#expert cook

[elegidos-para-cristo]

Recipe for 7-Minute Salmon Piccata Chef John's quick and easy salmon piccata recipe is cooked in just 7 minutes in one pan and features a savory homemade pan sauce.

[oldschoolfrp]

"Juggernauts are huge magical machines. They look like houses, pyramids or statues mounted on great rollers. They are magially animated and have some awareness of their surroundings, allowing them to hunt and kill." (Harry Quinn cover for D&D Expert adventure module X4: Master of the Desert Nomads by David Cook, the first module of the Desert Nomads series, TSR, 1983)

[hotvintagepoll]

recently discovered some fascinating hobbies for a few of the older tv men ive been submitting for the vintage tv polls and that got me wondering what (if any) strange/niche/unique hobbies have you ever encountered among classic film actors?

I think my favorite is Danny Kaye, who was apparently the type of guy who would fall in love with something and fall hard—he wanted to learn how to fly a plane, so he did; he conducted orchestras with 0 ability to read sheet music; he became so riveted by the art of Asian cuisine he started studying under master chefs Johnny Kan and Cecilia Chiang in their San Francisco restaurants, eventually building a separate kitchen into his house to support his obsession, which lasted the rest of his life. I just think that's neat.

[marmastry]

If Maya was a food dish, what would she be?

Literally a Sweet & Sour Maya-Maya 😭

[leggalese]

GUMSHOE WOULD BE SENSHI 🗣️📣‼️

Actually, I see him more as a part of a different team alongside Fransizka kind of alluding to Kuro and Mickbell. I can see what you mean tho, maybe they join the main team later.

[myreia]

✦ D I S C I P L E O F T H E H A N D

Alchemy for potions. Blacksmithing for repairs. Leatherworking and weaving for mending. She is not an artisan, but the basic skills she has picked up over the years have served her well. Self-sufficiency has always been at the forefront of her mind, and she is pleased that she can keep herself afloat when needed. Besides, crafting is relaxing. A hobby or two here and there is good for her mind. —level 90 compendium

[professoruber]

Stephanie Brown cooking skills

Batgirls (2022-2023) #11

Okay so I'm still a novice in comics and generally slowly learning the details of history of these characters, and I'm also aware there's been like continuity reboot things over the years. But from what I understand, her backstory involves having a father who is both a deadbeat and a criminal who has done prison time. Her mother meanwhile is both a nurse (a rather time-demanding job) and also addicted to drugs.

Robin (1993-2009) #3

So maybe this is a bit of a nitpick... but Steph feels like someone who should be rather self-sufficient given her circumstances and at least know how to do some basic cooking to feed herself when her parents aren't available or unable (such as not screwing up cup noodles).

Just feels like the kind of backstory which would lead to someone learning life skills in one manner or another at a young age to make up for parental lacking.

Although to be fair, thing might not necessarily be that bad and even if it were then there's still ways for Steph to get food without having to cook it herself.

Just some thoughts anyway.

Anyone with more knowledge of Steph, or the current continuity, let me know if I'm just overthinking things or not?

[poorlydrawnandroids]

From the people who brought you: "Android detectives can't cook!" comes the concept: "Hank has a horrible food palate!"

He's happy to try anything once.

[ccaptain]

   ' Childe- could i trouble you with something? you know how to cook, yes? ' @predvestnik

[kiwi]

Hi! I just wanted to ask for some advice or maybe insight on how kiwi overcomes obstacles.

I'm an aspiring artist but I severely lack discipline. Whenever I'm doing a project I end up getting distracted and obsessively starting a new project. Which results in nothing getting finished and too many projects to do.

How do you deal with keeping discipline/focus?

much love!

im gonna be so real with you anon, i wish that i had a good answer for you. i really do. cuz my life would be significantly easier if i knew the perfect answer to self discipline.

as far as i can tell, mastering self discipline is something that most people work on through their whole lives. im still in my early 20s and dealing with a lot of the same organizational struggles i dealt with my whole time in school, so im not sure how much help i could possibly be. but i'll try!

plenty of my projects go unfinished, and i think the main ones that get finished satisfy one or more of the following:

- it's a commission

- i finished it in one sitting

- it's a project im using to procrastinate on something else

^knowing these things about myself, i find that i can finish more projects by weaponizing my procrastination. by working consistently on a commission project over several days, i can "reward" myself by taking breaks to draw other stuff that i can finish in one sitting, which fulfills that center in the brain that's satisfied by completing something. if im exclusively working on projects that take multiple sessions to finish, its easier to feel unsatisfied, like im not getting anywhere.

