there are a few elements to this dish other than the lack of meat and dairy that stray from the traditional bolognese: i use garlic and red wine, while bolognese usually has no garlic and white wine. i like garlic too much so that was intentional, but i only had red wine when cooking and its not too drastic of a deviation.
i found this plant based ground sausage at the grocery store for $2.70 for 14 oz!! excited by this price (and on a pasta kick lately) i was inspired to make a bolognese. i would have used plant based ground beef too, but it was like triple the price. i used to make bolognese all the time since lasagna is one of my favorite dishes and its a great pasta sauce. but this is the first time ive made it since going vegan in january of this year. it turned out great!
the plant based sausage i used was 96% lean!! so i had to add my own fat. i used coconut oil in this dish instead of olive oil bc it acts more like animal fat. i cooked 28 oz of vegan sausage in 5 oz coconut oil to bring the “meat” to ~17.5% fat.
ingredients:
- 28 oz (784 g) 96% lean plant based ground sausage
- 9 oz (252 g) coconut oil (5 for the “meat”, 4 for the veggies)
- 225 g onion, finely diced
- 125 g celery, finely diced
- 150 g carrot, finely diced
- 1 bulb garlic, very finely diced
- 250 g wine
- 170 g tomato paste
- 450 g low sodium vegetable broth
- 350 g oat milk
- spices: salt, pepper, thyme, basil, sage, marjoram, oregano, rosemary, cumin, paprika
1 .in a stock pot, heat 5 oz coconut oil on medium heat and add the vegan ground sausage. mash the sausage as it cooks to break it up. when it starts to brown, but before it gets crispy, transfer the sausage to a bowl.
2.heat 4 oz coconut oil on medium heat and add carrots a minute before the onions and celery. add garlic a few minutes after that. then add healthy amounts of thyme, rosemary, sage, oregano, and basil. cook until onions get translucent and soft.
3.add wine and deglaze the pot. then add the sausage and tomato paste, and mix while the wine reduces.
4.add the oat milk and a quarter to a third of the total vegetable broth. bring the heat to low
5.allow to simmer for 4 hours, adding the remainder of the broth throughout. if you run out of broth and the bolognese is drying up before 4 hours, add water
6.once the bolognese has simmered at least 4 hours and is sufficiently concentrated, add salt, pepper, cumin, and paprika to taste
made this for dinner last night. my gf found the recipe online but i modified it bc it was written by mayos who only seasoned with salt, pepper, and celery seed. i also substituted diced celery with diced carrots since i like carrots, but my gf told me she would prefer celery so ill prob do half and half next time. i also didn’t add green onions bc i didn’t wanna go to the store, i will prob add them next time
ingredients (this makes a good amount, prob 6 sandwiches worth):
- 4.5 cup dry chickpeas (45 oz if using canned chickpeas)
- 2 large carrots
- 6 cloves garlic
- 6-8 tbsp vegan mayo or cashew cream (less if using canned chickpeas)
- 4 tbsp lemon juice
- 1 tbsp celery seed
- 1 tbsp thyme
- salt
- pepper
- cumin
- turmeric
- paprika
- soak dry chickpeas in lightly salted water for 12-24 hours
- you can get the skins off chickpeas after soaking them by rubbing them together w ur hands and decanting the water (skins will stay at the top of the water longer than the chickpeas). there are other methods of deskinning chickpeas, find something that works for you
- put chickpeas in pot of salted water, bring to rolling boil then bring heat down to a simmer and cook covered for 2 hours or until the chickpeas are soft. as soon as the water comes to a boil, you will notice foam. this is aquafaba, formed when loose starch mixes w the boiling water. you can just scoop the foam and discard it (or keep it as an egg substitute). once you scoop out all the foam from the first few minutes of boiling, it shouldnt form any more and you won’t have to worry abt boiling over.
