#tortellini household

[grimbunnies]

Fr. Theo: "Good girl, Daisy. I'm home now."

[killingfrankie]

i made chicken and chorizo tortellini for my sisters lunch today and i hated it. my 5 y/o sister is devouring it. and my 7 y/o sister refused to eat it. these children are so difficult

[soullikethesea]

I really should have taken a med yesterday. I tried the weighted blanket instead, which did help me get some hours of sleep.

Today is a bit of an intense day, because it's the first official day of work again and we're having a training day. Seems fine, except that it involves every person giving a one hour presentation. 😬

That's actually a bit scary! And so long! Apart from being nervous about speaking, I'm also nervous about listening. So long!

Anyway, I'll be glad when today is over.

I'm still feeling awful. But yesterday I did a tiny amount of gardening (weeding) and also planted some seeds. It's lovely to see things growing! I haven't seen the cat again and I definitely miss her.

I also cooked two meals. Some baked potatoes, sweet potatoes, beets, and salmon - and a dish of leftovers: tortellini, a spinach burger, and some cut up tomatoes with feta cheese.

I'm looking into the "flylady system" for keeping up with the household. It's basically a system built upon routines (and I love routines). I'm hoping it will help to keep things tidy and clean before things have a chance to build up.

I also wrote down what I have to do for work in the upcoming weeks and it doesn't seem too bad. That's what I'm hoping, at least. It just seems a lot to do therapy as well. Last week really shook me. I feel quite inclined to cancel tomorrow, because I don't know if I can handle more of that. I'm still struggling with last week. It felt so unexpected, so raw and heavy. If I could feel it and then recover the next day, it would be a different story. It drags and it seems to chip away at my physical health. Too Much. It makes me feel hopeLESS and not hopeFUL. Alas, I'm probably just scared.

[urfavnegronerd]

ingredient households are harmful to mental health. i'm lactose intolerant so the cottage cheese in the corner cannot be digested. calcium? never heard of her. tortellini in the corner? cannot be consumed.

fuck people who popularized this concept

[lantur]

not good things,

I felt SO blue Monday-Wednesday. Depression hit me with a stick, and I broke down crying on Wednesday night feeling like all the time and effort I have invested in my beloved Projects (novel first draft, garden) has been wasted time. I felt burned out from all the time and energy I put into writing this summer/this year, on top of all the time and energy that I put into work at my actual job, and all the time and energy I put into household maintenance, and having a social life, and working out several times a week.

I took Thursday as a total rest day, had a virtual and in-person hang out with a couple of friends, and ended up feeling much better since Friday.

good things,

It's been a great weekend. Derek and I went out for all you can eat sushi for dinner on Friday, which we haven't done in a while. :)

On Saturday, I had a good time listening to my podcasts while I took Westin out and cooked. I prepped a pasta salad for a potluck with friends on Saturday, and made a cheese tortellini dish with mushrooms and kale for dinner for Derek and I. We watched Malignant (horror movie) at night and I LOVED it! It was so much fun.

Potluck and pool party today with friends :) + long neighborhood walk with Derek + a visit to the garden store + planting in the front yard. It was a great Sunday.

I've been working on a lower body strengthening routine lately, with lots of stairclimbing and incline walking, and I've gotten back to incorporating strength training, with deadlifts, split squats, single-leg deadlifts, and weighted bridges. It feels good to feel myself getting stronger.

[buildinggsr]

Weird Factoid Game

Rules: Give me 5 unusual facts about yourself, then tag 5 people.

Tagged by @whovianacefan I’m a very common person, but I’ll try

1. The most strange fact about me is probably that I can wiggle my ears (in order to write this correctly and provide you an example of what I mean, I looked on Youtube and I found that only 18% of people can do it?)

2. When I was in kindergarten I used right hand to write/draw, but by the end of primary school I used the left one. Now I’m a left-handed person almost only for writing, while for everything else I’m not. Probably because of this change happened over the years, I often confuse right and left (please don’t ask me info on directions!) and I also have great problems to screw and unscrew stuff.

