Auto Efficient Cottage Part 07: Cooking

Auto efficient cottage part 07: cooking

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Another competence you’ll need is cooking. Never did it in your life? Some recipes are easier than they sound. The easiest?

-Soup.

You always eat them from a can? You can make them by cooking vegetables with hot water and broth, then put the vegetables in a mixer (or a food mill in case of a blackout).

-Mashed potatoes and fries

They can be done otherwise than from a bag or frozen. Mashed potatoes are first steam cooked, then mashed in a food mill. You can cut fries in potatoes, spray them with oil, and roast them in a hot oven, without a fryer.

-Pies and pizza

First you don’t have to buy the dough, flour, water and oil are all you need. And if you don’t have greaseproof paper, coat the baking tin with butter and flour.

-Pastas

The basis remains the same, only the sauce change, and there are tons of them. Puttanesca, bolognese, chicken Alfredo, carbonara, etc. Our vegan friends can try pesto, tomato-basilic, or oil and garlic.

-Cookies

They can be done without butter, olive oil can be used for them.

-Jams

Simply cook fruits with sugar. No sugar? Grape jam was done with grape must instead. It can be difficult to find, so, use grape juice instead. It contained any fruits or vegetables available in the season.

A bit more difficult:

-Bread

Bread was not indexed in stocks, because you can’t keep it for long, except crisp bread. The fresh version must be made. You’ll need bakery yeast, and trying to do it without a robot. In my case, it would not raise much.

-Brioche

Same: it must raise with yeast, but it does slowly. Yeast, by the way, is done with a bit of dough you let sour.

-Cinnamon rolls

Still that raising problem.

And much to my dismay…I still don’t know how to do these.

-Puff pastry

This kind of dough is long to do and master.

-Crumpets

I don’t see why, it’s very close to pancakes…and pancakes are easy.

-Carrot cake

I don’t see why either, it’s never as delicious as in Starbucks.

Butter, like bread, is not easy to make (unless you have fresh milk) nor to be stocked without a fridge. Clarified butter (melted, then solidified) was a possible long stocking method.

Nearly all culinary preparations that involve butter can be done with oil otherwise, easier to stock. For spread use, lard was once used. It can be stocked outside a fridge.

Vegans won’t approve the use of lard, but making your vegetal butter with cashew nuts, water, coconut and colza oil is possible.

Who say cooking say waste, and manage it. If dustmen can’t assure their duty, and you can’t find trash bags? Perishable rubbish can be composted as said earlier.

You can use papers and cardboards as fire starters. For everything else, like glass and porcelain, use a pit in your garden, then bury it. Do not put toxic waste in it, still.

My ko fi

🌛Crypidcore things🌜

Big foot is real and nobody can tell you otherwise

Fingerless gloves

Short nails

Bone and dead bug collecting

Walking boots

Messy hair

You've seen some stuff

magnifying glass

Dark under eye bags

Mythology books

Paranormal/Supernatural experience shows are your jam

Ghost stories

cryptozoology books

Hating the government

Unironically listening to conspiracy theories

Crypid plushies

Being a X-files or Supernatural fan

Crypid hunting

Having a recorder on you basically all the time

polaroid cameras

Sweaters because the night is cold

Mom jeans

Beanie hats

Owning binoculars

Believing we are not alone

Folklore books

Phone is always on you

Your internet search history concerns the government

Slightly paranoid

Piercings

Telling your pet all your theories because no person believes you

Witchcraft

Exploring scary/abandon places

Notebooks

Fruit snacks

Colorful pens for writing

Superstitious

Library card is always on you

Anxious nail biting

Being tired

Bad sleeping schedule

Always asking questions

Making your own language so the government or other things doesn't know what you're saying

Demonology books

The smell of rotten eggs freaks you out

Yes you have made a protection kit and yes it is always in your bag

Homemade lunches

Learning sign language for crypid hunting so you don't scare the crypids away

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goblin-knight-bastard-man

5 years ago

Mordred: Merlin? Arthur? What happens when you die?

Arthur, dragging Merlin away to talk privately: What do we do? What do we tell him?

Merlin: I don't get paid enough for this.

Arthur: What do we TELL him?? The big farm in the sky? The pearly gates?!

Merlin: Look, we just need to be honest. Let's explain very gently that there probably is no afterlife, and no god, but if there IS, we're all going to hell.

Arthur, nodding: Right. Yeah. Okay.

[Arthur turns back to Mordred]

Arthur: Have you ever been on a farm?

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goblin-knight-bastard-man

1 year ago

ah so it looks like nina are maggie are gonna be the parallel that’s so painfully obvious that it forces aziraphale and crowley to confront their own- MY GOD IT’S BEELZEBUB AND GABRIEL WITH A STEEL CHAIR

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3 years ago

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goblin-knight-bastard-man

4 years ago

Adam apologists can fuck off

someone after ep 8: you see? that's why adam's like that, it's fine

me:

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5 years ago

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goblin-knight-bastard-man

2 years ago

How to make your own spiked choker

You will need: aluminum can scissors sharpie or any marker really some kind of strong fabric like jeans (you can use part of a leg! Also, if it’s not the color you want, just paint it) button or zipper sewing stuff hot glue or superglue tweezers you can sacrifice Steps: measure your neck (make sure to add 1 or 2 cm so it’s not too tight), also have in mind how many and how big you want your spikes to be so that you can cut an appropriate height (words hard srry, gon add sm images later to make it easier to understand). After measuring everything, mark down on the fabric and cut 4 stripes (2 are for protecting your neck and 2 are to make sure the spikes stay in place). Now onto the spikes, get an aluminum can and cut off the bottom and top, then cut open the can so that you end up with a metal sheet (oh! You will need to find a way to make the sheet straight, since when you cut open the can, it will be curled up). Go on google and search for cone molds, also you will need to add 3 triangles at the base of the cone mold, now trace onto paper and cut (also test the molds with the paper to see if they look the way you want them to look like. Put the mold over the metal sheet and trace it and cut the sheet. Roll the spikes and glue them, use the tweezers to hold everything into place while glue dries, that way you won’t glue your fingers. Repeat these for all spikes. Get the fabric strips from earlier, now we are going to assemble it all together. With 2 strips, mark where the spikes are going, the first one by doing 3 dots like a triangle, then make holes so that you can put the spike’s triangles trough, and fold the ends. Now the second strip, mark where the spikes are and cut an x shaped hole, put this strip over the one with the spikes. Now get all the strips and sew them together, after that you can choose whatever way to close it, with a button, by tying with a string, zipper, idk whatever feels better ig.

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goblin-knight-bastard-man

6 years ago

reblog if ur blog is anti-nazi

if ur a nazi or neo-nazi or support nazi ideologies let this be a fucking harsh message that ur not welcome on this blog and I hope you get socked in the face

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goblin-knight-bastard-man

3 years ago