#recipes of the world

[tootkin-goblin]

Just remembered, as I was cooking some potato, about that time I went on holidays at my (now ex) girlfriend's grandma and met her whole family on this side.

All of them, the uncles, the aunts, the cousins of all age and gender, all of them told me about the legendary mashed potato that the grandma does. How good it is, how they can't reproduce it, and how the grandma has never told the recipe to anyone ever. A mystery, a secret she's going to take to the grave!

And like, it's a very good mashed potato. The recipe is simple, you boil some big potato, then you mash them with salt, pepper, herbes de Provence (a mix used almost everywhere in the south of france made of rosemary, oregano, thyme, basil, chervil, tarragon, bay leaf, fennel, marjoram, sage, and wild thyme), a good chunk of butter and a dollop of olive oil.

I know because she was very happy to show me how it's done when I, alone, went to help her in the kitchen (:

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Tuesday, January 23.

Ten Years of Cinnamon Roll Too Good For This World, Too Pure.

Well, how about that. Ten whole years. A decade. The Tin Anniversary. 

The Tin Anniversary is rather fitting, as it happens, as a tin is just the sort of storage object one might wish to place their cinnamon roll, were it not so good, so pure, so sublime, so very beautiful. This particular roll is too graceful, too evocative of the divine, to be hidden away.

It was on this day, ten years ago, that The Onion published the headline that would stir the hearts and minds with this sugary little friend. 

[casscainmainly]

So in Spirit World there's two separate panels that show Cass' family/loved ones. The first I think is more circulated:

The second is this one:

These line-ups are probably different due to space/convenience, but to overanalyse these panels for a bit, it's interesting who's present in which. Bruce, Steph, and Babs are present in both - makes sense, they're the most important figures in Cass' life. Steph is front and center in both, suggesting she really is Cass' favourite person ever.

Bruce is relatively big in the top panel, but much smaller in the bottom. The top panel explicitly is about "family," while the bottom is about people who "know and love you". Bruce becoming smaller suggests that Cass thinks of him as her dad, but the 'knowing' and 'loving' part isn't as secure for her. (This is probably not intentional but reflects their dynamic very well, particularly post-Cass being sent to HK and her unresolved feelings about that).

Babs is pretty big in both, and I love that she's Oracle here (the wheelchair in the bottom panel!!). This makes total sense - the time when Babs loved and cared for her most was when she was Oracle. Cass probably still sees and remembers her that way.

Onto the interesting stuff, which is Duke being missing for 'family' but present for 'know and love you'. I think he should be in the top panel, but maybe he's too new for Cass to consider him family? Everyone in the top panel is from the bg 2000 era, so Cass might think of that time as her true 'family'. Anyway, the fact he makes it into the bottom still shows they're close, and that Cass considers him someone who understands/'knows' her.

Dick and Tim being present for 'family' and missing for 'know and love you' is so fun. Tim maybe should be present in the bottom, but recent canon hasn't made them as close as they used to be (in BG 2000 and Red Robin). So they love each other, but not to the extent of anyone in the bottom panel; he's still definitively family though.

Dick is the same, but there's a lot more sibling rivalry and complicated feelings there. It makes total sense for Cass to see him as a brother, but to not think he 'knows' or 'loves' her all that much; they do get along, but I think they remember their mistakes with each other and think the other person still holds a grudge (they don't). Peak Dick-Cass dynamic to me!

So if I had to rank Cass' favourite people in the Batfam according to these panels, it'd be: 1. Steph 2. Babs 3. Bruce 4. Tim and/or Duke 5. Dick

[shitpostingkats]

Joshua Twewy truly the character of all time because Joshua Twewy can be anything. He can be your princess he can be your cringefail loser he can be your wet kitten he can be your homoerotic teen friendship he can be your evil mastermind he can be your tortured meow meow he can be a girlboss he can be your bubblegum bitch.

Perfectly written to be open to interpretation. The amount of times you'll be talking to a twewy fan and the Josh Topic will come up and they'll just go "no no no, here's what Joshua's deal actually is."

