Satsuma @Satsuma@cat.family

@lookitmychicken oh wow thats wild! really curious as to how the totally reconfigurable interior works out over time

@Lady I mean personally not but

@Lady tbf much of the western world decided to live in a “not knowing how respiratory illnesses work” AU for like, two whole decades after SARS 2002 and I would not be surprised if, in a world without covid, that state would have simply continued until the next pandemic

@Lady maybe cubetown has a super strict decontamination process so everyone inside is functionally bubbled & illness free

@Lady i havent gotten to webcomics yet but watching a docu about professional kitchens from 2017 was *terrible*

@Forestofglory also https://cookbooks.leannebrown.com/good-and-cheap.pdf assumes a US context in terms of pricing & availability but may also have some decent inspiration in it

@Forestofglory

- pasta with jarred pesto or tomato sauce is only a bit more work than pasta with butter and might add some variety while still keeping your current routine which seems to be working okay?

- if you’re up to it sometime, peel a bunch of garlic cloves and poach them in olive oil (or some other kind of oil) on your stoves lowest possible heat until they’re golden and cooked through and then store the now extra delicious oil in the fridge to use as a topping for pasta/rice/etc. Or if you’re slightly more ambitious, use to sauté pre-chopped frozen veggies in and then put *that* on the pasta/rice/etc

- premake or buy a couple spice mixes so you can just throw them on carbs to make them tastier without thinking too much!

- frozen peas can just be put in anything made in boiling water when its almost done cooking (~1-3 min is my preference but ymmv)

- boiled eggs + sesame seed oil + nice soy sauce can really elevate an instant noodle packet into something more meal like (also a good one to add those pre-chopped frozen veggies to)

- set up a rice cooker like you normally would for a couple servings of rice & then dump a can of your preferred type of drained canned beans in right before you hit start. Definitely improved by also throwing in some herbs/spices or topping with garlic oil

- you can make p good oatmeal out of steel cut oats in the rice cooker! throw a handful of dried fruit and a little extra water in for both flavor and nutritional variety

- quick cook grits + stir in some shredded cheese + top with fried egg &/or a sliced tomato

@rowyn aww cute

@Lady hmm purrhaps

@Lady i am not expecting to travel but my plan was all

@distel yes it was not something discussed in elementary or high school at all—then Iberia was always white and western! I had some vague understandings of the moorish empire from the internet but learning about it in college really changed my perspective on the country’s history

personally i find that type of revisionism to be a symptom/aftereffect of reconquista’s colonialist narratives

@distel I feel like often in the US when we talk about colonialism we put a big emphasis on the British colonial model which was mixed settler colonialism with a heavy emphasis on extraction via trade (and the Atlantic slave trade to facilitate said extraction). And so we frame the basis of colonialism as being part of the age of exploration/sail which then fits in very neatly with the US conception of manifest destiny which is in part based on the concept of “right of discovery”

It wasn’t until I got to college that I had a professor actually talk about the history of Spanish & Portuguese colonialism, which was largely based on the techniques they perfected during Reconquista—where Christians, many of whom were of Iberian descent, justified the violent conquest of the Muslim states in the Iberian peninsula through the justification that Christians had always lived there and that fact made it a “kingdom of god” which they were entitled to

I am not an expert so I don’t know if theres a definitive argument for if Reconquista was a form of colonialism or merely a predecessor which set the patterns much of European colonialism later followed, but I definitely found thinking of it as being at least quite like colonialism helpful when it came to understanding its cascading effects throughout history

@twotone oh no nut crumbly rice 😭

@rowyn awwwww