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Tried cracking an egg directly into the pot of boiling ramen instead of taking time to boil one separately.

The short noodle cook time meant it was more like a poached egg, but it was still good.

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Ground turkey tacos.

Right after Thanksgiving turkeys went massively on sale and thanks to the new freezer I got over the summer I was able to take advantage of it. I bought 8 turkeys for less than the pack of toilet paper I also bought that shopping trip and as needed defrost and grind one up with my stand mixer attachment.

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Today's lunch is a bowl of miso soup with a turkey sandwich. This weekend I took a trip to a local bakery for breakfast and got a city loaf to enjoy this week. Better bread really does a lot for a sandwich.

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Toasted sandwich with turkey, cheddar cheese, avocado, tomato, and mayo. And some leftover miso soup from dinner the night before.

I always love making sandwiches with toppings but man keeping the kitchen stocked for it feels annoying sometimes.

This week though I happened to score three avocados for 99 cents out of the discount vegetable bin. No idea why they were in there they weren't even fully ripe yet. But with the cost of avocados lately it was an absolute steal.

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An easy one pan baked chicken, potatoes, and green beans meal.

From this recipe

https://therecipelife.com/italian-chicken-green-beans-and-potatoes/#recipe

Italian seasoning packets provide the seasoning and it's always better than I expect it to be.

I only needed to bake mine 45 minuted instead of an hour and used Yukon gold potatoes.

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many cooking videos have those gimmicks like "$5 ramen vs $50 ramen" or "elevating your cooking" where the only thing they emphasize is using stupidly expensive ingredients. it's discouraging when you're an aspiring chef on a budget getting told the key is to just spend more money.

well my advice is that you look at some of the techniques they use on the "fancy" ingredients and literally just use them on your cheap ingredients. maybe you aren't deglazing your pan with fancy wine, but a splash of water will work. making a stew, cook the meat and onions first THEN add are the other ingredients. use both minced garlic and garlic powder together for a more complex garlic flavor. toast your dollar store spices. people have been making delicious cheap foods for thousands of years by understanding these tricks.

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Egg roll in a bowl. A relatively quick and easy dish that can be made with a lot of variation.

This one was made with carrot, cabbage, ground turkey, and a teriyaki sauce. But typical recipes for it include carrot, ground pork, cabbage, seasonings like garlic, ginger, and soy sauce. I start by with making a basic teriyaki sauce out of water, soy sauce, brown sugar, ginger powder, garlic powder, corn starch slurry, and a squeeze of honey.

While the sauce is cooking I start a pot of rice cooking then brown the ground meat and add the carrot to it once it's mostly cooked. After that I add in shredded cabbage along with a little water to generate steam, then put a lid on it to get the cabbage to wilt down quickly. When the cabbage is cooked down I add the teriyaki sauce and then crack some eggs into a corner of the pan to scramble. During the whole process I usually end up seasoning with salt, pepper, and more ginger and garlic powder to taste and then serve over top of white rice.

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Definitely not a good looking dish, but for how quick and little cleanup it was it's getting a card for an easy weeknight meal.

Dressed greens and tuna pasta with lemon sauce.

Referencing this recipe

https://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/tuna-lemon-and-caper-sauce-15310

I personally left out the capers and instead of adding olive oil just didn't drain the oil from the canned tuna. I also didn't bother with any of the extra heating instructions just mixed and added to the pasta once drained. Next time I make it I'll probably just add everything straight into the drained pasta instead of mixing in a separate bowl like I did this time.

Now don't get me wrong it wasn't a mind blowing dish, but it was quick, easy, cheap, and I'm still happy to eat the leftovers. Though the smell from the tuna was definitely strong it's certainly not a microwave at the office dish.

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Chicken Cesar tacos since I didn't have tortillas big enough to do a full wrap.

Frozen chicken patties are such a convenient item to have in the freezer. Cut up they go perfect on top of lots of different things like macaroni, salads, and in wraps, but when I don't have the energy to even put that together theyre good on their own or on bread.

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French toast with breakfast sausage and acorn squash for dinner.

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French toast with breakfast sausage and acorn squash for dinner.

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embracing the patterned ambiguity of gender and sex as more or less social constructs can grant you so much more precision in thinking about so many concepts in science.

like, if there was a study (and I'm just making this up as an example) showing women suffer from mosquito bites more than men do

you could do the ~"Gender Critical"~ thing and go "see!? mosquitoes get it!!"

OR

you could go "that's interesting" and start asking more questions, like:

is this data self-reported? controlled?

were they studying the women or the mosquitoes?

did the study use methods that would let you tell the difference between "being bitten more often" and "noticing bites more often"?

did the study include any trans people and were their results any different? if yes were they on HRT or not?

how similar were the men and women in aspects other than gender? do we know their social class, jobs, diets, blood types?

because in fact the study i made up just then could lead to a huge variety of conclusions. from my description above you can't tell the difference between studies that show:

mosquitoes are attracted to people with higher estrogen levels

mosquitoes are opportunistic and women spend more time near mosquito habitats for sociocultural reasons

every gender gets bitten about the same amount but men are socialised to pay less attention to physical discomfort so more of them don't notice minor bites compared to women (and by more we mean like 60-40, this is a bell curve thing)

we accidentally got heaps of women in the study that have the mosquito's favourite blood type and not so for the men, oops

mosquitoes are attracted to people with more x and y in their diets, which is currently mostly women for, again, largely sociocultural reasons

etc etc etc

you're just not going to understand actual Gender Science, and therefore reality, if you can't put "hmm, but what do they mean by woman this time" in your mental toolkit in a relatively neutral way.

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EXCUSE ME THERE IS A PLANT THAT CAN MIMIC FAKE PLANTS?????

IT'S CALLED A BOQUILA TRIOFOLIOLATA AND IT'S FUCKING WITH MY BRAIN

IT APPARENTLY CAN MIMIC OTHER PLANTS AND AT FIRST I WAS LIKE "oh cool man it must take it's genetic code and copy it or feel the roots or something like that!! :3"

AND THEN I READ AN ARTICLE ON IT AND THESE FUCKING PARAGRAPHS HIT ME LIKE A BUS

LIKE READ THIS SHIT

WHAT THE FUCK MOTHER NATURE

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was talking to my gf about my fear of dying young for being trans and my mom putting my deadname on my gravestone, and she said "i hope that never happens, but if it does, i will carve your name into your grave myself if i have to." and i think theres something extremely raw about that sentiment and trans community in general. you can kill only our bodies, but you cant kill transsexuality

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Sausage, spinach, cheddar Quiche!

My first time making pie crust from scratch too and it turned out fantastic.

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Lamb chops, baked potato, and zucchini for dinner tonight

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Crock pot cranberry chili meatballs over mashed potatoes