#*its homemade btw*

[puckishpal]

Hunter is the type of partner who always has a hair tie on his wrist just in case Willow needs one. He has many packs of them because he always tells Willow to keep them whenever he gives her one, only for her to lose it. It’s a never ending cycle.

#is this included in the newest wip chapter for mdw? yes it is #because look at that boy and tell me that i'm wrong #he probably has face wipes and hand lotion on standby too #'what do you need honey?' #'your nail polish chipped? ok hold on' #*unzips his fannypack* #*its homemade btw* #huntlow #toh hunter #puckishpost

[thetrashywritingwitch]

here i'm sharing my cake with y'all <3 knocking on your door like a weird neighbor offering you baked goods grandma style

#trashy rambles #trashy talks? #i dont even remember the tag #btw its strawberry cake with swiss meringue buttercream icing #and homemade strawberry jam swirled into it

[demons-i-get]

WAIT BIG BRAINED THOUGHT:

Sam does smth stupid hoping Dean won't find out.

Someone rats Sam out to Dean.

Sam gets in trouble and a lecture from Dean (bc Dean is a parent and he is Sam's parent I will not accept criticism on this matter).

Later, Sam makes a group chat consisting of everyone who could have told on him to Dean and just sends this video:

#supernatural #spn #dean winchester #sam winchester #dean winchester is sam winchester's parent #and i will be accepting NO criticism on this matter!!!! #dean raised sam and in my heart i just know that its smth they dont really talk abt but they both 100% know and acknowledge it #and sam (the annoying little brother/kid) that he is to dean definitely calls dean 'mom' sometimes especially when hes being a little shit #but sam also loves his big brother and appreciates everything deans done and given up for him #so every year dean gets a pie and a little homemade card on mother's day and father's day from sam #when they were younger sam would give dean the card and actually say 'happy mother's/father's day dean' but once theyre older sam starts #sneaking the pie and card into dean's room or leaving them somewhere he knows dean will find them and neither of them say anything but dean #always gives sam a soft smile and usually a hug too before they continue w/ their day like its any other #the year dean spends w/ lisa and ben while sam's in hell/running around soulless ben makes dean a father's day card and dean gets all teary #and thanks him but then later when hes alone he just breaks down sobbing bc it just remimds him that sammy is gone #even when sam was at stanford and not really talking to dean he still sent dean a short message (text email voicemail whatever) on mother's #and father's day but now hes gone and dean wont even get that #btw dean def saves all of the cards sam's made him over the years and once theyre in the bunker he keeps them all in a special box that he #hides under his bed and he'll pull it out and look through them when hes having a bad day alongside the box of pictures <3 #i did not mean to go insane in the tags here but oh well #enjoy my silly post and unhinged rambling ig

[raspberryzingaaa]

Worst part about living alone and being/eating poor. No bag of mozzarella to eat a handful of at 3am when I want a snack :(

#WAIT HAHA I JUST OPENED MY FRIDGE AND THERE IS #bit its unopened to im gonna leave it #btw there are only 10 items in there #milk. eggs. butter. applesauce. moz. parm. garlic. spagetti sauce. tomato sauce (old. homemade. needs washed out). jam(straw-rhubarb. moms) #food mention #nia post

[izabellwit]

one day I’m gonna make a notebook made by my own hands, with handmade paper, and handmade ink…. for now tho I am attempting just to make paper 📝

#iza talks #adventures in crafting #this has got to be a tag now bc yeah. I’m not stopping #ITS WAY HARDER AND WAY EASIER THAN I THOUGHT BTW #like getting even paper. kinda hard. making it mainly with homemade tools???? REALLY easy #got a mound an deckle and now I can refuse reuse recycle ANYTHING I want ohohoho

[6sleft]

guys if u ever want to make ur own scented candles please do theyre a fucking LIFESAVR and literally. soothe the brain

