Vegetarian split pea soup with ham hock.
Looking for pea shaped pebbles.
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The hog was a vegetarian?
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Korean-style short ribs, sautéed baby bok choy and 6 grain rice mix. Those ribs are so easy and so good it’s almost criminal.
Went to the big Korean market for the beef, and ended up with a very neat electric hot pot pot. Heck, it was on sale for 20 bucks off and I’m only at that store a few times a year…they also had an instant noodle version of hot pot with a self-heating container. just add water! Haven’t tried it yet.
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Ah, MREs in the civilian world. Pro tip: hot sauce makes everything better.
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Hot Sauce is the only way.
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MRE - three lies for the price of one!
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I been experimenting with putting sweet potatoes I the freezer for an hour or more and then baking in the oven for an hour at 450*. ( look bad tastes good)
Now I want to try this recipe. Thank you.
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Here is the recipe I used
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I don’t care what day you made this.
It looks delicious!
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Once more I must applaud the first brave souls to eat artichokes.
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Do yall filter your tap water?
I know tap water is bad in a lot of places, but i live in place where it’s supposedly good and clean because it comes from an aquifer. But then ,there’s a lot of agribusiness around here, and I wonder how much of their poison gets into the water somehow.
I hear filtration also removes essential minerals from water. I dunno, I sometimes think I should bother to get a good filter, but I never get around to it.
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We don’t. Ours comes from a big lake, and there has never been a safety concern the 11 years we’ve lived here (Maine). Usually it tastes so good, I’m flummoxed by people who buy bottled water. Every few years in the spring when the lake “turns” (inverts due to thermal something something) we get a hint of cucumber flavor due to minute traces of algae, but it’s all perfectly safe.
Some friends bought a house a bit south of here, built on a granite shelf, and they had to install a radon filter.
I’ve never heard of inadvertently filtering out minerals. I’ll be interested to hear what others know,
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Usually you have to pay extra for that. 
Regular filtration shouldn’t affect dissolved minerals.
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We are told our water is wonderful from the Hetch Hetchy watershed or as I think of it flooded Yosemite.
We use a Brita water carafe for our drinking water anyway.
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Does your water taste good? Pull a water report if you need to but generally speaking you’d know if it was considered unsafe.
Are you on a municipal system? It’s most likely filtered and treated to deal with anything from the farms. If you’re on a well you may have an issue.
I grew up in a neighborhood that had once been a farm, nitrate contamination from farm fertilizer meant many of the wells in the neighborhood weren’t considered safe to drink. Ours was OK when tested but you could see a sort of rainbow sheen pool on top of the water if you poured a glass and let it sit. We filtered our water. For people whose water had been ruled unfit for human consumption this wasn’t considered adequate and most used water coolers. A lot of your regular home filters are meant more for taste than anything else.
We’re on municipal water now and have no need to filter. It’s tastes great and water reports show there’s nothing concerning in there.
There’s generally nothing in there in a concentration high enough to do anything for you. If there was it wouldn’t taste all that great. The mineral content of the water mostly impacts it’s taste, with heavily filtered or distilled water tasting kinda weird and flat. Very hard or very soft water often tasting straight up groddy. Kinda soapy or metallic.
And a lot of municipal water tends to taste heavily of chlorine. That’s what you use the filter for, barring something telling you there’s large amounts of lead or something else dangerous. To deal with that you tend to need specific kinds of filters.
So it’s probably nothing to worry about.
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It does, but then, there’s safe, and there’s what we’re told is safe.
Yes, municipal.
Yeah, the filtration systems “most likely” deal with that…
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