#Wholesome meals

[peonysugar]

A Perfect Day for a Sizzling Grilled Feast - Couscous, Mushrooms, Green Beans, and Steak!

[peachtacular-home-health-care]

At Peachtacular Home Health Care, we recognize the vital role that nutrition plays, in overall well-being, especially for seniors. Our home care assistance services extend beyond personal care and include meal planning and preparation that cater to the unique dietary needs of older adults. We understand the importance of providing delicious and nutritious meals that support a healthy lifestyle for our clients.

[madmachaca]

This cover request attacked my heart but in the most positive way.

[sun-e-chips]

It’s Christmas morning and your parents actually got you that 7ft tall robot jester you’ve been raving about and now you have to awkwardly unwrap them in front of the rest of your family.

[moongothic]

I'm watching Impel Down/Marineford for the first time (I know what happens but seeing the How is. painful. ouchie.) but I'm really loving how competent?? Croc is?? between reminding the escapees that 'we have cannons too' and calling them idiots for not knowing how to handle a tsunami and squaring up with a variety of heavy hitters. IDK it's just nice.

It is delightful! Especially considdering Crocodile had been living a life of luxury for well over a decade in Alabasta (not having to lift a finger to do anything and probably not going out to the sea much if at all) followed by spending an undisclosed amount of time in prison; like the man hasn't been participating in The Yar-Har Pirate Life in a long time, and yet he's such a veteran that all comes back out seemingly naturally. It's really impressive

But it just goes to show how independent Crocodile is (when he wants to), which makes sense. If the man doesn't trust others then it's very likely he's spent time alone even on the seas and could take of himself and whatever funny little boat he might've had. Like yes, having people who can do shit so he doesn't have to is nice and convenient (especially since there are things that would be a pain in the ass to do with just one hand, like the hook only helps so much), but like. Push comes to shove, he can handle it by himself.

Which would make him kind of a cute opposite to Luffy who 100% would not survive without friends around

[lab-of-trash-prompts]

The boy who all the girls pay for: A Prompt

There's a regular at this restaurant who only pays for his meal about 50% of the time. Girls usually saw him and asked to pay for his meal. He always leaves a more sizable tip when when happens, presumably because he can afford to do so. Worker can see that he's attractive, but doesn't quite understand how or why it happens. And moreover, why he only ever comes in alone, not with one of the girls who's hit on him.

Eventually Worker finds out that he's like... a notoriously good person. Volunteers to walk dogs and mow lawns, volunteers, often scales the town if a pet has gone missing, offers kids stickers especially if they seem down, and all of that on top of him being a total smoke show.

Well, why hasn't he gone out with a girl yet? Brought her here? Well, he pretty much only comes here for one reason. The cute boy behind the counter (or bar?) who he doesn't want to bother while he's working.

[sofibeth-arts]

Chili dog cookin

[deliciousdalliance]

Grilled Salmon with Roasted Vegetables

INGREDIENTS——————————————

- 1 salmon filet 🍣

- 1 small broccoli head 🥦

- 1 carrot 🥕

- 1 small potato 🥔

- 1 red bell pepper 🌶️

- 2 tbsps olive oil 🫒

- 1 tbsp lemon juice 🍋

- 1 garlic clove 🧄

- Salt 🧂

- Pepper 🌶️

- Dill or parsley 🌿

INSTRUCTIONS—————————————

1. Preheat your oven to 400°F

2. Place the broccoli, carrot, potato, and red bell pepper on a baking sheet.

3. Drizzle with 1 tablespoon of olive oil and season with salt and pepper.

4. Toss the vegetables to coat evenly.

5. Roast in the preheated oven for 20-25 minutes, or until the vegetables are tender and slightly browned.

6. In a small bowl, mix the remaining 1 tablespoon of olive oil, lemon juice, minced garlic, salt, and pepper.

7. Brush the salmon fillet with the olive oil mixture.

8. Preheat a grill or grill pan over medium-high heat.

9. Place the salmon on the grill, skin side down.

10. Grill for about 4-5 minutes on each side, or until the salmon is cooked through and flakes easily with a fork.

11. Place the grilled salmon on a plate.

12. Add the roasted vegetables on the side.

13. Garnish with fresh herbs.

[padfootastic]

Tell us more about sugar daddy James pls 😏

sadie <3

so—this one comes wholesale from a random post i made a while back about sugar daddy james with a huge age gap b/w him and sirius. i’m talking, businessman james who comes into contact with sirius who’s just run away from home and is on the verge of homelessness. it’s about james being nice and kindhearted, offering sirius a meal which somehow turns into a place to stay which somehow turns into the spending a lot of time bonding with each other.

it’s about a little shit sirius who’s deliberately trying to seduce this saint of a man who refuses to look at him twice (spoiler: it’s not because james doesn’t want, it’s because he thinks it’s unethical. sirius is here to put all those worries to rest). just. a lot of back and forth, pushing and pulling, and getting together moments.

at least, that’s how i’d want it done lol

[cherry-treelane]

this is extremely important to me it means so much....if u get it u get it and if u don't u dont.... (fics are all from the wonderful mother_of_houseplants btw shes amazing and so is her writing which is evident in these screenshots)

[lumine-no-hikari]

Dear Sephiroth: (a letter to a fictional character, because why not) #183

A lot of stuff happened today! And it was good!

