#Assorted Vegetables

[buffetlicious]

Yusheng (鱼生) is a customary Lunar New Year dish, traditionally served on the 7th day of Chinese New Year, known locally in Singapore as Renri (人日). Renri means “every man’s birthday” with people becoming a year older on this day. In the past, yusheng was only eaten on renri, however these days it is normal for a family to eat yusheng numerous times throughout the New Year period and it is usually served at the start of every meal.

As the Chinese meaning of yusheng represents raw fish, salmon is the focal point of the dish and is served uncooked and cold alongside other ingredients. Arranged on a very large circular plate, an important feature of the dish, Yusheng (鱼生) is one of the most colourful cuisines of all Chinese New Year food. It is made up of shredded carrot, green and white shredded radish, pickled ginger, crushed peanuts, pomelo, cinnamon, pepper, golden pillow crackers and is accompanied by a variety of condiments.

The present Qi Cai Yu Sheng (七彩鱼生) or seven-coloured raw fish salad was developed by four master chefs from Singapore in the 1960s who were inspired by the Cantonese tradition of consuming raw fish strips during Chinese New Year. The chefs added new ingredients and entwined symbolic significance into the dish and presentation. Yusheng has become iconic in Singapore remaining unchanged for 5 decades, recently gaining popularity in Malaysia and other Chinese communities. For modern day convenience, many supermarkets have introduced ready-made yusheng kits to be brought home for consumption that strictly maintain the traditional ingredients.

Topmost two images courtesy of Shang Palace and Fullerton Hotel.

[unopenablebox]

entrelac chuppah anon again: it was knit entirely in white, per my friends' preferences, though the thought of a multicolored version is intriguing! i used the forest path stole pattern by faina letoutchaia modified to be chuppah-sized. obviously An Endeavor though i built in lots of breaks but a fun project overall and they plan to display it in their living room forever which delights me. so, a positive review of the chuppah knitting experience if you end up going that route!

thank you for this additional information! this thing is incredibly lovely and i can immediately see why you used it, that's a gorgeous pattern for a chuppah. you are NOT helping my commitment to not do this

[hexjulia]

(after listening to some podcast about 'self-care') i deserve nice things (looking at my spending account) ...i deserve slightly less nice things.

[feathers-little-nest]

god being able to order groceries was fucking life-changing for me. I know it's kinda pathetic but going out there and doing groceries is draining for me, like REALLY draining, like you need a long nap after that draining. And, could you imagine, it's even worse when I have to go shopping because I have no food at home and couldn't eat breakfast. And now. Now I can pay like 7 zł to get my groceries delivered to me.

[soullessjack]

anyways gn

[bureaumantic]

sad that i won't be able to work on worldbuilding and drawing and stuff because i've been putting off my duties in my JROTC battalion and i'm the battalion publicist and Sergeant Major Responsibility has come a-knockin on my door to deliver my signed death warrant. in simple terms i have to do my job T-T

that is to say, stuff i was working on will be halted for like a few days lol. i'm sure you all would be devastated if any of you knew what my dastardly machinations were in the first place (all of my worldbuilding plans are currently hidden away in an ancient mountainous lair that reeks of centuries of rotting corpses and mysterious forms of life.

as you cautiously feel your way through the cavern---large enough that the torch in your hand cannot illuminate the roof nor further walls of the cavern so you cannot truly know the size of the mountain lair and cold enough for the wind to bite through your thick adventurer's coat---you hear the crunch of bones. not yours---thankfully. but something is in here with you.

you shiver---partly from fear and partly from the cold. you aren't used to this kind of weather nor environment. but you aren't here for the joy of exploration. you're here to uncover the strange and unpredictable goals of a madman. vile goals so spontaneous that not even their creator knows the next step.

months---years? or had it only been days... or mere seconds..?---ago, the lunatic had unabashedly released the location of his terrible plans on his tumblr blog. you've managed to reach the location, but you're having second thoughts now that you're in the heart of evil.

CRUNCH!

There it is again! You spin around in the direction of the sound as fast as you can---but there's nothing. And now you're lost. You've strayed far enough from the entrance that you can't find it anymore. You're sure it's over some bend or incline the cave you went down earlier, but you can't find it anymore. The spin's taken you off course too. You do your best to turn around and face the way you were going. Now there's nothing you can do but press on.

