Tim P Rak

@timprak.bsky.social

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You can't just eat food. You've got to talk about it, too, and you've got to talk about it with someone who understands that food. - paraphrased from Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. "I'm certain as a lost dog pondering a signpost." - DPA MacManus

On a fake wood countertop, sits a blue floral plate and there are various items including a sink which are cropped from the photo. In the center of the plate, are two pieces of toasted sourdough covered in scrambled eggs with generous amounts of chives, freshly grated parmesan cheese and a sprinkle of cayenne pepper. Behind the toast, the handles two utensils, partially obscured by the eggs, are propped up by the edge of the plate at about one o'clock.
Zoomed in photo of a squirrel about eat a nut amongst a tree's leaves and branches.
A profile picture of a grackle is perched on a concrete balustrade with an evergreen tree in the background.
screencap from the linked article reading: Those changes included removing provisions that specifically acknowledged African Americans were enslaved in the United States "because of the color of their skin" and that Southern states seceded from the Union in part to preserve slavery. Quotes in original.
On a plate with a dark blue floral pattern, there is a hamburger steak with coarsely chopped chives on top sitting on a bed of sauteed onions all of which are upon a piece of toasted bread smeared with mycella blue cheese.
The squirrel on the utility pole has had quite enough and is leaving.
In a clamshell cardboard container, there is a sandwich with an askew English muffin on top of an over easy egg, melted cheese and two sausage patties with some greenery poking out underneath. Splashes of the house 'special' sauce can be seen here and there.
Screencap of a letter with 'TEXAS EDUCATION FREEDOM ACCOUNTS' on the letter head. "Dear TEFA Applicant, The Texas Comptroller's Office would like to inform you that students in your household have been placed on the waitlist for a Texas Education Freedom Account (TEFFA) for the 2026-27 school year. Your households [sic] approximate position on the waitlist is 50,001-100,000. Your student's [sic][ position on the waitlist was determined by their priority tier and the lottery as required by state law. Based on the information submitted in your application, your household was assigned to priority tier 4. [...] - Typos in the original
An auto message telling me that I need to create a new e-mail account to register for the new Metro app.
On a speckled plate sit six large Gulf oysters, two of which have already been consumed. with a charred lemon half in the center.
Screencap showing two separate automated messages for bus stop departure. One shows ample frequencies between 5:00 and 5:30 and the second show that all but one of those departures have disappeared and there is instead a 29 minute headway until the next bus is scheduled to arrive at 5:42.
A growing fig tree. I apologize as I don't have the energy in me at this moment to write a more descriptive alt-text.
On a plate with a blue floral print sits a grilled ham and cheese sandwich with a sunny side up fried egg on top. There are scallions, black pepper and hot sauce on the egg and some melted cheese dripping out from the sandwich. To the right of the sandwich are three cornichons. Behind the sandwich a knife rests on the back edge of the plate. Waiting.
A screencap of Senator John Cornyn's post titled 'Brisket family tradition' which includes a picture of a 9x13 pyrex casserole dish filled with sliced brisket covered in what appears to be a ketchup based sauce. It looks worse than what I've written.
My son and I watching Illinois beat Iowa in Houston. We are both wearing orange shirts. He is quite handsome.
Screencap of the Early life section of the wikipedia entry for Emily Oster.
On a plate with a light blue floral pattern, there is a grilled cheese sandwich with an over easy fried egg on top. Yolk and cheese are oozing out where a corner has been cut from the sandwich. To the sandwiches immediate left there are three cornichons of varying length and diameter.
A siamese looking cat (pointed seal-coat) can be seen precariously balanced on a railing having successfully caught her tail (albeit temporarily).
On a blue floral plate are four somewhat overly crisp rasher of thick cut bacon on the left, the tines of a stainless steel fork and then more or less top center on the plate are three eggs cooked sunny side up with generous applications of hot sauce, salt, black pepper and chives. Peaking out from under the eggs, the edge of a butter griddled flour tortilla with melted cheese can be seen.
Screencap of receipt of purchase of the book, Brains.
On a plate with a blue floral print, sit two halves of a grilled ham and cheese sandwich, crispy cheese (in one case on the left hand side melted 'upside-down') and strands of molten cheese highlight the split sandwich. In between the halves ham, chives, whole grain mustard spill out onto the plate.
Image shows two different rotisserie chickens, one is 'natural' and costs $8.37 and the other is not labeled as 'natural' and costs $6.79.
In a nicely trimmed garage, the picture shows the right quarterfront of a black Corvette C7 ZR1, then a deep dark blue E63 AMG-S and then a white 2011 C63 AMG.
Close up of a freezer container of a pork and red bean stew with veggies. Shreds of pork butt, rather intact but creamy red beans, corn, peas and raisins are all visible, resting in a slurry of celery, onions, garlic, cornmeal and a other flavorful 'stuff'.
Recipe for Sweet Potato Souffle; 350' - 35" + 20"; serves 8-10 Souffle: 3 Cups mashed, roasted sweet potatoes, 1 cup of sugar, 1/2 tsp of salt, 2 eggs - lightly beaten, 1/3 stick of butter melted, 1 cup milk, 1 tsp vanilla (optional, brown the butter, add fresh ground nutmeg) Topping: 1 cup chopped pecans, 1/3 cup AP flour, 1/2 stick butter, 1 cup brown sugar, (optional: I add some ground cinnamon and ginger but you do you on the pumpkin spices; also optional: 1 cup of shredded coconuts which I have never, ever done). Mix the mashed sweet potatoes, adding each ingredient after mixing) with the sugar, add salt, nutmeg (if using), butter, and milk. Cook potato mixture in a buttered casserole dish at 350 for 20"; combine topping ingredients in the order listed, add to the top of the casserole. Return to over for twenty to twenty-five minutes until the top is nicely browned.
