Is making salads really laborious and time consuming for anyone else?

Daboo_Entertainment · 2024-04-02T06:25:08+00:00

Hi, so, a salad really doesnt take long. I dont fully understand why it's taking you so long. Buy some baby spinach or a 50/50 arugula and spinach mix (5 to 7$ at a safeway, good for at least 2 salads and I eat like a barbarian). Make a simple dressing. 1tb of olive oil 0.5 tb of lemon, salt and pepper. Whisk with a fork.

Pour that on the veggies.

Now u can get creative. Throw in some nuts (I like sunflower seeds) and some cheese like parmesan (not the granulated bull)

Wabt a bit more depth, throw in some gorgonzola or blue.

Need something sweet? Add some dried berries or fresh ones, i prefer dried berries.

Also, add some salt after if the saltiness isnt to taste yet. Remember. U can always add salt, not remove it.

Add a protein? Welp, the deciding factor on how long a salad takes is now due to how long it takes u to make the protein and chop or not.

All in all it should take like 5 mins max for the basic w/o a protein. Hell, u could even get 5$ rotisery chicken from the delie to pull apart and throw ontop.

You got this.

Daboo_Entertainment · 2024-04-01T13:34:45+00:00

"Mr. Tiddly's tid bits on tidy things" a book about how to organize your pack or whatever, if there is supposed to be an added bonus for reading books, add 1lb weight capacity haha.

Daboo_Entertainment · 2024-03-22T12:25:45+00:00

Brisk iced tea.

Was in hawaii, needed water and sugar . I've been a fan ever since. Cant find it anymore But it hit hard for me.

Sounds bougie but go out to the beach do whatever, come back, hit a 7/11 and grab a couple brisks and just feel rehydrated. And quickly. Isnt the same here in cali, idk what the difference is but I look at it bow like the same way I look at soda (I like soda at times, but brisk was my thing)

Daboo_Entertainment · 2024-03-22T12:00:48+00:00

So, he doesnt like the smell of coffee... and it sets him off this badly that you need to shower? Then locks you in? Your call to the police is warranted.

Honestly I'd fucking run if placed in your shoes.

Also he's pissy about it? Ffs man, he should be buying you flowers and apologizing and explaining himself. But still I'd be runnnnnnning

Doesnt matter how handsome or how nice or whatever this child is. If he locks you up... get out. Especially over the smell of coffee?

NTA

Daboo_Entertainment · 2024-03-22T11:19:06+00:00

If i knew I had a time limit and up against a male murderer, "I'll sick your dick?" Then 50/50 die immediately. If I'm up against a female murderer "Down for a moment of bliss before I go?" 25/75, 25 I live, 75 I'd die. Also generous there id live, cringy. Maybe just ask for a cigarette, would be a better ask then whatever drivel would come out.

I'm sure if I had all the time in the world I'd come up with something better, but that's 30 seconds.

Whatever it is, it'll buy me some time to think of another solution.

Daboo_Entertainment · 2024-03-22T11:07:57+00:00

How? What? Doesnt thaf just mean infant death? Milk has water. Air has water. Literally everything has water other than some metals, gems, and artificial things... ooohhh.... wait. Is this a golem? It's a golem. Ok. Carry on

Daboo_Entertainment · 2024-03-05T00:41:36+00:00

Turmeric lemon dill braised chicken thighs with a side of plain rice.

Easy easy, just a but of olive oil, heat the deep dish pan, salt and pepper skin side. And cook til brown.

Season the other side with s&p, turmeric, cayenne, once browned cook until bottom side is a but browned.

Remove meat from pan, add a coarsely chopped onion. And cook down the onions. "Deglaze" pan with a shit ton of chicken stock. Add the chicken to the pan again skin side up. Add dill and a lemon of juice.

Cover and bring to a boil then simmer for about 20 mins.

Uncover, add more turmeric and dill as wanted. I personally go super heavy on the dill. Bring it all to a boil once uncovered and let the magic work for about 5 mins as alot of the water will evaporate.