Your eyes nervously scan the imposing, choking darkness. The lick of the flames---such a small and lonely source of warmth---the steady drip, drip, drip of water off of stalagmites, and the wind blowing through the cavern are all you can hear.

You feel your left foot fall into something fleshy. You shriek---don't try to deny it! You did!---and jump backwards. Looking down, you find a boot-shaped impression on a carcass of human flesh. The skull---picked clean---smiles at you. Despite its rather bony appearance, there's quite a bit there... It seems rather new...

Shaking, you continue on. You walk for what seems like days, weeks, months, years, decades, centuries, millennia, ages, eons, eras, periods, epochs, lifetimes of the universe, from explosive starts to whimpering ends, you walk and walk and walk and walk and walk and walk and walk and walk and walk and walk and walk and walk and

suddenly, you stop. Before you is a chest. Like a classic, basic treasure chest. You know the one---brown planks framed with gold and somewhat ornate but not at all too ornate or---God forbid---hard to draw or model. Stooping down suspiciously, you see a paper note pinned into the top by a dagger. It reads, "yeahhh this is nerdexer's bin where he keeps all his important stuff yeahhhhh this is it baby it's all right here"

Too tired to feel excitement, you squat down and inspect the chest. It has a keyhole, so there must be a key. Looking back at the note for any hint of a hint, you notice that the text has changed. It now reads "the key is under the chest by the way"

Lifting the surprisingly light chest, you find a key that seems to match the chest. It's a suitably nondescript key, made from the same gold-like material as the frame of the chest. The bow of the key is a stereotypical circle, the shaft is not ornate at all, and it has two rectangles that could not possibly be effective bits in any key. You lifelessly insert the key into the chest and turn it.

You hear a click and the chest magically pops open. You're startled by the unexpected movement, but you don't have time to react when a blinding light shines from the chest and bright, cheery music begins blasting at you from what seems like inside your own head.

You fall to the ground, overwhelmed, when you hear a few snaps---barely audible under the music. Then you hear a voice from the same direction saying, "Hey, hey, hey. Cut that music out. And that light too. What am I? Made of money?"

The music stops and the light fades out. The only things visible is the floor under you, your hands, and the torch.

...That torch... how come it hasn't gone out? Surely the time you've spent carrying it would have extinguished it, if not the recent drop. What... what is this place..? This isn't normal... is it..?

"Hi! Terribly sorry about that." you hear that voice again. "I haven't gotten around to uninstalling that yet... I really should, huh?" You feel their hand on your shoulder and spin to get a look at them.

It's nerdexer, hazy as ever. He says, "You're probably here for my plans, right? That's the wrong chest."

"Oh," is all you can muster. "W... where's the plan chest?"

"Look behind you."

Turning around, you see that an identical chest has appeared next to the first one. Stumbling up to the note pinned to the identical chest by an identical dagger, you read "this one is the plan chest"

"C-can I look inside..?" you ask tentatively.

"Oh sure!" says nerdexer.

Exchanging the key from keyhole to identical keyhole, the chest pops open. No fanfare this time, but inside, your trembling hands grasp one piece of paper. Written on it were the following words:

"nerdexer's PLANS!!

"

"Yeah... I never really got around to them," he says from behind your back. "Oh well, what the hell!" He rubs his neck and looks around at everything but you.

Silence fills the cavern for a moment. Then nerdexer says, "Oh I'm sorry, I know you were anticipating something more than a blank piece of paper, but really! I never did get around to it! Being battalion publicist is a lot of work when you don't do any work, you know!"

You stare back at him.

"Okay, how about this," he says with earnestness. "If you want something really dramatic, then how about this? Good luck leaving this place... alive!!" He melodramatically extends his arms out to his sides as a menacing tune on an organ plays in your mind.

As you stand there staring at him, he looks around and snaps his fingers. The menacing tune on the organ plays again. But actually, it turns out that the first menacing tune wasn't actually finished and was just in a dramatic silence so now there's two menacing tunes on an organ playing in your head at the same time playing different parts.

