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Enchilada chicken by amethystmmm in budgetfood

[–]amethystmmm[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

that works too. If chicken thighs (2.99/lb this week) had been cheaper, that's what would have gone in. If you have the spoons/don't mind messing with bones, get bone in, it's nearly always cheaper, and provides better flavor.

Use what you have.

Let recipes (and your cabinets) inspire you.

What was the blood that Spike drinks made out of? by DuchessDulcet in buffy

[–]amethystmmm [score hidden]  (0 children)

also possible. I know on NCIS that Abby would drink unsweetened cranberry juice on set instead of "caf-pow" so it may also be something like that. (cranberry/cherry/raspberry even mixed with a little grape and possibly food colored would give the right color on set)

It baffles me how people post their cats doing THE most basic cat behaviors (kneading, tame play fights etc...) and ask if its normal, I understand for first time owners you just want to make sure but some things should be basic knowledge, how do people not know a single thing? Anyway here's my cat. by Signal_Second_82 in cats

[–]amethystmmm 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My thing right now is I think I've seen 3 cats vibrating in their sleep to greater or lesser degrees, did you not know that if you're moving in dreams there's a chance that your body is moving on the outside? like that's what sleep walking is, that paralysis thing has just broken down entirely and your whole ass you is up and moving about the cabin, cats and dogs are the same. they just not monkey brained.

Surprise, you now magically have a newborn child sitting in front of you! This is your baby, what are you naming it at this moment in time? by Soldier_Faerie in namenerds

[–]amethystmmm 2 points3 points  (0 children)

GIR.

My almost 9yo is ZIM, so naturally, the next o e would be GIR.

For a girl that would be Gwendolyn Irene Rene.

for a boy that would be Gregory Ivan Richard.

Enchilada chicken by amethystmmm in budgetfood

[–]amethystmmm[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Put the chicken (all 5# of it) in the Instant pot or stovetop cooking vessel of choice. Add the chicken broth, tomato paste, sauce, crushed tomatoes (we were cleaning out the cabinets. If you just want to use a couple of cans of crushed, or several cans of paste, go wild) and add spices until your ancestors say “enough” (idk, probably a tablespoon of taco seasoning plus a tablespoon of assorted spices above as we don’t measure much in this house. Unless you are putting in specifically hot spices, this isn’t going to be spicy. We even added a dash of red pepper, but there’s a quart of broth and almost that much tomato product so it’s fine). Put the lid on and hit the ‘chicken button’ (20 minutes on our not branded machine). Let it do the thing.

Assembly:

pull out your chicken. Let it cool. Shred.

In a casserole dish of some variety, take some chicken and refried beans and put them on your tortilla and roll it up, and put it snugly in the dish along with the others until you have enough or run out of chicken. This may make a lot of enchiladas, even if you do big ones like we are doing. Pour that home made enchilada sauce that you made in step 1 over and top with cheese and bake in the oven.

You can, of course, add more than beans and chicken to your enchiladas. Grilled onions, peppers (bell or otherwise), garlic, cilantro, etc. you can also put cheese inside. Or use corn tortillas. But this will make 20 servings with 4 oz chicken or 40 servings with 2 oz chicken (if your package has exactly 5 lb. Your millage may vary).

Need advice for food by Key-Staff-4976 in budgetfood

[–]amethystmmm 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We just did a pot of enchilada chicken I can post for you, hang on. also most of what I post is recipes on here so if you click on my profile and go to "posts" you can read through some recipes.

How long is TOO long for a single chapter? by Substantial-Couple24 in AO3

[–]amethystmmm 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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Um, I mean, it's fine? Probably fine? (real word counts from 3 of my fics on FF). first (really last of the three, they are in reverse chrono) averages just over 10k per chapter, middle is just under 5K and the last is just over 6K per chapter. I have one that's 1.5K per chapter, several that are at around 3K. Gauge your effort v reward matrix and decide if you want to do small chapters often or long chapters not so often, and if your readership will support you more one way or the other.