But I woke up in a bit of a funk; I was in a lot of pain this morning. My ribs are being annoying, and apparently, so is my right ankle and foot. I'm still in a lot of pain; it's mega super annoying. So I spent a decent chunk of today playing Dead Cells, just trying not to let my mind get eaten alive from the feeling of frustration that comes with inhabiting a body that DOES. NOT. FUCKING. WORK. I'm definitely not going to be sad when my time in my flesh-prison is up.

I made it through to the final boss. This means it's time to go through it again at a higher level of difficulty. I'm still getting used to the new difficulty level (especially since I am still insisting on being cursed for the beginnings of my runs, while also insisting on parrying with the golden shield...), but brains are learning machines; all I need to do is practice, and I will improve. It is the natural way of things; I don't have to try.

Parrying in this game involves pressing the button right when the enemy is about to attack you. And this sounds difficult (well... maybe not for you, given your reflexes and actual combat experience...), but it really isn't difficult at all if you think of the enemy movements as very short songs. If you think on it like that, then all you gotta do is dance to their rhythm. I just gotta get a little better at figuring out their rhythms and matching them, that's all.

I played until Br visited. And then J, Br, and I went to the grocery store; I had intended to gather ingredients to create a meal that would help restore J's and Br's bodies; yesterday they had to dig a hole for Hannah (the beagle I mentioned yesterday) because she crossed the rainbow bridge.

...My request for you to tell her that she's a good girl remains, if you happen to see her during your travels.

In any case, it is abnormally hot right now where I live (climate change is killing our planet, and there's not a whole lot we can do about it); the recent heat wave has us up to 98-100 degrees F (or if C is more your speed, 36.6-37.7 degrees). It's hard for a body to work in those conditions - they lost a lot of fluids, electrolytes, proteins, and minerals, and neither of them are especially stellar at replenishing their bodies (…not that I'm really one to talk… pots and kettles and glass houses and all that…). So I wanted to make them steak and mushrooms and asparagus with hollandaise sauce. And things kind of… evolved from there.

Also, my friend R (the awesome baker) came by to install a game on my computer. I am not going to say which one or how he installed it. But we can say that the company that makes this game is rather predatory when it comes to how they market their content, so…

Well anyway. He, naturally, was part of the mealtime festivities. M had already eaten earlier in the day, and lately he has not had much of an appetite (the reasons are known, and it is intentional). But J, Br, R, and I very much enjoyed the fruits of our labors today; dinner was absolutely fucking amazing, and it's in part because so many hands were involved in its creation. I took pictures, as I'm sure you've come to expect of me by now, hahaha!

Here is the daylily that R brought for us:

This specific kind of daylily is edible, actually. You can take the unopened buds and pan fry them with a little butter and salt; they're delicious!! But do be careful; some varieties of daylily are poisonous!! So only eat it if you're absolutely certain that it's one of the edible kinds, okay? Because otherwise, it might kill ya dead!

Anyway, I began by prepping the asparagus. For crispy asparagus, you need a cookie sheet with tinfoil. If you're not experienced with cooking, you might think that wrapping a cookie sheet neatly in tinfoil is difficult, but I have a trick to it, and it involves water. More specifically, you sprinkle it on the cookie sheet before you apply the tinfoil, like so:

Then you center your tinfoil upon the cookie sheet, like this:

Then, you press it down in the middle, and smooth it out from the center, moving outward. The water does a physics thing, and that causes the tinfoil to cling to the cookie sheet, all nice and neat:

...The water not only keeps the foil neat, but it stops the foil from coming off of the cookie sheet when you don't want it to. It's very handy like that!

From there, you take your asparagus...

...And you snap off the stringy ends, because they're gross. Like... you're sitting there, trying to enjoy a delicious green vegetable, but then it feels like there's hairs all up in your mouth, and it's terrible. So to avoid all that, you snap the asparagus in the place where it's effortless to snap it; the stringy bits end where the asparagus snaps with just the tiniest amount of pressure, like this:

Br helped a lot with this part! Normally, this takes forever for me to do by myself! Being dyspraxic is extremely inconvenient in a variety of respects, good grief!!

...Anyway, then you arrange it on the sheet in opposing pairs, in order to maximize space on the cookie sheet. I wonder if you might already know who taught me that particular trick... 🙂

Oh, and... if you're worried that the snapped-off asparagus ends will be wasted, don't be; these go straight into the broth bag and into the freezer for when I make bone broth!

