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janeyseymour · 1 month

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My Irish Girl

Anon asked for a fic where Mel and r celebrate St. Paddy's! Not edited in the slightest because I wanted to make sure I got it out before the day is over!

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Melissa and you have been together for just about a year, and coming up was your holiday: St. Patrick’s day. As an Irish woman, you were delighted to tell her about all of the different traditions that you loved to do back in your homeland before moving here. You were more than excited to partake in some of the American traditions as well.

“So, why do we wear green for St. Paddy’s?” your girlfriend asks you as the two of you roam around Walmart, chuckling at the different apparel that was set out for the upcoming holiday.

“Wearing green makes you invisible to the leprechauns… the mischievous things- going around pinching those who aren’t wearing green,” you chuckle.

She hums. “Good thing I look good in green then.”

“Damn right you do,” you grin as you kiss her cheek.

You continue to peruse the aisles, throwing various things that you need for your living space together, as well as a few little trinkets for the holiday. It’s the usual things that you throw in- four-leafed clover glasses, a few festive shot glasses, the ingredients to make irish potatoes and the dinner that the two of you will be having on the day of corned beef and cabbage.

You’re heading for the checkout with the cart when you realize Melissa isn’t following you anymore. No, she’s stopped in front of the shirts that are there for the Irish day.

“Look!” she grins. The redhead is holding up one of those shirts that says, ‘Kiss me, I’m Irish!’ on it in a font that looks quite similar to the Lucky Charms cereal font.

“I think people know I’m Irish just by looking at me,” you roll your eyes playfully as you gesture to your clearly natural ginger hair and freckles. “And if they can’t tell by looking at my complexion, when I talk, they definitely know.”

Your girlfriend shrugs. “I’m buying it anyway.” She throws it in the cart before taking it from you and steering it towards the checkout area.

She pays for it, of course she does (always spoiling you), and the two of you head home to make some of the treats you want to make for your students.

You’re in the middle of mixing together the cream cheese and butter for the Irish potatoes when your mother calls you.

Immediately, you switch into your native tongue as you pick up the phone, balancing it between your ear and your shoulder as you continue to beat together the ingredients.

Your girlfriend looks over to you, still in awe at the fact that you are bilingual. The conversation is short, mostly just explaining to your mom that you’re doing just fine out in Philly, that yes you are still going to church and are celebrating St. Paddy’s day. You also let her know that Melissa says hello, and that the two of you are quite looking forward to coming out to visit during your Summer vacation.

“Hi, Esther,” your girlfriend pipes up as she settles behind you and wraps her arms around your waist, setting her chin on your free shoulder.

Your mother switches to English, greeting Melissa kindly. “Hello, dear. Are you taking care of my daughter?”

“Mam,” you groan. “I already told you that we are doing just fine over here.”

“You know I have to check,” you can practically hear your mother’s smirk.

“I’m taking care of her just fine,” Melissa promises. “We’re in the middle of making Irish potatoes for the kids at school as we speak.”

“Oh, how lovely. I suppose I’ll let you go, but give me a holler on St. Patrick’s day- preferably before you decide to get intoxicated with that blasted green alcohol,” your mother tells you.

“Will do, Mam,” you roll your eyes. “I love you, and I’ll talk to you soon.”

“Bye, Esther,” Melissa singsongs.

“Chat later,” your mother says. “Love to you both.”

The two of you finish making the sweets for your students before settling on the couch.

“So tell me more about your own traditions,” your girlfriend requests as you take a sip from your wine glass.

You do. Your eyes light up as you tell her what your family used to do, and how you’re quite thrilled to be able to share the traditions with her- even if some of them are silly.

“What do you usually do?” you ask her.

“Get piss drunk,” the faux redhead grins. “Go down to all the skanky dive bars and drink some green beer to pregame the parade.”

“And what do you do with the kids?” you roll your eyes. “I kind of assumed that was what you did.”

“Oh,” she laughs. “Sometimes we make leprechaun traps, I’ll put a few gold coins around the classroom, and whoever finds them gets a prize. They usually all get a baggie of Lucky Charms… and sometimes I dye the toilet water green in the morning and tell the kids that I guess we were struck.”

“That’s cute,” you say as you snuggle into her. “I’m sure they love it.”

“They have for the last… however many years I’ve been teaching at this point,” she sighs. “But I’m sure this year, they’ll all be more excited when you bring in the potatoes and when you teach them the basics of Irish dance.”

“Oh, god,” you groan. “Don’t remind me that Ava practically blackmailed me into doing that.”

“I think it’ll be good. The kids like interactive stuff… you see how they still talk about Tariq and his short lived career with F.A.D.E.”

“I guess,” you roll your eyes.

Your girlfriend is right. The kids are delighted to learn from you and learn about you and your country. You don’t think you’ve ever seen their eyes light up the way they did when they each got a few of the potatoes you and Melissa made last night.

You teach them a few steps, and they love it.

“This is so cool, Ms. Y/N,” one of your sweet students tells you.

St. Patrick’s Day at school comes to an end, and the two of you go out to happy hour with your crew to celebrate a successful school wide holiday.

The Philly streets are already in the spirit, with green painting the town. Most are wearing their Eagles gear to get into the green spirit, and a chorus of ‘Go birds!’ can be heard at any given time as you walk through the streets with your girlfriend and work friends.

You find your usual little pub and order a round. The beers are already dyed green.

“So, what are your plans for this holiday?” Janine asks you.

You wrap an arm around Melissa as you speak, “Get hammered? Make dinner drunk, and then show up to church on Sunday hungover as hell?”

“Sounds about right,” Gregory rolls his eyes.

Saturday morning rolls around, and you and Melissa get ready to head out for the day. You bought those little shamrock tattoos and place one on each of your cheeks before grinning.

“My Irish girl,” Melissa grins as she kisses you softly.

“We should probably call my mom now before we go out,” you chuckle. “We can do it while we get ready.”

You dial her, greeting her in your native language before switching back to English. You and the redhead chat with her for a few minutes, also getting to say hello to your father, before she lets you go to ‘participate in juvenile activities’.

Melissa has all of her eagles gear on, complete with the jersey that she has signed by Jalen Hurts, and you have on the ridiculous shirt that the redhead threw into the cart at Walmart.

You head down to the pub the two of you frequent, and while it’s busy as hell, even for 10:30 in the morning, you’re able to get seated due to the staff knowing you.

Melissa looks away from you to order you a Guinness and her a Yuengling before spinning back around to look at you. She pecks your lips quickly.

While it’s not unwelcome, you do raise a brow. She’s not usually so big on PDA.

“Your shirt,” she chuckles.

Your bartender hands her the drinks and then she turns back around and kisses you again.

“I think I see how today is going to play out,” you chuckle. The two of you clink glasses and chug your first beers.

By the time the parade starts at noon, it’s safe to say that both you and your girlfriend are intoxicated. She’s yelling ‘Go birds!’ at anyone she sees who is also clad in Eagles gear, and there are a lot of people wearing the football team apparel. She holds your hand tightly as you roam the streets around city hall trying to find the best spot you can to watch the parade.

