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 Macros, on 17 July 2021 - 03:36 PM, said:

INGREDIENTS
3 tablespoons olive oil
1 yellow onion, peeled and thinly sliced
2 garlic cloves, thinly sliced
1 large bunch/1 1/2 pounds Swiss chard, stems and leaves separated and chopped (about 9 cups)
½ teaspoon salt, plus more as needed
⅓ cup half-and-half or heavy cream
8 large eggs
¼ teaspoon black pepper, plus more as needed
3 ounces cotija cheese or queso fresco, crumbled (about 3/4 cup)
1 avocado, sliced, for serving
1 small jalapeño, thinly sliced, for serving
Chopped cilantro, for serving
Smoked hot sauce, for serving
Corn tortillas, toasted, for serving
1 lime, cut into wedges, for serving

Heat oil in a large cast-iron skillet over medium-low heat. Add onion and cook until softening, 5 minutes. Add the garlic and cook until fragrant, 5 minutes more.

Raise the heat to medium-high, add the chard stems, and cook to release some liquid, 5 minutes. Add the chard leaves, in batches, adding more as they wilt, and continue cooking, stirring occasionally, until completely wilted, 3 to 5 minutes more. Season with 1/2 teaspoon salt, pour in the half-and-half and stir loosely together.

Make eight small hollows in the cooked chard with the back of a spoon. Gently crack an egg into each hollow. Cover with a lid or foil and cook on medium-low until the eggs are just set, but still soft, about 7 to 9 minutes. Remove the lid, sprinkle with salt, pepper, cotija, avocado, jalapeño and cilantro. Serve with smoked hot sauce, toasted tortillas and lime wedges.

Tip

Some cast-iron skillets come with a matching lid, which is useful for making the skillet operate a bit like a mini stove-top oven, cooking evenly and basting the food with flavor and steam. If you don’t have one, use a lid from another pan, or two layers of thick foil, folded at the center and large enough to cover your pan.

(This is amphibian talking now - the exact cheese isn't that critical, the salty flavor of it helps with the tacos made from it, so you can modify with any dairy and a bitta salt)

This is my favorite vegetarian meal by a wide stretch and it's easy to cook too. https://cooking.nyti...vocado-and-lime

Swiss chard shakshuka with no tomatoes and plenty of egg + cheese.

I dunno about any of this - when I learn that there's many people saying there's enormous amounts of bigotry bring directed at them, especially in ways that make them fear for their lives, because they're brown or black, my response isn't to get tired of the "we must look at ourselves" spiel or to emphasize how I'm not part of the crowd that's hurting the people this way.

The people being hurt aren't asking you if you're abusive in real life or online. They're telling you that this person or that group are doing that and ask that you help to step up to stop it. And some of the hurt people are even providing step by step processes for support or how to make things better.

Learning to live with it or being tired of the inference that all football fans are abusive hooligans seem like bad takeaways from this.

Let the people who want to feel superior do so - they've barely needed an excuse before and will continue to do so. How about actively helping people experience less abuse instead?

 End of Disc One, on 12 July 2021 - 03:48 PM, said:

Are you going to include the Short Sun and Long Sun in the reads?

 Tiste Simeon, on 09 July 2021 - 10:00 PM, said:

I can't get onboard with this Community review. We're about to start season 6 and I'm kind of wondering how this show got that much love as to keep going.

I quite like many of the bits and stories (especially the Dean), but there's major issues.

1) Early on, Britta is a smart cookie with Don Quixote level windmill tilting. Then she turns into the second dumbest character in the main cast for no good reason.

2) Chevy Chase is used as an outlet for -ist jokes without a payoff that makes those things worthwhile.

3) The show repeats the "Jeff gives a speech" thing way too much - it kills momentum and doesn't make as much sense as giving the other cast members time to shine. Jeff didn't need that much screen time late in most of the episodes.

4) Troy consistently needed more to do beyond say really really weird one liners. The air conditioning school thing was great and the stories where he had to confront his dynamic with Abed were terrific.

5) The theme song is not right and way more depressing than catchy.