Well, in any case, once the asparagus is all arranged, you have to drizzle it in olive oil and season it. I like to use salt, pepper, paprika, and garlic powder:

...Oh!! And in case you were curious, this is my handy-dandy and super fucken messy spice cabinet; we have basically everything under the sun in here. Or... everything that is available in my country, anyway. Here:

...It's a lot of different things. And since I have the organization skills of a caffeinated squirrel, it's cluttered up all to hell. But that's all right; I always manage to find what I'm looking for - eventually! 🤪🤣😅😁

Once the asparagus is seasoned, you just stick it in the oven at 375 degrees F (or 190.5 degrees C) for an hour, easy peasy. The result is asparagus that is crispy on the outside and gooey on the inside; it's really very wonderful!

Br brought over supplies to make a salad! She grew her own lettuce and radishes and shared them with us! Here are the radishes:

...Aren't they beautiful? They were juicy and spicy and delicious! They were wonderful!

From there, I made the hollandaise sauce in my stand mixer, because with this rib injury, I can't whisk things worth shit on my own anymore:

The basic recipe for this is 3 egg yolks, a teaspoon of dijon mustard, 2 tablespoons of lemon juice, and a stick of melted butter. You mix everything but the butter together, and then you get the butter really hot, and while the mixer is going at full speed, you very slowly pour the butter into the egg yolks. This is meant to go on things like asparagus, steak, or poached eggs.

...But I made it a little weird. At the grocery, we forgot the dijon mustard and the lemon juice. So I improvised with a bit of mustard powder and freshly-squeezed grapefruit juice (grapefruits are in season, so they're really freaking tasty right now!!). The result was an amazing sauce. I promptly put it in the fridge, because you don't mess around with undercooked egg yolks; bacteria grows very quickly in egg yolks, you see, and if it's not refrigerated, you can get really, really sick from eating it.

If you're wondering what happened to the egg whites, I cooked them up for folks to sprinkle on the salad if they wanted!

Anyway, here's how the asparagus turned out:

...It looks burnt, I know, but it's just the color that the toasted spices give it! This could not have come out more perfectly, I promise!!

Br handled getting the potatoes started; we filled a pot with water, boiled it, and added the potatoes to it; they cooked while the asparagus baked in the oven. Once they were ready, we set them to the side for a bit, because I wasn't yet ready to drain them.

From here, I started sauteing the mushrooms. We have shiitake, portobello, maitake, oyster, and lion's mane! Mushrooms are one of Br's favorite foods, so I made sure to get all of the ones that were available at the nearby grocery!

...Here's how those turned out:

While those were sauteing, I drained and mashed the potatoes; I added goat cheese and goat butter, and R added a little salt, pepper, and garlic powder:

Br cut up some ingredients for the salad in the meantime, and she also put together the homemade ranch dressing:

The last step was to cook the steak. I let Br handle that, because I know there's a specific way she likes to season and sear it:

...Here are the plates of epic deliciousness that resulted from all this work. Things get more beautiful than normal when you ask for just a little help; none of this would have been possible if I was just trying to do it all on my own:

...I won't be sad when my time in my flesh-prison is up because I am in a lot of physical and mental/emotional pain all the freaking time. But I have no intention of rushing the process of exiting; after all, even a life as broken as mine once was is still worth repairing so that it can be filled with beautiful things and lived fully. Y'know, kinda like that shattered bowl that I put back together and filled with beautiful soup for you, remember?

Try to remember that even shattered, broken things can still be mended and hold beautiful stuff. Try really hard to remember this, okay? Because it applies to everything. Everything. Even if you gotta mentally reframe your circumstances just a little to make it work.

...I'd give just about anything to have been able to share with you a plate of what we created at my house today. But... well... in the meantime, please do everything in your power to keep yourself safe so that someday you might be able to enjoy your own plates full of delicious food with people you love very much.

...Sephiroth. We of my world are still awaiting the final part of your story. So... one of the ways you gotta keep yourself safe is to turn around and make different choices. You gotta know that if you don't, Cloud and his wonderful friends are going to stop you. And you gotta know that they're gonna stop you by beating and breaking you until you can't move or do things anymore. I don't think I can bear to see that happen again, so please... if you or any other versions of you are still lost in the dark... please choose something else.

I know that a lot of terrible and horrible things have happened to you, and I know that your heart and mind carry many scars. But your life is still worth living, just like mine is still worth living, despite all my limitations, my defects, all the scars I also carry, and the pain that wracks my entire existence every day. Please look at me as proof that you can still do good things, because I am somehow still doing good things, and you're amazing and I'm just a weird derpasaurus living in a barely functional meat-machine - frail, clumsy, half blind, and only just smart enough to understand that I know nothing about anything in the grand scheme of things. And still, I'm here doing my best. If I can do it... just imagine what you could do. Just imagine...

