form PurlSoho) I just cast on using a fancy merino yarn from my local yarn dyer is looking good! Fitting well, anyway. 😊
And I think the new sock (Little Cable Knee-High form PurlSoho) I just cast on using a fancy merino yarn from my local yarn dyer is looking good! Fitting well, anyway. 😊