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Chicken thighs stuffed with nduja and pan fried (before finishing off in the oven). Roasted cauliflower florets with the greens boiled quickly. An easy sauce made with the water from the greens, a splash of wine, and the pan juices from the chicken. A chimichurri made with wild garlic, basil, pickled piri piri chillies, olive oil, and salt.
It tasted absolutely brilliant. Full of zing and flavour. Sauce could have been thicker and glossier or reimagined as a dressing.
Roasted mutton loin in a shallot gravy, with roast potatoes and steamed purple-sprouting broccoli
At the gate for my flight home from visiting friends and there's a woman here with a service Shiba Inu. No pics because he has a Do Not Disturb vest and taking pics of strangers is illegal but I need to stress how ON DUTY this animal is. Ears up. Eyes doing Lazer scans of everything. Examining everyone who passes within 10ft like a security guard. Ass planted on her feet. I have never seen a dog with such intense chivalric guardian energy before. He has tiny eyebrows and they are FURROWED with concentration.
Man behind me having unhinged phone conversation. There is an internationally famous dairy in the area I was visiting and he was commissioned by the lady on the other end of the phone to collect specific cheeses from there. The lady is very high strung about the type and condition of the cheese.
The man does not know from cheese. The man "ain't never seen no cheese but orange before" and "I showed ya list to the cheese lady so if it's wrong it's her fault ok?"
I am 80% sure she sent him there for a really specific bleu cheese, 40% sure he does not have the very specific bleu cheese, and 100% sure he's done with her shit.
Our flight is delayed.
He does not have the cheeses in a cooler, just a regular backpack.
I need to emphasize that there is no cooler bag in the backpack. He has Jansport backpack that is jam-packed with cheeses. There is apparently $405 dollars worth of cheeses in that backpack, which I know because he has been trying to get the lady to venmo him the expense, which she has failed to do. It is unclear whether his relation to the lady is romantic, familial or what, but I'm leaning towards "what".
Two more people have joined us. One is a very elegant man with a perfect manicure in a tailored business suit, the other is a neon-haired person of indeterminate gender wearing a fox kirigumi. The Shiba Inu has been staring at the latter for three minutes now.
Uh oh.
Cheese man has been demanding payment because apparently he went like six hours out of his way and paid with his own money and between the cheese and price of gas, he is pretty sure he does not have enough money in his account for an Uber home.
The lady is FLABBERGASTED that he is demanding payment at all, as she was under the impression he was doing this for her out of the goodness of his heart.
He's not having it. He's insisting she told him she would pay him back- he would have gotten her maybe one cheese somewhere closer to his business in the area out of love, but he went out of his way because she agreed to pay him costs+ extra to cover it.
HE RECORDED THE CONVERSATION IN WHICH SHE PROMISED TO PAY FOR THE CHEESE, SHE'S THAT MUCH OF A FLAKE.
I am about to offer this man cash for some of these cheeses because our flight is now more delayed.
"YOU ALWAYS DO THIS! YOU ALWAYS DO THIS AND I FALL FOR IT EVERY TIME! NO! NO! FUCK YOU! IF YOU'RE NOT GONNA PAY ME, YOU DON'T GET FANCY CHEESE."
"OR ELSE WHAT?"
"I'm gonna-? THE BABY SHOWER? MONICA CAN'T EVEN HAVE THIS CHEESE SHE'S PREGNANT!"
"The cheese lady asked if it was for someone because the mushrooms or whatever in the cheese are dangerous for the baby or something?? You wanna poison Monica?"
"WHY WOULD I LIE ABOUT THAT?"
"YEAH OF COURSE I GOT THE CHEESE, THATS WHY I DON'T GOT MONEY FOR UBER!"
"YEAH, GO TELL! GO TELL MOMMA I STOPPED YOUR STUPID ASS FROM KILLING MONICA OR THE BABY! FUCK!"
