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  • I make Span-ish rice based on a recipe a gal I used to work with gave me. Her whole family was from Mexico. It’s pretty simple, do with this what you will.

    2 cups long grain rice.
    2 cups good chicken stock (I use better than bouillon).
    1 small can tomato sauce.
    A lot of cumin. Like a lot.
    A can of adobo sauce (optional).
    1 can of Rotel (optional).
    2 tablespoons of butter

    Melt the butter in a large saute pan (nonstick is wise), toast the rice and ground cumin until the rice smells nutty. While that’s going mix together the tomato sauce, stock and any adobo sauce or blended chipotle peppers you plan on using. If you don’t like it spicy I’d still suggest using a little adobo. When the rice is toasted and in the liquid and Rotel. I generally stir it together here. As soon as it’s boiling put a tight lid on it and let it go at a good simmer for 15 minutes. Take it off the heat, remove the lid and fluff the rice with a fork and let it sit for a few minutes. This is a good time to taste for seasoning and add salt if you feel like it’s needed. I find this gets better as it sits. Always better the second day.

    If you plan on adding any veggies like onion, Bell pepper, or corn, I’ve found it’s best to saute them separately and add them back to the pan with the liquid. I’ve never added chicken but I would imagine if you use chicken thighs you could do the same thing.




  • SippyCup@lemmy.worldtomemes@lemmy.worldThe self-insert
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    I don’t think Luke is a Mary Sue, at least not to the same degree Rey is, or even Fynn. Luke takes an entire movie and a half to learn some basic stuff and then rushes in to a trap and loses a hand as a result. The only reason he survives that encounter is because Vader doesn’t want to kill him.

    Rey and Fynn both know how to use a lightsaber the second they touch it and manage to wound a guy with years of training without receiving a scratch themselves. Rey literally never makes a mistake.













  • I used to have a roommate that paid me their part of rent through PayPal. After a few months without issue, PayPal didn’t let me withdraw my funds because of an arbitrary limit placed on my account. It was like 520 dollars and they wouldn’t let me do more than 500 a month.

    It’s my money, they’re just holding it, and they don’t get to tell me how much of it I use. The gal on the phone said she’d waive the limit as a one time courtesy and that was the last time I used PayPal. That was almost 20 years ago.

    This is not an isolated case. PayPal does this crap all the time.

    PayPal is not a bank, they’re not regulated, and they can arbitrarily decide your money is their money.

    Do not use PayPal.