Just a rock-licker who loves all things sci-fi, boardgames, and growing my own food, especially heirloom tomatoes.
It's definitely a learning curve to start your plants from seed, but seeds can be gotten cheap and are easy to transport. I find beans/peas to be pretty easy to grow from seed, and their vertical growth means they don't take up too much space.
Yep, chips are often calling my name, especially sour flavors. Lime, salt and vinegar, dill pickle, all good stuff.
Ooooh yum, that's also an excellent "I'm being fat" meal. There's a restaurant near me that does Korean/Mexican fusion, and their "kimchichanga" with bulgogi is amazing.
How lovely! I've gotten pretty good at growing vegetables, but flowers, not so much.
For me, there's a Mexican restaurant down the road from my house that does what they call Super Fries, which are loaded with carne asada (a surprising amount for the price), cheese, sour cream, guacamole, refried beans, pico de gallo, and red and green salsa.
An absolute gut bomb, but delicious as hell.
What's your favorite cheat meal?
What's your go-to when feeling especially gluttonous?
Really really good balsamic, the stuff that costs like $150 for a few ounces. I watched a video series about the making of it and taste tests against regular balsamic, and the desire to try it has been floating around my head.
Poland has a variety of hardiness zones, which will determine how much longer you have in your growing season. I would suggest things like brassicas (which include kale and broccoli), as they can handle temperatures a bit below freezing. But keep in mind the size of your balcony, as they can get pretty big.
If you can buy seedlings of annual herbs like parsley, dill, basil, there's still time for a good harvest even in the colder areas of Poland. Do you have space where you can bring some pots inside?
So cute! And such a large blep 😆
Last year I went bungee jumping for my birthday, and it was one of the most unique experiences of my life.
I've been skydiving before, but I don't think my caveman hind brain was able to comprehend the danger. Jumping off a bridge however was at a recognizable height, so the moment I leapt, that part of my brain screamed "OH GOD WE'RE DEAD!"
I chalked it up to first time nerves, but with the second jump, same mental scream. Never felt anything like it in my life, and will probably never do it again, but I'm sure glad I tried it.
I'm strangely good at wiggling my nostrils, way better than anyone else I've met. No luck wiggling my ears though.
That's a good one, I might start doing the same.
Mental breaks. Scheduling yourself for a day of literally doing nothing.
On a smaller scale, I love working in my garden, and on days where I can't seem to keep my mind on task, I'll just stop trying and go pull weeds for an hour. Really zen and helps me feel better.
I love the flavor of cucumbers, but for overall versatility, I'd have to be a zucchini. Sauteed, roasted, baked into bread, zucchini just has more body and is actually filling.
If you won the lotto, what would be the first thing you'd buy?
Say you won $100 million USD post-tax. What would you do with your new found wealth?
Tagging posts in Food and Cooking
[Vegan] and [Vegetarian] are quick ones that come to mind. Maybe also like the region of the cuisine? i.e. [Chinese], [Peruvian], or maybe the type of meal [Breakfast], [Appetizer].
After dozens of games, my fiance and I tied for the first time in Terraforming Mars
Bastard kept gleefully smashing my poor plants with his asteroids!
[Image description: board game at the end of the game, after counting up points. Cards and pieces are splayed all over, and a red and a blue player markers are sitting on the same square on the scoreboard.]
What is your favorite childhood meal?
For me, it's kompe. It's a dish that's eaten in southern Norway, which consists of a little ball of salt pork surrounded by a potato dumpling. As the dumping is boiled, the flavor of the pork spreads through the potato, and it's a way to make a very poor meal feel like much more.
Most often eaten with butter, sugar, and lingonberry jam, I think the leftovers fried up on the second day are the best!
[Image description: split image, kompe cut up on a cutting board, and slices of kompe browned in a frying pan.]
