wise_pancake

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Yeah I agree with you, decreasing inflation is good, but inflation is a ratchet unless we do deflation or adjust salaries or something.

It's just important we discuss the tradeoffs and acknowledge this is a very hard problem and affects us all.

Careful, this goes against the talking points!

We only want simple solutions to complex or imagined problems.

Why can’t these “freedom” types leave well enough alone?

I just don’t get how you can be all in on liberty and take the time to focus on how other people are living their life “wrong” in a way that impacts literally zero other people in any way.

Trans rights are human rights. We live in a colourful world that no amount of squinting will turn black and white.

Home made pea soup with a ham bone is my all time favourite soup, but I don’t have ham very often. I always joked with my mom that the uglier the pea soup is in the fridge, the better it will taste when you reheat it.

My easy soup is to pick 4-6 items from: mushrooms, carrots, leeks or onion, broccoli stems or fennel, and frozen peas. I add soy sauce to the broth for an umami flavour. I don’t ever have anything measured, but I do taste and sample a lot along the way.

I like to sauté my mushrooms with garlic in a pan, cook off the moisture, then add soy sauce and spices and let that simmer for a while. I don’t know if it makes a difference, but I like to think it infuses the mushrooms with more flavour.

I’ll try throwing in some salsa next time. My mom always put tomatoes in her soup and they were good, maybe it’ll turn out similarly.

I do the exact same thing with the Costco rotisserie chickens, they’re a good buy.

I need to make more of a routine out of making and freezing broth. It’s something you can do while watching a movie or two.

It’s hard to find good quality meat these days, I eat a lot less meat than I used to.

The quality is not what it was 5-10 years ago and the prices are much higher. When I go grocery shopping I feel like I scour the meat section for anything that is both a good price and looks good, and most of the time I just leave unsatisfied. I bought a chest freezer so now I stock up when there’s an actually good deal.

Vegetables have gotten worse too. I have to double check everything at the super store near me. Even things like beets and potatoes spoil quickly like they’re very old stock. I have to feel and smell everything before I buy it.

That could be part of it.

My grandmother grew up in a poor town during the depression and she considered it a cardinal sin to throw out “edible” food. My mom grew up poor too and she cooks much the same way, but she’s okay with throwing things out. Mom taught my brothers and I the basics, but I never really needed to cook much until I moved out.

I got a lot of experience with less common foods growing up — recipes like pig-feet ragout and recycling leftovers and trimmings and stems into soup or stew or casseroles all the time. A lot of those older recipes that my mom and grandma made are lost to me though. I should really ask my mom for more of them.

I’d love a movement to revive the old ways of cooking in accessible ways.

I think another issues is I can make a great tasting and highly nutritious soup from spare veggies and broth in half an hour, but making broth at home (from essentially waste materials) takes hours to brown+boil+sieve. It’s easier to just pick up a costco club pack of chicken/beef broth.

Broccoli is a good source of vitamin C, per weight it's better than oranges. Frozen broccoli is pretty accessible and easy to add to many foods.

I use the stems for soup and eat the florets raw or in food or sauces.

I wish we did a better job educating kids on nutrition, I know very little about it except the odd article I read.

To be clear, I also think the actions of Israel are too far.

Blocking aid to starving citizens for example is an atrocity. Flattening entire cities isn’t okay. Settlement wasn’t/isn’t okay.

No argument here.

Hamas and Hezbollah are using the rules of engagement against Israel.

That doesn’t excuse Israel permanently forcing millions from their homes with nowhere to go and blocking food water and medicine aid.

Man that situation sucks.

I won’t defend Hezbollah at all, fuck them, I just feel awful for the Lebanese people caught in this.