Brian Boyer

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Stay-at-home dad in Chicago. News product coach. He/him. Let's work together: https://brianboyer.net Bean tips: https://beantips.com/

Screenshot of an air quality map. Chicago is on the southern edge of a particularly nasty area.
Labeneh, a thick, white, yogurt-like spread, smeared in an oval on a plate, topped with a lot of olive oil and za’atar, with a handful of olives and a torn pita bread on the side.
A railroad bridge next to an intersection. A liquor store is at the corner.
A selfie of two very attractive middle-aged men in a convertible
Two plastic bottles. The left is 500g biocaf, a detergent for cleaning coffee makers. The right is 900g DEZCAL, a descaler.
Clusters of pink common milkweed blossoms, and leaves, on a balcony. A little bit of sky and lake is visible through the railing.
A paper tray full of fried smelt and French fries
Two doors from a Jeep, hung on the wall and shaped like a butterfly, in a tidy, well-lit garage.
Five framed photographs of Rick Springfield with the staff of the Blue Ribbon Diner, a sign identifying Rick, and a plaque celebrating the Mayor’s Choice winner in the 2018 Wauseon Family Festival Chili Cook Off, hanging on a white, textured wall.
A club sandwich with corned beef, ham and Swiss cheese, served with pickle slices and French fries.
The Strip, Pittsburgh. The sky is very blue and the skyline is visible in the distance. People are queued at a candy shop.
A broad, shallow bowl full of white beans, escarole, Italian sausage and potatoes with two runny eggs. Glorious.
A mug-sized thermal cup, an Aeropress in parts, a small coffee mill, a travel kettle and a small digital scale.
A red Buick station wagon parked on the street in front of a red seafood shack.
Havre de Grace
A concrete apartment building, mostly windows, reflecting the blue sky
A plastic cup filled with creamy orange soup, topped with finely diced cucumber.
A metro station in DC. It is spectacular.
An old wooden bench with the words “OHIO DEPT OF HIGHWAYS OHIO” carved in
A tiny paper cup full of coffee on a purple tabletop. The logo printed on the cup reads “Mimi’s Taste of Cuba”
A red brick mansion, seen via a screenshot of a map street view. It's covered with old-timey, but newly-applied, frippery. Anything that looks weird is new, including structural stuff like much of the brickwork. It's like a botched plastic surgery.
A bowl of bean soup with diced onions and carrots, and pasta. There’s also tomato paste and tarragon in there but you wouldn’t know from the photo.
Beans On Toast
Selfie at a busy lakefront beach
A tub of bean salad.
Bottles of dijon mustard and olive oil, a tub of radishes, sprigs of fresh tarragon, an orange and lemon, a hunk of white onion, a jar of roasted red peppers, and a can of tuna.
A deli tub full of beans and broth
A bowl of bean soup with onions and cilantro
A fuchsia rose blossom, with the city in the background.
A red ceramic serving bowl full of rice with Santa Maria beans and diced carrots
A rectilinear three story apartment building with subtle, but intricate, brickwork.
Santa Maria beans — which are small and pinky-brown — freshly washed and shiny, in a pastel green colander.
A pot of soup with tomatoes, other vegetables, a lot of dried herbs, and some very large beans
A bowl of very large beans, with bits of octopus and chopped veg
Creamy tomato soup, including very large beans, in a bowl with a spoonful of chili crisp and a corn tortilla
Same pot of very large beans as the previous post, now thoroughly cooked
A pot of very large white beans, with a few green onions
Two smoked chickens on a half sheet pan
Jean Baptiste Pointe du Sable Lake Shore Drive, with no cars except cop cars
A bowl of carnitas and bean stew with tomatillos
Eggs stacked in a supermarket cooler, priced at 1.09 per dozen
A screen grab from the game Rocky’s Boots. There’s a little anthropomorphic raccoon and a set of logic gates. You know, stuff that kids like.
A man in a park with beaver enthusiasts
A child’s drawing, attached to a refrigerator with a magnet, on pink paper with the corners cut off, like they do on BSG.
Ladybug resting on a rugosa rose leaf
New England aster, and some weeds.
Milkweed sprouting in a container garden. Lake Michigan is visible in the background.
Four pork chops frying in a pan.
Close-up of a pot of shiny black beans in their broth. A bay leaf, green onion, and garlic clove are floating next to a wooden spoon.
Three green onions, two huge cloves garlic of garlic, and two bay leaves — one normal-sized, one giant — on a plate.
Two corn tortillas, hot, puffed and perfect, in a toaster oven.
A framed poster, featuring small, colorful portraits of the seven members of the NPR Apps team. Looming over them is a large Voltron with a stylized NPR logo on its breastplate.
A bowl of bean soup.
A bowl of risotto with peas
Italian herb mix, Arborio rice, garlic salt, dried minced onions and a few slices of white mystery cheese. Not pictured: a little butter.
Several pancakes in a bowl, on a towel.
Pulp, Different Class
Morphine, Good
Many copies of WIRED magazine, on a bookcase.
A screenshot of the Acme Weather app, showing a particularly wild temperature swing the next few days in Chicago