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McCloud in the streets, Columbo in the sheets. Union Strong. He/him
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Vegan caramel popcorn shoggoths, for my #DeltaGreen group.
Glossy brown and white caramel popcorn balls in a metal muffin tray. Coloured Gummie eyeballs and gummie worm “tentacles” sprout from each sweet and cronchy blob. Spooky, and really makes you think.
October 27, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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Baked goods? More like baked AWESOMES
The metal grille of a cooling rack sits atop the black burners and white surface of a standard oven. The main attraction, however are the golden brown, crispy craggily cookies. Amber chocolate chip cookies and darker oatmeal-maple raisin cookies. They look so damn good. It’s probably for the best that Bluesky doesn’t have Smell-O-Vision, but in this case, you’re missing out.
October 1, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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Yes’m. Coming right up.
A miniature knight in armour sits atop a wooden dowel. The knight wears a yellow and red tabard and carries a long sword, that curves slightly to the right. He seems very proud of it. A big steamy pot of yellow spaghetti, curled about in a deep red tomato sauce. To the right a Caucasian thumb and finger saucily squeezes a toasty meatball. Mamma Mia, it’s sexy as helllllll
September 6, 2025 at 4:52 AM
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Anyway. Heres a peach galette:
A molten sea of dark orange peach slices, floating in a dark brown pool of sugar and juice.
September 1, 2025 at 1:04 AM
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I visited the Mundare Sausage Memorial in Alberta. Breathtaking.
A giant, veiny, throbbing sausage sculpture, erected in a small town Alberta park. The huge, but surprisingly thin, given its length, brown sausage thrusts itself proudly into the blue sky, surrounded by trees. A heart shaped plaque at its base gives the history of the sausage and really sets the whole thing off. Always pay attention to the plaque.
August 14, 2025 at 12:07 AM
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My cat died today. I am
so sad.
June 30, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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IT’S MY BIRTHDAY! So I’m at my parents and desperately trying to cook supper before my mum gets too drunk to eat. Anyway, heres a lamb burger and oven fries.
A dark brown lamb burger, overcooked, sits on a white bun, on a white plate with some crispy (overcooked) oven fries. The background is a nice yard in the sunshine. You can tell that it’s like a million degrees and the cook/photographer is a little stressed.
June 24, 2025 at 1:30 AM
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By GUM, I love a good banh mi. The tiny place in the laundromat. Better, even, than the old standby places on Spadina. And v. affordable. Fantastic crispy/fluffy bun. This one was crispy pork, but don’t sleep on the Vietnamese pulled chicken.
The remains of a beautiful crispy pork banh mi. A blue and white paper wrapper lies crumpled on a plain, white plate. A hint of bisexual backlighting.
June 13, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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If you’re queer and it’s June and you make nachos, they’re Pride Nachos.
A closeup of the best nachos any one has ever made in a home toaster oven. The cheese is yellow and white and melted and glistening. Red cubes of pepper and red cubes of tomato dot the toasty surface. A few rounds of green jalapeño peel through the impeccably curated surface. Dark chunks of brown meatloaf and paler beans express themselves, subtly, but finely. Yellow tortilla chips form the matrix in which the glorious mix is suspended. You KNOW it’s fully and properly layered.
June 3, 2025 at 12:42 AM
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The time between a medical test and receiving the results can be fraught and fearful. It’s best spent making some delicious Chinese food. Here’s some garlic pea shoots, “Mongolian” lamb (Aussie takeout style) and Lazy Noodles. #woksoflife #justonecookbook
A wok full of bright green sautéed pea shoots. Glossy green leaves and lighter stems are slick with garlicky oil. This picture makes you crave green vegetables. You will now Green Goon. (Eat your greens!) A cauldron (lodge brasier) bubbles with dark and glossy brown sauce. Strips of lamb Bob about, flecked with green onions and chilis. Oh my goodness it’s so sticky and good. A wokful of ribbony yellow noodles, tinged brown with a soy-based sauce. Heaps of wilted green bok choi nestle in the centre. Scattered about are juicy strips of brown mushroom and tasty dark nuggets of beef. Oh baby, this is some noodles for YOU.
May 26, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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Made some cottage pie, from leftover pot roast and mushrooms. Perfect for a rainy day. Goes will with a big mug of tea and a round of Boltgun.
A closeup of the craggy, crispy, somewhat gooey surface of a cottage pie. The mashed potato topping is mixed with cheddar. Warm yellows and browns, with dark and crispy caramelized ridges. It looks good as hell.
May 21, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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April 28, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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I wish everyone cupcakes and the fulfilment of spring’s renewal.
