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@ FauxPseudo @lemmy.world

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I offer absurdist edits of absurdist Heathcliff comics, make food, post political memes.

  • Crowd sourcing.

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  • For the weapons I went with a center point just below the scroll because an oval centered on the central figure wouldn't leave much room on this A5 paper for the large blades.

    I am leaning towards some decorative pattern at this point.

  • Crowd sourcing.

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  • I did seriously consider that. Problem is that I didn't leave enough space in the bottom of the page. I thought about including a nest with some eggs in it. But the room really not there. I can put foliage behind it but I feel any foliage would overpower the portrait nature of the goal. Any fauna would add extra difficulty because it would have to be visibly dead. Because owlbear.

  • Crowd sourcing.

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  • The original goal was a portrait idea. So making the elements other than the central figure bigger or more prominent kinda goes against that idea. Making the weapons bolder would detract from the focal point figure.

    Maybe keep the weapons the same size and add some amorphous background design between them to make the Owlbear pop more?

  • Mystery donor gives Japanese city $3.6M in gold bars to fix water system

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  • ~38.2 kg / ~84 lbs of gold. Which breaks down to about 2 liters of solid gold.

    Does anyone else ever watch a movie where people are moving good bricks and immediately know that the actor, director and prop manager have absolutely zero idea how heavy gold is?

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    Lord Soth

  • Curry pork fried rice

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  • I was worried that without MSG, soy sauce and garlic that it was going to be a little bland but it turns out that enough curry powder fixed everything.

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    Curry pork fried rice

  • 99% of adults over 40 have shoulder "abnormalities" on an MRI, study finds

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  • Today I just finished prednisone for an infected bursitis issue in my shoulder. I'm definitely in the 99.999% camp this week after having literally zero function in my shoulder 6 days ago. I'm looking forward to being back in the 99% just abnormal category.

  • [QUESTION] What is the best way to learn to cook and improve?

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  • I grew up cooking. But what really stepped up my game was getting a cheap "three ingredient cookbook" and learning how very basic things can become amazing when combined. Now this cookbook had like "Italian sausage, pasta. Pasta sauce" as a recipe for spaghetti with meat sauce. Then I started making the things you make things from. Make the sausage from ground pork and seasonings. Make the pasta from semolina and water. Make the sauce from tinned tomatoes and other things.

    All the things you cook with are eventually reduced down to some basic ingredients. I ended up making the things I made things from.

    Now this does become a problem. 30 minute meals take two hours. When you are hungry you don't have any food, just the things you make food from. But that's a problem for another day.

    Today's meal was those Philly cheese steak tacos. If I had had money I could have gone and bought flour tortillas. But I had the stuff to make my own tortillas already on hand. And that is when you start developing textures and flavors you just can't buy. That's when you are cooking instead of wetting your drys and pouring things out of jars and bags. That's when you really start to learn how to cook.

    I mentioned it the other day, the first thing I ever made from scratch was a PB&J. Three ingredients. Each of those ingredients has about four ingredients. And except for the bread two of the second generation ingredients are shelf stable. Which means making things in advance that future you can enjoy with almost no work.

  • Everyone is stealing TV

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  • What's old is new again. Descramblers are back

  • Not Philly Cheese Steak Soft Tacos

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  • I have some commercial Italian seasoned chicken bits. I've got a stack of corn tortillas. I'm thinking of making some very unconventional chicken taquitos. Maybe a bruschetta to top it with.

  • Not Philly Cheese Steak Soft Tacos

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  • Didn't feel like making bread so lady night I prepped some tortilla dough for use today. Even though I have like a pound and a half of dough sitting in the fridge.

  • Not Philly Cheese Steak Soft Tacos

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  • I prefer provolone. But I certainly wasn't going to waste $2 plus $3 in gas on buying any.

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    Not Philly Cheese Steak Soft Tacos

  • [QUESTION] nonstick cookware?

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  • I typically coon on 18/8 stainless fir typical pots and pans stuff. 50+ years old. Literally the stuff I grew up learning to cook on. I had to replace a few handles but otherwise the stuff looks brand new, despite countless decades of stuff getting burned in them when stuff did stick.

    When something needs high sustained heat I have cast iron. Cast iron when properly seasoned is non stick but it's heavy and you can't quickly adjust the heat level. So not great for delicates like eggs.

    I have a dedicated ceramic coated aluminum pan for eggs. Nothing but eggs. No metal utensils. No dishwasher. Just eggs. It gives instant feedback on temp changes, absolutely zero fat is needed to prevent eggs from sticking (but use it anyway for flavor). It's light weight for quick flips and folds on omelets.

    And I have a carbon steel wok that I also scramble eggs in when doing fried rice. Lots of oil needed because they do want to stick no matter how fast you move because of the high heat.

  • First time steaming fish

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  • What's going on in that sauce? Is it just the steamed drippings or was it given extra flavor?

  • It's not just you, YouTube is partially down in outage

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  • Too many people trying to watch the banned Colbert / Talarico interview. Or incompetence. It could be incompetence.

  • Global YouTube outage sees video platform homepage go dark

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  • Too many people trying to watch the banned Colbert / Talarico interview. Or incompetence. It could be incompetence.

  • Dinner in three parts

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  • I typically use olive oil only for crusty bread. Even the extra mild OO can deliver some flavor to the bread and it can over power highly processed ingredients like air bread and singles.

  • Dinner in three parts

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  • I converted to mayo a number of years ago. For some applications like earlier this week I still do olive oil but my default is mayo. It offers the best universal coverage and browning and crisping. And it's just easier and cheaper to work with than butter.

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    Dinner in three parts

  • Chicken Fried Rice

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  • Did you make the rice in advance?

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    Tink tries to get rid of Wendy

  • Cheat day

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  • The Super Giant Mega International Market That Is 80% Asian Stuff. The closest to me is Super G but when I lived in Virginia was a Grand Mart. Mine also has a smaller dedicated Indian market in the same shopping center that occasionally has good stuff too.

  • Cheat day

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  • Dal makhani is black lentils and kidney beans in what is basically a chili type gravy sauce with coconut milk. This particular brand has some noticeable hint of bitter melon flavor. It's got layers.

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    Cheat day

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    Alice, looking behind the curtain, redraw

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    Chicken Fried Rice

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    Tomato soup and grilled cheese

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    Mostly scratch meal midnight snack.

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    Great moments of foot in mouth

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    What do you cook when your left arm doesn't work?

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    Chicken & olive pizza

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    Breakfast for dinner

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    The worst Surf & Turf

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    Neither Mice nor ICE

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    Roman Dodecahedron

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    Turkey Chorizo and smoked sharp cheddar queso dip and tortillas.

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    Castle Rat