Hey there Jumblr, I've got a question for you again.

What do you do to make your matzah taste good? Like I know the classic matzah pizza, matzah brie, matzah bourekas, etc, but I need some quick and easy ideas.

So far I've just made a sandwich with some eggplant pepper spread and feta but I can't be eating this all week! I need ideas!!

Aside from all the wonderful variations on charoset, we're all in for apple butter!

Anything sundried tomato is also a very good bet; you can even blitz them up with some oil and the leftover crumbs from hard matzot (always more lying around than anyone would like to admit) for an easy spread.

Toasting/frying broken matzah also works better for croutons than you might think, especially if you go for an umami-forward salad.

Crumbled matzah soaked in brine make great filler in the meatloaf/hamburg steak/Frikadellen recipe family, even when you're working with TVP.

Mushrooms in cream sauce make every starch better.

The lies!!!!

*throws out all the bertolli*

IM SO PRESSED/SHOOK RN

this is a real scandal

Ain’t that a bitch

They selling fake olive oil.

they been selling fake olive oil from the time of the ancient Greeks and Romans

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2007/08/13/slippery-business   This is a cool article on how they do it now and what they tend to substitute it with.

I’ve been reading Extra Virginity: The Sublime and Scandalous World of Olive Oil by Tom Mueller, and wow, the things that get sold as ‘extra virgin’ olive oil are kind of scary, especially if you have any allergies. Or if you’re trying to use olive oil for health reasons – you’re likely paying a premium for something with none of the benefits you’re looking for.

Also, you could write at least 8 different genre novels about skullduggery in the olive oil trade, starting with a murder mystery and working your way out, because there’s just so much to unpack.

Well, that explains the rash of migraines/respiratory issues I had last month. I was cooking everything in whole foods oil and couldn’t figure it out. If it was cut with canola oil then there’s my answer. Son of a bitch.

(“Profits were comparable to cocaine trafficking, with none of the risks,” one investigator told me.)

YO FUCK THESE GUYS my mom is allergic to corn and some of them were cut with corn oil. We very aggressively research any oil we purchase now.

I tried to click on the original article and got sent to a weed site, but here’s a Forbes article from 2016

let's settle this

Hamantashchen recipe

no pictures right now, going to make it most likely tomorrow.

This is one of my Hebrew school teacher’s recipe, she makes killer hamantaschen.

the first picture is for one batch, the second is for two and the third is three batches.

also @floralcavern I believe a while ago you asked me for some Jewish recipes.

Edit: forgot to add, you can put the filling of your choice, just get jelly or something. You can also make chocolate hamantaschen though I’m not sure if you use chocolate chips or Nutella. You’ll have to decide how much to put in, don’t put in too much or it will overfill.

If you're making multiple batches in succession, it definitely pays to refrigerate the additional batches, in order to prevent any of the filling leaking out once you set them up on the now-preheated sheet!

I don't face this issue since I've been a vegetarian for a million years, but please share the article.

Chanukah foods from around the world

Iraqi Sambusak | Persian Zoulbia | Ashkenazi Latkes Israeli Sufganiot | Italian Cheese Latkes | Moroccan Sfenj Kavkazi Kurze | Indian Jalebi | Sephardi Bimuelos

what a good day to remember that butch lesbians (ESPECIALLY trans, poc, and/or fat butch lesbians) aren’t fucking predatory 

“trans butch lesbian”? More like heterosexual man.

Reblog the Fred of TERF banishment to keep your blog TERF free for a year.

Anyone can help!

(Real pen the last picture)

It is important for EVERYONE to know how to help ANYONE. Not everyone can give them selves their medicine under every circumstance. Be educated, help out.

In the last year, i have gotten about five new violent allergies from foods i used to be able to eat. Next time i eat a fruit, my throat could close. I may not be able to inject myself. My boyfriend and i played with my trainer pen for like 30 minutes. He knows how to inject it. I know how. This is important.

As someone with food allergies I feel like everyone should know this. Especially for those who are physically or mentally unable to stab themself with a needle for whatever reason (such as myself who has an extreme phobia of needles), others around them need to know how to administer one in case of an emergency.

