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pabellon

probably rec’d this before but pabellón is one of my fav meals especially when it gets cold out. it’s basically just stewed shredded beef but it’s so flavorful if you make it right. I usually follow this recipe with some modifications, mainly that I slow cook the onions and red peppers instead of using a food processor since i’m already manning the kitchen for like 2 hours or more slow cooking the meat. I like to get them all jammy and soft in a pan using broth from the meat. I also put bay leaves in with the meat and chicken bouillon in with the black beans for added flavor Edit: I ALSO FORGOT TO MENTION USING WORCESTERSHIRE SAUCE WHEN YOU BROWN THE MEAT

@royallmonarch

Oct 11, 2024

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Easiest/cheapest chicken tortilla soup ever

My mom got this from one of her friends and I’ve adopted it as my comfort meal for rainy days, it’s literally 4 cans and some broth - 1 can of canned chicken - 1 can of rotel tomatoes (I typically do original) - 1 can of ranch style pinto beans (black label with white writing, can be hard to miss) - 1 can of cream of chicken soup - ~3/4 of a container of chicken broth Heat over medium high heat until warm and combined, stir occasionally. Serve with sour cream, shredded cheese, and top with tortilla chips! (I usually get generic brand for all ingredients except the beans and tomatoes.)

@mirabe11a

Jul 10, 2024

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cuban black beans

family recipe! pretty simple and very tasty, i hope you enjoy:) ingredients needed: - canned black beans - 1 bell pepper (any color, but i would recommend green) - 3 large cloves of garlic - 1/2 yellow or sweet onion (or if its a small onion, use the full thing. just make it so amount of bell pepper about matches the amount of onion) - tomato paste or sauce (pre-seasoned sauce will only give more flavor, you just don’t need that much) - chicken or vegetable stock - bay leaf - sazon w/ azafran (goya sells sazon packets which i’ve linked. however, they suck as a brand so if you want to boycott, you can find other brands of sazon con azafran at international markets usually, but if you’re really in a pinch, using a little bit of straight saffron is an ok substitution) - salt & pepper to taste - optional: andouille sausage (like 1 or 2 links would be plenty) (can use chicken sausage or beyond if you want) directions: 1. dice the produce (you’ll likely want these relatively small to match the size of the beans, but it’s totally your preference) 2. make the sofrito — in a small-medium sauce pan and on med/high heat with some olive oil, saute the bell pepper, onion, and garlic. put in the bay leaf at this step also. add some salt here to make the onions sweat more. once onions become translucent, add in a sazon packet (or if you’re feeling bold, two!) and add in tomato sauce/paste. you’ll probably want to add in about 1/3 cup if it’s sauce, probably like 2-3 spoonfuls if it’s paste. not an exact science, but you want it so the sofrito starts collecting together not too liquid-y. worst case scenario is your beans have a milder/stronger tomato taste, not the end of the world. 2.5. if you want to add sausage, remove the sofrito and put it off to the side in a bowl. fry up the diced sausage with a bit more olive oil. once its good and browned, add the sofrito back in and continue with the next steps. if you don’t want to add this, just skip! 3. once you have the sofrito, you’ll likely have a little browning on your pan. you can use wine, but i like to just use stock to deglaze a bit. the amount you add here is mainly preference. if you want your beans a little more soup-y, go heavier with the amount. if you want your beans a little drier, go lighter. but you want to add some regardless bc you’ll need some liquid to loosen up the beans. 4. add the beans! pour the whole can right in. you can add more seasoning or stock here if you want. cover the pot and let simmer for like 20 ish mins, tasting throughout and getting the beans to your desired texture/firmness. some extra tips: - if you’re lacking a little punch in flavor by the end, a tiny splash of vinegar or some lemon juice will brighten the flavors - serve alongside white rice, but also super delish if you have plaintain chips to have on the side - can add cilantro to garnish! - be careful with sazon, it will stain ur fingers orange! :)

@segronich

Feb 20, 2024

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WATCHING MOVING WATER

just sit still and listen. drink it in.

