Der Feuervogel aufersteht.

I stopped eating the cereal I'd been having for several years because the quality control was really inconsistent AND I was tired of their OH NO GMO stuff on the packaging. I've been having baked oatmeal for a few weeks, and, while I enjoy it (pear & ginger is awesome), I'm always hungry. Even with the substitution of Greek yogurt for regular to get more protein. (I think it's the increase in carbs. Macronutrient balance is weird.)

So I'm poking around the internet for recipes for quick breakfast things that you can prepare in advance, put in the fridge, and reheat as needed, that revolve around eggs.

( calorie talk this way )

So anyway, if any of you can recommend easy egg-based *vegetarian* cook-ahead recipes, link me. (I mean, if the recipe uses sausage, I can substitute, so it's no big deal, but an egg baked in a cup made of a slice of deli ham isn't going to work.)

Because I don't have time to write anything long.

If someone points out that there is a flaw in a movement or community, that absolutely does not mean the movement or community is not worthwhile. For example, pointing out that there are some people in the atheist community who are Grade-A sexist and/or racist assholes doesn't mean that the entire atheist community is full of them or that atheists shouldn't have a community.

It means that the people within the community need to stand up and say, Hey, Prominent Atheist Figure Who Is Also a Raging Asshat, you need to knock that shit off because it isn't cool. It means that the people who are the raging asshats need to stop being raging asshats.

(This is an Actual Issue in the atheist community right now. Men (mainly men, yes) wonder where the women are at atheist meetings. Women and minorities are like, dude, we don't feel welcome because of Raging Asshats and your tacit (and vocal) acceptance of them. Change that, and we'll feel more welcome.)

Pointing out that there are feminist critiques (very good ones, IMO) of the back-to-the-farm movement doesn't mean that getting people to eat more whole foods isn't a valuable goal. It means that there are aspects of the movement that have not-very-subtle implications on women, and that these things need to be discussed and addressed. Because shaming women who are unable (or just plain unwilling, ffs) to make cooking food a full-time job isn't a feminist thing to do. Because blaming feminism for encouraging women to work outside the home and use convenience foods* rather than cook three meals a day from scratch (and preferably from food grown in their own garden) is really fucking uncool.

It is an issue that merits discussion. It is an issue that needs to be addressed.

I haven't even started with the assumption of a high socioeconomic status that's required to have someone who can make cooking everything from scratch a full-time job.

*because "processed food" is meaningless; all food is processed in some way (flour, sugar, chocolate, coffee, tea, bacon, sausage, pork chops, everything except fresh produce). Some foods are more highly processed than others.

... Apparently my version of "quick" isn't very. Time for me to go eat my dinner of store-bought dried pasta, store-bought organic pasta sauce in a jar, store-bought ricotta cheese, and store-bought mozzarella cheese (which I grated myself).

We managed to wrangle all the food. It was delicious. Ben's mom said the sweet potato casserole was the best she'd ever had. Seriously.

Apparently theirs always start with a can of yams. They're not very adventurous culinarily, so I bought them a subscription to Bon Appetit, which is sitting unread on their magazine stack. XP

We did early Christmas, and Ben's brother gave me "A History of the World in 6 Glasses" and Ben the remains of his bottle of Glen Elgin 12 year (bro quit drinking recently and is destashing). So we had a wee dram of it after dessert. I rather liked it, it isn't peaty at all, kind of smoky and vanilla notes, hint of spice. It's about half full, so we'll have it a while, which is good, because it's hard to come by in the US. (I'm told by a whiskey connoisseur acquaintance that it will soon be distributed in the US, to replace a closed distillery in Classic Malts line. He's also checking for similar whiskeys.)

Anyway. Time to get off the computer. Tomorrow: something familial, and Panciuto.

Lebkuchen
Baumkuchen
Spekulatius
Dominosteine
Pfeffernüsse
Or most anything on this page.

(And Laugenbrötchen... but not just for Christmas. They're DELICIOUS. Especially when you put Nutella on them. Mmmm, total lecker.)