I'm not going to articulate this well, but:
Does anyone have any good book recommendations about the Mediterranean Diet? Specifically the principles behind it?
Basically, every website I can find about it is "eat more fruit and veg, including lentils and beans, more whole grains, white meat or fish in favour of red meat and don't eat heavily processed stuff"
Which, fine, but is basically every diet ever, so I'm maybe missing something (other than olive oil).
I also don't want to be restricted, strictly, to foods only from that area, which is why I'm interested in the principles. Like, when I prep Indian or Mexican foods, these feel like they're hitting the principles, but I'm not totally confident.
(books preferred over websites, I learn better with cookery stuff from physical media)
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Roasted me nuts.
One of the things that I always keep on hand is a bag of roasted almonds. Almonds are super good for you, and if you don't like them raw (I don't), dry-roasted nut are only minimally less good. Bu they are expensive.
Solution? Buy a big bag of raw*, roast em plain at 180c for 10 mins, then stir through some butter/oil, salt and whatever spices (paprika for me), then back in the oven for another 10 mins. Job done. Cheap, easy, and you can flavour how you like.
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Republicans then "lol hell yeah"
Republicans now "wait wut, he meant the US?"
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I wonder why this is the top-read story currently?
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2025/feb/01/meet-the-woman-who-lives-without-money-i-feel-more-secure-than-when-i-was-earning
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Just boosted someone saying that, in the US, it currently feels like the first few weeks of COVID lockdown; which feels very correct.
That comment has helped me realise, here in the UK, that it feels a bit like January/February 2020 - you knew it was a very real and awful thing that was happening elsewhere in the world, but you also assumed that it would be contained and sorted before it reached and affected "you".
And, well, we remember how that kind of apathy worked out in 2020.
@anguinea
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I know it's just a culture thing, but am always astounded by the casual nature of guns in US movies.
I'm watching A Man Called Otto, and, well, my loft is full of my old Star Wars/Transformers toys, Lego, photos and that kind of stuff. Probably a box of ancient leads, because of course.
He's just gone and got a shotgun from his loft like it's the most natural thing in the world.
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Good god, my work has just switched on Gemini for all employees, and I hate it.
I can't do anything without it jumping up, talking over me and telling me it knows better than me what I want to say.
"Do you want me to help you with this?"/"Let me explain what that email just said"/"Allow me to summarise what that person actually meant"
Full-blown reply-guy energy.
(I guess if nothing else it's doing a good job of showing me what it must really be like to be a woman in a male-oriented office environment)
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I've a large pot on the go, which I'm cooking barley in; I've added onion, carrot, and am about to add swede.
I'm about to add shredded chicken from a roast I did on Sunday, and a handful of bacon, plus some herbs and seasoning.
This will give a few more nights' food.
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I talk a lot about how to "preserve" stuff, whether it's meat or veg, or whatever.
Today is a good day for using that all up.
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Sliced ham, from the shop - roughly £1.10 per kilo, right?
Cooked and sliced? Roughly £0.60 per kilo.
I'll take that saving.
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Which is, like, okay? Fine.
But I'm not sure you understand that I'm also okay with that, because before disinfectant was invented, what my dear old Nan did to get rid of germs or bacteria or whatever was to beat the ever-loving shit out of it
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I mean, there's an option here: on one hand we want to go back to the 40s and 50s.
Okay, the sort of people who want that are also - largely - the sort of people who say shit like "sunlight is the best disinfectant!" when confronted with antifa, and are very against violence - either because they're centrist tea-sippers or because they know that they deserve the violence.
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If you've followed me for a while, you know that I'm keen on kitchen gadgets; some for fun, but some for ease.
My mate is basically out of food, so I've (as per below) cooked a gammon joint in a combi-microwave - 50 mins for 1 kilo of gammon, then whacked it through a slicer to make things even easier for her.
These kind of "£60" purchases (the slicer) or "£130" (the multi-fuction microwave) are life changing, and I would encourage people to look into them.
Not saying everyone should get one, but they make a difference.
[#]neonsnakes kitchen
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Right then, peeps.
I know shit is tough, and thing are awful, but can we help our mate out?
Anthony has been relying on a good result for months now, and has had a bad result.
I know what this is like, and it's fucking awful - and I only had to go through it for nine months or something. He's got another year or so of not knowing how to live.
Help him - please.
https://kolektiva.social/@AnthonyJK@mastodon.redgarterclub.com/113909301623085627
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And yet.
We're currently watching a full-on fascist take-over in the US (and I don't use fascist lightly), with literal concentration camps, nazi salutes, and...fucking everything else (!)...and we're playing with "no, no, you're overreacting!"
If a vaguely left figurehead had pulled even a fraction of this, the right would be losing their shit about their "liberties", but no. It's fine, because the only people affected (LOL so far) are the people they don't like.
And we know who those people are, that they don't like. It's fucking simply "people who aren't like them".
I dunno, I'm no expert of fascism, but seems pretty fucking fascist to me, and if you're in the UK and 3/4 of your personality is "Me Nan used to make parachutes for Our Boys, and me Grandad was in the Navy until 1945, simple as, and me ovver Grandad spent the summer of 1940 desperately repairing Spitfires", I'd probably not be keen on excusing fascism anywhere.
But hey, what do I know?
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It's absolutely beyond reason to imagine that he wasn't being painted as some kind of Stalin-esque "off to the gulag with you!" type.
The relevant story was about the Salisbury poisonings, carried out by Russia, and the photo was from two years' earlier.
Clearly placed to show Corbyn as some kind of pinko-Stalin-pro-Putin-USSR-Marxist-Leninist stooge
(and if my conflation of terms is incoherent, welp)
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Some years back, the BBC in the UK used this as a backdrop for a story on Jeremy Corbyn:
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Talking with a mate today who has two little ones (kids under ten) about how I used the to be the short kid in class until I was, like, 12 or 13, then shot up in height "Wow, but you're over six foot now!"
I'm not - I'm nearly 5ft 11 to be fair, but often get mistaken for "6 ft" - usually by women.
I've always put it down to being lean - like, being thin, it makes me appear taller, or the way I dress (close-fitting clothes to follow my body shape)
Hm.
"Nah, not quite. I'm just over an inch away from six foot. Pisses me off lol, I'm so close!"
"But, Lee was 6ft, and you're a little taller! And Gavin too!"
(Lee was an ex of theirs, shorter than me. As was Gavin)
Ahhhhhh!
My perceived height has bugger-all to do with my lean-ness, or how I dress, or my silhouette, or anything, has it?
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From a meat/fish perspective:
guinea fowl, hare, partridge, turkey, venison
clams, cockles, dab, dover sole, gurnard, haddock, halibut, hake, langoustine, lemon sole, lobster, mackerel, mussels, oysters, red mullet, salmon, scallops (queen), skate, turbot, winkles
I might try smoking some of the fish, but I'm not going to go out of my way to do so.
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Feb's list of "seasonal" veg for the UK:
(the "i" is for imports)
brussels sprouts, cauliflower, celeriac, chicory, jerusalem artichoke, kale, kohlrabi, leeks, parsnips, potatoes (maincrop), purple sprouting broccoli, salsify, shallots, swede, truffles (black) [i], turnips
bananas (Windward) [i], blood oranges [i], clementines [i], kiwi fruit [i], lemons [i], oranges [i], passion fruit [i], pineapple [i], pomegranate [i], rhubarb
It's pretty similar to Jan, to be honest. There's a lot I won't/don't use, and a lot I will, but not a lot that's worth buying in bulk and preserving in the "traditional" fashion. Fruit is pretty scarce except for rhubarb, which I'm not a massive fan of.
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