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Posted in The Trash Heap [S] CIs+RIGs+more
Posted 3 years ago
@Priestess of Pie: definitely; sending trade now
@Bonnie: you sure can!
@Bonnie: you sure can!
Posted in The Trash Heap [S] CIs+RIGs+more
Posted 3 years ago
@Starlight: and thanks for buying! :^)
Posted in The Trash Heap [S] CIs+RIGs+more
Posted 3 years ago
@Starlight: trade has been sent!
Posted in The Trash Heap [S] CIs+RIGs+more
Posted 3 years ago
updated again at long last.
Posted in The last thing you ate is what you have to name him
Posted 3 years ago
her name still bread
Posted in The last thing you ate is what you have to name him
Posted 3 years ago
her name is bread
Posted in Chapter One: Through the Looking Glass
Posted 3 years ago
OK I give up trying to get the items from this game; I've tried turning off all my popup blockers individually as well as checking "always allow on this site" and after 4 tries it's still blocking me from getting the grant. Will there be another way to get it?
Posted in Do you have any mule accounts?
Posted 4 years ago
I have 3 accounts. One for storage and collecting things, and one for regular daily use; the third was also just for regular use and I switched between them for a while just because, but that got annoying so I settled on one and took everything off the other one and don't use it any more. I don't think we can delete our accounts here, so I guess it'll just be there in case I ever need it for something.
Posted in What is this picture telling you?
Posted 4 years ago
i just see the classic "you and your things stay on YOUR side, me and my things stay on MY side" ;v;
Posted in My Dumb Butt
Posted 4 years ago
That's kind of what I feel like just checking in to the site most days. I rarely post but still check for notifications regularly.
Posted in What's everyone's halloween plans?
Posted 4 years ago
Not entirely sure yet; my friend and I are in the middle of trying to work around our schedules and make a trip to go view some houses with a realtor... so our original plan was to go to the area we're looking at during Halloween weekend, do the house-hunting stuff during the day, and find some local activity like a haunted house or whatever's open during the nights when we'd be there. But we couldn't get enough time off (it's a 5+ hour drive and we both work late) so we decided to reschedule our realtor visit for a few weeks down the road and just use Halloween weekend for... Halloween.
This leaves us kinda scrambling to figure out what we can do; we want to decorate the house, but don't expect a lot of trick-or-treaters with all the stuff going on this year. We'd like to go to some kind of haunted attraction, but not much is open this year, much less during the daytime, so it'll probably be "go last-minute shopping for candy and spiderwebs, decorate the house, pass out candy and watch movies for the rest of the night". Maybe we'll make some Halloweeny recipes and pretend it's a party. :^P I really wish we had more time. Oh, well. At least we should have our own place together by next year and won't have to worry so much about scheduling.
This leaves us kinda scrambling to figure out what we can do; we want to decorate the house, but don't expect a lot of trick-or-treaters with all the stuff going on this year. We'd like to go to some kind of haunted attraction, but not much is open this year, much less during the daytime, so it'll probably be "go last-minute shopping for candy and spiderwebs, decorate the house, pass out candy and watch movies for the rest of the night". Maybe we'll make some Halloweeny recipes and pretend it's a party. :^P I really wish we had more time. Oh, well. At least we should have our own place together by next year and won't have to worry so much about scheduling.
Posted in Calling all vegans!
Posted 4 years ago
! soup is one of my favorite things to make. Very easy and you can put whatever you want in it, including any veggies, beans, etc you have laying around and don't know what to do with.
I actually got a really nice butternut squash soup recipe from the sticker on a squash I bought a while back. Dealing with the squash itself was the hard part (cooking and peeling it, specifically) but the rest was pretty simple and it made enough to last me quite a while.
1 cooked butternut squash (I baked mine in the oven; you can also buy squash frozen and pre-cut to save time!)
2 Tb olive oil
1/2 c chopped yellow onion
4 cloves minced garlic (or ~2 teaspoons pre-minced garlic from a jar to save time)
1/8 ts ground nutmeg
1ts chili powder
1ts salt
4c vegetable broth
1ts maple syrup
In a large soup pot, sauté onions and garlic. Scoop cooked squash into a blender. Combine onions, garlic, and all remaining ingredients into the blender and blend until smooth (pause blending a few times to let steam escape). Transfer back to the soup pot and heat through. Garnish with black pepper and roasted pumpkin seeds if desired.
