I definitely make spaghetti sauce extremely wrong but I’m not going to stop
Chop 1 onion and put it in a pot.
Add 1 or 2 cans of diced tomatoes. Whatever makes the ratio of onion look right.
Add a ridiculous amount of frozen peas. Peas should make up a notable portion of this sauce.
Add frozen corn also if you wanna be real fancy. If I have bacon, I’ll add that too, but I very rarely have bacon.
Cook on HIGH.
While sauce is cooking, grab the nearest bottle of mixed spices that isn’t obviously for desserts. Add some. How much? I dunno, enough that you feel like you’ve added seasoning so it’s technically cooking. (For me this is most often a mix called Moroccan, but it could be anything. I’ve reorganised my kitchen recently so tonight it was something called Pizza Topping.)
If you happen to have green herbs lying around, add those too. Whatever you have on hand that’s green.
Let the sauce boil on HIGH until all the water is gone. Stir occasionally so the saucepan will be easier to clean later. Serve on cooked spaghetti noodles with no cheese.
Today I added a new step called “while the sauce is cooking, duck out for 15 seconds to post about spaghetti sauce on Tumblr, then get distracted and forget you are cooking.” This adds a novel Extremely Burnt edge to the flavour profile.
I am not Italian, or of Italian descent by *any* stretch of the imagination.
I am also not one of those “cooking purists”, who believes that everything must be done in a specific/ traditional way (unless you are making a cooking video with the title “how to make x” in which case if you don’t specify mid video that your way is not traditional god help you).
I am a firm believer in “If it tastes good, then it is correct for you”.
Except in this case.
This hurts every cooking bone in my body. The latent ancestors in my soul. The judgmental elf in my brain just bit a cyanide capsule.
Why? The spices. Using a different spice mix every time, based on what is ready at hand just … hurts.
Absolurl I deranged, Derin. Food crimes.
I don’t know what sweating the onions means
It means. It means you cook em a little in a pan with a bit of oil first.
A pan? How many dishes do you want me to have to wash here?
I mean you can also do it in the same pot you’re making the spaghetti sauce in! The important thing is the onions get a little cooked before the wet stuff goes in, so they’re not so wet and limp and boiled….
Honestly this depends entirely on whether I remember to chop an onion first or I find the can opener for the tomatoes first. The ingredients go in in whatever order they go in.
Derin who hurt you
A pack of wild chefs herded my mother off a cliff
Theres probably a hit out on you for this
What kind of stupid idiot would waste money assassinating someone who’s so clearly going to accidentally poison themself for free at some point
I have a disorder that makes me want to headcanon every nonhuman character with the ability to purr regardless if it makes sense for their kind or not. It’s called being right. With enough research i could justify a tree purring if i wanted to
big issue with linear time is that when there are a few minutes until some event and they aren’t enough minutes to do anything with, you just lose those minutes. I think you should be able to save them for later and then combine them into a chunk of leftover time that you get to use at the end of the day, like bonus hours.
Every queer person that has had to listen to their class/family/friends/etc. debate wether lgbt+ people should even exist or not should be given 100 bucks compensation. For each time. As an apology. Thank you for coming to my Ted talk.
dungeon meshi is the ultimate manga for a lot of reasons but some of my top favorites are that
- never any “omg pervert!!!” jokes that are so insanely prevalent in fantasy manga for some reason
- only “ship tease” is between falin and marcille
- completely and well fleshed out female characters who have their own motivations character and arcs just as equally as the male characters
- catgirl who actually is a cat girl (inscrutable, a little rude, pushes shit off tables, a little unsettling) and not just a cutesy moe girl with cat ears
- ultimate autism protagonist (thank you laois for your service)
- “this elf is actually 5000 years old but looks like a young adult/teenager for some reason” but ryoko kui actually pulled off making it heartbreaking and a significant part of marcille’s character
sometimes when i see y’all post ao3 tag submissions i get confused because i forget that’s what this blog’s originally for. so like i just scrolled through your blog because i was like “they never actually post stuff from ao3” but no, you do. i think i just only get All The Other Stuff on my dash. so every once in a while im like “why are the shitposters/f1 fans/delaware experts posting ao3 tags?” and then… i remember
israel can kill innocent Palestinians, they can bomb their homes, destroy their cities, tear apart their families, cut off their food and water, and dehumanize them all they want,
but theres somethings they cannot destroy:
they cannot destroy the solidarity that Palestinians and non-Palestinian activists have together
they cannot destroy the hope and determination we all have to fight and make this genocide end
they can NEVER destroy the compassion and love that our palestinian siblings have for eachother
i have seen hospitals being bombed, yet the doctors refuse to leave their patients to die
i have seen people being arrested and harassed online, yet activists refuse to be silent about this genocide
i have seen children, who are younger than me, fight for kids their age who cannot fight for themselves
i have seen millions of people, who are not from palestine, rally in support to end this genocide
and that is something beautiful we shall NEVER be silent until the people of palestine are able to live in peace without the fear of dying
I mean, don’t get me wrong: Netflix is just as shit as Disney, as corporations go; but there’s just something about Wish–seemingly so safe and soulless and focus-grouped with its generic, Rapunzel-faced, Disney Princess™ heroine and its paint-by-numbers plot and its Whedonesque, hang-a-lampshade-on-it humour, and its bland, inoffensive, Lin Manuel Miranda-pastiche musical numbers–losing a nomination to fucking Nimona, which is about as anarchic as mainstream entertainment media can be, featuring a protagonist who is about as far from being a Disney Princess as anyone can be, and which we all saw evolving organically in real time from someone’s sketch on Tumblr. One of them feels like extruded film product; the other one feels like art.
The irony of this being that the Nimona film was originally a Disney project, being originally produced by Blue Sky Studios until Disney shut it down in 2021. Like…Disney doesn’t know what’s *actually* good any more
Tangled kind of marked the point where Disney started acting self-aware of the whole Disney Princess™ trope and by the time Frozen hit, they were acting self-aware and embarrassed by it. At that point it’s like they started knee-capping themselves out of their own sense of cringe.
Their movies were already focus-group tested to hell and back and with being a corporation who mainly profits off of nostalgia for their older works, they’re increasingly unwilling to take any risks by exploring new directions in both storytelling and animation.
And being unwilling to take risks + succumbing to cringe leads to just rehashing the same shit over and over again while not standing behind it. It’s weak. It’s boring. How I am supposed enjoy a story if it acts embarrassed of its own self.
Yes, it is kind of ironic that Disney, a company whose entire corporate brand was originally built on earnestly presented children’s fantasy, is now associated with self-referential, immersion-breaking bathos and a refusal to take its own subject matter seriously.
