#easy foraging

[evidenceof]

Dick Winters holds grudges (♡) and I will be crucified on this hill.

[puppyeared]

started stardew valley for the first time. born to remember villager likes and dislikes forced to immediately forget it the moment i take my eyes off thw wiki

[thisblogdoesnotexisg]

nevermoor has some sort of parade during may or march, i will not take constructive criticism because it does not have to be associated with st. patrick’s! anyway it’s kinda like a foodie tech show(?) where they show the latest edible inventions as samples, you can also buy more or donate so they can open a stall in the bazaar and make more products!

[jasper-crow]

Alright so the brioche yesterday was a bust. Try that again another time. But I did make dinner and that turned out great!

Most of the ingredients, lamb steaks, Fresno peppers, sweet Italian peppers, lemon, hedgehog mushrooms, sweet orange tomatoes, and not in picture is like 2 cloves of garlic, a massive shallot, and two yellow onion.

Marinading the steaks! Very excited for that bone marrow at the end. It's the best bit

Ash, my wife, is insisting I include this picture. I had sent him out to the store to pick up a handful of things I forgot.

He returned with flowers 💖 and all of the things I asked for. Threw it all on the counter, and decided a picture of me slicing peppers on the mandolin pants-less was the exact thing he needed.

Anyways, hope y'all enjoy my legs and the tiniest hint of cherry print panties 😅 I was too busy to stop him.

Steaks came out amazing after pan grilling and then bringing up to temp in the oven. I've never had lamb like this but it was so fucking good y'all 🤤

Anyways this is how it turned out, both with and without the pan sauce I made from the lamb drippings.

Spicy red cream sauce with hedgehog mushrooms, peppers, and cappers. Topped with thin sliced lamb steak and a shallot, garlic, lemon, rosemary pan sauce.

[ssruis]

Aside from the noble platypus I also feel like rui would really enjoy these animals:

Mola mola/Sunfish

Anteater

Echidna

Kiwi

Kākāpō

Axolotl

Horseshoe crab

Gibbon

[on-my-way-to-the-woods]

There are a ton of black raspberries along the trails at the nearby park. Filled up a container just picking the easy ones along a short hike

[willoftrees]

genuinely disappointed in how few people are interested in or get excited about clamming or fishing.

u_u

we could go dig up meat rocks together

and then while they sit in a bucket of salt water and let the sand siphon out we can go fishing

and while we are fishing we can talk or listen to music or a podcast

and it won't matter if we catch any fish or not cuz we got the clams

and we can get a giant bread loaf fresh baked from safeway or something

and dig out the middle to make a bread boat for fresh made clam chowder with all the clams we just got with our own hands

[ghost-shepherdess]

gonna paint my cane in the green of my blog >:^)

[hal-o-ween]

Once again mentally transporting the dnd party into a piece of media that I like (this time it is monster hunter)

[parktheghost]

made elderflower sorbet today!!

[smart-ass-herbalism]

i keep telling myself i don’t need to forage and/or process herbs every morning since i need a break but then i just forage and process anyway because the pretty plants are RIGHT THERE!!! i can just PICK THEM!!!

[morethansalad]

Wild Mushroom Vegan Jerky

[luckywolfsbane]

Dandelion tea is steeping until I can make it into jelly on Tuesday. Then I just need a mess of violets and some red buds, and I'll have the flower jellys I'm making this year.

Btw, the key is low sugar pectin. If you use the regular stuff, then you wind up with syrup. Flowers don't have as much natural sugar as fruits do, so it doesn't set right unless it's low sugar pectin.

For reference: dandelion jelly tastes like sunshine. Violet jelly tastes like if early spring had a drink like apple cider, but with flowers. I've never tried red bud jelly; that's the adventure for this year.

Maybe I'll get my hands on some spiderworts and make a jelly out of those, too. If only I could get enough wood sorrel to do the same with them... I'd like to try rose jelly one day.l, too. Maybe I'll use Mama's Seven Sister for that this year....

[akkivee]

ITS KUUKOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AN EVENT WITH KUUKOU AT LONG LAST!!!!!!!!!!! FINALLY!!!!!!!!!

[loplainlointhemorning]

soma, yulia, & thalia

[homunculus-argument]

Another worldbuilding application of the "two layer rule": To create a culture while avoiding The Planet Of Hats (the thing where a people only have one thing going for them, like "everyone wears a silly hat"): You only need two hats.

Try picking two random flat culture ideas and combine them, see how they interact. Let's say taking the Proud Warrior Race - people who are all about glory in battle and feats of strength, whose songs and ballads are about heroes in battle and whose education consists of combat and military tactics. Throw in another element: Living in diaspora. Suddenly you've got a whole more interesting dynamic going on - how did a people like this end up cast out of their old native land? How do they feel about it? How do they make a living now - as guards, mercenaries? How do their non-combatants live? Were they always warrior people, or did they become fighters out of necessity to fend for themselves in the lands of strangers? How do the peoples of these lands regard them?

Like I'm not shitting, it's literally that easy. You can avoid writing an one-dimensional culture just by adding another equally flat element, and the third dimension appears on its own just like that. And while one of the features can be location/climate, you can also combine two of those with each other.

Let's take a pretty standard Fantasy Race Biome: The forest people. Their job is the forest. They live there, hunt there, forage there, they have an obnoxious amount of sayings that somehow refer to trees, woods, or forests. Very high chance of being elves. And then a second common stock Fantasy Biome People: The Grim Cold North. Everything is bleak and grim up there. People are hardy and harsh, "frostbite because the climate hates you" and "stabbed because your neighbour hates you" are the most common causes of death. People are either completely humourless or have a horrifyingly dark, morbid sense of humour. They might find it funny that you genuinely can't tell which one.

Now combine them: Grim Cold Bleak Forest People. The summer lasts about 15 minutes and these people know every single type of berry, mushroom and herb that's edible in any fathomable way. You're not sure if they're joking about occasionally resorting to eating tree bark to survive the long dark winter. Not a warrior people, but very skilled in disappearing into the forest and picking off would-be invaders one by one. Once they fuck off into the woods you won't find them unless they want to be found.

You know, Finland.