Two homemade, frosted cupcakes sit in a shiny aluminum tray. The yellow cupcakes are frosted with gooey layers of marshmallow and vanilla frosting. The base layer is pale yellow and the top layer is bright green. Each cupcake has a few coloured chocolate candy eggs, nestled into a scattering of brown granola, suggesting a bird’s nest. They look way better than their maker thought they would and you can tell he’s pretty jazzed about it.
April 20, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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Little Orphan Annie and her faithful dog, Sandy, appear to incite an unseen crowd to violence in a black and white illustration. Annie is a curly-haired girl in a black dress. She stands dressing in a black onesie, on a soapbox, helpfully inscribed “SOAP”. Her arm is raised, her mouth open, implying her rhetorical power. The dog, Sandy, sits beside her, a terrifying familiar with elongated limbs and long, devilish ears. Both are possessed of dead white eyes, like soulless voids. It’s very cute.
April 13, 2025 at 11:07 PM
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Helen Mirren in a still from the tv series “Prime Suspect”. A middle-aged woman with short blonde hair smokes a cigarette, wearing an olive pantsuit and white blouse. She’s in the middle of giving her all-male police team a right bollocking.
March 21, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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So I’m experimenting with a genius brainwave idea I had. Stuffing Katsu. It’s like tonkatsu, but with stuffing instead of rice and a savoury light gravy, instead of straight-up tonkatsu sauce. This was a quickie, made entirely with storebought parts, except for the homemade tonk-gravy.
A lovely, trashy, gross-but-tasty “stuffing katsu” plate. A big, lumpy pile of brown stovetop, box stuffing sits at the top left of a round, white plate. Beside it flops a pile of creamy coleslaw. Covering the bottom third of the plate are thin strips of pork cutlet, drizzled with thick, brown mushroom gravy, mixed with tonkatsu sauce. Scattered about are bright yellow segments of lemon.
March 17, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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Pi
A glorious mushroom pizza. Lakes of cheese support reefs of sautéed mushrooms, surrounded by a… circular… beach? of mottled crust.
March 15, 2025 at 12:41 AM
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Made a Greek-inspired, mixed-greens pie. Not too bad, honestly. I was aiming for lower-sodium, low fat, so it’s not as good as the real thing. Maybe a little too much mint, maybe a little too much rice and would definitely benefit from some feta. HOWEVER! Still very satisfying and tasty.
A Greek-inspired greens pie. Top-down perspective. A golden-brown traditional pastry pie shell encases a dense trove of mixed greens. The craggily, burnished surface hides a wealth of kale, watercress, collards, parsley and spinach. Some of this peeks greenly, through vents in the pastry surface.
March 14, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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Each of these garbage cans was designed with the same degree of accuracy, ease of use and aesthetic clarity. They are equally popular elements of the Toronto urban environment.
A Tesla Chudmotruck gently nuzzles its parent, a Toronto public garbage can.
March 11, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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Time is a bath circle.
The pink ginger leg you want, with the bubbles that you love. The pink, ginger-haired leg is flexing its bubble-covered toes (attached to foot, at end of leg) against a slightly shabbier bathroom wall than last time. Centre frame are a circular chrome knob that inexplicably only gives hot water between 45 and 90 degrees of leftward rotation, and a chrome tap at centre. It’s dripping gently in a way that somehow isn’t annoying. Implicit in the composition is that *this* bathtub is far too small, and not really good for the subject’s arthritis, but you have to take your pleasures where you find them.
March 9, 2025 at 11:47 PM
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GUYS, I swear to god this time I won’t make it too hot. I promise. I swear to g
A rolling field of bubbles covers what can only be the body of a ginger Adonis. A single foot, long, improbably long toes only, rises pinkly from the sea of pearlescent foam. Against a background of white tile, a shiny chrome tap vomits forth water. From the composition, you can tell that the water is slightly not hot enough, but the bather shoulders this burden like Atlas, if Atlas was taking a pretty decent bath.
March 8, 2025 at 1:55 AM
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March 8, 2025 at 12:30 AM
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FINALLY
A very pink and ginger-haired knee and foot peak through a cloud of pearly bubbles. It’s a leg, in a well-deserved hot bath. The bubbles rise like a Ghibli cloud to the left. A stainless steel tap pokes through centre frame. The whole composition allows you to intuit the subject’s intense exhaustion and how the bath water is slightly too warm, but what are ya gonna do.
March 4, 2025 at 1:48 AM
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I made some nice bread.
A golden-brown and craggy-topped loaf of herbed beer bread sits in a grey metal loaf pan. It looks good as hell. You can practically smell the cheese through your screen. Imagine a toasty gold slice of this baby, drenched in butter.
February 24, 2025 at 10:18 PM