#And cashews. But I don't care about them lol.

[albino-parakeet]

Everytime I get poison ivy, I curse the plant to high heaven. But I have to remind myself each time.

Without Poison Ivy, we wouldn't have pistachios and mangos.

[radianttulsibabe]

Since I was asked about if I like to bake, and baking generally requires eggs, which my household generally only eats if they are gifted for us or we are caring for chickens with excess egg production- I will share how I make kheer- we usually have the ingredients for kheer. As both my husband and I come from cattle families we consume a good amount of milk in our home. We either get the milk from a local dairy or at the local market. One of our house cats is from a dairy farm- cows, goats, and sheep are a very large piece of our life together.

I like things simple- Many parts of my day require my full attention, so when I do cook, I tend to only make simple foods. Kheer is one of those simple foods that I personally enjoy.

This is how I make kheer- everyone is different, every region makes it a little differently. My mom would make it for me this way, so this is how I make it-but everyone's mom probably makes it a little different, that doesn't make your kheer or my kheer any less authentic it just makes it special to your family.

Ingredients:

cooked rice (left over or fresh...I usually use leftover from dinner because I typically make kheer in the middle of the night...so ours usually has cumin in it...but you do what ever you do it's not an exact science)

Milk

Ghee or regular butter

Sugar or Jaggery or whatever sweetener you choose

When I do measure, I scale that to the amount of rice so 1c rice is 1c milk 1 c sugar 1 TB Ghee (usually more but I go conservative on typed recipes because I usually find the hubsy eating it on the sofa when I am looking for it...)...but also we don't always have one cup of everything because I don't always keep the pantry in my kitchenette stocked for middle of the night emergencies and I generally don't want to go to storage in my nightrobe to get the bigger bags/boxes opened...so just do what feels right...make sure the ghee doesn't smoke and the rice doesn't burn and you should be fine.

extras to add if you want:

cashews, almonds, raisins, amla, fresh berries, coconut, a couple saffron strands (if you can afford/you want to be extra fancy)

Instructions:

in a sauce pot add ghee and the cooked rice

warm up the ghee and rice until the rice is covered in ghee

add milk

mix in the sugar until it feels right (?) I don't know I just do it lol

Sometimes I like it more solid, sometimes I like it a little more runny it's all good so whatever you like. My mom was super methodical and made it the same every time when I was growing up. It was also the same consistency somewhere between sticky rice and creamy. but I'm a bit more go with the flow and don't use instructions so I'm generally happy with all styles. We have friends that put vermicelli in theirs and it's more soupy and that's super tasty too.

Once it's the consistency you like, take it off the heat and mix in the extras if you have them/want them. serve hot or let it cool honestly it's good both ways...I like mine with fresh fruit that's in season but that's only if it's in season.

As far as shelf life, I don't even know how long it stores because it's usually gone before we can put it into the chiller...at the market they say fresh and chilled can last a week. there is also frozen you can buy but that feels wrong to me...frozen kheer? idk it just doesn't sit right... @cybertimetravelrunaway teases me every time he sees it that I should buy the frozen for kheer emergencies and I never know what to say except probably we shouldn't do that because frozen is confusing to me...so maybe don't freeze it just eat it and be happy or not happy- whatever you want to be, but I've never been angry eating kheer so maybe it will help your depression too! Just remember to eat with moderation. We love our pancreases and appreciate that they provide us with the insulin we need to keep our bodies strong. We want to build healthy food habits for the future so we can live long lives. Eating adequate protein with our carbohydrates helps us to keep a balanced blood sugar and BP :)

If you made it through that and are still sticking around, I'd love to hear about your relationship with kheer! It really is my favorite food- in all its glorious forms- and I love to know how others enjoy it!

Have a lovely start to your week!

<3 Rukmini

[blushblushbear]

sorry..... me again...… you can choose to ignore this if you feel like it's too much

(not trying to guilt-trip you, please don't feel pressured

uh maybe... Nimh? Nimh is cute I like Nimh

if you don't feel like doing him, maybe Poe or Anon?

