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Ingredients per 2 servings (the entire rice cooker): - 2/3 cup jasmine rice, uncooked - 3 cups chicken bone broth - 1/2 cup onion - 10oz boneless, skinless chicken thigh - 1 medium-sized carrot - 1 tbsp sesame oil - 1 tbsp soy sauce - salt and pepper to taste - 1/2 tbsp minced garlic Topping: - 1 medium-sized green onion - 1 tsp sesame seeds

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Pumpkin Pudding Pie w/Orange Zest and Cardamom Whipped Cream

(makes ~3 pies)

Ingredients:

Pie:

2 ½ cups sugar

15oz can pumpkin puree

2 eggs

½ tsp baking soda

2 cups flour

2 tsp baking powder

½ tsp ground cinnamon

¼ tsp vanilla

pinch of salt

2½ cups milk

4 TBSP butter (melted)

1 orange

1 tsp powdered sugar

Whipped Cream:

1 cup heavy cream

2 TBSP powdered sugar

1 tsp cardamom

pinch nutmeg

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Instructions:

Pie:

Preheat the oven to 325°F

Prepare the pie crust (that's another recipe's job- either find a scratch recipe or buy a pre-made dough or graham cracker crust)

Blend 2½ cups sugar, pumpkin puree, eggs, and baking soda in a large mixing bowl (if using a mixer, blend with a paddle attachment)

Add the flour, baking powder, cinnamon, vanilla, and salt; blend until well mixed

Add the milk and melted butter, whisk until well mixed (if using a mixer, blend with the whisk attachment)

Pour your batter into the crust, filling right up to the edge (the mix will be more liquid than solid, but it will rise/solidify in the oven)

Bake at 325°F for 55 minutes

Remove from the oven and let it cool

Top with sifted powdered sugar

Zest an orange over the top of the pie (microplane if possible but regular zester is fine; have found that the most aesthetically pleasing version is to peel the orange and then finely dice the peel but that's a hassle!)

Whipped cream:

Put your metal mixing bowl and whisk in the freezer for at least 15 minutes

Whisk powdered sugar, cardamom, and nutmeg together in bowl

Add heavy cream; whisk until stiff peaks start forming

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You can learn how to make them here, but this video is in Japanese. If you have basic sewing knowledge, you should be able to get it.

There is no pattern, only a cutting guide. 2 meters of fabric is able to do it perfectly with no fabric waste whatsoever.

Perfect for people who always feel like their clothes never fit! If you are concerned about the size, here are the pants on me (5', 90lbs) and my husband (6'1, don't know but he looks like fanart of Laios).

if you think you are bigger than my husband, all you have to do is scale the rectangles up so this measurement is 1/4 of your waist measurement.

But don't worry if it isn't perfect.

You can wear them as regular pants, or over kimono.

I want you to make these pants. Make monpe and experience the joys of adjustable clothing that will stay with you for years. Experience the joy of sewing something you know will fit and be well-made and usable, with no precise measurements besides hemming them to your height. Put on these pants and feel superior because you made something that the store could never give you.

If you know enough about what you're doing, and are able to give it a good enough investment of time and energy, you can overhaul a whole space for free, though it will indeed take some patience and advance planning

And all of these things are actually more effective and more exciting the more anticonsumerist and the more ecofriendly and humanist you get with it

A beautiful space that you genuinely enjoy and like spending time in is not beyond you, I promise

It's not usually a one-and-done thing. You need to train yourself to be an opportunist and think outside of the retail boxes

Make a list of every single thing you are looking for, whether it's an arm chair or "something for the wall above my bed," and then keep a look out for any opportunity you might have to Get the Thing:

Make some kind of blog or pinterest or vision board for the kinds of things you're interested in, so you can start figuring out what you like and really developing and creating a personal sense of taste

Make two lists, saved somewhere you can easily add to them: (1): Things you need (e.g., a new chair, a new outdoor table, a bunch of wall art) and (2): Things that would be nice to have (e.g., cool shit, also a bunch of wall art)

If you live somewhere in a city where people put old/free stuff out on the curb (ime this is most places since COVID), keep an eye on the curbs and corners whenever you're driving somewhere or going for a walk

Make a habit of visiting thift stores every so often (esp with friends), even just a couple times a year. You have to make this a habit because it's not like a regular store where you can basically Guarantee whether they will have what you need/are looking for a lot of the time - so keep in mind all the areas in which you might want to Get Something, and keep checking back regularly (that sounds so tedious if you do this right it's actually really fun

