I made a Honeycrisp apple pie with crumble top. Happy Thanksgiving π
First I macerated the peeled, sliced apples in Β½ cup of sugar, 1 tbsp dark maple syrup, and a bit of lime juice for about 30 minutes. Then I strained the juice and set the fruit aside.
The tasty juice prior to being strained
Cooked the juice down and thickened it with tapioca.
Blind baked this butter crust I made yesterday at 200Β° C (400 F) for about 20 minutes with pie weights in parchment, then another 10 with said weights removed.
Filled the bottom with the apples, then baked for about 10 minutes more until the crumble top was golden. π₯§
Following up in order to bring this thread into compliance with the Food Porn Act of 2012, Β§ 3.14 which states: "All baked goods displayed must include at least one depiction of a cross section."
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The idea that the only reason I'm not straight is a lack of attraction to the entire female body *minus the vulva* is insane. Exactly 0% of the female body is inherently arousing to me. Masculine features on a female body doesn't turn those wheels for me.
If I had interest in having sex with female people I'd have skipped those extra steps and just sought out a female partner, with kids and the whole nine yards. Don't come to me 20 years after I settled this in my head asking why I'm not into vagina. The answer is no.
I don't isolate any part of the body to fixate on in particular. All of his parts must be male for me to have any romantic or sexual interest. That ain't a fetish, kids, it's just my sexual orientation.
I just had a very old and dear friend express the "unvaxxed people are stupid and if they die of COVID they deserve it" sentiment to me, and I've sat and thought a while before responding. I managed to express why this bothers me so much, and will share in this thread. πͺ‘𧡠1/6
The sentiment my friend expressed is really not uncommon. I think the fear that was pounded into people by the corporate media and public health messaging is largely to blame, but I can't pretend I don't find the thinking flawed and frankly abhorrent. 2/6
I'm a recovering drug addict. It's been 3 years and change since I stopped using meth. Before the crash and burn on crystal in 2018, I was severely alcoholic for about 7 years. 3/6
It may horrify some viewers to learn this, but most gay men don't center their entire lives around women.
This and more news of horrific misogyny at 11.
Things I don't need:
β’ incessant reminders that lesbians / women have it worse.
β’ demands to frame issues through a victim hierarchy.
β’ approval from strangers based on the fact that we agree on a few controversial subjects.
Yes, I will speak my mind on issues that affect me personally. That's what we all do. You're just virtue signaling if you say otherwise.
If you'd like more voices to speak up, encourage them without demands they adhere to your worldview. Or cut your nose to spite your face idgaf
I regret to inform Harry Styles that the 80s did in fact happen.
While there's plenty of harmless good fun to be had in gender-bending, it's pretty weak to talk as if you invented something new and revolutionary when it was being done by better artists before you were born.
Looks like some Harry Styles stans are big mad. π
3 years ago today I checked into rehab. I haven't touched drugs or alcohol since, and I don't miss them.
It's easily the best decision I ever made.
I'd be lying if I said I don't regret not getting help sooner or better yet, never starting at all. I wasted so much time and money, and did some pretty awful things.
But I do my best to not live in the "what if", and to stay in gratitude. Plenty of people die or fuck up way worse, often irreparably so, or never stop the cycle at all.
My mother told me this morning that while she did have an ultrasound while pregnant with me, they wouldn't tell her my sex by policy back then. So I asked how anyone knew I'm male and apparently it was in fact revealed at birth by a method called "look down, see penis." 𧡠1/9
I was aghast. "You mean there isn't a shadowy cabal of doctors in a worldwide conspiracy to arbitrarily assign a gender to each and every baby, sentencing them with the stroke of a pen to a life sentence in gender prison?!" 2/9
She then asked me if I was off my meds but confirmed that in fact, there is no such grand conspiracy. But why then, friends, have I been constrained into a box my entire life by Societyβ’, if not for that M on my birth certificate or the dangly doodle betwixt my legs? 3/9