First pan assembled, and ready for the foil to go on!

I don’t like to put the top layer of cheese on anything like that until the last 10-15 minutes or so, after it gets uncovered again. But, it’s not going to be bald on top.

So far, soaking the noodles did make putting it together a lot easier than with the board-stiff ones that shatter if you try to break them to fit. These were soft enough to cut. Now we’ll have to see how the cooking time and texture go.

Not so low spoon food plans for tonight: lasagna! Proper American “Almost Italian” style, with plenty of ricotta goodness!

It’s been a while, but I got a serious craving, and we do have some leftover meaty sauce to use and make the job a little easier. Planning to put together another foil pan to plonk in the freezer for later, too.

Those GF no-boil lasagna sheets take forever to soften up in the oven, and I’m still not as used to judging the right amount of liquid in the sauce. (Not surprisingly, it takes more to rehydrate the noodles. But, soupy isn’t much better than dry and pasty.)

So, I’m trying the trick of soaking them first this time, to hopefully get liquid back in there without messing up the texture too much. Not entirely confident working with this GF version, but even if they turn into wallpaper paste there’s plenty of other stuff to make it edible. I hope. 😅

apricops:

apricops:

Couples that tolerate each other’s endless endless rambling are a powerful and beautiful force for good

me, excitedly: so by Le Chatelier’s principle, no reaction ever truly ‘stops,’ it just reaches a point where it proceeds in both directions at the same rate for a net change of zero, which

my gf, knowing she’ll get to talk about glass-blowing techniques next: mhm, I see, interesting

Must watch: Chris Hayes on ‘despicable’ new Trump policy

thecraftingfox:

whyyoustabbedme:

I guess only white children are “precious gifts from god”

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/04/20/us/immigrant-children-separation-ice.amp.html

http://www.latimes.com/opinion/editorials/la-ed-immigrants-border-asylum-ice-201802305-story.html?outputType=amp

https://www.aclu.org/blog/immigrants-rights/ice-and-border-patrol-abuses/ice-separates-18-month-old-mother-months

…what IS THIS how is this HAPPENING “land of the free” MY ASS

Must watch: Chris Hayes on ‘despicable’ new Trump policy

floattoowithwolfstar:

xx-thedarklord-xx:

starrypawz:

optometrictzedek:

fuchsimeon:

marina-pepsi:

attentiondeficitstarscream:

ithelpstodream:

don’t do this, this is fucked up

not to mention someone who’s on a primarily vegan or vegetarian diet and has been that way for a long time has a body unused to eating meat, especially red meat like beef. if your body isn’t used to red meat it can do a SERIOUS NUMBER to your digestive system. it is not fun, it’s hurtful and painful, it can make them REALLY sick even if they aren’t vegan or vegetarian for allergy-related reasons.

don’t do this. do not feed people food without them knowing 100% of what’s in it. it’s uncool and you are a complete and total asshole if you do.

Ain’t even a vegan but this is fucked up

I have heard of people sneaking pork into tje dishes of muslims or jews do NOT feed people food they do not want to eat for whatever reason. Even if you don’t harm their body you might cause a serious psychological issue! You are literally harming someone’s body autonomy it doesn’t matter if you think vegans are annoying or whatever. Don’t fucking do this.

I have been a pescetarian since I was 10 years old. I’m now 27. When I was in college about 5 years ago, I decided I could eat pizza that had pepperoni on it if I removed the pepperoni (Dominos screwed up our order, we were supposed to get 1 plain pizza I could eat but they gave us 2 pepperoni instead and me being the socially anxious person I am, I didn’t wanna make a fuss about it).

I got so sick. SO SICK. So much for not making a fuss, my friends almost took me to the hospital, I had to convince them not to. Just from the oils of the pepperoni seeping into the pizza. I didn’t even eat the meat itself, but I learned that day that cross contamination is a bitch. And I still eat fish, unlike a vegan, just not red meat or poultry/fowl. I knew already that I had bad reactions to meat by that point in time, like from the time the Chinese restaurant gave me an egg roll instead of a spring roll by mistake and after only 2 bites I realized the issue and I still got ridiculously sick (from 2 bites of an egg roll containing pork), but I didn’t think I’d get sick from pizza that had no meat on it at all. And yet I did.

So imagine if someone gave me a real hamburger. One bite would be enough to create hours of agony for me. Now imagine if someone gave a long-time vegan, who does not eat fish, a hamburger. And that vegan ate the whole hamburger.

Vegan culture pisses me the fuck off too but holy shit that can literally put someone in the hospital you sick motherfuckers.

Honestly this. Like leave people’s food alone? You don’t know why someone doesn’t want to eat something and you don’t need to know that just respect people’s food wishes. 

Oh hell no. In four months I will have been a vegetarian for a full decade. 10 years. If someone was to give me meat, I would notice, but that’s beside the point, it would make me so unbelievably sick. 

Restaurants aren’t the best with cross contamination or even cooking on the same grill with meat, and when they do that, I still get sick. I wouldn’t wish that on anyone else. 

But those were accidents on their part. To have someone do it on purpose? Fuck that. I would lose my mind. 

It shouldn’t even be about coming up with a reason why someone can’t eat meat like religious or health reasons. The person doesn’t want to eat that? Don’t fucking trick them into eating it. It’s not up to you to decide what someone else should eat.

Nanoparticles derived from tea leaves destroy lung cancer cells: Quantum dots have great potential

lysikan:

mindblowingscience:

Nanoparticles derived from tea leaves inhibit the growth of lung cancer cells, destroying up to 80% of them, new research by a joint Swansea University and Indian team has shown.

The team made the discovery while they were testing out a new method of producing a type of nanoparticle called quantum dots. These are tiny particles which measure less than 10 nanometres. A human hair is 40,000 nanometres thick.

Continue Reading.

The story is interesting. BUT

I is really amused at the “compared with using chemicals” part of the opening. Probly needs to educate reporters past 6th grade (12 year olds). It is still chemicals, is just ones that nature made – and still, was distilled and extracted in a lab sos can’t even say is “different from man made” since that is how man made meds are made, too.

It’s all chemicals, dude. All the way down. Even “pure” compounds is chemicals, they’re just chemicals what has had co-existing chemicals removed from near them. Oxygen? A Chemical. Salt? A Chemical. Aspirin? A chemical, which was discovered in a very similar way.

It’s turtles all the way down. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turtles_all_the_way_down)

Nanoparticles derived from tea leaves destroy lung cancer cells: Quantum dots have great potential