My personal go-to soup, though, is something I didn't get from a recipe but threw together one day in the kitchen, so excuse the lack of proper measurements:
1/2 block tofu, cubed
1 8oz pack sliced mushrooms (or any kind of smaller whole mushrooms if you prefer)
1-2 chopped green onions
seaweed (I like to use about a half cup to a cup's worth of rehydrated chopped wakame, but I find a packet or two of those roasted seaweed snacks works well when I don't have that; just crumble them dry into the soup and they'll rehydrate)
vegetable broth (as much as you need for a base, I usually use one of those 32 oz boxes)
dash of mirin
dash of tamari or soy sauce if desired (may not be needed if your seaweed and/or broth are already salted)
You can add noodles, dumplings, peas, carrots, etc if you feel like it; sometimes I also add a little bit of ginger and garlic to taste.
-No special instructions; I just wash my veggies/mushrooms, chop the tofu, put everything into the pot, and let it simmer until it tastes right. Works great when I don't have a lot of time but need to prep something that will last me a day or two.
I actually got a really nice butternut squash soup recipe from the sticker on a squash I bought a while back. Dealing with the squash itself was the hard part (cooking and peeling it, specifically) but the rest was pretty simple and it made enough to last me quite a while.
1 cooked butternut squash (I baked mine in the oven; you can also buy squash frozen and pre-cut to save time!)
2 Tb olive oil
1/2 c chopped yellow onion
4 cloves minced garlic (or ~2 teaspoons pre-minced garlic from a jar to save time)
1/8 ts ground nutmeg
1ts chili powder
1ts salt
4c vegetable broth
1ts maple syrup
In a large soup pot, sauté onions and garlic. Scoop cooked squash into a blender. Combine onions, garlic, and all remaining ingredients into the blender and blend until smooth (pause blending a few times to let steam escape). Transfer back to the soup pot and heat through. Garnish with black pepper and roasted pumpkin seeds if desired.
My personal go-to soup, though, is something I didn't get from a recipe but threw together one day in the kitchen, so excuse the lack of proper measurements:
1/2 block tofu, cubed
1 8oz pack sliced mushrooms (or any kind of smaller whole mushrooms if you prefer)
1-2 chopped green onions
seaweed (I like to use about a half cup to a cup's worth of rehydrated chopped wakame, but I find a packet or two of those roasted seaweed snacks works well when I don't have that; just crumble them dry into the soup and they'll rehydrate)
vegetable broth (as much as you need for a base, I usually use one of those 32 oz boxes)
dash of mirin
dash of tamari or soy sauce if desired (may not be needed if your seaweed and/or broth are already salted)
You can add noodles, dumplings, peas, carrots, etc if you feel like it; sometimes I also add a little bit of ginger and garlic to taste.
-No special instructions; I just wash my veggies/mushrooms, chop the tofu, put everything into the pot, and let it simmer until it tastes right. Works great when I don't have a lot of time but need to prep something that will last me a day or two.
Posted in Calling all vegans!
Posted 4 years ago
I have been eating vegan (to the best of my ability and with the exception of free things that would otherwise go in the garbage, that is) since January as well. Lots yet to learn, and unfortunately I don't have much time to cook these days, but it's not hard to find recipes and there's always something new to try, so it's been kind of exciting in that regard. Sometimes I stare longingly at the offerings in my store, wishing I had just decided to be vegetarian instead, but I know I can either buy these things elsewhere or make them myself without the eggs/milk if I really wanted them that badly.
Combination being too busy for intensive cooking sessions and not wanting all my dinners to consist of red beans and rice (which is great btw and apparently a complete source of protein, but does get old after a few days), I rely pretty heavily on "fake meats" for my protein a lot of the time... but they're delicious and convenient and let me feel like I don't have to give up old favorites, so why not? Beyond sausages and Gardein breakfast bowls give me life. I actually discovered a while before making the switch that I like a lot of the "substitutes" better than the animal product versions anyway.
As a huge jerky fan, I was pleased to find that vegan jerky can easily be found online. Not so easily in stores, sadly, but it's out there and makes a great protein snack if you're sick of everything being sweet (idk why 99% of protein snacks are sweet, it's annoying) or just nuts (more than a little handful of those tends to make me sick).
