We Have An Echte Echte Liebe

internet shaquille’s basics but especially:

making rice

making scrambled eggs

making oatmeal

levels of cooking meat

using & storing vegetables with recipes in the description (this one has a bit of Sassiness directed at people who dont like vegetables but the content is solid)

food safety + a recipe to demonstrate

how to learn to cook (just a list of subtopics, no actual tips)

cooking techniques playlist

how to cut x

basics with babish s1 & 2, but particularly:

freezer meals,

weeknight meals,

kitchen tools (although the specific suggestions are pretty expensive even with the lower end scale items the basic categories are solid, and you can evaluate what items you will realistcially need - eg. if you dont need to read temp for steaks etc the temp reader will not be relevant) &

kitchen care (mid-high advanced home cooking)

basic knife skills

picking the right pan for each recipe

j. kenji lopez-alt’s tips and tricks playlist

egg recipes

a little more complicated, involved, and longer than any of the rest of these but good breakdown of flavor & how and why to use the basic seasoning/flavor profiles

and then recipe channels representing various cuisines:

j. kenji lopez-alt (various)

marion’s kitchen (southeast & east asian, western/asian fusion)

maangchi (korean)

future neighbor (mostly korean)

the western supermarket playlist of chinese cooking demystified (more recipes available but these are accessible if you dont have “specialty” ingredients)

family recipes playlist by made with lau (chinese)

not another cooking show (various)

cooking with boris (bear with me here i know he does it exaggeratedly humorously but a lot of them are actually solid and beginner cook friendly. mostly slavic/russian)

you suck at cooking (also falls into the intentionally humorous category but most of the recipes are pretty solid anyway)

how to cook that (baking, also does debunking videos of viral cooking hacks - breaks down the reasons the hacks dont work, pretty important to understand those basics imo)

internet shaquille (various)

babish culinary universe (various)

i REFUSE to recommended joshua weissman because he is fucking insufferable but if you want you can try if you can deal with it, the techniques/recipes seem fine for the most part

University is free here. You pay around 200 to 300 Euros a semester for general admission, which more often than not includes a semester ticket with which you can use public transportation for the entire semester as well. 

Books aren’t included, but you can generally buy them used from somebody else. In the three years I spent at college (2008-2011), I paid maybe 500 Euros in total for books. 

Rent and food are cheap, because when you are in your early twenties you think that a dingy room in a shared apartment and deep dish pizza are the height of luxury. In the months I really lived it up, I spent like maybe 1000 Euros a month (including going out, drinking cheap beer, etc.). 

So I had expenses of approximately 12600 Euros a year. Triple that, and I spent 37800 Euros in the three years it took for me to get my bachelor’s degree. At least half of that I earned through crappy part-time jobs like waitressing or DJing or babysitting. My parents helped with the rest. 

So I got out of college with pretty much no debt at all. Just like everyone else I know here. Some people (because their parents couldn’t help out) applied for student loans, but in Germany you only have to pay them back partially. 

A lot of this is based around classism and a constructed notion of “good schools”. There’s an undercurrent that more money= better education. Also there’s a prevalent myth that the name of the school won’t be recognized from a foreign university. For example, I had never heard of the Utrecht University, which is an excellent school. But the fear instilled in a lot of high school kids is that you’d graduate with a degree from a school that nobody recognizes. Would an employer prefer a student from Ohio State University or a university that they’d never heard of?

So a lot of high schoolers internalize the ignorant myths that the generations before us have created. And they are told that in order to succeed and be hired you should go to these schools. 

Rosh Hashanah:  Evening of Wed 9/20, days of Thurs 9/21 and Fri 9/22

Yom Kippur:  Evening of Fri 9/29 and day of Sat 9/30

Most Jews won’t be able to attend events or classes on those holidays.  They’re the most important days of our year.  Please avoid scheduling important events or activities on them, just as it would be inappropriate to schedule important events or class activities on Christmas.

Rosh Hashanah: evening of 9/9, days of 9/10 and 9/11

mcu meme  - 4/10 scenes.

This is one of my favourite moments in the whole MCU because of its incredible power and strength. This is not Captain America with his super soldier serum juice standing up to a god. This isn’t even a young man who might think he’s somehow got a chance against the prick with the horns. This is an old, old man who knows, who knows, that he’s probably going to die because of what he’s doing, but he is not going to kneel to another man like Hitler.

Maybe he did, seventy years ago. Maybe that’s why he would rather die now than remain on his knees. Maybe he *didn’t*. Maybe he fought against his own countrymen, because he wouldn’t kneel to a man like this. Maybe he’s always been one to stand up. Maybe he lost everything once because of it. Everything except his integrity, and maybe he’s ready to die instead of risking losing that now, at the end of his life. Maybe his integrity cost him so fucking much seventy years ago that he hopes he’s going to die for it now because he almost wishes he’d have died for it then, but if he’s going to die for it, he’s goddamn well going to die with it.

Maybe he’s a Holocaust survivor. Maybe he’s Jewish. Maybe he’s gay. Maybe he’s Romani. We don’t know.

We don’t know anything about this man, except he’s the bravest goddamn person in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

Being anti-nazi does not equal support for the Jewish community. Do not claim you support Jews just because you recognize that Nazis are terrible. Surprise, we actually have more to us than the Holocaust!