#to learn how to cook for yourself

[heavierthanlaila]

a big part of healing and growing up is unlearing all the horrible habits you've acquired over years of struggling with depression and relearning how to take care of yourself from scratch.

[starcurtain]

I think the most amazing thing about Alhaitham's ironic question "How has realizing your ideals gone for you?" is that yes, on the surface, it pierced through the heart of Kaveh's feelings at the time and forced him to reflect on whether he still had enough belief to keep going, but--BUT--

This is also Alhaitham subtly asking: "Was your life better without me?"

Kaveh left their friendship because of his ideals.

Kaveh's attempts to realize his beliefs began in earnest during his argument with Alhaitham, who challenged him back then by suggesting that Kaveh didn't honestly believe in his ideals and was just pursuing them out of guilt and a desire to punish himself for his father's death.

Kaveh's attempt to "realize his ideals," therefore, spans the exact amount of time he and Alhaitham have been separated. When Alhaitham asks about Kaveh's attempts, he's asking very specifically about the course Kaveh's life took when he was no longer in it.

How did it go for you? Were you happier? Was it worth it?

I truly believe that Kaveh will be able resolve his conflict with Alhaitham--and come to understand Alhaitham's actual feelings--when he realizes that, in that exact moment, he should have turned the question around:

How did realizing your ideals go for you, Alhaitham?

Was your life better off without me?

No.

[ihatedean]

happy wincest wednesday! do you think sam or dean is a better cook? or do you think they both barely scrape by? -lizzy

happy wincest wednesday!! ty for the ask ANDD!! for the lovely birthday message<333 mwah. ANYWAYS

I know we see Dean in canon making perfectly decent burgers/grilling stuff/That One Soup and like in general cooking for Sam as kids, and money restrictions make you a good cook inevitably I think,,,, but I have to be honest I don't know if I'd trust him with a recipe that requires too much thought or more than thirty minutes in the kitchen. He gives me more Dad That Grills on Sundays vibes.

On the other hand I love thinking about Sam figuring out his way in the kitchen in Stanford and getting good at it, maybe with Jessica's help. Learning one or two of her family's recipes and making them for her when she's feeling down. Eventually maybe making them for Dean— the spicier and greasier versions :p I feel like he'd cook mostly because it's a way to supervise exactly what is going inside his body but idk if he'd find satisfaction in a meal well done the way Dean does¿

(That being said, those white stanford kids couldn't season their food for shit. Dean is the one that knows how to squeeze the best flavors from his meals for the cheapest price lol)

[philosophicallie]

ok time to try to blame someone else instead of me

[savoryangel]

I seriously love indulging in my culture with my f/os as well into indulging into theirs as return!!

[beardedhandstoadshark]

So AI art is trending on number 1 right now. They’re tagging their stuff as "artists on tumblr“ and "my artwork“. The very first tag that comes up when writing "ai art“ is "ai artist“. Actual artists are getting cyberbullied for asking not to have their real art stolen. Dead people are having their life’s‘ work stolen mere days after they’re gone. AI generatees (because you will never, never get to rightfully claim you’re an artist) are saying it’s okay because it was shared publicly so it’s free to take and intellectual properly doesn’t really exist anyways. A post is circulating about how the entire translation industry was destroyed by programs like google translate even though we all know they several suck at translating anything more than two words, let alone entire texts.

Why even bother drawing at this point?

[camgoloud]

the unaffordability of one bedroom apartments in my area is something that can be so oppressive to me personally

[thefandomlesbian]

Trying new recipes as a picky eater is always like playing Russian roulette. I just spent fifteen minutes blowing on my dish unable to figure out why it was still burning my mouth before I remembered that I put cayenne pepper in it.

It didn't even call for cayenne pepper, I just thought it might make it interesting. (It did not.)

Anyway here's my first attempt at shakshuka which I grievously overcooked (I had never poached an egg before and had no idea what a poached egg was supposed to look like so I kept cooking it until I was Sure It Was Done—know better now and will do better next time)

In spite of lacking presentation, it actually is pretty good and I will be cooking it again, making it better next time and NOT overcooking it to the point of dehydration.

[omgfloofy]

I’m doing this as an image since I don’t want to drag anything down on the meaning that’s being presented in the original message nor do I want to bring hate on the people posting it. But at the same time I want to add something on this.