The two of you are delighted to watch as the parade goes on around you. You spend the next hour and a half smiling and laughing so hard your faces are red. Each time she turns away from you and turns back to you, she kisses you- and the more intoxicated she is, the harder she kisses you. There’s something in the back of your mind that tells you at some point today, you’ll end up in bed.

There’s only one hiccup during your outing. Melissa has let go of your hand and is doing her best to sound as sober as possible when one of her old students comes up and gives her a hug. She’s engaged in conversation with the child for a bit, and when she turns around, there is a man who is very clearly trying to hit on you. His lips are puckered, and he’s telling you that he’s just trying to follow the directions on your shirt.

“Hey, asshole, she’s very much spoken for,” Melissa shoves him away from you.

The man stumbles slightly. “Her shirt says to kiss her.”

“I’m the only one who gets to kiss her,” your girlfriend says as she pushes him again. “If you wanna try again… well, fuck around and find out.”

He backs away with his hands raised in surrender, and before he can turn around to run, Melissa’s lips are on your own. She kisses you deeply, throwing up her middle finger in the direction of the guy as she dips you just slightly.

When she pulls away, your cheeks are flushed, and her eyes are filled with lust.

“C’mon. Let’s get out of here.”

You follow her quickly as you head back in the direction of your apartment.

“Fucking asshole thinks he can get my girl,” the second grade teacher grumbles. “No way in hell.”

“Hun, it’s fine. I could’ve handled it myself,” you tell her as you squeeze her hand gently. “But it’s nice to know that you would fight a man in my honor.”

“Like hell,” she tells you. “Ain’t no way anyone else is gettin’ my girl.”

As soon as you’re inside your apartment, she has you pinned up against the door. Once again, her lips are on yours aggressively, and her hands quickly roam to other parts of your body. She squeezes gently, and you have to bite back a moan when she bites down on your neck. She grabs you by the thighs and lifts you up, taking you back into your bedroom.

By the time the two of you are finished, you’re breathing heavily. That was… wow.

“C’mon, baby,” she whispers as she holds you close. “We gotta start making dinner.”

“I’m gonna need some time to gain feeling in my legs,” you sigh out.

She chuckles as she kisses you softly- much more softly than she was earlier. “That’s fine. I’ll get it started.”

When you finally catch your breath again and the shaking in your legs subside, you make your way out of the bedroom. You still have your ‘Kiss me, I’m Irish’ shirt on, but you have her denim shirt on overtop of it and a pair of her shorts.

“Damn, baby,” she licks her lips. “You come out looking like that and expect me to be able to focus on dinner?”

You roll your eyes and head back into the bedroom before returning wearing a pair of sweatpants. She pouts, but that quickly goes away when you wrap your arms around her waist and kiss her cheek.

“What all have you done?”

“Gotten a beer,” she says cheekily as she cranes her neck to kiss you.

You roll your eyes. “I was in the bedroom for like forty minutes.”

“Okay,” she sighs before confessing, “So I had two beers while I looked at the pictures I took of you. Sue me for getting distracted by my gorgeous girlfriend.”

“Get the cabbage,” you swat her away from you. “And grab me a beer, please?”

“Yes, ma’am,” she grins as she kisses you again.

Dinner is delightful, and the two of you drink a few more beers before heading out again to meet up with the Abbott crew, aside form Barbara and Gerald. You end up getting absolutely hammered, chugging green beer after green beer with your girlfriend.

By some grace of God, the two of you get home without Melissa getting into a bar fight for all of the creepy men trying to hit on you.

That outing ends much like the first outing earlier in the day. But after, she holds you close and the two of you drift to sleep.

The next morning is brutal, both of you hungover as hell and promising you’ll never drink again (until the next time you decide to drink). You both get ready for church, moaning and groaning the entire time as you drink pedialyte and try to rehydrate yourselves.

While the hangover is killer, this Saint Patrick’s Day is one that will go down in the books.

#melissa schemmenti fanfiction #melissa schemmenti fanfic #melissa schemmenti x you #melissa schemmenti x reader #melissa schemmenti #abbott elementary fanfic #abbott elementary fanfiction #abbott elementary

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sixminutestoriesblog · 1 month

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st. patrick's day

Saint Patrick's Day! Green beer, green clothes, parades and corned beef and cabbage for all! In America, we have a lot of traditions associated with St. Pat's Day and a pleasure in celebrating them whether we're Irish or not - heck, even whether we understand them or not.

So let's take a look at some of the ways we celebrate and what we get wrong - and right.

To start with the man himself, Saint Patrick wasn't Irish. Patrick grew up on the Britain side of things. This doesn't make him British however. At the time, the Isle of Britain was run, mostly, by the Romans and letters from Patrick that have survived see him not only writing them in Latin but signing them as Patricius. Whether he was Roman by birth is still a mystery to this day but his family is believed to have been part of the Roman aristocracy. At sixteen, he was kidnapped and ended up in slavery as a shepherd in Ireland before eventually escaping back to Britain. After receiving training however, he returned to Ireland as a missionary and the rest is - well, not history but certainly lore.

There's some speculation, in fact, that the Saint Patrick of myth was actually two men. Saint Patrick the escaped slave and a bishop sent by Pope Celestine in 431 named Palladius to support the 'Irish believing in Christ' that already lived there.

Did he, or they, at least drive out the snakes? Legend says that St. Patrick drove all the snakes out of Ireland and the island has been slither free since. The truth is - according to fossil records, Ireland never had any snakes to drive out. Ireland was under an ice sheet up until the last glacial period and after that it was safely surrounded by water. To save a little bit of the story, some historians believe 'driving out the snakes' was more of a metaphor for driving out the pagan religions of that time instead.

But we totally wear green to avoid getting pinched! Right? Actually - yes. Though the pinching is supposed to come from mischievous leprechauns, not your over-enthusiastic siblings. Apparently, leprechauns can't see you if you're wearing green and therefore, they can't pinch what they can't see. Given our decorations featuring the little people dressed all in green, you'd think that would make it hard for them to find each other but - not really. You see, traditionally - leprechauns wore red.

The pot of gold, sometimes at the end of the rainbow though - that's real(ish).

So is the leprechauns' strange blind spot with green why everything's green on St. Pat's Day? Not really. Green is associated with Ireland, the Emerald Isle, these days but for most of its history, Ireland, and St. Patrick's, color - was blue. Green recently came into prominence during Ireland's struggle with England. Green came to be associated with the Irish side of things and wearing green was a way to show which side of that you were on. The green beer/food though? That's entirely an American thing.

Speaking of green beer, the drinking is an American thing as well. Or, at least, the 'this is a traditional part of the holiday'. In Ireland, Saint Patrick's Day has long been a Catholic religious holiday - and it also happens to fall in the middle of Lent. Originally, the day had a lot more to do with going to church than to the local pub. Which isn't to say no one in Ireland celebrates the holiday with a drink. 'Drowning the shamrock' involved pouring whiskey over a shamrock in the bottom of a glass. The whiskey is then drunk and the soaked plant is thrown over your left shoulder to complete the tradition - and get you some extra luck.

Shamrocks being considered lucky is a part of the holiday. Called 'seamroy' by the ancient Celts, the shamrock was considered a sacred plant. St. Patrick was also supposed to have used the three leaves of the plant to explain the Trinity during his sermons. Like the clover, finding a four leaf shamrock is good luck and five leaves promises a future of vast wealth!

