#then it was very cheap. then it was SO TASTY AND A LOT OF POTATO

[fenhaerel]

some kyoto street food faves 🥒🍙🍵🍠❤️

[indnwitch]

Vegan/Vegetarian shopping list:

Pre Made salad bags (it’s a lot cheaper to just buy bagged salad and add to it, then buying a bunch of ingredients that will go bad if not used)

Make a list of fruits and vegetables that you like and get them (some times if you get the funky shaped ones you get a few cents off, even if you don’t that stops the funky shaped produce from being tossed)

Nut butters (most almond and peanut butters are vegan, jelly and Jams aren’t because they’re made with gelatin)

Bread, check the ingredients because a lot of breads are accidentally vegan/vegetarian ( Vegetarian/Vegan (link) Sandwiches will be your best friend)

Pasta (like bread a lot of pasta is accidentally vegan, CHECK THE INGREDIENTS)

Rice and beans are some of the cheapest things to buy, buy them dry and you can have them for a while in your pantry

Google vegan ramen, (if you’re like me and love spicy ramen then you’ll be happy to know Samyang 2x spicy hot chicken flavor Ramen in the red pack is VEGAN they use artificial chicken flavor rather then animal products. Vegan Kimchi regular and spicy is a lot easier to find then you may think just look for ones without fish sauce and shrimp)

Tofu (tofu is very versatile and it’s great source of vegan/vegetarian protein made from soy, it takes flavor beautifully and it’s relatively cheap firm/extra firm is best)

Cheese (there are so many vegan cheese options, for grated parmigiana follow your heart has both grated and shredded, Violife has a block. Violife has the best shredded substitutes, and singles. Daiya is a little weird in my opinion however they’re cheddar dairy free Mac and cheese is amazing (you just gotta use different pasta then it comes with)

Meat substitutes ( We’ve come a long way with decent vegan meat substitutes, beyond meat makes a whole variety of plant based meat substitutes that are very tasty especially if you’re still craving that meaty texture. Impossible meat substitutes also has amazing plant based meat substitutes, Impossible also has vegan chicken nuggets that tastes like McDonald’s and even have dino shaped ones. Light life has everything from vegan sausage crumbles to Bacon, the vegan bacon and hot dogs are amazing)

Eggs (just egg and simply egg are planted based substitutes for eggs, they’re liquid like an egg beater but can be used in place of eggs from a scramble to a baking ingredient)

Dairy (Vegan milk/coffee creamer you got options coconut, almond, soy, oat, pea protein. Pick what you like best. Personally California farms Oat milk in original and California farms oat vanilla creamer are my favorites. I’ll throw cream cheese and Yogurt in here as well Kite Hill regular and Strawberry cream cheese are my favorite, Kite Hill blue berry, and Strawberry vegan yogurt are my favorite. MIYOKO’S vegan butter)

Snacks (Lenny and Larry’s plant based chocolate chip cookies, Spudsy sweet potato puffs they have a million different flavors I like the hot fries. Vegan rob’s dragon puffs these are the vegan equivalent to hot Cheeto puffs but without the red dye 40. Vegan rob’s also has cheese puffs)

Sauces (Anne’s goddess dressing is very tangy, Diaya blue cheese and Caesar dressings are amazing, can be thick though, they also have ranch but I got a vegan homemade ranch recipe. Hot sauce, Franks, Cholula, Tabasco, and Tapatío are vegan. Ketchup& mustard are vegan. Hellmans and follow your heart have vegan mayonnaise,Sir Kingston’s and Follow your heart also have chipotle Mayo. Follow your heart also has vegan sour cream)

Seasonings (seasons you should have in your cabinet click here, the dollar tree sells all these for a dollar and most grocery stores sell adobo)

[edoro]

The Hunger has certainly come for me so i’ve been trying to load up on low-carb high-protein or high-fiber snacks like nuts, yogurt, certain fruit (blueberries, apples, etc)

and the thing is that there are 2 grocery stores within walking distance. one of them is a drug store and one of them is a fancy rich people store.

(there’s a decently cheap chain store that is, depending on how much walking i feel like doing in the first place, either a short 5min bus ride + 10min walk to the bus stop OR approximately an hour long ride but i get picked up right outside my apartment building, and then a Walmart that’s 10min bus stop walk, 10min bus ride, and 5min walk to the pickup stop + 10min walk home, but if i don’t want to get on the bus or spend the money on a bus ticket then i can either go to the drug store or the rich people store)

so anyway a lot of times i end up going and blowing ridiculous amounts of food stamps money on rich people groceries, mostly for stuff the other stores don’t have like sugar free soda that isn’t coke zero (i like virgil’s black cherry and cream sodas) or my tasty sweet potato hash brown snacks etc

ANYWAY last time i was there i needed more peanut butter so i got a jar of the store brand, which is like, six dollars lmao, BUT it’s also Very Fancy. barrel-roasted in small batches and then ground, it’s just got peanuts without any filler oils, etc etc, and guys... guys it might be worth it. guys it tastes so good?

it’s got this very delicious smoky nutty flavor that can best be described as How Coffee Beans Smell, with a nice specifically peanutty after/overtaste, and the texture is very smooth but also full of nice crunchy bits (i like crunchy nut butter, sue me)

anyway i hate finding out that paying more money means better food. absolutely ridiculous. but it’s SO good.

[jacks-tracks]

Birds Flowers and Butterflys

Happily healthy again, as normal as I,m going to get! Dengue laid me pretty low, actually considering "is this it? Is death near?" Felt like it.

Back on the road to health, and on the road to the mercado. Made an exploratory trip to Super Che for big boxes of juice, some cheap chicken legs, free run eggs, avocadoes , "Look, they're cheaper in the mesh bag!" Yeah,because they are so small you are buying avocado stones. Hrumph... And as always at Che it took longer to checkout than to find things." Why put on more clerks? these people will stand in line for a half hour. They have a cart full!"

Anyway, flushed with success, I went the next day uptown by combi to shop the big mercado area. Actually don't go in the mercado anymore, having found all the same goods nearby in tiny stores for better prices. A cast west from the collectivo stop and there was the shrimp shop, a regular storefront filled with chest freezers. 2 kilos of medium shrimp in a box for 360pesos, about $24 canadian. It was only when i got home that I saw these shrimp were from Nicaragua, product of mangrove clear cut grow farms. Not eco food. Damn tasty though! Next to the tortilla factory where dangerous unguarded machines press corn dough into 6 inch tortillas and cook them on hot rollers,mass production. 24 pesos a kilo($2) and I got a half kilo, which is some 15 tortillas. now tortillas only keep about 4 hours before they dry out and roll up into tire patches, but seperated by paper and plastic bagged, they freeze very well. I had enough used (washed bags from produce) to freeze a lot, packed between coffee filters as paper dividers. Ate 2 fresh with 6 boiled shrimp and mayo. Major meal!

Chocolate is a big agricultural crop in the mountains, second only to coffee(and dope). The Mayo Domo chain sells fresh ground chocolate(mixed with sugar) cheap. A kilo cost $4, still hot from the press. They also sell pure chocolate in cubes at a much higher price, used for hot chocolate drinks and Mole which is chocolate mixed with various hot peppers used as a sauce on lots of food. And the shop is AC, so I tend to linger. Stopped buying their chocomil drink, a sweet blend of choc and milk blended in an old fashioned milkshake mixer. Too much dairy!

While I had planned to hoof up the street 4 blocks to the nicer fruit stand, I caved and went into the chaotic "Cabelleros" store, a wholesaler where the public shops as well. Aisles filled with toppling bags of carrots, onions,potatoes, bins of tomatoes, red, yellow, and green peppers, avocados, bananas usually overripe, mushrooms, mandarin oranges, papayas,onions, cilantro, dried peppers, cinnamon ranging from pure powder to sacks of bark rolled into 3 foot long sticks, and all that in skinny aisles filled with aimless shoppers debating the ripeness of tomatoes et al.and a steady chain of overloaded workers packing in the full sacks off a truck conveniently double parked on the street, shouting to make way as they stream into dark back rooms or upstairs to crammed lofts. Anything a shopper at the till can't find gets brought out by calling a boy to fetch it from the caverns. Not unusual to see someone carry out 40 pound boxes of tomatoes, cabbages, cauliflowers, or onions. I think that many of the stores in the mercado across the street send runners over to replenish stock. While it seems chaotic, the stuff gets selected and rapidly sold at one of 3 tills. No half hour waits here. Electronic scales and tills that print a detailed receipt. Of course things are much cheaper here which makes it all worth wading through the discarded leaves and squished oranges, or risking an avalanche of fruit from the shaky pyramids. Cash only, always busy, it works. Got all my list, 40 pounds of stuff, shopping bags(bring your own) groaning full, stagger up to the combi corner to truck on home.