My most creative time with cooking came from when I was unemployed, and barely able to afford the roof over my head and to keep the bills running. I had a really really old Kitchenaid (I think retailed at like $150?) cookware set that I got when I was living with a roommate. (And I still have and use it to this day, while it’s like 14 years old now.)

I couldn’t afford to eat out a lot at that time, so I experimented and played around with making dishes that I really liked. This often meant playing around with boxed items from the store, or just making things from scratch. I learned to make several portions of tonkatsu for less than $7 or $8 total. It would give me 3-4 meals out of the week. I also recreated several restaurant dishes for a cheap cost.

You don’t need fancy equipment to recreate flavors you like. I had a partially busted electric stovetop that had an unevenly cooking oven and no fancy appliances in my kitchen - I lived in a dirt cheap apartment at the time that was in a low income area.

I can’t argue on the large city part, being that I had a grocery store nearby, but I also knew when to go to said store - based on when they were removing meat from the butcher counter and discounting it to get rid of it. I bought that frequently and kept freezer bags to freeze it in parts since it was just me. Even if you don’t live near one, learn that time for where you get food on your own.

The most unique thing I ever bought for my kitchen was an oven thermometer, but those aren’t expensive. You can find those for less than $10. I needed it to find the hot spots for my

Look up Dylan Hollis and his videos. He doesn’t use stand mixers or anything, to show that you don’t need that stuff to make the things he makes.

Another online source for recipes that makes things easy to follow, no matter what you have available to you: Food Wishes. His stuff is great and some of his recipes are now staples in my lineup.

If you want to get better cooking equipment, look up estate sales or garage/yard sales and buy them second hand. Good brands will last you a very long time. (Case in point with my kitchenaid stuff.) Also look up cookbooks at your local used bookstore, or even just get them from estate sales.

Another thing to remember: if things aren’t purchased at an estate sale, it usually just goes into the trash, so you’re basically saving something from the landfill in that case. Estate sales are always your friend,and they almost always happen at least on a semi regular occurrence, regardless of where you live.

And one of the recipes I made during that period is very much my own and one of the favorites my friends enjoy me making. You never know what you can and will accomplish when you’re forced to be creative in the kitchen.

[illgiveyouahint]

From someone who didn't really like eggs to someone who's excited about the delicious omelette I just made, I sure am making great strides in my pickiness

[haarute]

reading posts about people noticing things that you do being its own form of love, and then thinking that the thought of being perceived at all is actually terrifying to me because i cannot imagine a situation where that wouldn't be a criticism of my person. and the realization that this is not supposed to be the case is wild to me lmao.

[airenyah]

ok so i was on the phone with my mom telling her about the gmmtv lineup andddddd seems like there's a good chance we'll be watching only friends together when it comes out gjgjjg

which is hilarious bc first of all the plot doesn't seem like something i'd personally enjoy (i'm too asexual for plots that revolve around people sleeping with each other kfkfkf i just don't understand those plots) and also... it also doesn't seem like something you'd be watching with your mother

but yeah fjfjdjjf something about the whole concept and the cast makes our monkey brains go wild fkfjfjf

[hoedameron]

and they say a brunette couldn’t be back in the gifmaking game

[neonpigeons]

parents get into a bad mood and somehow it becomes your fucking problem

[six-of-ravens]

i feel so bad for my coworker who "doesn't cook" bc he's decided to go on a diet and the only diet-friendly food around here is shitty coffee shop sandwiches and man. listen. it would be so easy to just make an even better (and probably healthier tbh) sandwich at home and bring it to the office...

[goldenguillotines]

Hey Jaevya, you work on a farm, right? What’s that like and how’d you end up doing farm work?

"'sfine. I enjoy it enough myself. It's a long drawn out process. A lot of care and effort. Knowin' Alternia as intimately as I do helps exponentially in the longevity and sustainability.."

"I work with more organics stuff. I don't mind workin' with cattle.. or the like. I only do it occasionally my self. Not keen on raisin' em like that. I leave that for my neighbors."

"I was kinda taught to be a field worker when I was a lil fella. I used to protect our crops from freeze and drouts.. Even floods.. but I usually allowed it ta' happen. All about new beginnings."

"Eh. Call it a change in pace. Back to my roots.. also helps showin' these skills to the trolls who live off the grid or away from it.. or to those who need a bit of a change of pace.. a break."