So, yes, a lot of our St. Pat's Day traditions aren't exactly... traditional. Don't discount them or their importance however. Many of the ways we celebrate St. Patrick's Day today are the direct results of Irish immigrants to America. The parades, the corned beef and cabbage, the celebration of Irish traditions - those were all created in the mid to late 1800s by Irish Americans that wanted to celebrate their heritage. So don't feel bad for indulging in a day of parties and eating your favorite food.

Just remember to cut a cross in your soda buns to 'let the devil out' before putting them in the oven to bake for the holiday.

#st. patricks day #saint patrick day #folklore #superstition #wearing the green #irish #irish history #st patrick #ireland

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unhonest-iago · 1 year

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My Pretty Little Galway Girl

Idk why I made the set up for this so long. That said, happy w/ how it turned out.

P/t—preferred temperature

F/m/g—favorite music genre

Fem reader

Corpse meeting y/n at a dive bar, him in the audience and them on the stage. Fingers plucking the strings on their violin, the body nestled between shoulder and chin. Long skirts swaying as they moved across the stage. 'Why hello there stranger,' greeting Corpse after he sent them a drink.

Two fingers shooting upward in a mini salute when y/n looked towards his end of the bar, deciphering who had sent it. A handsome man with unruly black hair. 'Name's Corpse.'

'Y/n. Hopefully you don't murder people as a hobby.' They joked, not thinking Corpse could become any more attractive when they heard his laugh. 'Can promise you I've never murdered anyone. Plus haven't met anyone to murder.'

'Oh, so are you new to town new or new to this neck of the woods new?' Crossing a leg over the other, smoothing their skirt down. 'As in moved here a week ago.' Y/n, entranced by the man decided to be his tour guide. Asking if he was free the following weekend. 'What for?' The tone of the conversation carrying a wind of coyness. 'Sight seeing, if you're up for it.'

‘Hop on, stranger.’ The term quickly became a staple nickname y/n uses for Corpse. Corpse glad he wore jeans at the sight of their motorcycle. ‘Nice to see you again, fiddler.’ Corpse looping his hands around their waist.

Y/n ends up taking him to all the hole in the wall joints that tourists would never find. Purposely choosing the scenic routes. The day closing with the duo sat on top of a hill, watching the sun go down as they shared a pile of fries. 'Thanks for this.' Corpse whispers. Nudging their knee with his, 'No problem, was nice to get an outsider's opinion. Finally got to share it with someone.'

Chat notices that Corpse is happier and starts conspiring whether he has a partner which scares the fuck out of him because he hasn't told y/n what he actually does for a living. So he sits y/n down that week and explains it all to them. 'Can I watch you stream? It's fine if not.' Corpse helps them set up an account.

Corpse being just as supportive with y/n's work. Going to a gig here and there when he has nothing to do. Still taken a-back at how comfortable they are on stage, even though it's more of a slate platform. Y/n spotting him when they once again get a drink sent their way. Mouthing the word 'tease,' and Corpse simply mouths back 'but you love me for it.'

Leads to them moving into an apartment together. Corpse getting some of his friends to help carry boxes in if they're free. Y/n unlocking the door after they park the rental truck into the parking lot. Living together, y/n learns that Corpse is a big night owl and takes his coffee black. Corpse learns that y/n likes the thermostat on p/t and that they like to listen to f/m/g while cleaning

A year rolls around and it's now springtime. 'What's got you all excited?' Corpse asks as he hugged them from behind, having noticed how y/n had a little pep in their step. 'St. Patrick's Day is next week. Actually got to the store early enough to get a whole brisket.'

His eyebrow furrowed as he asked, 'brisket for what?' Apparently he'd wrongfully assumed that it was gonna be another day. 'Corned beef and cabbage, my folks always made it for St. Patrick's Day. That or we'd go to an Irish pub for lunch.' Thinking back to it, Corpse had met y/n in one such pub a year prior on the aforementioned day.

'Did we meet because of--?' Lifting his head from their shoulder. 'Yea, we did. But that was a coincidence, wasn't supposed to work that day.' The usual violinist unable to play as they'd inexplicably broken their wrist. 'Do you do the whole pinching thing?'

'No, you can still go out in your dark aesthetic,' playful teasing at how most of his wardrobe was the quintessential 'I'll stop wearing black when they make a darker color.' But so was theirs, Corpse's fashion taste rubbing off on them.

Corpse helped set the table, every time he tried helping in the kitchen, he'd immediately get booted by y/n. It'd been on the stove, simmering away for 3 hours. 'Corpse, could you get the balsamic vinegar? Should be in the fridge.' Somehow switching roles when Corpse gently nudged them aside once he saw them struggling. 'I got it, now how thin do you want it?' Gesturing with their thumb and pointer.

'You sure you like it? Not too tough is it?' Corpse, placing down his silverware, grabbed y/n's hand. Running his thumb in circles against their wrist. 'It's perfect, fiddler.' Kissing their cheek. 'Thanks, stranger.'

#iago writes #x reader #corpse x fem reader #corpse husband x reader #corpse husband #offline tv #x fem reader #corpse x reader #holidays w/ corpse

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madmonksandmaenads · 7 months

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Hello! You seem to have wonderful vibes

Mucilage & 8 for the reading prompt s’il vous plait!

I learned a new divination method just for this one! We are going to give Favomancy(divination with beans) a try. Now the procedures here are a little complicated so I'm just going to link the article I was learning from, it's pretty detailed and gives several alternative charts.

Alright, to start, we create a chart and gather 41 beans. I have pinto beans, but coffee beans or even corn are commonly used. We are using a chart that is very common for Favomancy throughout the Balkans.

Next, we gather our beans in the right hand and say a little chant over them. There are many chants, and I'm sure you could improvise your own, but I'll be using the one from the above article.

“Forty-one beans, forty-one brothers and sisters, as you know how to germinate, make green, and feed the world. Likewise, you know of the fate of the asker"

Then, you separate the beans into 3 piles and reduce each pile to 4 or less by removing beans 4 at a time from each pile. This will fill one row of the chart, and you repeat this process with fewer and fewer beans until all sections of the chart are filled.

The general rule for reading the chart is that odds are good and evens are bad. 3 is better than 1, and likewise, 4 is worse than 2.

So for this chart it seems mostly stable. The hand and expenses might seem concerning at first glance, but the fact that they are balanced is a good sign. It means that while you might not have many resources, you will have enough to for what you need to do.

The bottom row is interesting. Together, this row of the chart describes a journey or project you are undertaking. It might get off to a rough start, but stick with it, and you will find yourself making great strides after the initial impediment. It should resolve pleasantly.

Now I'm a very novice favomancer so you should take this with a pinch of salt...

...and maybe some tomatoes, broth, ground beef, chili spices, and corn.

#divination #im mostly joking with that last bit but one way to sort of solidify a fortune is to cook with the beans and serve the dish to the asker

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dark-side-blog3 · 1 month

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Do you know of any yanderes that you write for who would enjoy a classic Irish dinner of corned beef, mashed potatoes, and simmered carrots and cabbage?