Oh yeah birds /flowers etc. Totally different experience. There's a lookout near my hotel with a clear view of the beach and the endless rolling waves. Steep bank covered in trees and a favorite place for local birds. The "pea tree" which yields a red circular pod of pea like seeds is in bloom, cascades of frothy creamy blossoms, loved by hummingbirds, and frequented by both the tiny jet black zipper,and the slower greenbacks. A bird new to me was a robin sized one with a red breast and shoulders, black throat and cape, and white and black wing bars. Sounding like a sparrow cheeping was another bird, upright posture, sparrow sized but very slim, grey with black marks. All those in one spot with a convenient bench providing an eye level tree top view.

I count it a good day when i see something special, and this week it was flowers. Bouncing along in the back of a combi pickup on the carretera(highway) we passed an African tulip tree in full scarlett trumpet flowered bloom. Next in an arroyo(gully) was a red bouganvillea, climbing a jungle tree and filling the space with a tree covering cascade of flowers. Then deeper in the arroyo was a full blooming pink blossomed tree looking just like a cherry tree but much bigger. Pretty nice to see so much beauty.

Blabbed on far too long. Just catching up after a 3 week involuntary pause. More as it happens.

[tielt]

I just want to drop my quick bites for vege/vegan's who are gluten-free shortlist that I do. It's been fairly simple for me for the last few years. Simple ones. It far more affordable to cook stew/bean soup from scratch but here is my routine these days for anyone who doesn't have the attention to soak beans. I'll update this when I figure out how to make the burger from dry powder because it's I think worth the time to invest as the pea-protein burger is expensive.

If vegan not vege you can substitute olive oil for butter, but the flash point might be different for the carbon-steel.

Yeah, anyone can do this who can't cook for anything. My ADHD is unhinged lately and I'm lucky I get a meal a day in because I'm disabled so this is literally survival guide level for my dietary restrictions.

Please don't bother me about this unless you have tips. It's meant for people like me that are disabled that aren't looking to be on Iron Chef, but we're also picky and autistic.

Protein I'm starting with the protein, I suggest having this all the time in a separate container you can throw into anything. I use pea-protein burger or fresh ground burger (Impossible or Beyond Meat). Saute in butter first onions a few min, garlic a few min, protein till browned/dice if burger. I usually use a whole onion, tablespoon of garlic. Touch of spice, pepper. Sometimes a whole jalapeno or chili powder.

I'll use this for a few days in quick tub-ramen. This also works for lots of things like I'll throw this on pizza with pesto halfway through reheating of at the end of cooking.

Rice The main thing I eat lately is I'll cook, rice if going cheap, quinoa otherwise. A few servings rice/quinoa I'll throw in 1 TBs butter melted inside pan before grain, I'll add 1-2 TBs vegetarian 'better than boulion' soup paste or meat one. I use a instant-pot 10 min high for rice or 5 min high for quinoa then 7-10 min release or however you normally cook rice/quinoa.

Soup Then I heat 1/2 can Amys soup or whole can for 2 people in a pan 5 min. The two I use lately are "southwestern vegetable soup" and "thai curry sweet potato lentil" because they are vegetarian, gluten free, and tasty without much additional seasonings. I'll usually reheat the protein and either add liquid aminos or soy sauce. Liquid aminos is cheap but it has a taste not everyone likes and I generally prefer soy sauce but it's more expensive.

Fixit When the rice is done you can throw in a serving of rice, heated protein and top with soup.

You can throw in pickled green jalapenos or canned vegetables like corn to space it out even more to add value.

Carbon Steel Pizza I'd suggest people invest in getting a *Large carbon-steel skillet with a metal handle. I heat the oven at 415 with the previously used skillet inside and when it finishes preheating you can wipe the skillet off with a paper towel, throw in 1/4 TBs of butter and a frozen pizza or reheated delivery and sprinkle minced garlic around the pizza. Back in the oven for most (6min reheat, 8 min frozen) of the 10min/12min. Pull it. Add the protein you made in the above recipe across generally. An option, if the rim of the pizza is dry add BBQ sauce very lightly around the rim and optionally diced pickled jalapeno in a thin layer and spread around the rim. Add some grated cheddar on top of that along the rim if desired. I like this because it can melt into the pan and crisp around the pizza on the carbon-steel. Back into the oven for the last bit (4min reheat/6min frozen).

Ramen I use the snapdragon Vietnamese Pho ramen bowls (Costco), heat above protein. Throw 1/3 fresh jalapeno and fresh basil if desired into bowl with seasonings. Pour boiling water, 3 min pour into bowl throw protein on top add aminos or soy sauce to taste. Sometimes this is all I eat for a day and it is extremely low effort and cheap.

Potato Preheat Oven/Pan 410 and when it's done preheating wipe clean with paper towel. I will clean red or yellow potatoes with a clean dobie sponge rather than peel, but you can peel. I figure some minerals is good. I will melt butter onto my hands and liberally sprinkle sea salt and rub onto potatoes before putting into preheated pan. Cook for 50 min and then use as an additive carb for several days. Has really good synergy with the soup/quinoa/protein previously mentioned.

Often just the soup/rice is good as a staple.

This is all creative commons so feel free to redial it however without credit to myself I'm just looking to be helpful.

[milkmynk]

I think that you are correct on the point that readers feeding fic into AI is probably inconsequential in the grand scheme of things, but my distaste for it stems from disrespect of fanwriters, as well as the spirit of fancommunity.

I know it's not the main topic you are discussing, but it IS relevant if we zoom out a little to the question "Is it ok for people to feed fanfic into ChatGPT for a quick fix". Which - I hope I'm understanding your post's intention correctly - is part of the answer to this question.

Trying to express my thoughts about it as best as I'm able :

Unless an author has specifically given permission, I think it's in poor form to potentially go against their wishes to feed their work into AI databases. (Especially at a time when creatives are growing increasingly wary of the threat of machine-generated "creative" work, heavy emphasis on air-quotes)

It cheapens fanwork. Not because machines can create a lot of content VS a human writer who can only write so much, but because... hmm. I consider fanwork to be an expression of someone's love / feelings towards a fandom. Getting a quick fix from ChatGPT is akin to saying to the author that their feelings that they are expressing through their work do not matter to you, you are not engaging with them, you view their work as content to be merely consumed. It misses the point of fanwork, in my view, and is just... very... yeah. Disrespectful. Very against the spirit of fancommunity.

Frankly, I'm not 100% against AI-generated work. I will never think it is superior to human-generated work (see point above), but I can see its uses. EG. when you want to RP but you're too shy / can't find someone to RP with, when you're trying to find a spark of inspiration by feeding it some prompts, etc. Personally, I think that technology should serve people, it's really about how you use it.

Sadly though, as things stand, the only thing I can foresee from more widespread acceptance of AI-generated work is the rise in the chase for cheap quick thrills. The prioritization of content over human engagement. Tiktokfication of fandom, if you will. Can it really be called fandom at that point? It would be terribly empty, and hollow. Like munching on potato chips instead of having a proper meal. It may be tasty, but there'll come a point when you realize it's doing you no favors. (It's 5 AM I reserve the right to ramble a bit)

(Going a bit tangential here) For these reasons, I will never engage with AI work, at least not knowingly. I'd prefer to read prompts and headcanons over AI-generated fic any day. Thinking about a future where people commonly perceive of fic as anything less than a piece of the author's heart distilled makes me incredibly sad, and the fact is... People already DO. Accepting AI-generated work would simply exacerbate this, and I refuse to be a part of it.

I'd like to highlight that this isn't a condemnation of people who are currently doing it. I do beg that if you ARE though (not OP specifically to clarify), that you consider the above points I'm trying to make, and decide whether a quick, cheap fix of feels generated by a machine is really all that worth it.

Look, I understand how frustrating it can be to come across a beautifully crafted fic with an intriguing storyline, only to realize that it was last updated eons ago.

But please, engage. Dream up your own endings. Squeal about it on Discord with friends. Put your humanity and love into your fandom. Think about it. Breathe it. Obsess over it. Fancommunity, fanwork should never be sterile, in the way AI-generated work is.

all the frothing-at-the-mouth posts about how "don't you dare put a fic writer's work into chatGPT or an artist's work into stable diffusion" are. frustrating

that isn't how big models are made. it takes an absurd amount of compute power and coordination between many GPUs to re-train a model with billions of parameters. they are not dynamically crunching up anything you put into a web interface.

chances are, if you have something published on a fanfic site, or your art is on deviantart or any publicly available repository, it's already in the enormous datasets that they are using to train. and if it isn't in now, it will be in future: the increases in performance from GPT 2 to 3 to 4 were not gained through novel machine-learning architectures or anything but by ramping up the amount of data they used to train by orders of magnitude. if it can be scraped, just assume it will be. you can prevent your stuff from being used with Glaze, if you're an artist, but for the written word there's nothing you can do.

not to be cynical but the genie is already far more out of the bottle than most anti-AI people realize, i think. there is nothing you can do to stop these models from being made and getting more powerful. only the organizing power of labor has a shot at mitigating some of the effects we're all worried about

[therecolte]

Ways to Use Leftover Rotisserie Chicken

From shredded chicken tacos to creamy rice casseroles, there are tons of ways to use your leftover rotisserie chicken. Whether you have last night's roast or a chicken from the store, these cheesy dinners are a surefire way to get your family's taste buds buzzing!

