As its titanic anniversary time I'm going to I'm going to recreate some recipes served aboard the titanic this week.

Today i made a few 3rd class menu items-- currant buns and rice soup. I saw currant buns on this website and used tasting history with max miller's recipe for rice soup.

The rice soup was basically rice gruel but I liked it. Nothing fancy! Not much to this recipe so the cayenne and mace really go a long way, but still it's hard to have bad soup. I liked it enough i just had a big bowl by itself.

But as i understand it it would've been a first course option on the last day before the sinking.

I made a gf version of the currant buns--they were sweet and still yeasted. Again nothing fancy but a totally enjoyable.

If you've ever looked at any of the 1st class menu items you know the 3rd class menu is much much simpler but honestly there's a lot there and I'd be totally happy with the 3rd class food.

BUT as the week goes on I'm gonna try some fancier stuff.

Today I did some 2nd class menu items

I made "cocoanut sandwiches" which are delightful sandwich cookies i would eat any time.

Big success for a coconut fan like me. There was nothing in this recipe that threw me for a loop except nutmeg, but that was nice.

I also made roasted turkey (i did 2 breasts and some drumsticks bc getting a whole unfrozen turkey outside of thanksgiving is um $$) and cranberry sauce and puréed turnips.

The pureed turnips were, um, not my fave lol. The recipe for this and the cookies both is from downton abbey cooks, and I'm unsure of the historical veracity. But it had honey and cardamom which sounded interesting but didn't really compete against the turnip.

No one who's tried it has liked it yet lol. I've had reactions from neutral but wouldn't choose it to weird to spitting it out.

I had to do a bit of research to find a gilded age recipe for cranberry sauce to see if it would even be substantially different. And i found one from 1905 that is basically familiar with the exception of a substantial amount of vinegar.

I liked it a lot! I didn't make as much as listed and i think proportionally used less vinegar (apple cider vinegar) but it added a fun tang. But I'm a huge cranberry fan too.

And the roast turkey is just roast turkey. Altho in trying to nod to baking techniques of the day i used more fresh herbs instead of like a dry rub, which is probably what I'd do on my own. Herbs were thyme, sage, rosemary, and brushed with butter.

I roasted the turnips under the turkey, with celery and fennel (bc i can't have onions and fennel is my main substitute) and and carrots. The carrots were great and maybe the turnips would have been better plain than they were puréed.

Continuing this thing I'm doing now! I returned to tasting history with max miller and recreated his choice for the fanciest of crew meals the captain and purser would have eaten-- sirloin steak with chateau potatoes and bernaise sauce.

The château potatoes were definitely on the menus elsewhere for 1st class and maybe even 2nd. But they're potatoes carved down to a sort of olive shape and size, fried in clarified butter.

Its a pain in the ass and i didn't even try to do a better job. They're fucking delicious but just get teeny tiny baby potats for the same frying experience.

The big complex part, if you're really confident in your steak and potato cooking abilities i guess, is the bernaise sauce.

Which is just like a hollandaise sauce with an herb reduction in white wine and tarragon vinegar. And I'm a freak who makes hollandaise sauce sometimes so this didn't really scare me as much as i thought it would.

If you're not familiar with tarragon its a bit like anise but way less potent which makes it very preferable to me.

Just getting it all done at the same time is the hardest part but it was goddamn delicious. A+++ check out the tasting history for details about the crew which were really interesting. If i wanted to make something more representative of the crew experience tho, it'd probably just be more like the 3rd class menu but i wanted to make things I've never tried before.

And the finale of this little cooking adventure, 1st class recipes from the titanic's final night

I made poached salmon with mousseline sauce and creamed carrots and oysters a la russe, with champagne and sorbet.

I enlisted my sister's help in making and eating this, and in watching titanic 1997

Went to the fresh meat market near my sisters for the salmon and oysters which was an excellent choice. They were very good.

I undercooked the salmon a bit but I've never poached fish before so ☹️ i did recently fry salmon in oregon perfectly tho so I'm gonna blame poaching and not me. The salmon was still tasty tho bc salmon just is and I'd rather undercook salmon than over cook it.

Also salmon's best friend is mousseline sauce, everyone. Holy cow. It's like dilly extra creamy hollandaise. If you know how hollndaise sauce is made, do yourself a favor and make salmon with mousseline sauce. You don't even need to poach it.

As a side for this i picked creamed carrots which were surprisingly cinnamon heavy and surprisingly good.

And oysters a la rousse was an appetizer on the titanic but we had them last. The a la rousse is a relish with tomato, vodka, lemon juice, and horseradish and it is dope. I know oysters are divisive but this tomato relish would be good on any seafood i think.