- drain chickpeas and mash them. i just used my hands to squish them
- dice carrots into small chunks (under 1 cm) and finely dice garlic. add to chickpeas
- add vegan mayo/cashew cream, lemon juice, celery seed, and thyme. mix well
- salt and season to taste
i spread this between slices of toasted bread with onion and tomato slices. makes a great sandwich and is good by itself too!
this reminded me of how 4channers purposely desensitize themselves to gore and other heinous stuff, but they cant escape the pain of loneliness. and it could be solved if they just didnt act like massive pieces of shit. then they blame it on women and the supposed phenomenon of them only dating the “top 20%” of men! its probably the stupidest self-fulfilling prophecy
jfc, you dont even have to have basic hygiene (tho that helps), just be nice!! dont be a misanthropic shut-in with a hyper-inflated ego and unearned confidence in ur intelligence. but when they try to be nice it isnt bc they want others to be happy, its to get something, so they come off as a disingenuous Nice Guy. i hate them but also kind of feel bad for them. maybe if they didnt get caught in this vicious cycle some of them wouldnt be reactionary assholes
sorry for the tangent, good meme
bc blahaj zone has a comm full of chasers (c/196) that fetishize us trans folk. then they went 0-100 w the ableism and we realized that 196 is incompatible w hexbear
oh no! you got me! im a troll! yeah im only pretending to care abt transphobia and ableism. 26 day old acct with 1 comment, tell me im not trans. show us how transphobic u are
Hello Blahaj users,
Unfortunately we have been discussing defederation. I would like for this to be sorted out, but our trans and disabled users deserve to be protected from transphobia and ableism. We know these are behaviors are perpetrated by a minority of Blahaj users, but they are tolerated here in the form of the 196 community. Of course, most Hexbear users are willing to re-federate once this bigoted community is removed. The admin Ada has been very helpful and I have faith in her to do the right thing for the safety of her community members.
In the meantime, I would like to extend an invitation to all leftists here to make an account on Hexbear. As long as you are anti-capitalist, you will be welcome there. We are hyper-inclusive and are strict against all forms of bigotry. There has been much disinformation spread about us, so if you have good faith questions, feel free to ask. We are not “pro-Russia” as many of our detractors claim, we are anti-NATO, as they perpetuate the amerikan empire. Please ask us anything in this thread!
We hope this defederation is temporary, or better yet, never comes. We do not wish to split two large queer instances just weeks after federating, but we must do what we think is right.
Trans rights forever! !trans-heart
pleased to have you 
ur welcome to join hexbear assuming ur a leftist!
that and he unapologetically talks abt soliciting prostitution. im in no way sex work exclusionary, but bc work under capitalism is coercive, all johns are rapists economically coercing sex workers
and he has mixed takes on AES
yeah this is the type of mod activity that can wreck an instance. report reasons should be tied to the code of conduct. the code of conduct of blahaj disallows ableism, yet this mod uses ableist terms in comments then when you push back, they remove the comment and give a removal reason with more ableism
and then there are the chasers, who have no place in a queer community. not a coincidence that this comes from 196, a largely vowsh watching community
its different for everyone, but for me i had grown content being a guy but when i started opening up to the possibility that i could be fem, there was this indescribable euphoria that made me hopeful for my future in a way i had never felt in my life. it was then i realized my entire life before then i was forcing myself to fill a role i wasnt meant to fill. after that, i felt much more confident and able to discover who i am.
its impossible to tell the difference between irony and a bluemaga dumbass
the emphasis on being polite is so we dont get defederated. when we show up in someone’s home instance we should focus on educating and persuading, which is a lot less effective when being rude/snarky. most of our users voted for federation, so acting in ways that could get us defederated isnt fair to other users
not saying ur guilty of this, i just want to state this message as much as possible
im going to disengage after this bc i dont think either of us have anything to gain by continuing. i do respect ur opinion on this tho, and even tho i have some disagreements, i also agree with much of what youve said and dont think our difference in opinion is a dealbreaker.