A subtle St. Patrick’s day meal, eh? Mm well I did need a minute to think— and google, since apparently Italy does celebrate, and even Japan (supposedly, since 1992) has some St Patrick’s day events, not unlike how we do here in Canada and America.

So, in theory, so long as you asked, anyone from jojo prt 4 and up would be able to eat and celebrate with you (and Jonathan and Joesph might too, if you ask, but the holiday back then was more “think of St Patrick driving the pagans out of Ireland, go to church, and go home” and less about beer and having fun).

Characters with no concept of Ireland like the characters from food fantasy, The Arcana, or TWST wouldn’t know what you’re talking about; but like hell Deuce or Ruggie turn you down for a meal you’re making them! And Mallues and Sebek find it validating amusing that you’re wearing their dorm colours, and pinching those who don’t!

And Mashed Potatoes himself won’t know what you’re talking about either, but he’s more than happy to help you prepare the whole meal! Even more so if you talk to him while preparing and plating everything, chattering while eating together.

Kylar and Sydney from DOL would eat with you, at home. Kylar doesn’t wear green since their eyes are green, and they buy a can of beer for you two to share, with frozen fish and chips rotting in a puddle on their counter, forgotten. They were gonna make you a dinner, but yours is better anyways.

Sydney wears a green sweater vest over their school shirt, and shows you shamrocks they’ve found in the temple garden. The holiday is taken a little bit seriously by the elders at the temple, but not to the point where you two would get into major trouble for wearing green and eating some Irish food!

Whitney buys you the closest equivalent at the pub, and drinks themself stupid on green-dyed ipa and— like the piece of shit they are— Irish car bomb cocktails. Which they only buy because of the name. Calls everyone who tries to serve it as the Dublin drop pussies. Nevertheless, Whitney gets the meal and enjoys it. It’s a beef and mash! Who’s stupid enough to not like meat and carbs?

On a more light hearted note; I could also see Mystic Messenger characters making the dish from scratch for you since pubs don’t serve it, and being surprised by how similar it is to Korean dishes! Stewed cabbage, dried beef brisket, simmered carrots, the subtle spices… the only thing really different is the mashed potatoes, but those are plenty common in restaurants anyhow! Jaehee in particular is surprised by how delicious it is, and how hearty the meal is. Yoosung overcooks something (everything) but he tries his best!

#everyone in black butler would still be in the era of church and not fun holiday #but sebby is a demon. and the reapers canonically have modern day things. so they wouldn’t mind eating the traditional dish!#yandere shitpost #holidays.!

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knightinink · 11 months

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can u share ur cottage pie recipe?? <3

Why, of course I can! I'd be happy to!

Now I'm not sure if this is how it's done traditionally, but this is how I make it & I'm very happy with it every time.

-Ingredients & Stuff You're Gonna Need-*

1lb ground beef

4-5 good-sized russet potatoes

2 carrots, peeled & diced

1 ear of corn, cooked & shucked

1/2 of a white onion, diced

1-2 garlic cloves, minced

a handful of portabella mushrooms, sliced

1-2 celery stalks, sliced

1/2 tsp garlic powder

1/2 tsp onion powder

1/4 tsp salt

1/4 tsp pepper

1-2 tbsp olive oil

4 tbsp butter

3/4 cup milk (more or less may be needed)

fresh parsley leaves (for garnish)

one 8" round cake pan

strainer/colander

*feel free to modify the ingredients however you like! I usually just add whatever's available in the fridge!

-Instructions-

*I do recommend doing the steps below the potatoes as they are cooking, as it can take a while!

-Preheat the oven to 350F

-I usually start with the potatoes, since they take the longest to prep. Set a medium pot of water to boil on the stovetop. While you're waiting, peel, dice (not super tiny, just around a 1" piece is good), & pat the potatoes dry. Once the water is boiling, carefully put your diced potato pieces into the water & wait until they are soft enough to poke a fork through with little resistance. (If a starchy-foam starts to collect at the top of the pot, carefully use a spoon or ladle to spoon it out into the sink). Once the potatoes are cooked, drain them in the strainer or colander & put the cooked potatoes in a bowl. Combine with butter & milk (adding 1/4 cup at a time, you can always add more!) & mash until they reach a consistency you're happy with. Season with salt & pepper!

-Cook your ground beef on the stovetop until it is all cooked through, not leaving any pink spots. Carefully drain the grease from the pan & return the meat to the stovetop, though you don't need to keep it heated, as it will be heated once it goes into the oven. Season the meat with salt, pepper, garlic powder & onion powder, mixing it around to coat as much as you can. Set off to the side.

-Dice, slice & chop your veggies as directed, & throw them in a pot or pan with the olive oil to sauté. (you can add a bit of seasoning to them too, if you'd like!)

-Once the veggies are sautéed, add them to the cooked beef & stir it around, just to mix everything together nicely.

-Spoon your veggie-beef mixture into your cake pan, filling it up nearly to the top, maybe leaving about an 1/8" or so (you can just eyeball it though, that's what I usually do).

-Gently spoon your mashed potatoes on top, covering the entire surface of the filling evenly, & feel free to add as many layers as you like! I like to cover mine as if I were frosting a cake.

-Add a pinch of salt & pepper to the top of the potatoes & pop that sucker into the 350F oven for 30 minutes, or until the edges of the mashed potatoes are golden brown. Once it's ready, garnish with fresh parsley leaves.

And there you have it! My homemade cottage pie recipe! I hope you enjoy, & let me know if you've tried it!

#I think this has officially made me the grandma friend of the group #I feel like I'm writing in a betty crocker cookbook #in a positive way though #this was really cool to write about anon thank you!#cooking recipes #cottage pie #my recipes #my ramblings #my askbox

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tgon · 1 year

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The Nightmare Room #10, Full Moon Halloween | Review

Title: The Nightmare Room #10 – Full Moon Halloween

Author: R.L. Stine

Cover Artist: Tristan Elwell

INTRODUCTION

Around this time each year, Illinoisans dye the Chicago River green. I'm no ecologist, but I know drinking a Shamrock Shake reeks havoc on my organs. I can't imagine living in one.

For those of us above water, it's St. Patty's! You might assume Full Moon Halloween is a Halloween book. You might assume I failed to write my review in time for Halloween. You'd be wrong. This is a Saint Patrick's Day themed book. If you own a copy, DO NOT DOUBLE CHECK THAT CLAIM.

STORY REVIEW

The book starts by introducing four or five kids, a basketball-team-worth of generic children. You could imagine the Boston Celtics and it wouldn't make any difference. These lifelong friends are getting ready to celebrate the upcoming holiday. Hunting clovers, pinching strangers, getting punched because you pinched the wrong stranger, and you know the rest. Our lads and lasses are horrified when their science teacher invites them to a St. Patrick's Day party at his house. This would be considered weird behavior for anybody else, but "Mr. Moon" gets a pass because he set the bar high:

Ray said [...] "I'll bet you he's still in the lab, injecting weird things into bird eggs."

Tristan said [...] "I mean, I like the idea of putting strange things in eggs and then seeing what you get."

Stine knows kids.