And then proceed to pull a completely unique and textually supported Josh Take out of seemingly thin air.

Breathtaking.

[sudaca-swag]

I know that most takes about people not deserving to have children are rife with eugenics (eg: poor people shouldn't have kids, mentally ill people shouldn't have kids, etc) but that said, nobody is ever entitled to having children, like having kids isn't a human right that must be obeyed, a kid is not a thing to own but a vulnerable life that you're responsible for and who actually has human rights that you're ignoring by putting yourself and your desire first rather than your reality and situation

[dduane]

It's World Pulses Day, and someone's been in the kitchen. (And the scents floating out of there are incredible. I'd be gorging myself on the lentils if my IBS would let me. But at least I can have a little...)

[wyyvoren]

How does one even angst cumplane

well it’s simple. you put them in a situation.

[batmen-and-birds]

HCing that Bruce can cook and that he is banned from he kitchen for life aren't mutually exclusive head cannons for me.

I like to think that during all his travels Bruce definitely learned recipes from nearly every country that he trained in and has a wide range when it comes to what he can cook. Especially when it comes to street foods or whatever the monks used to make.

That said, BEFORE he went traveling? Absolute disaster. Has burned water, melted cook utensils and everything in between. The amount of times he burned down the kitchen in a week before Alfred banned him was so frequent that people had betting pools just about that.

The only things he could make was baking that he learned from Alfred and some cultural recipe his mother taught him how to do, neither she nor Bruce ever needed to cook but she wanted to pass that on, like latkes, charoset and even her family's goulash recipe that only the two of them knew how to make. He tried to recreate those dishes a few years after his parents died, but he just couldn't do it (he couldn't stop crying and thus ruining the food).

So the timeline is: Bruce is a danger to others and himself when cooking, Alfred bans him from the kitchen, Bruce leaves for training & learns to cook, Bruce returns to Gotham.

Not once did that man thought of informing his butler of his newly acquired, non-combat skills.

So when Alfred Pennyworth walked into the kitchen one early morning to make him and his former ward breakfast only to see Bruce Thomas Menace to society Wayne standing in front of the stove, he nearly had a heart attack. Bruce had to stop what he was doing and make sure he was alright.

After that Bruce would try to cook in the manor sometimes but it ultimately wasn't worth giving Alfred a PTSD attack every time he touched something that wasn't the toaster or tee kettle. So now he cooks in some penthouse he brought and keeps fully stocked. He brings whatever he makes to the manor and finds it amusing how Alfred will take the first bite like it's poisonous, only for him to melt when the flavor hits his tongue.

[akkivee]

still kinda not over ichiro taking a bite out of his hamburger in the leaders bonus hypster track and going 'it's so good!! it tastes really meaty!!' lmao

[blenselche]

grass demon as a human?

I prefer the grass demon as an alter of Fern's but babbs and I had fun w/ this idea.

They spange near the bus stop and Fionna would toss them $3 every so often, so they got attached and came on too strong. They try to pay Fionna back but they approach life so differently that it always works out wrong/appears malicious. (They're very cluster A.) GD challenges Fionna's convictions pretty routinely: they set their tent up outside of her apartment, and she's vehemently against street sweeps but she really wants to call one in to get them to leave, as an example. They meet Fern through their job (their dad's landscaping business) and, again, come on too strong. They believe in twin flame junk and are convinced they can see Fionna and Fern's connection, so they glom onto Fern because she's much more of an insecure pushover.

Babb wanted them to be roommates but I like the grass demon just being a weird, offputting little stage 5 clinger that follows Fern around tbh.

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[meandtheveggies]

Thank you Julia 🧡 🍊

[heroesoftheshire]

A taste of Middle Earth 🥧🌿

[ddeck]

long lived sw races must be so extra about their hobbies. imagine you live for thousand years and a century of that time you decide to dedicate to making a single big af carpet

[silverskye13]

It was a ✨ perfect day ✨

[kyaraben-time]

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