lol, living up to your username
lol, living up to your username
I didn’t use a particular recipe, if you search around there are plenty of recipes, e.g.
Basically a patty melt is just a hamburger with Swiss cheese and caramelized onions on rye bread with mayo.
I used Beyond Beef, Violife slices, vegenaise, and melt butter, and I made a loaf of white bread instead of rye bread (just didn’t have time to source rye flour, etc.).
For the hamburger adding onion powder, garlic powder, black pepper, and a little vegan Worcestershire sauce works well.
If you want to spruce up the sauce a little instead of just mayo, you can add a little ketchup, dijon mustard, a little garlic powder and cayenne pepper.
Personally I would have enjoyed this more with some grilled broccoli rabe or pickled peppers, but that would have gone even further from being a patty melt.
so beautiful 😍
miyokos mozz is so good 🤤
this looks truly amazing 🙌
What would be the 1/10 probable alternative in your mind? Maybe a fake rubber mushroom someone glued on the tree as a prank? 😂
Yes, they are definitely chicken of the woods. I’m not sure on species, but it’s a good beginner mushroom because there aren’t any dangerous look-a-likes or even many (any?) shelf mushrooms that are dangerous to eat.
this is reminding me of a ramen recipe I made recently: https://www.justonecookbook.com/vegetarian-ramen/
here’s an image of the ramen I made: https://imgur.com/a/eO2r6Ji
daaayum - I know rule 6 is to not ask for a recipe, but if you ever happen to have the time or desire, I would love to try to recreate this sometime! It looks delicious, thanks for sharing. 🧡
OK, but really - what was the last book that made you cry?
The way I sprout quinoa is by soaking it in water for a little bit then letting the water drain and keeping the quinoa somewhere moderately warm and moist enough that it doesn’t dry out (sometimes I just put it in a new batch of water and it will sprout even in the water).
It looks like sprouting brown rice is similar, here is a recipe: https://www.food.com/recipe/how-to-sprout-brown-rice-515843
Basically you soak the rice in a warm-ish place for 12 hours, then dump out the water and replace it while rinsing the rice thoroughly. You do this a couple times a day. After a couple days you should see the rice sprouting.
yum - lots of inspiration for future meals, thank you!
Have to sign in to listen on Youtube as “age verification”.
Have to sign in to listen on Piped.video to prove I’m not a bot.
Guess I won’t listen to it. :-(
looks delicious - I’ve never heard of lodeh, is it this Indonesian dish?
https://www.nyonyacooking.com/recipes/the-best-sayur-lodeh-vegetables-in-coconut-milk~SMijNnrFRE
Copying my comment on your other post, wanted to share here as well:
I ran through the field key in Bessettes’ & Roody’s Boletes of Eastern North America.
I think one possibility is: Caloboletus firmus.
The stalk is pretty beat up, but it seems like it might be a net stalk, so I went with Key B-3:
Net Stalks: with pores some shade of orange, tan, buff, red, maroon, brown to dark brown, or nearly black, p. 34
Then I chose:
1b. Pores not radially arranged and some shade of orange, red, maroon, or brown to nearly black → 2
2b. Pores red to orange → 5
5a. Cap whitish to grayish, grayish brown, or grayish olive; pores pinkish to red or red orange, sometimes yellowish at the margin when young, staining blue when bruised → Caloboletus firmus (p. 189)
Yeah, though supposedly SEO could actually penalize articles for something like this, the SEO requirements keep changing but I bet there is a balancing act between keeping SEO happy and keeping up your ad impressions.
Articles are often made intentionally too long (ever notice recipes that force you to scroll through loads of irrelevant copy about the ingredients before you can get to the ingredients list and directions at the bottom?), this probably has to do with advertisements which will fire off when you scroll far enough down the page, it counts like an additional page view and the site makes more money.
There has been plenty of research into the etiology of gender dysphoria, but the current science considers gender identity as fixed and biological, which makes sense of why conversion therapies have been so unsuccessful (otherwise the conservative medical establishment would be more likely to recommend conversion therapy to solve the “problem” of trans people, as talk therapy is much less intervention, much cheaper, and much more socially acceptable than medical transition).
Here is a relatively accessible paper on the topic by esteemed endocrinologist Joshua Safer: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31027542/
It’s behind a paywall, but that can be circumvented if you know how.
More interesting than whether mental illness is more common in trans people because of how they are treated by society (which seems almost obvious, though worth confirming empirically) is whether mental illness might be more common for trans people because of the biology, such as from having the “wrong” sex hormones in their body.
Gay men who were forced to take estrogen in the UK experienced symptoms like depression and suicidal ideation, and lots of the same things trans people report (there is speculation whether Alan Turing being forced to take estrogen may have contributed to his suicide).