3. My favorite season is winter, but I’m extra sensitive to cold, probably because I’m skinny, so I spend the winter season with at least 4 layers of clothes on my torso and two layers on my legs and feet AND I STILL FEEL COLD, ONE OF THESE DAYS MY DAMN HANDS WILL FALL ON THE FLOOR AND I WON’T EVEN NOTICE IT (if you see a ball of clothes wandering in the valley, that’s me)

4. I married (and I’m still married to) a man 18 years older than me (I talked about this here) [Another strange fact about this: he was left-handed when he was a kid, but at the time if you were like that people considered you like the son of sat*n? so it was habit to intentionally force kids to use the right hand (they put their left hands in their smock so they could only use the right hand). So now he only use right hand for writing, but he’s left-handed for all the rest - he knows how to screw and unscrew stuff, though]

5. Household chores are not my strong point. I can cook, can even make you tortellini and pasta fresca from scratch, I can drag half a ten meters tree if you need, but for the rest it’s a drama (evidence of this? this morning I did the laundry but forgot to add the detergent)

I know no one around here, so if you’re reading this and feel to do the game, please do it!

[chthoniccafe-blr]

໒꒰ྀིᵔ ᵕ ᵔ ꒱ྀི১

I'm manifesting a good day with this puppy kaomoji, although she looks more like a lamb to me. I'd like to name her "Panini." My week has been riddled with anxiety and bad vibes. Me, I'm the bad vibes. But I'm currently eating steamed carrots and cheese tortellini, so that's a win.

My partner and I started House of the Dragon last week, and we watched S2E4 last night. Needless to say, we were shook.

I need to develop a consistent practice routine. Administrative tasks have taken over my work days, meaning I must improve my overall time management and/or redo my schedule.

Work 🎻

Practice

Household 🧹

Make grocery list

Order groceries

Clean bathrooms ↠

Vacuum ↠

Self-Care 🧸

Walk

Complete beauty regimen

Do laundry ↠

Shower and wash hair ↠

👟 - 4,328 steps

📺 - "hi september ☕🍂🤎" by Chi Udeaja (YouTube)

🎧 - “OUR SIBLINGS ARE ENGAGED!!” by What We Said Podcast

[thecocacolacorporation]

Coming home from work and wanting a snack in a snackless household leads to some fucked up stuff.

Just ate blood orange sorbet, two chicken tortellini, a mouthful of ratatouille, kimchi and a lump of perl las and now I got heartburn.

[refinedbuffoonery]

Quarantine Moments (10)

Bozer is trying his best. He really is. It’s not his fault his students are incapable of *adulting.* 

*****

It’s two months into quarantine, and Bozer is tired of being the sole cook. Riley’s capable enough, but her willingness to play house chef is short-lived. And Mac’s cooking is just as pitiful as it’s always been. 

This calls for an intervention, Bozer decides. 

Mac and Riley won’t become master chefs overnight, but they’ll greatly benefit from a few cooking lessons. And since they’re trapped in the house anyway, they can’t make their usual excuses to avoid it. 

So, one afternoon, Bozer gathers his roommates in the kitchen, handing each one an apron. He keeps his favorite—a burgundy one that says Kiss The Cook—for himself. 

“Welcome to Le Cordon Bozer,” he says. Mac and Riley exchange confused glances, each looking to the other for an explanation and coming up empty. Bozer is incredulous. “Are you kidding me? Le Cordon Bleu. The famous culinary school. Ring any bells?” 

His friends shake their heads, obviously clueless. Some geniuses they are. 

“Whatever. Today you’re going to learn something really easy—tortellini with chicken, spinach, and sun-dried tomatoes.” This easy dinner is almost foolproof—scratch that, Mac-proof—and one of the more common dinners in this household. Bozer figures he can slowly teach his roommates how to make the easy dinners, and he can make the harder ones when they’re all in the mood for something else. 

He assigns them each a task—Riley shredding the chicken and Mac cooking the tortellini and doing the dishes he put off earlier. It all goes smoothly. Riley’s perfectly capable in the kitchen (she just doesn’t like it), and Mac can handle boiling water and cooking prepackaged tortellini without supervision. 

Deeming it safe to multitask, Bozer busies himself by washing the spinach and chopping the sun-dried tomatoes. 

After tossing her hair over her shoulder for the millionth time, Riley announces, “I need a hair tie. I’ll be right back.” She washes her hands and ventures down the hallway, dodging shoes and other objects littering the floor. 

While she’s gone, Mac strains the tortellini and starts on the dishes. 

Water sloshes over the rim of the sink as he works, dripping down the cabinet and onto the floor. “Mac,” Bozer chastises, “just once in your life, could you do the dishes without getting water all over the floor?” Mac rolls his eyes in response. 

