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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • You just blew my mind with the baking soda!

    MSG is amazing, never deserved the hate it got.

    I don’t have any tips that most don’t already know. I cook with simple ingredients. I save and freeze a bit of stock and cook with stock where I can. It adds a bit of depth that oil/butter doesn’t.

    For my stock, I’ll save vegetable scraps and freeze it until I have enough. Then boil it down for a few hours. Vegetable is fun to play with. You can add different flavors, and different elements depending on the vegetables you use. Mushrooms will have a unique umami.

    Same with seafood stock, I’ll save shrimp shells and fish heads and boil (simmer?) it down. Chicken stock I just boil the bones down after I roast a chicken. For beef, same thing, I’ll roast the bones for more flavor and boil it down. Also I’ll add carrots and celery to the boil for more flavor.

    In a similar thought, I love to use coconut oil when cooking when I want a sweeter taste. And finishing a dish with some sesame oil can add a really good flavor. (Sometimes I’ll lightly toss noodles in sesame oil after they’re cooked, or do the same with roasted veggies)


  • The state of Pennsylvania is very interesting. Many rural hospitals cannot afford to treat patients like this. And many of those hospitals have closed or were bought by VCs or larger hospital systems. The hospitals that have closed have left communities without access to healthcare. And this is a huge problem. This also opens a much larger conversation about why healthcare in the US depends on making a profit. I will not discuss that because it is extremely complicated.

    The city of Philadelphia; however, has many big name, big money hospitals affiliated with universities where their mission to help people who need help. And they raise a lot of money to help the communities they service.

    I would gladly pay more taxes to help humans keep their health. I don’t care about citizenship. We as a people are only as strong as our weakest people. And everyone deserves to be treated with compassion, regardless of boarders.