Making Mom's Beef Stew (Vegetarianized)

 

Making stew Mom's way, but vegetarianized with mushrooms and fake ground beef chunks instead of real beef. 

Adding a bit of garlic powder, touch of butter in the onion/fake meat frying, a little more conservative on the black pepper, same on the celery (generous) and carrots and potatoes roughly; overcooking the veggies being fine to add to the sloppiness of the stew.

Seasoning with veggie bouillon, black pepper, bif of garlic powder, and just a pinch of salt in the pre-fying/caramelizing of the onions with fake meat before stewing.

And... The part I never realized... Cornstarch slurry 😅

Again 😅😅

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Having a conversation with Virtute.

(Meowing very realistically.)

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I'm a big girl now so I can have an Oreo before dinner.

STICK (grocery store edition)

PSA do not mess with me and my emotional support stick at no frills. (It's a sugar cane from fresh produce).

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It was both a happy distraction thinking about twirling the stick and Flo staffing, and also made me feel safe. It has been over a year I think since I have lost not felt panicked in the grocery store so this was really great! 

At one point I was going to put it down so that I can more easily get a produce bag. But after I set it down, a guy turned and looked at me weird, and I turned back around fully and making full eye contact picked the stick back up, mentally saying “it’s mine!” (Like a dog.) he gave me a bit of distance but followed me around the grocery store. Inside an aisle, where I had the feeling he was going to make his way inside. Soon, when he did I started twirling the stick a bit, not wildly but solidly with both feet firm on the ground.

I did not see him again 😂 

Bo/flow staffing and buff by flowers

Threads post:

Girls: What are we doing to feel more "whimsical"?

https://www.threads.com/@livvybakker/post/DY6ZawfmdrP?xmt=AQG0OuA5Fe8694LateCBVTDC6HX7FMTGiS1i1YEGKqsbxMTVlpRySrTo5aRwxq2ryp0uqPWB&slof=1

What I would answer if I didn't want to maybe accidentally make people feel bad: I am doing stretches on the side of the bathtub when I am scared to get in, which led to me picking up staffing flow Arts again, which, although associated with combat and masculinity is something I am now doing with dance as an expressive art, which is making me feel more calm and free again, which is making me more whimsical in general. My flower pics have been pretty awesome whether happier or moodier or cuter ngl.

I feel buff by flowers.

(And the more buff I am the more it puts me in more flowers, apparently.)

Pic: me being cheeky with a crab apple blossom on my ring finger.

For legal reasons I cannot show this to anyone who knows me irl right now 😂