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potatoquest · 2 days ago

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Pork, Beans, Potatoes

1/6/2025

This isn't what I planned to make or eat for dinner, but I really wanted rice and beans after talking to my mom, hahahah.

I hit the gym today and it always makes me very hungry, and I can't really focus well when I'm hungry, so I'll try to break down how I made these beans as best as I can.

I'm going to consider this a stew.

I never claimed to be a talented photographer, just a guy who likes potatoes.

Recipe:

No recipe from the web, this is a PQ original.

As such, it's probably gonna seem a little chaotic.

What you're about to see is my handy dandy Fucking Throw It All In A Fucking Pot, Baby, The Whole Spice Cabinet (except not the whole spice cabinet, the curry ingredients were mostly left alone, but I've been known to throw a garam masala or 5 chinese spice into this bad boy) method

Ingredients:

Pork chops (I had 3 so I used 3)

Sweet Potato (I used one)

Green Bell Pepper

Whole tomato

Olive Oil

A handful of pearl onions

Red Kidney Beans

Spices: Garlic, ginger, cayenne pepper, oregano, paprika, cumin, salt, black pepper, cilantro, chili powder, garlic powder and onion powder, bonito flakes, tomato paste, miso paste, powdered chicken bouillon, sazon con achiote y culantro

Vinegar of your choice. I poured some from a jar of pickled onions.

Broth & wine of choice. God only knows which one I used.

To save money & time I have a lot of frozen ginger, garlic, and cilantro. I hate chopping these items. So I always have a lot. A little bit of fish oil or bonito flakes + miso paste will bump up any kind of stew.

Cooking Instructions

I popped a cube of frozen ginger, garlic, and cilantro into a pressure cooker along with the roughly chopped bell pepper, tomato, and onions, and all the spices.

I sauteed them until the onions were a little glassy and there were bits sticking to the bottom. At that point I poured in a little broth and wine to unstick the yummy from the bottom of the pot. It was chicken broth and a yummy red wine, I know that much, but use whatever.

So, kill the heat there. We're gonna do the pork now.

You can just throw the porkchops into the pot whole. The instant pot will make it easy to shred later. This is the easy way. It's still pretty tasty.

What I did because I'm a tryhard is I put the pork chops in my cast iron skillet with salt, olive oil, more vinegar, and more wine. (I didn't add too much salt because the stew pot is already pretty salty). I blasted it at the highest setting and flipped so it was brown/black on both sides.

If it looks like it's threatening to get stuck or too hot or whatever, unstick with more broth or wine.

It doesn't need to be fully cooked, you're mainly after that little burnt /fried pork flavor. Throw those chops in the pot. Deglaze the skillet with more broth / throw in some butter if you want and pour that into the pot.

Wash peel and roughly chop a large sweet potato. Put that in the pot.

Open a can of red kidney beans. Put that in the pot.

Pressure cook for 20 minutes or until tatos tender.

Serve with a bowl of rice. Sometimes I also add lentils to the pot; I didn't this time.

Another fun thing to do is stir in a spoonful of plain full fat whole milk yogurt into your bowl after you've served yourself. I like Brown Cow. This is good for most savory dishes ime.

#recipes #potato pictures #Potato Quest 2025

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aggravates · 8 days ago

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my quest for 2025 is to find a singular vegetable i like (not potato)

my issue with them is that they are mostly all very bitter. and i don't fuck with that.

but im eating a salad for the first time in many many years right now. my body may go into shock.

#thoughts

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sonata-ix · 2 years ago

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Rules : Tag 10 (or less) people that you want to get to know better :

Thanks @questing-wulfstan for the tag!

Let's get to the questions :

relationship status : I do not have the spoons

favorite colour : tie between yellow and green

song stuck in my head : Look What You Made Me Do by Taylor Swift (it's a grumpy day)

three favorite food : chocolate, potatoes, cheese

last song listened to : The Man by Taylor Swift (also on my grumpy playlist)

dream trip : a long trip that has a lot to do and see but still time to relax, with good friends and no stress

last thing I googled : star wars celebration 2025

tagging: @dreamlingnation <- does that count LOL

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enjambedlife · 2 days ago

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Goals for 2025

I used to be a little unhealthily into new years' resolutions--the allure of a fresh start is always strong, and I'd fall into the trap of thinking I could wake up on January 1st and be a whole different person. I also had a tendency to set goals that were like "do X thing every day," which meant as soon as I slipped up once, I'd ruined things for the whole year. (Yes, this was back when I was in a severe depressive episode and not managing my anxiety very well, why do you ask.)

