your goose is probably only half-baked at this point

I accidentally became a vegetarian back in May 2014, and where it's been one of the greatest accidents of my life (right up there with accidentally getting into a career in international education after accidentally getting into graduate school, which happened shortly after I accidentally married the partner I'd accidentally started dating in 2000), it hasn't been without its scant sacrifices, one of which being tatertot casserole , which was the very first dish I ever learnt to make and was one of my comfort foods before the whole no-meat thing happened. I am pleased to report that, much like meat being back on the menu for the Uruk-Hai in The Two Towers , tatertot casserole is now back on my meatless menu, and it is better than ever. I did not actually cry with the first bite of this version of the casserole, but it was a near thing. I have missed  this dish, so, so much. Related: How did I not know about mushrooms OR Star Wars until I was in my 30s? I mean, I've...

So imagine that it's two o'clock in the morning, you've been asleep on your beanbag chair for four hours, but you showered (because you were a greasy pile of gross) before getting into your proper bed, which means you're now too awake to go to sleep and too sleepy to get up and do something productive. What do you do to help yourself fall asleep? Surf buzzfeed or imgur? Read the BBC until you're so depressed that you go to sleep to get away from it? No. You go online and find recipes for stuff that looks way too delicious for 3am (it's been an hour, congratulations), then sleep for six more hours while your brain OBSESSES over the recipes you've just found so that when you wake up, these recipes are the ONLY thing you can think about. You'll think about it all day, eventually making a special stop to the grocery so you can make them. This is one of those recipes. It's absolutely delicious, and made even better by the fact that my dear partner w...