StillNoLeftLeft

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/5555953

I am a huge mushroom picking enthusiast, it's been one of my favourite things to do since I was a kid. It's like finding real life treasure. And for 2025 it looks like the best time of the year has begun!

I have a spot or spots for most of my fav mushrooms and the chantarelles came weeks early this year, in abundance I've never seen before in my life! Here's a pic from the spot, everywhere was like this. We picked a big basket and two big bucketfulls in just a few hours two weeks ago.

Chantarelles in particular are both sort of amazing and annoying in how much manual labor they take to clean and prepare, each goes through human hands at least two or three times. It's been raining a lot and these were very wet and dirty. We processed them by cleaning by hand first and then washed them as there were lots of sand in them.

This is the haul after we ate a bunch fried on sourdough bread at the picking site:

After this we processed them in the oven so we can freeze them. They had so much water in them. I find that chantarelles do best if you freeze them, trumpet chantarelles & boletus are amazing dried. The oven method retains flavour and shape better imo than getting the water out in a pan.

The final pile ready to freeze was 3,1kg. It always blows my mind how little comes out of so much.

We have been eating them almost daily. Mostly with new potatoes and some protein and a salad. Tomorrow I'm making pizza from them.

Here is a very common way of eating these around here. The patty is made from free range highlander beef & black beans:

To be continued...

I am a huge mushroom picking enthusiast, it's been one of my favourite things to do since I was a kid. It's like finding real life treasure. And for 2025 it looks like the best time of the year has begun!

I have a spot or spots for most of my fav mushrooms and the chantarelles came weeks early this year, in abundance I've never seen before in my life! Here's a pic from the spot, everywhere was like this. We picked a big basket and two big bucketfulls in just a few hours two weeks ago.

Chantarelles in particular are both sort of amazing and annoying in how much manual labor they take to clean and prepare, each goes through human hands at least two or three times. It's been raining a lot and these were very wet and dirty. We processed them by cleaning by hand first and then washed them as there were lots of sand in them.

This is the haul after we ate a bunch fried on sourdough bread at the picking site:

After this we processed them in the oven so we can freeze them. They had so much water in them. I find that chantarelles do best if you freeze them, trumpet chantarelles & boletus are amazing dried. The oven method retains flavour and shape better imo than getting the water out in a pan.

The final pile ready to freeze was 3,1kg. It always blows my mind how little comes out of so much.

We have been eating them almost daily. Mostly with new potatoes and some protein and a salad. Tomorrow I'm making pizza from them.

Here is a very common way of eating these around here. The patty is made from free range highlander beef & black beans:

To be continued...

Yay, a small win. Time to punch left.

Saw these advertised and had to make a trip to Lidl just for these as I am a person of sandwiches*, like many around these parts are and these vegan "deli cuts" are great. We make all our own sourdough bread (been doing it from well before covid) and sandwiches are a pretty big part of our diet as a whole. This weeks bread is spelt & oat sourdough.

These faux deli meats have all been pretty expensive so it's nice to find a more affordable version. Definitely going to be consuming this from now on.

These are made from and peanis.

(*This does not mean subs, burgers, toast or anything warmed up, but open sandwiches with some type of cold cuts, veggies & a spread. These are eaten for breakfast, as a snack, meals, they are also a part of festive foods. The bread is often rye bread. We basically grow up on oatmeal and various kinds of open sandwiches between meals.)

Had to go get stuff from Ikea, so got myself a treat and ate plant balls and got a few bags of them to take home for easy meals. Still think Ikea does the best plant balls around, at least where I live.

I like it how this plate of food is now cheaper than the meatball version.

They contain lots of soy- .

Edit. Remembered the plant protein wrong, it's peanis (pea protein) not beanis.

A Western person shared this "bombshell" Shein video to me and maybe I'm dumb, but the conditions look pretty ok to me considering the industry?

It has the ominous music and all the commentators send her wishes for "being safe" in true racist westoid fashion. I kept looking to see some grave bad conditions, but only thing she has there is uncited and unverified text next to pictures about the warehouses that don't seem any different to something like Amazon.

I am not saying fast fashion is good, but at the end of the video she concludes that maybe these working conditions are behind the manufacturing boom in China, so the video has a pretty clear propaganda angle. I am also not saying there isn't issues with labor rights in China, just like everywhere.

But do a video of a sewing factory in Portugal next? Or one of the places in the Med where immigrants do farm labor. Or let's talk about how berry pickers were basically trafficked in wholesome Nordic country Finland and forced to live in inhumane conditions and never got paid.

The youtuber has other videos about "how to get rich". This one has a million views in two weeks, she clearly found her angle for getting rich on grifting for the West.

A simple oven-cooked oat "risotto" with black , red bell pepper, onion, garlic, olive oil and fresh basil.

The oats are "cooking oats", very delish and one of my favourite things to eat.

Vegetable soup with lots of pan-fried chick- , peppers, shrooms, onion and basil.

Spices: ancho-chili, black pepper, garlic & salt.

Freedom = capitalism

Democracy = capitalism

Public opinion = opinion of capitalists

So this person on the longcovid sub is a pretty perfect example of the individualist neoliberal self-governing human who thinks they have all this agency and power because they can throw money at the problem. (Afaik if longcovid does heal, it tends to just do that with rest and time. It is very possible that all this money and effort has done nothing.)

I also find the tech broyi decoding style of the post very annoying. It's just so

Imagine coming to a space where disabled, unemployed and sick folks look for solidarity to flex your 50k spent on treatments, after saying you were just able to stop working, just like that.

And saying that 50k was no biggie as you want to "prioritize your health". Right, like the person with no sick days left, working two jobs with kids who is still not making it, does not?

By the two year point:

This meta-analysis shows the presence of post-COVID symptoms in 30% of patients two-years after COVID-19. Fatigue, cognitive disorders, and pain were the most prevalent post-COVID symptoms. Psychological disturbances as well as sleep problems were still present two-years after COVID-19.

“This is what our ruling class has decided will be normal.”

So this here is a perfect example of the brainworms that Finnish people walk around with.

Imagine having the guts to say this about the Karelian peoples that were indeed very much put into camps and killed during the war, by the Finns (nazis).

What even are "Finnish Karelians"? Maybe he means the basic finn kulaks and colonizers that the Soviets showed the door to? The ones that had spent decades in the area trying to finlandize the people, disappear their language and steal all their natural resources. The Nazi in chief Mannerheim famously lead little warring parties into the area all the way at the beginning of the century.