Marrow Vegetable Puns

My friend's grandparents have a surplus of marrow from their garden and I will be cooking for them when they bring my friend back to our flat. I need to plan a good dish to impress them, so was thinking ratatouille, but I want to use the vegetables they bring from their garden. I'm finding way too many stuffed marrow recipes, which seem too easy and boring, so would like to know if I can swap out courgette/zucchini for marrow (the more mature version of the plant) in ratatouille?

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Any truth to this or is it an antiquated scientific theory on diet?

I have some courgettes/zucchini and I was wondering how tell to tell if the seeds are mature enough for planting, as the fruit inside is quite white and the seeds arent easy to define (unlike pumpkin seeds which standout), so should I leave a zucchi vegetable somewhere for a few days for the seeds to mature inside the vegetable?

Ok, so I was at a grocery store tonight and saw that they had an awesome butcher shop with all sorts of odd cuts of meat that I have been meaning to try -- among the things I loaded up on were oxtail and marrow bones. So, I made this giant stew -- and it has been sitting on the stove all night. I just tried it and it is awesome! However, it is now 1:30am, and I can't eat this whole pot.

So, when the big dutch oven cools down a bit more, should I just move this whole thing to the fridge? Should I move it into a different container? Will it still be as good a day later after it has been in the fridge and reheated?

The time has come again to gather pine boughs and light the candles of red and silver, gold and green. The cool breezes and smoke-and-loam scented air of autumn is giving way to the frigid winds and pale sun of winter.  Snow, ice, and sleet dominate the days, and a gently gray haze sifts over the treetops, filtering the sun and soaking into clothing and bones, settling the long cold ahead into our very marrow.  The harvests have been stored, the animals brought in from the field, the fields themselves turned for the seasons, the scrapped remnants of crops burned and turned with the soil to provide nutrients for the following year.  The old folks settle into warm rooms with the youngsters, trading stories and traditions as they rub sore joints and comfort little runny noses.  Candlelight, hearth fires, and warm ovens abound as the natural light of the sun fades and the days grow short.  Lights, warmth, and love are shared at this time to fend off the sadness and loss of the sun, to ward off the reminders of death and age that abound in the winter, and to celebrate the light and life that will come again in the spring.  It is a time of rest, introspection, story-telling, hobby building, warmth, and love.

Post your lore, your traditions, what Yule means to you, recipes, plans; go nuts ya filthy animals!

Yule:

What It Is: Pronounced YOOL, this holiday is the winter solstice and longest night of the year.  Celebrated in late December in the northern hemisphere and late June in the southern hemisphere, it's the official heralding of winter in the farming calendar and midwinter to pagans and laypeople everywhere.

The Wiccan community sees this time as when the God is reborn after dying at the harvest.  Other pagan traditions view it as the rebirth of the sun or the astronomical turning point from the dark half of the year to the light half at Litha. Days afterwards will begin to lengthen, though it may not be noticeable until Imbolc.  The Holly and the Oak kings battle, and Holly lays down his crown so Oak can pick up his until Litha comes and they battle again.

Festivals and holidays are common in places where the axial tilt of the planet effects the seasons, and the further towards the poles you go, the more important they seem to be.  Maybe this is due to the fact that the further to the poles you go, the cold is harsher and the sunlight sparse, and humans don't do well without some vitamin D e

The house I lived in with my dad, stepmom and step sister when I was in high school was super haunted. My dad and stepmom recently sold the house. God willing I'll never have to go back, so I figured it was safe enough to tell some of the stories from my time there. This story is from just a week or two after we moved in.

Our house sat on a pretty steep incline. In the back there was room for a concrete patio and a little space for a vegetable garden. Past that, the ground sloped steeply up into very thick woods that were full of oak, birch and pine trees. The woods were pretty wild, but there was an obvious path that led straight off from our property into the thicket. It ignited my stepsister's curiosity as soon as she saw it.

She was a few years younger than me. I think she was about twelve when we moved in and I would have been fourteen or fifteen. Rita, my stepsister, was on me from the second we moved in to go into the woods with her. I used to go hiking with my dad before he started dating my stepmom, so to her that made me an expert on nature. But, the thickness of the underbrush in the woods behind the house really put me off.

Eventually, I gave in to Rita's constant wheedling and agreed to explore the woods behind the house. I talked Rita into putting on long pants to protect from brambles and we set out into the woods.

