#I also cook and clean(mostly)

[dungeons-and-dragon-age]

Hiii everyone, say, how do your Hawkes go go about sharing their estate? If they do it at all? Is everyone free to come and go or are they more private? Or do they only invite their LI to stay? I'm curious!! :)

[bright-and-burning]

please tell me being an adult gets easier

[kyouka-supremacy]

Failed a social interaction 0 injured 1 killed (me)

[sagehaubitze]

I made kheer (rice pudding) with leftover coconut rice and a bunch of date pieces and nuts, and like... ohh boy it falls into the danger zone of feeling like I'm eating very rich oatmeal and I'm questioning if I can just eat a bowl of this and claim it's dinner

(do not just eat dessert for dinner please)

[trujellyfish]

its 10pm. i can either lie in bed for 4 hours reading fanfic til i finally slip into sleep

or i can play the outer worlds until i pass out on the couch....................

[lightblueminecraftorchid]

i want to finish my research methods paper or study for my neuroanatomy exam tmr but my body is loudly demanding that I be vertical. slightly problematic as I need to eat a meal today. which I have neglected to do as of yet. but standing up to do that feels like it would Drain My Life Force.

[rubiesintherough]

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[ashenberry]

damn was replaying ieytd1 and Jared mason has gotten way more comfortable in the handler role it’s nice to hear

[nostalgia-tblr]

i don't dislike the idea that either or both of loki and sylvie can cook, i just think it's a very optimistic take

[pumpking64]

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[dyna-myght]

My legs hurt and I feel like I’m gonna throw up but I also haven’t felt this exhilarated with an activity in a while.

[vast-and-meaningless]

Hate how it just. Never ends. Just keeps on going.

[inkskinned]

I have to FAQ this post for once bc i got too many questions on it but genuinely wasn't expecting this gritty slush from my childhood to garner so many notes so like

yes, we had that much vanilla onhand. we often had huge amounts of staples at home bc in order to save whatever she could, my mom would order in bulk from places like costco and restaurant supply. also, we obviously were like. gonna use it. like you can tell she wasn't so much surprised as disappointed.

u can also tell it's real because the sibling knowledge "our mom wouldn't care if we used 3 cups of vanilla as long as we weren't WASTING it" seemed like a loophole we could exploit despite the fact that:

yes, this made us very very very sick. i didn't include it in the first post in case it gave ppl the Ick. so trigger warning for the rest of this bullet point (skip ahead to next for emetophobia) but i know we all threw up and i distinctly remember throwing up for like 2 days after. i will not go too into detail but. minty :/

"how did you not die" remember we split it, & i do not believe it was EVENLY split. i cannot promise we finished all of it, i do know we drank way more than we should have once we started getting sick. again, this was bc we were worried we would get in trouble for wasting it and yet:

we did (correctly) get in trouble for wasting it. my mom pretty much never got mad without good reason and this one was. a really good reason. we got SUPER in trouble. she STILL brings this up at every occurrence vanilla extract is being discussed, & no, she is (rightfully) NOT over the use of CUPS

yes there are three of us. out of all the ways i've had to explain myself on a post, being like "i am one of my brother's 2 little sisters did you forget middle children exist" is the most middle child answer i've ever concocted.

i cannot believe im saying this but to the people saying they're going to try this: do not try this. it was not meant to be a symbol of courage and a cinnamon challenge callback. i think i only survived bc our guardian angels covered god's eyes. i had the robust and forgiving liver and body of a child and this still nigh about wiped me clean off the face of this planet. most of us on this site are at an age where we throw our back out while sneezing. listen to me. i know you think it would be funny. i want you to understand fire lizards inhabited my alveoli. my flesh damn almost became soup.

This place is not a place of honor... no highly esteemed deed is commemorated here... nothing valued is here.....

ps. while this post would lead u to believe otherwise. we were actually all very grateful for the unrestricted access to the staples and in general extremely respectful of the kitchen and of food. all 3 of us are now pretty good cooks & bakers bc we had practiced skills early and were not generally a menace to humanity. although now that i'm writing this i am remembering that in like 2019 for thanksgiving our outdoor activity was competitive firebreathing which none of us had ever done before & the only form of safety was my dad standing by with our garden hose. i am realizing maybe too-often my life is just. choices made with the confidence of 3 grown siblings who all have now-officially-diagnosed "clinically extreme" ADHD

probably time for this story i guess but when i was a kid there was a summer that my brother was really into making smoothies and milkshakes. part of this was that we didn't have AC and couldn't afford to run fans all day so it was kind of important to get good at making Cool Down Concoctions.

we also had a patch of mint, and he had two impressionable little sisters who had the attitude of "fuck it, might as well."

at one point, for fun, this 16 year old boy with a dream in his eye and scientific fervor in heart just wanted to see how far one could push the idea of "vanilla mint smoothie". how much vanilla extract and how much mint can go into a blender before it truly is inedible.