Looking around again, he dramatically grabs at the darkness around him and shrouds himself in it. But he accidentally grabs too much of the darkness and then you can see everything again. A bright red emergency exit door is visible right behind him.

"So......" you say, "can I go?"

"Oh yeah sure," nerdexer says. "The exit's... uhhh.. you know..." He started trying to give you directions to the exit but you already saw it and started walking towards it before he started talking, so now he awkwardly stands there gesturing towards the exit door and stammering while you do the same thing and shuffle past him.

And then you leave.)

[buffetlicious]

Renri (人日) is the 7th day of Zhengyue (正月), the first month in the traditional Chinese calendar. According to Chinese customs, Renri was the day human beings were created. It is celebrated not only in China, but also in the surrounding region influenced by Chinese culture. In Chinese mythology, Nuwa (女娲) was the goddess who created the world. She created the animals on different days, and human beings on the seventh day after the creation of the world. And the seventh day of Zhengyue is viewed as the common "birthday" of all human beings.

The custom of having Yusheng (鱼生) on the seventh day of the Chinese New Year, also known as Renri (人日), was brought to Singapore with the migration of Cantonese and Teochew people from China in the 19th century. It is believed that the Chinese from Jiangmen, Guangdong province, were the first to start selling the dish in Singapore, which comprised raw fish slices tossed with ginger slices, spring onion, coriander, sesame seeds, lime juice and oil.

Today’s ritual of eating yusheng or Prosperity Toss during Chinese New Year involves all the people at the table tossing the salad and uttering auspicious phrases. The dish is deemed auspicious because of the homonymic meanings behind its ingredients, which suggest blessings and good fortune for the new year: yu is a homonym for “fish” and “abundance”, while sheng means both “raw” and “life”. Together, yusheng implies “abundance of wealth and long life”. In the Cantonese dialect, the dish is known as Lohei (捞起), where lo implies “tossing up good fortune” and hei means “to rise”, again a reference to a prosperous business and thus its popularity with businessmen during the new year celebrations.

In case you are interested in making your own Yusheng at home, just click on this recipe from NTUC.

[teethmafia]

TW: romantic relationship, confrontational banter, Fruit

[sins-of-the-sea]

The Cruel Choice

June, 1520

"I can't take another bite, Phi. I feel like I'm going to throw up if I do…"

"At least have water. Here. I boiled some. Sit up, I don't want you to choke." Phoebus holds Guy up as he wraps his brother with the blanket, though he is careful not to push over the stick hut they and the other stranded survivors of the Santiago made. They are stuck, lost in a land they are unfamiliar with, muggy yet cold.

Guy gulps as he struggles to drink. "I don't get it. We're at the start of summer now… yet it's dead of cold here??"

"Maybe we're in a part of the world where the weather is opposite in the New World. Cold during the summer and hot during the winter."

"What kind of backwards part of the world are we in?!" Guy tightens the blanket around him. "It's been two weeks! No one has come for us! I want to go home! I miss Maman and Noelle so much! We're going to die here! We're going to die lost and alone and-"

"We're not going to die. I won't let you."

"What about you?? You're not going to leave me, are you, Phi??"

It takes a while, but Phoebus manages a small smile. "Of course not," he says as he holds his brother's hand, squeezing it. "I won't ever leave you. Not here, not anywhere. Have faith. Magellan and the other ships are going to find the Santiago soon."

"They'll just make us search for a strait again…"

"Maybe they can give us a break. Hopefully-"

"….!!" Phoebus gets up to step out of the hut, leaving Guy behind.

"Phi??

"Phi?? Phoebus!! You said you wouldn't leave me! You said-"

"Guy, it's all right! Look!" He opens the flap to the hut; from within, Guy can see familiar faces outside of the Santiago coming in to their makeshift camp. "Magellan sent a rescue party! And look who's here!"

"Mr. Phoebus! Mr. Guy!! You're here!"

"Mr. Giovanni! Mr. Josep!! You came for us!"

"Thank God you're all right!" Josep rushes over to the hut to grip Guy's extended hand and hold him close to comfort him. "Hang on. We're not going to abandon you.

"We're not…..

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"Guy… Guy….

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"Guy?? Please wake up, lad," Josep pleads as he taps on Guy's cheek while he is beneath four blankets. "I need you to warm yourself up! Wake up!"

