#easy eating

[unexpectedyarns]

Tired of the prices of fast food skyrocketing from greedflation while the food gets worse (as if it were possible) due to enshittification?

I will show you how to make a deli-grade sandwich for $2.54.

I make these 6 at a time. It takes about 20 minutes to make and wrap all 6.

Lunch to grab and go for the whole week (or just to grab at home when you're low on spoons) - or with a bowl of hot soup, they make a good supper.

NIKKI's $2.54

$8 DELI SANDWICHES

Thin sliced ham 1lb $4 (use half) $2

1/2lb Genoa or spicy salami 3

1/2lb sliced chicken/Turkey breast 3

Sliced cheese package of your choice 3

Ciabatta rolls, croissants, hamburger buns) 3

1/4 jar of sliced pickles ($4 jar) 1

1/2 onion, sliced thin (6 in a bag $3) .25

$15.25 / 6 sandwiches = $2.54

NO TOMATOES, SPINACH, OR LETTUCE. THEY GET YUCKY IN A DAY OR TWO.

You will also need:

Any sandwich dressing you want (Italian dressing, ranch, Mayo, yellow or brown mustard)

Parchment paper or waxed paper or blank newsprint (rolls of this can be bought super cheap at a paper supplier. Last you a year or more).

Rubber bands

Lay out the buns. Dress the top of each bun and press it to the bottom half to distribute dressing.

Put a slice of cheese on each half.

Put 2 slices of chicken or Turkey breast folded in half

Lay some pieces of onion around. (Stage 1)

Add two slices of salami.

Add pickles. (Stage 2)

Take 4 thin slices of ham and fold each slice in half and half again. (Stage 3)

Put the top cheese and bun on (stage 4)

Cut rectangles of parchment/waxed paper/newsprint.

Lay the sandwich a little over a sandwich width away from the corner nearest to you but lined up with the far corner.

Bring the front of the paper up over the sandwich snugly and fold in the right corner, also snugly.

Fold the sandwich over toward the far corner, then fold the left corner over what is now the bottom of the sandwich, tightly.

Roll the sandwich the rest of the way toward the far corner, then secure the wrapping with a rubber band. Save your rubber bands and reuse them.

IT IS IMPORTANT to wrap the sandwich tightly because that will meld all the layers together so they don't slide around later when you eat it.

Now you have nearly a week's worth of sandwiches. You spent a little over $15, which isn't even 2 days worth of sandwiches out of a window.

YOU'RE WELCOME!

[lazyb-foodblog]

Starting this blog off with some shots of "lazy homemade shrimp tempura". For a while, there weren't any sushi places in my town and now it's a "special occasion" expense, so I set about trying to figure out how to make my favorite sushi roll at home.

First up, how to season the rice : Recipe here.

I have a small rice cooker that makes 1-2 servings, and while I experimented with just adding the seasoning so it cooks with the rice, that ended up in some burnt rice at the bottom. Tastes better added after anyway.

Next up, I don't often have cucumbers but in an attempt to fit some vegetables in there I found out that there are "avocado cups" - which are freezeable! Pop them straight into the freezer and defrost one at a time - I find one cup can do up to three rolls, but since I usually eat one at a time, I throw it in a ziploc for the next day (it does brown fast, but there'll be some green left if used within 24hrs). Not to self : defrosting a cup in a cold water bath takes about an hour.

For the shrimp I honestly did not feel like learning to make it myself, but while looking in the freezer section found they do make premade shrimp tempura! I personally found, and I don't know if its a quirk of my oven, but baking a minute or two longer than package says works really well (tastes better).

The last thing was a sushi kit and getting nori (the seaweed wrapper). Spicy mayo and the Unagi (Eel) sauce I managed to find at a store about an hour away (only place around that has a large selection of non-white food items) and they last a few months.

Is it perfect? Mm maybe not, but it's tasty enough that I'll make the effort, as reduced as it is, and might order something else when out and about.

