#depression cooking

[thestudentfarmer]

Nov 14 2024

I finally found a store with beef fat! :D

Where i live we don't exactly have butchers, and a butcher tends to be more like a corner quick grocer with a counter of preseasoned raw for grill meats (no plain cuts or fat, organs etc)

I've been looking so i can use the fat for cooking and soapmaking.

I got 6.8 lbs of raw beef fat this time.

Since it's big chunks and renders better in smaller peices I ut the fat up into squares like so,

Now you can render on the stove top, rendering just takes ages.

I prefer and suggest a crock pot, set it on low and let it just do it's thing overnight at least. The next morning you can start siphoning the tallow from the crock.

I ended up with 3 and about a half a pint.

Not enough for soaping, but next time i know to ask for more if they'll save it.

Now, this tallow could be rendered again to get it very creamy white (none of those lil brown spots) but since I'll be using this up quick for food cooking I'm just gonna leave it as is.

Re render is as easy as cleaning the leftover "fat-meat" bits out of the crock or pot and pouring in to rerender up to a day. Repour while fine filtering. Cool and go from there.

Now how can I use this, One might ask. Particularly if your not familiar with using fat instead of say spray on, Olive oil, etc.

Honestly using tallow is rather just as easy as using other fats, easier once you learn how to use it It has a high smoke/burn point as well.

We use it for frying eggs, chicken, potatoes and more,

I use it in place of butter, crisco ( Soybean Oil, Fully Hydrogenated Palm Oil, Palm Oil, and a few more) and vegetable oil (which did you know is soybean oil and corn oil mix?).

For making bread, cakes, cookies and more at home. (Including soap if i have enough)

🐄 🌱Happy Homesteading and Cooking! 🌱 🐄

[lowspoonstuff]

Stabbed potato

Cheapness: 5/5 Easiness: 5/5 (alternative - 4/5) Tastiness: 4/5 (alternative - 5/5) Tools: microwave, bowl, fork, knife Minimum: -potato Medium: + mayo or milk + spices + cheese Short instructions: - wash potato - stab in with a fork at least in 5 different places - microwave for 3-5 minutes on max depending on the size of the potato - cut in half - munch the potato out of the skin - repeat until no longer hungry Longer instructions (with options): - Wash the potato - Stab it with a fork at least in 5 different places OR peel and cut the potato into chunks - Put the potato into the microwave for 3-5 minutes on max. If chunked, it's best to cover the potato with a microwave lid or plastic wrap with some holes in it. ~ If you're not sure about the timing, do 3 minutes, then stab it a bit to see if it's soft, then do 2 more minutes if it's not - Extra step: Cover the microwaved potato in spices, mayo/a splash o milk, cheese and whatever else you can scrounge up. Alternatively, put the cheese in, microwave on low for a minute, then add the rest o the stuff. Melted cheese! - Extra step 2: mash it up and add milk and butter for extra cozyness. Absolutely unnecessary though and kinda hard to do with a fork. - Repeat until no longer hungry! Pro tip: dw too much about the microwave time, eating a bit of slightly undercooked potato isn't gonna be a big deal for most people. You'll be ok! tbh i was sleeping on potatoes and hating them for a very long time, but this is top tier "i just gotta get some food in my mouth" kind of food" ngl

[depressioncookbook]

Tortilla Pizza

Ingredients:

Flour tortillas

Tomato paste (I recommend the tube kind over the cans)

Dried Oregano (optional)

Shredded cheese (Italian or Mexican blends both work fine)

Instructions:

Put the baking sheet in the oven and then preheat the oven to 350F.

In a mug, mix tomato paste and a little bit of water until you get the desired consistency and add the oregano if desired.

Put a flour tortilla on the hot baking sheet. (If you want a crisper "crust" you can put the tortilla in the oven for a minute before adding toppings.) Spoon the tomato paste mixture onto the tortilla and spread around with the back of the spoon. Top with shredded cheese.

Bake for 6-8 minutes, depending on how cooked you like your cheese.

Best eaten hot so I recommend making them one at a time.

