#ii love the mushroom soup

[marykk1990]

We went to an Eastern European market for lunch, and it has an attached restaurant. It's our second time there. Hubs got the borscht & Hungarian goulash & I got mushroom soup and varenyky. I got a combo of cheese ones and potato ones. Everything was delicious! And I got a coffee mug in the market. It says, "Ukraine is my country" in Ukrainian.

#StandWithUkraine

#СлаваУкраїні 🇺🇦🌻

[kingshovelbug]

forrest!! SOS!! i have no good food to eat!! ik u can cook so can u tell us some yummy recipes?

oh god i feel like senshi because im so so very late to this ask because ive been in a slump with cooking myself and youve definitely eaten by now. BUT i have a few that i make either when i want comfort food that still checks some boxes of being kind of nutritious or that are just fast

i. spam musubi but its not actually

spam musubi are these awesome hand held things. sometimes they have egg sometimes they dont but i will eat a whole can worth in one go. so i do it as a bowl instead

i start jasmine rice in our rice cooker and chop the spam into cubes vs slices like it would be for musubi. fry them on medium high until theyre crispy. then ill julienne an onion and add it to the spam. once the onion is starting to soften ill add the sauce. the recipe i saw was 2tbsp soy sauce, 1 tbsp mirin with like a spoon full of sugar (honestly it was probably just under a tbsp) but ive been cheating recently and using a japanese bbq sauce i found at our local asian grocery store. once everything is coated i cook it a few mins so the sauce thickens up. by then the rice should be done and then you just take a scoop of each and i add seaweed on top

i know its not proper but since will doesnt like the sweet savory combo and im the only one eating it this way is easier for me to handle. i can store the rice and spam separately so nothing gets mushy and even refry the spam when i want to heat it back up

ii. black bean, pepper and cheese quesadilla

this is actually how i got will to try beans. i just take a can of black beans and dump the whole thing into a pot and cook on medium until i can smash them. ill also fry peppers and onions on medium until they have a little char. spices are honestly up to you and how spicy you want it. i usually put salt, pepper, cumin, paprika, chili powder and garlic in with the beans. once the beans are mostly smashed and the peppers cooked ill throw them together and smash them more just so everything is easier to spread onto a tortilla. that plus you can add your cheese. ive shredded my own and used grocery store mixes so its up to you!

iii. spicy garlic tofu

almost no notes on this. i use less maple syrup than the recipe calls for so 1tbsp of everything in the sauce. and instead of gochujang i use a chinese chili paste, imo it ends up less ketchup flavored but if you like ketchup then just use gochujang

iv. https://thecookiewriter.com/roasted-mushroom-pot-pie/

i dont make this as often but this is a recipe i use as a base and then cheat. i swap in frozen veggies and it speeds everything up

v. hotpot

i love making hotpot at home. its super easy skill wise it just takes some time. you can buy premixed hot pot bases from the grocery store if you have an asian grocery store near you and you just dunk stuff in the soup until its cooked. you just need to watch out for the spice level of the broth

will and i will usually get thinly sliced beef, rice cakes, udon noodles, fish cakes, bok choy and mushrooms. all you do is bring the broth to a boil and cook your ingredients. sometimes i dunk with chopsticks other times i cook with a small strainer lol

[lukkabloom]

Fun facts abt residents according to Ikevamp Radio (ヴァンなま) Part 2

Continuing with the Ikevamp radio findings (& some stuff w/the VAs) I have episodes 4-7 this time!!! (also pls take this with a grain of salt bc idk how much of this is canon according to Cybird)

Episode 4: It’s just Vincent and Sebas’s VAs!!

Morishi emphasizes that he’s a special guest, not a permanent part of the show, Makki says that there should prob be only one MC. They settle on Morishi being a guest-regular

ANYWAYS ONTO THE BATH SEGMENT

Vincent’s learning to sing the song Sebas taught Leo in episode 1 & 3 (for anyone curious, the original song is called Ii yu dana [いい湯だな] by the Drifters [ザドリフターズ] and it was a song the group sung at the end of their TV show/stage from the 70s–late 90s. Sebas knowing that song would mean he was alive during this time period)

Sebas hears him hum, Vincent is embarrassed, telling him to forget he ever saw him singing

During the day, Vincent saw Sebas cutting and sorting the gardens, to which Sebas references Nippon Mukashi Banashi (Folktales of Japan) where so many Japanese folktales start with a character cutting grass/weeds

Vincent recalls that Theo called MC “hondje” and “dog”, worries that she might be offended at those names

Sebas reassures him that MC has a strong spirit, and shouldn’t worry abt her much

Sebas comments that while Vincent and Theo are siblings, they have completely different personalities

Vincent answers that many people have stated this, wonders what he has to do to make others believe that they are brothers

Sebas has Vincent do impressions of Theo, starting w/Vincent calling Sebas “hondje” but Vincent just calls him “wanchan” (doggy/puppy) instead

Sebas makes a weird/loud noise, saying that that’s just an angel playing with a puppy (the part where Sebas loses his sanity. Actually he’s losing more of it as the episodes continue)

Vincent relents, quietly mumbling “hey, hondje” to Sebas

Sebas says he’s so close, just needs to be a bit more intimidating

Vincent repeats “hey, hondje” with more determination, Sebas replies “I have received Master Vincent’s ‘hey hondje!!!!’” (Sebas is crazy I swear)

Sebas pressures Vincent to say “I will make you my dog,” like Theo, to which Vincent questions if Theo has ever said that

Sebas quickly answers yes, forcing Vincent to say the phrase but worded more respectfully “I will make you my dog, okay?” (peer pressure is never okay, ESPECIALLY concerning Vincent)

Sebas is satisfied with the result, saying that the two brothers are really related

(I LEGIT DON’T KNOW WHAT’S WITH THIS EPISODE)

Sebas confesses that he just wants to see Vincent as a sadist and Vincent just sweat-drops

In this episode’s “Can you tell me… your name?” segment… (aka my fav part of the livestream—lol it’s not even the skit in the thermae) 

Sebas’s chosen line was “I’ve boiled the pumpkin” (this was done during Halloween, that’s what’s with the pumpkin). There were a lot of food-related names, so Sebas would say “Cucumber, I’ve boiled the pumpkin” or “Miso soup, I’ve boiled the pumpkin” and many others (mushroom, pig, tomato, sweet potato, radish, shiitake, hanpen)

There was also one in which Morishi said “Aramaki, I’ve boiled the pumpkin” to which Makki replied “thank you,” and another with “Vincent, I’ve boiled the pumpkin”

Episode 5: feat. Theo’s VA Sato Hisanori & Earl Rose (ローズ伯爵)

First episode where there is video in the livestream (it was previously just audio)

(I love watching VAs play their roles so this episode is prob one of my favs)

Sato realizes what kind of crazy show this is when he has to say “konvampire” instead of “konbanwa” (good evening) as a greeting. I feel like every guest other than Tsuda has said this (at least implied) but Sato just straight up says this

Sato calls Makki “nii-san” (big brother) when they first greet each other, referencing their roles as Vincent and Theo (also, fun fact, the two VAs are born in the same month of the same year)

Sato asks the viewers who they like the most out of Vincent, Theo, and Sebas. The viewers overwhelm them with calls of “Vincent!!!”

Sato asks for them to stop, changing questions, asking the viewers who wears the best clothes out of three (Makki, Morishi, and Sato). The viewers still say Makki, though there are some saying Sato

Earl Rose is a guest for this episode. He is the lord (read: owner) of the vampire cafe in Ginza. (he’s basically here to promote the ikevamp collab w/his Vampire Cafe) Sato looks freaked out/uncomfortable by the earl. The three eat the collab foods and drinks provided (it looks pretty good tbh)

NOW ONTO THE “I LOVE YU” SEGMENT

Vincent sinks down to his shoulders in the waters, Theo can’t find him for a bit

Theo and Vincent enjoy spending time w/each other

Sebas can hold his breath underwater (in a hot bath) for 5 min. He did so to not interrupt the two brothers’ conversation (Sebas becoming more and more ooc)

Vincent stated that his previous record was 3 min 46 sec. Sebas said that “as a butler of this mansion, I shall keep on improving” (Theo doesn’t know what the heck is happening, but Vincent seems to be enjoying himself so he let’s go)

Vincent & Theo have never fought (as expected of such bros. Now that I’m rereading this I’m sure this is reinforced in various routes so maybe I don’t need this info)

Sebas (who tries to create some tea---figuratively) asks Vincent what he would do if his pancakes were covered by tons of syrup by Theo, to which Vincent replies “I will give those pancakes to Theo.”