Anyway, for the past few years, my tradition has been to wait until the first MBMBaM episode of the year drops, and put in on in the background while doing goal-setting for the year. Makes it a little more fun, and gives me some breathing room since on actual new year's day I'm usually recovering from partying and/or holiday travel. I have a looot of goals for 2025! But here are my ten main ones; I try to go for a mix of Big Important Life Things and stuff that's going to be fun/interesting.

Get a better job: Currently I'm freelancing which means I'm technically employed but in practice it's wicked unstable in terms of how much I'm actually making month-to-month, and I would like that to not be the case! Right now I'm in a dry spell with freelance work, so job-hunting is my full-time job and I'm being so brave about it.

Apply to grad school: For the maybe 2 people who've been following this blog since I made it, you may remember the period of time when this was a studyblr while I was doing an MFA, and then I dropped out due to various life reasons. It's been a couple years and I've thoroughly enjoyed not being in school, and also I really miss it! I'm aiming to get it together to apply to some local grad programs this fall.

Be on top of STI testing: It's one of those things that I've been a little too cavalier about honestly, and while I've gotten lucky so far in terms of not getting sick, I know I should be a responsible adult and actually get tested regularly.

Learn about different cooking oils and smoke points: This one came out of intense Christmas dinner planning with my sibling about the best way to roast potatoes. I'm not working in food service anymore (and hopefully I'll be able to avoid going back) but I still want to keep expanding my cooking knowledge and this feels like a next step for leveling up.

Do @batmanisagatewaydrug's reading bingo: Someone else already put it on Storygraph which is a slay. I want to get back into not only reading, but reading critically, so I'm going to try and write lil reviews of the books I read as well as hitting as many bingos as possible.

Finish first draft of novel: I have a plan I have an outline I have a scene breakdown I have weekly targets to hit surely this will be the year I actually finish a draft (← has never finished anything)

Ride every L line: I just moved to Chicago so this seems like a fun challenge to explore the city more! I use 2, maaaybe 3 lines in my daily life so I'll have to plan little quests to make use of the other ones!

Move to a bigger apartment: contingent on goal 1 of getting a better job, or maybe getting lucky and finding people I could be roommates with (I have the sensibilities of one of those fucked-up shelter dog that needs a home with no other pets or all their hair will fall out from stress) but I am really really hoping I don't have to renew my lease on this shoebox.

Keep in touch with long-distance friends: I made a lot of good friends through my seasonal job that I've now retired from, and I want to be more proactive about staying in touch with everyone since I won't be automatically seeing them every day for 5 months out of the year :(

Improve relationship with social media: This always feels tough because it's not as cut-and-dry as just reducing screen time; I genuinely feel like I get a lot of worthwhile stuff out of social media (see above point about long-distance friendships). I think my focus this year is going to be a) using social media more intentionally, i.e. no mindless scrolling on the instagram explore page, and b) no using my phone as a distraction while doing another task--I want to be able to just watch a TV show without scrolling at the same time.

#k talks #new years resolutions

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paranormal-potatoes · 2 months ago

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about

you can find me on twitch here -> Twitch here is the youtube vod channel -> YouTube here’s my moodboard blog -> blog here’s my AO3 -> link

CURRENT STREAM SCHEDULE

ON HIATUS UNTIL FEBRUARY 2025

Tuesdays 1-?pm EST - Moon Mystery short break to play Buddy Simulator 1984

Saturdays 1-?pm EST - Minecraft

21+

I block empty blogs. if you don’t have an icon or blog title or anything to indicate you’re a real person and not a bot, I’m going to block and report you. if you’re a real person, I’m sorry about that but I implore you to at least put “lurker” in your bio. something to say you’re real

call me Will, Eli or potato idc

he/they

queer masc nb

currently crying about Outer Wilds and Bloodborne

currently on a ????????? kick

ask me about literally anything idc as long as you’re civil about it

feel free to babble in my inbox about something you love or are enjoying

I have a writing/art blog (its just moodboards tho)

some tags! (now with links!!)

if you want to look at cute things check out my cute tag (literally just #cute tag)

if you need a laugh look at #laugh tag or #for bad days

my own text posts are tagged with #potato talks, feel free to rb them as long as they aren’t tagged with #personal

