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That's because this is Silmarillion
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In the kitchen straight up "chopping it". And by "it" haha well. Let justr say. My vegetble
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So we all know that Tumblr is US-centric. But to what degree? (and can we skew the results of this poll by posting it at a time where they should be asleep?)
Reblog to increase sample size!
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Also I’m never on here so if you want my ig or something just lmk
If you think you are poorly suited for something (or you actually are) you should def just do it anyway.
I’m allergic to heat. It breaks me out in hives. I have major food anxiety. I can’t do strong smells. I get stressed relatively easily (or used to) and find it, in general, very stressful to deal with most men.
I’m a baker. I spend my work days in front of or briefly inside a walk in oven, crouched in front of deck ovens, and surrounded by strong smells and men of the caliber that I don’t upon any woman.
And I’m fucking thriving. Not to say there aren’t bumps. There are days I get upset or I do get nauseous or I have to go sit in the cooler for a while. But they are so vastly outnumbered by the fulfilling days.
Things can be uncomfortable and that’s okay. Sometimes you can thrive in being uncomfortable
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Second year of doing this fuck ass plated dessert competition.
London Fog in Spring
😒🙄
I guess I should explain what it is.
- Sweet yeast bread with earl gray honey syrup
- Lavender bergamot mousse
- Warm sudachi sauce
- Whipped honey
- Bergamot tuiles
Second year of doing this fuck ass plated dessert competition.
London Fog in Spring
😒🙄
“Wow your timing is really good” thank you I’ve burnt/overbaked so many things I developed a sixth sense to Not Do That
Walking into the bakery in the morning and seeing a big pot of clarified butter waiting for me is princess treatment
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Soda Pop: A highly carbonated soda drink. It can be used to restore 50 HP to a single Pokémon.
I think the most important thing I’ve learned about cooking in the year and change I’ve been in the field, not just in school, is you will have to get comfortable with doing multiple things at once. It’s just understanding the order of things. Which you only get good at by practice so. Like anything. To be good at cooking you need to practice and fuck up
So I know the sourdough trend is long gone, but, now looking back.. I find it very odd that essentially everyone did a flour and water starter when, to me, that’s a super tedious way to do it. If you’re looking for that very strong tang and yeasty flavor then yeah do that, but if you don’t mind a milder flavor and basically just want some wild yeast?
Fruit yeast waters. You take some fruit* cover it in water and leave it alone, covered. Shake and burp the container once a day and by day four you should have active yeast and fermentation. There will be a hiss, basically, when you open the container.
Strain it, add equal parts flour, let it bubble up, and you have starter.
Idk. I’m not meaning to deride the traditional method because it has its place but I find it odd that not a single person I’ve seen has used it and it’s extremely easy and much faster than the other method.
*berries, apples, pears, grapes, etc. nothing like kiwi or pineapple; anything too acidic and with an enzyme (don’t remember the name) will destroy the gluten.
I did a side by side of blueberry and strawberries (use trash fruit that’s bruised or kinda old) and both worked but the strawberry one is definitely more active, presumably due to the higher amount of sugar.
The good news is waow look at my bread don’t look at the butthole stop
The bad news is um. I want to launch myself into the oven due to my coworker
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This twink wishes he was HALF the weirdo.
I love how this sentence could apply in either direction
no it couldn't. show gonzo some respect.
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Mental Crop Rotation
When farmers grow the same crop too many years in a row, it can leave their soil depleted of minerals and other nutrients that are vital to the health of their fields.
To avoid this, farmers will often alternate the crops that they grow because some plants will use up different minerals (such as nitrogen) while other plants replenish those minerals. This process is known as “crop rotation.”
So the next time you find that you need to step away from a project to work on something else for a while, don’t beat yourself up for “quitting” that project. Give yourself permission to practice “mental crop rotation” to maintain a healthy brain field.
Because I’ve found that when that unnecessary guilt and pressure are removed from the process, a good mental crop rotation can help you feel more energized and invigorated than ever once you’re ready to rotate back to that project.
: A crucial part of crop rotation is that the field is let fallow sometimes. You plant what’s called a “cover crop”, which is something you don’t expect to harvest– it’s there for its roots to hold the soil in place, and often it’ll be what’s called a nitrogen-fixer, i.e. a plant that can pull nitrogen out of the air and fix it into the soil with its roots (but sometimes it won’t, sometimes it’s really just there to shelter the soil surface), and then you’ll till in that cover crop, or let the frost kill it and the stalks lie as mulch, and then you’ll rotate productive crops back into that field the next season.
It’s important, though, to understand that during the fallow period, no nutrients are removed from that ground, and nothing is expected of it. Whatever the land grows then, it keeps, and it gets tilled back in or decomposes in place, to return its energy to the earth.
We’re not allowed, in our current society, to just let our minds be fallow for a bit, to produce nothing for export, to make nothing that can be sold. But it’s part of good land stewardship, to give every field time when it doesn’t need to give you anything back.
So yes, grow and produce different things from time to time, rotate them around your mind and exercise different mental muscles, take different things from your creative processes, yes– but also, give yourself a fallow spell now and again, and let the field of your mind grow things for itself to keep, to break down and save for later.
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This used to be called “Auto Shop” and “Home Economics,” subjects which were included in nearly every high school curriculum up until the 1980s. Auto maintenance, budget management, sewing skills, cooking, and other basic Adulting skills were actually taught in classroom settings. But suddenly all that money got funneled away to sports and graduation requirements shifted toward standardized tests because those were somehow more? important? than life skills? and the home ec and shop classes were no longer taught, even as electives. We’ve been steadily losing arts classes for similar reasons.
And so students leave school with a thorough grounding in football and calculus, but having no idea how to sew on a button or change a tire.
Petition to bring back these classes in every single middle and high school in the country.
If it can’t help the Boug make a buck from you, it no longer gets taught.