Sebas switches over to Theo, asking him what he will do if Vincent steals his syrup before he can eat the pancakes. Theo answers “Easy. I’ll give the pancakes to my brother. It would mean that he wanted to eat pancakes so badly that he would steal the syrup”

There’s around 2-3 times where Theo almost gets angry at Sebas and Vincent has to stop him (pats his head and stuff)

Theo asks why Sebas is acting weird, to which Vincent believes its bc he’s working too hard, so they should help him out & fulfill his hopes/wishes

Sebas has a voice recorder??? Theo doesn’t know what it is

Theo doesn’t approve being recorded, but Sebas goes to Vincent for protection, who calms Theo

OK I don't talk about this segment much but for the first time since the episodes’ release, there was a tie in the votes in the drawing segment (van Gogh’s drawing section) between Morishi and Makki. Usually, they’ll give the best voted piece to a randomly selected winner w/the VA’s signature, but instead of giving out both pictures, they gave out Makki’s art piece (bc he’s van Gogh lol)

(they didn’t do the “Can you tell me…your name?” segment this episode, but this episode is legendary in my mind!!! So funny and entertaining)

Episode 6: No special guests!! Just Sebas and Vincent

Makki finally lets the viewers choose the official position of Morishi (guest, regular-guest, regular, or dyungyun). He’s officially the dyungyun (でゅんぎゅん) It’s an exclamatory phrase meaning exciting/heart-beating I think… I’ve been watching 6 episodes of the radio but I still don’t know what that phrase means exactly

Welcome to another episode of Sebas slowly losing his sanity! In today’s “I love yu” segment, Sebas makes his appearance by jumping into the baths!!!

Apparently Sebas has an urge to swim when he sees the large baths, and even is a first-class swimmer (スイミング一級) I think it’s a scale on how great he is at swimming, and it would mean he’s pretty good

Vincent has also seen him swim butterfly (idk if it's in the baths or in a pool but imagining Sebas swimming butterfly in the hot baths is amusing)

Vincent likes eating the motsunabe (もつ鍋), a type of hotpot that Sebas made

As an adult, Vincent spends his Christmas season painting, but as a child, he would spend time w/Theo baking cakes, decorating trees, or playing in the snow

One time, Theo cried when a snowball hit him in the face

The two decide to do yaminabe (闇鍋) w/the residents. It is when you darken the room, and anyone can put anything in the hot pot. Vincent’s curious what the others will decide to put in the hot pot.

They created a new segment in the show called “Vanmana Involuntary Awards 2017” (ヴァンなま勝手にアワード) where they review the year 2017 with things related to Ikevamp and the radio. The first award is the most popular phrase which ended up being voted as “dyungyun”. The second is deciding on the best artwork produced in the “van Gogh’s drawing section” with the winning piece being a drawing by Makki titled “A woman being kabedon’d by an Ikemen in a dark room” (yes that’s the title). The third is voting on what the viewers want ikevamp to do in the future (ex. Voice drama CDs, more livestreams, raiding Ikesen, etc.) with the winning choice being to raid Ikesen. And in turn, it is implied that Ikesen would raid Ikevamp. The last is asking the viewers if there has been any change (physically, mentally, emotionally) ever since they started watching the radio, with the most votes on the viewers being more interested in Morishin and Makki.

AND of course, my fav segment “Can you tell me… your name?” Vincent’s chosen line was very nice “Christmas? I don’t need anything. All I want is (y/n) alone.” 

BUT Sebas’s chosen line is (drumroll please…) “(y/n), did you write your New Year’s greeting card?” and the first name he called out was “Santa-san, did you write your New Year’s greeting card?” AND I CAN’T STOP LAUGHING

Other names used were reindeer, postbox, and dyungyun (most were legit names tho)

They also did a third phrase where after saying (y/n), Sebas and Vincent will say a line, and I guess the staff felt bad for Sebas or smth bc he has legit lines in all of the available options. It was decided that Vincent would say “(y/n), I love you,” (大好きだよ) and Sebas would say “I love you” (愛していますよ) after Vincent (Both mean the same thing, just worded differently. Vincent's "Daisukidayo" would prob be closer to "I like you" meanwhile Sebas's "Aishitemasuyo" would be "I love you" if I were to be very specific)

I thought people would submit serious names (many did) but there were names like ice, carbonara, butter, napolitan (many varieties of pasta). There was also Rose and the two VAs were like “Earl Rose??? You watch this???"

Episode 7: feat. Comte’s VA Horie Kazuma

OMG Comte’s VA has such a sexy cool voice I can’t

So I didn’t know this, but you can talk to Vincent on Amazon Alexa?? I don’t have one so idk if it still works but apparently it’s called “Vincent’s time” (フィンセントの時間) and Vincent can tell you the time of day and you can talk to him and stuff??

Video showing Vincent's Time here part 1 part 2 part 3

It’s so funny how similar Horie is to Comte bc Makki and Morishin will be loud and talkative while Horie just watches over the scene like a parent

ANYWAYS for the thermae skit…

It’s rare for the others to meet Comte in the thermae since Comte baths at a later time than the others

The topic of today’s thermae episode is mainly about the construction they have in the baths (prob in another part of it??) Sebas came back running after looking at it, Comte and Sebas told Vincent not to worry about it (WHAT IS HAPPENING OVER THERE??? we'll never know...)

Vincent wants to paint scenes he’s never seen so he’d like to go out to various places

After living for so long, Comte said he’s starting to lose the concept on the importance of New Year’s and New Year’s resolutions (this episode was broadcast on Jan of 2018)

Vincent says that Comte’s like a father, to which he replies, “Haha, I’m not like a father. When you call me something as young as a ‘father,’ it makes me feel embarrassed. I’m probably way older than you two think I am”

Sebas replies, “Oh, of course. None of us know how old Comte actually is”

Comte continues, “It’s rude to ask a vampire their age. Besides, men like to keep their secrets hidden.” To which Sebas is like “As expected of le Comte. That is admirable.”

According to Sebas, Jean has a breast fetish?? Sebas apparently knows nothing else abt Jean other than that single fact

So… the “Can you tell me… your name?” is *chef’s kiss* amazing as usual

Comte’s line was “(y/n), I won’t let you go” and for one of the names, he said “Aramaki, I won’t let you go” & you can tell the staff were laughing. 

So Sebas… his chosen line was “(y/n), isn’t this bed a bit hard?”

There was “Comte, isn’t this bed a bit hard?” and Horie replies “No,” in his Comte voice & it’s amazing. There’s also “Aramaki, isn’t this bed a bit hard?” and Makki replies “Yup.”

