Hmm, I don't have an exact recipe, I usually free hand my meals. But I can roughly describe the process.

For seitan: I had made some veggie broth the other day and saved the cooked vegetables and mushrooms from it, which I blended into a mush, then added some random spices and herbs (basil, chili, paprika, garlic powder, salt, pepper, cumin), and a shitload of vital wheat gluten, then kneaded it until fairly solid. I then cooked the seitan in the broth for like half an hour. I saved the broth afterwards, I find it gets even richer after having seitan cooked in it. I cubed the seitan mass and put it aside. I only used half of the seitan I made because there was so much of it.

The goulash sauce was even more random, I just picked stuff I found around the kitchen that I found fitting. I took about two spoons of tahini, an ancho, a few garlic cloves, some tomato paste, miso paste, and again random spices and a little agave syrup. I blended it all with a little water, then started heating it in a pot. I chopped a white onion finely and threw it into the sauce, and let it simmer for a while, then added the seitan cubes and some frozen peas and carrots (from a cheap frozen mix I bought ages ago). I topped off with water, added a little soy sauce and vinegar to taste, let it simmer until it had a nice consistency.

That's pretty much it. Served with plain potatoes.

Thank you :)

same, same

The "minor prizes" like the one I got were checks to be cashed in, the perfect score girl prize was more like a grant though.

And yeah I too was surprised and while I was happy at the time (which kid wouldn't, right), it does feel weird now lol. My guess is that they fucked up their budget for the year and needed to burn the money for tax reasons?

For my graduation (non-American country btw), the top like 30 students in school got awards. I was at place 21 or 22 and got like the equivalent of $100. The girl who got #1 (and she had like perfect grades all around, with a shitload of extracurriculars etc) won some fancy language trip across Europe or some shit, said to be worth like $4000.

Prior to the graduation ceremony I had no idea they were even giving out prizes lol, best I ever got before that was a book

I live in a country where strip clubs don't really exist (I mean I've heard of like one existing, that's it) but when I was 18 or 19 a bar I frequented had an events night where they hired two strippers: a girl and a guy. I went out of curiosity and honestly I felt weird afterwards, standing in a crowd of horny men looking at a woman undressing, and everybody also theatrically showing disgust at the male stripper because "that's gay". Weird shit.

I have however been to burlesque and that's a cool show, horny but also artsy and fun.

It might be because that person has no idea what words mean

They think that socialism = communism and social democracy = socialism

Though now that I think of it, we did buy also a few rugs and some other minor shit that probably runs up like another $200 or so, and we got some old trash from my parents before we changed it out for better shit (and also, the thrifted kitchen chairs were found by them)

We recently moved and had to furnish a whole new house. We had some minor stuff of our own from before like a desk, an office chair, some drawers and a TV, but not even a bed otherwise.

Save for a new bed matress, we bought it all second hand, off local thrift groups, in thrift stores etc etc:

• nice hardwood bed frame for $30
• a beautiful vintage "rococo-style" desk for $80
• two vintage chairs in the same style for $30
• this one is more expensive, but absolutely beautiful: a copper-plated coffe table with a world map motif for $100
• vintage 2 person sofa, still same fucken style, $50
• vintage drawer $40, another one in a different style for a different room but also similar price
• rustic kitchen table $40
• 6 fitting chairs for the kitchen $40
• cute corner cupboard $10
• free bookshelf

...and more. We are now fully furnished, and really nicely so (seriously, it's beautiful furniture), and it all went for under $700. Now this is over like 5-6 months and took us a fair amount of looking, but we needed to just browse the thrift sites and have access to a car for easy transport, ppl offload really beautiful shit for cheap all the time.

It's not well-written and makes no actual sense ("as easy as grating parmesan", but it obviously looks like the server is struggling?) but here the customer is more the butt of the joke imo. He is shown to be unreasonable, while the server is the straight man who has to indulge the customer weirdo. I'm with the person before me, it's a bad commercial but not like egregiously extremely bad like some can get

No, this was a regular (electric) oven set to 225C. We don't use the wood oven too often because it takes ages to fire it up haha

it's nothing fancy but wow it's so tasty. I used some of the cashew cheese I made way back and it made it so creamy