*blows the dust off this ask* oops this one's pretty old

I already did Nimh so Anon and Poe it is

Anon

Okay not to call the scott a drunk

but I'm about to call the scott a drunk

he's not too bad, but he is a little picky about what he will and will not drink

low key judges people for their choice of beers

side eyes people who order basically liquid candy as a drink (for a cocktail at least, he will rot his teeth on mountain dew don't get it twisted)

he mostly does pints but his fav mixed drink is a moscow mule

or a spiked energy beverage

speaking of drinks he always has a crazy amount of them

g-fuel, red bull, monster-- every energy drink type thing you've seen he's probably got

also drinks prime

also mountain dew

a lot of it

I joke about his teeth rotting but in all honesty he takes good care of them

that's the one gamer stereotype he does not fall in town

he's low key germophobic so his apartment and battle station are SPOTLESS

he defo has those touchland hand sanitizers cause he's a boujee bitch

speaking of boujee he's actually p well off

started trading stocks young and did crypto till it tanked

he doesn't like to talk about his crypto days (he was a hard crypto bro at it's peak)

usually his drunk rambles are about crypto

also conspiracy theories

also video games

his parents are decently well off too but he doesn't talk to them much

they don't have a bad relationship but it's definitely one of those 'you see the family only around the holidays' kind of deals

he has a lot of internet buds but I think deep down he's bad at making real connections and actually gets pretty lonely

likes watching animal videos, WOULD NOT get a pet

rarely has people over to his place, took him a while to fully mentally accept having you over

he was determined to get over it though cause he really wanted you around

would never shower with someone cause that just feels unsanitary-- the shower is for CLEANING

would maybe get a snake-- they're pretty clean

once went 3 days without sleeping

actually lost a lot of sleep to stardew valley when it first came out

his farm is AMAZING

loves to troll at video games but not in a run face first into the enemy team and ruin it for everyone kinda way

more a does a 360 no scope on you right when you think you're safe

you mad bro??? lol

sends lots of memes about liking his s/o cause he's really bad at saying how he feels

favorite director is Edgar Wright cause he's a man of taste and culture

regularly cleans and buffs his nails

has at least one to two drinks chilling in every room of the house

really wants to get an ear piercing

really vain about his looks even though he dresses like garbage

just tell him he's handsome, he's legit too proud to beg but he needs that validation

listens to a lot of underground bands and artists

also a lot of djs

owns 15 pairs of headphones

5 have animal ears

showers at least once a day unless he's in a gaming trance

once tried to write you poetry, felt like an idiot, removed all evidence of it's existence and would deny it fully if you ever found out

Poe

Probably not a surprise to anyone but he got bullied a lot in high school

Has been writing poetry since he was 10 and has notebooks full of poems and short stories from over his life

really wants to write some kind of vampire mystery series centered around a brooding poet vampire but also he's bad at writing mysteries

I've sad this before but he's in a book club with Nimh and Cashew

he keeps trying to get them to read romantic novels

Cashew was game until he realized Poe meant like Lord Byron romantic

Mary Shelley Romantic

thinks Mary Shelley losing her virginity on her mother's grave is the coolest thing ever and is high key jealous

Mary Shelley is honestly his hero

secretly got addicted to soap operas

he wants to stop so bad but he can't

he doesn't have a pet but if he did he'd be that dude you can totally tell has a pet cause he's always covered in fur

not that Poe would even care

Poe actually never much cared for birds and is still salty about becoming a magpie

owns so many Victorian/Edwardian style coats

and vests

he's just one color palette/slight aesthetic change away from just being steampunk

owns so many bits of jewelry, it mostly just floats around his living spaces and he chooses what he's wearing that day at random

all the people who headcanon Poe as trans, you're correct

constantly painting his nails and it's always chipping

his nail polish is actually pretty jank but he doesn't care so long as his nails are black

his living spaces are a mess

lots of papers, lots of random odds and ends, lots of clothes and book and forgotten mugs everywhere

does actually partake in the music aspect of the goth culture

most of his fav bands are ones you haven't heard of

he doesn't actually like horror much

at least not this modern jumpscare nonsense

he likes his horror dark, dramatic, and poetically gorey

Saw??? more like pa-shaw he can't stand those movies

the closest thing he gets to liking more mainstream horror franchises is Chucky

Tiffany Valentine is his favorite (*jennifer tilly voice* ~Jennifer Tilly~)

he can always get down with halloween, but only the first one

he can fuck with Tim Burton and Guillermo Del Toro though

crimson peak is his shit

also Jane Austen bitch?!

