A lot of food history is making the best out of what you got and when you look around there are some incredible depression era and post war dishes from all over the world.
Like it can be amazing what you can make with basic ingredients that can taste good that some ancestor from a different world figured out with what scraps they had laying around. A bunch of my favorite dishes are like that. Okonomiyaki especially so.
Get a pressure cooker and a bread maker from a thrift store or Facebook marketplace. Your bread will be cheap and plentiful. Get some herbs and veggies to spice them up. I’m a big fan of rosemary, garlic and onion and then dipping it in olive oil with some cheese on the side.
Or make pizza dough dough setting and make a quick pizza or even bread pizza
I adapt what I make to what is cheap to purchase at the time. Sometimes it is lots of eggs and quiche, sometimes it is specific veggies, stuffing them with rice and cheese and lentils and baking them is nice.
And to finish off here is my ancestors depression dish which I swear by.
Eggs tomato and cheese:
Saute onion, and green pepper or celery until sweated, add salt, pepper and thyme
Add a large can of tomatoes or 4-5 large tomatoes cut into chunks and let simmer until liquid
Reduce heat and add a soft cheese (cheddar spread or american cheese works well cause it melts well | generous 1/2 cup
Once melted mix in slowly 6 scrambled eggs and raise heat a little until it cooks and thickens stirring constantly.
Serve on bread.
I pull an all nighter every 6 months. Its fun and the delusional day after is even better/worse.
Yeah, words have meaning to the person saying them, but aren’t guaranteed to have the same for the receiver.
Its why we try so hard to share a reality and define things.
And we have faith that we are on the same side of understanding.
Its also why the world is fucked up right now, no faith, we need to know, and we quiz and push to narrow our world to just those we can be sure of.
Do you really think its worth it to only talk to yourself? Or do you figure out how to share how you feel and what you see in the world with others?
Yup, what other person said, heat pump dryers.
They use the insides of the dryer as the closed loop of heating and cooling. Heating air through clothes to get moisture then cooling it on the other side to condense it. Generates water but doesnt have a vent.
Neat use of the tech.
I mean literally the same machine as a rock grinder, generated heat and tumbling items smacking into each other.
But like they are soft. And if you don’t use as much heat it is even gentler, which is why the driers that act as a dehumidifier without heat are even better better.
I just got
The Coup - Genocide and Juice
whole album and have been enjoying the heck out of it even if I still can’t find Sorry To Bother You physically.
Otherwise I “discovered” Ghost: The Future is a Foreign Land has been hurting me in a nice way.
It’s also a diuretic and the tannins will upset your stomach unless you add milk for some people like me.
But yet by being a smug tea drinker and drinking more often you have less a chance of kidney stones cause added fluids.
It’s a crazy complex world out there.
It was wild, I finally just decided to delete all of the promotions and indeed emails and it cleared up like 5 gigs
That feels like that weird issue that Melinda Gates has of not being able to spend her profits from her stocks fast enough.
Money just begets more money.
You know if you have it or not these days.
Store those sins away for a rainy day.
Oh not retiring. Just the sun blowing up.
I am both jealous of and horrified by your brain.
This is so insane and yet true.
Oh for sure just trying to be helpful.
The new popular trend is bunkers underground with staff in shock collars, best of luck with their assassination attempts.
Nah, thats just statistics.
It only gets to not rise the next day once and those are pretty good odds if you put that over top of all the other days it has already. I already don’t win when the odds are 1 in 4, I’m not getting that lucky.
No my point is that your gonna need everyone else to not be stupid too.
All it takes is someone else in your ivory tower starting an apartment fire and that they didnt design fire exits or suppression strategies cause it would impact the look of it.
No one does anything alone in this world. The rest of our stupidity rubs off eventually on your life.
Oh yeah… Thats a good one.
Retirement math would be pretty dreary if you have to pay rent.
lOl. The worth of my assets and all my accounts is about $13,000 and that includes my 401k and I have been working for more than a decade and rent.
I’m a weirdo but also I know that I’m also completely average for level of fucked.
as long as I
Oof, and everyone else too it seems.
Oh shoot also, you said vegetarian so I didnt include this but you could probably make it work.
Okonomiyaki:
Its practically fish flavored pancake batter filled with cabbage and other veggies fried on a griddle. Invented in japan after WW2 to use scraps and make them tasty.
I make mine with bacon or cheap slices of ham on bottom but you can skip that, but I would still crack an egg into the center.
If you look around at street food post WW2 in the world you will find a lot of it is cheap and tasty and with a globalized market easier to get the ingredients/recipes.