@royallmonarch

Jun 2, 2025

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DETACH from the algo, become an active participant in your own curation, form relationships to music, track your patterns

I consume a lot of music regularly, and a huge part of keeping a fresh diet of new listens going is having enough sources of recommendations that aren’t an algorithm that either 1) reinforces your existing listening patterns, keeping you stagnant in your tastes, or 2) platforms whoever paid enough to push their product to the top, serving you something that may not inherently be of inferior quality, but may not align with your tastes, may not be exciting beyond just being a new release, and realigns your current listening habits to be more in line with what the average user on the platform is also listening to — which socially might have benefits but which creates a homogeneity of consumption that can become bland since you’re listening to something really just because it’s the next product on the assembly line to have its public moment and not because anything about the music actually captured your attention. the current landscape of streaming is designed to keep you at an all you can eat buffet where you take what’s served to you, and as a result a lot of us have forgotten how to look at a menu and order. so what does taking a more active role in your own music curation look like? for me, it’s meant not using streaming as a primary listening platform. I mostly use my local Apple Music library on my phone that I curate with the vestigial iTunes Library framework that’s still a part of Apple Music on my laptop. probably going to find an alternative soon since apple seems to be cutting integration progressively. I like this method because it forces me to choose what to sync to the limited storage space I have, forcing me to take inventory of what I actually listen to and what I can offload. the files I get are mostly from Bandcamp or Soulseek depending on whether it’s available for purchase or entirely unavailable online (as is the case for a lot of electronic music that was on vinyl only, which is where soulseek comes in clutch). I also have freedom here to change the ID3 tags to better sort and organize, rate, change track info, and track my own listening data. Bandcamp and other music purchasing platforms are great because 1) it reshapes my relationship to music away from consumerism and back towards curation. I have to pay actual money for this thing now if I want to use it, so i’m forced to consider its value (usually i’ll stream a release first to gauge my interest). 2) having to spend money helps me to course out my meals so to speak, as i’ll buy a few releases i’ve accumulated in my cart over the month and cash out on Bandcamp Friday when 100% of my money is actually getting to the artist (TOMORROW IS BANDCAMP FRIDAY BTW!!!), and between purchases I can actually chew and savor and digest my last orders, they don’t get swept up in the deluge of new releases. my plate is full until i’m done and then I order more. also for the times of the year like now when new music isn’t coming out as regularly I take time to find older music that I would normally overlook while keeping up with new drops. currently very into early 80s/late 70s music with early digital production, kinda stuff that would evolve into synthpop and dance music. so how do you know what to order? for me, I’m getting recs through trusted curation platforms. whether it’s bandcamp daily, y’all lovely folks here on PI.FYI, friends, or most importantly musicians who I follow on socials that share their tastes through posts, stories, playlists on steaming, interviews, etc. I like this last one especially because it’s kind of like a musical game of telephone. if I like an artist and they share their interests and influences it’s like every layer in this process is stretching my palate further from the sound that I was originally interested in and into a new territory that has some shared DNA but would never have been recommended to me by an algo because there’s no shared category or label between them, only the musical influence and interpretation of it made by the artist. as an example, I was a huge Skrillex stan, he signed KOAN Sound to his label, they collab with Asa who collabs with Sorrow, Sorrow takes huge influence from Burial, Burial makes some ambient adjacent stuff and takes huge influence from 90s rave music and drum and bass and 2000s rnb, now i’m listening to Brandy - All in Me, William Basinski, Aphex Twin, none on whom would get recommended by Spotify to me from Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites. LAST thing i’ll say — because in yappin about this i’m realizing how actually passionate about this subject I am: MAKE LISTS! playlists are cool, but they can flatten your music into vague categories of “vibes” and “aesthetics” and encourage picking one-off songs from artists that you never form an active audience relationship with. I make a practice of making my own year end lists of top 25 albums (plus some honorable recs and top individual songs) and keeping them in a notes doc that I regularly update and rearrange over the course of the year. this forces me to consider the actual relationship i’m forming with what i’ve ordered for myself. did I like it in the moment but it didn’t have staying power? is it slowly growing on me? it also encourages taking albums as a whole. maybe I liked one or two tracks a lot but the rest wasn't resonating. that’s ok! maybe I rank it lower but now i’ve actually taken time to consider it, it’s in my library, and maybe (quite a few cases for me) something I ranked like bottom 5 albums becomes a retroactive favorite from that year as my tastes evolve. also 25 albums to take with me from each year is really more than you'd think, i struggle sometimes to even find 25 that I formed a true connection with. I think the biggest thing the itunes era ruined that led into now is the single-ification of music, the ability to separate the hits from the deep cuts. albums are meant to be taken as a whole, and then once you've really sat with the whole you can find what actually stuck. even then I like to keep the whole around because soooo often i’ll write off a track that yeeeears later I come to love. trust the artist, they made it like they did for a reason. aaannyyyywayy TLDR: get recs organically, be more active in deciding your listening patterns, fr*cken pay artists yall, trust the artist embrace the album, really consider what you consume

@royallmonarch

Feb 29, 2024

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GOING ON A SUMMER SUNSET BIKE RIDE

many treats to be had

@royallmonarch

Jun 4, 2025