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The Ottolenghi - it is vital that you use 1g of this very expensive ingredient. It comes from a 500g bag with a one-week shelf life.

The time machine - 15-minute recipe! First, leave to marinate overnight...

The dishwasher - one-pot recipe! Now decant your ingredients and wipe out your pot. And again. And again. And again.

The optimist - cook the onions until caramelised (2 minutes).

The kindergarten teacher - get one nommable little tree of broccoli and bosh that into boiling water. Delish!

The brand names only - ingredients: Ritz crackers, Philadelphia cheese, Cool Whip, orange Jell-o...

The 1950s palate - use one (1) clove of garlic and a small pinch of chili flakes (omit if preferred).

As I am sure i've mentioned in the past, this luxuriously lounging little lady is very expensive to care for lately

This is Java Nebula, my brother's cat who we have had since December. In March, she started having issues with nausea where she would throw up so much she couldn't keep food down at all for days at a time. We did practically every test under the sun trying to figure out what's wrong, giving her anti-nausea meds until she could eat again, but the issue kept coming back every couple of weeks.

As of now, she is on a restricted elimination diet, only eating certain flavors of wet food made specifically for sensitive stomachs.

It's been almost 3 weeks since she last threw up!! Which is incredible, so we want to keep her on this diet, slowly adding to it as we go, so we can figure out what (if anything) she is allergic to or intolerant of.

The only issue is that feeding her this way costs approximately $300/month.

That's... a lot of money for us.

Mom recently said we couldn't keep paying it forever. But we need to keep her on this food at least until we figure out what the problem is, and we don't know how long that might take. We've been trying to find an answer for over three months. We've narrowed it down a lot but there's still a ways to go.

So what I'm getting at is: I have a Ko-Fi!

If you like seeing updates about Java and the other cats on my blog, you can drop a tip via Ko-Fi and I will put it towards Java's food as well as food and care for the other cats. Leon is overdue for his yearly shots because we've been so focused on caring for Java!

Any and all support is appreciated, but I have to say I'm extra super grateful to folks who choose to pitch in monthly. A couple people do that now and it is a great benefit to have regular amounts coming in that I can count on. Even $2 per month would be a huge huge gift and help us out immensely!

Thank you so much for reading all this, and thanks in advance if you choose to tip or share 🩷

Was able to grab another 8 days' worth of Java's food with y'all's help, thank you!

Tim... my video game...

In my latest, I discuss President Trump's takeover of the 250 celebrations, the corporations and military contractors who have sponsored them, and the corruption that emerges when corporate power collaborates with unaccountable state power.