These recipes are so easy to put together and will feed your whole family without a lot of work. Try one of these creative dinner ideas today!

Introduction

Rotisserie chicken is a quick, healthy and cheap way to add protein to a variety of recipes. It can also be used in soups, salads, sandwiches and more.

One of the best things about rotisserie chicken is that it can be made in just minutes, so you don't have to spend hours in the kitchen to make a nutritious dinner. It's also inexpensive, and many of these recipes can be made with just one or two rotisserie chickens!

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If you have some leftover rotisserie chicken and are feeling under the weather, there's nothing like turning it into this comforting soup. It's packed with collagen, amino acids and electrolytes that help support your immune system while warding off a stuffy nose!

This recipe also includes hearty beans and tortillas, making it a deliciously filling meal. It's also a great option for lunches!

These shredded chicken tacos are easy to make and a perfect way to use up some extra rotisserie chicken. They're a deliciously cheesy and spicy dish that's sure to be a hit with your family!

Another great recipe for a quick and easy rotisserie chicken dinner is this creamy rice casserole. It's a tasty meal that takes less than 40 minutes to prepare, and you can easily swap out the vegetables for other ones or other proteins for a completely different flavor.

Stuffed potatoes are always a delicious way to make something special with leftover rotisserie chicken, but this one is even better because it's baked twice! It creates a crispy crust and a super soft, spoonable interior.

What is rotisserie chicken?

Rotisserie chicken is a popular, ready-to-eat meal option that’s sold in grocery stores. These seasoned, whole chickens are inexpensive and quick to prepare. They’re also very versatile, and can be used in a variety of dishes.

Many people enjoy rotisserie chicken because it’s a tasty, easy and healthy choice that’s low in saturated fat and calories. Plus, it’s high in protein, which is essential for building and maintaining muscle.

The downside to rotisserie chicken is that some store-bought varieties are loaded with salt and additives, which can negatively impact your health. Fortunately, you can find healthier rotisserie chickens in many supermarkets and club stores.

CR’s nutrition experts analyzed 16 rotisserie chickens from seven major supermarkets (Kroger, Safeway, Stop & Shop, Walmart, Wegmans, and Whole Foods), three club stores (BJ’s Wholesale Club, Costco, and Sam’s Club) and one fast-casual chain restaurant.

For each rotisserie chicken, CR’s nutrition experts evaluated the nutrition facts label and ingredients list to see what was in each product. They then compared those ingredients with a database of 1,500 products that have similar ingredient profiles.

Some of the chickens had more sodium than others, and the higher-salt ones were often higher in calories. Luckily, you can easily control your calorie and sodium intake by choosing light or dark meat, choosing skinless or with the skin, and choosing a chicken that has less than 500 mg of sodium.

How to make rotisserie chicken?

Rotisserie chicken is a great way to get a quick and delicious meal on the table. This dish can be made in a number of different ways, and it can be used in many different recipes, so it's a fantastic option for dinner on busy nights.

You can make rotisserie chicken using an oven or a gas grill. However, if you want to make it on a grill, it is important to truss the chicken before placing it on the rotisserie rod to avoid flopping wings and wobbly legs that can easily pull the chicken off of the rotisserie.

The first step is to season the chicken with a dry rub that includes salt, pepper, onion powder, garlic powder, paprika, dried thyme leaves, and a bit of cayenne. This will help to mimic the flavor of a store-bought rotisserie chicken.

Once you've seasoned the chicken, place it on the grill and cook until it is golden brown and cooked through. This will take about 30 minutes to an hour.

Another great way to enjoy rotisserie chicken is to use it in casseroles or soups. These dishes are easy to make and are sure to satisfy any appetite.

You can also reheat leftover rotisserie chicken in the microwave or oven. This will help to keep the meat warm and will ensure that it is safe to eat. This method is also a great way to ensure that you get the most out of your leftovers.

Ways to use leftover rotisserie chicken?

If you have leftover rotisserie chicken, there are plenty of ways to turn it into a delicious meal. You can use it to make casseroles, soup recipes, fresh salads and more.

For example, you can make a delicious chicken pot pie that everyone in the family will love. All you need to do is assemble some of your favorite ingredients and bake it in the oven.

Another popular recipe using rotisserie chicken is lasagna. Just layer the chicken with no-boil lasagna noodles, marinara sauce, ricotta cheese and mozzarella cheese. Then you can finish the dish with shredded cheese and bake it in the oven.

You can also make fried rice with your leftover rotisserie chicken. This is a classic recipe that you can make at home and save a lot of money.

This is one of the most healthy chicken salads around and it only takes a few minutes to prepare. You can mix in a few bell peppers and some other veggies to make it even healthier.

Soup is always a go-to when you are sick or under the weather and this particular chicken noodle soup recipe is especially good for those who are suffering from colds and flu. The soup contains high levels of collagen, amino acids and electrolytes that can help reduce the symptoms of a stuffy nose and improve your immune system.

A spin on a gourmet pizza restaurant recipe, this Spicy Peanut Chicken Flatbread is a simple and convenient way to use your leftover rotisserie chicken. The flatbread is topped with a light and slightly spicy peanut sauce and the flavors are sure to please!

How long to make rotisserie chicken?

Rotisserie chicken is an incredibly versatile ingredient that’s perfect for meal prep. You can use it to make sandwiches, salads, casseroles, and more! However, you must follow proper storage and consumption guidelines to ensure that your rotisserie chicken stays safe and tasty throughout the week.

To prepare your rotisserie chicken, you will need to remove any skin, truss the legs with twine, and season it with a simple spice rub. You may choose to brine your rotisserie chicken before cooking it to increase tenderness and moisture.

Next, you will need to assemble your rotisserie grill and set up the rotisserie rod. You will need to make sure that the rod is high enough to let the chicken rotate completely.

Once you have a rotisserie ready to go, insert a meat thermometer into the thickest part of your chicken’s breast or thigh. Then, take the temperature every few minutes as it cooks to ensure that your chicken is fully cooked.

The chicken should reach 165F/74C in the thickest part of the breast, which is considered “cooked.” If you want your meat to be more crispy, you will need to cook it for a little longer (see notes).

Once you’ve finished cooking your rotisserie chicken, you can serve it warm or cold. If you choose to reheat it, it should be eaten within two days of reheating or stored in the refrigerator for up to four days before consumption.

Conclusion

Whether you're a rotisserie chicken fanatic or just looking to add more meat to your diet, there are many ways you can use this hunk of protein to your advantage. For starters, you can make soups, casseroles, and pasta dishes that taste like they've been cooking all day without the complication of boiling, sauteing, or grilling your own bird.

In addition, a rotisserie aficionado can keep his or her hands clean by avoiding the usual kitchen cleanup, saving money on fresh groceries, and reducing waste and landfills along the way. The most obvious benefit of all is the ability to enjoy a wide range of nutrient-rich foods without breaking the bank, especially during those times when you're on a budget.

What's more, you can easily convert the rotisserie aficionado's leftovers into tasty meals that the whole family will love. With the right amount of forethought, you'll never have to go without a homecooked meal again! So get out your cookbooks and let's start spicing things up around the dinner table. Good luck! Hopefully you'll see your rotisserie aficionado smile as he or she enjoys the results of your labors of love.

[saint-ambrosef]

cheap food anon. dinner is either curry, chili, or soup. Chicken, tomato, onion are usually involved. lunch is salads and wraps. usually lettuce, chickpeas, cucumber. breakfast is attempted but rarely eaten, eggs or oatmeal. I know rice and beans is go to cheap meal but lord is it boring. Smoothies sometimes

Beans and rice does indeed get boring fast.

One of my go-tos is ground sausage, the kind that comes in a little one pound tube. I get it for $2.25 at Aldi but you can get it for $3-4 at other stores. It can do anything ground beef can, for cheaper. You can make it last many meals by mixing with plant protein (like beans for tacos or lentils in a ragu sauce), and it will still add so much flavor and texture.

