Personally speaking, carb heaviness is my go to criterion for comfort foodiness and I like to get some vegetables in too at the same go to make a meal feel more substantial. First loading up some carbs as dinner followed by going for a walk - whether long or short - kinda rules as a lifestyle choice. Carbs really seem to help me mellow down and if this counts as emotional eating, it seems still to hold up quite well sustainability wise.

As a concrete recipe, I like spaghetti with classic tomato sauce, especially with butter beans (aka large lima beans), but small variations keep it fresh. I do not respect any notion of authenticity, so take "classic" with a grain of salt. Olive oil, onions, garlic, crushed and pureed tomatoes, wine, vegetable stock (powder is most convenient), herbs and pepper is the basic ingredient list.

The recipe itself:

1. sautèe onions in olive oil on medium high heat until translucent (with other aromatic vegetables like bell peppers or carrots if you wish)
2. add tomato paste and stir it to mix it.
3. Add crushed or minced garlic and continue sautèing them for 30 seconds after which you swiftly mix in a can of crushed tomatoes. (Pro-tip: open the can before mixing garlic in!)
4. Then add the all the other ingredients save for the herbs and let it simmer on low heat. How long? I do it by ear, so I don't know really. The sauce will look quite different by the time it has cooked long enough and has become thickened by onions that soften and melt into the sauciness. 10 to 15 minutes until I start boiling pasta, I guess.
5. Pasta boiling is a fine moment to dump dried herbs in too. Fresh ones can go in when you mix pasta and sauce together.
6. Top the serving on your plate with grated cheese. Parmesan is supposedly delicious and my experience confirms it, but cheese is to a degree cheese here.

Vartations:

1. Keeping it simple at first and exploring variations one at a time, savoring and appreciating things on their own terms is probably why this has been a staple for so long.
2. Lima beans are my personal favorite thing to add on this, after adding crushed tomatoes. It's what I like to serve guests. But minced meat, many other beans and tuna work well. These are indeed some of my favorite proteins here.
3. Olives, hot peppers, eggplants, some mushroom as well. Chanterelles like the aciditiy of tomatoes. Take care with carrots: they are indeed sweet enough to potentially make the whole dish too damn sweet.
4. A little Worcestershire sauce and a tea spoon of sugar are interesting options as well to bring out some umami flavors. Speaking of umami, there's real unexplored territory imho when it comes to classic tomato sauce. Fish sauce could be marvelous!

Hey thanks for noticing and telling me - however late, I still fixed the link. Amps are a true pestilence of modern internet.

Greg Sadler, this guy and then peeps who post old interviews = the triumvirate of philosophy youtube.

For a supposedly meaningless game, it had such a delightfully bonkers narrative that really ends up being more memorable than the vast majority of game stories.

This vid convinced me that it's time to crack those comic books.

BTW, the Simpsons vid on the channel is quite good as well.

This vid convinced me that it's time to crack those comic books.

BTW, the Simpsons vid on the channel is quite good as well.

My condolences.

I've only read The Stranger by Camus and not much Existentialism proper, so take this with a grain of salt. Imho Camus wanted to make his own thing with Existentialism, so I would say it's an attempt to overcome nihilism.

your nick is pretty cool

romance isn't dead

Just something I saw and spoke to me.

Various and heterogeneous, from real political ones as de facto supporting US interests, eschatological ones concerning Israel's place in the second coming of Jesus such as with right wing evangelicals, tradition of Zionism proper from The Jewish State of Theodor Herzl forward.

Also, states use whatever bullshit necessary to bolster their actions, Israel is not wholly special in that regard.

I thought for a little while that gamergate was about ants. Like it had become a meme or something, I wasn't aware of the controversy. That was an innocent day or two before checking out what it was actually about.

Hearing lofi hiphop in a coffee advert felt like all the good will I had felt toward the studious girl in a gif had evaporated.

Yeah, but, like, I don't know what KonMari is except that it's about throwing things away and there was some racism brouahaha on social media back in the day and everyone had to take a strong stance on keeping the household neat and tidy.

The footage, however, is so realistic it's indistinguishable from the real deal if it were attempted. Stanley Kubrick spent a year sculpting a 1:1 scale model out of cheese and his notoriously perfectionistic tendencies led the NASA to think it would have been easier to go to the real moon instead.

Why I wrote this: social media is a big part of contemporary lives yet I don't really see much in the way how to use it well as an individual, save for fear mongering and counter mongering. I remember /u/devtesla posting an article once on Rihanna's social media use which seemed pretty cool and aspirational and which was pretty much about embracing less.

Yeah, the Yuzu blogger seems pretty good at turning bugfixes into stories.

I'm proud to have been a part of his audience before the haversplosion.

Honestly I am quite technical an user and I really haven't stumbled upon an IRC client that I really like, approximately in the same way as I enjoy using a well-designed toaster. The one I used the longest was the one in Emacs! Discord is kinda pretty ok if you forget about the corporate side.

There are guides to getting books you want on IRC. I haven't used them for fiction but they seem to have the goods. I suspect you can figure out the rest yourself.

Mutual aid above copyright, always.

Didn't except to see such a clear example of unnecessary asymptomatic complexity in a video game.

Normalize pineapple on pizza!

She's a very good essayist, actually. I haven't yet read her fiction save for two short stories, actually. She's on my list, however.

Did you read to the end?