Sketchbook page: a corner in my mums sunroom (that window belongs to the bathroom, it’s a halfway floor build on top of a halfway basement, I don’t know if there’s a term for that in English)
The term and concept of “rent lowering gunshots” has seeped into my mental vocabulary, and I’ve welcomed it there. Something I’m up to is gross and weird? Good, keeps the rent low. Keeps judgy people out. Post weird shit on your blog, do weird shit to your hair, be as fucky as your heart ever wants to be. If you’re not the one making the profit, make yourself unprofitable. The aposematism of brightly coloured creatures is there to warn predators, not friends.
You have no moral obligation to make yourself palatable for those who would consume you.
You have no moral obligation to make yourself palatable for those who would consume you.
is there anyone out there with a nyt cooking subscription
will they send me the chamomile tea cake with strawberry icing recipe
This buttery, chamomile tea-scented loaf is a sweet pop symphony, the Abba of cakes. A pot of flowery, just-brewed chamomile isn’t required for drinking with slices of this tender loaf but is strongly recommended. In life and in food, you always need balance: A sip or two of the grassy, herbal tea between bites of this cake counters the sweetness, as do freeze-dried strawberries, which lend tartness and a naturally pink hue to the lemony glaze. This everyday loaf will keep on the counter for 3 to 4 days; be sure the cut side is always well wrapped.
Ingredients Yield: One 9-inch loaf
½ cup/115 grams unsalted butter 2 tablespoons/6 grams chamomile tea (from 4 to 6 tea bags), crushed fine if coarse 1 cup/240 milliliters whole milk Nonstick cooking spray 1 cup/200 grams granulated sugar ½ teaspoon coarse kosher salt 2 large eggs 1 large lemon 2 teaspoons baking powder 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract 1½ cups/192 grams all-purpose flour 1 cup/124 grams confectioners’ sugar ½ cup/8 grams freeze-dried strawberries
Preparation
Step 1
In a small saucepan, melt the butter over medium heat. Add 1 tablespoon chamomile to a large mixing bowl. Pour the hot melted butter over the chamomile and stir. Set aside to steep and cool completely, about 1 hour. Step 2
Use the same saucepan (without washing it out) to bring the milk to a simmer over medium-high heat, keeping watch so it doesn’t boil over. Remove from the heat, and stir the remaining 1 tablespoon chamomile into the hot milk. Set aside to steep and cool completely, about 1 hour. Step 3
Heat oven to 350 degrees. Grease a 9-by-5-inch loaf pan with the nonstick cooking spray and line with parchment paper so the long sides of the pan have a couple of inches of overhang to make lifting the finished cake out easier. Step 4
Add the sugar and salt to the bowl with the butter, and whisk until smooth and thick, about 1 minute. Add the eggs, 1 at a time, vigorously whisking to combine after each addition. Zest the lemon into the bowl; add the baking powder and vanilla, and whisk until incorporated. Add the flour and stream in the milk mixture while whisking continuously until no streaks of flour remain. Step 5
Transfer the batter to the prepared pan and bake until a skewer or cake tester inserted in the center comes out clean (a few crumbs are OK, but you should see no wet batter), 40 to 45 minutes. Cool in the pan on a rack for 30 minutes. Step 6
While the cake cools, make the icing: Into a medium bowl, squeeze 2 tablespoons juice from the zested lemon, then add the confectioners’ sugar. Place the dehydrated strawberries in a fine-mesh sieve set over the bowl and, using your fingers, crush the brittle berries and press the red-pink powder through the sieve and into the sugar. (The more you do this, the redder your icing will be.) Whisk until smooth. Step 7
If needed, run a knife along the edges of the cake to release it from the pan. Holding the 2 sides of overhanging parchment, lift the cake out and place it on a plate, cake stand or cutting board. Discard the parchment. Pour the icing over the cake, using a spoon to push the icing to the edges of the cake to encourage the icing to drip down the sides dramatically. Cool the cake completely and let the icing set.
listening to music with headphones is so awesome especially when it shoots straight into your brain and you can pick out all its little layers like sandwich ingredients
i hate you alternative wellness natural chemical free vegan non-GMO herbal intuitive whole foods healing raw high vibrational plant based cleanse gluten free superfood supplement blend bullshit!!!! You’re not healthier and more balanced and connected to the Earth because your smoothies are full of unidentifiable green and brown powders you got from a subscription box to ✨URTH-CRUNCH VAGINAL ENLIGHTENMENT✨!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You do not need to Buy Product
There is no advertisement on social media for whole, natural, pure foods ‘cause they grow out the fucking ground
Go to a farmer’s market. Start a garden yourself. Drill some holes in the bottom of a 5gal bucket and start growing stuff on your porch
There is no Product that will make you connected to Earth, because Earth is what you’re fucking standing on, and what you see when you step outside is no less pure or natural or sacred than some exotified jungle in Africa
Nature is everywhere and FREE. Dandelions growing out of the sidewalk? Nature. Moss on a concrete step? Nature. A tree in a park in town? That’s nature baby. Weeds on the side of the road? NATURE. She’s everywhere!
And if you don’t feel surrounded by nature already? If you don’t see the bounty of nature in the world around you? Don’t order some stupid product in a plastic package about it. Ask yourself WHY.
How come you feel the need to Buy Product that “Comes From The Dirt” one fuckthousand miles away? There’s dirt beneath you. There’s plants around you. How come your HOME doesn’t feed you and provide for you? How come you don’t find “healthy” and “natural” just by stepping outside?
Is there a farmer’s market? Can you start a garden? Are there wild plants you can safely forage? WHY NOT? Is the Earth beneath you pure and unpolluted? WHAT HAPPENED?
What happened to your home? What has estranged you? I hope you think about it. I hope it keeps you up at night.
This stuff is most accurately termed a “concoction.” These are potion ingredients.
Why does everyone want to eat algae so bad?? I know some seaweeds are foods with a long history, but cuisines that include it aren’t consuming it as a lumpy gel. There are actual recipes you can cook with nori and wakame. This “sea moss” shit is all sludges and supplements. Is an Instagram influencer’s diet just a bunch of pills and scoops of powder?
Diversity win! The business scamming you into taking an herbal supplement for emergency contraception is Black-owned!
I suspect that the reason instagram decided to show me a billion “sexual health” fraudsters is because I was googling whether my pharmacy gives the HPV vaccine.
By the way, this whole category of product is a scam. You do not need special oils, soaps, herbs, or anything for your vulva or vagina. “Yoni steaming” is not a thing, it is not an Ancient Tradition, it is bullshit made up by batshit unhinged antivaxx con artist Gwyneth Paltrow.
The vagina is just a body part. It’s not some sacred, mysterious, complicated temple governed by arcane and ineffable forces that require you to buy 87 products to maintain ~Balance~.
Do not take medical advice from anyone who says “womb” or “yoni.” Trust me on this.
By the way, I looked up the ingredients to that “yoni oil”
Clove, Tea Tree oil, AND Peppermint oil? That does NOT sound like a good time
i know a lot of people dont like bugs but they are animals. theyre just as essential as the rabbits and foxes and deer and bears. they all play an important role keeping the ecosystem in order. they pollinate and hunt and get hunted. theyre a part of a balance. their purpose on earth isnt just to be an inconvenience to you personally. bugs dont care about you. i asked them about it and they said they never even heard of you