he loves him some Jane Austen

Emily Dickinson

Mary Shelley obvs

he low key hates to be basic but fucking

read Emily Dickinson's poetry and tell him you're not simping

he legit does simp for Shelley and Dickinson

legit loves the Kira Knightly Pride and Prejudice will all his heart

Sylvia Plath

He's trying so hard not to be basic but he loves Wednesday Addams

that line about her being allergic to colors--- he felt that

regularly listens to sounds of rain and fireplaces

ye I think I'll end it here lol XD

[krysta-cross]

MK men as ice cream flavors:

Fujin: Rocky Road - sweet as chocolate, with soft mushy marshmallows and nuts. Just like his personality, he is sweet, caring and soft to people he cares about the most but can be tough to crack like the nuts when it comes to defending them.

Raiden: Mint Chocolate- sweet but you'll taste that tingy mint spice before you appreciate that part. He cares but doesn't openly show it, the cold demeanor isnhis defense but getting close to him will make you discover he isn't that stingy (minty)

Scorpion: Mangoes and Grahams- aside from his favorite color yellow, Hanzo seems like the guy who will enjoy fruit flavors miced with the texture of the crushed grahams like his opponents dusts after he toast them 😆

Sub Zero: Blueberries and Cream- He's cold thats a given but I'm sure grandmaster blueberry ice would still enjoy having ice cream especially now he's friends with toasty 🔥 must keep his cool all the time 😊

Rain: Black Forest- Not so sweet but the cherries make up for it. Rain has this personality and black forest flavor suits him as he might not be sweet but for sure he will try and also cherries are like his royalty ego, he's common like chocolate but cherries makes him special 🍒

Noob Saibot: Dark Chocolate- Cold as death, not so sweet but will still take you for a ride on brainfreeze if you got too much. Perfect flavor not only for his color of choice but his personality as well. Dark chocolate might have a really low sweetness level but it's still sweet.

Erron Black: Pistachios and Cashews- As a cowboy who is a master of the rough roads and dry lands, he will surely enjoy ice cream with many nuts but not overly sweet like this. The crunch on every bite excites him, reminds him of his horse rides on stone riddled rough roads.

Johnny Cage: Cheese- Sounds simple but JC would surely like this as of course he needs to always smile for the camera and paparazzi (lol) also I can see him modeling for an ice cream brand and he would slay the "cheese" part as his life is basically under glitz and glamour.

Kabal: Double dutch- Vanilla with marshmallows and cashews, even though how rough he depicts his personality as, Kabal would still have this soft (marshmallow) side and hard as a rock attitude (cashews). Vanilla isn't really sweet but it has chocolate drizzles that make up for it.

Kano: Licorice- He would definitely enjoy alcohol flavored ice cream, Kano may look like he doesn't even eat one but he is still interested in things that have the flavor of the drinks he likes so he will surely try.

Jax: Vanilla- Jax seems like the man who will enjoy the simple things in life, also having a daughter would make him very familiar with vanilla ice cream as it's commonly sold anywhere and eating it will take him back to his good memories with Jacqui.

Rambo- Cookies and Cream- being a soldier is tough but why cookies and cream? Rambo is tough as a cookie, has battled so many and is the type to sit down and eat ice cream just to reminisce some good times with his comrades. Cookies and cream have both sweetness and rough texture due to the cookies just like him.

These are just random thoughts, don't mind them so much haha I might be inaccurate but that might just mean I haven't tasted much ice cream in my life yet 😆