Other notable names include bed, obachan (Auntie), Morishima (yes the VA’s asking himself) and employee (店員さん)

Also Morishi does voice-percussion at the end of the stream and… I’ll just say it’s interesting :))

(Also the updates will prob be daily since I've watched & have the next couple parts written already. I just have to watch the last couple & write about it, which should be done soon)

[daimonclub]

Quotes and aphorisms on food

Quotes on food Quotes and aphorisms on food by various and famous authors and writers, ideas and thoughts to a well balanced diet and food philosophy to eat and live better. I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead - not sick, not wounded - dead. Woody Allen We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police. Jeff Arder A gourmet who thinks of calories is like a tart, who looks at her watch. James Beard Unbought feasts.  (Lat., Dapes inemptae.) Latin Proverb An anonymous man from the 16th century always used to say: "There are many important things in life, the first is eating, I don't know the others." Carl William Brown Hunger is a good cook. Author Unknown Tomatoes and oregano make it Italian; wine and tarragon make it French. Sour cream makes it Russian; lemon and cinnamon make it Greek. Soy sauce makes it Chinese; garlic makes it good. Alice May Brock Eating is touch carried to the bitter end. Samuel Butler One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well. Virginia Woolf I would like to find a stew that will give me heartburn immediately, instead of at three o clock in the morning. John Barrymore Only the pure in heart can make a good soup. Ludwig Van Beethoven

Aphorisms on food Yogi ordered a pizza. The waitress asked How many pieces do you want your pie cut? Yogi responded, Four. I don't think I could eat eight. Yogi Berra Edible. Good to eat and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm. Ambrose Bierce The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star. Anthelme Brillat-Savarin I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid, and my mother made me eat it. I am President of the United States, and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli. George H. Bush The healthy stomach is nothing if it is not conservative. Few radicals have good digestions. Samuel Butler I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian because I hate plants. A. Whitney Brown What most moved him was a certain meal on beans. Robert Browning I just hate health food. Julia Child Life is too short to stuff a mushroom. Shirley Conran Anybody who believes that the way to a man's heart is through his stomach flunked geography. Robert Byrne A woman should never be seen eating or drinking, unless it be lobster salad and Champagne, the only true feminine and becoming viands. Lord Byron The right diet directs sexual energy into the parts that matter. Barbara Cartland

Aphorisms and quotes on food It is a difficult matter to argue with the belly since it has no ears. Cato The Elder For its merit I will knight it, and then it will be Sir-Loin. Charles II Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat. Marcus T. Cicero Although there is a great deal of controversy among scientists about the effects of ingested food on the brain, no one denies that you can change your cognition and mood by what you eat. Arthur Winter Food = joy ... guilt ... anger ... pain ... nurturing ... friendship ... hatred ... the way you look and feel.... Food = everything you can imagine. Susan Powter Bread that must be sliced with an axe is bread that is too nourishing. Fran Lebowitz Food is an important part of a balanced diet. Fran Lebowitz Inhabitants of underdeveloped nations and victims of natural disasters are the only people who have ever been happy to see soy beans. Fran Lebowitz More die in the United States of too much food than of too little. John Kenneth Galbraith Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be indulged in lightly. M.F.K. Fisher Food was always a conduit in our family for storytelling, and it was a way for us to keep in touch and remember things. We're people that use food to keep each other together and to always cheer us up and make all of our days better. Rachel ray My favorite food city is wherever I happen to be eating. You know what they say, love the one you’re with! Pamela Anderson A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety. Aesop The soup is never hot enough if the waiter can keep his thumb in it. William Collier The one way to get thin is to re-establish a purpose in life. Cyril Connolly

Salami Italian typical food To eat is human, to digest divine. Charles T. Copeland Square meals often make round people. Joseph E. Cossman I found there was only one way to look thin: hang out with fat people. Rodney Dangerfield Let the stoics say what they please, we do not eat for the good of living, but because the meat is savory and the appetite is keen. Ralph Waldo Emerson When a man's stomach is full it makes no difference whether he is rich or poor. Euripides Cheese is milk's leap toward immortality. Cliff Fadiman Roast Beef, medium, is not only a food. It is a philosophy. Seated at Life's Dining Table, with the menu of Morals before you, your eye wanders a bit over the entrees, the hors d'oeuvres, and the things a la though you know that Roast Beef, medium, is safe and sane, and sure. Edna Ferber I've been on a diet for two weeks and all I've lost is two weeks. Totie Fields Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be indulged in lightly. M. F. K. Fisher Food has it over sex for variety. Hedonistically, gustatory possibilities are much broader than copulatory ones. Joseph Epstein I am not a glutton - I am an explorer of food. Erma Bombeck Food ... is the topmost taper on the golden candelabrum of existence. Donald Barthelme He causeth the grass to grow for the cattle, and herb for the service of man: that he may bring forth food out of the earth; And wine that maketh glad the heart of man, and oil to make his face to shine, and bread which strengtheneth man's heart. Bible, Psalms The food here is so tasteless you could eat a meal of it and belch and it wouldn't remind you of anything. Redd Foxx One should eat to live, not live to eat. Benjamin Franklin More die in the United States from too much food that from too little. John Kenneth Galbraith God comes to the hungry in the form of food. Mahatma Gandhi It isn't so much what's on the table that matters, as what's on the chairs. W. S. Gilbert Meat eaten without either mirth or music is ill of digestion. Sir Walter Scott Mellow nuts have the hardest rind. Sir Walter Scott

Thoughts on the art of food Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast. Oscar Wilde We ought to know about our culinary past. Food and identity is terribly important ... I don't mean we should go out and eat historic dishes, but we should know what makes us different ... self-confident nations have that sense of where they come from. Tom Jaine What is food to one, is to others bitter poison. Lucretius Food is much better off the hand than the fork. Mario Batali You can't just eat good food. You've got to talk about it too. And you've got to talk about it to somebody who understands that kind of food. Kurt Vonnegut We need a quarter of the food we eat to live, the rest is used to fatten industrialists, advertisers, doctors and undertakers. (obviously for those dying of hunger the situation changes.) Carl William Brown Food - what is chosen from the possibilities available, how it is presented, how it is eaten, with whom and when, and how much time is allotted to cooking and eating it - is one of the means by which a society creates itself and acts out its aims and fantasies. Margaret Visser There is such a thing as food and such a thing as poison. But the damage done by those who pass off poison as food is far less than that done by those who generation after generation convince people that food is poison. Paul Goodman A gourmet is just a glutton with brains. Phillip H. Haberman Jr. As a child my family's menu consisted of two choices: take it, or leave it. Buddy Hackett A store of grain, Oh king is the best of treasures. A gem put in your mouth will not support life. Hitopadesa First rule of Economics 101: our desires are insatiable. Second rule: we can stomach only three Big Macs at a time. Doug Horton Most of us are either too thin to enjoy eating, or too fat to enjoy walking. Edgar Watson Howe A lot of Thanksgiving days have been ruined by not carving the turkey in the kitchen. Kin Hubbard A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner. Samuel Johnson He who does not mind his belly, will hardly mind anything else. Samuel Johnson He who cannot eat horsemeat need not do so. Let him eat pork. But he who cannot eat pork, let him eat horsemeat. It's simply a question of taste. Nikita S. Khrushchev Eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow we may diet. Harry Kurnitz I judge a restaurant by the bread and by the coffee. Burt Lancaster The most dangerous food to eat is a wedding cake. Author Unknown

Quotes on food and wine Food is our common ground, a universal experience. James Beard The fact is that this generation - yours, my generation ... we're the first generation that can look at poverty and disease, look across the ocean to Africa and say with a straight face, we can be the first to end this sort of stupid extreme poverty, where in the world of plenty, a child can die for lack of food in it's belly. Bono The act of putting into your mouth what the earth has grown is perhaps your most direct interaction with the earth. Frances Moore Lappe Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying. Fran Lebowitz Food is an important part of a balanced diet. Fran Lebowitz If you're going to America, bring your own food. Fran Lebowitz Vegetables are interesting but lack a sense of purpose when unaccompanied by a good cut of meat. Fran Lebowitz I told my doctor I get very tired when I go on a diet, so he gave me pep pills. Know what happened? I ate faster. Joe E. Lewis If there were only turnips and potatoes in the world, someone would complain that plants grow the wrong way. Georg C. Lichtenberg Everything you see I owe to spaghetti. Sophia Loren Choose rather to punish your appetites than be punished by them. Tyrius Maximus It ain't what you eat, but the way how you chew it. Delbert McClinton You can travel fifty thousand miles in America without once tasting a piece of good bread. Henry Miller Never eat more than you can lift. Miss Piggy We are digging our graves with our teeth. Thomas Moffett Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half. Charles De Montesquieu No man is lonely while eating spaghetti; it requires so much attention. Christopher Morley You needn't tell me that a man who doesn't love oysters and asparagus and good wines has got a soul, or a stomach either. He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed. Hector Hugh Munro He that eats till he is sick must fast till he is well. Hebrew Proverb There is only one thing harder than looking for a dewdrop in the dew, and that is fishing for a clam in the clam chowder. New England Proverb