the last rebuttal ill give is this: combatants and civilians are materially different— one has and is using weapons. and intentional civilian attacks have a higher rate of success than accidental civilian attacks, so intent matters. also the supposed russian attacks on civilian targets are spurious and fog of war makes it difficult to make value judgements at this time. what i was focusing on is what we know: the situation in the Donbas before February 2022.
thank you for ur input, its helpful to have differing views heard to prevent this place turning into an echo chamber
its not abt legal framework, its attacks on civilians vs attacks on combatants. numbers dont make these comparable, they are too entirely different
its not abt numbers. on one hand is the ethnic cleansing of civilians during an agreed upon ceasefire, on the other is a war between two modern armies. trying to compare the two is obtuse.
im not denying separatists were influenced by Russia, but sending arms to a separatist group is nothing compared to directly attacking civilian centers. is a third party sending weapons to Hamas comparable to the actions of Israel? should we condemn those who send weapons to Houthi rebels?
a subjective assessment is “true and obvious”? no western spin will change the fact that this war is one of western expansion and the people of the Donbas were facing ethnic cleansing from Ukraine. the war could end today if Ukraine and NATO were willing to negotiate reasonably.
That's a very one-sided view of affairs though, it's not like the Ukrainian govt was bombing them for fun, it was a war. Civilians died on both sides-that doesn't excuse it, but it certainly does not justify an invasion!
show me where Russians attacked Ukrainian civilians from 2015-2021 (dont show me Russia funding separatists as evidence, the DPR and LPR have the right to defend their right to self determination). you can say “it was a war” all you want, it doesnt change the fact that there was a ceasefire agreement that was consistently violated by Ukraine.
The invasion has achieved the exact opposite of what the Russian leadership wanted.
Putin feared Ukraine aligning with NATO, and this invasion has drawn them vastly closer and has deepened cooperation more than it ever would have been otherwise.
Putin opposed the existence of an independent Ukrainian national identity, yet this war has solidified and reified it like nothing else ever could, among both Ukrainian- and Russian-speaking Ukrainians.
what do you think Russian leadership wanted? bc it looks like the DPR and LPR, as well as most of Zaporizhzhia and Kherson, are occupied by Russia. and Zelenskyyy was supposed to be the “peace and neutrality” candidate, yet he was working towards joining NATO. the Ukrainians west of the Dnieper were already primed to join NATO, the war didnt change anything.
and what are those bs identity politics abt “Ukrainian national identity”? lets focus on material reality, not these flimsy ideas invented to justify imperialism and ur guesses on what Putin thinks abt them
Putin thought he had the support of the east, yet this invasion has wiped out any sympathy Russian-speakers might have had for the Russian state before.
yummy western propaganda!!
Putin (falsely) used 'Denazification' as a justification for the war, yet this war and Russian actions in 2014 have VASTLY empowered the far-right, giving them disproportionate power relative to their support base.
Putin claimed it was to protect people in Donbass from 'genocide' (pfft'), yet now they have been subjected to far worse horrors than in the 2014-2022 period (not to mention the fact Russian actions against Ukrainian civilians have been far worse than anything that occurred in 2014-2022).
no, Ukraine and the west have empowered (and armed) nazis for 90 years! and now you rely more on western propaganda and all their unfounded claims of atrocities. let’s focus on what we have proof for— the Ukrainian use of cluster munitions against civilians in the Donbas, Ukrainian pogroms and segregation against the Roma people, and state suppression of the Russian language. and what is wrong with you saying “pffft” regarding genocidal actions?