DEFINITELY feel free to ask about my ocs

my various (unfinished or general musing) writings are tagged with #potato writes fic

stuff that’s just dialogue is #potato writes dialogue

finished stuff goes in the tag #potatoes finished fics

I also have a crafts tag #potato does crafts (and more specifically, if you want to see a cool glow in the dark dragon I’ve been embroidering for the last few years go to #the dragon)

if you’re on mobile, you can find all these tags in the search bar, I have them as my recommended tags

Various writing things under the cut (tags to be added later when i'm not falling asleep)

current OCs I am on my Bullshit™ about:

Lunu (Outer Wilds OC/the Protagonist) (my sweet child)

Teagan (Elden Ring/Bloodborne OC/main character) (my bastard™ child)

Astra (literal embodiment of the Void. end of everything. has a flock of immortals they protect)

Ekkehard Reiher (DS2 protag) (very gay) (adores his daughter)

WIPs/AUs I’d love to talk about:

old man hunter & his eldritch child — bloodborne au where Gehrman + Teagan get yeeted into the past bc Teagan refused to abandon him and in doing so, uses up a lot of power and turns into a child 🥰 they bite people 🥰 it’s a comedy of errors. everyone is convinced Teagan is Gehrman’s biological child. they are not

Teagan kills a bunch of gods — what it says on the tin. Teagan returns to Yharnam after the hunt to piece their memories together

Teagan in the Lands Between (or Teagan doesn’t realize becoming Elden Lord means they’ll be nobility again) — takes place after the previous fic. contains Teagan being awkward and relearning how to be a human or at least how to pretend to be human. also contains Teagan adopting/being adopted by old men. its a running joke at this point

Lunu, Hearthian, Troublemaker, Traveler — novelization of an Outer Wilds playthrough

unnamed romcom without the romance. there will be no romance — a Bloodborne AU that takes place earlier in the timeline of the general hunt. Teagan gets forcibly dragged back to Orilon and their mother tries to marry them off. Maria’s cousin goes “yeah sure I’ll get fake engaged to you :)” and they go from having attempted to kill each other to grudging friends. he makes heart eyes at his actual partner in the background a lot. i do not have anything actually written down for this but its fun and I’m enjoying it

Dragonborn — skyrim fic. Jeven, my Dragonborn, returns to Skyrim to figure out the deal with her weird dreams and gets more than she bargained for with dragons. feat. Sheogorath making comments in the back of her head, Jeven stealing cheesewheels and forks, Jeven adopting almost every child she comes across, avoiding going to High Hrothgar for months, mod quests + locations, Jeven being gay for Lydia, dragons who refuse to shut up in Jeven’s head

Dragonborn time travel — because of Reasons™ Jeven, Miraak and Alduin get thrown into the past to before Torygg’s death. Alduin is extremely upset about this as he is now a small mortal and helpless child because of Reasons™. Miraak is trying to seduce Jeven’s brother. she is very horrified by this

#potato talks #cute tag #for bad days #laugh tag #potato writes dialogue #potato writes fic #potatoes finished fics #potato does crafts #the dragon

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newidaho · 6 years ago

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Selected Clippings from Various News Sources, 25-26 December 2054

I. Source: Harris, Jordan. “Lucidity: An Unexpected Sea Change.” News Idaho. 25 December 2054

Just hours ago, the world received an unsolicited Christmas Present in the form of a guerrilla Lucid Event.

Compelling Keynote presentations for new technology have been the norm for 80 years, since Steve Jobs first took to stage to present the Mac in 1984. Rarely since then, however, have many CEOs and entrepreneurs been able to stand up to Jobs’ legacy.

Enter Lex Lucid and his company, Lucid Labs: The 20 year king of paradigm shifts in industry and technology.

There’s no need to recap the ways that Lucid Labs has changed the way we go about our lives. If you’re one of the 75% of Americans, or 87% of New Idahoans with Augmented Reality Lenses, you have seen it for yourself (and if you’re not, feel free to watch today’s Lucid Labs Keynote to jog your memory). If the Lucid Lens was his iPhone moment, now, 20 years later, Lex may find a moment of world-changing integration that Jobs only hoped for, only one year younger than Jobs on the day he died.

It’s Christmas Day, 2054, and Lucid Labs has announced “Lucidity”.

Lucidity is an earth-shattering technology that few of us saw coming. Lucidity is a small patch containing a computer that is (allegedly) so sensitive to brainwaves that it can essentially read your mind.