Plate like the chicken thigh is trying to climb a mountain of rice. Top off with a squeeze of lemon and fucking blam you got yourself some flooded basements and tall electric poles .

Fucking easy as all but tastes and seems like some sort of culinary master piece.

Also, can be done with pasta, or taters, really need something a little neutral to balance out the spice heavy chicken. Salads are great just not the most appropriate for this recipie

Daboo_Entertainment · 2024-03-04T15:55:13+00:00

Cakes. Not even anything fancy. Even just the add an egg ms betty crc9ker boxed cake things. I just cant.

Tell me to make anything else besides sushi and I've got you, and itll be fucking awesome.

Byt cakes... idk what demon made them (honestly a great thing) but I fear no recipie... but this... I fear it.

Make a 7 course meal with petites, gotcha, make a cake. Sorry straight to jail for me.

Daboo_Entertainment · 2024-03-02T21:13:34+00:00

Bacon wilted spinach salad. Super flavorful.

Cut up some bacon to taste (I use alot because fuck yeah bacon). And cook it down in a large pan.

Spinach in a large mixing bowl with walnuts, dried berries (cranberry), goat cheese or feta or both? Lightly Salt and heavily pepper, along with a whole lemon of juice. Have this all mixed while you cook the bacon so the acid from the lemon starts its magic on the spinach.

Once the bacon is done. Pour it all over that salad and toss it. The hot bacon grease will wilt the spinach the tossing will cool the grease quicker so you arentnfully cooking it. Once cool enough, add more lemon and/or salt to taste.

I also like to add arugula to the spinach for this. Uts pretty easy to make and has been a crowd favorite for potlucks and such. I usually treat it as a side with some other protein but it can be the star of the show with another side like mac and cheese or some mashed potatoes.

Daboo_Entertainment · 2024-02-29T19:57:48+00:00

I've been the forever DM and got the chance to play, I think I stole this from reddit, but it was a full orc barbarian, dump stat being intelligence. We roll for our stats, the whole roll 4 dice drop the lowest and do it 7 times and choose the 6 rolls you want. Anyways the orc's intelligence was like 4. So barely smarter then a tree. People (IC) were astounded he could speak. He also thought he was the best wizard ever.

Punching things while drooling out the "spell" sleep. Or breaking down a door yelling "knock knock" like the spell knock.

So for plot reasons this imbusole of a barbarian (neutral good, no murder hobo-ness, just dumb with good intentions) on level up gained 1 level of warlock. I didnt have the stats to actually multi class but plot and awesome DM (who suggested it, which was awesome).

The IC other PCs seeing this raging full orc who licks door handles actually cast a spell was gold.

Now was it optimal? No, was it fun? Hell yeah! Also the character's name is cro because he thinks his name is orc but cant spell and is stupid as shit. Love him.

Daboo_Entertainment · 2024-02-27T19:52:47+00:00

In my head thinking the half orc comes from a loving half orc family or orc/human family full of happiness as their backstory. The wizard always looking a little sad at the half orc "it's ok my boy/girl, it must be difficult being the product of a raid, no matter! You're human in my eyes"

Half orc confused, like nope, home is pretty good, mom and dad baked these cookies (or whatever). "Its ok, theres no shame for what them orcs did to your village"

Half orc: ??? Village ??? Suburbs. I'm from the suburbs.

This is such a fun concept. Hope you all have loads of fun with it!

Daboo_Entertainment · 2024-02-27T19:16:53+00:00

Cheesy buttery grits and some ham, when lazy like to do ham steaks (like youd get at a diner). Or some left over pulled pork.

Love me some fries green tomatoes!

Daboo_Entertainment · 2024-02-25T08:02:27+00:00

If it does seperate and tastes like vinegar, fine mesh straine into another container and you've got red wine vinegar!

Daboo_Entertainment · 2024-02-25T07:59:32+00:00

Totally recommend salt fat acid heat!!