Another tip! If their thigh isn’t exposed don’t panic! The needle will go through fabric as long as you don’t try to push through a seam. Seams are too thick for the needle!!!

I’m pinning this post

Heirloom Black Carrot Nebula

A general tip for students who are sending those dreaded Religious Absence Emails to your professors: Rather than asking permission to take the day(s) off, politely let them know that you will be taking the day(s) off.

In other words, consider not saying this:

It's not that there's anything wrong with the above, per se. But because it's phrased as a request, it risks coming across as optional — a favor you hope to be granted. Problem is, favors are not owed, and so unfortunately asking permission opens the door for the professor to respond "Thanks for asking. No, you may not. :)"

Instead, try something along the lines of:

This is pretty formal language (naturally, you can and should tweak it to sound more like your voice). But the important piece is that, while still being respectful, it shifts the focus of the discussion so that the question becomes not "Is it okay for me to observe my religion?", but rather, "How can we best accommodate my observance?

Because the first question should not be up for debate: freedom of religion is a right, not a favor. And the second question is the subject you need to discuss.

(Ideally, do this after you've looked up your school's policy on religious absences, so you know what you're working within and that religious discrimination is illegal. Just in case your professor forgot.)

The EU is doing a big survey for LGBTQ people who live in the EU about how it is for them right now. That's the kind of survey that's used for official reports and for laws so it's super important that it has as many people taking it as possible. You can take it in every EU language. (You can change the language in the top right corner) Share it with your friends!

https://www.lgbtiqsurvey.eu/lgbtiq

Its a good survey that uses respectful language. I just took it. It should be said that the survey is also open to people in Albania, North Macedonia and Serbia.

i NEED goyim to stop insisting to me that for a food to be kosher “a rabbi needs to bless it”. if you really dont believe me, a jew who keeps kosher, you can find your answers about exactly how food get kosher certification with just a google search

this is a point of contention between me and my mother and im desperate to know if there's a trend.

yk what i hate though. is when i find a meme and im like THIS IS SO [cool intimidating mutual i never talk to] I SHOULD SEND IT TO THEM but then i remember ive never talked to them ever and so i cant just like give them a meme out of the blue and so the meme just withers and rots in my camera roll 😔

Reblog if a mutual who's never spoken to you can randomly send you memes that made them think of you.

personality test: when the flight attendant asks you what drink you want to have on the flight, what do you request?

jesus fucking christ

"i wish i could do something 😔 / i wish the wga had a kickstarter or a gofundme, i would throw money at it" good news! it's amazing how you can literally go onto the wga strike website or the wgawest linktree from their twitter and find links to support writers and other workers affected by the strike

“oh they’re not taking away chronological dashboard, well everything’s okay then” they also said in the post they’re making reblogs collapsed (like comments on twitter) so you won’t see the full conversation in a post. they also won’t get rid of tumblr live despite it being an annoying and cancerous data-miner that isn’t legal in much of the world. they won’t even let you opt out of tumblr live for more than seven days. they implemented a terrible photo viewer that mimics tiktok and makes it so you can’t zoom in on images. they took away the ability to view prev tags. they’re making it so you have to sign in with your email to view almost any thing on tumblr. they’ve already made it so you have to sign in to send asks, even on anon. they’re slowly phasing out custom blog themes.

the things that make tumblr at all usable and favored by us– the older web blog features, the anonymity– that is still being taken away. it HAS been being taken away for some time now. i am urging you people to reveiwbomb the tumblr app. force them to acknowledge that users do not like these changes.

Let me stress: Collapsing reblogs would turn tumblr into a completely different site.

A massive chunk of our site culture - arguably our entire site culture itself - is based on the collaborative nature of posts. The fact that many posts are chains of relevant additions or Bits done by multiple people is the appeal. This is not an “outdated format” or an inconvenience, it is a core function.

Also I can’t help but suspect that this partial walkback is misleading. Okay, so we still get to have a chronological dashboard, but are we going to be allowed to keep it as our default tab? Because new accounts sure fucking can’t set as such.