The invasion is completely ridiculous and unjustified + strategically idiotic, based on a complete misunderstanding of the realities on the ground from the Russian leadership, which has become increasingly personalist and isolated from reality since COVID.
lol you are the one isolated from reality. the world sees what the west is blind to. when the fighting is over and Russia still governs 4 previously Ukrainian oblasts, come here again and say the invasion is “strategically idiotic”, it will be funnier then.
this IS a war against NATO. and it was started by NATO. and it can be ended by NATO right now— Russia is open to peace negotiations
notice how my argument is well sourced while yours has zero evidence presented. ur comeback doesnt even make sense— use some damn punctuation! and “civilian trenches”? lol! please try to be coherent
oil and wheat are just “dirt”? millions of civilians who were bombed by the Ukrainian government for the past decade are “dirt”? even if it is just “dirt”, its dirt that provides the perfect launching ground for a land invasion of Russia. NATO is the Nazi Arming Terrorist Organization and anyone fighting against them will have critical support from most of the world (no, the west is not all that exists; most of the world is or has been colonized by the west)
do you know what “literal” means? maybe the “literal nazis” are the people literally sporting nazi symbols, literally conducting pogroms and segregation on Roma people, and literally using cluster munitions against civilians in the Donbas
btw i used all western sources
put this on the turntable to chill this fine saturday afternoon while my gf is at work. great album thats also a comforting part of queer culture for me. it reminds me of when i was in the early stages of discovering my transness and the euphoria that brought, so listening to it makes me all warm inside. my gf got this vinyl for me this past xmas. from the second i came out to her she has been super supportive and encouraging! i am so grateful for her and i love her so much!!
> Western media have finally change course. They are now admitting that the much promoted Ukrainian counter-offensive has failed. In fact, the acknowledge that it never had a chance to win in the first place.
> The Hill, the Washington Post and CNN now agree that the Ukrainian army will never achieve its aims.
western MSM has a rare encounter with reality!
> That makes it difficult for the Biden administration to get Congress approval for $24 billion in additional 'aid' to Ukraine. It does not make sense to pay for a cause that is evidently lost.
b seems overly hopeful regarding the rationality of US congress, but i think hes right- why would we throw more money at them, US politicians have made it clear they do not support bringing Ukraine into NATO if they do not win this conflict. of course, US politicians are prone to lying and misleading
> Nothing has come from the 'peace conference' which Saudi Arabia arranged on Ukraine's behalf
lol. lmao even. props to big dog MBS for trying
> Despite the onslaught of bad news the Ukrainian army is still trying to take Russian positions in the south and east of Ukraine. But it simply does not have enough in men and material to break through the lines.
> Even if they would manage to get a local breakthrough there are not enough reserves to push for the necessary follow up. Just one of the NATO trained brigades has still been held back. All others have been mauled in their various deployment zones.
nothing has changed it seems
> In the northeast around Kupyansk the Russians have started their own offensive which has the Ukrainians on the run. Ukraine has ordered the evacuation of the area
> But Kupyansk is a Russian city and people refuse to leave.
show this to the libs claiming Russians are committing genocide in the regions they capture. curious that these civilians are content with Russian occupation when you believe what western media claims
> The Russian campaign is slowly speeding up. As the Ukrainian Strana.news reports (machine translation):
>> Also in Ukraine, it is recorded that from Kupyansk to Bakhmut, Russia has increased the number of attacks.
>> "Over the past month, the total number of attacks in the Kupyansk, Limansky and Bakhmut directions has grown significantly. In July, during the week there were 6-6.5 thousand attacks, during the last week-9 thousand attacks, " - said the representative of the National Guard Ruslan Muzychuk.
>> According to him, the Russian Federation does not experience "shell hunger".
>> Aviation is also actively used, and over the past few weeks, more than 50 air attacks have been taking place every day, and sometimes more than 80.
> That is bad news for the Ukrainian side which lacks the reserves to counter the Russian onslaught. There are also less weapons coming in from the West. F-16 fighter jets will be delayed for another nine months due to training issues. Tanks and other material are in short supply.
these supply issues sure bode well for the west’s performance in WW3 !sicko-hyper
> Strana also report of an interview with a knowledgeable Ukrainian soldier (machine translation):
>> Continuing the topic of the situation at the front, an interesting interview was given by a Ukrainian sniper fighting near Bakhmut with the call sign "Grandfather". On the air of political scientist Yuri Romanenko, he was introduced as Konstantin Proshinsky (this is a pseudonym).