*hangs up phone*
*head in hands, borderline hyperventilating*
The man in the three piece suit is in the chair next to him. He waits a moment, then reaches into his carryon and pulls out an entire bottle of wine with the TSA pre check sticker on it, and taps cheese guy on the shoulder.
"If your friend doesn't want it, would you be amenable to having it right now?"
Naturally, I have volunteered my box of wheat thins and offered to buy one of the harder cheeses which should be fine if it makes it home.
Meanwhile, Kirigumi has noticed that the Shiba Inu is staring at her and is correctly intimidated.
1. This is some fucking great Camembert. I have compensated cheese guy accordingly. So have like six other people. He's recouped like half his losses.
2. Cheese guy is crying a little about the cash and opening up about his problems. The cheese lady is his younger sister. Suit guy is being very generous with his Pinot Blanc. We are having a picnic/improv family therapy session.
3. This is apparently the latest in a long string of his sister asking for something and then flaking when he asks to be paid back. Started with paying him back only some of what he was owed, then claiming something she paid for him was of equal value when it was not, then recently telling him his memory is wrong and he said it was a gift or that he'd do it for free.
"Yeah, the specific thing of trying to convince you your memory is unreliable is called gaslighting and it's really fucked up." I say
"yeeeeah. The other stuff I forgave because she's never really had a good job so she can't pay me back all the time but at least she was making an effort y'know? But that was. That was over the line."
"If you haven't already, check on the rest of your family's finances. My brother started trying to gaslight everyone when he started stealing from our parents." Says Pinot Blanc.
4. Shiba Inu Lady has purchased a cheddar. Apparently, the dog's name is Donut, and he's her service dog because she's severely visually impaired.
"Oh, he's a guide dog?" Asks cheese guy.
"oh, no." She laughs. "He's too short, and the way my eyes are, it's easier for me to navigate with a cane. No, the problem I have is that some morally impaired people see the cane and think they can get away with stealing my bag or assaulting me because I wouldn't be able to give a description- which is wrong, but rather than deal with that I got Donut, and he helps me by howling at anyone who gets in my personal space and biting anyone who grabs me!"
"Uh." Says Kirigumi. "He's been staring at me do I need to back up or..?"
"Ohdear! No, no- He wasn't looking at you! He loves cheese but he knows he's not supposed to beg so he decided the way to deal with something he wants but can't have is to stare in the other direction."
"OKAY!" Says Kirigumi. "I'm wearing fox pajamas and thought like. He thought I was another dog or something."
"No, no- he doesn't care about dogs, and you get a warning before he goes for the calves. Very helpful, when I was living in Italy!"
"Oh what part? I have family in Tuscany." Says Pinot.
"Does he want a cheese? There is still so much cheese." Says cheese guy.
Plane may be arriving. I am paying for in flight WiFi to keep y'all updated.
1. Cheese guy has sold all but two or three cheeses that he an Pinot are going to eat on the flight.
2. I know they're planning to continue because Pinot talked to the gate agent so he and cheese guy can sit together and talk about family drama and cheese.
3. Pinot has been teaching him about different types of cheese and how to enjoy them.
4. Cheese guy apparently repairs computers and other technology devices for a living and is currently doing the software version of scraping barnacles and other crap off Pinot'macbook.
5. Pinot is now convinced that cheese guy is the smartest and most interesting man in the world.
Food Fun Facts for dad types!!!
•Adding butter or cheese or salt or whatever to your veggies so that you like them doesn’t change the nutritional content you get from said veggies.
•Additional calories eaten don’t negate the healthy benefits of food. And, stay with me here, low calorie foods are not more morally pure than high calorie foods.
•If making a food more palatable by adding butter (or whatever) is the make-or-break for someone to actually eat the vegetable, then the Brussel sprouts with butter are FUCKING HEALTHIER for you than the Brussel sprouts you don’t eat. A salad with ranch dressing is healthier for you than the dry greens you don’t eat. A sandwich with cheese and mayo is more healthy than the plain sandwich you don’t eat. The strawberry with whipped cream is more healthy than the strawberry you don’t eat.