#by scented btw i mean with essential oils not fragrance oils. theyre both very different #latter isnt very good for u and tbh for me smells so terriblh strongni hate it #homemade candles will never be perfeft btw unless u are Specific abt how u make them but theyre still soooo fucking worth it #also dont burn for more than like 2 or 3 hours! something could catch fire and all and its good to give ur nose a break as well

[stavingoffapathy]

#had a very pleasant morning writing at a cafe #writeblr #the journal is homemade btw #the drink is 'chaider' which is cider + chai concentrate and its very good #did a bit of drawing as well

[knifeslidez]

Top 5 soups? ( i sure hope you like soup, tge entire ask hinges on it )

i love soup so thank uu

1. chicken gnocchi

2. tomato soup

3. beef stew

4. miso soup with a fuck ton of spring onions

5. cream of mushroom

#all must be homemade (except the miso. that can be from restaurants where i know its good) #i have recipes for all btw and id share if anyone wants them ! #ghoul groans #asks

[fruutbaag]

this is what arven is. to me

#for those who might not know what the fresh fuck this goop is #this is how u make homemade paper #its paper goop #arven pokemon #pokemon sv #pokemon #dont ask me to elaborate btw i just think hes a wet dog of a man

[nomaishuttle]

hi connor i hope work is nice to u today ^^ for wrapped 12, 35, 78, 99 ? 🌞

12. Something About Us

35. High Life

78. Aerodynamic

99. Veridis Quo

link to ask game!

#Ok this is scary how did you get all discovery songs help meeeee there r only 14 songs on that album. this is scary you sniffed them out #like a bloodhound . NRBFHFBFN #TY BTW !!! i have a good feeling abt today i got wrapped which is aweskme bc i loves music and there r free homemade rice krispie treats in #the breakroom and yeah its a good day so far ^_^ AND i have therapy later and i have an entire free hour so i can get a little coffee and a #treat of some sort bc theres a cafe right next to it...

[interstellarhitchhiker]

get kneaded idiot

#personal #baking #its bagels btw #we were supposed to go to bagel brunch with someone else’s homemade bagels this am #but the air intake valve on my car snapped off in my hand while filling it #so now i make bagel at home

[torchiiko]

very annoying breakfast 2day. i used the last of the bread to make toast for a sandwich but overcooked the toast bc i didnt notice the toaster setting was wrong -_-

Then i think my dad started eating the salami i specifically asked him Not to bc its one of the few things i have to eat And the package is supposed to be resealable but it was somehow opened wrong

#all the food ik we have is. bag of cereal/salami/homemade pizza bagels/2 cans of spaghetti/brownie mix/pancake mix #<- food that i wil eat btw. we technically have a lot of food but its only stuff my parents like (but never eat) #& obviously i have to space it out so it Lasts & that i dont get sick of eating the same thing every day #torch chatter

[homemade-history]

just had the original creator of a post reblog my reblog and say in the most direct indirect way possible: fuck off 💀

#wheres that meme where its the dude crying with a smiling mask over it #anyway if you gatekeep posts you're weird 😭 #homemade rambles #/nbh btw none of my lovely moots or followers would do such a thing

[smute]

random hill to die on and i could honestly make a 3 hour viddy essay about this but here's the short version: "save some pasta water for binding your sauce" is probably one of the most misunderstood cooking tips ever. yes, its an old trick and yes, its something that can be helpful under very specific circumstances but at this point almost every pasta recipe i come across seems to mention some variation of it and in most cases it's complete nonsense.

firstable, let me explain where it doesnt work: adding pasta water to a random sauce (tomato for instance) will not make it thicker. whatever miniscule amount of starch you're gonna have in there wont make a difference when you're also adding ladlefuls of water at the same time. its pasta water not cornstarch slurry. and thats not something you want in your tomato sauce anyway. tomato paste is an excellent emulsifier all on its own (along with egg yolks, mustard, butter, cream, milk, and many other dairy products) so in order to thicken a tomato-based sauce you have exactly two options: evaporation or more tomato paste, which basically amounts to the same thing: less water, more everything else.

