For all my royal witches.
I’VE BEEN LOOKING FOR THIS FOR W E E K S
8 vegetables that you can regrow again and again.
Scallions
You can regrow scallions by leaving an inch attached to the roots and place them in a small glass with a little water in a well-lit room.
Garlic
When garlic begins to sprout, you can put them in a glass with a little water and grow garlic sprouts. The sprouts have a mild flavor than garlic and can be added to salads, pasta and other dishes.
Bok Choy
Bok choy can be regrown by placing the root end in water in a well-lit area. In 1-2 weeks , you can transplant it to a pot with soil and grow a full new head.
Carrots
Put carrot tops in a dish with a little water. Set the dish in a well-lit room or a window sill. You’ll have carrot tops to use in salads.
Basil
Put clippings from basil with 3 to 4-inch stems in a glass of water and place it in direct sunlight. When the roots are about 2 inches long, plant them in pots to and in time it will grow a full basil plant.
Celery
Cut off the base of the celery and place it in a saucer or shallow bowl of warm water in the sun. Leaves will begin to thicken and grow in the middle of the base, then transfer the celery to soil.
Romaine Lettuce
Put romaine lettuce stumps in a ½ inch of water. Re-water to keep water level at ½ inch. After a few days, roots and new leaves will appear and you can transplant it into soil.
Cilantro
The stems of cilantro will grown when placed in a glass of water. Once the roots are long enough, plant them in a pot in a well-lit room. You will have a full plant in a few months.
buy vegetables. red onions, white onions, garlic, bell peppers, and butternut squash will all freeze without any faffing around. dice what you buy when you can and freeze it in bags so you can just grab a couple handfuls of veg for whatever you’re making.
garlic cloves taste so much better than garlic powder or salts. you can buy three bulbs of garlic in a pack for like 70p. separate the cloves and freeze them. they’ll be soft enough for you to dice while frozen so just dice them when you need them.
keep plain flour and cornflour in your cupboard. if you have either of these things, you can make lovely thick sauces to go with a whole bunch of dishes.
super simple thin crust pizza base: 225ml flour (plain or strong works, but strong is stiffer) to 110ish ml of water. bring the dough together using a butter knife if you don’t like getting sticky hands.
freeze leftover sauces. they keep so well. get yourself some small very flat tupperware that you can wedge at the bottom of your freezer drawers. sweet and sour sauce, pasta sauce - all of it freezes super easily. just defrost by blasting it in the microwave for a couple of minutes with the lid popped open.
leftover frozen veg? pasta sauce. fry some onions in either butter or oil, then add mushrooms and whatever else you have on hand you want to get rid of. add tinned tomatoes. blend if you want it smoother. done. freeze it for later if you don’t want to use it right away.
rice can be intimidating to new cooks! you can buy boil-in-the-bag rice instead if you don’t want to risk your pans. just whack one pack in boiling water for fifteen minutes and voila. tip the rice out of the bag back into the now-empty pan and splash with dark soy sauce and a little bit of hoisin for good good flavour. you can boil frozen mixed veg in the pan with the bag of rice too to get some of your five a day!
super simple cheese sauce: melt a big lump of butter in a pan. add flour and stir until you have a paste. add milk. stir continuously until it starts to thicken. if it doesn’t thicken after a long time, add more flour. it doesn’t matter if it looks a little lumpy so long as it tastes good! add cheese. yay, cheese sauce. for even better cheese sauce fry onions and bacon in the butter before you add the flour!
buy your meat in bulk! if you eat meat, you will save SO MUCH MONEY by buying in bulk. i portion out the meat and dice it before freezing so that when i need it all i have to do is defrost it and then tip it into whatever vessel i’ll be using to cook it.
write up a menu. if you cook to a set menu of scheduled meals, you’ll use a lot more of what’s already in your cupboards before you go shopping again.
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most of all - try to cook as often as you can. it’s good for your body (you only get one, take care of it!), your wallet, and your mind. for me and my partner it’s a big part of how we spend time together. we cook every evening in the kitchen together and it’s a really important part of our social time. for me it gets me on my feet for forty minutes and it allows me to practice my time management and memory skills!
- they will wiggle their eye stalks in excitement
- they have favorite places to sleep and favorite friends to sleep with
- they’re good for your skin so let them run around on ur face!!!
- they can feel their shells, which means they can feel u pet them (pet gently!!)
- u can help a snail with a broken shell by giving it eggshells or cuttlebones to scrape (the calcium helps them patch up!)
- they like a change of scenery and will explore all day if u change something
- absolute cuddle bugs. love to snuggle with u, with friends, with dirt
- u can hear them chew!! listen closely when u feed them….. asmr
- as distinct as snowflakes, every single one is different!! i can tell all of my snails apart easily
- babies. absolute baby children
- speaking of babies, baby garden snails are no bigger than raindrops and translucent… delicate!! keep in a separate enclosure until they’re bigger!! baby jail!!!
- some snails are shy……… kiss them. they are important
[#tw abuse #tw domestic violence]
“The image of a woman suffering because of a man’s violence is, unfortunately, a timeless one. Practical Magic’s 19th birthday took place only two weeks after the Harvey Weinstein stories broke, and just a day after #MeToo rose to mainstream prominence. It’s relevant on its 20th birthday, too, with Brett Kavanaugh recently sworn onto the Supreme Court. The anniversary falls so shortly after women all over the country watched Christine Blasey Ford testify in front of Congress, already so sure of her own annihilation, forced to relive her trauma decades after the fact in an act of public violence. A community rose up for Blasey Ford around her testimony. That testimony and the conversation around it were a stark real-world reminder that we all live next to survivors of abuse every day, that the process of healing is a rough road, and that our moments of trauma still live in us, intruders in our lives.”
Bonus: Nicole and Sandra reunite at the 2018 Oscars:
I never had the words to describe why Practical Magic is so rewatchable, but I really loved it twenty years ago, and I still do.