I would also recommend shredded chicken. Works well with the cheapest cuts, like whole leg quarters; just throw them in a slow cooker (or a covered baking dish in a 225F oven) for 6ish hours. Shred up. Put some in the freezer for later. Use for tacos, wraps, fried rice, salads, casseroles, stews, pizzas, quesadillas, etc.

For cheese, opt for "extra sharp" cheddar, you only need a little to add a lot of flavor (compared to mild cheeses) so they stretch.

Frozen vegetables are a great resource too. I can usually get a pack of peas or broccoli for under a dollar each. Kale and spinach are often very cheap fresh; they can be eaten raw or cooked, so I throw them into all my soups and sauces. Button mushrooms are also inexpensive. Sweet potatoes make GREAT homefries.

If dairy is an option, you can make creamy soups/sauces with a roux. Good with pasta, you can make a rich and hearty mac and cheese too.

It doesn't sound like you do much Asian cuisine? Stir-fried chicken and vegetables (carrots, cabbage, bell pepper) over rice is an economical, easy meal. You only really need soy sauce and a little fresh ginger root to get the flavor profile.

Homemade baked falafels over salad with some sour cream or homemade tzaziki sauce would be a different spin on your usual lunch. Try it with quick-pickled onions (legit just throw chopped red onion in 1/3 white vinegar and 2/3 hot water mix, let sit in the fridge at least 20 min).

Lentil Bologense over mashed potatoes is the cooler older sister of beans and rice.

Quiche is a tasty way to use up any leftover bits of meat, cheese, and veggies. If you don't have cream, try subbing for evaporated milk.

Try canned cannellini beans roughly smushed in a bowl with garlic, salt, black pepper, and olive oil: spread on some toast and top with fresh tomatoes, fresh cilantro, and a healthy squeeze of lime juice. Spinach would be good too.

Black-eye beans, corn, fresh tomatoes, red onion, bell pepper, and cilantro tossed in olive oil and balsamic ("cowboy caviar") is great with corn chips.

Also, quickbreads are your friends!! Cornbread is super easy to make and goes so well with chili and stews. And just good snacking.

I hope at least some of this helped or at least gave inspiration!! It's well passed my bedtime so I gotta leave it there for now. :( Feel free to ask for more advice if there's something in particular you are struggling with!

[ladykissingfish]

What do you think, in today’s world, the Akatsuki members’ favorite foods would be? Doesn’t have to be their canonical faves either. Love your blog/all your quirky little posts! ❤️

thank you for the love for my blog, I appreciate it!

and I like your question. let’s see, um, well Hidan and Deidara I can see being typical young guys and just living off of fast food. I can see Deidara eating like 40 McDonald’s chicken nuggets in one sitting, covered in a mix of bbq and sweet and sour sauces, and still complaining about being hungry. Hidan I can see being a burger guy, the bigger and thicker, the better. And not just a burger but a burger loaded with pickles and tomatoes and onions and half a cow’s worth of cheese. Topped with a mountain of ketchup-drenched fries that Deidara (if he’s eating with Hidan) will filch half of. Oh, and soda. These two can down an entire 12 pack of Coke each or just guzzle two liter bottles.

Kakuzu and Kisame, I can see being a bit more evolved in their tastes. Kisame being half-shark probably has an appreciation for fine sea food, like salmon or mahi mahi; or I can also see him being the type to go to one of those conveyor belt sushi places and just amassing stacks of plates at his elbow. Kakuzu, well the old guy is cheap af, but on the few occasions he’s not, I can see him enjoying a nice steak, rare, maybe with sautéed onions and mashed potatoes, and some sort of cruciferous vegetable. Kisame strikes me as a water drinker and Kakuzu (again when he’s not being cheap) either a good glass of wine, or a scotch.

Sasori doesn’t eat, but if he DID, I can kinda see him having a thing for soufflés. Like wanting to make them on his own and always working on perfecting his recipes to make the fluffiest creations ever. Making a soufflé requires a lot of precise baking work and attention to detail, which I feel someone like him would be good at. Also see him as being the kind to enjoy a cold glass of milk, and *chocolate* milk if he’s being “adventurous” that day.

Konan, she has such a lovely slim figure and I imagine she eats in a way to keep herself in shape, so mostly healthy foods like salads, yogurt, lean proteins and a variety of fruits and vegetables. But when she allows herself a “cheat” day, I can see her being just as big a fast food eater as Deidara and Hidan. For some reason I picture her going to Taco Bell, ordering a nachos bell grande and like 4 chalupas, eating it all, hiding the evidence and working out twice as hard the next day, to make up for it. Also see her being like Kakuzu in that she enjoys an occasional glass of wine, maybe a hard drink every now and then.

Obito and Itachi, they grew up in the Uchiha clan and the Uchiha never had a lot of money or resources, instead learning to stretch what they had to make delicious meals. So I think each of their favorite things to eat would be home cooked things, simple yet tasty. Maybe for Obito garlic-roasted chicken and potatoes, or possibly a marinated roast beef. For Itachi, I can see breakfast as being his thing, like big homemade breakfasts like his mother used to make: pancakes, fried potatoes, sliced tomatoes, eggs, bacon, or maybe once in a while something like an apple tart. Both of them strike me as tea drinkers, although I see Obito as drinking his tea plain/black and Itachi using a lot of honey or lemon or sugar as sweeteners.

Nagato, I think he’d really be a fan of pasta. Easy to eat, easy to digest, and so many different types. I think a vegetable lasagna would be his favorite type, noodles and ricotta and mozzarella, spinach, zucchini, carrots, peppers … and he’d ask Konan to make this for him at least once a week. He’s not a big eater in general but with this I can see him having 2 or 3 servings. Also see him as being a coffee drinker, although he’s trying to cut back because the caffeine probably isn’t very good for his heart.

and Zetsu … well, his eating habits would be hard to stick into a modern day world, right? But maybe he’d enjoy some unique cuts of (cooked) meat, stuff like roast rabbit, or herb-crusted rack of lamb, or maybe even quail or squab. Like Kisame, I see him as being solely a water drinker.

[thedreadvampy]

Like a lot of people are bringing up class, wealth and ingredient availability in the comments and yeah that's a real part of it but it also doesn't mean the food tastes bad or is bad. Like. People eat tripe and trotters because the other bugger got the rest of the pig, but a big part of the reasons these recipes endure as dishes is because people put a lot of creativity and effort into making food that's pleasurable and feels good to eat.

Like staying with UK food, everything from bread pie to liver and onion to haggis to oatcakes to the thing my grandma called "mock crab" which is grated cheese and ketchup are. ways to use inadequate ingredients in a way that taste and feel as good as possible to eat. curried chicken gizzard or oxtail soup may not be the meats you'd choose but they're a super tasty way to eat the meats you have, you know? and they come to represent things, both big abstracts like resilience and cultural survival, and super personal things because you grew up with them. Like bread and dripping is kind of a nothing food, but my dad loves it and used to get meat specifically as an excuse to get the dripping because to him it means home and safety, you know?

And btw people are still throwing around that bullshit truism that's like "oh british food is bland because spices are a poor person thing" to which I have to say.

god it's So Interesting then that what always shows up on these posts is like. shepherd's pie and mushy peas instead of like. Beef consommé. It's SO INTERESTING that everyone voted cucumber sandwiches, the only actually posh bland thing on that list, as the least gross. It's SO INTERESTING!!!!! that when I think of specifically rich people food I think of kedgeree (curried fish) and port reductions and garlic and cream sauces, and when I think of poor people food I think of potatoes and bread and offal and mince and underseasoned meats. almost as if. most seasonings and fruits have been expensive import goods forever bc we're in Northern Europe and have very limited native flora.

it's almost as if this idea that spice is a poor people thing and Britons en masse choose blandness out of snobbery is a post-hoc justification for the fact you were already surprised and disgusted by it, based on a misunderstanding of a period (in the past btw) where French cooking was The Thing. (also of the fact that some very posh people went to boarding school from the age of 4 so their Comforting Childhood Flavours are things it's cheap to cook in large quantities for children)

The thing is. Bad/gross food is rarely a DISH - when food is bad it's because it's been badly made, whether because of skills or available ingredients. but a dish p much only exists recognisably and has a name because someone likes at least one version of it.

which is to say. there isn't really a way of naming a dish, school of dishes or specific food culture and going EW ISN'T THIS DISH UNILATERALLY CONCEPTUALLY DISGUSTING without denigrating quite a lot of people.

like you don't have to like it in any form. but it's eaten and shared because it's good to a not insubstantial number of people when cooked right.

(and I don't really understand how you approach that with total incuriosity when it's a dish you haven't tried like. ARE rocky mountain oysters good? Maybe! I would very much eat some to find out!!!!)

this is actually something the British food poll did in a way the American ones I've seen haven't really - they described how the food they're imagining is, specifically, badly prepared (grey meat and veggies; unseasoned shepherd's pie). which is wildly tipping the scales by calling it British Food but. like. that is an on point definition of why that food is gross.