Sighing, Bozer adds all the ingredients back to the pan. 

Riley saunters back in, her curls now piled haphazardly atop her head. “What did I miss?” 

Bozer watches the scene before him unfold in slow motion. He opens his mouth to warn her about the water on the floor, but he’s too slow. Riley slips, falling backward. Mac lunges for her, hands locking around her waist in time to save her from landing on the floor. 

He’s not fast enough to prevent Riley’s head from slamming into the counter, however. 

Grimacing, Riley cradles the back of her head as she finds her footing. “Thanks,” she mutters bitterly. 

With his hands on his hips and wearing a pointed glare, Bozer has never felt more like his mom. “Now will you clean up the water? Considering you just almost killed our roommate.” 

But Mac’s attention remains solely on Riley as he mumbles an apology, hands never leaving her waist. Riley looks more shocked than angry, and Bozer can’t help but think that Mac got off incredibly easily this time. They both know Riley is just as likely to kick his ass as she is to smile and brush it off. 

Riley finally shimmies out of Mac’s grip, and Bozer turns around, returning to the stove. He hears the freezer open and close, and it doesn’t take any spy skills to know Riley’s now holding a bag of frozen peas to her head. 

“I take it you miss trying to get me killed,” Riley jokes. 

“Yeah, something like that.” 

Letting them have their moment, Bozer finishes making dinner himself, promising to resume the cooking lesson another day. 

[padrenicolo]

the old guard characters as food i make now that ive moved away from home

andy: tortellini soup. the tortellini is from a package, usually dried, because lets be practical here, but the soup is homemade from scratch and completely varied. recently - homemade tomato soup that turned out BOMB. warm and hearty or light and easy, very dependable yet incredible

joe: vegetarian chili, made mostly of various beans and never tastes the same way twice because you just add what feels right at the moment. a hearty meal to last several days or serve a household. accidentally too spicy for half of the target consumers, but that means more for me

nicky: oatmeal chocolate chip cookies, no recipe, just from memory, baked exclusively after 1:30am with the dishes and everything done and put away before anyone else is awake. bonus points for not acknowledging their presence unless questioned

booker: mac and cheese! usually also homemade, creamy and baked in the oven with some extra cheese and breadcrumbs. can be so good depending on what ive got in the pantry. i am lactose intolerant, and yet 10/10

nile: oatmeal, cooked in a pot with milk, a splash of vanilla and cinnamon, and an apple thats been cut up and added just enough to warm up but still retain its crispness. a bit of honey over top sometimes for sweetness. make somethings special out of it :). or just desert

copley: egg fried rice. a new (although not particularly difficult) addition to my repertoire but a necessary and delicious one. why was i not doing this sooner its so good to eat, to use up leftovers, to shove a bunch of vegetables into. 10/10

BONUS - Housemate's Foods Edition

merrick: a single slice of white bread, untoasted, with unsalted butter scraped across the top, and all topped with a hefty squirt of ketchup to round it all out. im disgusted, and ive expressed this, yet here we are

keane: yoghurt. so much plain yoghurt. its gone bad in the fridge please stop buying so much at a time. yes thats mold, throw it out please. months old fake butter. how does this happen.

[hotspringfairy]

February 3, 2021

I'm so over it.

My best friend and I have been living with his parents for a year and a half. They're letting us stay in their basement for no rent, just contributing to household expenses. We asked if we could do this in order to save up enough money to pay off our debts (except student loans) and save up to buy our own house together. We were just feeling very stuck after being forced to move from a house we had been renting at a reasonable price for 5 years- rent prices had gone up crazy high in that time and we ended up in an over-priced apartment for a year out of desperation, really only making enough to cover our bills.

I must start by saying that this is ridiculously generous of them. I don't regret this at all, it's given me and my best friend that little leg-up that we desperately needed. And living with them hasn't been as bad as I thought it might be (I've known them for like 12 years now- they can be . . . difficult).

So yes, I'm incredibly grateful for my situation, now on to the bitching lol

I tried in the beginning to keep our food a little more separate. However, my friend's mom really wanted us to combine groceries and to cook for us. I gave in pretty quickly to what she wanted, mostly because I don't have a choice.

