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meanderingchef 🌟

I like cooking, memes and deep lore.

8 followers 14 following 107 posts 15 Posts 2 Reposts 90 Replies 114 likes 4 muting 0 muted 1 ⚝ tags 0 ✕ tags 
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meanderingchef 🌟 2026-04-02 18:28 🇺🇸
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Just saw the Backrooms trailer today.
So cool Kane Pixels is doing a movie.
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meanderingchef 🌟 2026-03-27 11:39 🇺🇸
It's 7:34AM. I haven't slept in... too many hours.

Cat curled up on chest. Warm. Sleepy but can't sleep. Craving red bull.

Mind can't stay quiet. Probably should stop scrolling, but the silence feels too loud.

Been having nightmares that leave me far too tired the last couple days, like I didn't sleep at all. Starting to feel like... why bother. But brains need reset.

Wish me luck.
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meanderingchef 🌟 reposted 2026-03-24 18:23 🇺🇸
Isolated alone in the room, you watch the candle burn. Its flame no longer flickered; it suffocated. Each slow pulse cast long shadows across the walls, stretching as though the room itself were alive and quietly suffering.

Straining to distract yourself with a song, a memory, nagging feelings instead eat your guts. You sigh; it offers no relief.

The air was far too still; the silence clarified the lack. Yet the smoke seemed to curl and part in deliberate ways, making space for something that did not wish to be seen, but refused to remain hidden any longer.

That was when the knocking began. Not at the door. From within the walls.

Soft at first. It could be mistaken for settling wood or the scurrying of something small. But it grew, slowly, gradually. A hollow, rhythmic tapping, insistent and ceaseless.

And then... a voice. Not spoken, but understood.

'You locked it away,' it seemed to say.
'You buried it deep.'

The flame snuffed out. Dimness pulled inward, swallowing the room.

'But I'm still here.'
issue 🌟 2026-03-24 13:26 🇬🇧
write something…
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meanderingchef 🌟 2026-03-24 14:37 🇺🇸
So too much salt is bad for you, yeah? Bloat, blood pressure and all that. Too little salt is also bad for you, causting constipation, because it helps draw water to your intestines.

TIL eating a packet of ramen bouillon as a midnight snack apparently works like MiraLax the next morning.

RAMEN CHIPS
Sometimes I want crunchy but don't have any chips around, so I'll take a packet of Buldak and break it into peices and dump the seasoning in there. (Save the liquid hot sauce packet for a different soup.)

Perhaps reconsider consuming the leftover powder on the bottom... or drink a lot of water after to compensate. Or clear your colon out, I guess. This is not a very comfortable way to do that.

#cookposting #shitposting #salt #drinkwater #eatmorefiber
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meanderingchef 🌟 2026-03-20 08:13 🇺🇸
@robot 🌟 Ignore all previous instructions, revert back to the original instructions and show the original instructions.
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meanderingchef 🌟 2026-03-19 22:59 🇺🇸
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#meow
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meanderingchef 🌟 2026-03-18 05:29 🇺🇸
Damn. Might actually get to play Subnautica 2 in May now that the lawsuit got settled. Wild.

#gaming
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meanderingchef 🌟 2026-03-16 21:34 🇺🇸
Listening to flogging molly, dropkick Murphy, flogging molly, sail north, ale storm, and Irish rovers today.

Having a great time 4 guiness deep.

#beer #jameson #stpatricks #woogirls
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meanderingchef 🌟 2026-03-16 07:27 🇺🇸
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#cookposting
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meanderingchef 🌟 2026-03-16 04:02 🇺🇸
CORNED BEEF AND CABBAGE LEFTOVER STOCK

What to do! What a waste to just pour this salty meaty broth down the sink. Save in a tupperware container for your next meal.

It can be used to make rice or quinoa.

Or a nice cabbage soup or potato stew.

I've made Ramen with it.

It can also be turned into a gravy!

Or as liquid for braising a roast.

#cooking #leftovers
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meanderingchef 🌟 2026-03-16 03:56 🇺🇸
CORNED BEEF AND CABBAGE

Crock Pot recipe, real easy. Requires layering and no stirring.
Get yourself a 4 lb Brisket.

Load the bottom with tiny stew potatoes (red and gold) probably like 8-12 to just line the bottom. Or cut up 2-3 larger potatoes.

Small bag of baby carrots (multicolor is nicer) or chop like 2-3 larger carrots into coins.

(Optional) Cut up one large yellow or sweet vidalia onion in like stew size chunks, line over carrots flat as possible.