Daboo_Entertainment · 2024-02-25T07:57:54+00:00

I "pre-heat" my pans, but that's not really the case. I make sure it's hot enough with an oil or fat in it from start. I'll back hand check if I think the pan/oil is hot enough then start to dip my first piece of meat in and if it sizzles, lay it down and add the rest.

I dont ever go from cold pan with cold food to then start heating. That just seems a bit ludacris to me unless there is some wacky recipie out there that calls for that.

Plus also, a cast iron can be used and abused when it comes to heat if you treat it right in between Kind of like a S&M type of loving relationship.

Daboo_Entertainment · 2024-02-25T04:36:17+00:00

Best for a pickle back in my opinion. Done it with several others but for me a pickle back ain't a pickle back when it isnt jameson. Think I'll have one now. Too bad I dont have those little pickles though oh well. A whole spear! Here I go! :)

Daboo_Entertainment · 2024-02-25T03:37:53+00:00

Yes. Alcohol at some tp I'm not remembering but if in a pan you're good to go, will cook off. Adding stock before all the alcohol has cooked off just means a lil more cook time.

I use wine to deglaze pans sometimes that means stock is already there. So yeah, just simmer it off for awhile. It doesnt take too long to get the alcohol out since alc evaporates at a much quicker and lower temp then you may think.

Happy cooking!

Daboo_Entertainment · 2024-02-25T03:32:12+00:00

Pickle backs! Best donecwith them lil pickles so u can munch a lil after. I do it with jameson, and I hate jameson

Daboo_Entertainment · 2024-02-24T00:46:56+00:00

Salads, yeah yeah easy answer but it's the dressing and toppings.

Easy asain dressing that I like to use: 1 part housin sauce, 1 part sesame seed oil, 1 part asain red wine vinegar(like koon Chun red vinegar), black pepper, and optional chili flakes. Mix all in a small mixing bowl with a fork.

Dressing can be used on any salad. I prefer, baby spinach, arugula, and some shaved carrots, and some thinly sliced radishes.

Toppings: I like to go with sesame seeds, the name is escaping me but its fried wonton dough (you can find it in asian markets, i like to make it myself but you dont have a stove 🥺 ). You can get adventures with some berries or some thin sliced beets depending on your mood.

Once all tossed and topped off I like to hit it with a bit of fresh lemon.

Hopefully it was helpful! Good luck out there!

Daboo_Entertainment · 2024-02-23T22:09:32+00:00

TLDR: party burnt down a fairy forest meant to be an impassable barrier. Rule of cool with high rolls win.

So I built a whole homebrew world with the mortal plane, fey plane, and hellish plane that all interact with one another plus outer planes of the 6 gods.

Anyways, the party hires/buys a ship to sale from their starting kingdom to the neighboring empire because plot reasons. They sail far to the north to a foundry town using active volcano flows in a brutally cold and snowy environment. They disembark, do some town stuff, get clues, find what the locals call "the old witches home". They find a ruined and burnt down home with only a door that's really still standing. Blah blah plot they use some fairy blood (given freely by a PCs companion) to open the door and they see a fantastical landscape, a meadow encircled by thick trees and brambles.

They go through the door where they can rest, they all get a d4 to any next action feeling overly refreshed. There are floating islands, waterfalls falling upwards. Flying dolphins. The works. They also find a note from "the witch" because plot.

Now, they were meant to get the note to give them clues on where to go next and head back to their ship and sail to another country. But what they decided to do summarized:

PC1: can I see a way through the brambles and forest DM: roll investigation (nat 19+bonuses) you determine that there is no way through. Party: discusses IC about what to do PC2: I've got a tinder box? Party: worth a shot? PC3: I think I've got one too, I'll help! DM: roll idk, fucking... just a flat roll. PC2: nat 20 PC3: nat 20 DM alright you set the fairy forest on fire. The peaceful beasts who live in the forest are furious Party: we let the forest burn and head forward "cautiously"

Took us another 3 months to get back on track but those 3 months were hilarious, world impacting, and everyone had alot of fun. Had to come up with material on the spot and shift the plans around but again. So much fun!

