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Emily Rae, 29, any pronouns. I do not control the hyperfixation. Please read the about before you follow!

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just made the most beautiful thing i've ever seen

[lavalamps-and-ladydoors]

a new years eve reminder 🩵

[augmentedpolls]

What was the cause of the worst (physical) pain you’ve ever experienced?

chronic pain/chronic illness

break/sprain

kidney stone

labor

period cramp

an actual weapon

getting hit in the balls

something else

results

Voting ended onJan 6

[complicatedsquishy]

Everyone please rise for the national anthem.

[rythyme]

done with the "came back wrong" trope. what about came back American

[rythyme]

THIS POST IS NOW ABOUT THE POPE

[bunkey]

notice how everyone is horny today

[bunkey]

[highladyluck]

The Dungeon Meshi renaissance is making me want to share the resources that taught me how to cook.

Don’t forget, you can check out cookbooks from the library!

Smitten Kitchen: The rare recipe blog where the blog part is genuinely good & engaging, but more important: this is a home cook who writes for home cooks. If Deb recommends you do something with an extra step, it’s because it’s worth it. Her recipes are reliable & have descriptive instructions that walk you through processes. Her three cookbooks are mostly recipes not already on the site, & there are treasures in each of them.

Six Seasons: A New Way With Vegetables by Joshua McFadden: This is a great guide to seasonal produce & vegetable-forward cooking, and in addition to introducing me to new-to-me vegetables (and how to select them) it quietly taught me a number of things like ‘how to make a tasty and interesting puréed soup of any root veggie’ and ‘how to make grain salads’ and ‘how to make condiments’.

Grains for Every Season: Rethinking Our Way With Grains by Joshua McFadden: in addition to infodumping in grains, this codifies some of the formulas I picked up unconsciously just by cooking a lot from the previous book. I get a lot of mileage out of the grain bowl mix-and-match formulas (he’s not lying, you can do a citrus vinaigrette and a ranch dressing dupe made with yogurt, onion powder, and garlic powder IN THE SAME DISH and it’s great.)

SALT, FAT, ACID, HEAT by Samin Nosrat: An education in cooking theory & specific techniques. I came to it late but I think it would be a good intro book for people who like to front-load on theory. It taught me how to roast a whole chicken and now I can just, like, do that.

I Dream Of Dinner (so you don’t have to) by Ali Slagle: Ok, look, an important part of learning to cook & cooking regularly is getting kinda burned out and just wanting someone else to tell you what to make. These dinners work well as written and are also great tweakable bases you can use as a starting place.

If you have books or other resources that taught you to cook or that you find indispensable, add ‘em on a reblog.

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Appetite by Nigel Slater (UK) has a lot of very basic recipes accompanied by multiple ways to dress them up. Really good for easy but tasty comfort food (assuming your cultural background includes these as comfort foods). This really helped me get to what the heart of various meals was in a way that lets me tinker around with flavour fearlessly.

The Food Lab by Kenji Lopez-Alt (US) is perfect for anybody who's a giant nerd about food and food science - it's 1000 pages and most of that is getting into the whys and wherefores of the techniques it uses. I was a proficient cook before I got a copy and I've still found a bunch of ways to up my game here on things as 'easy' as poaching eggs. Really great for comfort food (US-American edition). If you don't want to shell out for the 1000-page cookbook a lot of his techniques are in his Serious Eats column online.

For my AoNZ crowd...no, you really can't go past the Edmonds Cookbook for all the basics like shepherd's pie and the unbeatable one-egg chocolate sponge. It also has a really handy set of charts and tables in the front for cooking times and temperatures and measurement conversions. But if you want to get serious about our baking tradition, Ladies, A Plate by Alexa Johnston is where you should start. You too can make brandy snaps from scratch! You will never be short of ginger crunch again! And I could go on.

Also an enthusiastic second for Smitten Kitchen, and the caveat I am legally obliged to give for Salt Fat Acid Heat: yes it's otherwise very good but she is wrong and potentially dangerously so about iodised salt. Know your own diet and location, and if you don't eat a lot of iodine-rich foods and/or live somewhere with deficient soils (e.g. Aus/NZ), DO use it. You can't taste the difference no matter what she thinks.

[emubop]

He YAWM

[stingchronicity]

i always see “tag fav fruit” posts but i’ve never seen a fav veg post so rb & tag your favourite vegetable

[finalgirlabigailhobbs]

people saying white rice is a harmful carb.. they could never make me hate you my beautiful princess..

[finalgirlabigailhobbs]

if white rice has a million fans, i am one of them. if white rice has ten fans, i am one of them. if white rice has only one fan, then that is me. if white rice has no fans, that means i am no longer on earth. if the world is against white rice, i am against the world. I love #white rice till my last breath.. .. Die Hard fan of white rice. Hit Like if you think white rice Best food & Good in the world

[gingersnapsvhs]

we're you born prematurely, late, or on time?

premature

on time

late

Voting ended onJun 2, 2024

[bloodraven55]

never forget when saruman literally told gandalf "you've been smoking too much weed bro"

[colakills]

do you have a true phobia?*

yes, and it's a common one

yes, and it's not uncommon

yes, and it's rare

no, i don't

i have multiple across several categories

i don't know/im bald/other nuance answer

Voting ended onMay 9, 2024

*NOTE: in this case, phobia refers to a very strong irrational fear, not being a little scared of something. if you can handle snakes but they make you nervous, that's not a phobia.

[colakills]

huge thank you to people reblogging and talking about their phobias in the tags. it's genuinely super nice to hear that im not alone in this and im not super irrational for being scared of things. <3

[recents]

idk i think what is interesting about astarion to me is the fact that you have a guy who started out an asshole (normal type) and then spent two hundred years in a very carefully and specifically crafted (by the writers of the game) Become A Terrible Person Or Die nexus. like it wasn’t just a Torment Nexus, he wasn’t just in hell, i feel like this is very important not to forget, he was in hell but it was specifically a hell designed to, over time, kill the empathy of anyone trapped in it, kill their brain’s ability to prioritize other peoples’ survival, to numb one’s conscience.

and then he gets yanked directly out of that nexus and despite that the fact that he spent, again, two hundred years in a situation that was sort of a rock tumbler for the human soul, there’s still a pebble left in there. and it’s a pebble that can be grown if placed in the right environment and provided with a support network.

so i think it becomes interesting because it really does i think force you to start thinking about the limits of free will even on as basic a level as the human personality. i think the fact that he becomes such a different character based on player choice, that his end morality is so hugely dependent on player choice, is uhhh. a big part of what the devs were going for probably.

it makes a lot of people really uncomfortable to acknowledge some bad people would be good people if literally nothing changed except they had a good support network and different circumstances. especially because it means the opposite is also true. which is even more uncomfortable.

you know that part in the beginning of fellowship of the ring where gandalf is talking about how gollum is ultimately only like that because of the ring and gandalf thinks his story is sad? astarion is kinda like if they sexualized gollum.

[nikomedes]

[nightcord-at-25]

Im mister trans gender. Im mister cis. Im mister cash spender. Im mister take a piss

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[teathattast]

Happy sludge saturday baby

[emubop]

When you spent your day killing a murderer and his shapeshifting friends, saving Volo from the consequences of his own shit talking, rescuing as many people as you could from the Iron Throne before it exploded, playing family therapist for Wyll and his dad, and dealing with the bonkers priestesses of Umberlee… and then you get back to camp and Lae’zel is holding the kid you found on the street at knifepoint