The incline was really steep and only got steeper the further we went in. The weeds and brambles along the forest floor were thick and cloying, clinging to our pants legs and pricking at our skin even through our jeans. The path we were following was narrow and roamed left to right seeking the easiest way past trees and bushes. It was probably a path used by deer and foxes and we struggled to follow it.

I remember Rita saying, "This is so cool! It's a for real forest right behind our house!" and trying not to scoff where she could hear or see it. I already felt like I was too old to play around in the woods. Those thoughts aside, I thought it was unwelcoming and king of creepy. Definitely not the kind of place I would have wanted to play even when I was her age.

It was quiet in the woods. As we stepped deeper and higher, the incline just kept going up and and up. We didn't hear any bird sounds insects. It seemed like the only sound was what our feet made as they pushed through the underbrush and what the wind made as it blew hot sticky summer air against our backs.

After a few minutes of hard going, the incline started to e

Over the last half a year a low histamine plant based diet helped me a lot.

However, as more and more evidence is leading to autoimmune disease in long covid I digged deep to find a solution and landed on this video from Dr. Berg on autoimmune:

https://youtu.be/DkM6uPVY0PI

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https://youtu.be/CWD-QvnKWqk

I started to include bovine/ovine organ supplements into my diet which I take 3 times per day. Especially Ovine Thymus extract. Plus I switched to mainly a carnivore diet with low histamine vegetables/fruits next to the organ supplements and it seems to help. Less fatigue, brain fog, joint pain, muscle pain, better skin, less hair loss and tinnitus.

For lunch I take a meat vegetable soup with bone marrow in it. And in the evening some good piece of cow meat.

Meat fixed autoimmune: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-7680323/amp/Sisters-claim-raw-meat-diet-cured-lifelong-autoimmune-disease.html

Note: wouldn't go for raw meat as it adds risks but the article is interesting.

Avoid grains, gluten, wheat, sugar, alcohol and dairy products. Did you know that most grains are only eaten/cultivated since the last 500 years and that our body is not used to it? It can even cause leaky gut and increase autoimmune problems.

Organ meat can give us the building blocks to restore our organs and immune system. Like for like as they call it.

If a mad cow/BSE going bad prion (misfolded protein) can replicate in a person and make him/her sick. We can easily assume that there are good proteins who do the opposite and make people healthy.

Hope it helps you all as well.

This post is inspired by another one on this sub last week, where this list from the totally unbiased source Dairy MAX was posted along with the claim that any vegan who uses products on this list is a hypocrite as no alternatives for animal by-products in these products exist and that we will always be reliant on animals for these products. So, here is my investigation into animal-free alternatives for every product on this list.

Generally, these products were less "these products simply cannot be made without animals" and more "well, sometimes they contain the chemical that might be animal-derived, but it's really hard to know."

(Disclaimer: Obviously veganism is concerned with doing "as much as is possible and practicable" to avoid contribution to animal exploitation, so even if you can't guarantee that your life hasn't involved any products made with animal by-products in a society where such (by-)products are ubiquitous, this would not invalidate being vegan. This is especially true where medications are concerned. As I see it from an ethical view, the main goal should be the ending of the industries that are the main source of animal suffering, then we can tackle the issue of minute by-product use in other products. Especially since if a decline/end in consumption of the animal non-by-products would force companies to do research into alternatives to them, since it is not economically feasible to raise cattle just for the collagen/gelatin/etc.)

Household Goods

Candles: Most candles nowadays are made from paraffin wax, beeswax (the main non-vegan option), or plant waxes like soy, palm, or carnauba. Tallow used to be used, but not any more. See also VeganFriendly.

Cellophane: "Cellophane™ is a polymeric cellulose film made from the cellulose from wood, cotton, hemp, or other sources." (source). The more general plastic wrap is made, unsurprisingly, from plastics like PVC. None of the pages I saw when Googling this one mentioned animal fats.

Ceramics: Obviously bone china isn't vegan as it contains bo

Background on my situation: I am a 25 year old female recently diagnosed with seronegative rheumatoid arthritis and hypermobile ehlers danlos syndrome. They suspect I may have neurological and other autoimmune issues going on, but none is confirmed yet. I also have scoliosis and dysautomia. I also likely struggle with a sleep disorder.

On a daily basis, I experience a typical 7/10 pain in my upper back and in my dominant hand from arthritis. It is usually centralized to those two areas. I do occasionally feel stiff in other spots or 4/10 pain but it’s not too bad outside of my “bad” spots.

