The 7 year old says “these are the best cookies EVER EVER EVER” so I win everything, condolences to every other cookie 🤗
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The 7 year old says “these are the best cookies EVER EVER EVER” so I win everything, condolences to every other cookie 🤗
Grandma recipes best recipes
Yum yum yum
I have!!
A significant part of both the pro and anti Israel contingents have forgotten basic principles of political economy and international relations and seem to be under the delusion that Israel is the hegemon and the US is the vassal, that Israel produces its weapons and the US buys them, etc.
The 7 year old says “these are the best cookies EVER EVER EVER” so I win everything, condolences to every other cookie 🤗
Good luck!!!
I’m so sorry, that sounds awful 🫂
Every day is a good day to email moderation@blueskyweb.xyz demanding they reinstate @soma-eslam.bsky.social and all the other Palestinians they've banned for no crime other than being Palestinian.
Every day is a good day to email moderation@blueskyweb.xyz demanding they reinstate @soma-eslam.bsky.social and all the other Palestinians they've banned for no crime other than being Palestinian.
Got it! Sorry, that sounds frustrating.
The color coordination!
Sorry, my question was unclear -- I was asking who the they/them is in this case!
Ohhhh that sounds yummy; meringue is so good. My little brother's favorite thing I make is what I call a "s'mores pie," which has a layer of cookie then several layers of chocolate then a layer of broiled marshmallows. This feels like a homier version of that.
Some of my favorite flavors!
An intriguing proposition! I do find myself with a vacancy in my entertainment consumption.
Their? Yeah that sounds like a risk. Shame though, spinach is delicious!
Yeah I was thinking it might be Greek! I'm half-Iranian so dill & feta pings Iranian to my brain, and we don't use oregano much, but of course there was a lot of cuisine exchange.
Obviously zero biases whatsoever, unfathomable why you would even need to specify
Yum yum! I don't often bake fruit because I like fresh fruit so much, but my roommate @elentari7.bsky.social makes excellent fruit pies (she made a rhubarb blood orange pie this summer that I cannot stop thinking about)
Yeah it was hilarious how much more zucchini there was than anything else! www.kingarthurbaking.com/recipes/zucc... but instead of this frosting I like chocolate ganache with a salted caramel swirl I love savory/spicy vegetables, but never mad about extra veggies in my sweets!
I'm curious about "of course oregano"; is there a particular cuisine you're drawing from where it's a staple?
I take basically any excuse to brown butter! That sounds so yummy; dill and garlic are two of my favorite flavors. I don't make savory bakes super often but I'm interested in experimenting with them.
Good choices all around! There was a summer that I lived in California and was in charge of gardening, and we grew approximately 3000 zucchinis which I am not a huge fan of, so I got very into zucchini bakes goods. (Zucchini brownies are delicious!) My mom loves almond croissant.
It's exhausting.
(3) Then they announced that the MPs are given Rp 50 mil/month pocket money in addition to their salary. Minimum wage in Jakarta is Rp 5mil/month, and in some places it can go as low as Rp 2.1 mil/month. People were rightfully angry, and protests broke out
(2) Honestly the rage has been building ever since they made a human rights violator a president. Raised taxes, cutting healthcare & teachers' wages, destroying Raja Ampat & the Indigenous people there in favor of nickel mining. Also the politicans mocked us while they're draining us.
(1)🚨ALL EYES ON INDONESIA🚨 It's 0.41. A.M. Local time. First they cut off the power in Kwitang & Senen. Then the snipers came. And now they're using live bullets. Just 3 days ago the Indonesian Broadcasting Commission silenced the journalists to not broadcast the protests.
Salaam, sister. I want to help you but this link for me just goes to the gofundme main site, not to your fundraiser. Do you have another link?
I usually go for more interesting flavors e.g. cardamom, citrus, rose but since they're little kids I want to keep it simple. Ginger molasses cookies definitely more my speed!
