The Blues Brothers (1980)

Sausage, Peppers & Onions

Sausage, peppers and onions. It’s genius. Those Italians were really onto something with this. It reminds me of every holiday at my mom and dad’s…it’s pretty much a staple. I added mushrooms because they sop up lots of sauce and flavor…and mushrooms just make everything much better.

Paleolicious Ingredients:

1 lb sweet Italian pork sausage (or whatever you prefer)

2 red peppers, sliced

2 yellow peppers, sliced

2 onions, sliced

4 cloves of garlic, chopped

1 (10oz) container of baby bella mushrooms, sliced

1 (15oz) can diced tomatoes

½ c chicken broth

¼ c extra virgin olive oil

2 tbsp tomato paste

1 tsp salt

1 tsp ground black pepper

1 tsp dried basil

½ red pepper flakes (optional)

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Heat the olive oil in a skillet over medium heat. Add the sausage and cook until brown on both sides, about 10 minutes. Remove the sausages from the pan. 

Add the onions, peppers, mushrooms, salt and pepper to the oil and cook over medium heat for about 5 minutes. While the veggies are sautéing, slice the sausage into 1 inch cubes and set aside. Add the garlic and basil and cook another 5 minutes.

Next, stir in the tomato paste. Add the diced tomatoes, chicken broth and red pepper flakes and let simmer. Stir in the cubed sausages and let sit on low-medium heat for about 30 minutes, until the sauce reduces and thickens a bit.

*My sausages weren’t cooked all the way through, so I did cook them a little more in a separate pan for a couple extra minutes before adding them to the mix*

If you’re not paleo, these would make a scrumptious sandwich on an Italian roll. But since we are paleo, we won’t do that…we will enjoy it straight from a bowl. And if we really want to act like cavemen (and cave-ladies) just use your hands. I’m kidding…please don’t do that.

i think one of the things with the sibs that makes me go the most feral is just how little time they spent together.

when season one starts, they’ve been together for sixteen days. we then witness them spend about a week together.

in season two, they have a day.

in season three, it's an hour at most.

that is, generously rounded, a month. this series spans two years. they got to 'hopelessly and helplessly entangled' in a month out of two years. a MONTH out of TWO YEARS was all it took for them to change each other, probably forever, if they lived that long.

one of the theses of The Silt Verses is that platonic love can be just as devastating and life-altering as romance love and by god if these two don't embody that.

Do this four times repeatedly and you’ll be out. But how does it work? There’s some real brain science behind it.

Interviewer: where do you see yourself in 5 years?

Me: I used escapist fantasies as a coping mechanism to get through years of trauma and therefore never learned how to plan for a real life future

"Your coverage of this event has been completely out of touch and an insult to the intelligence of the American people and their lived experience"

Being able to see the part that the media cut out in the beginning makes a huge difference in understanding the context and message luigi mangione was trying to get across. Media manipulation at its finest.

“Raw milk is better for you as long as you boil it” so true bestie now imagine if we could like. Super boil it. To really get all the bacteria out. And if we could do that quickly and efficiently. Imagine that.

My mom just sent me this video without any context??

caspar: what is that music?

leif: i'm teaching peter to breakdance.

caspar: y- you're teaching the robot to breakdance while i'm telling you about my problems?

leif: i'm also trying to hack into norad while you're telling me about your problems. i can multitask!

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Actual things that happen in the 1897 Dracula novel, without context:

A character has ominous nightmares and attributes them to eating too much paprika

Dracula first appears wearing a fake beard

The person he was trying to fool with the fake beard immediately realizes Dracula and Beard Guy are the same man, due to both having really firm handshakes

We are told parrots are immortal unless fatally wounded

A Texan cowboy opens fire on a bat flitting around a window, and lodges a bullet in the wall of an occupied room

A woman is called a polyandrist for receiving blood transfusions from multiple men

An incorrectly addressed telegram leads to two deaths, multiple druggings, and several children being assaulted

Dracula, while trying to maintain a low profile, takes a lovely trip to the zoo and freaks out the animals so badly that he gets mentioned in a newspaper article

The one character who knows anything about vampires spends a good two-thirds of the book refusing to talk about vampires

Dracula went to Satan's Witchcraft Academy and somehow this is only brought up in two throwaway lines

A character gets stuck inside a circle of communion wafer crumbs

A major plot point of the book is Dracula (who was said to be a brilliant scholar and has the strength of twenty mortal men) realizing he can move boxes without human help

Someone is referred to as "manifestly a prig of the first water"

Two characters have a hobby of reading train schedules

A hospital lets a mental patient escape to see what will happen

A character starts vomiting up feathers from eating whole birds

A doctor refuses to give a medical diagnosis and instead makes a speech about growing corn

Dracula impersonates another character just by wearing the same clothes, despite being taller and visibly much older. This deception is successful.

A character "cleans" a room by eating all the insects in it

Suddenly: rats. Thousands of them.

The heroes progress in their efforts through "the wonderful power of money," i.e., bribery

Dracula has three other vampires in his castle. Their relation to him is never explained, nor are any of them named.

A character insists his salvation depends on having a pet cat

Dracula is thwarted by flowers on more than one occasion

A group of vampires stand in the hall outside a man's bedroom, talking loudly about their plans to eat him. When he comes to the door to confront them, they run away laughing

Dracula wears an unfashionable hat and gets roasted for it

A group of Romanians encounter a disheveled, shouting man and, "seeing from his violent demeanour that he was English, they [give] him a ticket for the furthest station on the way thither that the train reached."

A boat crashes due to Dracula having the munchies

A wolf is thrown through a window and immediately runs off, confused and covered in glass

Dracula makes a bed

Radishes are overachievers