And as more people cut back on animal products, I'm finding more and more vegan offerings in my local grocery stores, which makes shopping and cooking--or not cooking--SO much less of a hassle. Most of the time I don't even have to think about finding a new recipe. I can just get the vegan version of whatever food I have in mind and go on as normal.
Seitan, tofu, and tempeh are my best friends now. I can't believe how tasty and versatile they are tbh; you can put this stuff in anything and the recipes you can find are boundless.
I was never a huge fan of beans, but I'm coming around on them lately. Same with greens. It's funny how your whole diet can be plants and you can still struggle to get enough veggies, but that's about where I fall. But if I throw on some steak seasoning, brussels and broccoli suddenly become delicious. Who knew? I also discovered cooked spinach, kale, or turnip greens can be pretty good, whereas before this year you couldn't pay me to eat cooked greens. I'd eat them raw as a salad, but never cooked. Now I like them both ways, and cooked greens are pretty versatile. You can sneak them into anything, too.
As for recipes, I highly recommend It Doesn't Taste Like Chicken. Lots of easy-to-make recipes, very beginner-friendly and informative, and they offer a variety of email series with different themes. It's helped me out a lot; even if I'm not following the recipes exactly, seeing them gives me a better idea of what things I can use for what purpose, and just in general it opens me up to a lot of possibilities I might not have otherwise considered.
tl;dr: I'm so far from being limited to beans and salad that I have to actually remind myself to eat more beans and salad.
I'd complain about needing to take a supplement to make sure I'm not missing anything vital, but I had to do that anyway for health problems, so *shrug*.
Combination being too busy for intensive cooking sessions and not wanting all my dinners to consist of red beans and rice (which is great btw and apparently a complete source of protein, but does get old after a few days), I rely pretty heavily on "fake meats" for my protein a lot of the time... but they're delicious and convenient and let me feel like I don't have to give up old favorites, so why not? Beyond sausages and Gardein breakfast bowls give me life. I actually discovered a while before making the switch that I like a lot of the "substitutes" better than the animal product versions anyway.
As a huge jerky fan, I was pleased to find that vegan jerky can easily be found online. Not so easily in stores, sadly, but it's out there and makes a great protein snack if you're sick of everything being sweet (idk why 99% of protein snacks are sweet, it's annoying) or just nuts (more than a little handful of those tends to make me sick).
And as more people cut back on animal products, I'm finding more and more vegan offerings in my local grocery stores, which makes shopping and cooking--or not cooking--SO much less of a hassle. Most of the time I don't even have to think about finding a new recipe. I can just get the vegan version of whatever food I have in mind and go on as normal.
Seitan, tofu, and tempeh are my best friends now. I can't believe how tasty and versatile they are tbh; you can put this stuff in anything and the recipes you can find are boundless.
I was never a huge fan of beans, but I'm coming around on them lately. Same with greens. It's funny how your whole diet can be plants and you can still struggle to get enough veggies, but that's about where I fall. But if I throw on some steak seasoning, brussels and broccoli suddenly become delicious. Who knew? I also discovered cooked spinach, kale, or turnip greens can be pretty good, whereas before this year you couldn't pay me to eat cooked greens. I'd eat them raw as a salad, but never cooked. Now I like them both ways, and cooked greens are pretty versatile. You can sneak them into anything, too.
As for recipes, I highly recommend It Doesn't Taste Like Chicken. Lots of easy-to-make recipes, very beginner-friendly and informative, and they offer a variety of email series with different themes. It's helped me out a lot; even if I'm not following the recipes exactly, seeing them gives me a better idea of what things I can use for what purpose, and just in general it opens me up to a lot of possibilities I might not have otherwise considered.
tl;dr: I'm so far from being limited to beans and salad that I have to actually remind myself to eat more beans and salad.
I'd complain about needing to take a supplement to make sure I'm not missing anything vital, but I had to do that anyway for health problems, so *shrug*.
Posted in The president is gonna have to quarantine...
Posted 4 years ago
@Lilykin: probably not. some of them believe the whole thing is an extremely elaborate hoax with faked death certificates and everything. why they think that's being done i have no clue.