Our heroes will be trapped by societal convention. Although, they might be able to sneak out early. With any luck, they'll still have ample time for step dancing and bobbing for corned beef. When the night comes, the kids try to forget about the day that brought them here. It doesn't help that the only people in attendance (aside from the protags) are Mr. Moon, his wife, and his son.

Things take a turn for the "genuinely creepy" when metal bars slam down over all the windows. It's a werewolf trap, and they've been caught. If you need me to spell it out, a grown man has just kidnapped multiple children and is hellbent on proving one of them is a secret monster. A man of pure reason, Mr. Moon employs the scientific method. Since he's already got his hypothesis (i.e. ONE OF THESE KIDS IS A WEREWOLF), it's time for some experiments.

PHASE 1. Have the kids dress up as werewolves to see if any of them look particularly werewolfish. Genius.

PHASE 2. Unleash a swarm of plogs. I think it's way funnier if I don't explain what "plogs" are.

PHASE 3. Feed the kids raw meat to gauge their reactions. This step might sound stupid, but in his defense it'd be pretty definitive proof should one of the kids shout "WOW THIS IS SO DELICIOUS!"

PHASE 4. Wolfsbane, which will poison a werewolf. I suppose it'll poison a child, too. Probably why it's #4.

Somehow, the results for his first three experiments are inconclusive. Wolfsbane seems to be the only option left, so the kids are forced to drink some. Epic prank! The wolfsbane is fake because ????, and the real PHASE 4 is simply waiting until midnight to see who turns into a werewolf. In a shocking twist, it's none other than Mr. and Mrs. Moon who transform into snarling beasts.

Epic prank! The Moons orchestrated a night of terror to delight the kids, which makes perfect sense because ????. The whole werewolf hunt was nothing more than a joke, and they threw on monster costumes for one final scare. No really. Cops eventually arrive to arrest the Moons. So far, it's the only part of this conclusion that makes sense. Turns out, Mr. Moon's son reported the kidnapping, and apparently kidnapping is a crime. That must be a new law.

An additional fold to this prank (and I swear I'm not making this up) was setting the clocks ahead a couple minutes. The kids' curfew was 11PM, so this doesn't benefit them at all. No, it only serves to tee up another twist. Two of the kids turn into werewolves. By complete accident, Mr. Moon nearly caught two monsters. The Moons have already been carted away, leaving the normal kids alone with two bloodthirsty beasts.

Only R.L. Stine, ladies and gentlemen.

THE VERDICT

This book was really good.

...If you love plot contrivances. Epic prank!

BEST QUOTE

"My cousin Benny is an animal," she said. "He's four years old, and he still bites."

Tristan reached into a cabinet for a bag of chocolate chip cookies. "Really? What do you do when he bites you?"

"I bite him back!" Rosa replied.

When I was a child, I knew a guy who (in dead seriousness) claimed he once bit his dog to assert dominence. This man owned a corgi.

#The Nightmare Room #Nostalgia #Horror #Books #Goosebumps #Review #Literature #Stine #PazReviews

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may you please share the onion gravy recipe? I've never tried gravy and that sounded really good!! :0

Okay so I was def Winging It pretty hard-core when I made it cuz which I have a bad habit of doing since I've been cooking for so long I can kinda just do whatever and have it work out, but I can break down more or less what I did! Also I'm terrible at explaining things so I don't know if this will be helpful but I hope it is??

Oh also ingredients people make lists of those okay

one small-medium onion(I think yellow is better but I used white)

like half a stick of butter bcs I'm worse than julia child but you can sub for olive oil or idk bacon grease if you're really feeling it, just some kind of fat so the onions don't stick too much

like two tbs of flour or one or corn starch

I think 16oz of beef broth all together? Might be more or less, I bought the store brand 32oz container and there was around half left

salt and pepper

garlic...or just garlic powder and/or garlic salt

maybe a tiny pinch of brown sugar if you want and/or some other seasonings idk that is up to you onion

So I peeled and chopped up the onion(very badly cuz I suck at that) and threw it in a little sauce pan with some butter and salt and then spent like...ough 45 minutes caramelizing it?? which DOES undermine my point about food being easy but it's not complicated it just takes a while and it's very worth it(and you can also caramelize a lot of onion when you do have time and freeze it for use later) just keep it on low heat and make sure to stir them every few minutes so they don't burn and add more butter or olive oil if they are burning really fast or are sticking too much. You can also add a lil pinch of brown sugar to help the cramelizing but I didn't. Up to you!

Anyway once they were done I added beef broth in like really small amounts like half a cup at a time, made sure to scrape up all the good bits in the pan as I stirred it in, and let it cook down before adding the next one to really Consentrate The Flavor, and after doing that twice I added another like cup or so of beef broth and let it simmer for a while until it looked like more or less the right amount. Then I added seasonings, I think salt, pepper, and garlic salt and maybe a little garlic powder? You don't need much tho so taste it as you go. Also looking back I don't think I used real garlic so idk when you'd add it, probably before the broth when the onions are done, and just stir until it smells good idk.

You can use flour for the next step, just like mix a tablespoon or less in and let it cook and thicken on medium heat and if it's not thick enough you can do it again, but I used corn starch cuz I was out of flour and that was like a tablespoon? And I took some of the broth out and put it in another cup and mixed it with the cornstarch until there weren't lumps and THEN mixed it into the main pot(that's just a corn starch thing tho that stuff is a bitch flour is way easier) and then let it cook a bit like on medium until it was thick.

Then I added a little bit of cream cuz I'm a fancy bitch but milk or half and half works, just watch it cuz that's ofc gonna water it down a little, so you don't need much. (You have more wiggle room with cream cuz it's already thicc, a little less with half and half, and less than that with milk so keep that in mind.)

And that's it! It was really fucking good, kinda like you made french onion soup into gravy?? Idk it was better than the meatloaf that's for sure and it keeps in the fridge for a couple of days so that's good! Hope this was helpful and sorry I'm terrible at explaining things lmao but yeah that was the process!

#I feel so bad when people ask for recipes because I am cooking like a mad scientist just doing whatever #exact amounts?? no clue #that's why I'm horrible at teaching people to cook

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12:08 And I have 44 Calories Left

This is probably the thing that kills me the most. Breakfast: 44 grams of toast and 120 grams of beans (I think it was kidney. I have to eat them so I can get the rest of the gluten and lecithin out of the house. I have an allergy so this might be counterproductive, but I also don’t want to create food waste so it’s kinda like a catch 22) This would have been 122 for the bread and 174 for the beans, and I’d have been fine with just my 4oz glass of orange juice (55) to take my b-vitamins complex in (Major problem with super low iron lately and the calcium and vitamin c in the orange juice is SUPPOSED to help the absorption... but I still felt exhausted and passed out today once around 8 or 9 am.)

I pulled a nasty-ass grimes and cooked up my bread in one tablespoon of salted butter (100) cuz it’s another thing in the fridge I’m trying to get out of the house, and then I had the rest of this tangerine jam I bought months ago cuz I’m sure it’s on it’s last legs. (167) That brought me to a whopping 618 calories for breakfast.