Vegetarian food pyramid Want to learn to eat a lot? Here it is: Eat a little. That way, you will be around long enough to eat a lot. Anthony Robbins We know that ever woman wants to be thin. Our images of womanhood are almost synonymous with thinness. Susie Orbach We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine-gun. George Orwell Strange to see how a good dinner and feasting reconciles everybody. Samuel Pepys Make food a very incidental part of your life by filling your life so full of meaningful things that you'll hardly have time to think about food. Peace Pilgrim He who eats alone chokes alone. Arabian Proverb It's better that it should make you sick than that you don't eat it at all. Catalan Proverb Don't dig your grave with your knife and fork. English Proverb A good meal ought to begin with hunger. French Proverb Appetite comes with eating; the more one has, the more one would have. French Proverb There is no such thing as a pretty good omelette. French Proverb Coffee should be black as Hell, strong as death, and sweet as love. Turkish Proverb When one has tasted it he knows what the angels eat. Mark Twain He who is a slave to his stomach seldom worships God. Saadi I have found it to be the most serious objection to coarse labors long continued, that they compelled me to eat and drink coarsely also. Henry David Thoreau There is nothing to which men, while they have food and drink, cannot reconcile themselves. George Santayana To eat is to appropriate by destruction. Jean-Paul Sartre Eating is not merely a material pleasure. Eating well gives a spectacular joy to life and contributes immensely to goodwill and happy companionship. It is of great importance to the morale. Elsa Schiaparelli He jests at scars that never felt a wound. William Shakespeare There is no love sincerer than the love of food. George Bernard Shaw

Ideas and quotes on food Seven's a banquet nine a brawl. Author Unknown Worthless people love only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live. Socrates For much of the female half of the world, food is the first signal of our inferiority. It lets us know that our own families may consider female bodies to be less deserving, less needy, less valuable. Gloria Steinem Lunch is for wimps. Oliver Stone Man shall not live by bread alone. The Holy Bible Put a knife to thy throat, if you're a man given to appetite. The Holy Bible Much meat, much disease. Author Unknown Fang drops so much food on his ties we keep them in the refrigerator. Phyllis Diller Do not arouse disdainful mind when you prepare a broth of wild grasses; do not arouse joyful mind when you prepare a fine cream soup. Dogen A good, honest, wholesome, hungry breakfast. Izaak Walton Our lives are not in the lap of the gods, but in the lap of our cooks. Lin Yutang Find out more visiting these links: Good food for your diet (With Videos) Vegetarian food diets (With Videos) Thoughts and reflections on food Aforismi e citazioni sul cibo International and Italian recipes Enogastronomia e turismo Italian recipes, fashion and travels https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/collection/easy https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes http://allrecipes.com/recipes/1947/everyday-cooking/quick-and-easy/ http://www.sjana.com/blogs/lifestyle/food-for-the-soul Cooking traditions in Lombardy, Italy Read the full article

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National Spinach Day

It’s not just Popeye who will be strong to the finish on National  Spinach Day. In fact, anyone who chooses to celebrate the day by  consuming some of this leafy green plant will get to join in on the  health benefits as well!

Packed with nutrients such as Iron, Vitamin A and Calcium, spinach is  known for being a healthy part of a balanced diet – but do we eat  enough of it?

Well, that’s what National Spinach Day is all about!

History of National Spinach Day

Originally from Persia (the area that is now Iran), spinach made its  way to China in the 7th century, where the people referred to it as the  ���Herb of Persia” or the “Persian Green”. The vegetable eventually ended  up in Europe a few hundred years later, when it landed in Spain. In  fact, for some time the English referred to spinach as “The Spanish  Vegetable”. It didn’t make its way to being cultivated in North American  until sometime in the early 1800s.

Possibly the most famous person in history to be associated with  spinach is 16th-century noblewoman, Catherine de’ Medici, who ruled  France from behind her three sons for many years. Originally from  Florence, Italy, she moved to France when she married King Henry II. It  is said that Catherine loved spinach and made sure her cooks served it  at every meal. Because of this, even today, meals that are made with  spinach are often known as “Florentine” in honor of the birthplace of  Catherine de’ Medici.

This dark, leafy green vegetable that grows in groups that form a  rosette-type shape is part of the “goosefoot” family, with its close  relatives being Swiss chard and quinoa, as well as beets. Spinach has a  few different varieties that offer different shapes and sizes of leaves.  

Taking some time to celebrate National Spinach Day acts as a little nod to this tasty, healthy vegetable.

How to Celebrate National Spinach Day

While it might seem a little far-fetched to spend the day celebrating  the wonders of spinach, it’s possible–and can even be a load of fun!  People who want to celebrate National Spinach Day can employ a variety  of ideas for ways to the day, it just takes a bit of creativity.

Consider giving these ideas a try or come up with other ideas of your own:

Try Creative Ways to Serve Spinach  

Why not try a new recipe on National Spinach Day? Sauté it in olive  oil and a little bit of garlic – or what about a baby spinach salad with  mozzarella cheese, avocado slices, and crispy bacon crumbled on top?  Delicious!

Other tasty ideas for meals that include spinach are:

Bacon, spinach, and gorgonzola pasta

Spinach, artichoke, zucchini dip (with pita bread or baguette)

Spinach spanakopita (a traditional Greek pastry dish)

Creamy spinach soup

Spinach lasagna (a vegetarian take on the traditional Italian dish)

Spinach pesto on flatbread pizza

Spinach quiche (also called Quiche Florentine)

Mushroom and spinach risotto

Some people like to purée spinach up and hide it in soups and pizza  sauces for the finicky eaters in the family who may not prefer to eat it  straight up.

So, no excuses – get your leafy greens down on National Spinach Day!

Learn About the Health Benefits of Spinach  

Just like many vegetables, the healthiest way to serve and eat  spinach is fresh and raw. However, even when it is cooked, it still  remains one of the healthier vegetables. These are just some of the many  nutritional benefits:

Fiber aids the digestive system

Vitamin A (carotene), for healthy organs and eyes

Iron helps with red blood cells and tissue health

Vitamin C, antioxidants, and a booster for the immune system

Folic Acid, useful in cell function and tissue growth

Calcium, essential for bone health

Antioxidants, help remove free radicals that cause oxidative damage

While spinach also has a small amount of natural sugars and  carbohydrates, these are small in comparison to the myriad of other  health benefits provided by this tasty veggie.

Try Growing Spinach in the Garden  

Getting enough leafy greens in the diet is much easier for people who  can grow their own! And, actually, spinach is not a particularly  difficult one to grow. It’s an annual plant, meaning that it needs to be  re-planted from seed each year, but it’s hardy and enjoys weather that  is somewhat cool (but not cold).

National Spinach Day might be a bit too soon in the year to start a  garden outdoors in many parts of the world. If this is the case, it’s  simple to begin an indoor planting of spinach from seed and then move it  outside when the weather permits. Spinach likes cool weather. So, as  long as there is no risk of frost, the spinach plants should do fine  outside in the spring.

As soon as the leaves are large enough to eat, the spinach is ready  for harvest. It is healthiest when eaten as quickly as possible after  harvesting. However, it can be stored, loosely packed, in a sealed  plastic bag for several days. Don’t wash it ahead of time as it could  get mushy. Simply wash it just prior to eating or cooking with it. It  can also be frozen while it is still fresh.

Since it only takes about 6 weeks from the sowing of seeds to harvest  time, it has a quick turnaround time. This means that it’s a great  vegetable to grow in the spring as well as in the cooler autumn months  so that there’s enough for the family to eat all throughout the growing  season.

Take in Some ‘Popeye, the Sailor Man’

Some younger folks might not be familiar with the connection between  Popeye and spinach. But those of a certain generation will possibly  remember not only the Saturday morning cartoon but also the little  jingle song that went along with it!