[max-the-mouse]

i was high as shit last night and documented this edible cookie dough i made. used a recipie but i HATE cups and table spoons so i just made it proportions. I used an old pickle jar and a spoon to measure!!

1 part brown sugar

1 part melted butter

2 parts flour (heat treat (i did not but im a clown))

1/10ish part grabulared sugar

1/20ish part vanilla extract

here is the setup (bowl and kettle set up is bc i dont have a michael wave and dont care to spend money on one)

here is how i meausred brown sugar and butter. forgot to take a pic of the butter in the jar but i marked it :3 also make sure to compact the brown sugar, i used a honey thingy (like the thing you dip in honey??)

MIX WELL

added sugar (1 spoonful) mix well!

flour!! 1 whole jar. mix it in bit by bit. added another spoonful bc it was too wet. i forgot about vanilla and salt to i added them after lol :3c you can p much measure these with your heart.

rolled him up in saran wrap and tucked him away in the fridge!!! easy peesy :3

[iablmeanie]

Cinnamon Red Hot Apples! Quick and Easy Recipe! Christmas Side Dish Or D...

[aeonknight]

First Recipe: I call this one "I'm Mad McDonalds Discontinued the Snack Wrap"

Take some chicken tenderloins, either raw or fried from the grocery store.

If using fried, cook as the packaging labels

If using raw, bake at 350 F for 20 minutes, make sure the inside is cooked all the way through. You can also pre-prep this step, and just shove it in the oven for like 5 minutes or the microwave for a bit if it's already cooked.

Take a tortilla. Cover it in a dressing if your choice, I like ranch. Put the chicken in there. You can cut it up if you feel up to it, or you can just throw it in whole. Add some shredded cheese. Add some lettuce if you want, I don't because I don't want to cut it and I don't like the texture. Throw whatever other veggies you like on it. Bam, it's basically a salad but it's a lot easier to eat.

Second Recipe: The World's Easiest Tacos

Cut some chicken up. Cook it in a pan on the stove. You can pre-prep this just like the other recipe, and it's useful to have a lot of chicken that can be used for a lot of recipes.

After that chicken's mostly cooked through, throw like a little bit of water in there and then add some taco seasoning. Throw on a YouTube video and stir for a bit until it's mostly cooked in.

Heat some shells. If soft, toss them in the microwave under a damp paper towel for 30 seconds. If they're hard shells, throw them in the oven at 350 for like 5 minutes.

Use the cheese and veggies you have from the other recipe to prepare your taco however you want. Maybe throw some sour cream on there too if you're feeling frisky. You can always heat up more shells, and if you have leftover chicken, you can save it and it heats in the microwave super well.

The only ingredient you have to actually cook is the chicken, which can be pre-prepped and makes great leftovers.

Recipe 3: Curry (Yes really, I promise it's really easy)

Take the chicken I know you have. It can either be pre-prepped or whatever. Get it all cut up into pieces. Put it aside for later.

Throw some oil in a pan, 12 inch because it's going to get deep, then throw in some diced onion if you want. Saute that baby until it's golden brown. Add in minced garlic and ginger. You can buy them minced, I've also used ginger paste before which sounds gross but I promise it's good. Saute those lads too, for 30 seconds. Add curry powder, and then saute that again for another 30 seconds.

Poor in a cup of chicken broth (which you can also get as a paste for conveniece), and stir that all together. Then add 3/4 cup diced tomatoes. (These two things are the only things I measure because I don't want my pan to overfill).

Poor all that good shit into a blender. The recipe I use wants me to use a lid, take the insert out, and then cover with a cloth. That's dumb, I just poor it into a deep, thin bowl or pitcher and use a hand blender.

Add salt and cayenne pepper to taste, I usually just skip that bit though. Then add the chicken. Lower to a simmer, and cover it. Throw some rice on to cook while the curry cooks for like 10 minutes.

If it's too thick, add some more chicken broth. If it's too thin, add a mix of cornstarch and water (not too much corn starch or it will turn into oobleck and you do not want to eat cooked oobleck, I've done it before. Not recommended.)