They absolutely suck at cooking vegetables, which is an extra shame because I freaking love veggies! If soggy, over-boiled, and unseasoned mush is what people think vegetables are like, than I totally get the hate! I wouldn't eat that shit! I don't eat that shit! Idk how many nasty vegetables I've tossed in the trash over the past year. They won't even toss them on a baking sheet for goodness sake.

I started listing all the ways that my kitchen access is limited, but it was getting way too long lol the dynamics in the house are difficult to explain. I'm going to cut it down to this: the dad gets very weird about food and often pushes food on us and wants to have unnecessary conversations about food. He does not like more than one person being in the kitchen at a time (even if there's plenty of space). He is uncomfortable around me, and I try to be respectful and give him his space- I don't want to intrude, especially considering their generosity.

I also don't like having to interact with them (or anyone at all) when I'm in "alone-time mode," so I often won't go upstairs much on the weekends because of that. Pretty much every day they watch their grandkids, who are awesome, but kids are certainly not my thing and they make me uncomfortable. When the kids aren't over, they're often arguing, and if I hear them literally yelling at each other I won't go upstairs.

That's the short (but unfortunately still way too long) version of some of the issues I'm having with food at this house. They often make food for me that I don't want, and I often feel like I can't prepare my own food.

Last night I munched out on snacks instead of having dinner, which made me go way over my calorie goal range. I was having a rough day, like guys, I forgot to put on makeup before work yesterday. I've never in my whole life forgotten to put on makeup and I've never been to this job without at least my cover-up on! It wasn't a big deal, but it's not like me to forget that, I was really out of it yesterday. I'm not ok. I've had a lot on my mind, good and bad. Anyways, I just really needed to relax by myself after work.

My friend had gone to the store for us and gotten me cheese tortellini that he knows I like, kinda as a treat for me. He even bought pesto and Alfredo sauce so I'd have 2 sauce options (I recently haven't been able to eat tomatoes- like not even a bite of something with even dehydrated tomato on it or I will vomit- idk why, but it's been an adjustment for me since apparently EVERYTHING HAS TOMATOES IN IT).

His parents made the tortellini, and then mixed them with tomatoes. Not even marinara sauce, just bland-ass canned tomatoes. Didn't cook them together either, but apparently they had to be stirred in. So everyone else had that. I needed time to myself and they not only had a toddler running around, but they were also being overbearing. And I'd already been intruded upon downstairs twice. So I stayed downstairs and ate the snacks I had there and took care of myself.

It wasn't the best decision. I should have made myself real food. But I just could not muster the mental energy to deal with them. It was the best I could do for myself yesterday.

So I'm super frustrated. I feel like I went over on my calories directly because I don't have a kitchen I can use without getting hassled, and I just wasn't up to getting hassled. I think this has been an unfair obstacle for me on an already very difficult journey.

Until now I've been able to skate by. With so much weight to lose, I really don't have to do 100% to see results. However, my weightloss is slowing to an absolute crawl, and I can see that my downstairs-binging is holding me back. But it's so unfair to expect myself to do better given the circumstances. And we're moving really soon, I'm not 100% sure when, but in the next few months.

I just have to hang in there and keep doing my best. I'm trying to balance holding myself accountable for bad choices, but also not beating myself up for making not the best decisions when I'm in not the best situations. Today I feel both that I am making excuses when I should accept that I could and should have done better, and that I'm being too harsh on myself given the circumstances. Not sure how I'm managing both of those.

First time in a long time that I've had to battle this much negative self-talk. But good on me for shutting that shit down fast.

[mickeygifs]

Do you think married Mickey cooks whole meals for the household now? I could see that. Even the Milkoviches had family breakfast and all. I just want to see Mickey at the table like Jimmy Steve with the whole family. We always saw him either sitting when everyone left or leaving so just he and Ian.

it’s probably more like... he cooks for himself and ian and intentionally makes too much so they can have leftovers but then the rest of the house finds the food and eats it without asking which causes mickey to be like alright who wants to die today? liam? did you eat my tortellini with alfredo sauce? actually that’s ok you can have some................was it you, lip?

[excuseme-howdareyou]

Tag Meme

(because tag memes are fun and I’ll never stop doing them)

Tagged by @primeemeraldheiress =)

Top 3 ships: (of this fandom) Tim/Jason/Dick and any combination of that three, StephCass, and BatCat

Last Movie: Spectral plays in the background as I write this

Reading: Nonprofit works by independent writers on a digital med-- Fanfics.... I have been reading fanfics.