So what can you do with this powerful new technology? During the event, Lucid discussed three applications that you will be able to find on the device upon it’s release in February:

-Lucid Dream: The flagship application for the device. Lucid Dream can already record and playback the user’s dreams. Further updates are expected to integrate the software with the Imaginary Friend capabilities that have been evolving with augmented reality for the last 20 years. After that, you can finally be with the girl of your dreams. Literally.

-Lucid Creation: A native software package for Lucid Labs technology since the Lucid Mask in 2024, Lucid Creation is expected to take strides right along with the new Lucidity hardware. During the keynote, Lex Lucid hinted at what was already in the works, including an update to Lucid’s animation and music software that allows the user to simply “think” his or her creation into existence.

-Lucid Idea: Lucidity’s messaging application. Exactly how close we are to legitimate telepathic communication was unfortunately missing in the Keynote, but the promise is there.

Lucidity is a computer unprecedented in power and sensitivity, providing expansive fertile territory for new explorers of the technology. The new era of PCs and VR have passed—Lucidity is the new wild west for developers.

And so far, it would appear Lucid wishes to allow and encourage developers to work to his newest computer’s level: Lucidity was rolled out with a guaranteed shelf life of five years. God knows what you’ll be switching to in the sixties.

In these early days, it’s hard to know what applications Lucidity will evolve to have. Even more open to speculation are the implications, which are sure to be a near-constant conversation from today onward.

“From today onward”. It’s a rare and awesome occasion when humanity can say this so profoundly. Lucid’s Christmas gift to the world has been unwrapped, whether we like it or not.

The first Lucidity will ship in February. Until then, if you are living in New Idaho, you may want to drop a hint to one of your peers at the Labs—rumor has it that Lucidity has already been passed out and is in use by Lab employees.

II. Source: Reefer, Banananut. “What We Expect from Lucidity” The Ringworm. 25 December 2054

Hello again! It’s your local bloodthirsty newshound, Banananut Reefer, here to report on the new sensation that’s sweeping the nation.

That’s right, we’re talking about Lex Lucid’s latest: Lucidity.

Now, Lucidity basically takes a look at all of your unfiltered thoughts, and somehow organizes them into doing different tasks.

After the announcement this Christmas, The Ringworm sent a team of reporters to camp out on the mountain ring outside the Labs and see what they could find out. After staring at what was mostly just an empty building for seven hours and losing four toes to frostbite, they decided to report back. Here’s the applications we know from the Event and the ones we speculate are coming in the future.

Lucid Dream: Now, Lucidity is, more than anything, a deep probe into your disturbed psyche. Nothing points this out more so than “Lucid Dream,” An application native to the device that allows you to play back those unacknowledged scenes from the depth of your consciousness.

Lucid Creation: If you can think it, you can make it—Lucid plans to help more people come to terms with the harsh reality that they lack imagination in addition to skill.

Lucid Idea: Well, we finally did it—we are getting to the point as a society where we can read each other’s minds. I wonder if we can still use autocorrect? In the meantime, Paranoia is expected to skyrocket among those who already thought their friends were talking behind their back.

Lucid Potato Patch: Judging by our researcher’s observations, there is a large patch of soil near the front parking lot of Lucid Labs. This being Idaho, we at The Ringworm believe it likely has to do with a Lucidity application that allows you to grow your own potato patch with energy from the mind.

Loosened Bowel Movement: There’s only one explanation our researchers could think of for why they hardly saw anyone at the Labs—chronic constipation! We can only hope for an app in Lucidity that allows you to save the experience of all your best bowel movements in order to play them back again later in all their glory. The fact that so many workers at the Labs appear to be out due to constipation, we must conclude that they are blocked up by anticipation (consticipation?) for the app, which we have guessed will be called “Loosened Bowel Movement.”

Lucid Bank: It’s not a new technology these days without a new form of cryptocurrency. We expect the Bitcoin of Lucidity will be based on your thoughts—if you invest more time mining other people’s thoughts, you can get more thought coins, which you can invest as you would any currency. Hopefully nobody sends any dirty thoughts over to muck up the whole system!

At the end of the day, you never really know where all this hype is going to end up. We can only hope for the apps that we were promised and the apps that we have speculated on. Here at The Ringworm, we’ve been paralyzed with despair after forgetting a defecation we expected to remember forever. Now that Lucidity promises to change that, we will be wearing that patch on our temple all day every day.

EDIT: Sources have confirmed that Lucid Labs employees were given the day off for Christmas, though we see no reason to rule out the idea that diarrhea was still in full force for many employees

III. Source: America, Tommy. “So Long Self-Control, Hello Mind Control.” Truth Quest. 25 December 2054.

Well, folks, the day is nearly here. We’ve been calling it or a while, but the powers that be have made a move today that could very well put the free man in checkmate.

