I feel like fries are easier to cook than you would expect. You can cut potatoes in any shape you want (you can also boiled them beforehand to make it edgier) and you keep the fire always low and you‘ll get delicious crispy fries. Also, as a lover of pizza, I just use anything that is remotely similar to bread (piadina, chickpea farinata, crackers) and add mozzarella and tomato sauce on. Other than there is the classic pasta with any cheese you want and nothing else or fried tofu with spinach. I so love food and cooking gives you such an appreciation for your childhood meals.
Jan 20, 2025
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Each person has those items that will consistently be in their pantries. Mine are garlic, some kind of onion or shallot, red pepper, tomato paste, parm, and what I tell myself is high quality olive oil. Take those things, cook them how you please, and put it on pasta. It’s almost as easy as buttered noodles but more flavorful anf fulfilling than that. When I’m feeling lazy, this is one of the best things I can do for myself. Take your pantry staples and try it out.
Sep 23, 2024
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I like costco's pesto, idk, it's pretty solid for premade pesto.
if you have a toaster oven, slap it on some bread, and honestly that's tasty enough without any extra.
if you have a pot and a stove, I always thought of pasta as an easy meal. Sometimes I'll make it with marinara and throw the pesto on top, the two sauces do something fun.
of course, neither of those will give you much protein...
eggs are consistent healthy protein. I have two fried eggs + a piece of pita bread a few times every week. okay, frying them isn't *great*, but it's fine, it's still relatively healthy compared to the other shit I eat.
nutritional yeast can add some protein and flavor to a lot of things.
and... yeah, depending on how lazy I am, I just stick storebought fish sticks or chicken fingers in the toaster oven. it's a bad idea, but if you're that lazy and you need protein, it's a valid guitly pleasure.
Mar 20, 2024
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It pains me to be here. It pains me to have become this person. It pains me to know I’ve spent all of my life chasing something that was never meant for me, knowing I’ve wasted twenty two years of my life for this. Oh honey you deserve it. That’s all I hear because so many people warned me, so many didn’t believe I was good enough and I made it my life mission to prove them wrong. My high school friends never thought I would enter medical school, my science teacher in high school told me the first day to quit. And I proved them wrong I guess but what is left of me. All my life I needed to be good enough to justify all that my parents gave up for me, to justify all that I sacrificed. All my life I needed to be good enough to deserve love. I constructed all my life around the idea of being perfect for others to regret their words or for others to think I was worth loving, existing. So i’m here now with nothing that is mine, without goals that weren’t first my parents’, without love for myself that wasn’t first validation from strangers.
Now I see people making a life for themselves. People who seemed so far behind me once upon a time, built a life for themselves without misery. They grew up while I was stuck here, miserable just like when I was a sixteen. What happened?
What do I do now? I feel so fragile, so aimless, so spoiled, so ruined. All I ever did was being a good student. I am an adult now and it’s not enough anymore, I cannot hide behind books anymore. And when I took a breath I was left behind, cannot start again because if I don’t have the admiration of other people what do I have? Once I might have loved medicine.
But I don’t have it in me, the vocation to be a doctor and, after realising it, I stayed anyways. How I can come back from that? I don’t know how to begin again from nothing. All I know is I’m unhappy here, I’m unhappy with the person I’ve become. All I know is that I’m searching for the courage to disappoint myself.
I hope my mother can forgive me, didn’t make her proud
Mar 29, 2025
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one of my old faves, back in high school I was really angry and this song channeled all that frustration
Jan 14, 2025
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Finally booked that doctor appointment I've been avoiding for a while, now I just have to go…
Being an adult it's made sometimes of just these routinely obligations that you could come to see as boring but this one is straight-up anxiety inducing for me. But as Kierkegaard said (probably not in this exact words) it's better to know that not to know. I'm so chill about this. :)))))
Jan 17, 2025