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Nothing makes me feel like more of an absolute fucking idiot than cooking.

An Assyrian guy put a rice recipe up here awhile back and it was the best rice I've ever eaten. The recipe? Half-cook the rice and then bake it in butter. It had somehow never occurred to me that you could do that. Of course you can do that. Did I just think the rice was allergic to the oven or something.

derinthescarletpescatarian

I cooked rice like this and had some left over so I used it to bulk out my sad pathetic watery homemade vegetable soup. To my huge surprise it turned it into the best soup I'd ever eaten. Magically gave it real body, made it textured and nurturing, held heat better, added massive depth of flavour.

Hey guys did you. Did you know that butter. Did you know that if you put fat in food it makes it more satisfying and adds textural depth. Hey did you know that some flavours aren't very soluble in water and are instead soluble in fats, so if you add some fat to your watery soup then. Then the flavours. Hey guys did you know that butter is a fat.

Mind blown super surprising in my late thirties hey guys did you know that sad watery soup can be improved with some fat? Just like sauce or meat or basically any other food which I already knew about? Did you know it works for soup as well? Did you know that some flavours are more soluble in

I have a chemistry background.

heosic24

Here's the recipe for those looking:

https://www.tumblr.com/persianflaw/187424217354/but-for-real-here-is-your-guide-to-assyrian-rice

tragicburnout

i feel like there is a sleep in me that needs to be slept but each time i sleep i don't sleep that sleep

kosmogrl

I can’t overshare because that would be very humiliating but everyone else should overshare because I like to know everything

thememedaddy

whosurisold

I agree , practicing medicine without a medical Doctor license is unlawful

tobiasdrake

Can you imagine being Gandalf? Getting shit from other wizards because you have a thing for hobbits and you're just like, okay. Okay, maybe I'll temper my fascination with hobbits.

This Ring quest will have two hobbits. Maximum.

Then they all get to Rivendell and have somehow multiplied into four hobbits. And it's like. Okay. Maybe the others are right.

Maybe this is too many hobbits.

We have as many hobbits as we have not-hobbits.

But damn it, you just don't want to get rid of any of these hobbits. Screw it! Everyone can deal. Four hobbits. This is a four hobbits problem.

So away you go.

And things go bad in the worst possible way.

Over and over.

You've lost your hobbits. You've lost yourself. The fellowship has been separated.

It takes everything in your power to help the humans defend themselves, bringing them together to save Rohan. Finally, as things begin to look upright, you're ready to face the war with everything the Rohirrim have left.

You're ready to face him. This may be the hardest battle you've ever fought. But you ride.

Then you get there and two of your fucking hobbits are sitting there like "Yeah, while you were gone, we raised a tree army and beat Saruman's ass. Wanna help us loot his tower?"

....

There were not, in fact, too many hobbits.

This was a four hobbits problem.

elodieunderglass

A wizard neither underestimates nor overestimates the number of hobbits needed for an equation. He, er, always has precisely as many as he needs to.

comfect

Smaug is a one-hobbit problem

Saruman a two-hobbit problem

Sauron a four-hobbit problem

I propose that, had hobbits existed at the time, this implies Morgoth would have been an eight-hobbit problem.

tragediegh

the last day you have your house to yourself before visitors arrive is kind of like a dead wife

tragediegh

prev you get ittttttttttttt

mysharona1987

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tinyyellowflowers-blog

This is like analysis 101 stuff but I JUST figured it out, Persuasion when Anne is talking to Captain Harville about constancy — he says that all literature says that men are more constant than women, and she says “the pen has been in your hands” and then goes on to talk about how men can be constant as long as there is hope but women will be constant even without hope. She is being SO SWEET here, giving a grieving man a path to mourn his sister but not see his friend’s marriage as a betrayal — but she’s also speaking from the heart about how she has and will always love Wentworth.

And the pen falls out of Wentworth’s hand.

theskydoesgreatthingsnow

🪩 🎶 🦀 🦀 🦀 🎶 🪩

adhduck

Does the “I’m gonna get a good grade in” person know the impact they’ve had. Do they know they did in fact got a good grade in post, something that’s both normal to want and possible to achieve,

cellobuster

They do know it and in fact if you want to support them you can buy a patch or sticker off their Etsy shop

creekfiend

its so wild how dismissive ppl are about medieval bubonic plague PPE. that shit was seriously so fucking smart and we act like it doesn't count, bc people back then conceptualized the routes by which it worked differently than we do now. ppl just act like essentially it's an example of fundamentally getting something "wrong," and any benefits the PPE had must therefore have been incidental? when modern PPE for so many things has barely advanced from that very design, aside from materials and small details? BONKERS. BONKERS way to act about a technology that we have only improved on rather than rendered obsolete by reason of developing an alternative that is better. hubris, thy name is "human beings who are alive currently"

catgirlbignaturals

"Lmao they believed in the four humors" <- society that believes in BMI

official-lucifers-child

“you are not immune to propaganda” but specifically cop shows and courtroom dramas that portray acquiring evidence illegally and not executing basic rights as. like. somehow good things? the evil suspect exercising their right to remain silent is always guilty obviously and the valiant cop that broke into someone’s house or hacked into someone’s personal laptop is always the heralded hero of justice. like girl. your humanity.