I’m talking, of course, about Lucidity—the huge Christmas announcement, the world-flipping new technology. Some people are excited as hell to get their hands on it and think sweet nothings to their little boyfriends and girlfriends, not knowing all the while these trivial pursuits will be causing them their freedom and the freedom of everyone in America as we know it.

When Snowden told us all the NSA was spying on us, we just shrugged our shoulders and moved on. When we learned the social media companies were getting rich off selling our information, we shook our heads, but we just kept scrolling. Sure, the Data Privacy Act of 2025 was a small victory, but just because it’s harder for companies to sell our information doesn’t mean it’s not out there.

After all, we’ve been running around with cameras attached to our heads for nearly 20 years—what more could the puppet masters want?

Turns out the answer is a resounding “YOUR MIND.” Fake news and fastidiously calculated manipulation on an extreme scale wasn’t enough. Now the powers that be are going to look past our behaviors and into our thoughts themselves.

I don’t need to tell you how dangerous that is. I don’t need to, but I’m going to anyway. If the NSA and major corporations (and their marketing teams) have access to our thoughts, they can finally carry out the mass manipulation the elites and the American government have been planning since the days of the robber barons.

We’ve known it for a while here at Truth Quest, but now there’s no question. The play is just way too obvious. New Idaho is an incubator for the new world leaders. It’s a haven for globalists. Why else do you think the federal government gives Mayor Krispyman special treatment? Why did America and Idaho just sit back and allow the “City of the Century” to be built, along with a hyper train through the mountains and a freakin’ jungle?

All I can think is, you get a lot of passes when you’re in on the game. Now that it’s more evident than ever that Lex Lucid is in the game, it’s official: Lucid is not the “Jobs of our lifetime”. He’s the Zuckerberg.

Slowly but surely, technology is ramping up to allow the globalists to take power over the world through taking power over the individual. Don’t let your mind be taken captive. Fight back! Don’t give up your mind to those whose only goals are to manipulate you and take over the world! Boycott Lucidity and boycott Lucid Labs!

IV. Source: Thompson, Acacia. “Penny For Your Thoughts.” The Midcentury Ungrateful. 26 December 2054.

So this is where capitalism leads to. Trust me, I’m as surprised as you are that it’s hung in there so long—guess it just goes to show the ever-powerful force of greed.

What the “Free Market” has decided we all need now is a way to communicate with objects and each other with our minds. That’s right, yesterday Lex Lucid took to stage to reveal “Lucidity”, the newest computer from Lucid Labs that syncs your brainwaves up to your glasses.

That’s right—two channels wasn’t enough, so we made 500. Boxy TVs were too ugly. We made them flat. Then we put more flat screens in our pockets. But it was too much of a hassle to keep pulling something out of your pocket all day—so we started to wear these computers on our face, with the screen projected right into our eye. And now, if we weren’t lazy enough, we have been given the ultimate convenience: A computer that reads your freaking mind.

Now, we’ve known for a while that capitalism can’t hold up. We just keep using more and more resources to make more products to make people more lazy so they keep buying more and more and depleting our Earth’s resources.

That’s how you end up with jungles in the middle of America.

But now the capitalists have taken it one step farther and one step closer to totally controlling us: A computer that gets inside our very heads.

Just think what ads will start to look like: Pretty soon, marketing companies will know about your perfect woman. They will know what your dreams are. What motivates you. They will start selling it to you in their virtual ads. They will start using characters from your own head to manipulate you into buying what they tell you you need.

Not to mention how much money Lucid Labs and friends will get from selling your information to these marketing companies—as there is no doubt they will do it.

So, is Lucidity something you need? Well, we’re not so blind as to think that this impressive (to say the least) new technology won’t be widely used and applied by the masses. So you might be leaving yourself out.

My question for you, however, is why you want to be in in the first place. Why spend time playing this useless game of making the fat cats fatter at the expense of your health, wallet, and those around you?

It’s hard to say, but it seems America’s here to stay. We’re hoping the tragedy of Lucidity will be the straw that breaks capitalism’s back, but we’re not holding our breath.

#New Idaho #Ben Vizy #New Novel #Writing #Writing Community #Novelist #Novel Writing #2054 #Augmented Reality #Futurism #Reaction #Fake News #Lucidity #Media Coverage

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