I use the “favorite” option in Twitter to save things I see on my commute that I want to read or research later, tweets that are inspiring, or tweets that I wish I could RT but can’t, due either to character or cussing restraints. Occasionally I scroll through them for a laugh or a thoughtful moment, and I thought you might enjoy them, too. Here are my favorite favorites from 2012:

Delicious Ideas and Recipes

On the hunt for a fall soup? Try this bit.ly/SRYhtNfrom the lovely @soumak who suggested it to me for a freeze-ahead dish. Divine!

— jennifer steinhauer (@jestei) October 13, 2012

Just for tonight, screw terroir, complexity, minerality, balanced acidity and gimme a big, wafting fruit bomb of a #wine!Is that so wrong? — Marty Gardner (@MartyJGardner) February 1, 2012

List of (almost) every $1 oyster deal in Boston and Cambridge: eater.cc/STetHY — BostonTweet (@BostonTweet) November 26, 2012

Photo: Honey roasted broccoli, tomatoes, almonds, and pepitas over a bed of crunchy kale. tmblr.co/Z_y-auWkRbqW — Johanna Scott (@JohannaScott) November 6, 2012

Life Lessons

Never check email during intermission of a play. It sucks. Work interrupting life sucks. Not having a moment to breathe sucks. Don’t do it. — Brooke Hammerling (@brooke) June 7, 2012

A long-awaited movie night with @kristinhersh & brood reminds me the term Family Values doesn’t have to mean oppression and proselytizing. — Todd Perley (@marquisdd) November 20, 2012

“You don’t just think your way into becoming yourself. You have to try new things & fumble & stumble your way there.” @meredeetch #masswomen — Kaitlin Maud (@kaitlinmaud) December 6, 2012

Give more than expected; love more than seems wise; serve more than appears necessary; and help more than asked. — Cory Booker (@CoryBooker) October 15, 2012

Marketing & Social Media Goodness

An Open Letter to My Social Network Upon the Rejection of My SXSW Panel adage.com/u/0QreFa

— Ad Age (@adage) October 15, 2012

Your best marketing happens when your customers view themselves as part of your story. — mark_hayward (@mark_hayward) June 17, 2012

@robdelaney I put your tweet up on my wall at work.I work in marketing. Hope my boss sees. twitter.com/gregc_isme/sta… — Greg C (@gregc_isme) August 15, 2012

@sandy_carter, words to live by, culture eats strategy for lunch, trust is the new currency in social #bizsocialmedia — Ronnie Maffa (@rmaffa) October 24, 2012

When someone says they’re a “social media expert,” I usually say “HUNGGRRGHH” as I shit all over their quirky dress sneakers. — rob delaney (@robdelaney) September 12, 2012

RT @jaybaer: Love this from @thesaleslion – Google has a teacher shortage (not enough companies answering customer questions) #cmworld — Nate Riggs(@nateriggs) September 6, 2012

The funnel is dead. The new consumer decision journey | LinkedIn lnkd.in/AHxK9t — 3thought (@3thought) October 19, 2012

Careful What You Ask

Satan? RT @sesamestreet: Hey, guess who’s going to be on @jimmyfallon tonight? 3 Clues: (1) He’s red. (2) He’s a monster. (3) He loves you. — Big Gay Ice Cream (@biggayicecream) September 19, 2012

After your mother sucked our cocks. RT @theatlantic: When did Red Sox fans get so civil? theatln.tc/QVQbwF — rob delaney (@robdelaney) October 3, 2012

Me, Too!

Do you ever suddenly remember for no reason that you once dated a “manchild” and put your fist through a wall and gargle with bleach? — Neko Case (@NekoCase) October 18, 2012

There’s something reliably, wonderfully cathartic about just getting on a plane and going. 4sq.com/VdFHiQ — Alison Morris (@AlisonMorris) October 18, 2012

Life resume: adept at eating mac and cheese, laughing until sore, Netflix marathons, falling in love, crying about it. Refs on request. — Molly Dermond (@mollymerly) October 10, 2012

Just Awesome

I propose a new hashtag: #ThingsCoryBookerCantFix. @corybooker, please correct us if you can, in fact, fix these. 1. Dull existential pain. — Anand Giridharadas (@AnandWrites) November 28, 2012

Heh. “Take Me to a Useless Website Please” j.mp/UPuY8l Lest we forget the usefulness of useless knowledge j.mp/LTi2KG

— Maria Popova (@brainpicker) November 19, 2012

My beloved activist fist-shaking dynamo mother-in-law’s tombstone.this is not photo shopped.I swear. twitter.com/BobBalaban/sta… — Bob Balaban (@BobBalaban) November 6, 2012

@ariherzog Thank God you debunked that for us. Because I truly believed A GIANT CAT WAS DEVOURING NEW YORK cc @chris_coltrane @jimstorer

— Derek Peplau (@peplau) October 30, 2012

What were some of your favorite Twitter moments in 2012?