Meanwhile I am very words and not very visual so I would probably not even notice
I visited Italy a while ago and the Palestine graffiti everywhere was so lovely to see
Hilariously poor management is supremely unsurprising though 🙃
Unfortunate interns cannot be blamed but you’d need hilariously poor management — I have done social media for a couple government officials and at least in those offices everything had to be pre-approved (not actually by the govt official who cannot be arsed, but by whoever heads their comms team)
These are the questions we ask ourselves
SO HYPE
I am so, so sorry. This cruelty is so awful.
Yum yum, though yes family expectations can be dangerous (as I am being reminded lol)
Banana bread + chocolate chip is a beloved combo for a reason! I generally bake banana bread with neither chocolate nor walnuts, but I add cardamom. Mmmmm carrot cake 🤤
My smol nephews are visiting tomorrow which means first time baking in Mom's new kitchen! I am baking brown butter chocolate chip cookies stuffed with nutella, since that seems most likely to please a bunch of kiddos and also me. What are your favorite baked goods? #FoodJoyCampaign
That sounds excellent; I hope I get a chance to taste one some day
Looks gorgeous! Fresh tomatoes are a wonderful thing.
Rambutaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan (or shoke-shoke, as my family calls it!)
Soursop is so so delicious and yes I also have such a hard time finding it!! 😭
Ooh I've read about that but never tried it! Can you describe the flavor?
Continuing my #FoodJoyCampaign (thank you @rhigarthjones.bsky.social for the hashtag idea) — I found mangosteen and I’m so excited! It’s one of my favorite fruits and so hard to find in North America. Tell me about some fruits you love and/or a food discovery that excited you recently? :)
*nods sagely*
Extremely important addition to my mangosteen post there is a mangosteen pokemon and look how cute
I'M LOVE Yes I would take my lil Bounsweet everywhere we would be the best of friends
NO TELL ME MORE
TRAGIC Well extra don’t die then, they probably aren’t paying you enough to die Is this the Banff thing with Amal (my brain thinks that’s not for another couple weeks but my brain does not actually keep precise records of when all things are) or are you teaching at different retreats back-to-back
Good luck, have fun, write good, don’t die!!
Every time I have a retreat in the woods I inevitably start writing about people getting And Then There Were None’d at a retreat in the woods I’m not talking continuing the same story I’m talking like four separate stories
I’ve never found anything that tastes similar to mangosteen which makes it hard to describe 😭
I loooooooove sitaphal/soursop — but it’s also quite different; it’s much denser while mangosteen is very light, and mangosteen has a more subtle and flowery flavor. (Also native to different parts of the world; soursop is native to the Americas and mangosteen is native to Southeast Asia.)
Vancouver is where I am right now 🤣
Berry picking is wonderful! And now I want to visit Alaska just to try all these berries I’ve never experienced 😍
It looks a bit similar but it’s quite different from either rambutan or lychee, though I love those as well — much softer and juicier with a sweet-tart floral flavor, and a much thicker shell.
That sounds lovely — passion fruit is my absolute favorite fruit; a few years ago I visited Costa Rica and tried a bunch of different kinds at a farm and I was so happy. But my #1 will always be East African passion fruit, because a. childhood, b. I’m objectively right and no one should question me
(Note: the hashtag is just for me to be able to look back on these and smile later, I’m not trying to go viral, reply guys always swarm me when I go viral) (Admittedly maybe if I went viral about mangosteen I would get fewer reply guys than when I go viral about genocide? But you never know.)
Continuing my #FoodJoyCampaign (thank you @rhigarthjones.bsky.social for the hashtag idea) — I found mangosteen and I’m so excited! It’s one of my favorite fruits and so hard to find in North America. Tell me about some fruits you love and/or a food discovery that excited you recently? :)
Sorry, I’m lost — could you explain how that translates to “this bookstore describes itself as a local-feeling bookstore”?
Thank you!
Do you mean toum?