Current situation:

In the past two weeks, I have experienced this horrible wide-spread pain that gets a lot worse at night and makes me physically exhausted. I haven’t gotten out of bed to walk around much since this started happening. A few days into this mystery illness, I contacted my rheumatologist because I thought it might be an arthritis flare. She said that it really doesn’t sound like an arthritis flare but that she’s not sure what it could be. Perhaps fibromyalgia is what she said. She said that is is very unusual sounding and strange.

I then had an appt with my primary care doctor who was actually out of the office, so I met with his partner at the clinic who is also a doctor, but is overall known as a stubborn and old school doctor. I have not met him up until this appt.

He was initially worried that my pain is from “vegetative depression and anxiety” which is ridiculous. Lol then he said he is worried that my treatments for rheumatoid arthritis (methotrexate and Hydroxychloroquine) were perhaps damaging my bone marrow or causing other issues. Lab results showed an elevated white blood cell count, and an increase in a/g, bilirubin, and chloride that was noticeably higher than my tests from last month. A/g was only 0.1 off from being in “bad levels”.

He said today my labs seem fine and he again has no idea what’s wrong with me.

Currently symptoms are as presented:

-overall 9/10 pain at its worst

-horrible inner knee pain that radiates up into my thigh bone area and occasionally in between my tibia and fibula. My knee aches horribly at night and hurts when I walk, lay, sit, or apply pressure. Is tender inside of the joint/bone area.

-when walking, especially at night when it gets worse, it feels like I am waking on glass/my foot bones with only thin muscle separation from the ground. It feels like I have spent all day hiking or walking at Disney

First, I enjoyed the show, however some of the science components of it were very cringy.

Major spoilers (for all 7 seasons) ahead:

You don't run out of oxygen on space ships. It's just trapped in CO2. Usually what you run out of is the ability to turn the CO2 back into O2. Also, you don't pass out the moment O2 his 0%. Every person would have a different tolerance, like people who climb Everest.

I'm fine with stargates and mind drives along with other sci-fi technologies but when a show gets basic real-world things wrong it's really triggering to me.

None of them would know how to swim.

Drastically different bugs or plants like glowing butterflies is more like 10k years of evolution. 100 years is a blink of the eye for evolution.

In the first scene when they unbuckle to float around in the capsule, they would not be weightless. The capsule undergoes very high deceleration (gravity) while it's in reentry.

Radiation burns do not show up real-time and even a strong dose of radiation will take several days to kill you. Even if you could neutralize the damage it would take a long time for the serious radiation burns to heal. Radiation proof blood wouldn't speed up tissue regeneration.

There's no such thing as metabolizing radiation. You need to repair the damage to the DNA.

Virtually nobody had an infection even though they've been stabbed multiple times.

Acid fog would have killed the vegetation (farms) around Mt Weather.

There was no pressing emergency requiring all the citizens of Mt Weather to get the bone marrow treatment immediately. They could have spread them out enough to not have to kill anyone.

Radioactive rain would not burn on contact.

Maneuvering thrusters would not be sufficient to slow a spacecraft down if it wasn't intended to be able to land.

Hydrazine is not explosive like nitroglycerin. It must be mixed with another agent, but no ignition source is required when mixed. This is called hypergolic. The biggest risk in handling hydrazine is that it's extremely toxic.

The river Octavia fell hundreds of feet into looked like it was a few inches deep and full of large rocks just under the surface.

Melting down nuclear reactors would not create a giant wall of radioactive fire that traverses the world, and of it did they would be stuck in the bunker another 100 years, not 5.

There's no way the cryo chambers would thaw a person instantly.

Eligius docking bay is on the sp

Do your worst!

For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.

I said "hey look, an escaPEA"

No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!

Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies 😂

I think I fucked up my beef stock. I’m in about hour 2 of letting it cook and I think I did too many vegetables. Is there a way to salvage it?

Edit: I’ve used onion, leek, celery, carrots and about 5lbs of marrow bones.

It really does, I swear!

They’re on standbi

Pilot on me!!

I highly recommend reading from part one, as all of these are building off of one another. As always a little info:

1:Going forward I am aiming for at least one part, or chapter whichever term you prefer, per week. There may be more depending on the time I have available.

2: Trigger Warnings: I don't use them because I believe that my job as a writer is to allow you, the reader, to interpret everything as you will free of any bias.

3: I am open to feedback and suggestions! If you have a plot element you would like to see, or a race that I made or that you made, that you want to see involved, feel free to comment or message me and shoot me the idea.