Going further back, even before it was an animated cartoon, more  mature folks might remember that Popeye started out as a comic strip in  the newspapers in the late 1920s. Eventually, decades later, a  live-action film tribute was created in 1980, starring Robin Williams.

The theme of the character, Popeye, was that he was a rather average  little sailor guy, with eerily large, tattooed forearms who smoked a  pipe. And when he ate his spinach? Well, he would immediately gain  superhuman strength and be able to punch the lights out of his  arch-nemesis, Bluto, in order to help one of his friends who were in  need. (Popeye and Bluto were constantly fighting over the affections of  the tall, extremely skinny Olive Oyl.)

As it turns out, pop culture actually can have a positive influence ��on the world, proven by Popeye. After the character started eating  spinach, children began asking for it and sales in the United States  skyrocketed by one-third. That was quite a boost for the spinach  industry–and the health of those children!

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[fearandloathingblog]

Tater Tot Casserole II This is a recipe everyone in the family will love. Vegetarian or not, the combination of tater tots, cheese, and mushroom soup will drive your taste buds crazy!

[fuzzysparrow]

If a dish is described as "à la florentine", which vegetable is found in it?

The French term "à la Florentine", meaning "in the style of Florence", refers to dishes that typically include a base of cooked spinach. The term allegedly refers to Catherine de Medici of Florence, who married Henry II of France in 1533. She brought to France her love of Florentine-style dishes, which heavily featured spinach. Some historians claim this story is incorrect because Italian, and possibly Florentine, cuisine had already had an influence on the French long before Catherine's arrival.

As well as spinach, Florentine dishes usually contain Mornay sauce and an element of protein, such as chicken or eggs. Chicken Florentine became popular in the USA during the 1930s but the sauce was often replaced with mushroom soup.

Another Florentine-style dish is Sole Florentine, which the French chef Auguste Escoffier included in his 1903 recipe book 'Le guide culinaire' ('The Culinary Guide'). The recipe instructs the cook to poach the fish in butter and fish stock, cook the spinach in butter, cover the dish with Mornay sauce, and garnish it with grated cheese.

[atlanticmustard456]

Blues Hog Honey Mustard Sauce Squeeze Bottle

Avoid cross-contamination through the mustard dipping sauces use of a different cutting board for your meat and other components. Make positive you’re cooking to protected temperatures and chilling any leftovers inside two hours. For more food security ideas, visit our Food Safety at Home Section. Coat foil-lined baking sheet with cooking spray, place pork on baking sheet, and cook 18 to twenty minutes, until barely pink in heart.

Use no matter kind of pasta you like - enough for 2 servings. I used tagliatelle, but linguini or fettucine would even be good. Be sure to cook your mushrooms in batches so they are going to be lovely and golden. Salting the finished dish well mustard sauces, will actually convey out the most effective within the mushrooms. The mustard plant itself has a sharp, scorching, pungent taste. Mustard may be added to dishes as a major spice, as is popular in East Indian delicacies.

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It can additionally be used as an ingredient in mayonnaise, vinaigrette, marinades, and barbecue sauce. It is also a preferred accompaniment to hot canines, pretzels, and bratwurst. In the Netherlands and northern Belgium, it is commonly used to make mustard soup, which includes mustard, cream, parsley, garlic, and items curry mustard sauce of salted bacon. Mustard as an emulsifier can stabilize a mixture of two or extra immiscible liquids, corresponding to oil and water. Added to Hollandaise sauce, mustard can inhibit curdling. The early use of mustard as a condiment in England is attested from the year 1390 in the guide The Forme of Cury which was written by King Richard II's grasp cooks.

Here is an fascinating article I discovered on The Association for Dressings and Sauces web site. Did you understand a lot of the world's mustard seed is grown in Canada? Check out the next articles for extra info. The taste of the sauce is tremendously enhanced if you mustard bbq sauce use a pan by which your seared pork medallions or hen breast because the pan may have those good brown bits left over. These brown bits will at all times type the muse of a delicious pan sauce.

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elmo by v

a collection of poetry regarding my experiences of love during youth

COMPLETED!! 03/02/2024

i. geomagnet

ii. spider-man

iii. trypophobia

iv. housefire

v. septicemia

vi. maria jannette

vii. fiume per la pelle

viii. i love you

ix. depreciated value

x. cirrostratus

xi. narcissist?

mushroom soup

[istumpysk]

Operation Stumpy Re-Read

ACOK: Bran III (Chapter 21)

Rickon was to his right, his mop of shaggy auburn hair grown so long that it brushed his ermine mantle. He had refused to let anyone cut it since their mother had gone.

She sat on the bed and smoothed his long, fine hair. He does have pretty hair. Lady Lysa had brushed it herself every night, and cut it when it wanted cutting. After she had fallen Robert had suffered terrible shaking fits whenever anyone came near him with a blade, so Petyr had commanded that his hair be allowed to grow. - Alayne II, AFFC

Rickon and Sweetrobin parallels fill me with dread.

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Such food Bran had never seen; course after course after course, so much that he could not manage more than a bite or two of each dish. There were great joints of aurochs roasted with leeks, venison pies chunky with carrots, bacon, and mushrooms, mutton chops sauced in honey and cloves, savory duck, peppered boar, goose, skewers of pigeon and capon, beef-and-barley stew, cold fruit soup. Lord Wyman had brought twenty casks of fish from White Harbor packed in salt and seaweed; whitefish and winkles, crabs and mussels, clams, herring, cod, salmon, lobster and lampreys. There was black bread and honeycakes and oaten biscuits; there were turnips and pease and beets, beans and squash and huge red onions; there were baked apples and berry tarts and pears poached in strongwine. Wheels of white cheese were set at every table, above and below the salt, and flagons of hot spice wine and chilled autumn ale were passed up and down the tables.

Extravagance like this during war, with winter coming, is no more justifiable than when Lannisters do it.

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The singer sang good songs, "Iron Lances" and "The Burning of the Ships" and "The Bear and the Maiden Fair," but only Hodor seemed to be listening. He stood beside the piper, hopping from one foot to the other.

The Burning of the Ships? Battle of the Blackwater.

The Bear and the Maiden Fair? A maid with honey in her hair, who calls for a knight, but to her horror gets a bear? She kicks and wails, but he licks her hair? Gosh, I don’t know.

Iron Lances? Are we staying with the theme of Blackwater, or is this Greyjoy?

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Bran had not wanted the Freys at the high table, but the maester reminded him that they would soon be kin. Robb was to marry one of their aunts, and Arya one of their uncles. "She never will," Bran said, "not Arya,"

You’re only her sibling, how well could you really know her?

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He sent sweets to Hodor and Old Nan as well, for no reason but he loved them.

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He watched them as from a distance, as if he still sat in the window of his bedchamber, looking down on the yard below, seeing everything yet a part of nothing.    

Bran can see everything, but can’t engage.

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Bran watched Farlen make his red bitch beg for bones and smiled at Old Nan plucking at the crust of a hot pie with wrinkled fingers.

What is this? Is this something?

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Alebelly led two new guests into the feast. "The Lady Meera of House Reed," the rotund guardsman bellowed over the clamor. "With her brother, Jojen, of Greywater Watch."

The Lady Meera has top billing over the heir to Greywater Watch.

I smell future!

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Her brother was several years younger and bore no weapons. All his garb was green, even to the leather of his boots, and when he came closer Bran saw that his eyes were the color of moss

Like a GREENseer?

Where else are you going to find literary analysis as good as this?

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"My lords of Stark," the girl said. "The years have passed in their hundreds and their thousands since my folk first swore their fealty to the King in the North. My lord father has sent us here to say the words again, for all our people."    

Okay but why is Howland Reed sending his children to go chill with Bran indefinitely? Why is Howland Reed not participating in the war? Does Howland Reed know things? Can Howland Reed see things? Give us Howland Reed!