There are so many it’s hard to declare a superlative, especially when several are my family/friends, but one that has been repeatedly haunting me is that poor boy who kept speaking soothingly to the dogs who were mauling him to death
Please tell me garlic mash is literally just mashed garlic (I’m guessing it’s actually mashed potatoes with garlic but I CAN DREAM)
I’m super curious why you think it’s Book Culture (it’s not, indeed it’s not even on the same coast, but that’s such an extremely specific guess that now I’m like is Book Culture also hiding something)
Yummmmmmm
💯 Gosh, I miss the food stalls in Thailand / Malaysia. When I lived in Chiang Mai I was right across from a lovely teeny street market hidden in a narrow little alley.
Yeah that sounds phenomenal
🤤 Zaatar should go on everything.
That sounds delicious. Lemon is an immediate power-up to all things. What is tony chacheres?
Ooh what kinds of things? I tend to really enjoy East Asian breakfasts but I’ve never had Taiwanese
Ooh do you have a recipe for the cake? I make a very good flourless chocolate torte but I have yet to find a more cake-y chocolate cake that satisfies me.
YES, I have not had that in Singapore but I have had it many times in Malaysia and it is so excellent
“We FEEL like a local bookstore but in fact we are a FRONT for AMAZON”
This bookstore (which to the best of my knowledge is a local bookstore, given that it’s literally just named after the neighborhood) described as a “local-feeling bookstore.” What does that mean. What are you hiding.
#FoodJoyCampaign so I can find this later
#FoodJoyCampaign the first!
Using #FoodJoyCampaign instead because it makes me smile
Campaign for food joy! What a lovely description. This looks delicious 😍 I love leftover adventures; they’re so satisfying. On a flight recently I watched a chef I really like (Nadiya Hussein) doing a whole series of “make this, then make this with the leftovers!” and it was fun.
Also: for the next month and change I'm going to be in Vancouver (okay fine I'm going to be in the woods an hour northwest of Vancouver but there's a bus! And a boat!), so if there are any awesome nerds I should meet in Vancouver, point me in their direction 🙂
Yum! I have never actually had black forest cake but I have seen many tasty variants on Great British Bake Off.
A very important stage!
Hi, thank you so much! I am Charlie’s friend who needs a ride (thank you Charlie!!!), can I DM you?
I think gender has the capacity to be super cool and we've all missed an opportunity by making it gross instead It's like your astrological sign! Just a fun set of weird arbitrary aesthetics you get to declare your identity! But noooooooooooooooooooo we had to go and make it a system of oppression
Ooooh I have never had a tomato pie but garlic is always a friend
Also: for the next month and change I'm going to be in Vancouver (okay fine I'm going to be in the woods an hour northwest of Vancouver but there's a bus! And a boat!), so if there are any awesome nerds I should meet in Vancouver, point me in their direction 🙂
Vancouver is the only place where I have found restaurants serving the incredibly specific cuisine of "Gujarati Shia Muslim diaspora in East Africa"
DOSA IS LOVE DOSA IS LIFE, I'm visiting my family in Canada soon and I am soooooooooo excited for the Indian food
DMing you!
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh I probably can’t get to Third Place Books because I’m in the hills of Factoria without a car but I will see if I can swing it / either way I wave enthusiastically (are you going to Vancouver by any chance?)
Ooh fun! I know almost nothing about German food, what sorts of dishes do you tend to get?
This is some of @joydii22.bsky.social ‘s beautiful writing. Please help her get her account back. @mommunism.bsky.social @lexialex.bsky.social
Forever appreciative of the Irish people’s unflinching solidarity with / support for other colonized groups (also it was lovely to meet you in person!)
mmmm fake news, never happened
Ramen foreverrrrrrrrrrrrrrr, I don’t have it super often but it’s one of my favorite foods
The fact that the account has already been deleted so soon after you shared is so infuriating
Yes I adore sumac pickled onions 😍
Lunch discussion is always welcome! And that looks AMAZING.