Frog's Ramblings

I hope you'll find something that interests you here :) | she/they | 16 | neurodivergent | main: @ghost-long-lost

[forgxilla]

Welcome to my new blog! This is literally just where I post all the stuff I wanna ramble about without spamming my main

Y'all can call me Frog! or whatever else you like (unless I say I'm uncomfy with it). I'm 15, and my pronouns are she/her, they/them is fine too though. I have ADHD, Bipolar Disorder, and a few anxiety disorders. I hope that you might find something interesting on this blog :)

Main - @sukunasfingy

Also Tumblr keeps resetting my title/bio someone pls explain why sobs

[wizardpotions]

just making it dead clear that this blog does not support russia's invasion of ukraine, however also fuck off with that shit if you are demonising regular russian civilians who have nothing to do with this and didnt want a war just as much as everyone else did. politicians are not an excuse for your xenophobia.

[forgxilla]

just started Scream (3 episodes in) and this man is hot as fuck I take no criticism

[ghost-long-lost]

i finished the second season and he only got more attractive

[forgxilla]

getting tired of accidentally reblogging my own damn posts on the wrong blog

[sweetpeauserboxes]

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[ultrafacts]

Kilroy was here is an American popular culture expression that became popular during World War II; it is typically seen in graffiti. Its origins are debated, but the phrase and the distinctive accompanying doodle — a bald-headed man (sometimes depicted as having a few hairs) with a prominent nose peeking over a wall with the fingers of each hand clutching the wall — became associated with GIs in the 1940s.

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[urulokid]

im screaming can you imagine dictators freaking out trying to understand a meme

[everythingfox]

Rotation boy

[squeakybismarck]

@is-the-cat-video-cute

Was just wondering if this is cute or not!

[flourishingskeleton]

Rating: Cute

This cat is just playing in a unique way. Swinging the object is likely very stimulating, my only concern would be them getting hit in the face

[memories]

I’ve been silent for too long and can no longer bear to keep this inside: @faemesbond is a good person and deserves many good things.

[melqdic-deactivated20220511]

@faemesbond !!!!!

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

it’s possible there is a better feeling in the world than remembering u have leftovers in the fridge, but i’m dubious

[weepingwidar]

John Brosio (American, 1967) - Two Earthlings (2003)

[marypsue]

#oh so this is one of those paintings where it’s actually the title that knocks you into next tuesday huh (via astriiformes)

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

Ever seen an upside down iceberg?

Now you have!

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

No wait I forgot to show you striped icebergs:

There you go!

[forgxilla]

just started Scream (3 episodes in) and this man is hot as fuck I take no criticism

[lmaonade]

i am not joking we need to force teach cooking in schools. like. it is an essential thing for survival. do you know how easy it is to make things if you know even the bare bones shit about how cooking works. we need to teach teenagers how far you can take an onion and some other veggies it''s sad that people grow up not knowing how to prepare literally anything. and i'm not talking about oh this home ed class taught me how to make chicken nuggets at home i'm talking about learning the balancing of sweetness and acidity and saltiness and bitterness and shit like that and techniques and oil temperatures and how meats cook. it needs to be taught because it's literally not even that difficult and it matters so much

[lmaonade]

i truly believe that knowing how to cook is a basic survival concept and the fact that so many people can't even make simple dishes is depressing as hell this is the sorta thing that should be taught at a young age. being able to take the ingredients you have around your home and turn them into a meal is like, essential and will make life so much better. you don't need to be a high end chef you just need to understand some things that can be easily taught... but then again maybe the education system is playing a roll against this and ultimately they want you to grow up to rely on mcdonalds for dinner. i don't know. please learn how to cook for yourself if you're able. i'm not asking you to hunt for specific ingredients to make some expensive youtuber's "best" recipe but if you know the basics of cooking you can do a lot with cheap canned ingredients. cooking can be affordable i promise you just need to learn how to make do with what you can get

[eroticcannibal]

Can anyone point me towards resources that teach those basics cus I would LOVE to teach my child this stuff but i dont know how to cook

[loumandliker]

not comprehensive but heres some:

internet shaquille's basics but especially:

making rice

making scrambled eggs

making oatmeal

levels of cooking meat

using & storing vegetables with recipes in the description (this one has a bit of Sassiness directed at people who dont like vegetables but the content is solid)

food safety + a recipe to demonstrate

how to learn to cook (just a list of subtopics, no actual tips)

cooking techniques playlist

how to cut x

basics with babish s1 & 2, but particularly:

freezer meals,

weeknight meals,

kitchen tools (although the specific suggestions are pretty expensive even with the lower end scale items the basic categories are solid, and you can evaluate what items you will realistcially need - eg. if you dont need to read temp for steaks etc the temp reader will not be relevant) &

kitchen care (mid-high advanced home cooking)

basic knife skills

picking the right pan for each recipe

j. kenji lopez-alt's tips and tricks playlist

egg recipes

a little more complicated, involved, and longer than any of the rest of these but good breakdown of flavor & how and why to use the basic seasoning/flavor profiles

and then recipe channels representing various cuisines:

j. kenji lopez-alt (various)

