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Avid cook, tabletop roleplaying gamer, reader, music lover, homebrewer, and gardener.
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It may have rained all night on the laundry I had hung up to dry but there was a nice rainbow this morning.
07.08.2025 07:08 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
My olives were finally finished curing so now they go into a marinade for a few weeks. Marinade consists of water, salt, coriander seed, fennel seed, bay leaves, fresh thyme, garlic, lemon zest, lemon juice, white wine vinegar, and olive oil.
10.07.2025 20:57 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0From Mike Brock on Substack, "People should absolutely celebrate the 4th of July. Don't let these fascists, reactionaries and oligarchs steal patriotism from you. Remember, you are celebrating an ideaβa notionβthat people should govern themselves. Trump, Vance, Musk, Thiel? They want to rule you."
03.07.2025 16:02 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0The Senate parliamentarian is already under fire, for doing her job. After fairly ruling that most of the βbig π© billβ doesnβt qualify for budget reconciliation, MAGA world is already calling for her to be fired.
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How awesome, happy birthday Sacha!!!
02.06.2025 15:38 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
You know it's properly winter when I finally get around to making French onion soup; like the old-school version that takes almost 3 hours just to soften and then caramelize the onions.
28.05.2025 05:43 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
We took Luna for a nice walk at Wolwespruit.
27.05.2025 21:06 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Trumpβs βOne Big Beautiful Billβ is Project 2025 in legislative form. Hereβs how it quietly turns a far-right wishlist into federal law:
- Sec. 10008 - Expands work requirements for SNAP
- Project 2025: Pushes βmoral reformβ to make low-income people work more for food assistance.
A gift from a friend, it's a baby so very small and they grow slowly so I'd guess probably at least 5 years until maturity.
13.05.2025 13:21 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
I haven't posted much here lately, but I tonight made (an attempt at) Vietnamese "Shaking Beef" (BΓ² lΓΊc lαΊ―c); turned out pretty good I think!
08.05.2025 19:37 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Happy May Day!
youtu.be/Clj8htWcFho?...
We had some radicchio that needed to be used before it went off so we made this recipe I found on Serious Eats. Radicchio Pizza with Italian sausage. Modified to use a different pizza dough recipe that doesn't need to ferment/proof for three days but IT WAS SOOOO FUCKING AWESOME AND DELICIOUS!
28.04.2025 19:11 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
Finally a real Vietnamese restaurant in Pretoria! Before Annam opened recently we either had to drive to Rivonia (a suburb of Johannesburg) to eat at Saigon (which is very good by the way) or I had to cook Vietnamese food at home (which I'm pretty decent at).
25.04.2025 12:15 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
here's today's post: "Harvard to Donny: fuck straight off with your fascism" β go peddle that shit elsewhere.
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~ Mary Shelley
The only known photograph in existence of Mary Shelley.
This x 3x2 inch daguerreotype was taken in 1842 when Shelley visited Bath (where she wrote Frankenstein) to promote the novelβs sequel,... The Bride of Frankenstein?
Source : House of Frankenstein Museum Bath UK
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Wow, 100,000 people!!
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