Theon was about to tell him what he ought to do with his wet nurse's fable when Maester Luwin spoke up. "The histories say the crannogmen grew close to the children of the forest in the days when the greenseers tried to bring the hammer of the waters down upon the Neck. It may be that they have secret knowledge." - Theon IV, ACOK   

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"To Winterfell we pledge the faith of Greywater," they said together. "Hearth and heart and harvest we yield up to you, my lord. Our swords and spears and arrows are yours to command. Grant mercy to our weak, help to our helpless, and justice to all, and we shall never fail you."

"I swear it by earth and water," said the boy in green.

"I swear it by bronze and iron," his sister said.

"We swear it by ice and fire," they finished together.

Sounds like something you might say after you agree to a pact.

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The girl caught him staring at her and smiled. Bran blushed and looked away.   

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When the singer reached the part in "The Night That Ended" where the Night's Watch rode forth to meet the Others in the Battle for the Dawn, he blew a blast that set all the dogs to barking.    

He lost me with that last part.

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They went out the rear rather than walk the length of the hall, Bran ducking his head as they passed through the lord's door.

We get it, George.

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In the dim-lit gallery outside the Great Hall, they came upon Joseth the master of horse engaged in a different sort of riding. He had some woman Bran did not know shoved up against the wall, her skirts around her waist.

Amazed this didn’t trigger his post-traumatic stress disorder.

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"The finest knight I ever saw was Ser Arthur Dayne, who fought with a blade called Dawn, forged from the heart of a fallen star. They called him the Sword of the Morning, and he would have killed me but for Howland Reed." Father had gotten sad then, and he would say no more. Bran wished he had asked him what he meant.

I’m sure you’ll find out.

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"They will be bigger still before they are grown," the young male said, watching them with eyes large, green, and unafraid. "The black one is full of fear and rage, but the grey is strong . . . stronger than he knows . . . can you feel him, sister?"    

"No," she said, moving a hand to the hilt of the long brown knife she wore. "Go careful, Jojen."         

"He won't hurt me. This is not the day I die."

Guys, I’m so happy the Reeds are here! 🥰

Final thoughts:

Has anyone ever noticed there’s a lot of sex in Bran’s chapters? Contemplating sex, talking about sex, witnessing sex...

Imagine that creepy scene on the show wasn’t a stretch, and Bran spies on one or two of his siblings?

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[swordofpevensie]

Here are some random thoughts of mine about Pevensies and Golden Age (Part II):

• When High King Peter is sad, it starts raining because deep down, he misses the rainy weather of England.

• However when King Edmund is sad, it stars to snow, even if it is the middle of the summer.

• Queen Lucy's dresses change colors according to the place she is in. Sometimes her dresses camouflage her when there is danger.

• When Queen Susan is angry at someone, people are so scared of her. Even her siblings are scared of her. There are times when people question why she is called ‘The Gentle’ although she is so scary.

• High King Peter's body can heal itself sometimes, not the big wounds though.

• When King Edmund is angry, the place he is in starts smelling like bonfire.

• Queen Lucy knows all of the types of trees, vegetables, mushrooms and fruits.

• Even though he knows the wolves are under control now, High King Peter is secretly scared of them. And when they come to Cair Paravel, he never leaves his sisters and the wolves alone in the same place. He is always alarmed and ready to fight when the wolves are there.

• When she wants to, Queen Susan can beat most of the knights in duel. She prefers not to because she doesn't like to fight unless it is necessary.

• Queen Susan knows how to bind a book. And many of the books in Narnia library are binded by her.

• Queen Lucy can draw and she paints the walls of Cair Paravel. She makes her own paints.

• King Edmund loves to be in the kitchen. He spends time with the cookers and the maidens. Everybody in the kitchen loves him. He helps them cooking and cleaning. He also can cook very delicious soups.

• Everyone thinks High King Peter is only about being a king and a warrior. However he loves to read; there is always a book on his night table. Also, he sometimes write poems.

• When the siblings have a big and serious fight, most of the Narnians feel pain in their bodies. They have headaches, stomach aches, knee pain and etc.

• King Edmund doesn't want to share his magical powers with his brother at first, he doesn't know why but he is somehow scared of his brother's reaction. When he finally shows that he is able to do magic to his brother, High King Peter feels so happy, starts to laugh and congratulates his brother, even hugs him. He is happy because his brother shares something with him, he can protect himself even better now and doing magic is something special and he is so glad that his brother has such power.

• When Queens touch a dying plant, the plant starts blooming.

• If Kings and Queens are together and having good time, Narnia is brighter. It is almost as bright as when Aslan is there.

• High King Peter does his sisters' hair most of the time. He is very talented at braiding their hairs. Sometimes he puts flowers and diamonds to their hairs.

• Kings always help each other putting on their armours.

• When High King Peter and King Edmund are back to back in a battle, there are probably no survivers in their surrounding.

• Everyone underestimates Queen Lucy however she is actually very deadly because High King Peter trains her so hard so that she can protect herself and be safe. She also can use arrow and bow thanks to her sister. She learnt sword-fighting with two hands from King Edmund.

• Queen Lucy can lift very heavy things.

• The siblings are not very talented singers when they sing individually, but when they sing together during celebrations, they sound pretty good and at some point, everyone else stops singing to hear them. They just laugh, have fun and sing loudly but somehow it sounds so beautiful.

• In the battlefield, Queen Lucy always protects High King Peter because she knows her brother will always manage to get seriously injured, so she does her best to protect him.

• Similarly, King Edmund protects Queen Lucy because just like her brother High King, Queen Lucy can get injured as she doesn't care about being hurt, she just wants to succeed.

• King Edmund and Queen Susan doesn't need that much protection because they know how not to get hurt.

• But Everyone knows Queen Susan is the one to protect all of her siblings with the arrows she throws from very far away.

oh wow here is part two. i hope you like it! please tell me what u think. sorry if there is anything wrong in grammar. love u! ♡

[missmeltycat]

Cooking With The Crazy Viking Lady

OK, so I have been asked in a few messages to compile a master post containing some of my food and recipe content. So this will be it. I will add on as much as I can.

Notes:

Some are gluten free and some are vegetarian/vegan friendly. If they are not, why to try replacing some ingredients? Have fun with your cooking!

Measurements are not always listed, as I tend to cook by taste and smell rather than actual measurements. But in some I’ve tried my best, haha.

These recipes are either of my own creation, or passed down through the generations. Please do not republish without my permission (Reblogging this post is absolutely fine, but copying and claiming is not), or use them for monetary gain by stealing and selling in cookbooks. I am posting these to offer them for people to use in their own lives for their own enjoyment and their families.

Meals

Herring and Butternut Squash Pie

A lovely fish pie with a warming taste!

Honeyed Lavender Chicken

Ancient recipe passed down.

Soutzoukakia

A childhood favourite of mine!

Rachel’s Scandinavian-adapted/Inspired Soup

A good stock-based soup with cream. (Vegetarian/Vegan friendly when using veg stock!)

Chicken Madras with Mushrooms and Rice

Not traditional by any means, but yummy regardless!

Chicken Curry with Boiled Rice

Not too hot, not too mild. Add extra heat to suit your taste!

Spiced Turkey Leg Mince Ragu with Multigrain Tagliatelle

Nice and spicy!

Chicken Cream Stew (With Video)

A classic Nordic stew.

Herring on Toast with Russian Mustard

A storecupboard thing!

Jerk Chicken (With Video)

Spicy, spicy!

Braised Ox Cheek

Meaty goodness!

Spinach and Parmesan Pasta

Very simple, but a great little meal.

Thai Style Curry

A simple Thai style curry. Fragrant and yummy!

Thai Inspired Red Curry Soup

Another soup, this time inspired by the food of Thailand.

Spinach Soup

With potatoes! (Vegetarian/Vegan friendly when using veg stock!)

The Not-Macaroni-But-Actually-Penne-Mac-N-Cheese

Any pasta works well with this!

Sides

Lemon Roast Potatoes

A gorgeous zesty side!

Essential Ingredients

Basic Puff Pastry Recipe

I use puff pastry a lot, so here’s a basic recipe for you!