Guy snaps awake, realizing immediately he's in a cold room instead of a makeshift hut in the middle of Argentina winter. "C-…Captain?!!?"

[pepsinister]

making chicken and the way my bluetooth thermometer displays on my new phone is really fun

[slavabogu]

"restock my fridge" *18 cans of soda, bagged fruit(???), peeled and squared zucchini, candy, pouring milk out of its container...the stupid egg contraption, if you're lucky*...... dam bitch u eat like this???

[sparrowlucero]

Assorted sketches of the ryerunner, an ostrich-sized herbivore that lives on the wheat-covered planet Alicanto. Its frilled eyestalks fold over its head, forming a sort of natural balaclava that shields its eyes and upper nostrils in the strong winds. When extended, the underside is a bright, iridescent white; the sudden flash of a ryerunner's frill can be disorientating to practically anything with eyes in the dull sepia landscape.

Though they, as obligate herbivores, have little interest in eating other animals, ryerunners engage in a particularly gruesome form of kleptoparasitism: using their long front claw, they will cleanly "dissect" other plant-eating animals for their stomach contents (and another other occasional treats, such as gestating eggs or large internal parasites). By seeking out this partially digested food, they are able to add significant variation to their diet and include vegetation they would otherwise not be able to access. Attacks on carnivores are rarer, though still not especially uncommon. Herds of ryerunner will sometimes curiously follow animals, nutritional value or no, for up to several hours - both at ground level and by climbing to the surface of the wheat to stalk from above - before killing and carefully "dismantling" said animal as a group, a play behavior that reinforces social bonds and strengthens valuable hunting skills.

[homocorn]

le thing about "heres what to make when you dont feel like making anything" recipes is they always operate on the assumption that youve got fresh produce around regardless. girl there is no point in time where ive got fresh tomatoes peppers spinach radish HERBS ESPECIALLY randomly On Hand

[buffetlicious]

Today is the seventh day of Lunar New Year, also known as Renri (人日). According to Chinese customs, Renri was the day human beings were created. It is celebrated not only in China, but also in the surrounding region influenced by Chinese culture. In Chinese mythology, Nüwa (女娲) was the goddess who created the world. She created the animals on different days and human beings on the seventh day after the creation of the world. On this day, Singaporeans and Malaysians often crowded around the table to toss Yu Sheng (鱼生) or Prosperity Toss. This is a raw fish salad brought to Singapore with the migration of Cantonese and Teochew people from China in the 19th century.

Our Yu Sheng was bought from Sushi Express (爭鮮) and came with a set of red packets or Hong Bao (红包) along with a card with simple instructions on how to do the prosperity toss (捞鱼生). The Good Luck Yu Sheng Set (S$39.80) came with assorted vegetables in their natural or dyed colours, eight pieces of raw salmon and other condiments. As you poured in various ingredients and sauce, you say the auspicious phrases indicated on the accompanied card and then everyone get ready to toss the ingredients as high as possible and at the same time shouting “Huat Ah” without spilling onto the table. The taste of the salad came from the sweet plum sauce, lime juice, golden crackers, pepper and five-spice powder and it is quite pleasant to the palate. Anyway, after eating the yu sheng, we hope everyone had a prosperous and abundant year ahead.

Topmost image from Sushi Express.

[projectsword]

Assortment of Chocolate Cake Pops with Sprinkles

Assortment of Chocolate Cake Pops with Sprinkles - A delicious and fun dessert, Assortment of Chocolate Cake Pops with Sprinkles is ideal for parties or special occasions. These bite-sized treats are easy to make and customise with chocolate cake, chocolate frosting, and sprinkles. For a stunning presentation, place them on a platter or in a decorative vase.

[lovefashionpics]

Assortment of Chocolate Cake Pops with Sprinkles

A delicious and fun dessert, Assortment of Chocolate Cake Pops with Sprinkles is ideal for parties or special occasions. These bite-sized treats are easy to make and customise with chocolate cake, chocolate frosting, and sprinkles. For a stunning presentation, place them on a platter or in a decorative vase. Made from Eggs, Chocolate Icing, Vegetable Oil, Assorted Sprinkles, Chocolate Cake Mix, Lollipop Sticks.