(this also applies to American chocolate, which like. Broad category but I think most of us understand this refers to low-cocoa high-sugar chocolate, probably with bucolic acid. so we are being invited to imagine Badly Made Chocolate not. the concept of chocolate)

personally I just think it's very rarely a good or funny idea to shittalk how gross any given food culture is. partly because food is important and culturally evocative for most people, partly because it's very...alienating? to be like WHO COULD EAT SUCH A THING? just because you wouldn't, and largely because to be frank it says more about you than about the food that you have so little imagination or curiosity that you can't imagine why a food might be enjoyable to folks who aren't you.

yes this includes jello salad, I would like to try it. ONCE. if it wasn't appealing to someone it wouldn't be so widespread.

[nevermindrussia]

Russian winter holidays' features - part 3. New Year meals

As I said in the 1st post of this series, most Russians prefer to celebrate the New Year at home. So you gotta know what Russian home parties look like. Generally they consist of what is called застолье [zastol'e], from «за столом» [za stolom] - "at the dinner table". It may be translated as "a banquet", but it's not precise, because what we call банкет [banket], "a banquet" is at restaraunt or cafe only, but застолье usually is at one's home.

So, one of the most important parts of celebratond the New Year is festive meals. Many (maybe even most) families in Russia have a tradition to cook lots of food for the New Year table. LOTS. OF. FOOD. In Russia we have the таз [taz] word - it means a large bowl, used for washing clothes or the like. So, the popular phrase of тази�� салата ("bowl of salad") very often is not an exaggeration, especially when застолье is set for big family with many relatives. And that's not about some light vegetable salad! Below is described, for example, traditional Russian Olivier salad, which is very caloric.

Also Russian families often stock up delicacies for the New Year table. Sometimes they start doing it in month or more before. That habit definitely goes from USSR, when deficit of diverse and tasty foodstuff made people hunt for some копченая колбаса [kopchyonaya kolbasa] - summer sausages - or красная рыба krasnaya ryba], lit. "red fish" - salmon. For it was rare and expensive, it was not everyday food, so it was kept for a festive table to delight the hosts and surprise their guests. Today you can buy various delicacies in almost any store everyday (unless you're living in a remote country). But the tradition is still alive. So we make jokes of this, saying that when our fridge is stuffed with food before December 31st, we say: Ничего не трогай, это на Новый год [nichego ne trogai, eto na novyi god] - "do not touch, it's for the New Year"; and when the same is after it, we say: Ешь скорее, а то все испортится [esh' skoree, a to vsyo isportitsya] - "c'mon, hurry up to finish it, otherwise it will get rotten")) And we actually consume the food left from the New Year celebration at least the first 2-3 days of January, that's true))

The caption is: The "don't touch , it's for the New Year" season is officially open

So, we have reviewed the meal issue in summary, so let's see, what kinds of food have almost every Russian family on their festive table.

1. Салат оливье [salat oliv'ye] - Olivier salad

This dish has become a real symbol for the New Year celebration in Russia. Idk why, maybe because sausage in it's recipe was one of meat products that one could get rather easily. The fact is the original Olivier salad by recipe of the beginning of XXth century has nothing to do with modern Olivier - quite cheap, easily cooked, nutritive meal.

It's main ingridients are:

some special sausage called Докторская [doktorskaya]. Yes, it descends from "doctor") The point is in early Soviet Russia doctors had been recommended it for dieting instead of other sorts of sausages, cause it's low-fat. It looks like that:

and also:

boiled potatoes

green peas

marinated cucumbers

hard-boiled eggs

boiled carrots

somebody also add green or bulb onions. I don't like onions, so I do not.

Everything diced and mixed, seasoned with mayonnaise.

2. Селёдка под шубой [selyodka pod shuboi]

I've tried hard, but seems there is no appropriate translation for this salad) and the literal is "herring under a fur coat")))) don't worry, ot doesn't include any fur))) "The fur coat" here is a name for the rest of the salad, except herring itself, which is layered upon it. So these layers are:

boiled potatoes (diced or mashed)

onions (diced finely)

boiled eggs (grated or diced finely)

boiled carrots (grated)

boiled beets (grated)

mayonnaise (on every or almost every layer)

And under everything of this - filleted herring, chopped finely. Yummy 😋 Sometimes we make thin layers of everything and repeat them all twice - so it's even more delicious!

3. Нарезка [narezka] (from нарезать, "to slice") - sliced meat and fish

See above of the stocked up delicacies. That's time for them. We usually have at the New Year table at least 2 plates: one with slices of sausages, carbonado, carpaccio etc. of various sorts; other one with slices of salmon and sometimes any other delicacy fish, for ex. butterfish. Sometimes there is also a cheese plate.

4. Красная икра [krasnaya ikra] - lit. "red roe", salmon roe.

A total must-have for the New Year table! Even those who consider оливье and селёдка под шубой a lowbrow food, too heavy and rough, definitely won't refuse some salmon roe on a buttered slice of a baguette. Btw, as you can see, we don't use the salmon (лосось, [losos']) word in it's name. Just "red roe". And famous caviar, a sturgeon roe, is "black roe". Everything is very logical, isn't it?)

5. Мандарины [mandariny] - tangerines

This tradition goes from USSR too. For a long time tangerines had been the only exotic fruit Russian could buy, and only in winter - before the New Year exactly. Today we can buy it every day, but many people remember of them just before the winter holidays. The smell of tangerines is a kinda official New Year smell in Russia) as well as smell ot the New Year fir tree.

6. Шампанское [shampanskoe] - champagne

The essential New Year beverage is, of course, champagne. If one prefers any other wine or strong drinks, he or she may have it at the New Year table, but at least one glass of champagne - right at first seconds of the year - is required. Since 90th we have even "children's champagne" - soft fizzy fruit-flavoured drink in bottles of remarkable shape with special corks. As I refuse alcohol at all for today, I guess I will have such for myself at upcoming New Year party)

That's all the main parts of новогоднее застолье I could remember. Of course that's not all. Every family adds something as they wish. Some have a special festive dish of their own, for example, in our family it's chicken stewed in sour cream. That's a hot meal; another popular hot meal is French meat: it means beef or pork steaks baked with cheese, mushrooms and sometimes tomato, served with mashed potatoes, and idk what does it have to do with France)) But these are details, after all. Anyway, now you know the most traditional Russian dishes for New Year party, and you may have it on your own table if you wish to feel like a real Russian!)

Follow me and read more to know about more Russian New Year features! The next ones will be of the New Year TV shows and movies - so stay tuned!)

[leejeann]

One of my fave “lazy girl cooking” meals is just like scrambled eggs and squash. I recommend yellow squash or zucchini since they’re smaller and way easier to cut than like, an acorn squash, but any kind works. Yellow squash is my favorite to use because normally one is enough (maybe two if they’re small) and where I live it’s usually pretty cheap

Cut it up into like small-ish pieces (half-inch or so), throw it in a little pan with some oil or butter or whatever, then season however you like (I just do garlic powder, onion powder, and some salt and pepper. Maybe celery seed or dried rosemary if I’m feeling ~fancy~).

I put it on about med-high heat with a lid on it so it can steam, but stirring it every so often just to make sure none of the pieces on the bottom start to burn. Shouldn’t take very long for it to cook. When the squash is just about cooked to your preference toss a couple eggs in the pan. If you don’t have a non-stick pan (or you’re like me and it’s scratched so stuff sticks anyway.....lol) don’t forget to add a little extra butter/oil/whatever first so the eggs don’t stick! Stir the eggs into the squash, and just kind of move it around the pan until the eggs are cooked. You can add cheese or whatever or just eat it like that. Very tasty, gives you a serving (probably) of veggies, it’s got protein, it’s pretty filling, and tastes like it takes a lot more effort than it did! It’s been my go-to for a LONG time lol. Only takes like 10-15 minutes usually

(If you’re feel extra lazy, you can also just season the cut squash and put it in the microwave for like 3-5 minutes, depending on your microwave, instead then cook the eggs separate. Or literally just stop there and eat the squash by itself. I’ve done that plenty when I want it to feel Healthy™️ but also want to put in as little effort as possible lol. Still very tasty imo)

I also recommend swapping the squash for other veggies you like or mixing them. I’ve done the same thing with potatoes a lot. I’ve also used those sweet point peppers that usually come in a little 1lb bag and they work so well for it (yellow/orange/red bell peppers would also probably be good!). You can basically cook them all with the same method, only real difference is how long they take.

