Quanto Basta or QB is just a fancy way of saying "use your freaking brain" when following a recipe.
QB means you get to be the judge of how much of an ingredient you need to add, based on your superhuman intuition and culinary skills.
It's like a little game where you have to guess the right amount, and if you mess up, you can blame it on QB and say you were just following the recipe's instructions.
Easy peasy, right?
AddQuanto Basta of salt to the tomato sauce while it's simmering
The measure of an emotional and over zealous consumer in an upwardly charging market, also known as a bull market. It's characterized by rising asset prices, increased investor confidence, and favorable growth in the markets, bro.
The frothability was evident as over-zealous consumers eagerly engaged in bidding wars, drivingproperty prices to unsustainable levels reminiscent of previous speculative bubbles.
A man who dates women with the sole purpose of exploiting their time, energy, and labor while he sucks the joy and happiness from their lives.
"That guy's a soul digger. He'll expect you to work full time, but you'll be doing all the cooking, cleaning, laundry, shopping, and childcare while he plays video games or watches TV."
A person pretending to be something they aren't, or an impostor. This is inferred because of the old alien movies where alien pods appear on earth and the "pod people" dispose of the humans and slowly reproduce the bodies, pretending to be humans.
The pod person was pretending to be my father, but I knew that he was an alien when he acted differently than my father ever would have.