Hole-in-the-wall vintage and antique shops will often have some really good pieces for surprisingly cheap

Literally look up all the stores in your area using the keywords: thrift, vintage, reuse, consignment. Keep a list of them saved somewhere so that when you're in the mood to hit something up, you have easy options ready at hand

Even better, if you can - look up stores using those keywords for the nearest wealthy area(s). "Consignment" and vintage stores in those areas will often still be way fancy and pricey - but VERY few things work better than hitting up the three or four nearest Goodwills and Out of the Closests in a rich neighborhood. That shit is so much nicer and more plentiful a lot of the time

Generally, the less something looks like an Apple store, the more successful you'll be

Outlets are also cool. Little known fun fact: Nordstrom has a furniture outlet called GDF Studios. So shit will sometimes be like: at Nordstrom: $700, at GDF Studios: $150, at GDF sale section: $85. If you look in the right places you can find arrangements for a lot of these things

Similarly places like Ross and TJ Maxx that sell leftover stock from other brands for a discount are GREAT and absolutely worth hitting up regularly

Pick a weekend and hit up some garage/estate sales. People will post ads for these on Craigslist and street corners. I do not do this because I don't do mornings, but my aunt who's an artist will sit down with the paper/Craigslist/her facebook groups, circle four to six garage sales she wants to check out on a particular Saturday or Sunday morning, save the details, and then spend the whole morning going to them one after another, bam bam bam, with a list of exactly what she's looking for

Learn how to do some light DIY and redecoration/repair shit yourself (note: I am NOT talking about "make your own cabinets" I'm talking like. "You can fix the scratch marks on your black dresser with a sharpie" and painting your own room or installing your own curtain rods or something

Bribe your friends into helping you paint rooms/haul furniture/etc. with fun times and/or pizza, as is tradition for moving in general

Keep an eye out for creative uses for things. A lot of shit is priced by what it's for and who the target audience is. So a 7ft x 7ft tapestry or wall art piece will probably be expensive (at least if you don't want it shitty and/or dropshipped). A 7ft x 7ft cloth shower curtain with a cute pattern, on the other hand? $20 at somewhere like Target, $10-12 at Ross or something. (This is how I got the giant plant art tapestry above my bed that I get many compliments on)

Keep an eye on your local "free" and "furniture" and "art" sections on Craigslist (be on the lookout for scams tho)

Join the Facebook group for your local branch of Buy Nothing or Free & For Sale (note: things on this often go very fast)

Depending on where you are, your local library or another local organization (e.g. a Grange, 4H, or rotary club, if you're somewhere moral rural)

Church thrift event days are great actually, because it's concentrating stuff from so many people

Swap meets

Clothing swaps

Get involved in local fibercraft or traditional craft groups, esp sewing and/or woodworking. This will connect you with contacts, resources, ideas, possibilities, and - if you get regularly involved enough, esp in a group that's mostly older (which many of these are) - access to stuff people are clearing out of their own stashes

And finally, the biggest, best, most valuable and effective tip, especially for bigger overhauls and straight-up furniture:

Pick the nearest university or college town, especially one where a lot of students live on campus. Look up what date their finals week is. Drive around student-heavy neighborhoods during the week of and after finals. You WILL find some really nice fucking furniture on the curb, I promise

I just went to Habitat for Humanity on Labor Day. I was going to pick up a bookcase for the radical community center I joined, which wanted to make a lending library. Now, I have a lot of disability shit that limit my ability to protest in person or make it to meetings quite often, but you know what I can do? Furniture and books.

So, anyway, I got an entire solid, good quality, iirc real wood bookcase for $30. Probably, these days, would have cost at least $200 new. A few scratches in the paint, sure, but it's black, so all I need is a sharpie and it's good as new. Better than new, with enshittification these days!!! When's the last time you bought something new that was good quality??? That you could KNOW wouldn't immediately break??? And!! It saves furniture from the landfill while supporting Habitat for Humanity, an awesome nonprofit that helps build and improve affordable housing for low-income and marginalized people/families and has had their bank accounts frozen by the Trump administration for their climate advocacy (x, x) while furthering circular and reuse-based economies

Habitat for Humanity, on Labor Day weekend, had 10 different couches - real, genuine, solid quality couches - for literally $20 each

Having enough of this kind of knowledge can make you Incredibly powerful

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