Stir in some heavy cream. I usually forget to do this and it still tastes fine though, so it's whatever. Boom, serve that over some rice and it's amazing. This is by far the most high-effort meal, but the beauty of it is that you can basically skip any part and it'll still taste good. I've done it without onion, without cream, with pretty much every kind of garlic and ginger, with vegetable broth instead of chicken broth, and I one time even forgot the curry powder. Basically as long you do the tomatoes and some amount of garlic and ginger and broth, it's great. Probably don't forget the curry powder, but it'll taste fine even if you do. The blending sucks, but it's not that bad if you have a hand blender.

Question for the five people and the random porn-blogs that folllow me: I'm trying to make a zine collecting a bunch of depression-friendly recipies (mainly meaning recepies that require as little preparation as possible). All the recepies I have so far are gluten-free as I'm a celiac and I'm generally looking for a bit more diversity...

Any ideas?

[yesloulou]

Daniel at the 2024 Paris Supercross 🇫🇷 | via Paris La Défense Arena

[eatingplantswithnopants]

a story

i woke up from an amazing depression nap and i cooked myself a delicious depression meal consisting of only two ingridients. when my stomach was full of nutriotionally-questionable goodness, a spark of inspiration flew so close to my head that it was enough to plant a very stupid unrealistic idea in it. i thought to myself: what if i made a blog? cooking is one of my long lost passions that don't bring any joy anymore and i've been in the depression business for many years now, i'm kind of a proffessional. i searched for a depression cooking blog on this beautiful, wonderful website in hopes that someone may had already done this for me, but after a thorough 2-minute searched i found nothing. well, not exactly nothing. there were some amazing blogs, kudos to them, but i felt like the depressed vegans of tumblr may feel insatiable with the selection. moreover, i felt like the recipes were not up to my standard (dicing an onion is a little bit extreme), so i decided to make an attempt. this is probably my last post. goodbye.

[lightkrets312]

i sincerely believe that anyone who says "oh you can't cook with a microwave, you should only be cooking with the stove / toaster oven, everything you make in a microwave is gross" has never bothered to actually learn how to use the microwave for cooking.

[injuries-in-dust]

"Look like a reanimated mannequin."

[dungeonmechoui]

Unprofessional yuri save me.. save me unprofessional yuri.. (image description in alt text)

[blessedsage99]

i've been thinking about The Weeping Hearts like all week ungh

friendship w weiss and coco was so peak im literally never recovering

some implied whiterose and crosshares... as a treat ofc.... dies

[lowspoonstuff]

Tofu pasta

Cheapness: 5/5 Effort: 3/5 Tastiness: 3/5 Tools: pan. bonus: bowl, pot, something to marinade tofu in. Minimum: - pasta - tofu - Soy sauce (or oyster sauce or fish sauce, smth like that. a sweet and sour/spicy sauce is also ok i think) - some spices (anything you got honestly) Optionals: (+taste, but +effort) Medium: + tomatoes + milk + cheese + oil Hard: + A Green + Lemon juice + Garlic Instructions (short and bare minimum): 1. Boil the pasta 2. Fry the tofu. Add spices and the sauce on both sides. 3. Put the tofu on the pasta. Instructions (with details and options): 0. (extra) If you want, marinade the tofu in soy sauce, lemon juice, garlic, spices. Cut the tofu in pieces, cut it partially, or don't cut at all - whatever feels doable 1. Boil pasta in the pot or the pan. 1. 5 Medium: remove the pasta, turn the heat up, cut tomatoes, throw them in. Throw in some spices (no salt, you'll get that w/ the tofu stuff!) + any of the optionals: A Green, lemon juice, garlic. Wait a bit. Throw in the milk, the cheese, and the pasta. Swirl around until all the milk-cheese-tomato juice isn't just sloshing around in the pan and turned into sauce. 2. Remove everything and add oil into the pan if you need. If you're not sure, then you need it. Drop in some soy sauce if you haven't marinated the tofu. Wait a bit, so the pan heats up. Plomp the tofu in and cover in spices, just go ham on it. Wait again, until the tofu is for sure cooked on the bottom. Turn it around and wait again. 3. Plomp the tofu on the pasta. Done! I'm also thinking you could probably cook some mushrooms with the tofu, or throw in more veggies, but i think that's a bit out of low spoon territory.