Lunch: Lunch I’m rounding up on one count, the soup. I made this great beatrice potter soup, basing the herbs and ingredients off her books and subsequent cartoon. I’ll put the recipe below: It’s 2.5 lbs of fresh beetroot and 45 grams of raisins braised with mint and dill with 1.5 t of parmesan and half a cup of coconut milk (would have been cream but I’m no longer buying dairy, the parmesan was already in the fridge) and you bring that to a boil with some dried basil, thyme, and oregano with a pinch of salt and pepper and grated lemon. When that comes to a boil you turn it down to a simmer and slowly stir in one tablespoon of honey before letting it stew off to the side. Then in a separate pot it’s 24 oz of sweet peas, 2 lbs of sweet corn, 4 stalks of celery, 986 grams of red cabbage (not purple ik they look similar but it does matter. the purple does not mesh well) 303 grams of red onion, and 1.5 T salted butter to first brown the onion, then add the cabbage, and season with basil, a pinch of nutmeg and cinnamon, salt, pepper, a sprig of fresh mint, and more oregano. (ik it sounds weird to have the nutmeg and cinnamon in it but it really is a tiny amount and adds a big difference, making it feel like there’s more depth and warmth to dish without becoming overpowering or adding anything ‘spicy’ etc.You steam the cabbage over the sautteed onion until it’s soft, then you stir in the peas and corn. And while those are going you peel 3 lb of sweet yams, chop em thin, and bake those on 425F with oregono, mint, and dill, w a dash of salt and pepper... and again just a tiny little pinch of nutmeg. Do NOT Skimp On The OREGANO)!! 20-35 minutes later the sweet yams are done, and you throw everything in a crock pot and mix it together a smidge w 10 c of water and your choice of stock/better than bouillon. I used a veggie based fake beef and mushroom blend. Cook that for 4hours and bamo! (On mine it’s “low” but mine runs hot so I’m not sure the perfect temp if anyone does try and emulate this). Anyhow, that gets you 4029 calories for the entire pot (and I’m counting potentially evaporated calories like the T of olive oil I had to grease the yam pan with etc. which is 50 servings of 1/4 cups, at 80.58 calories each. So a “normal” portion of 3/4 c bowl is only 241.74 calories! Anywhore, so I haf one 3/4 cup serving of that for lunch and then 31 grams of corn chips. I rounded up and called this 100 cal per 1/4 c even though Ik that’s false, but it makes me comfortable in knowing I’m definitely not being too liberal w my servings. So lunch was 466 calories. I also have a sore throat today cuz I drew blood the last three nights from my esophagus. ~Ik Ik see a doctor yada yada yada blah blah blah go bye bye now it happens~ So I allowed myself three talll mugs of tea with 1/2 a T of honey each. Each mug is 3 cups of water boiled w an herbal tea bag except for the one black tea which Ik I shouldn’t have had but I couldn’t wake up all day today so I needed SOME Caffeine. And I had one medium basic red apple, from a brand called “cosmic” which makes me kinda mad at my own stupidity, cuz I thought “cosmic” was a new TYPE of apple I had yet to have before (and I’m a whore for apples. Total massive connoisseur. I have a genuine unadulterated and pathetic obsession/passion for applesand if I knew how to have an orchard that’d probably be my dream job. To eventually create a new breed of apple. Shoot me I’m a reject it’s fine. But whatever so I’m guessing that’s around 100 calories cuz that’s what my calorie counter app said and I don’t want to fixate TOO hard (like this massive ass essay isn’t already me doing so) I also had two cookies. That was legitimately bad. 130 calories of SUCK. And my honey needs today got the better of me so dinner was 1/2 a cup of plain oats with a quarter cup of unsweetened coconut milk, a teaspoon of molasses, a teaspoon of flax, annnnnd cold brew. Cuz mama needs her cold brew. And yes I am saying that in the voice of Louside from Bob’s Burgers rn. Fight me. Ik that I’m below my needs. 44 more calories. And I’ve spent an hour and a half writing this (minus the shower break to try to remind myself how fat I am so I’ll keep going and keep calories away from my big face hole’s gluttonous gob). Somehow this doesn’t count as obsessing tho? Lol I’m such a loser. I’m not hungry, but I’m expecting I’m gonna want more of those chips cuz they’re bloody delicious and they’re what fucked me up last night. ‘just a wafer thin crisp’ fuck me. The worst thing about this whole ordeal is that the calorie tracker I use says I’m on target to be 107 lbs by December 25th. And I totally get that the slower you lose the better chance you have of a. keeping it off. but more importantly, b. not relapsing with anorexia. But like fuckety fuckety fuuuuck. I want to be 99 BEFORE I move. I know that’s crazyballs butI’m just not enjoying the idea of being fat. Well... my version of fat. Which is a bmi above 19.I just wanna get out of the 20s for bmi and get out of the 120s that my fat fuck binging did me in for last night. Waking up at 122 was a recipe for depression.Recipe below: Stir equal parts of lard with shame in a vad of quicksand over the period of ten minutes. Watch as your life congeals into a blimpie’s ad. Die on the pot, puking at 3 am and upsetting the shit out of your house plants. Rinse, Cycle, Repeat. Definitely debating changing the goal. But I also am well aware I shouldn’t, primarily because I might just cement myself to failure if I try to cut my calories any lower than they already are. 1,590 was today. My budget is 1,634. That sounds like such a lot but I do see myself ramming through it right quick. Fuck I want those goddamn tortilla chips. But I fucking know if I nab em I’ll be threatened over the shower drain again. (Another reason for taking my shower now, before there’s enough temptation come along to purge out). I’m fighting so hard the urge to purge or c&s lately. I just want to stop being a fatty fat PIG. Wish me luck guys. Really trying to get these 14-20 lbs off in a logical and healthy way and not become an advert for death by anorexia.

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CB’s Nihari Recipe

Easy Slow Cooker Nihari (Pakistani Beef Stew)

This Easy Slow Cooker Nihari recipe takes less than 30 minutes of prep time but does not compromise on the authentic taste of this traditional Pakistani Beef Stew! Layers of flavor in every bite!

Prep Time: 30 minutes

Cook Time: 8 hours

Total Time: 8 hours 30 minutes

Servings: 4

Ingredients

Whole Spices

1/2 piece of a small star anise

1-2 small bay leaves

1 inch piece cinnamon stick

Ground Spices

2-3 whole cloves ground into a powder using a mortar and pestle

2-3 green cardamom pods seeds removed and ground into a powder using a mortar and pestle

1/2 tsp fennel seeds ground into a powder using a mortar and pestle

1/2 tsp paprika powder

1/2 tsp coriander powder

1/2 tsp cumin powder

1/4 tsp turmeric

1/4-1/2 tsp Asian red chilli powder or cayenne

1/4 tsp crushed red chilli flakes

1/4 tsp black pepper powder

1/8 tsp garlic powder (optional)

pinch nutmeg

1/2 tbsp Nihari Masala Powder

Nihari

1/3 cup canola or other neutral oil

1 tbsp ghee or butter

1 large onion thinly sliced

5-6 garlic cloves crushed

3/4- inch piece ginger crushed

1 1/4 tsp salt or to taste

1/4 cup atta flour or corn starch

4 cups water

1 lb beef stew or shank pieces - about 1 1/2 inch cubed

Garnishings

crispy fried onions

1 inch piece ginger julienned

1 lemon sliced

1/4 bunch fresh cilantro chopped

1-2 green chillies chopped

Instructions

1. Heat a medium pot over medium-high heat. Heat oil and ghee and add the whole spices.

2. 1:01 Add onion and sauté until golden, about 10 minutes. Add the garlic and ginger and continue to sauté until the raw smell disappears, about 30 seconds.

