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 jasmine rice in a rice cooker                                                    │
 lentils mixed in                                                                 │
 a good heaping of butter,                                                        │
 and (trust me) a package of carnation instant breakfast, for vitamins and        │
 sweetness.                                                                       │
 swirl the rice cooker pan to mix all the ingredients                             │
 dice up some cheddar chunks,                                                     │
 but keep them aside for now.                                                     │
 and now the rice cooker turns on                                                 │
 when it's fully done cooking,                                                    │
 add cheese chunks.                                                               │
 add can of cream of mushroom soup, and spread on-top of the rice.                │
 add can of canned american chile, the kind with beans and paprika, not the       │
 chile-pepper type which is more like a sauce, but the kind with beans that is    │
 more like a meal and spread on-top of the can of cream of mushroom soup.         │
 then, close the lid and let the soups warm up in the rice cooker heat and the    │
 cheese melt a bit in the rice cooker heat                                        │
 when warmed, serve into a bowl-plate by imagining cake layers - use a large      │
 spoon with a long handle to scoop out a "slice" of cake - lasagna might be       │
 more accurate, but there's no noodles.                                           │
 ... now I want to try it with noodles, hmmm                                      │
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 a box of tri-color rotini
 
 a good spoonfull of better than boullion italian
 
 a medium amount of large colby-jack cheese cubes (about one for every other
 bite)
 
 boil with just enough water for the noodles to start sticking to the pan once
 entirely cooked and add cheese, butter, and top with generous dashes of smoked
 paprika and lime juice.
 
 don't strain the noodles. have just enough water left to have a thin sauce.
 
 if vegetables are desired, firm carrots and peas (read: frozen or fresh, not
 canned) or diced/shredded onions.
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 don't know how to make decent rice and beans?
 
 get the heartiest vegetable soup you can find from the store and cook some
 jasmine rice and lentils in a pot. You should be able to do both in the same
 pot. cook them like noodles by boiling some water and adding the rice and
 beans. add some salt to the water. make it salty like the sea.
 
 then drain the rice and beans once you taste test them to be done. be patient.
 add the hearty, savory soup to the mix alongside a big hunk of butter.
 
 boom, protein, calories, nutrients. all in one meal. the more vegetables in
 the soup, the better, and if you're feeling fancy you can sautee some of your
 own instead of soup by dicing them into inch large chunks and throwing them in
 a pan on medium heat with some butter and whatever seasonings you want for a
 while, stirring only when they start to stick. Just enough to brown them, not
 burn them.
 
 butter and salt and garlic and boullion are your friends. don't do too much,
 if you notice them a lot then it's too much.
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 does anyone know of a recipe that uses only flour, butter, yeast, eggs, and
 salt? It doesn't need to use every ingredient, but those are easy to acquire.
 
 ideally with the ability to include nuts or dried fruit or something else
 nutritious.
 
 the requirements include the ability to cook it using only a rice-cooker (or
 crock pot, or other kind of slow-cooking ceramic dish which heats from all
 directions at once)
 
 in addition, it must NOT need kneading. It must be able to be cooked passively
 without attention. The fewer steps, the better.
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 nachos
 
 cast-iron skillet (or other deep pan)
 
 throw in some butter or vegetable oil (not olive oil)
 
 heat it up a bit
 
 crack four eggs in there
 
 cut some slices off of a hunk of cheese
 
 add some chips on top of the eggs
 
 add the cheese on top of the eggs
 
 cover it and leave it on the like, 2 or 3 out of 10 heat setting
 
 come back whenever it's done
 
 transfer to plate
 
 add salsa
 
 boom nachos
 
 (optional but recommended: beans):
 
 for the beans, if you want, throw a can of refried beans on the stove and add
 a TINY can of tomato chunks and a big hunk of butter
 
 let it cook until it's smooth consistency, stirring and such. Add paprika,
 cumin, and a bit of oregano.
 
 then put the beans on before the salsa, and BOOM even BETTER nachos.
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 rice in the rice maker with butter, worcestersire sauce (not too much!) and
 salt
 
 when it's done, flake hard boiled eggs (2 eggs per cup of rice) on top and
 douse with a small-mediumish amount of soyaki
 
 could do well with either a packet of dehydrated vegetables or perhaps some
 diced carrots or green onions. Honestly carrots go well in most things.
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 Highly recommend "Better than Boullion" - if your recipe involves boiling
 water, unless it's tea there's a good chance that some broth-in-a-jar could
 make it taste better.
 