pasta water on the other hand can be useful for diluting a sauce (tomato or otherwise) that has been cooked down too much. while adding wine or juices (or just plain water) for deglazing makes sense at the beginning of the cooking process, watery things added to an almost finished sauce will simply... water it down (duh) and (in the case of wine, vinegar, etc) introduce unwanted raw flavors. there's also a good chance that cold liquids won't mix well with the sauce and ruin the consistency. for this, broth works very well, but pasta water would be a more neutral option flavor-wise. the salt and temperature honestly make the biggest difference here. plus, pasta water is something you're probably gonna have on hand anyway as you will likely be boiling your pasta shortly before serving.

the same goes for loosening any other emulsion, like an emulsified butter sauce or carbonara for example. this shouldn't be necessary but if your egg and cheese mixture clings to the pasta a little too much and everything just clumps together, a small (!!!) amount of pasta water can help the sauce reach a creamier consistency without diluting the overall flavor too much.

however. the Pasta Water Trick (TM) that everyone talks about but so few recipes seem to get right goes like this: you finish cooking your pasta in the sauce and you also add a little bit of pasta water to that mixture. a single cooked spaghetto will probably yield more starch than an entire cup of pasta water, and cooking your starchy pasta for a minute (or just tossing it) in the finished sauce will make a huge difference for the consistency. that alone can be enough, you can stop right there. but now you run the risk of binding too much liquid. this is where the pasta water comes in. it's hot, salty, starchy, and it's right there on the stove, so it's perfect for making sure your sauce doesn't disappear completely. THATS ALL

btw. all of this works a lot better with fresh pasta and a lower water to pasta ratio. fresh pasta gives off more starch than dried pasta, and it works even better with homemade pasta that's still covered in flour. the cloudier the water the better.

in any case, pasta water = a little bit of starch + a whole lot of water (and salt). thats why it only makes sense to use it in situations where you need both the starch AND the extra liquid (and salt) or if you know that you'll evaporate most of it later on. think of pasta water as a better alternative to cold water or as something that you can use when you dont have any other cooking liquids on hand. and always keep the salt in mind.

tl;dr: pasta water can be a useful tool for emulsification but if anything it's a thinning agent rather than a thickening agent.

#smute: ''here's the short version'' *writes one million paragraphs* #anyway #needed to get this off my chest #&

[zqcky01]

hello i love your stone x reader head cannons so I have a request if you don't mind so you know the Street performers in the pilot the clowns and stuff yeah so I thought it would be interesting if reader is a street performer and whenever they get cash they use some of it to help stone and the others or something I just thought about this and I like the idea I hope you like it too, I love your work btw ✨

Light Steps

Stone x Street Performer! Reader

a/n: I remember being in Los Angeles and seeing street performers and one of them accidentally landed on a lady

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You collected the money you got from performing on the street. You smiled, wiping sweat off of your forehead. Your face was all red from the sun glaring its rays at you as you walked down the street in your performing clothes, which were just a normal clown outfit, that was homemade. You hummed as you counted the money for those three hours you were out there. "How much?" Stone spoke up as he popped out from behind you. He would watch you from afar, almost like a bodyguard. His gaze traveled down from your face to your feet. "Just about five dollars." You said, handing the hat full of coins to him. "Great. Just enough for food for about two weeks or so." He said as he reached into his vest and handed you a bottle. "There's water in it." He said as he shoved the money into his vest. "Thank you, Stone." You smiled, taking a sip of the water from the bottle. "Still tastes like alcohol..."

"Woah!" Vinnie cheered as she watched Skipp buy a can of two beans. "Thank the lord above that you can do what you do," Vinnie said as she wrapped her arm around your shoulder and smiled. "Anything to feed us." You said, nodding. Stone only rolled his eyes as Skipp walked back over to the three of you. "The beans have gone up in price, so I could get us two cans." Skipp frowned as he handed you a can. "Guess we will share." Vinnie shrugged. "Hey Y/N-" "Let's share," Stone said to you first, his gaze landing on your face and then on the beans. "Okay!" You smiled.