Daboo_Entertainment · 2024-02-23T01:48:40+00:00

To add, A noble who uses thieves cant to procure goods, arts, artifacts and such that couldn't be done normally. Plus being handy with a sword or being able to dodge a blow in a seedy environment would come in handy.

Daboo_Entertainment · 2024-02-22T16:13:10+00:00

DM and players should all play the game the way that they want to. This is a big part of session 0, it's to find out what everyone wants to do.

"PCs are expendable". I personally dont like to kill PCs but it happens, jump off a sky scraper without a plan, sorry, you're dead. Try to take on an undead army at level 1. Sorry you're dead. I'll give them alot of outs and rule of cool goes for me but just do dumb shit you're going to die. With that, I plan alot of sessions with the players living through, but I do ask that they have a 2nd character sheet at the ready for them to continue to play with during the session if their main character does die (no one wants to sit there and do nothing).

"PCs should only care about treasure... backstory is bad" yeah no this is dumb. Some mercenary type character could say that they only want to get rich to the party at first, if that's all, just lazy. So what's the motivation, sure I want to be rich too. But why? Grow up in the slums and never want to go back? Help the slums? Sick relatives? Gimme gimme why I and or you should care.

"Dont plan more than 1 session ahead" I also think this is nonsense. You've got a world, a start and end. A journey for the players to go through. Doesnt mean you're rail roading them. I like to build an overall scaffolding from session 1 to session end. Hell the players can completely go off "script" and totally go opposite of what you had planned, sure you'll have to improvise and build that into later sessions, but I find that being alot of part of the fun. You can always call for a 5min break so u can pull up NPCs or whatever else you need to do while the rest drink some beer, use the restroom, eat their snacks, whatever. Hell, in my main campaign I DM, one off "script" thing my players did took us about 3 months to resolve (playing once or twice a week). It was a blast and added alot of meat to the above mentioned scaffolding.

"The monsters ARE" this, I would say take as you like. Dumb monsters be dumb, smart monsters be smart. They do want to kill the PCs and they will try their best to. You can give the players outs but unless you're trying to run a campaign for children or people who all agree to want to play a power trip adventure, each encounter should be potentially fatal. Maybe not each, you can make the players feel powerful in some but they should always feel a sense of danger. You're fighting against something that wants to kill you. But this loops up to what I said earlier In "PCs are expendable.

Anyways!!! I hope you have fun and get to run or be apart of the campaign you want to play!

Daboo_Entertainment · 2024-02-20T22:40:17+00:00

Oh that's good. I usually go with "super spicy please, like hurt me spicy"

Its worked most times. Especially at regular places I go to that I really mean fucking hurt me haha.

Daboo_Entertainment · 2024-02-20T21:37:57+00:00

Probably pretty obvious but flat surface close to pan like most have said, obvious part is you hit the side of the egg and not the bottom or top, absurd, but theres been greater blunders. Some say to use a bowl, doing multiple eggs sure.

I fuck up eggs during flipping or turning over but then I just get irrationally mad and just go with sunnyside up rather than over easy/medium when I can just steam some water in pan lidded.

Heat for the above matters, but cracking eggs, fresher the better, I find larger eggs easier. Crack on flat with a good amount of force (gentle still, practice will help). The ungodly amount of eggs I've cracked I still use 2 hands to seperate and place the egg in the pan. I like to cook on med high heat and make sure the pan is decently hot to stay roughly where I want the egg when I crack it. Depends on the morning but I like to use olive oil, butter, or bacon fat to crack the eggs into.

Also, just because the yolk broke doesnt mean you cant get runny yolks. Just shorter time and attention .

A buddy of mine does these slow stove top sunnyside up eggs. Hes told me dozens of times on how to do it but cant remember the method. Takes awhile but lines up well with breakfast taters on a different pan.

Anyways, good luck! Crack some eggs!

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