#can be vegan

[culinary-vagabond]

Instant Pot Pho

Partner and I really like Pho, it's just wonderfully comforting food. We have yet to find or put together a recipe that tastes as good as what we can get from a local restaurant — to be fair, we have a lot of good restaurants in our area. That said, sometimes we want pho and don't want to spend the money on take out, so the search for a good pho recipe continued.

This one may do it for us. We tried the recipe from PureWow for making pho in an instant pot, which immediate points for due to easy of cooking and time commitment. Negative SO MANY POINTS for the website scrolling and changing my screen every time an ad reloaded!! FFS. That made me miss the mushrooms in the recipe when I was adding ingredients to the grocery list, so our first attempt did not have everything the recipe called for (ignore the bowl of fruit in the back)

Yes, everything in that picture went in. Including the apple in the front. And all of that ginger. Yes, the whole thing.

The rice noodles and tofu were topping, everything else made the broth. It was a lovely, tangy with a hint of sweetness broth and it will be made again in our household. Next time with mushrooms.

So you don't have to fight the awful PureWow website, the recipe:

Ingredients

12 ounces dried rice noodles, dried rice sticks or banh pho (found in well-stocked grocery stores or any Asian market)

Broth

2 tablespoons grapeseed oil or other neutral high-heat cooking oil

2 medium yellow onions, peeled and halved

One 4-inch piece fresh ginger, thinly sliced

3 cardamom pods, lightly smashed with the back of a knife

3 whole star anise pods

4 whole cloves

1 cinnamon stick

1 tablespoon coriander seeds

1 teaspoon fennel seeds

½ teaspoon whole black peppercorns

1 Fuji apple, peeled and cut into large chunks

½ cup fresh cilantro, roughly chopped

2 tablespoons reduced-sodium tamari or soy sauce

1 tablespoon coconut sugar

2 cups sliced shiitake mushroom caps (5 to 6 ounces)

8 cups low-sodium vegetable broth

1 teaspoon kosher salt, plus more to taste

Toppings

One 6- or 8-ounce block baked tofu (plain or five-spice flavor), cut into cubes

3 scallions, sliced on the diagonal

1 cup Thai basil leaves, torn

1 cup cilantro leaves, torn

2 limes, cut into wedges

2 cups bean sprouts

Thinly sliced hot chili peppers or sriracha

Directions

1. Prepare the Noodles: In a large bowl, cover the dried rice noodles with warm water and soak them until the noodles are pliable and opaque, 30 to 45 minutes. Drain the noodles and rinse them in cold water to remove excess starch.

2. Make the Broth: Select the Sauté setting on the Instant Pot and, after a few minutes, add the oil. Once the oil is hot, add the onions and ginger, cut side down. Do not stir them, but allow them to cook until charred and deeply browned, about 4 minutes.

3. Add the cardamom pods, star anise pods, cloves, cinnamon stick, coriander seeds, fennel seeds and peppercorns, and cook for 1 minute, stirring the mixture frequently. Add the apple, cilantro, tamari or soy sauce, coconut sugar and shiitakes to the pot. Pour the vegetable broth on top and stir the mixture to combine.

4. Secure the lid and set the pressure release to Sealing. Select the Pressure Cook (manual) setting at High Pressure and set the cook time to 15 minutes.

5. Once the timer goes off, allow a natural pressure release for 10 minutes and then perform a quick pressure release.

6. When the pressure on the Instant Pot has been released, open the pot and, using oven mitts, remove the inner pot. With a fine-mesh sieve set over a large bowl, carefully strain the broth and discard the solids. Season the broth with 1 teaspoon salt. Stir the broth and taste it, adding more salt if desired. Select the Cancel setting.

7. Assemble the Pho: Place the cooked rice noodles in individual bowls. Pour the strained broth over the noodles and add the baked tofu cubes. Top the pho with the scallions, basil, cilantro, lime wedges, bean sprouts and chilis or sriracha.

[only1lorrie]

2 (not homemade) ingredient Soda cake

[flwrkid14]

Had the silliest idea while making breakfast.. what if Damian’s Favorite Brother is Tim, but for the Dumbest Reason...pancakes

My idea is that Tim is Damian’s favorite brother, but not for the reasons one might expect. It’s not because of Tim’s skill, his smarts, or his ability to stay three steps ahead in every fight. Nope. Damian’s real reason for favoring Tim over Dick, Jason, or even Bruce is much simpler.

It’s because Tim makes the best pancakes. Like, legendary pancakes.

Not even kidding.