Honestly, I joined beehaw knowing that the admins would run it like a benevolent dictatorship. It's their instance, their servers, their time and effort, and I respect that.
you will enjoy what we are imposing, period
Yep, if you want to make your own community your own way, there's plenty of other instances that offer that.
Mesquite Flat Sand Dunes, Death Valley National Park
[Image description: ridge of a sand dune at sunset, a shadowed mountain in the background. Numerous footprints along the dune ridge, with wind ripples in the undisturbed sand.]
Frooog, my pet Baja California tree frog that I rescued three years ago from a sewage treatment plant that was scheduled for demolition.
She was a tiny little thing, barely the size of my pinky nail. The movement of her jumping was the only reason I spotted her on the asphalt. I considered tossing her down into a treatment pit where I could hear her compatriots croaking, but I knew their time was limited, as the whole area was scheduled to be demo'd.
Having always wanted a pet frog as a kid, I did a quick check to make sure I hadn't just grabbed an endangered species (nope, most common kind of frog in southern California), and decided to take her home with me.
Fun fact, the distinctive "ribbit ribbit" heard in movies is the call of the Baja Tree Frog.
[Image description: a close-up of a mottled brown frog sitting on a branch. The frog has its front feet tucked together underneath its belly.]
Desperately try to foist them on friends, family, coworkers, neighbors, passing dog walkers, the mailman... anybody who'd take some 😆
Beyond that, we'd eat tomato based meals for breakfast, lunch and dinner, and we canned dozens of pints of salsa and sauce (that we're still eating!).
Crazy the difference a long cool spring makes on harvest timelines. My first four ripe tomatoes I picked today vs. what I picked on this date last year!
Located in inland southern California, zone 9b.
[Image description: split image, the top photo is four tomatoes on a cutting board, the bottom photo is hundreds of multicolor heirloom tomatoes covering a kitchen counter.]
Last night's dinner, pasta with vodka sauce and meatballs
[Image description: a blue bowl with fettuccini pasta with meatballs in an orange sauce, topped with grated parmesan and diced sage.]
Rough recipe:
-Start your pasta (I used fettuccine) and broil your meatballs. I was lazy and used pre-cooked meatballs from Costco that just need a little browning.
-Saute thinly sliced shallots in oil until they started to brown, added in diced garlic, pepper, and some dried Italian seasoning blend.
-Once those cooked to golden, I pushed them to the edge of my pan. I'm using a pan that's really too big for the burner, but by moving where the heat is at, it allows me to keep the onion/garlic mixture warm without cooking further. A normal recipe would say remove from pan, but I'm lazy and don't want to clean the extra dish.
-On the hot side of the pan, add a bunch of oil and a small can of tomato paste. Fry the paste in the oil until the excess water is driven out. You'll know it's ready when you start seeing little brown caramelization patches a
This little fella hung out with me at work last night
I did some searching, and apparently he's a Five-spotted Hawkmoth, aka my garden nemesis, the tomato hornworm! Never knew those hornworms grew into these adorable giant moths.
[Image description: Large moth sitting on back of hand, covering about 1/3. Moth is fuzzy, with grey striping and prominent yellow spots running down its back.]Pulled some overgrown heirloom carrots from a neglected corner of my yard, love these cross sections
From left to right:
[Image description: Four brightly colored sliced carrots on a cutting board; being gold, purple with orange and green interior, red with interior rings of red and white, purple with purple and white radiating from center.]
Are post tags/flairs a possibility?
Hi all, new here but loving things so far.
One thing that I'd love to see implemented (if possible), would be tags or flairs with which posts could be sorted. For example, the Nature and Gardening community could use ones like #photography, #plantid, #vegetablegarden, ect.
In @alyaza's recent post about new communities, @PascalPistachios made a comment to the effect that Beehaw is like a general home server, and other instances can get into more niche interests. I agree with the idea of Beehaw's curated communities (keeping from devolving into the 2k+ numbers I've seen on other instances), but I think a few sortable categories would help greatly as our communities grow.