I also like to do this with over-easy eggs (I grew up calling them “dippy eggs” and had to google the real name lol) instead of scrambled. I take the veggies out of the pan entirely when they’re done, cook the eggs in the same pan, then I just put them on top of the veggies. I like to cut the eggs up in the bowl with my fork and mix it in so the yoke is basically like a sauce and it’s so good, especially with the peppers imo

best lazy girl cooking? like a one step above “i put a thing in the microwave” type dish that makes u feel all accomplished and is oh so yummy

BREAKFAST BURRITO!!!!! :D i gotta get back into making brekky burritos i went rlly hard on it for like a week and it was super fun and delicious :3

[lowspoonsfood]

Not sure if this qualifies as a recipe, but here goes. I haven't got through the whole archive yet, so I don't know if this has been mentioned, but-

There is a brand of instant soup called Bear Creek that has a lot of different varieties. I've seen potato, cheesy potato, and minestrone, I know there's more. You just have to boil water, then mix in the soup mix and let it simmer. The potato soups are fantastic; they taste like actual cooked-from-a-recipe food, and are very filling. (I'm not a big fan of the minestrone and haven't tried any others, but they're all the same in terms of cooking.)

Around here, the stores have it for around $3.50-$4.00 a package, and one package makes enough for my boyfriend and I to get a few meals out of it; your mileage may vary but if you're only cooking for one or two you'll probably have leftovers.. It's dehydrated, so it'll keep for about two years according to the 'best by' date, and probably longer if you want to just keep some around.

It reheats really well in the microwave, and if you make it in a pot with a lid, you can just pop the lid on and stick the whole pot in the fridge. I like to take leftovers with me to work in some microwavable bowls with lids we have, which saves me from actually having to make my lunch.

So, yes, cheap, easy to make and reheat, makes a lot of food, filling, tasty, and really warms you up in cold weather. Unfortunately, I have no idea if they're vegetarian/gluten free; I know the potato soups at least aren't vegan (they have milk in them). The other types might be different.

[cptsdstudyblr]

How I feed myself well as a mentally ill person

CW: food; brief discussion of disordered eating, dieting, weight gain, and food insecurity in the first paragraph

Food has always been something I struggled with. Growing up, my view of food was skewed in so many ways from food insecurity, parents who were constantly on extreme diets, etc. To this day, I struggle to have a positive, healthy relationship with food. I don't have an eating disorder, but the way I eat is somewhat disordered, if that makes sense. Recently, despite really struggling with my mental health, I've been making efforts to fix my relationship with food and gain some much-needed weight. It took me a really long time to get to a place where I figured out how I can ensure that I still eat well despite not being a functional human most of the time, and I want to share what I figured out.

Foods I have on hand

Pantry

Nonperishable:

Starkist premade tuna salad packets - they look like this and there's a lot of flavors

Canned soups - I usually go for chicken noodle and loaded baked potato, but get ones you like

Instant mashed potatoes - you can get flavored ones if you want to

Some sort of premade food mix you like - this brand makes incredible Cajun mixes, and I always have them in stock because they are comfort food from my culture, but you can get just about anything you like - even Kraft Mac & Cheese

Ramen - even the cheap, low-quality stuff is totally fine

Rice - this is such a staple food

Bread, I guess:

Bread - pick what kind you like, I usually go for honey wheat

Bagels - I vary my flavors to avoid repetitiveness, but you don't have to

Misc:

Granola and/or cereal - I usually have both mixed berry granola and cereal of my choice

Snack-sized chips - I love sour cream and onion Pringles but go for whatever you want; I get snack-sized ones because they are so much easier and keep me from eating the entire package at once

Premade pastry - I usually just grab whatever looks good from the bakery section; mini muffins are some of my favorites

Granola bars and/or pop tarts - I cannot recommend S'mores pop tarts enough

Fridge/freezer

Meats:

Plain sausage - I also like to keep andouille and Jimmy Dean breakfast patties and sausage crumbles on hand for some variety

Frozen shrimp - Cajun food has a lot of seafood, plus it's a great way to mix up your source of meat

Lunchmeat - make sure it's one you like before you stock up, they vary a lot

Dairy and dairy-adjacent:

Milk - It's milk, it's necessary

Eggs - I usually get 1 dozen eggs plus 6 pre-hard-boiled eggs for egg salad

Cream cheese - for the bagels

Mayonnaise - key condiment

Mustard - key condiment

Ketchup - I'm actually allergic to tomatoes, so I very much don't keep ketchup on hand, but you might want it

Chocolate milk - I love this in the evenings before bed

Individual servings of rice pudding - this is a super filling, tasty snack

Sandwich cheese - make sure to get a type of cheese you like

Misc:

Fruit juice - I'm obsessed with mango juice at the moment, so I recommend that, but any juice is fantastic

Berries - I usually just get strawberries but get what you like

Apple sauce - this is a really easy, refreshing snack and a good way to get in some fruit

Chopped onions - you can freeze these if you don't use them

Chopped jalapeños - very much optional, but I like to add flavor to everything; you can also freeze these

Frozen mixed vegetables - I use these for fried rice, and they're fantastic

Fruit cups - I don't keep these anymore because they're a little sweet for me, but they are such an easy way to get in a serving of fruit

Soy sauce - can't make fried rice without this

How I use the food

Breakfast

Bagel + cream cheese (with juice or chocolate milk)

Granola with milk + berries (with juice or chocolate milk)

Cereal with milk (with juice or chocolate milk)

Some sort of egg - fried, scrambled, omelet, etc. (with juice or chocolate milk)

Not breakfast

Made weekly for several servings:

Egg salad sandwich (with chips and fruit)

Shrimp fried rice

Various premade Cajun dishes with sausage or shrimp - replace this with whatever premade food you like

Made for one serving:

Ramen (usually with rice)

Normal sandwich (with chips and fruit)

Some sort of egg, often on toast (with chips and fruit)

Tuna salad sandwich (with chips and fruit)

Soup from a can (sometimes with rice, sometimes not)

Sausage and mashed potatoes

Snacks

Bagel + cream cheese

Fruit cup, apple sauce, or fruit in general

Pastry

Pop tart or granola bar

Chips

Rice pudding

Chocolate milk

This adds enough variety to my diet that I don't get bored while also being very predictable, easy to keep track of, and straightforward to make. Of course, sometimes I buy things to make something else specific, but this is just a general idea.

[spookieloop]

👁🍁 hey friend :) U have unlimited access to a supply of the best ingredients. How would you make the perfect sandwich.

Oh man I have so many sandwich opinions 😲

QUICK FUN FACT: My Grandparents used to own a popular Sub Shop before I was born, and their most popular sandwich was a Roast Beef sandwich that had mashed potatoes and gravy on it. I am not a gravy fan, but I do enjoy mashed potatoes on a sandwich.

That said, my FAVORITE sandwich lately is turkey and cheese with a fried egg, with a little bit of avocado ranch(I got it as a gift and will be sad when it’s gone because I KNOW that shit was expensive) and that’s just on plain super cheap white bread.

If I had unlimited budget, I’d get REALLY nice flour and yeast to make a very tasty bread at home, I’d have Havarti cheese on it, and I’d have real avocado on it(in addition to the ranch; or perhaps I’d make mayo with Duck Eggs instead of ranch). Perhaps I would toast the bread in butter on the stove, maybe even brown the butter with some garlic and chives if we want to get REALLY fancy. Maybe even have spinich! Fresh spinich is expensive af.

Or I could make a KILLER autumn sandwich by making my own yeast risen apple bread, making a flavorful applebutter spread, making a turkey/cranberry salad filling out of thanksgiving leftovers, and topping it with a nice slice of smoked Gouda before closing the sandwich. That would be dirt cheap and easy to make though, since we buy cheap yeast in bulk because I make a LOT of bread products. (TIP! If you’re making yeast risen apple bread/doughnuts, use freeze dried apples to give it maximum flavor. Blend them to a powder and mix them right into the dough)

Thank you for asking! I hope this was a satisfying answer!

