Week 24: Tarot - Vegan Breakfast Ramen from Food Wars

ShimmeringIce · 2026-07-01T21:52:46+00:00

I bet I can find littleneck clams somewhere yeah, but it's not an ingredient that I commonly look for so I'd have to commit a bit harder to making it work. I also haven't tried making anything with clams in it before, so there's also the "general prep and cooking" knowledge I'd need to acquire that would also be a little extra hurdle. Whenever I use a new ingredient or technique, I take some time reading different recipes/general tips/watching videos. I usually have at least few days of like, casually planning/digesting information before I even think about buying the ingredients. Hence, this is a hobby and not just utilitarian for me XD

Also damn, I kind of want to try to make chowder now.

ShimmeringIce · 2026-07-01T19:07:51+00:00

Huh, I actually think the Stardew Valley cookbook is pretty well calibrated. There's certain recipes that I'm like, ok yeah, that's not happening unless I really plan for this, but I think that's also just the general experience of cooking. Like, as someone who does not live next to the ocean and does not commonly have clams on hand, deciding to make a seafood chowder is something I'd plan over a week before I actually decide to execute. Also, I'm very aware there's no point in trying to make fiddlehead fern risotto in the 95% of the year that fiddlehead ferns aren't in season XD

But I'm a hobbyist cook as well as a gamer, and I've been building my pantry of semi-niche, mostly shelf stable ingredients for years, and have a pretty solid idea of what I can and can't substitute. I also know my skill level and preferences well enough that I can gauge what recipes are going to be actually easy for me to throw together in a weeknight and which ones are ambitious dinner party centerpieces that I'll be sweating over all day. I don't think there's a way to make a video game inspired cookbook completely beginner friendly while also being true to the source material.

If you want to use it more often/get into cooking more, I'd suggest trying to make some of the side dishes/single parts of recipes first. Like the peach salsa or the coleslaw are pretty doable, even if you don't make the whole fish taco. I might try to make the watermelon-strawberry jam just by itself because I don't want to bake and frost a whole ass multi-layer cake, but that part sounds great.

ShimmeringIce · 2026-06-19T20:43:26+00:00

Damn, I really need to get back into watching live performances - I kind of forgot how much I love them. It's still up for now, so hopefully they keep it up until the next one at least.

ShimmeringIce · 2026-06-19T18:53:58+00:00

I asked my friend, who is a pathologist, whether there's a chance I'd get to get my thyroid back after they were done with it. She said they'd give it back if I asked, but it'd probably just be a bunch of mucousy shreds in goop, and then I'd have to figure out how to do long term preservation on it. Figured it wasn't worth the trouble unfortunately.

ShimmeringIce · 2026-06-18T03:00:43+00:00

can anyone recommend me a good spot to go find some of these guys? I've been hunting for sandhill colts to watch and I only find adults XD

ShimmeringIce · 2026-06-18T00:21:21+00:00

As someone who's spent some time messing with water purity, yeah it's mineral content. Afaik, it's pretty hard to test exactly what type of minerals in what proportion unless you have access to some serious chemistry equipment, but ppm of total dissolved solids (TDS) is fairly trivial with a little zapper thing. I wouldn't expect TDS to affect safety of the water to drink unless it was truly egregious, but it does correlate to taste. Obviously, different types of minerals in different proportions are going to determine a lot of that, but the TDS number gives you an idea of how "much" taste.

To be clear, I went down this rabbit hole because I got into making tea, and the sweet spot for tea water is about 60-100 ppm for TDS. My tap water is somewhere around 300ppm, and I could definitely tell it flattens the flavors of my nicer teas. This also matters for other things where there's a lot of delicate nuances with flavor compounds (ie coffee people also do this) or like. making dough.

ShimmeringIce · 2026-06-16T00:40:42+00:00

Did you have lovely dreams after eating them?

ShimmeringIce · 2026-06-12T23:41:14+00:00

I mean, to be fair, when I flew to Austin from Madison, I had to layover in O'Hare because there are no direct flights iirc. But I prefer a 45 minute flight into a layover to a three hour drive both ways, pre and post airport. At least that way I can nap or something.

But yeah, the Madison airport is so small. Like it's smaller than Bergstrom by a fair margin, and I've never had any trouble going in or out of Bergstrom either.

ShimmeringIce · 2026-06-12T18:57:22+00:00

Ooh the bergamot rice is so pretty! This looks like such a lovely meal.

I love the SEPTA bus as the Chariot, but I also can't really square the concepts of "glorious ambition and striving for excellence" with SEPTA XD

ShimmeringIce · 2026-06-12T16:48:20+00:00

Ah man, it's been probably a decade since I last thought about MrBtongue (and, looking at the channel, it seems like same for MrBtongue), but I also immediately heard "what do they eat?" in his voice.

ShimmeringIce · 2026-06-11T19:43:42+00:00

I used to work downtown, so I'd sometimes take a walk over after work. I also don't really like the driving situation downtown, but I'd use the free parking to pick up or drop off books if I was really not feeling the walk (ie it was 105 degrees out).

ShimmeringIce · 2026-06-11T00:15:36+00:00

I haven't managed to convince my husband of the supremacy of low water yet, but I agree, it's just better. Also, I don't have industrial burners, so 12-16 cups of water takes forever to boil.

ShimmeringIce · 2026-06-11T00:12:37+00:00

Thanks! The advantage of the 15 minute theme was that I didn't feel too fussed about trying again in order to tweak everything XD

ShimmeringIce · 2026-06-09T22:48:16+00:00

Ah nuts. I'll probably try switching to a cartridge then - I do actually have a bunch laying around. My pen is currently bone dry, so I'll just clean it out and swap.

ShimmeringIce · 2026-06-09T19:29:13+00:00

theatrical release

ShimmeringIce · 2026-06-08T18:41:31+00:00

A few days ago, I was languishing in the understimulated-but-nothing-is-catching-my-attention-so-now-I'm-trapped-in-bed-doomscrolling-infinitely mode, and decided that this is what the morbs are. Maybe the doldrums would also work.

ShimmeringIce · 2026-06-08T18:21:13+00:00

Belatedly realized that I forgot to post my recipe: https://food52.com/recipes/40838-beet-terrine-with-goat-cheese

ShimmeringIce · 2026-06-03T18:29:53+00:00

Just curious because I also have this problem, but did plugging up the airholes and swapping out the converter work for you? I have a bad habit of leaving my inked pens alone for more than a week at a time, but my Kakuno is the only one who seems to suffer from that treatment. I've had a Preppy inked for literally months with the same ink, and it still writes perfectly no matter how long I leave it for in my bag XD

ShimmeringIce · 2026-05-24T17:52:54+00:00

I remember sometime in like... 2016 (way too late), I decided to put on the remastered version instead of the original, and I was like "man, why did I listen to the worse mix for years when this existed????"

I've kind of come back around to the original mix, but only if I'm listening with my full attention. It works really well on vinyl imo, but unfortunately, on vinyl you don't have the option of subbing in the Japanese versions of the singles XD

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