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[TD1]

Coconut oil,
Coconut flour,
Dark chocolate chips,
Salt,
Vanilla extract
Honey (Optional)

[Frumple]

It does not taste like avocados.

If I had a dollar for every time I've heard someone say something like that and be wrong, I'd be able to go and get a few extra meals that didn't have any goddamn onions in them

Quarantine cooking is probably going to have some interesting stuff come out of it over the next year or so, though. I guess it's one of the few potential silver linings of the crow plague.

[TD1]

I see many plump people rolling walking on the roads. Combine that with home-cooked meals, and the nation (or what remains of it) may be healthier.

Personally, I could cook meals before this. It's the baking that's new.

[wierd]

Amateurs.


I have been eating yard weeds for weeks. I know how to make them delicious.  Most people can't properly identify lawn weeds though, so I try not to advocate for eating them.  Just leaves more for me though.

Right now, it's lambsquarters season! Lots of "I can't believe it's not spinach!" right now.

[NJW2000]

We made a nettle risotto recently. Didn't taste of much, which I attribute to the cowardly majority decision not to put very much nettle in.

Wild garlic is also in season, so that's been great.

[martinuzz]

Nettles make nice soup too

[wierd]

True nettle seems to be a European thing.

All we have are dead nettles. (Henbit and purple deadnettle).  Both are going out of season right now.  Now it is pigweed season, of which lambsquarters are one.

I ate the deadnettles weeks ago, with garlic, egg noodle, and black beans.  Take FOREVER to cook because of the coarsness of the things, but once cooked down, not bad at all.

The lambsquarters, once cooked, are very difficult to distinguish (flavor wise) from spinnach.  Soon the pine pollen cones will be producing. Then it's time to go out with an old pillowcase and pick as many as possible for the free flour substitute. (there is a decorative planting of them right beside the nursing home on the north side that I have been observing for the past few days. Cones are large enough to pick as a salad green right now. A few more days and they will start producing pollen. You collect them in the old pillowcase, then take them home. Put them in a tall airtight kitchen storage bin (still in pillowcase), and dash the bag against the side vigorously. This dislodges the pollen, which passes through the pillowcase easily-- but leaves the cone scales in the pillowcase.  Very easy processing that way. Then you just cut your normal flour 50% and use the pine pollen for the other 50%, and have bright golden breads and such. Very high in quality healthy fats and proteins.  If you are a guy, they are also beneficially high in phyto-androgens, and will work like taking a testosterone supplement.)

[Starver]

(IRTA "...quality healthy farts...".  That's all I have to say about that.)

edited to reinsert the second 'y' that was my typo, not my reado.

[martinuzz]

The trick with nettles is to use the young shoots, then they don't need to boil forever, plus the young shoots taste much better.

[Naturegirl1999]

1tbs avocado oil*

Sounded like it might be good until you go to that, I don't like avocados and I doubt I'd like the oil that comes from them.

It does not taste like avocados.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

I’m curious what went through the mind of whoever made that comic

[Ziusudra]

1tbs avocado oil*

Sounded like it might be good until you go to that, I don't like avocados and I doubt I'd like the oil that comes from them.

It does not taste like avocados.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

I’m curious what went through the mind of whoever made that comic

Warning:NSFW link ahead! It's called Oglaf. Edit: link removed

[Ibid Straydrink]

> Gets reprimanded for discussing politics on this thread
> Thread descends into sex with avocados

It's like a metaphor for politics in the US.

[Rolan7]

The oils, though.
(Oglaf is 80% an explicit sex comic.  It's hilarious, but "NSFW" doesn't properly describe it)

[Ibid Straydrink]

The oils, though.
(Oglaf is 80% an explicit sex comic.  It's hilarious, but "NSFW" doesn't properly describe it)

Yeah, it's more of a sexual comedy meets cosmic horror.

[Frumple]

I mean, it was literally created as an excuse for the artist/author to make porn. There's comedy, and cosmic horror, and other stuff, and overall it's pretty great in a lot of ways, but it's pretty much explicitly explicit pornography that was created with the intent of being exactly that. One of the reasons I don't link to oglaf despite occasionally mentioning it. It's a pretty clear cut violation of the forum's guidelines to do so