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Your body moved, the music being played next to you. You twirled and danced, then did a few basic tricks with your hands and feet, doing things with items you and Skipp found when searching in a trash can. The hat you lay out for money was already getting full after an hour of being outside. Stone watched you from afar, his eyes wandering around your arms and body. He glanced away as he grumbled. He could feel his cheeks getting hotter by the second.

The people around you clapped as you bowed, waving. "You don't need that money." A rich older man from the crowd said as he stood next to the hat full of coins. "What?" You perked up, tilting your head to the side. "I need the money." You said, confused. "If I didn't need the money, then why would I be in the sun dancing around." You huffed, crossing your arms over your chest, cocking your hip to the side. Stone perked up hearing your voice. His eyebrows furrowed as he walked over to you.

"Is there a problem?" Stone asked as he appeared from behind you, his eyes narrowed at the rich man. "There is a problem. Oh, great! More useless scraps taking money from the rich because they couldn't land themselves a job until us people!" The rich yelled as he clenched his fists. "I need that money than you anyway." The rich man said as he smirked before he bent down and reached his hand out for the hat.

Stone sighed as he rolled his eyes before he stepped forward and stomped on the rich man's hand. "Ow! What the fuck!" He screamed. "Let go of the money, and go away, you idiot." Stone said as he stared down at the man. The man nodded, and Stone lifted his foot. The rich man quickly ran off.

You stared at Stone, your cheeks all flushed. "Me next?" "You are so weird.

#x you #ramshackle x you #ramshackle x reader #stone x reader ramshackle #fluff #oneshot #stone x reader #silly #x reader #ramshackle stone

[sgiandubh]

When clueless, silence is golden

I was just browsing around while looking for something completely different and stumbled upon this quintessential Mordorian POV:

Disclosing a username is crass and I usually never do this, unless really necessary and relevant. So spare me the ad hominem argument you usually fumble around with, Disgruntled Tumblrettes. Yet, for all its intellectual paucity, this is interesting dissection material, since clearly this person hasn't got the slightest idea of what she is so confidently talking about.

First scenario at play: The Tasting Alliance, 'a company no one has ever heard of', booked and paid for the suite.

Not necessarily booked, nor necessarily paid, madam. In the real business world you are so clueless about, these arrangements are seldom - if ever - monetized. It's rather all about barter.

That company no one ever heard about - except, perhaps, #silly and totally irrelevant Forbes (https://www.forbes.com/sites/joemicallef/2023/04/13/the-tasting-alliance-and-reserve-bar-are-set-to-launch-top-shelf/?sh=b45f7085f6f1) - is the parent company of the San Francisco World Spirits Competition (SFWSC), largely acknowledged as at least one of, if not the world's leading spirits award contest. Google is your friend, you should try it some time:

The operative info here is that this evaluation comes from the Beverage Trade Network, a professional portal for spirit dealers. Having determined this, Tasting Alliance's IG number of followers is completely irrelevant, since we are talking about two very different targets, here. Its real leverage and weight on the global market does not really need the boost of an aggressive social media presence and the kind of events it hosts are not your favorite junior hockey league or elementary school cake and bake sale.

Let's look a bit further. It takes one click to get on the Tasting Alliance's website (https://thetastingalliance.com/). Granted, not all the information you need to understand its business model is right there and I had to go dig a bit (not without some help - merci encore!) to even get a grip on how these wheels are really turning.

The way they sell themselves is sober and confident. And completely disinterested in social media impact, to be honest:

So, in lieu of glitz and sequined bras, we have a success story in its own right, which started in Frisco in 1980, then continued in 2000, with the addition of the San Francisco World Spirits Competition. Further expansion followed in 2018, with the New York World Wine & Spirits Competition and 2019, when Dias Blue set a firm foot on the emerging Asian market, with the Singapore World Spirits Competition.