3. Add beef and stir-fry for about 5 minutes or until it changes color.

4. Lower the heat and add the powdered spices and salt and sauté for about 20 seconds.

5. Carefully pour this beef mixture into your Crockpot or slow cooker.

6. Add the water and stir to mix. Cook on low for 8-10 hours (preferable) or high for 6-7 hours, or until the beef is fall-apart tender. Cooking times will vary depending on your meat and slow cooker.

7. Toward the end of your cooking time, remove your whole spices and take out a cup of the liquid of the Nihari into a bowl. Let it cool a little by adding an ice cube to it. Place the atta in another bowl. Bit by bit, add the atta to Nihari liquid to form a smooth slurry. Slowly add this slurry back into the crockpot while stirring to prevent clumps. Let it cook for another 30-45 minutes. Serve hot with the garnishing and naan or sheermal.

Notes

*If you do not add the pre-made nihari masala, adjust the quantity of the other spices per taste. **Traditionally, atta is used to thicken the curry. I highly recommend you use it for an authentic taste. For a gluten-free option, see notes!

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#Nihari #Pakistan #Pakistani food #food #beef #shank #stew #instapot #recipe #pakistani #indian #yum #desi #india #indian food #south asian #youtube #yummy

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triedin2015 · 23 days

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I grabbed some corned beef a few days after St. Paddy's Day and decided to make it on a weekend day. Unfortunately, I forgot that the last recipe I chose required hours and hours of cooking. So, with my family being hungry and my time being short, I decided I'd do the corned beef in the IP.

I decided I'd do mashed potatoes rather than putting them in the IP, but I did carrots and cabbage in there. Looking through the tips and the recipe comments, I didn't put the carrots in with the corned beef, and I cut the beef's cook time down by 10 minutes to make up for the extra time it would cook with the veggies.

At 80 minutes, the beef wasn't fully cooked and looked a little pale on the top side. I added about 2 lbs carrots and cooked for 7 minutes. Then I added the cabbage and cooked for 3 more minutes. The extra time helped the meat finish cooking and the carrots and cabbage were a good doneness for me.

I liked the oven-cooked version better but this worked in a pinch.

#corned beef #caggabe #corned beef and cabbage #potatoes #carrots #st. paddy's day #st. patty's day #dinner #recipe #instant pot #IP

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Works been horrible the last few months, leaving me with no energy to cook after work, so I am sharing a very simple meal that has saved my life. It does take some prep, but its nothing I cant handle on all but my lowest energy days:

Grab 2 potatoes, cut em into rough chunks. Throw em into a bowl with a lid. Throw in enough of some neutral oil to cover em, along with a few pinches of salt and some of your other favorite spices. I use italian seasoning mix, paprika, and garlic powder. Close the lid and shake until everything is relatively evenly distributed. Throw it onto a sheet pan lined with foil and throw in the Oven for 30-40 minutes or until desired doneness. If you still need time to do steps 2-3, you can turn the oven down to warm and keep the potatoes in there til you finish.

2. Get a cut of protein. Chicken thighs or steak are my faves. I'll treat myself to an actual ribeye if I have the budget. if its a tougher cut of beef, maybe marinate or tenderize it first. Honestly, a marinate of half bottled teriyaki sauce half cabernet sauvignon wine is great if you dont wanna get too fancy. Season and fry that up til its done - I usually use my cast iron on medium heat. A steak can take as little as 8 minutes, just gotta flip it at least once, around the 4-5 minute mark.

3. If you have time or energy, you can also take some canned corn or veggies and microwave them to really round out the meal. If you have fresh peppers or onions, you can also rough chop those and throw them in with the potatoes in step 1.

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quotesfrommyreading · 1 year

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While at the Monell Chemical Senses Center I met Marcia Pelchat. She is a sensory psychologist who studies the science of flavor and food preference and often demonstrates the relationship between taste and smell with a jelly bean. Close your eyes and pick a jelly bean out of a bowl. Do it blindly, so you won't know the flavor before you put it on your tongue. Pinch your nose shut, so you can only breathe out of your mouth, pop the bean in, and begin to chew. What can you taste? Can you tell what kind of jelly bean you're eating? Most report nothing but a bland sweet. Now, let go of your nose and breathe through your nostrils again. Now there's something. That's how smell makes a difference in flavor. Pelchat conducted this experiment with Ruth Reichl, editor of the now-defunct Gourmet magazine, and Daniel Boulud, a well-lauded French chef in New York City, during an interview on WNYC radio in 2005. Her subjects wore clips over their noses as they put the unidentified flavors of jelly bean in their mouths. They chewed silently until, suddenly, they were instructed to remove the clips.

“Oh my God, amazing,” said Reichl in a low, distinctive voice. “It went from absolutely nothing to – the minute it came off, it was pure, devastatingly strong banana.”

“Think of fruit,” Reichl said to me. By taste alone, fruit is sweet and sour, she explained, with the exception of bananas, which are solely sweet. “But we can distinguish lots and lots of different fruit flavors. We can distinguish the difference between peach and mango, apple and grape. Even more: we can distinguish between beef and lamb, the difference between a corn tortilla and a wheat tortilla. There are textural differences. But this is mostly smell.”

— Season to Taste: How I Lost My Sense of Smell and Found My Way (Molly Birnbaum)

#book quotes #molly birnbaum #season to taste: how i lost my sense of smell and found my way #neuroscience #senses #smell #taste #food and drink #fruit #marcia pelchat #ruth reichl #daniel boulud

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fellow unhinged Irish bestie!!! my family doesn’t do as much as we used to when I was younger but still a fun day for my family! hope you have a great Friday! (I too will be dreaming of Jake at work and barely doing work lol maybe I’ll even work on one of my million wips I have floating around!)

Hi Anon!!! I hope you have a wonderful Saint Patrick’s Day even if your family doesn’t do as much as it used to.

For me growing up Saint Patrick’s Day was the one good holiday a year I was guaranteed. Which evolved into it being very special to me. My mom would make me Green eggs and Ham for breakfast and I would wear green and get to pinch people. Then of course there was corn beef and cabbage for dinner, which became my favorite holiday meal! And my great grandpa would call me to give me blessings with advice. He would also mail me a card with a 4 leaf clover 🍀 if he couldn’t give it to me in person that year.

We can dream of Jake together 💚🫶🍀🫶💚 I hope you get the chance to work on your wips.

#coley's rambling #shut up coley #thank you for the ask!#coley's quorum

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The GIF Calendar: March 2023

3.3: Music fans, get ready! After a six-year hiatus, Grammy-winning artist Macklemore debuts his third solo album, Ben. Also, don’t forget to hit the theaters to check out Michael B. Jordan in his directorial debut of the next film in the Rocky series: Creed III (also, step into the ring…er…our official page for the film).