 Did you know you can boil oats like noodles? Yeah that's... that's basically
 how you make oatmeal. Use less water than with noodles, though.
 
 EDIT: Also, add some bits of nutrition like dried fruit, nuts that have been
 soaking in clean water overnight, nutritional yeast, dehydrated soup mix
 (delicious), or frozen vegetables.
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 carrots and sweet onions sauteeing on the stove
 
 rice in the rice-cooker seasoned with butter and boullion
 
 garnish with chopped green onions and a dash of garlic powder
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 I love cooking. My favorite food is "melange" also called "gruel" by the less
 culinary people in my life. It consists primarily of a rice or noodle base,
 plus a bunch of other ingredients (usually sauteed) that are quite nutritious.
 Then, you season in a way such that it tastes delicious and savory and BOOM
 you have the perfect food.
 
 Well, not as good as steamed eggs, but still pretty good.
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 heat makes things squishy. it works from the outside in, and the longer you      │
 cook it (meaning, the lower the temperature) the more the heat can spread        │
 through - meaning if you want an even consistency, do lower heat for longer      │
 periods. if you want a different texture on the outside compared to the          │
 inside, do higher temperatures over less time. just make sure you devote extra   │
 attention to stirring to make sure you don't burn it.                            │
 seasoning is sorta like a coating / dusting that you can apply to food. the      │
 longer it rests on the food (and the more the food is porous / cooked) the       │
 more the seasoning can penetrate into it - meaning if you want the flavor of     │
 the seasoning to be distinct from the flavor of the food item, then add the      │
 seasoning toward the end. if you want them to combine into one combo-flavor,     │
 then add the seasoning early.                                                    │
 some seasonings degrade with heat though, especially herbs. so add them toward   │
 the end. or add a butt-load of them.                                             │
 salt+(butter/oil)=yummmmmmmmmmmmm                                                │
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 If you want to learn to cook, start with a sandwich. Then spaghetti sauce from
 a jar. Then sautee some vegetables and throw them on top of rice. Then go to
 the store, read the back of a tasty-looking package, and make the recipe it
 suggests.
 
 Then you know how to cook. Don't bother with online recipes.
 
 Also, more butter, more salt.
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 Boil the rice.
 
 when it is finished and hot, add a lot of butter and stir it in.
 
 when done add cinnamon and stir it in.
 
 then add raisins if wanted.
 
 then milk to taste.
 
 add sugar if desired.
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 when you run out of an ingredient you use often (like butter, seasoning, or
 flour) put the container by your shoes.
 
 then, when you go to the store, look through all the empty containers and make
 a mental list.
 
 when you get home and are putting things away, if you forgot something just
 leave the old container by the door. everything else can be recycled / trashed.
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 stretch every day, exercise your arms, core, and legs on alternating days
 [first one, then the other, then the third, then either rest or restart
 depending on how you feel]
 
 flexibility is strength. strength gives you options. agility is speed,
 dexterity is precision, wisdom is accuracy.
 
 eat rice, beans, vegetables, and either oil or butter when you can. they work
 together to keep you healthy and nourished.
 
 be nice to creatures, whether they be animal or children or just sorta feral.
 
 spend time feeling adventurous. climb on things because you can. be sensible
 and courageous in all things. there's more to every moment than you remember,
 and there's more to every story than you hear.
 
 if you find something neat, share it with others. don't let it sit on a shelf.
 unless people come by to see it every so often.
 
 there are always people like you around. you are never alone when you are
 known.
my sword is vampiric. it chips away at the victim's karma and gives it to me. the wielder.  there is no evil way to wield this weapon. by chipping away as much as you please, even with fatal or spiritual blows. If you wield it to slay something good, then it chips away at the bad parts of their karma. In doing so, it harms you, as it delivers evil into your soul.;in doing so, it
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 When you run out of a seasoning, put the empty bottle in a special place that
 you can see before going to the store.
 