Okay, welcome back for part 6

PART 5<==H==>PART 7

As Allan made his way back to the shuttle, he wondered if he had done the right thing. He shook his head, being careful not to jolt Aly, that was a struggle that he could leave to another time. “I just hope that she got from it what she needed.” Allan thought to himself, He knew that it was not going to be easy for her to confront the deaths of people around her, just because she looked different, but at least she now knew that she was not the source of the destruction, merely its focus.

These thoughts and many more like it rushed through his head as he rode the shuttle through the atmosphere, and it docked with the shuttle station in orbit. When he stepped out onto the platform, it was silent, playing on every screen was a proclamation from the ‘ruling council and its subsidiary organizations.’ Thanks to the translator Allan knew it to be the truth that he had told the council members to release, they surprised him and named himself and Aly as the ones that had brought this about, and whoever the representative on-screen was, they also admitted that there had been a shadow faction within the government killing those who they found to be problematic.

Allan snorted, He really did hope that they could change, they could become better, but he also doubted that. The Edict was playing on a loop, and when he finally got through the shuttle station to the ship, Aly was stirring. He hurried her inside. She finally woke to the last sounds of the food extruding machine making

Like, you're just soaking a carcass in water until it has that flavor. Then you filter out the chunky bits and have a bone tea.

Also, vegetable stock is just not fancy tea. If other stocks have marrow and fat run off then how is vegetable stock, stock? It's just tea not made from plants that make good tea.

So either chicken stock is carcass tea, or vegetable stock doesn't actually exist.

Plant fats aren't typically present in the ingredients of vegetable stock, I get oils are a gray area.

I’m a 23 year old AA/Creole female and for the past year and a half I’ve been having symptoms of extreme fatigue, muscle weakness, pallor, hair loss, numbness in my hands and feet, lips and hands turning blue, extreme cold intolerance, night sweats, pain and swelling in my abdomen, bone pain, dizziness, heart palpitations while at rest, migraines, and loss of appetite. I’m 5’4 and 155 pounds. Majority of adulthood I’ve always been around 170 but after guaranteed i gained weight and was 196 so in the past year and a half I’ve lost a total of 41 pounds. And am still losing weight weekly. When i went to the doctor about my symptoms they tested my iron, folate, and b12 for anemia. My iron was very low, but my folate and b12 were within the normal ranges. So they gave me iron infusions in March to fix that and told me my symptoms should go away within 3 months. But they only got worse including me having moments of losing eyesight in my right eye, numbness in my right side, and having to go to the hospital for extreme chest pain. They tested for lupus, rheumatoid arthritis, signs of heart disease or blood clots, did a bone marrow biopsy and everything was negative. I was told the severity of my symptoms don’t match my blood work. Which in recent blood work I’m no longer iron deficient but my b12 did increase from 753 to 1597pg/mL which i do not supplement and i don’t take preworkouts. My bilirubin has also been high for the last 3 months which i was told isnt an issue. My wbc and neutrophil count were both low as well, but did rise in my most recent blood work i got done while getting tested for strep. I rarely ever get sick and have never had strep in my life which now I’m sick almost every other week. My cholesterol has also increased into the unhealthy range of 212 while my triglycerides are still normal at 49 even though I’ve been losing weight. I’ve removed red meat out my diet. I cook at home lean meats low in fat, organic fruits and vegetables. And don’t eat fast food. I’ve been referred to a neurologist which they’re booked out till October of 2022, and i was told to stop taking my adderall as that could be causing my chest pain but I’ve been taking adderall for years and only take it on work/school days. I don’t know what else i can do to help improve my symptoms. I’m so miserable. I haven’t worked out in over a month due to the chest pains and am too tired to even study or hangout with friends majority of the time. The medications i take currently is

Dad jokes are supposed to be jokes you can tell a kid and they will understand it and find it funny.

This sub is mostly just NSFW puns now.

If it needs a NSFW tag it's not a dad joke. There should just be a NSFW puns subreddit for that.

Edit* I'm not replying any longer and turning off notifications but to all those that say "no one cares", there sure are a lot of you arguing about it. Maybe I'm wrong but you people don't need to be rude about it. If you really don't care, don't comment.

I have some courgettes/zucchini and I was wondering how tell to tell if the seeds are mature enough for planting, as the fruit inside is quite white and the seeds arent easy to define (unlike pumpkin seeds which standout), so should I leave a zucchi vegetable somewhere for a few days for the seeds to mature inside the vegetable?