Shigenobu Vegetables available from a grocer are laid out on a green background. Color woodcut Month 5, 1866 Each vegetable is named Shigenobu-ga; Bears publisher's mark and censor's seal
loose leaf tea blends 🌿🍂🌱
Almond citrus cake w cardamom rose strawberry chia compote, whipped cream, fresh & dried strawberries, pistachios, bee pollen & lady’s mantle
these cannot be my options.
At long last, the sandwich zine is here. A compilation of my favorite highlights from the Wikipedia List of Sandwiches. Maybe next time... the silliest sandwiches. We shall see. Fool's Gold Loaf I'm looking at you.
Cooking horror game where you play as a cook working in the galley of a ship in the 1800s. There’s some kind of supernatural nautical horror story going on in the background but you barely notice this because you spend all day cooking in the galley.
I could not stop thinking about this. The only cue you get is the ingredients keep getting more and more unnerving, and like the prep you have to do to make the food gets more and more elaborate??? GIMEE THE GAME.
Dredge: the Cooking Sim
My canonical The Beans recipe for the convenience of linking to people
Original recipe is here: https://www.wearesovegan.com/creamy-miso-coconut-butter-beans but the modified version in this post is betterrrr:
Ingredience:
- olive oil
- 1 onion, peeled + sliced
- 1 can of cannellini beans*
- 1 can of chickpeas*
- 1 can of full-fat coconut milk
- 2 tbsp white miso paste
- salt + pepper
- 100g (3.5oz) baby spinach
- 1 handful of fresh dill or parsley (I usually use parsley; The Beans are still delicious even with dried herbs, but use less)
- 1/2 lemon, juice only
- some tasty fresh fuckin BREAD
*When I make a double batch (and I always make a double batch, you should too at least if you're cooking for a group) I do 3 cans cannellini beans and 1 can chickpeas-- I think this is the ideal ratio but it's not very practical to do in a single batch
Steps:
- Drizzle a splash of olive oil in a large pan or pot on a low-medium heat. Next add the onion and cook for 6-8 minutes or until the onion turns translucent (you don’t want to brown the onion).
- Add the beans - including all the juices from the tins - into the pan. Then turn the heat up and cook for 5-8 minutes or until some of the liquid has reduced. While you're waiting, here's some prep you can do in anticipation of later steps: A. Put the miso paste into a small bowl and ladle a bit of the hot liquid in. Stir it around to dissolve. (This saves you from intractable undissolved miso clumps in the final product later) B. Chop the herbs if you got herbs that need to be chopped
- Pour in the coconut milk. (You can reserve a few dollops of the cream for topping later if you want to be fancy, but I never bother).
- Stir in the miso paste (dissolve it first if you haven't already!) and a generous pinch of pepper, then cook for a minute. Go a bit longer if the broth seems too runny, but it's probably fine.
- Stir in the spinach and cook for another minute until it has wilted.
- Chop most of the dill/parsley if you didn't already (save a few leaves for topping later if you want to be fancy) then add the chopped dill into the pan along with the lemon juice.
- Give everything a good stir, then taste the sauce and season with salt and more pepper, if necessary.
- Remove the pan from the heat (and if you chose the Fancy Life, top with the remaining dill leaves, a splash of olive oil, freshly ground black pepper and dollops of the remaining coconut cream.)
- Serve with toasted bread for dunking into the creamy beans oh my god do not neglect the bread dunking bread dunking is THE POINT.
Congratulations! You are now enjoying The Beans!
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Doubled version of this recipe under the cut for my own benefit, so I can glance at it without having to remember to double everything:
if you’re craving chocolate muffins after the olympic muffin man videos, jordan the stallion on tiktok has the recipe for you
im thinking about them (honey bear bottles)
My oil painting of Martini and Uncrustable
do I have permission to do an unpaid promo for a local business, queens?
there's a queer & trans owned jam company in Virginia called Dayum This is My Jam which is extremely important to the LGBT community here.
besides be a small business made up of about 10 trans/queer people, they also host frequent pride events under the name Trans Jam. and when I say frequent, I mean FREQUENT. Dayum Jam / Trans Jam is one of the biggest organizers for the LGBT community in central Virginia. and many of the events they do are also fundraisers (such as supporting local trans surgery funds or palestine)!
all that said, they ship their products so you don't have to live here to support them! & everything on their website is a sliding scale price!
they've got jam (raspberry link) (blueberry link)
they've also got salsas and pickles! (salsa verde link) (pickle bites link)
& they have gift baskets and sampler boxes :-) (gift basket link) (sampler box link)
I want to promo this company not just because of all the good they do for the community here, but also because I've heard from a source that they've been struggling financially lately. They're also starting to get publicly harassed by the local transmisogynistic abuser I've been vaguing the last couple months, so it's really just one thing after another rn.
Dayum Jam is a cornerstone of our LGBT community, and has been nothing but supportive to me & my friends, even in our most vulnerable moments. I want them to continue succeeding because they're more than just a company to us. here's a full website link, thanks for reading :-)
Columbo S7E2 “Murder Under Glass” (1978)
Fern spotted at 24:46! I am not sure what kind of fern it is, though. Looks like a common polypody, but that seems like an odd choice.
Maybe it's a Boston fern...this one a few shots later definitely is, thus providing us another ultimate combo!
Bonus: a close-up on this awful and inimitably 1970s aspic situation. This episode is all about fine dining, and yes, this spread is supposed to be the height of elegance. Gag.
Jenna Gribbon (American, 1978) - When I Looked at You the Light Changed (2019)