[queenofnohr]

Twisted Wonderland: Jade Leech Scary Outfit (SSR) - Voice Lines + Personal Story

Voice Lines

SSR Summoning Quote: For this long awaited day, I have prepared for you the finest quality horror. Summoning Line: I will do my utmost to ensure everyone has a wonderful Halloween. Groovy: The way you look running away, screaming…… it’s irresistible. I can’t help but chase after you! Set Home: Who wants to be bound by fear? Home Idle 1: You want to see me scared? Fufufu, by all means, you may try scaring me at any time. Home Idle 2: There’s no such thing as jack o’ lanterns under the sea. I was surprised when I learned about landweller culture as a first-year. Home Idle 3: Have you tried the limited-time Halloween menu at the Mostro Lounge? I, too, came up with a recipe. Home Login: Trick or Treat. …...I see you’re not so scared you won’t accept treats to eat. Home Idle Groovy: Oh my, you intend to play a trick on me? I’ve prepared sweets, so pardon me for today. Home Tap 1: Ruggie helped me make a jack o’ lantern. The result was fast, cheap, and beautiful. As expected of him. Home Tap 2: Dehydration is deadly for merfolk. Being dried out like a mummy…… It’s frightening to even think about. Home Tap 3: Floyd, don’t eat too many sweets. After all, you have a high risk of getting a cavity here, unlike under the sea. Home Tap 4: The way the bandage adornments look like jellyfish tentacles is beautiful, isn’t it? I especially enjoy the asymmetrical design. Home Tap 5: It seems you’d like to become a mummy. First, we’ll have to bandage your whole body, then we’ll leave you to dry…… Just kidding. Home Tap Groovy: What’s Halloween like under the sea? If you’re interested, I’d be happy to guide you.

Personal Story

Could You Please Teach Me? : Chapter 1

-Classroom-

Ruggie: I’m coming in. Kalim: I’m begging you, Jade, make it work somehow! Jade: Kalim, this amount is regulation. No exceptions are allowed. Silver: Zzzz, zzzz…… Floyd: I’m so bored of you guys arguing~. Jellyfishie over here is also so bored he fell asleep. Goldfish, do something funny. Riddle: Why me!? I have a better proposal— how about you go somewhere else, Floyd. Ruggie: Wow, it’s pretty lively in here. You guys in the middle of something? Jamil: Silver and I just tagged along. Pay us no mind. Kalim: You’re gonna have to wait a little longer, Ruggie. I’m talking to Jade about the budget. Jade: Kalim. As I’ve said before, the budget cannot be negotiated. Please cut down your expenses more. Kalim: Don’t say that, Jade. After all, the flashier the exhibit, the more the guests will enjoy it, right? Riddle: Kalim, the entire school has a budget. Scarabia would do well to follow the rules. Ruggie: Jade, take this. It’s our budget application. You’ll be able to take care of my business right away. Jade: Yes, of course. …...Kalim, please seek to emulate Savanaclaw’s example. Look here, they’re precisely within budget. Silver: Zzzzzz...... Jamil: Silver got so tired of waiting he fell asleep…… Let’s go back and reevaluate it, Kalim. Kalim: Okay…… I guess we should. Oh, has everyone else settled on what costumes and decorations they’re gonna have? Ruggie: We’ve already decided. This year our theme is gonna be pirates. ???: My, my, what a troubling theme. Jamil: So you’re here now, too, Azul. Azul: But of course. When I passed by the classroom, there seemed to be quite the commotion. Jade: Pirate ghosts who left behind many legends of how they sailed the seas, raising havoc in search of treasure…… they certainly are quite frightening. Ruggie: Jack’s the one who thought of it, but I don’t think that’s what he had in mind. I think he thought it suited Savanaclaw, since we have a lotta tough looking guys in our dorm. Floyd: That’s real good for Halloween. Kalim: By the way, do you guys celebrate Halloween in the Coral Sea? Jade: Yes, of course. At this time of year I’d usually be busy collecting shells and starfish for decorations. And on the day itself, everyone stuffs sea sparkles into bottles…… I believe you’d call it a lantern on land. You carry it around with you. Floyd: We also got musical performances where we play some bangers~ Kalim: Nice! Music is always needed for banquets and festivals. Jamil: The shape and sound of instruments in the Coral Sea must be different from instruments on land. Silver: Carrying around a lantern of sea sparkles is also a really interesting custom unique to the sea. Riddle: It sounds like it’d be a magical sight to see. Azul: It’s an honor to have you all take such an interest in our homeland. If you so wish, we’d even be willing to put together a package tour on long breaks where you’d be guided around. Jade: Azul. As fun as that sounds, we’ll have to chat about that another day. Now then. As everyone has pointed out, Halloween on land is quite different from under the sea. We’ve been continuously surprised at the cultural differences since coming to land. There are many things I don’t know yet. As a member of the Organization Committee, I would like to deepen my understanding of how Halloween is celebrated on land in order to liven up the event. Could you all please teach me how Halloween was celebrated in your hometowns?

Could You Please Teach Me? : Chapter 2

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Jade: Could you all please teach me how Halloween was celebrated in your hometowns? Riddle: …...Halloween, hm? In my hometown, it seems standard for children to gather in the town square for a “fun party.” Jamil: “It seems”……The way you said that makes it sound like you’re talking about someone else. Riddle: I’ve only participated once before, and never again. So I’m not too familiar with it…… What did leave an impression on me was everyone bobbing for apples. Floyd: Goldie, what’s bubbling for…… what’s whatever that apple thing you just said? The name sounds kinda tasty. Riddle: It’s a traditional Halloween game in the Rose Kingdom. You have to use your mouth to grab one of the apples floating in a large basin of water. Of course, you can’t use your hands. Jade: I see…… that is a game unique to land. Azul: Yes, under the sea the apple would float all the way to the surface as soon as you let go of it. Jade: If we turned it into a game of chasing down an apple quickly floating upward, we could play it underwater. Floyd: It could be fun. Silver: But…… is it even possible to grab an apple with your mouth? Riddle: It seems like smaller-than-usual apples are used, but…… it’s still very difficult. Jade: It seems to be a game in which a child with a good physique would have the advantage in being able to grab an apple. Riddle: You’re right. Not only the size of one’s mouth, but the amount of strength you can put into your jaw is necessary to have an advantage. Ruggie: Then wouldn’t Jade and Floyd have an edge over everyone at this school? They’re huge and their teeth are jagged. Jade: Fufufu, I wonder. I’d be embarrassed opening my mouth so wide in front of everyone…… We may not be able to get the apple due to being unexpectedly sluggish. Floyd: So how d’ya decide who wins and loses? Riddle: I think the rule was that whoever gets an apple in the shortest amount of time wins. Even in the Land of Shining Stones, there are places where this game is played. Cater told me that in his hometown, they competed based on how many they were able to get. I couldn’t quite get the hang of it, so both my face and clothes ended up completely soaked…… But now that I think about it, it wasn’t the result that was important. Laughing and making a ruckus while struggling to get an apple…… I think that was the point of the game. Jade: It certainly would be a very interesting sight, seeing you desperately chase after an apple with your mouth hanging open…… Yes, it would be very much worth seeing. Riddle: And just what is that supposed to mean? Kalim: I get what Riddle is saying. After all, having fun is more important than winning or losing! Riddle: Yes…… that’s right. Kalim: It’s a little different than the Kingdom of Roses, but Halloween in the Land of Hot Sands is also a lot of fun! Jade: Oh, what is the customary activity characteristic of the Land of Hot Sands? Kalim: In the Land of Hot Sands, it’d definitely have to be the feast! When Halloween comes around, we make so many dishes they can’t fit on the table. Jamil: So that we may eat together once again with the ghosts that have returned…… that is its purpose. Sweet, salty, spicy……. We prepare a wide variety of food, from light appetizers to huge platters. As Halloween approaches, the kitchens get filled to capacity with everyone starting to prepare the ingredients. Jade: I would very much like to see such a magnificent dining table someday. Are there any customary dishes? Kalim: If we’re talking about the Halloween feast…… I like that one thing. What was it, it was like baked vegetables topped with some kind of sauce. Jamil: Huh? Kalim: Oh, your face totally made it click. It’s the thing with potatoes, eggplants, and tomatoes! Jade: ……Is it like lasagna, but with the pasta replaced by vegetables? Kalim: Yeah, they might be similar. It’s super good right out of the oven. Azul: I see. It seems like it would be favored by those that prefer healthy foods. Jade: Jamil, may I ask the name of the dish? Jamil: Sure…… it’s a local dish called moussaka. Kalim: Yeah, that’s it, that’s the one! When I was young, I really wanted to eat it on a day when there was no feast, so I asked Jamil to make it for me. Jamil: I was scolded harshly. My parents and the other servants said, “Children can’t use fire by themselves!”…… Kalim: Whaaat!? Really!? Jamil: It was because I was still only in elementary school at the time. I hadn’t cooked as much as I do now…… Even starting a small fire would be a big problem. Looking back on it now, I can understand why my parents and the others were so upset with me. Kalim: Oh jeez, I’m super sorry. But the moussaka I ate back then was really delicious. I still remember it well. Just remembering it makes me wanna eat it. Hey Jamil, please make it again sometime! Azul: I’d also like to request it. It might be good for our new Mostro Lounge menu…… Jamil: Absolutely not. Kalim: Awww, don’t say that~ Jamil: Moussaka is a time-consuming consuming dish to make since it requires many ingredients and two sauces. I simply don’t think it’s suitable to serve in a cafe. Jade: From what you’ve said, it seems to be made in an oven. The oven in the lounge isn’t that big…… It would certainly prove difficult to make a large amount. Azul: Aren’t there many ways to increase the turnover rate, like making a lot on a big platter? Ruggie: Octavinelle is the same as ever. Jade: Fufu…… To get the details, how about we have a nice, calm chat over some of your home-cooking, Jamil? Jamil: Oi, hold on, I never said anything about cooking for you…… Jeez. Silver: Zzzz…… Zzzz…… Jamil: Look, Silver fell asleep while you Octavinelle goons were getting excited over profits. Jade: Oh, my sincerest apologies. It seems I’ve derailed the conversation. Silver, please excuse me. It’s time to get up now, isn’t it? Silver: Ah…… Sorry. You wanted to know about Halloween in the Valley of Thorns…… didn’t you? Jade: Yes. Please tell me. Silver: If we’re talking about Halloween, then I can’t remember anything but my old ma—…… I mean Lilia’s costume. Riddle: Oh, that’s right, you two are from the same town. Jade: As expected, the Land of Thorns has costumes…… Wearing costumes is a common custom on land in every country, it seems. Silver: Do merfolk not wear costumes? Jade: To begin with, we don’t really make a habit of wearing clothes. Because it isn’t familiar to me, dressing up in various styles on land is quite novel. Silver: Actually, it’s hard for me to associate costumes with fun memories. Even remembering it now makes me shudder. Floyd: Huhhhhh, wouldn’t that little Flapjack Octo be even smaller back when he was in his hometown? Silver: Well, he didn’t look much different than how he looks now, but…… It was only on that Halloween that I saw Lilia-senpai have such a terrifying appearance. Jade: Oh, that’s very interesting. Especially considering how much he’s proud of his own cuteness. Silver: The horrifyingly frightening appearance of Lilia-senpai in his costume…… Sebek and I watched him together, trembling in fear. We were so afraid to sleep that night, both of us promised to stay up till morning. Jade: If I were to witness something so horrifying, I’m sure I’d start wailing. Floyd: Ehhhhhh, I wanna seeeeee. We’ve been together since we were born, but I’ve never seen you do anything like that. Ruggie: So, did you and Sebek end up gracing the morning sun with your tears? Silver: No…… I fell asleep before I knew it. Riddle: I knew it...... Silver: Sebek was so scared he couldn’t use the restroom all night, and the next morning he angrily called me a traitor. Ruggie: Wow, so even Sebek can be cute sometimes. Jamil: Then how did you spend Halloween, Ruggie? Ruggie: Me? Halloween in the slums isn’t really great for reference. Jade: Now, now, don’t speak like that. Every tale about life on land is fresh and educational, so please teach me all about it. Ruggie: I guess I don’t mind talking about it, but…… Don’t wrinkle your nose after I tell you. “Trick or treat”...... It’s normal to play a trick if you don’t get treats, right? But Halloween in my hometown ain’t that cute. If you didn’t give us candy, we would go home till we got some…… It was a 24 hour candy collecting marathon.