FYI Links are simply to show what I use for visual help, not affiliated or paid or whatnot.

[toyastales]

Cheesy Pepperoni Stromboli

[catmask]

with that said there are characters that a fat maybe not canonically but they are spiritually. to me. they may not be drawn that way but i know whats true. ive seen it like a sort of prophet

[mccromy]

Tbh I think people should be more rabid about moshang. Like, talk about an artist falling in love with his creation, then upgrade it to infinity.

I mean, it is not like Shang Qinghua made Mobei-Jun and fell in love with him because he was so beautiful. Shang Qinghua designed Mobei-Jun to be what Shang Qinghua considered perfect. Every single flaw was included lovingly, every virtue, every inch of his body and face to be what Shang Qinghua found the most handsome, attractive. His ideal man. He made Mobei-Jun for himself, he made him with the intention to love him.

He told a history about a boy who was wronged, who had every ounce of kindness bleed out through a thousand cuts. Who took revenge on every single person who hurt him, even if by negligence. Made the whole world revolve around him, changed it to satisfy his readers.

And then made Mobei-Jun for himself. He made him silent, strong, mistrustful, arrogant, spoiled and beautiful and set him up for betrayal. Made his life tragic in that way authors do with their favorite characters.

(Luo Binghe was perfect in the eyes of the world. Shang Qinghua crafted Mobei-Jun to be perfect in his eyes.)

Can you imagine? If god made you solely with the intention to love you. Perfect in the eyes of god, literally.

And then Shang Qinghua became Mobei-Jun's servant. Mobei-Jun was both his King and his favorite creation. (As if god made himself a personal deity to worship.)

Their relationship was rocky (mountain sized rocks) for what amounts to decades. Shang Qinghua's perfect man was so incredibly flawed it made him near impossible to get along with, he was also destined to kill Shang Qinghua. And Shang Qinghua was far from perfect himself, he was also destined to stab Mobei-Jun in the back. What's more, Shang Qinghua wove those threads of fate himself.

(In the end none of that happened. But think about it.)

Even better, when put like that, Moshang sounds so poetic. And it could be!... If moshang was composed by anybody else other than Mobei "to get your man you need to beat him up at least three times a day" Jun and Shang "the best way to seduce someone is to be so pathetic and lame!" Qinghua.

Shang Qinghua is literally Mobei-Jun's creator but he's also his little minion going nice one, boss!, the LeFou to Mobei-Jun's Gaston. The sleazy car salesman to Mobei-Jun's Nepo baby CEO. The Connecticut Clark to his Malfina.

How, just how is it possible that I have to channel my inner truffle hog when sniffing around for moshang brainrot? Everybody should be losing black brain matter through their nostrils about them, and yet.

[grayeet]

I love the pale garden and how it's like a parallel to dark forests. I love how the two divert expectations.

Dark forests, despite their name, are saturated and full of life. Even compared to regular forests, there's a lot more biodiversity than many of the "basic" biomes. There's three whole different trees found there, giant mushrooms, and plenty of flowers. They're one of the biomes capable of spawning a lush cave underneath it. It has its dangers just like any other overworld biome, obviously, but it's nothing overly more than anywhere else. Traversing it can be tricky sometimes and illagers may take residence in the biome's woodland mansions, but it's ultimately a very colorful and lively environment.

Opposing it is the new pale garden. Usually white and light colors are seen as pristine and good, but the pale garden takes it the opposite direction and goes right into uncanny valley territory. It has none of the color of dark forests, none of the biodiversity, none of the liveliness. It has trees and moss that look familiar, but something is off. It has a signature mob, but even the creaking is just a puppet of the trees, not really sentient, not really even plotting against anything. There's "life", but, once again, it's wrong.

I think the pale garden is a wonderful addition to Minecraft's world building as it is, but the deliberate parallel to dark forests? Delicious.

