Author: Allyson

  • The Weekly Feast – Garlic Pull-Apart Bread

    The Weekly Feast – Garlic Pull-Apart Bread

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    This stuff is crack. It’s worse than potato chips. You can’t just eat one. They’re so yummy that you won’t be able to help yourself. It can be made with margarine instead of butter and it turns out okay, but if you can digest dairy, use butter. Ingredients for the dough: 1/4 cup warm water…

  • The Babylon Bee Wins Again

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    I catch the Babylon Bee now and again, and they’ve come up with some really hysterical stuff. When I saw this video, however, I just cringed. Can I use my safeword to avoid listening to the new drivel? Ouch. The fact that the BB had to put commentary at the bottom was… terrifying.

  • Prepping – Fitness

    Prepping – Fitness

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    I’m writing this while I pant heavily, sitting in my chair at my desk. I’ve just finished cleaning bunny cages and exercising, and I’m dripping with sweat despite it being a mere 58*F in my room. I’m exhausted and aching. I am not fit. I’ve seen this topic touched on a few times in the…

  • The Bi-weekly Reminder

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    I am about to embark upon something on Facebook and possibly other social media. I am going to start posting up every second Monday, asking people what rights they have lost in the previous two weeks. I am going to make this a relatively serious question, because frankly, if someone actually *does* have their rights…

  • Inauguration Blues

    Inauguration Blues

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    I’m behind enemy lines, and I don’t like it. SIGH So as a member of the renaissance faire community, a lot of my acquaintances and many of my friends are to the Left. Since I’m selling my goods to them, I have a reason to keep politics out of my social media, and out of…

  • The Weekly Feast – Turmeric Meatballs

    The Weekly Feast – Turmeric Meatballs

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    Meatballs are the ultimate feast food, in my opinion. There are as many ways to make them as there are cooks, and maybe more. This recipe was created based upon a video by Country Life Vlog in Azerbaijan, Turkey. While Aziza (the cook) doesn’t give you amounts or any real instructions, I pieced this together…

  • Prepping – Disease

    Prepping – Disease

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    Mask mandates probably weren’t the best thing out there, but I’ve seen enough evidence to know that masks do help stop the transmission of many illnesses. Vaccine mandates probably aren’t the best thing out there, but a lot of long-standing vaccines are the reason we don’t have people in iron lungs anymore. Disease and illness…

  • Abandoning Community

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    This came up on my Facebook feed this morning. I had to read it four or five times to “get it.” The person who posted this believes (or so I understand) that because unfair-to-Right practices (and frankly, unfair-to-American practices) are being rolled back and gotten rid of, that “they” (presumably the Right and/or Trump and/or…

  • The Weekly Feast – Oyster Soup

    The Weekly Feast – Oyster Soup

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    “In all her life Laura had never tasted anything so good as that savory, fragrant, sea-tasting hot milk, with golden dots of melted cream and black specks of pepper on its top, and the little dark canned oysters at its bottom. She sipped slowly, slowly from her spoon, to keep that taste going over her…

  • Prepping – The Grey Man

    Prepping – The Grey Man

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    We’ve used the term “grey man” a few times over the last couple of years. There’s been a bit of debate over what it is, how useful it is, and when to use it. I wanted to address a bit of that. For me at least, the “grey man” is the person who just blends…