Leftovers

Have some leftover meat of veg you want to use up? Check out these recipes. (Feel free to message me with your leftover ingredients list and I can help you make something from them!) ANY OF THE ABOVE RECIPES CAN ALSO BE MADE WITH LEFTOVERS!

Sausage Casserole

Leftover sausage? Or just sausage that needs using up? Try this one!

Guinea Fowl Pie

This can be made using ANY bird, but I had leftover Guinea Fowl to use.

Spicy Leftovers Soup

Leftover hot wings? Not a problem!

Spicy Leftovers Soup Mk II

Letfover peri-peri in this one!

Turkey Carrot and Corriander Leftovers Soup

I had a bunch of turkey that I had from a deli counter carved right from the bone left over and some carrot and corriander soup that needed using. Worked a treat!

Leftovers Soup with Roast Potatoes and Stuffing Balls

Leftover chicken is super useful!

Tomato and Parmesan Leftovers Soup

Vegetarian/Vegan friendly when using veg stock instead of chicken!

Desserts

Ancient Roman Tiropatina

An egg custard dessert from Roman times!

Gluten Free Tundra Cake

Sturdy chocolate cake!

Creme Caramel (Flan)

Creamy goodness!

Frasier Cake

Strawberries and alcohol. AHEM!

[psychoactives]

I have two things for this post!

The first being, both my boyfriend and I are looking for penpals!

He is interested in finding people who are history buffs, likes collecting knives, and possibly even someone who is specifically interesting in the WW I & II time period. I'm sure he'll write anyone though, he really likes to have penpals!

The second thing is, does anyone have any good soup recipes? I'm looking for some mushroom soups, but I'll take any recipe because I love soup. ❤

[violetsbaudelaire]

Sunny Presley Baudelaire [AKA Sunshine]

The youngest of the Baudelaire Siblings at 3, Sunny is an ingenious chef. Her interests include cooking and baking, cute video games, keeping people the FUCK out of her kitchen, and keeping her teeth sharp.

Little Beatrice II is only a couple of years under her, making Sunny the certified Big Sister™ of little Bea. Sunny loves her older sister Violet, but seeing as how she can’t cook or bake worth a damn, she’s banned indefinitely from Sunny’s kitchen. And yes, the Baudelaire-Snicket apartment kitchen is her kitchen, no arguments. There’s even a list on the wall of who’s banned from it, and why.

Lemony looked at a certain list that had been tacked to the wall earlier that morning and sighed. It read as such:

“~BANNED From Sunny’s Kitchen~ Violet: Exploding spaghetti . Klaus: The hot chocolate incident. Duncan: Boiling water is not that hard. Fiona: A waste of good mushrooms. They all burnt. I hope you still feel bad. Isadora: The microwave shouldn't be able to do that. Quigley: Aided violet. Carmelita: The fucking cookies. Friday: We don't put sand in soup.”

Sunny walked past the man, and he looked down at her,

“Did Jacquelyn help you with this list?”

The youngest Baudelaire nodded, “I can’t spell some words, yet.” She smiled.

[Sunday]

[arielseaworth]

Thank you so much for all your likes, reblogs, comments, kudos, bookmarks and translations, I really appreciate them <3 <3 <3

||ASOIAF FICS|| 

Sunrise 

Arianne Martell & Quentyn Martell, happier moments.

A Great Unrest

His death was a mishap, almost certainly, and it is written that Prince Maekar always bitterly regretted Baelor’s passing and marked its anniversary every year. (The World of Ice and Fire)

Maekar Targaryen marking the twelfth anniversary of his brother’s death, during the first year of his reign.

The Picture

Laena Velaryon, Laenor Velaryon, and a gift for their parents’ tenth wedding anniversary.

Remember Me (Chapter 3)

Mothers, daughters, and the words said and unsaid.

Chapter 3: Mellario of Norvos & Arianne Martell

Loren of the Rock

He was Loren the First and then Loren the Last, and in between, he fought the Targaryens and lived to tell the tale, a fate he sometimes considered to be worse than death.

The Son

And Addam Velaryon, lately Addam of Hull, sought out the Sea Snake after the battle; what they spoke to each other even Mushroom does not say. (Fire & Blood)

What was said and not said between Addam Velaryon and Corlys Velaryon after the Battle in the Gullet.

Unbetrothed

Lady Elissa had been twice betrothed, once at twelve and once at sixteen, but she had frightened off both boys, as her own father admitted ruefully.  (Fire & Blood)

The two broken betrothals of Lady Elissa.  

Or, how Elissa Farman frightened off her betrothed, not once but twice.

The Knighting

“Aegon is to return to my castle at Summerhall. There is a place there for you, if you wish. A knight of my household. You’ll swear your sword to me, and Aegon can squire for you.” […] “I will take your son as squire, Your Grace, but not at Summerhall. Not for a year or two.” (The Hedge Knight)

Duncan the Tall requesting a boon from Maekar Targaryen before swearing his sword as a knight of the prince’s household.

Onion Soup

[Stannis] sat at the high table as a dish of onion soup cooled before him, hardly tasted, staring at the flame of the nearest candle with those hooded eyes, ignoring the talk around him. (A Dance with Dragons)

Stannis, Davos and onion soup.

Nameday Wish

She remembered Ser Willem dimly, a great grey bear of a man, half-blind, roaring and bellowing orders from his sickbed. The servants had lived in terror of him, but he had always been kind to Dany. He called her “Little Princess” and sometimes “My Lady,” and his hands were soft as old leather. (A Game of Thrones)

Daenerys Targaryen, Willem Darry and a nameday wish.  

Riverlings

Nonetheless, during all those years of Catelyn’s girlhood, it had been Brynden the Blackfish to whom Lord Hoster’s children had run with their tears and their tales, when Father was too busy and Mother too ill. Catelyn, Lysa, Edmure … and yes, even Petyr Baelish, their father’s ward … he had listened to them all patiently, as he listened now, laughing at their triumphs and sympathizing with their childish misfortunes. (A Game of Thrones)

The first time Catelyn ran to her uncle with her tears and her tales.

and they shall know you by your ghosts

When Alysanne asked if she would return to Greenstone, Rhaena shook her head. “There’s a ghost there as well. A kinder ghost, but no less sad.” (Fire & Blood)

It wasn’t so much that love ended. It was more the fact that it remained mired in the past. The ghost of how easy they used to be with another stalked them every step of the way, on this small island Larissa had made her new home.

The Banker

The Hightowers had not entrusted so much as a groat of their gold to the Lyseni, and thus remained one of the wealthiest houses in all Westeros, second mayhaps only to the Lannisters of Casterly Rock, and Lady Sam wished to learn how to put that gold to better use. Thus was born the Bank of Oldtown, which has made House Hightower richer still. (Fire & Blood)

Samantha Tarly and the founding of the Bank of Oldtown.

The Cold Light of Day

And yet it was to Archmaester Vaegon that the Old King turned now, summoning his last son to King’s Landing. What passed between them remains a matter of dispute. Some say the king offered Vaegon the throne and was refused. Others assert that he only sought his counsel. (Fire & Blood)

What transpired between Archmaester Vaegon and Jaehaerys Targaryen.

Clever Wives

Lord Redwyne was incredulous. “The Tyrells are dolts,” he said. “I am sorry, Your Grace, they are my liege lords, but … the Tyrells are dolts, and Lord Bertrand was a sot as well.” (Fire & Blood)

The Tyrells were dolts, it was sometimes alleged, but they had a knack for marrying clever wives.

Growing

“Egg wanted me to help him rule, but I knew my place was here. He sent me north aboard the Golden Dragon, and insisted that his friend Ser Duncan see me safe to Eastwatch.” (A Feast for Crows)

Maester Aemon and Ser Duncan saying goodbye at Eastwatch (and reminiscing about the first time they met).

The Sun and the Moon

Baela Targaryen, Rhaena Targaryen, Moondancer, Sundancer and Morning.

The Man Who Was Not There (Chapter 2)

Stannis Baratheon, Tywin Lannister, and a tense exchange during the wedding of Robert Baratheon and Cersei Lannister.