you could try putting together your own observations about the projects youve finished- are they focused on a subject you really enjoy? are they small, easily digestible projects? are they all similar, or all wildly different? you might be able to come to some conclusions about the best workflow for yourself that way

last i want to point out that i think it's okay to not finish stuff. it's okay to abandon projects, and no matter how disciplined you are, it's alright to let go of ideas you're not that invested in anymore. i think it's kinda great that you're exploring a lot of different ideas and getting so excited about them that you have to drop everything else, and i hope that your path leads you to ideas that grab you.

until then, maybe tone down your expectations for projects, so that you can call them finished much easier and make space in your brain for the next thing! anyway, i hope this was at least somewhat helpful :') good luck

[fake-married-my-dead-fiance]

This isn't really a My Demon problem, but I'm getting really tired of the "can't make food" trope because it keeps being used in ways that I just can't believe. Do Do-hee is supposed to be a very intelligent woman, baking a cake is really not that hard, and sugar comes in much bigger packaging than salt, so that's a dumb mistake. Also, the icing job on that cake was 100x more difficult than baking the cake (as someone who has both iced and baked cakes) so it's ridiculous that it looks so good but tastes so bad. It would be more realistic if it tasted good but was iced poorly. Also, doesn't she operate a drink company? Shouldn't she be familiar with food???

Amateurs are most likely to burn food, overseason, underseason, and undercook. But the trope is always that they make perfect looking food that somehow turns out to taste terrible, which is so unbelievable. Most inedible food looks inedible. Business Proposal and Tale of the Nine Tailed also annoyed me with this trope, My Lovely Liar and Perfect Marriage Revenge did it well (he overcooked a steak and she overbaked a brownie). Also, the FL of PMR had a very strong aversion to food which made her lack of cooking ability more believable.

I also don't mind this trope if the is person nobility and is from the past. Because 1: no YouTube, 2: that is a servant job, and 3: cooking was much harder because you had to use open fires (those who have camped know). Alchemy of Souls did a fun twist on this trope without making me angry.

[oldschoolfrp]

In the beginning there was Dungeons and Dragons™ -- Original Dungeons and Dragons, later called the Collector's Edition. Then there were Greyhawk and Blackmoor and Eldritch Wizardry, which were essentially Expanded Original D&D. Then came Advanced D&D (which was advanced Original D&D), and Basic D&D (which was basic Original D&D). And ultimately, we have Expert D&D, which is expert Basic D&D, not expert Original D&D, or expert Advanced D&D; and Expert Basic D&D brings it all to the same approximate scope as Original D&D. One gets the impression that the TSR crew spends its off-hours designing mazes for rats to become lost in.

Aaron Allston summarizes the history of D&D editions through the first 8 years, from the opening paragraph of his review of Cook & Marsh's Expert D&D rules in The Space Gamer 38, April 1981. His review is generally positive, noting that it is much better edited while fixing some but not all problems with the original game:

I wish I had had the Basic D&D series when I began gaming. The rules sets are legible, indexed, punched for 3-hole notebooks, reorganizable, and, best of all, understandable. One actually can learn the game from the rules, something not possible with Original D&D. That is, however, perhaps the most annoying part about this set of rules. With sufficient playtesting, it could have been released seven or eight years ago, instead of the original set. This series is the product of hindsight.

The complete 1981 B/X D&D (Moldvay's Basic and Cook & Marsh's Expert) remains one of the best-loved early versions of D&D, directly inspiring many of the OSR clones like Labyrinth Lord and Old School Essentials.

[suppenzeit]

race one losers!!!!

(turnov is singing blue wagon, its a pleasant little tune)

[glitchy-across-aus]

chat she's onto me send help...

@choppedsouldreamer

[asokkalypsenow]

When it gets coolenough to cook again (older house in a northern state = retains heat like crazy) i think i do for real this time want to start something where i review recipes for accessibility. Even for my own use it would be nice but id hope it would help other people too.

Likeyou know, how many times have you seen a recipe that claims its a 30 minute meal but the prep work actually requires a lot of organizing and focus and preplanning. Not to mention a meal that makes five dishes is way less work than a meal that makes 20 dishes even if theyre the same cook time and method. Or like, have you wanted to try a recipe but the specialty ingredients means youd have to go to like 3 different stores….

[julians-muscles-and-tits]