There is also the famous case of David Reimer whose penis was accidentally amputated during circumcision as a baby. Under the direction of the psychologist John Money, who believed gender was entirely determined by environment / social programming, was raised as a girl. Reimer consistently struggled being raised as a girl, eventually decided he was a man, and struggled immensely with mental health struggles before his suicide.
Suicide seems to be a common thread among those suffering from gender dysphoria, with over 40% of trans people reporting having previously attempted suicide and over 80% having considered attempting suicide (source), and it’s not surprising cis people when forced to take cross-sex hormones also seem more likely to commit suicide (though we don’t have as much evidence about this in particular, so take that as speculation on my part).
All this to say, religious trauma and sexual abuse certainly can and do complicate someone trying to figure out whether they are suffering symptoms of gender dysphoria or not, but the current evidence points to gender dysphoria not being caused by environmental factors (like sexual abuse) and likewise not being reversible with any kind of known treatment other than transitioning.
Furthermore, there have been autopsies of trans and cis brains that have found parts of the hypothalamus in trans women match cis women’s, even if not taking hormones. Here is a relatively accessible overview by neuro-endocrinologist Robert Sapolsky about those autopsy studies which were high quality and confirmed with follow up studies several times: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QScpDGqwsQ
Being trans cannot be adequately theorized in merely biological terms, so please don’t mistake me for implying there are no social aspects to being trans, but I do think there is sufficient evidence that gender identity and dysphoria have biological components that aren’t influenced by environment.
Regarding trans women and plastic surgery: many trans women transition before puberty and thus look and sound pretty much like cis women, i.e. they develop as cis women would. Obviously even in those cases some trans women opt for surgeries, and while neo-vaginas have some differences, they are more like natal vaginas than most people realize (both in look and function).
In that sense, it doesn’t sound like being trans is what you don’t like in a woman, but rather certain body features that might be more common in trans women who have transitioned as adults (breast augmentation, facial feminization surgeries, narrow hips, etc. are more common in trans women who went through male puberty). But there is a huge variety of trans women, even those who transition as adults don’t necessarily get breast augmentation or facial feminization surgery, though narrow hips are obviously more common still.
Perhaps this seems like nitpicking or like I am making an irrelevant or theoretical distinction, after all if most trans women you know look a certain way, is it that wrong to generalize this way. The problems of stereotyping aside, part of the problem is that trans people in general are under a lot of pressure to conform to cis-sexual norms, and those who can go “stealth” typically do. That means, a bit like sexual minorities, it can be an invisible identity, but where a subset of adult trans folks especially early transition are more likely to stand out as trans. What we think of as a paradigmatic “trans woman” is someone who doesn’t conform that much to our cis-normative notions of a “woman”, and that is because of that unintentional sampling bias.
I acknowledge this is a lot, so let me stop here and see what you think so far.
Interesting. Well, first - thanks for being an ally!!
It does seem like trans folks have a pretty rough road in most societies, and predictably that leads to poor mental health outcomes. The statistics about how well a trans person does post-transition has a lot to do with whether they are accepted by their family and friends. (Mental health issues are also common before transition while closeted, or not-yet aware of being trans, which might have biological as well as social / psychological reasons behind it.)
It also makes sense you might not personally know trans women you are attracted to as there are far fewer trans folks compared to cis folks; though, it sounds like you were even able to list a trans woman you do find attractive.
Digging into that more, if there were someone who had the right personality and looked like Jaime Clayton, would being trans be a deal-breaker for pursuing a relationship with that person? I guess I wonder if it’s really being trans that is the problem for you, or if this is just a short-hand for a bunch of other traits that in practice just make you less likely to be attracted.
I ask because at this point it sounds like you would be pretty open to dating trans women who you find attractive (personality and looks wise), but that it is more practical reality that you just aren’t attracted to most trans women (probably for a variety of reasons).
Does that seem right, or am I off base here?
Hi! I know this might just be the wrong context at this point as you are already getting flak, but I was curious and wanted to ask why you have exclusive sexual interest in cis women?
For example I would imagine some heterosexual cis men would have a hard time dating a trans woman who haven’t had bottom surgery or who are early in their transition (in which case sometimes the sexual preference is phrased as a genital preference rather than about exclusively dating cis people).
Some women who for various reasons pass well as cis are not distinguishable from cis women, and in that case I assume based on your statement you still would have a hard time dating that person if you found out they were trans.
For example, based on your statement I assume you wouldn’t date or be attracted to Nava Mau.
I understand if you don’t want to answer, it’s not like this is the best context and it is a vulnerable topic - just wanted to extend an olive branch in case you wanted to talk and think about it with less judgement.
Thanks hot Wario in my area! 😊