Chapter 2: Tywin’s POV

Remember Me (Chapter 2)

Mothers, daughters, and the words said and unsaid.

Chapter 2: Ellyn Reyne & Rohanne Tarbeck

||ASOIAF DRABBLES||

Daenaera Velaryon/Aegon III Targaryen

Daemon Targaryen/Laena Velaryon

Brandon the Burner & Brandon the Shipwright

Jonquil Darke & Daenerys Targaryen

Arya Stark, Old Nan & Black Aly

Plumm and Egg

Rhaelle Targaryen/Ormund Baratheon, white harts and roast stags

Brandon Stark & Rickard Stark, the boy who hated stories

Jocelyn Baratheon/Aemon Targaryen

Stannis, Cassana and baby Renly

Cregan Stark/Alysanne Blackwood, beginning

Quote Swap: Argella Durrandon + She wanted a storm to match her rage.

Daeron Velaryon/Hazel Harte (the parents of Daenaera Velaryon)

Rhaena Targaryen & Baela Targaryen, dragonriding

Rhaena Targaryen & tears

Aegon III Targaryen & Viserys II Targaryen, reunion

Egg, Daella and Rhae talking about the first Aegon and his sisters

Rhaena Targaryen/Melony Piper

Baela Targaryen & Laena Velaryon

Alyssa Velaryon celebrating the birth of her granddaughter (and great-granddaughter) Rhaenys

Oscar Tully & Kermit Tully

Alysanne Blackwood & Benjicot Blackwood

Jonquil Darke & Alysanne Targaryen

Anya Weatherwax

Myrielle Peake

Aegon III Targaryen & the “secret siege” of Maegor Holdfast

Cregan Stark/Arra Norrey, beloved companion

Rhaena Targaryen/Larissa Velaryon, reserved

Aegon III Targaryen & Viserys II Targaryen, stars

Baela Targaryen/Alyn Velaryon, marriage proposal

The Boy Who’d Sooner Have A Clout Than A Wife

Maekar’s Guilt

Lyanna Stark & Benjen Stark reenacting the duel between the Scarlet Shadow and the unnamed wildling woman

Rickard Stark & Ned Stark discussing the Pact of Ice and Fire

Argilac Durrandon & Argella Durrandon, tell me

Argella’s reaction to Orys resigning his position as Hand of the King

Doran Martell & Mellario of Norvos, “My mother had sent for him, I learned later.”

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National Spinach Day

This leafy green is packed with nutrients to boost your health and energy. Add it to your meals for a tasty and nutritious boost!

It’s not just Popeye who will be strong to the finish on National Spinach Day. In fact, anyone who chooses to celebrate the day by consuming some of this leafy green plant will get to join in on the health benefits as well!

Packed with nutrients such as Iron, Vitamin A and Calcium, spinach is known for being a healthy part of a balanced diet – but do we eat enough of it?

Well, that’s what National Spinach Day is all about!

History of National Spinach Day

Originally from Persia (the area that is now Iran), spinach made its way to China in the 7th century, where the people referred to it as the “Herb of Persia” or the “Persian Green”. The vegetable eventually ended up in Europe a few hundred years later, when it landed in Spain. In fact, for some time the English referred to spinach as “The Spanish Vegetable”. It didn’t make its way to being cultivated in North American until sometime in the early 1800s.

Possibly the most famous person in history to be associated with spinach is 16th-century noblewoman, Catherine de’ Medici, who ruled France from behind her three sons for many years. Originally from Florence, Italy, she moved to France when she married King Henry II. It is said that Catherine loved spinach and made sure her cooks served it at every meal. Because of this, even today, meals that are made with spinach are often known as “Florentine” in honor of the birthplace of Catherine de’ Medici.

This dark, leafy green vegetable that grows in groups that form a rosette-type shape is part of the “goosefoot” family, with its close relatives being Swiss chard and quinoa, as well as beets. Spinach has a few different varieties that offer different shapes and sizes of leaves.

Taking some time to celebrate National Spinach Day acts as a little nod to this tasty, healthy vegetable.

How to Celebrate National Spinach Day

While it might seem a little far-fetched to spend the day celebrating the wonders of spinach, it’s possible–and can even be a load of fun! People who want to celebrate National Spinach Day can employ a variety of ideas for ways to the day, it just takes a bit of creativity.

Consider giving these ideas a try or come up with other ideas of your own:

Try Creative Ways to Serve Spinach

Why not try a new recipe on National Spinach Day? Sauté it in olive oil and a little bit of garlic – or what about a baby spinach salad with mozzarella cheese, avocado slices, and crispy bacon crumbled on top? Delicious!

Other tasty ideas for meals that include spinach are:

Bacon, spinach, and gorgonzola pasta

Spinach, artichoke, zucchini dip (with pita bread or baguette)

Spinach spanakopita (a traditional Greek pastry dish)

Creamy spinach soup

Spinach lasagna (a vegetarian take on the traditional Italian dish)

Spinach pesto on flatbread pizza

Spinach quiche (also called Quiche Florentine)

Mushroom and spinach risotto

Some people like to purée spinach up and hide it in soups and pizza sauces for the finicky eaters in the family who may not prefer to eat it straight up.

So, no excuses – get your leafy greens down on National Spinach Day!

Learn About the Health Benefits of Spinach

Just like many vegetables, the healthiest way to serve and eat spinach is fresh and raw. However, even when it is cooked, it still remains one of the healthier vegetables. These are just some of the many nutritional benefits:

Fiber aids the digestive system

Vitamin A (carotene), for healthy organs and eyes

Iron helps with red blood cells and tissue health

Vitamin C, antioxidants, and a booster for the immune system

Folic Acid, useful in cell function and tissue growth

Calcium, essential for bone health

Antioxidants, help remove free radicals that cause oxidative damage

While spinach also has a small amount of natural sugars and carbohydrates, these are small in comparison to the myriad of other health benefits provided by this tasty veggie.

Try Growing Spinach in the Garden

Getting enough leafy greens in the diet is much easier for people who can grow their own! And, actually, spinach is not a particularly difficult one to grow. It’s an annual plant, meaning that it needs to be re-planted from seed each year, but it’s hardy and enjoys weather that is somewhat cool (but not cold).

National Spinach Day might be a bit too soon in the year to start a garden outdoors in many parts of the world. If this is the case, it’s simple to begin an indoor planting of spinach from seed and then move it outside when the weather permits. Spinach likes cool weather. So, as long as there is no risk of frost, the spinach plants should do fine outside in the spring.

As soon as the leaves are large enough to eat, the spinach is ready for harvest. It is healthiest when eaten as quickly as possible after harvesting. However, it can be stored, loosely packed, in a sealed plastic bag for several days. Don’t wash it ahead of time as it could get mushy. Simply wash it just prior to eating or cooking with it. It can also be frozen while it is still fresh.

Since it only takes about 6 weeks from the sowing of seeds to harvest time, it has a quick turnaround time. This means that it’s a great vegetable to grow in the spring as well as in the cooler autumn months so that there’s enough for the family to eat all throughout the growing season.

Take in Some ‘Popeye, the Sailor Man’

Some younger folks might not be familiar with the connection between Popeye and spinach. But those of a certain generation will possibly remember not only the Saturday morning cartoon but also the little jingle song that went along with it!

Going further back, even before it was an animated cartoon, more mature folks might remember that Popeye started out as a comic strip in the newspapers in the late 1920s. Eventually, decades later, a live-action film tribute was created in 1980, starring Robin Williams.

The theme of the character, Popeye, was that he was a rather average little sailor guy, with eerily large, tattooed forearms who smoked a pipe. And when he ate his spinach? Well, he would immediately gain superhuman strength and be able to punch the lights out of his arch-nemesis, Bluto, in order to help one of his friends who were in need. (Popeye and Bluto were constantly fighting over the affections of the tall, extremely skinny Olive Oyl.)

As it turns out, pop culture actually can have a positive influence on the world, proven by Popeye. After the character started eating spinach, children began asking for it and sales in the United States skyrocketed by one-third. That was quite a boost for the spinach industry–and the health of those children!

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