#food for cold weather

[jazzeria]

After the wontons folding party, I had many different shapes of wontons to enjoy, and my favourite way to enjoy them at home is a comforting bowl of wontons soup.

Broth: Start with chicken stock, add ginger, and add something fishy. Dried fish, shrimp shells (or shells from other shellfish), seaweed, and fish bones are great sources of fishiness. So is fish sauce--but add that toward the end of cooking. I recently found a source for kombu seaweed, so I no longer use nori (which disintegrates). You can read about my original not-recipe here.

Veggies: Here, I've used gai lan which was chopped into soup-able pieces. The leafy greens were cut into wide ribbons, and the stalk was cut on the bias to make spoon-sized chunks. (Traditionally it would be left whole, which I find annoying to eat.) I boiled the chopped gai lan in salted alkaline water very briefly just to wilt them, before adding to the soup.

Oil: A little drizzle of sesame oil and homemade chili oil was the perfect accompaniment to this bowl (my chili oil turned out too hot for my tastes, so adding additional oil diluted the heat).

[suslucicek]

[christmasxmas]

[sweetcherryslim]

Mason Jar Instant Noodle Soup - 229 kcal/8g protein

Servings: 1 serving. 229 kcal / 8g protein

Ingredients

1 1/2 tsp. vegetable bouillon base (we used Better Than Bouillon)

1/4 tsp. grated fresh ginger

1 tbsp. warm water

1 bundle (about 11/2 ounces) instant rice vermicelli

1/4 c. kimchi, roughly chopped

1/4 c. shelled edamame, thawed if frozen

1 c. baby spinach

2 cremini mushrooms, very thinly sliced

1 scallion, thinly sliced

2 1/2 c. boiling water

Instructions

In 32-ounce wide-mouth mason jar or other heatproof jar, combine bouillon base and ginger. Stir in warm water. Add noodles and carefully cut in half with kitchen shears. Add to jar in following order: kimchi, edamame, spinach, mushrooms, and scallion; screw on lid. Refrigerate overnight if desired.

If refrigerated, let jar sit 20 minutes at room temperature. When ready to serve, pour boiling water over ingredients and cover with lid. Let sit until noodles are tender, 3 to 4 minutes, then stir to combine.

Pump Up the Protein: Add 1/2 cup shredded rotisserie chicken and replace the vegetable bouillon base with chicken bouillon base, or pop in 6 to 8 frozen cooked small shrimp (they’ll thaw overnight in the refrigerator).

[twistedsickopath]

okay but a thing i think about every time we have one of those few day periods where the weather is not fit for even a dog being outside is how the hell are homeless people surviving this. like i said in a previous post it's currently -40 degrees with the windchill and i honestly cannot imagine how someone who does not have a place to go inside and spend the night is supposed to not freeze to death. it makes me upset every time the temperature drops like this, i cannot imagine how many homeless people will be frozen to death in the next 24 hours if they somehow haven't already. the fact that there are hundreds of empty houses sitting there empty with totally functional heating while people are DYING from the cold on a street corner makes me SO FUCKING ANGRY while at the same time my heart is breaking in pieces for them. rest in peace to every poor person who will not make it through the weekend. i am so sorry.

[donewithnothing]

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[projectmayhem-stims]

I’LL CALL IN SICK AGAIN JUST TO SPEND THE DAY WITH YOU!

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💛 💛 💛

🌼 🌼 🌼

Dream Sans with yellow, royal, food, and platonic love stims for ☀️🍯 anon!

[fallingforfall13]

Late night cravings got me thinking of fall sweeetss! 🍁🥧🧁

[flock-talk]

Still a bit of a grumpy man today but I will say this little upset burst is miles better than the last time he had a big angry man streak. No launching across the room to attack me, no drawing blood, lots of use of body language, and lots of warning pecks which is so so so good.

No idea what’s triggered him this time aside from him perhaps being hangry and needing more calories over winter, upping his pellets for a bit to see if that helps him but otherwise I have 0 idea what’s triggered him that I can actively change

[greentrickster]

Me going into this weekend: Well, it's time for the local anime convention, the one that I've been preparing for since December and worked super hard so I'd have lots of mage plushies in the store I sell them at downtown, all ready for excited anime fans to buy them!

This weekend: Protesters gridlock downtown on Saturday (aka, the Busy Day, aka the Profitable Day) because they can't handle the concept of a drag queen doing story time for kids at the library, someone escalates this to a very effective bomb threat that's fortunately fake but still forces local shops to close and the reading to be cancelled for the sake of safety, it pours rain, and is the coldest weekend we've had all month to boot. All the shops and the downtown farmer's market that brought in extra stock and produce in preparation for what is traditionally a very profitable weekend for local businesses due to exploring convention members are left in the lurch.

Me, now: (lying in my bed trying to console myself with humour) ...this did not go according to keikaku.*

*keikaku means plan

[tattooedbarbie69]

Even though it is freezing right now 🥶 here in Colorado. I would still rather have 29° over 99°

I know a lot of people really enjoy summer, but I absolutely can’t stand the heat 🥵 if I had it my way, I would have fall and spring all year long. But winter is beautiful with the snow ❄️

Even my outfits are for winter I feel like are a lot cuter than my summer ones. I love the holiday season, and staying inside with a good book and the fireplace going 📖 🔥

Being a bartender, I get so much social interaction on my workdays that I really like to be antisocial (unless I’m on vacation) on my days off. So winter is perfect, I don’t feel obligated to be outside or have to socialize. I could be a hermit crab inside my house with my dogs 🐶

As for today, I did go and find a cute new spot for lunch in Boulder. And also picked up a new book ☺️ thought I would make this post before I turn my fireplace on and start diving into this 📚

I don’t know why I felt the need to make this post today maybe because I have been currently re-watching the MTV series “Awkward” if anyone remembers that show 😝

[christmasxmas]

[crisp-autumnal-air]

Beef and Peppercorn Stew with Parmigiano Reggiano Dumplings or Cheesestraws

By Twigg Studios

[reformedpeasant]

ran from the other day :))

[rockrampagent]