>> The fighter spoke in detail about his vision of the situation of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the Russian army.
>> 1. Mobilization. In his opinion, it is conducted incorrectly. Recruits are sent to the front who have never been trained, and they are often over 50 years old and with a whole bunch of diseases.
>> 2. No rotation. The soldier says that "the same brigades" are fighting at the front, and people are not taken out of the front line for six months or more. Whereas by Western standards, they can be kept in a war zone for no more than three months.
>> 3. Behavior of mid-and high-level commanders. According to Proshinsky, many of them are trying to arrange a "mini-Stalingrad" on the positions, forcing them to go into frontal assaults on well-fortified Russian positions.
>> 4. The Russian Army began to fight better.
>> 5. Proshinsky believes that Russia has not yet used much of what it has against Ukraine.
> The soldier thinks that the Russians will not move from their positions and that a stalemate peace like in Korea would be the end result.
UAF in real dire times— recruiting the elderly, poor logistics, engaging the enemy at inopportune times, and Russia has yet to waver
> I believe that to be wrong. Russia's aim is to liberate at least the four regions that it has claimed for itself. For political reasons it can not stop before that is done.
> Should the Ukraine continue to fight after that, Russia is likely to set new aims and take more land.
more editorializing, but it doesnt seem unreasonable. i thought Russia would stick to its original goal of Donetsk and Luhansk, but if Zaporizhzhia and Kherson are receptive to Russian governance, it would be foolish for Russia to give them up
> Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) conducted a probe after higher-than-usual levels of radioactive material were detected in rainwater in the dike around a storage tank
> An inspection found that some water had leaked from cracks of about four centimeters on a hose being used for transferring radioactive wastewater
> TEPCO analyzed water in the dike around the tank and detected up to 67,000 becquerels of tritium per liter, which exceeded 60,000 becquerels, the standard set by the Japanese government for releasing tritium into the environment
okay, so were they lying abt the water being “safe” to discharge? or did it concentrate by 12%+ in the past couple months?
> TEPCO said that someone caused the cracks with a cutter blade while removing the packaging around the hose after it was delivered
great QC standards!
> TEPCO added that the leak would not affect the plan to discharge the radioactive wastewater from the plant into the ocean
oh really? sure, release water that isnt safe even by the arbitrary standards your own government put in place. im sure the government will step in and stop this !agony-minion
> Despite strong opposition from neighboring and Pacific island countries, as well as local fishermen over the irreversible impacts on the marine environment and public health, the Japanese government and TEPCO have been pushing for release of the radioactive wastewater from the Fukushima nuclear power
!yea
ive seen other users mention this problem. im on iOS 16.3.1 using Safari. it started happening yesterday and got worse today. even refreshing the homepage logs me out
EDIT: i now see the glaring problem with this thread- it assumes proletarians (white ones especially) are mostly reactionary and won't advocate for their own class interests. further, he only addresses two types of americans, the radlib and the white reactionary. this thread is almost entirely unhelpful to people on this site who are in neither category and consistently fight back against libs and reactionaries alike.
also the term "synthetic left" was coined by calep maupin, a patsoc and genuinely revolting person
a better tweet than this would have been "radlibs appropriate the struggles of marginalized people to distract from the struggle of the working class, but the material conditions of the working class are affected by structures like racism, sexism, transphobia, homophobia, etc. 1/2" "Therefore a mass communist movement must focus on improving the material conditions of the lower classes, but especially to those most oppressed under capitalism"
this was quite the struggle session
Thank you to everyone who shared their input, you guys are the best :soviet-heart: communism will win, love you all
PS read some Mao
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