I doubt an explanatory drawing is needed as to the why of this expansion choice: it's all about baijiu, the old/new Chinese sorghum spirit and the everlasting love of the Far East for anything fermented. Lao-lao, the unspeakable Laotian homemade rice whisky, comes immediately to the mind of this blogger: the last bottle I saw, somewhere along the unexploded ordnance ridden Route 13, had a plump snake inside, as a naïve Viagra of sorts. Took a mouthful and thought I was going to die - but when spending the night in a longhouse with the Tai Lü people, you can't afford a faux-pas, can you? /end of travel memories intermezzo

By all my estimations, The Tasting Alliance is very profitable business. Let's unpack ( for current fees, see source: https://callingallcontestants.com/contest/2023-san-francisco-world-spirits-competition/):

Considering the 500 USD fee /entry (550, in 2023) in the competition and the fact that in 2022 there were approximately 5000 entries in the Frisco spirits' competition, we have a very rough turnover estimation of 500x5000= 2.5 million USD. That figure is just for one of the spirits competitions, mind you, and does not take into account what the winners probably pay for the right to mention their medals on their bottles (I am yet to see them on the SS gin bottles, btw), nor the multiple sidekick profit (e-shop sales, consulting and/or other distribution deals, etc). So, at the end of the day, I would comfortably multiply that base by 4, assuming a similar scale for all the other events they organize, which takes the yearly turnover at around 10 million USD and keeping in mind this is very probably a conservative estimation. I also assume costs are negligible, taking into account the discretion with which major players traditionally operate on that particular niche. Real expenses are probably limited to the activity of a handful of offices, sparingly and intelligently staffed. Advertisement is probably bartered and social media, well... you just saw the effort, haven't you?

But then there's the brand's real power on that market and this is the right time to talk about influence and impact. Perhaps this recent (2021) Men's Journal article will help us see better: https://www.mensjournal.com/food-drink/inside-the-san-francisco-world-spirits-competition

With a bit of luck, this could happen:

Sounds familiar? Of course and I bet that was S's strategy. If you imagined him doing the same exhausting booze tour every year (groping on top and seriously cringe on the sides), I think you might want to reconsider. I told you Sassenach Summer was a sandbox for more serious things to come and until now I have no reasons to change my mind. He did it for a reason and, mind you, that reason is not that the booze did or does not sell. It does. Restaurants start to feature it. Podcasts are being produced. The press starts to mention it (that recent New York Times article is evidence enough). This is not Lucky Luciano dealing in bootleg alcohol during the Prohibition and making obscene money over a fortnight. This is a serious business project that was delayed by COVID. That's all. And it takes time and patience and consistence. We know he has all those aplenty.

We also have the totally inane take on production costs for that podcast. It suddenly made me remember again my media expert past. It is with complete and educated confidence that I tell you: a potential 5K USD extra cost for renting that damn suite for the day is peanuts, even for a two-minute clip (let alone, in reality, a podcast interview, and I stand corrected if wrong), if such costs are covered by The Tasting Alliance. But my money is on a barter with The Shutters on the Beach, which would be, again, common business practice.

Second scenario: 'Shutters comped the room for free promo (...) for an actor most people haven't heard of.' You can throw timelines down my throat as many times as you wish and tell me he already stayed there several times and yell and screech, but here is what I think. Shutters didn't comp that suite for S, an actor most people haven't heard of, a decent, hard working start-up entrepreneur. If so (I doubt it), it would be logical to think Shutters comped that suite for The Tasting Alliance, which has a long documented history of partnerships with hotels that host their competitions:

So Shutters might have comped that room for a major player of the alcohol lobby world, happy that S, a returning client, picked them out of several possible options, because it was convenient. I don't believe for a second he stayed there.

This guy knows what he's doing and C's gin success completely depends and I bet will rely on that relentless networking effort. If anything, the Keepers of the Quaich recent development is only confirmation of all the above. But that's another story - very soon on this page.

IYKYK. The rest is uneducated cackle. But Mordor people were never the brightest bulbs in the fandom's chandelier, were they?

#BoozeWars