If you can hear me, please follow my voice back to the light, because the light has always been your true home, with the rest of us, who are all more than capable of loving you exactly as-is.

I love you. I'll write again tomorrow, okay? So please keep yourself safe out there. Please.

Your friend, Lumine

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[indecisive-dizzy]

say what you want about game theory but By God the amount of love Mat has for Steph is so so sooo

this man loves and adores his wife so much-

[spyxpeanuts]

my first sxf official manga is an impulse buy lmaoo. lesgoooo cruise arc

LMAOO nooo i bought it because of franky dammit

[choclatecakerecipe]

Rise and Shine: 10 Healthy Breakfast Ideas to Start Your Day Right

Introduction: Breakfast is often referred to as the most important meal of the day, and for good reason. A nutritious breakfast not only provides you with the energy you need to kickstart your day but also sets the tone for healthy eating habits. However, finding the time and inspiration to prepare a healthy breakfast can be a challenge amidst busy morning routines. Fear not! In this article, we'll explore 10 delicious and nutritious breakfast ideas that are quick, easy, and perfect for fueling your day ahead.

Overnight Oats: Overnight oats are a time-saving breakfast option that can be prepared the night before. Simply combine rolled oats with your choice of milk (dairy or plant-based), add toppings like fresh fruit, nuts, seeds, and a drizzle of honey or maple syrup, and refrigerate overnight. In the morning, your oats will be soft, creamy, and ready to enjoy.

Greek Yogurt Parfait: Greek yogurt is rich in protein and probiotics, making it an excellent choice for a healthy breakfast. Layer Greek yogurt with fresh berries, granola, and a drizzle of honey for a delicious and satisfying parfait. You can also add additional toppings like sliced almonds, coconut flakes, or chia seeds for extra flavor and texture.

Avocado Toast: Avocado toast has become a popular breakfast staple for good reason – it's simple, nutritious, and incredibly delicious. Mash ripe avocado onto whole grain toast and top with sliced tomatoes, a sprinkle of salt and pepper, and a drizzle of olive oil. For added protein, top with a poached or fried egg.

Veggie Omelette: Eggs are a nutritional powerhouse and a versatile ingredient for breakfast. Whip up a veggie-packed omelette by sautéing your favorite vegetables such as spinach, bell peppers, onions, and mushrooms, then pour beaten eggs over the top. Cook until set, fold in half, and serve with a side of whole grain toast for a filling and satisfying breakfast.

Smoothie Bowl: Smoothie bowls are a refreshing and nutritious breakfast option that allows for endless creativity. Blend together your favorite fruits, leafy greens, and a liquid base such as almond milk or coconut water until smooth. Pour the smoothie into a bowl and top with granola, sliced fruit, nuts, seeds, and a dollop of Greek yogurt for added protein and creaminess.

Chia Seed Pudding: Chia seeds are packed with fiber, protein, and omega-3 fatty acids, making them an excellent addition to your breakfast routine. Make chia seed pudding by combining chia seeds with your choice of milk and sweetener (such as honey or maple syrup) in a jar or bowl. Stir well, refrigerate for at least a few hours or overnight until thickened, and top with fresh fruit or nuts before serving.

Whole Grain Pancakes: Swap traditional pancakes for whole grain pancakes made with whole wheat flour or oat flour for a healthier twist. Serve with sliced bananas, berries, and a drizzle of pure maple syrup for a delicious and nutritious breakfast that's sure to satisfy your cravings.

Quinoa Breakfast Bowl: Quinoa is a protein-rich grain that makes a nutritious base for a breakfast bowl. Cook quinoa according to package instructions and top with sliced fruit, nuts, seeds, and a drizzle of honey or maple syrup for a hearty and satisfying morning meal.

Breakfast Burrito: Wrap scrambled eggs, black beans, diced vegetables, and a sprinkle of cheese in a whole grain tortilla for a portable and protein-packed breakfast on the go. Add salsa, avocado, or Greek yogurt for extra flavor and creaminess.

Cottage Cheese and Fruit: Cottage cheese is high in protein and calcium, making it a nutritious breakfast option. Serve cottage cheese with fresh fruit such as berries, sliced peaches, or pineapple for a simple and satisfying breakfast that's ready in minutes.

Conclusion: With these 10 healthy breakfast ideas, you can start your day off on the right foot and fuel your body with essential nutrients and delicious flavors. Whether you prefer a refreshing smoothie bowl, a hearty omelette, or a simple bowl of overnight oats, there's something for everyone to enjoy. So make breakfast a priority and reap the benefits of a nutritious start to your day.

[torgawl]

"just when you think the situation is bad enough, stay alert because things can always get worse"

thank you for the inspirational quote genshin