3.6: We’re celebrating the start of Purim, a two-day holiday celebrating the survival and strength of the Jewish people. Join in the celebration with festive meals, carnivals, and gifts!

3.8: We never need an excuse to celebrate women worldwide, but we can do *even more* celebrating this International Women’s Day. Started by the Socialist Party of America over a hundred years ago, this global holiday is an excellent way to celebrate the great women of the past, like trans rights activist Sylvia Rivera and feminist activist Gloria Steinem. To quote Beyoncé’s line in the chorus of her 2011 hit song: “Who run the world? Girls!”

Also happening on this date is the Festival of Love, the Festival of Colors, the Festival of Spring: It’s the Hindu holiday of Holi! Honor the eternal and divine love of the God Radha Krishna with community and colors!

3.10: Horror fans rejoice: the next installment in the popular Scream series, Scream VI is here! This time, our heroes face off against Ghostface in the Big Apple (and, yes, we have an official page for this movie too).

Also, don’t forget to listen to pop star Lana Del Rey’s new album Did You Know That There’s a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd because it’s out today!

3.12: Cinephiles, it’s the most important day of the year: it’s the Academy Awards, also known as the Oscars! First presented in 1929, this ceremony celebrates the best of filmmaking — and we’re all excited to see who wins this year.

But before the show, don’t forget to fix your clocks because Daylight Savings begins!

3.14: It’s the best time of the year for college basketball, March Madness! The 2022–2023 NCAA Division I men’s basketball tournament begins today and concludes on April 3. Who do you have your money on?

While you pick your favorite team, why not enjoy a slice of pie to celebrate the mathematical holiday, Pi Day!

3.17: St. Patrick’s Day, the world’s favorite Irish holiday, falls today and honors the Patron Saint of Ireland. Enjoy the day with some four-leaf clovers or with a corned beef sandwich — and remember to wear green or you will get pinched! After you celebrate the holiday, check out the new DC Extended Universe film Shazam! Fury of the Gods, where the original cast is joined by Lucy Liu and Helen Mirren (who you can get a glimpse of on the official page for the action flick).

3.20: C’mon get happy! This International Day of Happiness, don’t forget to acknowledge the things that make you happy and how important it is in your life. Better yet: Celebrate this holiday every day!

3.21: Happy Nowruz! Also known as the Persian New Year, this festival celebrates the beginning of a new year on the Iranian Solar Hijri calendar. World Poetry Day also happens today, so celebrate by reciting a limerick or coming up with a haiku.

3.23: Prepare yourself for a cuteness overload as National Puppy Day arrives today. Celebrate pups by adopting a new dog, treating the one you already have, or maybe just petting a new friend while you’re out and about!

3.24: After four years, Japanese kawaii metal band BABYMETAL returns with their fourth studio album, The Other One. Also returning is our favorite assassin, played by Keanu Reeves, in the long-awaited John Wick: Chapter 4 and, yes, there is an official page full of GIFs from the entire franchise.

3.25: Today the world gathers together for Earth Hour, a day to honor the globe by turning off non-essential electric lights for one hour, from 8:30 PM to 9:30 PM. Join in this last Sunday of the month as a symbol of commitment to the planet!

3.31: This Transgender Day of Visibility, make sure you are uplifting and highlighting trans people and their stories. Then, fly to theaters to check out the new movie Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves based on the popular roleplaying game. Follow a group of thieves as they stop a great evil from taking over their fantasy world!

Happy March from Tenor! What are you most looking forward to?

#Happy March #Calendar

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kevinszabojrplumbing · 1 year

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How to Survive the South Side Irish Parades - Oak Forest and Tinley Park

Looking for a way to celebrate St. Patrick’s day this year? Good thing the Oak Forest Fleadh and Tinley Park Irish Parade are right around the corner! These are a staple in the south suburbs, bringing hundreds of people around to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day and bring business to our local businesses. Make sure you load up on all your green attire and accessories and have fun!

Oak Forest Fleadh: Saturday, March 4th, 2023

Are you ready to show your spirit in the “Fleadh Around Town?” First of all, what is a “Fleadh”? Fleadh (pronounced flah) is Gaelic for “festival”!

Interested in running or walking in the 5k? It’s not too late to register! There is a $30 runners fee, and it includes a cotton t-shirt and a goody bag, while supplies last. Learn more information about the 5k and registration here: Oak Forest Fleadh 5k 2023

The parade route is on Central Avenue, 151st to Oak Forest Park District. The parade will promptly begin at 11am.

We will be hiding a $1,000 “Golden Ticket” somewhere along the parade route, so make sure you keep your eyes open! Please be safe and respectful while searching for the ticket. Once the ticket is found, we will post it was found, so until then, keep searching and GOOD LUCK!

Surrounding bars and restaurants in Oak Forest will be ready to celebrate before and after the Fleadh, so make sure you’re ready to go all day long!

What businesses will be participating?

Oak Forest Bowl - 15240 Cicero Ave, Oak Forest, IL 60452

Cindy’s Pub - 5230 W 159th St, Oak Forest, IL 60452

Captain Jack’s Beverages - 15211 Cicero Ave, Oak Forest, IL 60452

Oliver’s Bar and Grill - 6150 W 159th St, Oak Forest, IL 60452

Blarney Stone Pub - 15400 Cicero Ave, Oak Forest, IL 60452

Tinley Park Irish Parade: Sunday, March 5th, 2023

The Tinley Park Irish Parade is located on 179th Street, proceeding northbound on Oak Park Avenue to 172nd Street, and step off is promptly at 1pm.

Surrounding bars and restaurants participating in the before/after party of the parade are:

JW Holsteins - 17358 Oak Park Ave, Tinley Park, IL 60477

Bailey’s Bar and Grill - 17731 Oak Park Ave A, Tinley Park, IL 60477

Cuzin’s Pub - 17704 Oak Park Ave, Tinley Park, IL 60477

How to prepare for the parades?

Go Green!

Green is the most commonly worn color for St. Patrick’s Day, along with orange. There are tons of clothing options that have funny Irish puns on them, or if you want to be subtle, plain green is always the way to go.

Did you know it is an Ireland tradition to pinch anyone who isn't wearing green?

Accessorize!

Jewelry, pins, buttons, headbands and hair bows are all great accessories to spruce up an Irish outfit. For this holiday, nothing is ever too much, so go all out.

Did you know the tradition of wearing Shamrock to celebrate Saint Patrick seems to date from the seventeenth or eighteenth century?

Make sure you dress appropriately

This year the weather is very unpredictable for the parades. These events require you to be outside and walking for a prolonged period of time, so choosing the right clothing is crucial to being comfortable and warm. We are expecting weather of no higher than 46 degrees for both parades.

Eat Traditional irish food before/after the events

There’s nothing like celebrating St. Patrick’s day with some good corned beef and cabbage. Other traditional foods are Shepherd's Pie, potato bread, boxty and black pudding. Make sure you are staying hydrated and well fed - especially if you plan on bar crawling after the events.

Have fun!

St. Patrick’s Day traditions are always loads of fun. Don’t be shy to branch out and do something or try something you’ve never done before! Be safe, and have fun!

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