What food are you craving right now?: Tortellini. Cheese tortellini with homemade seasoned alfredo and blackened chicken and I am SO upset I don’t have heavy cream in this household right now to make it.

Tagging: @redtwomuch @marudny-robot @throneoffirebreathingbitchqueen @redhoodrage

[jcmorrigan]

Relevant to Giovanni........which kind of soup are YOU partial to?

All right, so this is the plot twist where JCMorrigan reveals she was a soup connoisseur the whole time.

...I’m serious.

So my mom is a really great cook who likes to experiment, and so our household has some pet recipes. One of my favorites is her tortellini soup - a tomato-based soup with tortellini pasta and Andouille sausage as well as a good serving of vegetables and a little garlic. She usually makes it with Ricotta tortellini (one of the few ways I actually enjoy cheese, oddly enough) but I tried making a batch myself with spinach tortellini and it was SO GOOD because there’s already spinach in the soup anyway and it complements.

But perhaps my favorite soup is a bit of a deeper cut - we also have a Zuppa Toscana recipe that’s to die for. Zuppa Toscana is chicken-broth-based, with kale and bacon as its primary ingredients. Now, I’m one of THOSE people who thinks a little bacon makes everything better, so that’s right up my alley, and the bacon gives the chicken broth a nice aftertaste. It’s a lovely dish for the middle of the cold winter.

Clam chowder is a classic, and if I end up at a restaurant where there’s a soup side with my entrée, that’s probably what I’ll pick, provided it’s available. I love seafood of all types, and clams are no exception, plus the consistency of the broth is really pleasing to me. But you know what other chowder really appeals if clam isn’t available? Corn chowder. I also love corn in pretty much everything, so adding that flavor to the thicker chowder broth tickles my vegetable-loving senses.

After that, I like pretty much all the basic soups. Can’t go wrong with chicken noodle. There are only three soups I actively dislike:

1. Any soup where cheese is the base, like broccoli cheese. More for you. I don’t want any.

2. Chili, or at least chili with ground beef. I grew up on this kind of chili and I’m kinda sick of it, and moreover, I don’t really like the texture ground beef gets when you cook it that way. I DO really like the texture of kidney beans cooked that way, so a more vegetable-based chili might change my mind, or a spicier variant than I’m used to. But for now, chili is bland and has GROUND BEEF so no. (Also, if you attempt to put sour cream and/or cheddar shreds in my chili, or any soup, I will MAIM YOU)

3. Beef-stock soup. It’s just...not my style. I’m not against beef, even though it might look that way from what I’ve written here - I enjoy a good burger and even more a good STEAK (done rare as you can get). But something about beef stock just doesn’t translate to my taste buds. I take one sip and am like “Oh, EW, this feels wrong.”

So the long and short of it is with those few exceptions, if Gio wants to get creative with his soups and use me as a guinea pig for taste-testing, I’m down to try a lot of things

[polyporous]

15 for 15 tag game

I was tagged by @laurencrabtree (Check em out they write some choice fics!)

Rules: answer 15 questions as either yourself or one of your OCs, then tag 15 more people

Answering as me, myself and I

1: Are you named after anyone?

I am Pali and I seize (for now)

2: When was the last time you cried?

I don’t know but I kinda teared up looking at my last MRI.

3: Do you have/want kids?

I got five aminals does that count?

4: Do you use sarcasm a lot?

Probably too much

5: What’s the first thing you notice about people?

Their sense of humor.

6: What’s your eye color?

Hazel

7: Scary movie or happy ending?

I mean both????

8: Any special talents?

I can stick like most of my foot in my mouth.

9: Where were you born?

New Vegas

10: What are your hobbies?

I’ve really gotten into doing my nails for some reason and I garden but mostly I’m just writing and fic and doing art ya dig?

11: Do you have any pets?

Ellie the cat-Queen of the household

Tortellini the tortoise-King of the Vegatables

Yam the hamster-Princess of Corms

Briggite and Dolly-Ferret warriors of the deep North

12: What sports do you play/have you played?

I played soccer long ago

13: How tall are you?

5′7″

15: Dream job?

Writer would be pretty cash

I tag @damejudyhench @corancoranthemagicalman @barktooth-warbeard @robotarmsapts and anyone if you wanna

[thinkhealthylivecreative]

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