 When I carried a purse, I'd put it in there. Could also go in the pocket of a
 sweatshirt or jacket that you wear when doing errands. Maybe even just on the
 ledge next to your shoes. Something that reminds you to get this particular
 seasoning, and no others. It's easy to get others...
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 today is a magical day. I can feel it in my fate.
 
 Always remember, having fun is important too! Don't forget to be yourself, and
 keep it together man. If you see a door, you should open it - what's on the
 other side? Love for animals and kindness of the spirit are impossible to
 fake, they always know if you're lying. Not the animals, they can be dumb
 sometimes, but the other thing.
 
 And now for the downsides.
 
 If you find a cursed artifact, please don't throw it in the river. It might
 ask you to, but please don't. Much better to destroy it by melting it down (if
 it's metal, which is common as metal lasts long enough to become forgotten) or
 convince it that it's a recently deceased person being buried (helps if you
 know the creator).
 
 If none of that applies to you, don't worry. Eat something healthy, drink a
 decent amount of water, and maybe exercise a bit.
 
 Oh, and it can't hurt to ask.
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 the broth they sell at the store is way too thin. boullion is much better
 because it's so concentrated. think of it as "essence of X" when you have
 "broth of vegetables" or "broth of carrots and onions" or whatever... can help
 make it easier to cook something decent by using general flavors
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 @user-1352 
 
 makes me think that I should keep going. I can handle myself, and I shouldn't
 pressure myself so much to be something I'm not.
 
 then the rent comes due and the dishes need to be done too and the cat's
 asking for attention and the post-office needs this letter by tuesday and hey
 do you happen to know a cool attorney plus the groceries are getting low but I
 got snap hey can you go to the store and get some vegetarian soul food - yeah
 I got rice, I'll throw some lentils on the stove. Uh-huh yeah the password is
 hunter2. Oh really, just asterisks? okay well it's hunt her two except instead
 of "her" it's ee are, and the two is the digit two. yep, like someone in camo
 with a rifle. uhhuh alright good to know well anyway I'll see you at the
 thing, right? some thing, I'm sure, everyone's going to things these days.
 
 If you don't trust implicitely then how can you ever work with strangers? how
 the heck are you supposed to build community if everyone's hiding indoors all
 the time.
Workplaces are comprised of people they choose. hence, unions are comprised of people in that industry.
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 gonna quit drugs for a bit, gotta recover from a recent haste spell that I
 cast. Probably a bit earlier than intended I should add. Next time I'll
 definitely say "keep this in your back pocket" instead of "hey here's a haste
 spell for no reason at all" like what the heck were you even thinking, powers
 that be?? [that guide me??]
 
 who has power over you? If someone bears responsibility but not fault for a
 mental illness, then surely those who are set to a task bear responsibility
 for it's completion if not for it's ideation. Ah, who can say, maybe me from a
 year ago might have some thoughts but I sorta ground them into the dirt until
 I couldn't walk.
 
 [girl what are you even talking about go to sleep] yeah yeah okay
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 did you know that you can steam eggs instead of hard boiling them? it's much
 easier, and the eggs are easier to peel as well.
 
 you need one of those strainers that fits inside a pot. or you could probably
 jury rig something with a plate and a cup, but make sure they're heat
 resistant.
 
 boil some water, put the eggs in the strainer for 11 minutes with a lid on,
 and then cover them in cold water for a bit. boom easy peasy.
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 the 4th of July was pretty awesome!
 
 I made two friends, and I let a stranded stranger crash on my couch. I figure
 if I can trust someone I don't know enough for, say, a one-night-stand, then
 why not? don't worry, I used my best judgement. make sure you do, too.
 
 also I got a knife under my pillow. helps a bit.
 
 before the fireworks show, I saw some people under a bridge. I was given a
 water-bottle and a shrimp kebab, and it was delicious! things I overheard:
 
 "no I haven't heard of that, but I'd like to know more"
 
 ... actually that's it, I didn't spend much time there because I had places to
 be. but from what I saw, that is exactly what we need. for now.
 
 how do you best get people to talk? trick them into a family dinner teehee
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