And i just didn't have the energy in me to make the actual 1st class champagne punch, punch romaine, since you make a champagne sorbet which sounds great but. Like. Ive done so much already.

So we had some cheap ass korbel champagne with a store bought raspberry sorbet and it fucked.

Anyway, i rewatched titanic for like the 30th time and still cried. My heart will ho on etc. What a great night.

Feel free to reblog from the source and ignore this addition but I just wanted to add to this for people who truly do not get it:

Society tries to trick fat people into thinking their lives will get better when they’re skinny because “you’ll feel better skinny because your body is healthier” and shit like “you’ll act more confident and people respond better to confidence.”

This is to absolve themselves, on a personal level, of fatphobia. It is to say FAT PEOPLE make their own lives harder and skinny, midsize, even other fat people do not make it worse. The fatphobia is made up, not real. Not systemic. Not a constant in interpersonal relationships.

This is a lie.

I lost about ~40% of my body weight. Some of the kindest, least judgmental, socially aware, anti-discrimination people almost immediately started treating me better. I could even just MENTION that I was trying to lose weight, that I had only lost 1 pound, 5 pounds, 10 pounds (while still being “obese” by arbitrary medical standards) and people would treat me better.

Again, these are people who never, ever used fatphobic language. Who never shamed me out loud for being 214 pounds. Who I thought loved me to the best of their ability.

And it made me realize… everyone is fatphobic until they actively unlearn fatphobia.

If you think you aren’t fatphobic, I assure you, you are. And I think you need to mentally check yourself when you are interacting with fat people.

Are you withholding affection? Are you avoiding touching them when you’d touch someone else? Do you immediately try to avoid certain activities with them? Are you PUSHING activities onto them that you think will make them less fat? Do you avoid clothes shopping with them and going to stores with clothes for fat people? Do you avoid gifting them clothes because you don’t want to ever talk about sizes with them?

What do you avoid talking about with fat friends?

Do you complain about your own weight, “feeling fat?”

Do you push YOUR insecurities onto your fat friends?

Do you avoid being seen with them?

What are you excluding fat people in your life from?

Do you have internalized biases? Do you quietly think to yourself that they’re eating too much, that they’re lazy or selfish? Do you assume they’re unhealthy? Do you blame them for what they’re going through?

Do you make it clear you’re willing to listen when they want to talk about this?

What do you do to make sure the fat people in your life know you love them AS IS?

#i don’t think ppl realize just how oppressive fatphobia is#and leftist spaces haven’t quite caught onto it yet outside of explicitly fat liberationist spaces#so literal left wing communist social justice people will be horrifically fatphobic all while denying systemic fatphobia#meanwhile there are SIGNIFICANT hurdles in employment and pay and medical care for fat people#we are less likely to be employed#less likely to be in positions of authority#make less than our thin peers#and are literally more likely to die bc a doctor just didn’t feel like treating us#so many fat ppl have died from completely treatable illnesses bc a doctor decided they were just fat and didn’t need tests or treatment#i will never forget the story of a fat woman who went to the doctor for shortness of breath for like 5 years until they FINALLY did tests#and found out she had stage 4 lung cancer#or the story of another fat person who’d been seeking treatment for difficulty walking#only to be ignored for a decade#and it turned out it was a massive spinal tumor that eventually paralyzed them#like#fuck y’all just truly do not realize how severe fatphobia is#especially when you’re not cishet and white

white people please just purchase native artwork and jewelry from native people i keep seeing idiot white people be like “waaah i wish i could support native creators but its cultural appropriation” girl why would beaders sell you their earrings then. just dont get a medicine wheel or a thunderbird then like damn it is that easy

http://www.beyondbuckskin.com/p/buy-native.html?m=1

If Native folks are making it to sell to white people with the approval of their tribe, it’s not “appropriation”–its support and appreciation! So yes, buy that native-made dream catcher, but not the mass produced fakes made by white people. Like, you can go to a pow wow and buy native crafts there, too.

here are some places to get native/indigenous goods and merch online if you can’t find something local or if physical access is an obstacle:

https://sweetgrasstradingco.com/ https://nativeharvest.com/ https://byellowtail.com/ https://www.salishstyle.com/ https://trickstercompany.com/ https://hutxh.com/ https://www.thentvs.com/ https://urbannativeera.com/ https://www.oxdxclothing.com/ https://kotahbear.com/ https://www.totemdesignhouse.com/ https://ginewusa.com/ https://eighthgeneration.com/

and the only native-owned comic shop in the world: https://redplanetbooksncomics.com/

funds for indigenous communities affected by the canada wildefires *updated*

updates (as of 6 june 2023):

i’ll update this as i find more fundraising initiatives and please free to share your own. reblogs with anything than sharing resources/mutual aid requests/fundraising opportunities get blocked. 