the answer is 3 cups of vanilla extract, 1/2 cup milk alternative, and about 50 sprigs (not leaves, whole spring) of mint. add ice and the courage of a child. idk, it was summer and we were bored.

the word i would use to describe the feeling of drinking it would maybe be "violent" or perhaps, like. "triangular." my nose felt pristine. inhaling following the first sip was like trying to sculpt a new face. i was ensconced in a mesh of horror. it was something beyond taste. for years after, i assumed those commercials that said "this is how it feels to chew five gum" were referencing the exact experience of this singular viscous smoothie.

what's worse is that we knew our mother would hate that we wasted so much vanilla extract. so we had to make it worth it. we had to actually finish the drink. it wasn't "wasting" it if we actually drank it, right? we huddled around outside in the blistering sun, gagging and passing around a single green potion, shivering with disgust. each sip was transcendent, but in a sort of non-euclidean way. i think this is where i lost my binary gender. it eroded certain parts of me in an acidic gut ecology collapse.

here's the thing about love and trust: the next day my brother made a different shake, and i drank it without complaint. it's been like 15 years. he's now a genuinely skilled cook. sometimes one of the three of us will fuck up in the kitchen or find something horrible or make a terrible smoothie mistake and then we pass it to each other, single potion bottle, and we say try it it's delicious. it always smells disgusting. and then, cerimonious, we drink it together. because that's what family does.

[weaselle]

i had to make a solution for this for myself, mostly because of depression, but it makes a nice How To for folks who are low on spoons or could use some help in the kitchen.

Fortunately i was a professional cook for over a decade. UNfortunately the first post i made explaining it was suuuuper long. Let's see if i can do better

So you select any protein that you can cook in a frying pan -- chicken breasts, ground beef, pork chops, sausages, steak, chicken thighs, whatever. You also select one or two types of veggie (mushrooms or tubers also work, i just did this with potatoes and carrots for dinner tonight).

[i like cooking for vegetarians, but this is how i cook for myself when i'm low on spoons - perhaps i'll do another post for meatless meals]

You'll also need some kind of oil, and a sauce or two of your choice in a bottle. All cooking gear is a large frying pan with lid (i prefer non-stick) a spatula, a cutting board, and a knife.

You cut the veggies into bite size pieces, cut up enough for two meals. One kind of veggie is fine, or you can do mix two or three

Put frying pan on medium heat with a little oil. Tubers or mushrooms or go in the pan a few minutes before the protein. 2 portions of the protein goes in the pan, about 5 minutes with lid (don't worry you can still get a good sear on both sides)

Now flip your protein if it's flip-able and add normal veggies, put the lid back on another five-ish minutes.

Take your protein out and put it with one portion of the veggies in a microwave safe container. That's going to be your lunch tomorrow. Put the other portion of protein on a plate to rest (you have to let a cooked protein sit a couple minutes before you serve it or when you cut into it all the juices run out and it goes dry - the liquids thicken as it cools, preventing this drying out if you let it rest, the goal is to serve it very warm but not hot hot)

While it's resting, pour some sauce from your bottle in the pan with the rest of the veggies and turn up the heat. A single sauce/bottle is fine, i like to get fancy and mix a couple. Two examples of personal favorite mixes are 1: bbq sauce and a hot sauce like sriracha 2: roughly equal parts low sodium soy sauce and worcestershire (makes something similar to a teriyaki sauce) A swallow of wine is almost always a great option if you want to add that to your sauce too, just add it to the pan before the other sauces so the alcohol has time to burn off.

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Here is the important bit. While your veggies are finishing, wash your cutting board and chef knife. Then when you dump your veggies and sauce over your protein on the plate, while it is still too hot to eat, you wash your frying pan and spatula before you eat. Now the only dishes you have left to do are your plate and fork. Maybe a steak knife.

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The whole thing takes about 35 minutes even with washing the dishes, and that includes your lunch for the next day- just pour a different sauce on and stick it in the microwave for a couple minutes (or five minutes back in the frying pan) and you have a full healthy lunch with a different flavor

You can use this technique every single meal and it yields hundreds of combinations, from pork and potatoes bbq, to salmon and broccoli teriyaki, to chicken and zucchini in a soy glaze.

It will keep you down to less than an hour of kitchen time per day total for both lunch and dinner including all dish clean up, uses the least dishes, the least effort, requires the least technique, and is, depending on what you pick out, very affordable

here are a couple more examples from this month; i didn’t take pictures of the salmon i did recently, but you get the idea

it's not super fancy, but it is easy, affordable, quick, and any flavors you want. Hope this helps some folks

Happy Cooking!

[ashtcnirwin]

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[confused-alpaca]

i cant keep living w my parents its killing me. but. living on my own would also kill me