I'm very thankful btw that I know a place to buy, like, 2 pounds worth of tofu at once very cheaply, so I can freeze some, marinade some, and then boom - protein for days. It's truly amazing, since i cannot handle raw meat.

[lil-gingerbread-queen]

Harley joining the batfam be like.

(More shenanigans under the cut)

Harley: Bats! I have a gift for ya! Batman: ... What is this? Harley: A club's membership's card! Batman: ... Harley: And I've some for the commie, his daughter and your big red riding hood.

The cards in question:

(yes, she drew the pictures. Jason is Bat Brat for reasons)

[secretly-a-polar-bear]

Oh boy time for a recipe that’ll probably be thrown into the forgotten depths

Chocolate lemon cupcakes

Chocolate cupcakes

* 1 cup (130g) all-purpose flour

* 1 cup (207g) sugar

* 6 tbsp (43g) unsweetened cocoa powder

* 1 tsp baking soda

* 1/2 tsp salt

* 1 large egg

* 1/2 cup (120ml) buttermilk

* 1/2 cup (120ml) vegetable oil (I used a majority of olive oil and used about 1/4 cup vegetable oil, I didn’t specify any better because fuck you and I don’t wanna)

* 1 tsp vanilla extract

* 1cup (120ml) hot coffee

Lemon Curd:

* 4 large eggs

* 1 cup granulated sugar

* 1/2 cup lemon juice fresh squeezed, from one large lemon

* 1 Tbsp lemon zest from one large lemon

* 6 Tbsp unsalted butter cubed

Frosting

* 1 cup (240 ml) heavy cream, cold

* 2 tablespoons (16 g) powdered sugar

* 1 teaspoon (3 g) cornstarch

* 1 teaspoon (2.5 ml) vanilla extract

For the cupcakes

1. Preheat oven to 300°F (148°C) and prepare a cupcake pan with liners.


2. Add the flour, sugar, cocoa powder, baking soda and salt to a large mixing bowl and combine. Set aside.

3. Add the egg, milk, vegetable oil and vanilla extract to another medium sized bowl and whisk together to combine.

4. Add the wet ingredients to the dry ingredients and mix until well combined.

5. Add the water to the batter and mix until well combined. The batter will be very thin.

6. Fill the cupcake liners about half way and bake for 18-23 minutes, or until a toothpick comes out with a few moist crumbs. (I have a shitty oven so I added ten more minutes to the bake time after I checked if it was fully cooked, just start off with 5 minute increments, if you want to be more cautious) 


7. Remove the cupcakes from oven and allow to cool for 2 minutes, then remove to a cooling rack to finish cooling.

Lemon Curd:

* Place eggs and sugar into a small pot, whisk to combine. Add lemon juice, zest, and butter. Cook over medium-low heat whisking constantly until mixture thickens and coats the back of a spoon.


* Transfer to a glass bowl and lay plastic wrap directly on the surface to prevent a skin from forming. Chill for 1 hours to almost set. 


Frosting

1. Chill the Bowl and Whisk: Begin by chilling your mixing bowl and whisk (or whisk attachment) in the freezer for at least 15 minutes. This helps the cream whip up faster and increases volume.

2. Combine Dry Ingredients: Mix powdered sugar and cornstarch in a small bowl. This ensures even distribution of the cornstarch in the whipped cream.

3. Whip the Cream: Pour the cold heavy cream into the chilled bowl. Using an electric mixer, start whipping the cream at a low speed, gradually increasing to medium-high as it thickens.

4. Add Sugar and Cornstarch: Once the cream starts forming soft peaks, gradually add the sugar and cornstarch mixture, continuing to whip.

5. Add Vanilla Extract: As the mixture thickens to stiff peaks, add the vanilla extract and continue to whip until well incorporated and the cream holds stiff peaks. (Probably make the frosting after the cupcakes have fully set)

Assembly

1. Remove the core of the cupcakes with a knife or a cupcake corer, you need a hole

2. Put almost solid curd in the center of the cupcakes, preferably with a piping tip.

3. Let curd set fully in the cupcakes for 1 hour more

4. Pipe on frosting, and serve

**note that this is posted on the same day is was baked, I can’t say how well the whipped cream frosting will hold up.

**a large cookie scoop helps with filling the cupcake liners. I used 2 scoops of the largest one I had

**normally you’re supposed to fluff your flour, but I was worried it would be too liquidy so I just scooped the flour from the container, like a heathen.