[demigods-posts]

luke fumbling in recruiting percy has to be one of his greatest failures. a beautiful thing the show does regarding luke and percy's relationship is building rapport between them through shared moments like settling into camp, eating meals together, but especially through swordfighting lessons. the swordfighting scene at the beginning of episode 8 not only reveals that percy and luke already share similar beliefs about the fear-based system the gods have cultivated, but it's clear the conversation stays with percy when he fights ares and later calls out zeus on his waning skills as a father and a king. however, luke's plan fell through the moment percy learned that the winged-shoes were meant to drag him to tartarus. not only that, but the shoes nearly killed grover, a friend percy cared for deeply. if nourishing loyalty and trust was the key to ensuring a partnership with percy, then it was luke's faulty planning, arrogance, and impatience that cost him the greatest ally he could ask for.

[junespriince]

Batfam plays monopoly

Jason: I hate you, so, so, fucking much.

Dick, winning: well, it's your own fault asking the guy who does this family finances since 8yo, plus I'm going easy on you.

Jason: you bought almost all of the properties, Dickface!

Dick: and yet you're only paying the bare minimum for landing on said properties, 5 bucks verses 300 is a Big difference.

Jason: ugh whatever, *turns to Bruce, who's struggling* and ain't you supposed to be better at this?

Bruce: I never done a single tax form in my life, Alfred and Dick did it.

Jason: explains a lot.

Bruce, landing on Dick's property again: how much?

Dick: 200.

Jason: why?

Dick: a 100 for his bullshit, and a 100 for missing Damian's art show at his school.

Bruce, sad meow meow: I deserve that.

[inkz123]

Day 16: Forbidden (frosting)

[suntails]

reality

[crowleys-bentley-and-plants]

Sometimes i forget that Aziraphale literally said 'we can be together' and 'I need you' like holy shit we're talking about the same Aziraphale who constantly denied having 'their own side', who said he didn't need Crowley in s1. yes, Crowley was the one doing the confessing but so was Aziraphale. they both confessed that they want to be together, that they need each other, but the whole universe is conspiring against them. they both said 'i want to be with you' and yet...

[hinamie]

binding vow

[ariariari-freehounreal]

Her life is full of repeated, never ending pain and torment and she is tired of hurting and being hurt

[cubbihue]

Question ...if fairies rely on desire to feed,would Dev be a GOOD food source or a terrible food source? Does desire come from wishing or wanting more, essentially. Because dev like.. Has all he can want except his dad's approval ,so how does that work?

Fairies' food comes from the innate emotion a person has while Wishes are just the only way Fairies can pull the emotions (food) out!!!

The more the desire is out of reach, the more delicious it is, and the longer the fairy can go without needing another meal. It's simply easier to harvest from children because they have big emotions, and weak minds and impulses. A child can say "I wish" more openly than an adult does, making it easier for Fairies to cultivate.

Dev's one of the best food sources there is. In fact, he's able to feed a family of 5 for at least 8 months! However, he's also one of the worse sources to collect from because his desire is noncollectable by magic.

Which means you'll need an expert high-class, high-ranking Fairy Godparent who can siphon out his Desires into smaller parts via multiple smaller wishes!

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[inkskinned]

as we enter the start of a semester and the dreaded Hour of Making Friends us upon us... if ur ever at a loss for what to say in one of those weird social situations where you only vaguely-know people, one of my favorite questions to ask is "what is your favorite food crime." a food crime is like the food combination that you love that other people find revolting. press them to take it further than pineapple on pizza, that's rote. food crimes is a good topic that has many benefits as it turns out all people are degenerates and also it will give you some cool ideas to try out later in the privacy of your own degenerate kitchen

the other good thing to ask is "okay but has anyone here ever been someplace haunted" bc it turns out if you ask most people directly they don't believe in ghosts, but many people are like "oh yeah i lived in a haunted house. ghosts aren't real tho"

[smoosie]

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