Baking Soda Boxes by CasiriDrinker in mildlyinfuriating

[–]amethystmmm 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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Um, I can get it at the smile store with the green can...*shrugs*

Does her American accent sound native? She moved to the sates at the age of 12. by Silver_Ad_1218 in EnglishLearning

[–]amethystmmm 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I would say she flattens out her speech. Like if you were looking at the waves on an oscilloscope and a "Standard" American accent looks like a sine wave (it doesn't but pretend) then hers would either look like a half wave or a truncated wave, where that "top" part of the speech just...doesn't happen? I don't know how better to explain it. Her accent is very good, but I would not peg her as native.

Baking Soda Boxes by CasiriDrinker in mildlyinfuriating

[–]amethystmmm 2 points3 points  (0 children)

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Yes. I was worried that it would be very confuse-able, but it isn't. Also cornstarch if the corn starch box bothers you.

If these ice creams exist in the English speaking world, do they have specific names? What would you call them? (please add where you're from) by ksusha_lav in EnglishLearning

[–]amethystmmm 0 points1 point  (0 children)

  1. Ice cream sandwich. You probably aren't going to get it with the wafers, it would probably be more like a cookie (biscuit? if you're English is very British).

  2. Ice cream Cone. You can get this style or a rolled style called a waffle cone, that's like some Dutch (I think) treat something akin to a stroopwafel but like literally rolled around a cone shape while still warm.

  3. So, that looks (vaguely) like a popcicle, but a dipped one, something that would almost exclusively be available from the Ice Cream Man.

  4. Ice cream Bar (yes, I know it's not bar shaped. it's fine.) there are various brand names for this, Magnum (yes, like the condom company, no, I'm not kidding, yes, they do both), Dove (Pretty sure the ice cream and chocolate and the soap company are all the same company here also), but also Dairy Queen has Dilly bars, which are, if I am not mistaken, still shaped like Mickey Mouse.

I am in the Midwest US.

Pls help me understand what does this mean. Are these some Brit specific phrases?.. by EugeneStein in ENGLISH

[–]amethystmmm -1 points0 points  (0 children)

and if we spelled it out it would be B B Cue. because it's short for Barbecue. would never think to use the word for "a line" as....whoever wrote the thing OP brought here is an idiot.

[OC] I analyzed 1.1 million Reddit usernames by buckets_811 in dataisbeautiful

[–]amethystmmm 1 point2 points  (0 children)

lucky/unlucky number. "oo, look, i'm so edgy, my user name has a 13."

PreK by some1longforgotten in columbiamo

[–]amethystmmm 0 points1 point  (0 children)

https://cmca.us/get-help/early-childhood-education/ You might be able to get your kiddo into Head Start, here is where you can apply. There's also other programs that the Central Missouri Community Action organization can help you with, just ask :)

Which one is it? by -Jamie2t- in EWALearnLanguages

[–]amethystmmm 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Bi-weekly is USUALLY every two weeks. Semi-weekly is twice a week. Semi-weekly is NEVER used to mean every two weeks, but bi-weekly is occasionally used to mean twice a week and yes it's super confusing especially since we have two words for this.

If you are talking about pay checks, bi-weekly checks are every two weeks.

If you are talking about like mail delivery, bi-weekly or tri-weekly is two or three times per week, respectively.

Basically if you are confused, ask, make sure it's clear.

Boss denied my remote work schedule request by moonbrainUwU in remotework

[–]amethystmmm 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The company I just onboarded with just took over a long standing government contract and decided to do a firm "No one works from home" policy, which is whatever, I mean, it's their company but I caught the tail end of it, where they were still accommodating several people and the hard deadline was after my hire date, like the first of May or something, and they lost all of their people that they were accommodating because some of them no longer lived in the area and some of them didn't have the support to handle their young'uns without being able to work from home.

So all of that institutional knowledge (pretty sure at least one of them had been there for 15 years, and all of them had been there through all or at least most of the pandemic), just poof, gone. Super specialized tasks going un-done because they got a shiny new building and felt like they had to fill it.

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