** I know I should half the recipe for the lemon curd, because there was a little left and it was overflowing out of the cupcakes a little, but it could be the fact the cupcake holes weren’t big enough. It wasn’t that much plus, you could mix the cake that’s left over from the removal of the middles with it, so idk.

I suppose I should put a useless story like all other blogs.

It was my possible step brother’s birthday and there was a mix up with the 2 cakes. Instead of chocolate raspberry and vanilla lemon cake, the bakery mixed up the flavors and reversed it. And me being weird I kinda liked it. So here’s a recipe that basically makes that cake. Why are these so long? Like that story was simple and easy. You could easily just say “my mom made this a lot when I was a kid.” Like I’m pretty good at writing a whole essay about something that doesn’t matter, evidence and an explanation, everything you could need. Would anyone even read this? It’s a recipe on tumblr, if I posted this on Pinterest maybe but even then most people I know don’t like citrus and chocolate. I offered some cupcakes to my grandma but I actively left out that the custard is lemon flavored, because I knew she’d make a virtual face at it. I want to show my creations but I can’t do that when no one is willing to try it. My mom was easy to convince because sugar. This is long because that’s the whole joke, for this whole piece about a simple story to be far too long when people just want the recipe. Would this bit even work? It’s all at the end, not at the beginning like every other blog does but I understand how frustrating that shit is. And like since I’m dragging it out it’ll only be more of a nuisance to the people wanting to see the recipe. Should I just half the lemon curd recipe? Do people even read the notes about the recipe? I sure don’t also. I also should’ve put proportions sizes but I don’t wanna put effort in remembering or counting. 8+6+1…. Uhhhh 15 cupcakes that I made. How likely is it that government secrets are put in these long bullshit paragraphs? I hope I get some criticism on this recipe there was a fair amount of research and rewriting. I forgot the name for cupcake liners btw, I had to ask my mom what they were called so that was a little awkward because I was making some more notes on the recipe while doing so. I wonder how I’m going to transport those cupcakes, I mean my grandma’s house isn’t that far of a walk but also it’s kinda hot and I don’t have any boxes also it’s night. Is this paragraph long enough that the joke gets hammered in? I don’t think it’s long enough but I could be wrong, I suppose I should write some more nonsense to add to the word count. Anbdndjdjelskxnjskwjsjzjksnsbsjkwksbhsjsksnsbsjkwndnzjsknwnsjsksks. Space. Ajkdndjoelndkkpl high ndkskskskndjjdksksnnsjsk. I got my cats some new toys recently, they’re touch activated and they make noises and move around. Of course I think they primarily like them because of the cat nip. I think I’m going to stop writing this, I’m getting bored and I don’t have much to say rn.………………………………………………………………………………………… I hope I don’t explode after this…………………………………….. my phone is spacing out this out weirdly, idk what that’s about…………………………………………………………………..do you think aliens are real?………………………………………are ghosts real?……………………………………………………………………. How do food bloggers end these anyways? I’ve never read the paragraphs but they have to at some point, right? ……………………………………………………………………..I think half the reason why food bloggers have such long paragraphs is because we’re encouraged to make a whole essay whenever we’re writing something. I know I am…………………………I’m probably wrong……………………. It probably forces more ads onto the screen at once………………….aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaAAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa…………… I know it doesn’t matter but I wonder how the tumblr algorithm works, like do they prefer to show longer or shorter posts? Of course it could be our decreasing attention spans. I like spam, it’s not that bad, of course I’m probably a couple of sprinkles of salt away from death……………..I’m tired……………………… I think it’s time to stop typing, I think my space button is starting to die.

[horsehorsecougar]

when the high school mean girls have a kinda gay kinda doomed thing going on and make it everyone else’s problem