Could You Please Teach Me? : Chapter 3

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Kalim, Silver, Riddle: A 24 hour candy collecting marathon!? Jade: Candy collecting…… Only hearing about it, it seems the same as a normal Halloween tradition……. But judging from how you talk about it, it seems that the reality is quite different. Ruggie: That’s right. It’s because we rarely get to have candy. So the fact that just by saying, “Trick or Treat,” nets you candy feels like getting blessed. It’s impossible for hyenas like us to pass on a chance to fill our bellies. Jade: Ruggie, whenever you help out at the Mostro Lounge, you always bring tupperware. I take it that means your appetite hasn’t changed from how it was in the past. Ruggie: I’d gather all the neighborhood kids, decide who was in charge of each area, then go around the entire village. ……We didn’t miss even a single house. Jamil: That’s an incredible amount of tenacity…… Ruggie: And so long as it’s not the same faces, you’ll get sweets again, so we’d switch out members and hit the same house over and over again. Silver: If you go that far…… I feel like it’d cause problems. Ruggie: And you’d be right. Some odd years ago our patrol strategy got found out by the manager of the neighborhood association…… They immediately issued a trick or treat ban. Jade: Poor things. Was everyone disappointed? Ruggie: You bet. I was just a kid, so I didn’t know how to quit while I was ahead. And I was the one scolded the most since I was sorta like a big-brother figure to all the kids in the area. Jade: It occurred to me while you were talking earlier, but you’re surprisingly good at taking care of others, Ruggie. The image you put forth is that of someone who only works for a reward, but…… Ruggie: ……Well, putting that aside. My grandma couldn’t stand seeing sad kids, so she made pumpkin pie for us. Riddle: Pumpkin pie…… Boy, that sure sounds delicious. Jade: It seems we have a new candidate for our Halloween menu. Ruggie: Oh, I’ll charge you extra if you’re asking me to leak the Bucchi family secret recipe. Shishishi. Jade: How shrewd— as expected of you, Ruggie. It’s something prettier than simple muffins and cookies, and most importantly, seems filling. Ruggie: Of course. Looking pretty’s got nothing on being able to fill you up. It’s ‘cause it’s made from the pumpkin guts after you hollow it out to make a jack o’ lantern. Jade: My, my…… I wouldn’t have been able to devise such a clever way to use such a thing. Ruggie: So then, the next year, I started a part-time job carving jack o’ lanterns to use for pumpkin pie. Azul: You’ve had very much experience doing part-time jobs…… I’m even more impressed. Ruggie: If you get a part-time job doing that, the client provides you with the pumpkin, and you get to take the hollowed out contents for free…… “You’re just gonna let me have all this delicious stuff!?” was how I felt. Halloween’s really the best! Jade: How wonderful! I must follow your example of having the willpower to turn anything into profit. Silver: ……Seems like everyone enjoys Halloween in different ways. Kalim: Yeah. Let’s enjoy Halloween at the academy to our heart’s content, and make a bunch of good memories! Floyd: “Enjoy it to our heart’s content?” Azul: Good memories……? Kalim: ……? Don’t you enjoy Halloween? Jade: It’s not a holiday with that kind of feeling attached to it, at least not for us merfolk from the north. After all, those who lose their lives at sea are often consumed by regret and despair. Those who were caught in storms, those who exhausted all their strength aboard their ship, hopelessly lost at sea…… Whatever the case, it is not uncommon for the ghosts that return to be ferocious. Azul: Indeed. And pirate ghosts top that list. Jamil: Didn’t you guys say before that Halloween was celebrated with sea sparkles and lively music? Floyd: The lanterns are anchors for merfolk to stop ‘em from accidentally wandering into the next world. And playing music means the ghosts won’t be lonely. Azul: It’s also intended to soothe their sorrow and rage. Riddle: ……No way, you mean there’s ghosts all over the ocean floor? Jade: While I haven’t actually seen one, personally…… During Halloween there was a notice issued from our school. In it contained places one shouldn’t approach, times one shouldn’t go out…… since there were people that went missing every year. Ruggie: Hold on a sec…… That’s way too creepy. Floyd: Now that I think about it, when we were in middle school, I felt like I saw 3 Jades in different places~ Jade: There was also a time where I thought I was talking to Floyd, but I remember when I spoke to him the next day, he said, “You didn’t tell me anything about that.” At the time I didn’t pay it any mind and thought he simply hadn’t been listening to me, but…… Azul: It’s because it was Halloween. Those kinds of things are to be expected. Jamil: “Those kinds of things”…… as if it’s normal. Silver: The sea is a terrifying world outside the farthest reaches of the imagination…… Jade: The Coral Sea is a place where you can experience thrills you normally wouldn’t on Halloween. Floyd: Well it’s not boring, that’s for sure~ Azul: Just as Ruggie said earlier, it’s wonderful that we have so many business opportunities! Jade: Putting aside Azul’s talk of work…… I do love Halloween both under the sea and on land. It’s exciting to think of what unexpected things might happen. As I was selected to be part of the Organization Committee, I’d like if I could make everyone on land experience different feelings than usual. Because we hail from the sea, the thrills we can provide are far more than simply “fun.” This year, let’s have a wonderful Halloween that won’t lose to any other. Fufufu……

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T/N: Two things- “sea sparkles” are Noctiluca scintillans, and yes the real colloquial name for it is “sea sparkle.” Secondly, I’m aware that the name of Cater’s homeland (the Land of Shining Stones) can be read as the Land of Pyroxene/Augite. I personally feel that name feels REALLY out of place compared to the others so unless the specific stone augite/pyroxene is thematically relevant or canonized beyond a doubt somehow, I separated the kanji into shining/glittering/sparkling + rock/stone/etc.