screencap of description of said guy stating that he is a resident of two counties for over 39 years according to himself.
On a cream white plate (colors somewhat distorted by the camera) with a script 'Maggy' at about 12:15, sits a slightly deconstructed mound of pressed lamb shoulder, topped with preserved lemon strips and surrounded by an amazing ratatouille and panisse.
An excel table with columns from left to right consisting of breakfast components (waffles, bacon, milk, butter and syrup) on the left, the 'units' of each consumed, calories per unit and then a calculation summing them up to 1,687 calories.
A seal point Siamese looking cat is curled up on a pillow with her right front paw poking out underneath her left rear leg.
Quoted text from article: "The One Big Beautiful Bill Act that was signed in July included about $66 billion in agriculture-focused spending. The vast majority, about $59 billion, is earmarked for farm safety-net enhancements, according to the American Farm Bureau Federation."
A picture of the butcher's case at HEB showing a selection of Prime Beef boneless ribeye steaks for $22.99 per pound.
A smooshed up wedge of the fritatta as it has been stuffed in a container to be eaten tomorrow or, perhaps, tonight. There are some nice crusty bits to the lower left of the image and several mushrooms seem to have floated to the top of the dish. This came out very well. Maybe a little rich or maybe better served with a few more greens. Smoked meats were leftovers from Pinkerton's.
On a circular plate with a continuous blue floral pattern are two halves of an English muffin, generously buttered and a weird looking omelette with hot sauce and black pepper generously applied.
In a hallway, two cats are perched. In the foreground, on the top of a column, is a russian blue looking domestic short hair. In the background, her sister, a siamese looking domestic short hair, is on the railing. They are looking intently at the photographer's point of view.
On a plate with a blue floral pattern sit two open faced sandwiches (composed as described in the post) with their bacon and tomato askew and drenched in red salsa, foregrounded by a dribble of scrambled egg on the plate itself. A butter knife sits on the left side of the plate with the slightly dirty blade pointed in the direction of the viewer.
There is a scroll banner which reads from the top middle: 'FAILURE' then the left lower part of the banner reads 'IS JUST SUCCESS' and the right lower part of the banner reads 'ROUNDED DOWN'. In the middle of the three banners is a drawing of raptor like dinosaur (perhaps a T-Rex), being quoted as saying 'oh well'. The banner text is upper case and the dinosaur's text is lower case.
Cross section of the burger described in the post. The toast is not holding up well but the burger is delicious.
Two cats, one that looks like a russian blue and a second that looks like a siamese (they both are barn cats of indeterminate heritage) sit on a black platform against a beige backdrop sit back to back with their necks craned looking just off the focal point of the camera.
Dorsal view of pointed seal coat siamese cat with her hind legs and tail tucked between her front paws on a lap.
On a blue floral pattern plate, sits a slice of frittata with bacon, tomato, cherry pepper, onion and garlic with four cheeses (blue, mozzarella, four asadero and parm) green onion and shave parmesan are sprinkled liberally atop.
On a plate with a blue floral pattern is a pile of hash potatoes, mixed with leftover esquites, pickled cherry peppers and jalapenos that is covere with two eggs cooked sunnyside up and roughly chopped chives and parsley.
In an aluminum tray are, from left to right, several slices of fatty brisket, one link of jalapeno sausage, a ling of 'regular' sausage and jalapeno cheese sausage. On the rightmost side of the tray is a pile of pulled pork and behind that are several mostly hidden pork spare ribs. Off to the left, sit deli containers of bacon mac and cheese, pickled onions and jalapenos. Not pictured, south Texas beans, coleslaw and jalapeno cheese rice. Missing in action, alas, was the boudin links!
Four birriadillas, lime wedges, chopped cilantro, red onion and a small cup of consomme are in a styrofoam clamshell. Three smaller cups of green, red, and then green again salsa and some lids are in the other half of the clamshell.
On a white plate with a blue floral pattern border are eight wedges of a vibrant fuchsia colored aprium arrayed radially.
On a plate with a blue floral pattern are arranged clockwise from the seven o'clock position two slices or toasted and buttered rosemary sourdough toast, at eleven o'clock several rashers of crispy bacon and from roughly one o'clock to four o'clock are two fried eggs, sunny side up covered with salt, pepper and green onions.
Three dates, overstuffed with the mentioned stuffing ingredients, on a small white plate with a blue floral pattern on the rim.
Two turtles, one of which is preciously tiny, sun themselves on a log in a pond
Screen capture of text stating: "Thank you for taking the 2024 TPM Reader Survey. You have now been granted eternal consciousness!"
A cat with Siamese coloring strums an electric bass guitar.
On a plate with blue floral pattern, sits a single unwrapped tamale the birria, cheese and masa filling of which are covered in chopped red onions, shreds of cilantro and green salsa.
Two white styrofoam clamshell containers sit on a wooden table. From top to bottom, in the first half of the top clamshell are cups of charro beans and rice as well as two smaller containers of red and green salsas. In the second half are a cup of consomme, two lime wedges, chopped cilantro and red onion and several varieties of birria dishes, the tostad being on top of two quesabirillas. In the bottom clamshell there are three birria tamales, chopped red onion and cilantro, lime wedges and a cup of consomme with the lid on. To the right is a cup of elote with a lime wedge.
On a plate with a light blue floral pattern are two halves of a grilled cheese with the melted Gruyere cheese slightly dripping out to reveal slivers of green onion within.
On a white plate with a blue floral pattern around the lip, are four slices of pepperoni in two stacks of two. The pepperoni on the left is slightly smaller in diameter and appears slightly dull in comparison to the pepperoni on the right.
Picture of an armadillo in a forest.