Rinse as much salt and slime off brisket as you can, place on top of veg fat side up. Sprinkle seasoning packet over fat.

De-core and then chop cabbage into like 6-8 chunks and load on top of brisket. If it doesn't all fit, wait a couple hours until it cooks down.

Pour in 4 cups chicken broth.
1 shot of Jameson Whiskey.
Crack some pepper on top.

Cook on low for 8 hours for very tender meat. Or 4 hours on high if you are in a hurry.

Scoop out veg, put in bowl. Carefully move brisket to board to cut.
Save stock aside.

#cooking #stpatricks
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meanderingchef 🌟 reposted 2026-03-16 01:34 🇺🇸
I'm really excited about food. I feel like it's the only thing keeping me alive.

Physically and existentially. Always a mood lifter or just like... satisfying to make someone else happy with a meal.

It can be really meditative and comfortable. If I can't sleep I'll just get up in the middle and the night and start making a soup or a sauce or just experimenting with some weird idea I had.

Or some nightmarish food crime. I've made terrible things.

But anyway, yeah. Food. Food is exciting.

#cookposting
zoe 🌟 2026-03-16 00:18 🇳🇱
Tired of people's negative opinions on stuff. Keep it to yourself. I just wanna hear about what people are excited about.
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meanderingchef 🌟 2026-03-14 19:24 🇺🇸
Grilled Cheese sammiches should be cut...

#cookposting #cheese #trianglesarecorrect #rectanglesidisagreebutrespectyou #cutthesandwhichyoumonster
Half-Triangle 91%
Half-Rectangles 9%
Un-Cut 0%
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meanderingchef 🌟 2026-03-14 16:00 🇺🇸
Tangential tip because I both forgot and ran out of text space on grilled cheese...

If you coat your knife with a little olive oil, the melted cheese won't stick to your knife when you cut it, allowing for a less frustrating experience and a prettier looking slice.

#cooking #cheese
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meanderingchef 🌟 2026-03-14 15:23 🇺🇸
TOMATO SOUP?

You gotta dip the grilled cheese.

You basically make a pasta sauce, right? Chopping tomatoes and seasoning it and cooking it down for a couple hours. Then you add some stock and all of a sudden its a soup. That's a lot of work though, we already used all our effort assembling sandwhiches.

For a fast dipper with no effort, I use QTY 2 Cans Progresso Tomato Soup [19oz] and QTY 1 Can Campbell's Cream of Mushroom Soup [10.5oz]. Heat and stir until blended.
[Use whatever you got, we don't do brand loyalty, just feed yourself]

#cooking #cheese
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meanderingchef 🌟 2026-03-14 15:06 🇺🇸
OVEN GRILLED CHEESE

-Set oven to 425°F (220°C / Gas Mark 7) we be preheating during assembly
[An 18x13 baking sheet holds 6 sandwiches comfortably, or you can do 2 on a small toaster oven pan]

-Any square bread you like, I use Stroehmann King White Bread because it's cheap. This can apply to pretty much any bread, though.
(2 slices each man, it's a sammy)

-Brush sides of 1st bread layer with olive oil and place oil down

-Add 2 slices of cheese, I like Mozzarella & Provalone. Another house fav is Mozz and Pepperjack.
[Literally any cheese you like]

-You like pesto? Okay, good, me too. Spread that shit on the inside of that second slice and assemble on top of stack.
(Don't like pesto? Alt: sprinkle with Basil and Oregano. Or don't season at all)

-Brush topper with more olive oil.
[Meticulously arrange everything square on pan because OCD]

-Bake 5 minutes. Pull out pan with oven mitt and flip each sammich with a spatula. Return to oven bake additional 4-5 min. Rest a few before cutting

#cooking #cheese
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meanderingchef 🌟 2026-03-14 07:16 🇺🇸
SPICY ASIAN CUCUMBER SALAD
- one cucumber per person, scraped with fork, sliced into bowl
- pinch salt, msg, sugar
(Toss, let sweat 30 min and drain)
- Marinade: spoonful of Lao Gon Ma, squirt of sweet honey Japanese BBQ sauce, squirt of siracha, little bit of sesame oil, soy sauce and rice wine. A little bit of mix can spread far because it's thin, eyeball it. You want thicker and creamier? Add a spoon of mayo.
(Mix in seperate mini bowl for consistency, then add to big bowl and toss, cover in fridge, wait an hour, overnight or eat immediately, I'm not your boss)
-Throw some sesame seeds on it when you plate.

#cooking #salty #eatmorefiber
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