(which do you use most often, used most often as a kid, most memories, you identify with are all acceptable answers. which highway is THE highway, which one is yours?)

ClubQ in Colorado Springs has planned to build a lasting memorial to the victims of last year’s massacre. Donations can be made, or items can be purchased in their shop to benefit them.

bloop

thinking that mr. brightside, a usamerican song by a usamerican band which is one of the most popular songs of the last 30 years, is something that is only popular among brits is funny enough on its own but to say sweet caroline, a song by usamerican icon neil diamond about *caroline kennedy* which is a mainstay of boston sports specifically and usamerican events across the country generally, is also a song only brits know is just hysterical you’ll have to drag me off the internet by my fucking toenails i love it here

Do they even like Led Zepplin over in the UK? I always thought of them as the band that made baseball walk-up songs

“there are no videos of anyone singing sweet caroline at a sports function”

Reina del Cid is one of my favorite musicians. Her YouTube has some amazing covers.

But this Star Trek engineering rap is just delightful.

Reina's Instagram

Oggi e sempre ✊

transl: “better a faggot than a fascist”

Also caption translation: Today and forever

Headcanon that when many bards of the era immediately after the Calamity refer to a seemingly ambiguous beautiful woman, they’re usually describing Laerryn Coramar-Seelie.

Quay’s broadcast caught fire in the minds of the surviving bards, the passionate plea and beautiful memorial serving as a near endless source of motivation and inspiration.

And many of them already wrote love songs, poems and stories, so when their own life yielded no one beloved or striking enough to call a muse, they wrote odes to “the most beautiful woman in the world.”

Most simply allowed the lyrics to transfer onto whoever in their life was worth dedicating love songs to.

But the bards knew it for what it was: An answer to a call to remember.

Coincidentally, today is Valentine's Day in Brazil. ❤️🇧🇷

This was only 55 years ago. You can understand a lot of what’s wrong with the US if you realize that the average age of our elected senators is about 63. “Good old days” is a dogwhistle.

Our current Supreme Court might’ve ruled against the Lovings.

The largest mass shooting in American history was a hate crime against gay people. Don’t ever forget that.

June 12, 2016. Putting a date on this for when it gets reblogged months from now by people who think the post is about something from 30, 40 years ago.

I am a survivor of the Pulse nightclub shooting, having grown up in Orlando and just turned 20 a month prior. If you didn’t know, there were several families who refused to claim the bodies of their relatives due to their sexuality. One family even had their relative’s name removed from the memorial. Murdered by the same hate with which their families reject them in both life and death.

Many, many people celebrated Pulse. We were told we deserved it. That it was God’s punishment for our sin of loving the same sex. We are sent messages like these I received in 2018:

We in the community often call the victim count 49+ to include the survivors who couldn’t live with the pain.

The event was never officially declared a hate crime or targeted homophobic attack and is rarely listed as one in databases.

At our vigils for those slaughtered, Extremist Christian groups showed up to protest, holding signs like this:

ID: Me kissing a woman I was casually seeing in front of an angry looking man with a “Sodomy is Sin” sign.

Please understand how much more than just a mass shooting this was. We are still to this day harassed and told we deserved it by some.

This year was the sixth anniversary. The first couple years I received dozens of messages checking in on me on 6/12. Year 5 got enough news coverage for people to think to reach out to me. This year it was my therapist, the woman I kissed in that photo, and a couple of other gun violence survivor friends. People are forgetting already.

With the 7 year anniversary <2 weeks away, I figured I’d reblog this

Description: [A video of a woman riding a galloping horse bareback while holding a large rainbow flag.]

i felt like these tags really added to the experience, thanks @cynderxdustypaws for your knowledge

Omg that might be even better

Well it is indeed very hard to resist that cilt simulation

I’m always thinking about those 3 things

The Evening World, New York, March 16, 1908

Reblog if you too are a real amiable sort of freak with a very wide smile, just keeping pace.

"Humans out-competed other hominids because of tendencies toward violence and domination." Ummmm

(X, X)

Early Man be fishin' (and being eaten)

(X, X)

Wisdom of the Ancestors like: if you have a rival, have you considered kissing them?

There is considerable evidence that the neanderthals went extinct not necessarily because of violence with humans but because we fucked em so much they got assimilated into our gene pool

#see we are definitely going to fuck aliens