marion's kitchen (southeast & east asian, western/asian fusion)

maangchi (korean)

future neighbor (mostly korean)

the western supermarket playlist of chinese cooking demystified (more recipes available but these are accessible if you dont have "specialty" ingredients)

family recipes playlist by made with lau (chinese)

not another cooking show (various)

cooking with boris (bear with me here i know he does it exaggeratedly humorously but a lot of them are actually solid and beginner cook friendly. mostly slavic/russian)

you suck at cooking (also falls into the intentionally humorous category but most of the recipes are pretty solid anyway)

how to cook that (baking, also does debunking videos of viral cooking hacks - breaks down the reasons the hacks dont work, pretty important to understand those basics imo)

internet shaquille (various)

babish culinary universe (various)

i REFUSE to recommended joshua weissman because he is fucking insufferable but if you want you can try if you can deal with it, the techniques/recipes seem fine for the most part

again definitely not a comprehensive list but it touches on most of the basics

[valtsv]

i could be being chased by the killer and i'd be like oh man this is so embarrassing i must look like such an idiot right now he's probably judging my silly little run and everything

[valtsv]

i'm the kind of guy who'd get stabbed and be like ugh this is so humiliating i'm sure nobody has ever bled out and died as badly as i am. cringe.

[isfree2fly]

Muslim brothers and sisters

So I found this app called Scan Halal where you scan the bar code of your food and it tells you if its halal or not. It’s a free app too. Pass this on so others can see and worry a little less about their food/snack choices

[thislittlething]

Yessss, it is very handy especially in non-muslim countries

[hisnamewasbeanni]

If you reblog this for no other reason, do it because it’ll piss off Pauline Hanson. And pissing off Pauline Hanson is reason enough to do anything.

[totalsillyfilly]

Pissing off Pauline Hanson is my favourite pass time

[sockknitterporg]

If you reblog this for no other reason, reblog it to make a Muslim feel safer, more accepted, and/or more informed about food.

Other people and their needs are not your game pieces to use to offend others or make yourself feel better.

[inkyshark]

This is actually a cool app! I had a customer come into my candy store and we discovered that certain flavors of the same brand of candy sticks were okay to eat! It was really handy for them to be able to scan it rather than rely on the ingredient list, which could be flawed sometimes! 

[basinke]

Ooooh this is neat!

[elfwreck]

Nice!

For those wondering “why don’t you just read the ingredients”: Even if you trust the ingredient list, you don’t know which “natural flavors” were used, and you may not know where the various chemicals came from. And a lot of people have a hard time reading tiny print, and don’t want to stand in the aisle for five minutes trying to work their way through 95 words of 4-point type.

So glad this exists! We need more ways for people to find the info that’s important to them!

[prismatic-bell]

Is there no halal symbol the way there are kosher symbols? Like literally I can just look for a symbol and know if food is safe for me.

If not….perhaps contact some imams and talk about creating a regulatory board that could arrange one? I’m sure there are rabbis out there who’d be happy to help. (My former rabbi is retired now, but he’s one such rabbi. I know there are more.)

[eye-lantern]

In France a lot of brands use the Hallal certificate (a lot of meat have it in big font on the front size when other items put it in the back next to safety regulation and other basic things) but the Kosher one is rarely ever used outside of Jewish neighbourhoods’ epiceries

[unbidden-yidden-deactivated20240]

I’ve noticed when checking for hechshers that some items (I feel like usually see it on cheese tbh?) have a similar, er, halal hechsher(? there has to be another name for this I just don’t know it) but it’s not ubiquitous like kashrut hechshers are, at least not in the part of the US where I live.

Anecdotally, I attended a break-the-fast event at the local mosque some years back and the people I talked to explained that if something is kosher it is also halal, and we were trying to figure out if the reverse was true. I didn’t know much about either system at the time, so have no idea how true that is or isn’t. If that is true, then it would be lovely to collaborate between our communities.

[18kgold]

There’s tons of overlap – the principles are the same – but there are several divergences. Essentially, *discrete ingredients* overlap at least 90%, but prepared food is a very different matter.

In college, I was in a Kosher-Halal dining co-op. We kept to the strictest possible kosher standards; the members who followed halal guidelines said that met all their requirements. Kosher is much more restrictive, most obviously because there’s no injunction against mixing meat and dairy in Islam. Also, a few animals considered halal are not kosher. Kosher isn’t always halal though: there’s sometimes an extra step in halal ritual slaughter – a prayer before *each animal* is killed, as opposed to before the slaughtering process; and there’s debate about whether foods cooked with alcohol – think vanilla extract – can be halal. (And of course there may be other things I haven’t heard about/encountered).

So, if you pick up something with a hechsher it is far more likely to be halal than something without, but it’s not a guarantee. Conversely, a cheeseburger could be halal, so it’s much less of a possibility for someone keeping kosher to rely on halal certification.

It ends up looking a lot like the practical overlap between, say, keeping kosher and ovo-lacto vegetarian; vegetarianism covers and/or negates most issues that come up with keeping kosher, but there are details (generally involving dairy, eggs, and the parve status of fish) that can be missed in either direction.