One morning, Tim casually whips up a batch of pancakes in the kitchen—y’know, because Alfred’s off running errands and the rest of the family doesn’t know the first thing about breakfast beyond opening a box of cereal, and Tim's been feeding himself since he was six. So Tim steps up to the stove, and bam—fluffy, golden stacks of heaven.

Damian, who never really cared for breakfast, takes one bite of Tim’s pancakes and is sold. From that moment on, he’s obsessed.

“Drake, you will make me those pancakes again tomorrow."

And Tim just blinks, completely confused, but shrugs it off like, “Uh, sure?”

The next morning, Damian’s right there in the kitchen, bright and early, waiting for his daily dose of pancake perfection. By the third day, he’s even dragging a chair next to Tim, watching like a hawk as Tim cooks, making sure he’s using the right ingredients.

Meanwhile, the rest of the Batfamily is just like, “Really? This is the thing that bonds them?”

Tim, being Tim, just rolls with it. He doesn’t ask questions. If Damian wants pancakes, Damian gets pancakes. He’s just trying to survive his new role as “Pancake Master.”

But Damian? Oh, he’s serious about this.

Damian tells anyone who will listen that Tim is the only one who knows how to make breakfast properly. He’ll give the other brothers side-eye anytime they dare to suggest they could cook for him. Even Alfred raises an eyebrow, but Damian’s already set: Tim’s pancakes or nothing.

What’s even funnier is that when Damian gets pissed off at anyone, he refuses to eat their cooking. But Tim? Untouchable. The one person who can screw up as many times as he wants and still be in Damian’s good graces—because those pancakes? Irreplaceable.

So, while the Batfamily argues over strategy, patrols, or who gets to drive the Batmobile, Damian's priorities are clear:

"You’re all amateurs. Drake’s the only one who makes pancakes worthy of the Wayne name.”

And now, Tim’s been promoted to Damian’s favorite brother for the silliest reason imaginable. But hey, if the key to Damian’s heart is pancakes, Tim’s got that title locked down.

[vegance]

anyone who calls all individual actions like thrifting, going vegan or using public transport bad or useless, and instead encourages people to just wait for some kind of big revolution to happen before even considering making any change in their own lives is not actually that interested in things getting better

[obsob]

the accolade ( the...the cat-olade...)

[heavyheavycream]

05 tea party

[the-faultofdaedalus]

follow up question. if it’s ok to eat figs bc the wasp was already digested by the plant exactly /how/ digested to things have to be for their consumer to be considered vegan

[juuria]

jjk doodles durin work

[your-stranger-halfblood-things]

Monty eating chicken because he didn't know it was a bird and then crying over the fact he just ate his long lost cousin's legs

[laurelsofhighever]

And you know what else bothers me? The sanitisation of characters and setting in Veilguard is so complete that not even Assan escapes it. I'm currently rereading Last Flight for fic reasons and it really hits how differently griffons are portrayed in the novel compared to Assan, who has basically taken on the role of a Disney animal sidekick. In the book, griffons are proud, territorial, and fierce. They demand absolute devotion from their riders, they have to be fed separately to avoid fights breaking out, they can outmanoeuvre an archdemon and punch darkspawn hard enough with their talons to break necks.

And yes, Assan is still growing, it's possible the fierce territoriality won't hit until he reaches adulthood and his easy affection could be either his immaturity or his individual personality, but he's still an apex hypercarnivore whose two constituent parts are also apex hypercarnivores. Taking him into Arlathan should result in a massive decline in the local nug population as he practices his hunting skills, and Davrin should be learning how to manage his flying weight the way falconers do with their birds, because apex predators don't exert themselves when their bellies are full. That halla should have been put out of its misery. At full growth he'll be eating a goat a day at least. He should not be being fed yams or carrots.

[bowenoke]

"the watchers top-surgeried grian" comic is in my brain at all times. perfect mix of comedy and horror and comedy out of horror. please let me think about something else though i have exams but this piece of art is like moss that grew in my brain wrinkles

I'm sorry, the only way i got it out was to draw it. best i can do for you is to replace it with different bullshit

mumbo jumbo communism

meme ref the watchers top surgeried grian

[dragpinkman]

Vegan cooking is so fun. Like watch me turn these blended cooked vegetables and seasonings into nacho cheese

[juniperhillpatient]

the way some of y'all speak so condescendingly to & about vegans & vegetarians or just people trying to recycle or do a little better for the world is sick actually. sorry corporations are the real problem & everything is hopeless but I'm a receptionist lmao I won't fix that in my lifetime but I can minimize the animal products I buy & recyle & try not to buy aersol products & be nice to people. sorry the idea of doing the bare minimum infuriates some of u guys to ur cores but like. get fucked