•We actually don’t have to buy the bullshit that food that makes us happy or tastes good is less healthy.
My parents grew up with Vegetable Trauma (i.e., were frequently forced to eat food they despised or be sent to bed hungry). As an adult, my mother made a valiant effort to reintroduce veg into her own diet. She never forced me to eat anything but she always offered me things to try – specifically steamed broccoli (a food she had not been traumatized by).
At 7 years old, I knew raw broccoli was nasty (to me, ymmv ofc) and I fucking loathed the smell of cooked broccoli. But I knew putting cheese on broccoli was A Thing so I told her, repeatedly, “I will try cooked broccoli if you let me put cheese on it.”
Her response was always the same: “That defeats the purpose. If you put cheese on it, it’s not healthy anymore.”
As a result, I didn’t eat broccoli til I was in college and decided, yes, this is Good, with or without cheese. (And then I discovered roasted broccoli with sausage and pasta, but that’s neither here nor there.)
Even now, I can say to her, “But Ma! A fat source actually helps you absorb more nutrients from fruits and veggies!” And she will flat-out refuse to believe me.
Anyway, kids, like OP says, make your food taste good, you’re not going to make broccoli or Brussels sprouts less healthy by adding cheese, especially if a lack of cheese (or butter, or w/e) means you just don’t eat the thing at all.
Grouse. I split the bird in two and then cooked it in the sous vide at 83°c for a couple of hours before finishing it in the pan. The potato is roasted with rosemary. The kale was steamed and then finished in the grouse pan, with some wine added and some creme fraiche.
Part One! Two witches are forced to cohabitate in order to raise the baby promised to both of them.
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Look at this lovely comic!!!
You are trapped in an elevator with the person on your lockscreen. Who is it?
Reblog with who you get stuck with~
I think I could live with that
Making a Chinese lacquerware bracelet
song: 兰亭序 - 周杰伦
English added by me :)
Watching someone skilled making something beautiful is just nice. We need more nice.
Neurotypicals will be like “I know you have a disability that affects your ability to stay organized, manage your time properly, socialize, or control what you’re able to think about or focus on, but that’s not an excuse to have trouble staying organized, managing your time properly, socializing, or controlling what you need to think about or focus on.” And then demand that they aren’t ableist. I’m tired.
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keep seeing Temu ads on here so just to share cause idk if people are widely aware
Pigeon breast with roasted carrots, mushroom gravy, and mashed potato. Not pictured: rocket and chives fresh from @emmsok13 's parents' garden.
Wonderful birthday dinner at Edinburgh's Little Chartroom. Beautiful little treacle soda breads, oysters sitting in a little Arbroath Smokie dashi, a ham and cheddar rarebit sat on a crumpet with assorted pickles, asparagus and confit egg yolks partnered by a roast chicken hollandaise, and merguez sausages and chargrilled tenderstem broccoli with broad beans in a green goddess dressing. Not pictured: a blueberry pannacotta with honeycomb that we ate before we remembered to document it.
You eat in what is not a huge space but even though you are right next to a road, and though there is a buzz of conversation all around you and music playing, the acoustics have been managed so you can just talk at normal volume.
I had a view to the kitchen where they were barbecuing and plating. What surprised me the most about my enjoyment of the evening was watching them clear down at the end of service. Professionals doing something well is something that never gets old.
So here is to another (at least?) 45 years of eating, especially if I get to share them with my wonderful partner in crime (who took the photos because her camera is a lot better than mine). I hope that you all get to eat something special on your special days this year.
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Just assuming old people will be a small percentage. I will redo if I am wrong.
Roast pork shoulder (saddleback from East Fortune Farm) with purple sprouting broccoli and roast potatoes. Sauces are apple and a sort of mustard gravy with leeks and carrots.
