Star Wars: Rebels (4/?)

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Hey, are you a broke motherfucker trying to save money on groceries and attempting to plan for having food in the house at the end of the month? Do you have a good system for storing frozen meat? If you don't, here's how I do it:

Large Bastard called me when I was at the plasma center (we're broke motherfuckers!) to tell me that Aldi had nearly expired pork chops (use or freeze by tomorrow) for 50% off, so I told him to get 4 packs.

I keep my freezer pretty full with homemade stock, frozen meat, frozen veggies, frozen fruit, and g-free bread, so I can't just stick the big packages of pork chops directly in the freezer, and besides if I do, the pork chops will freeze to each other and then I'll have to thaw the whole mass of them if i want to cook them, which will increase thawing time.

So what I do instead is make an accordion of waxed paper and fill it with pork chops.

This ends up saving a ton of space, and means I can choose to thaw 8 pieces or 1 piece or however much I need at a time.

3 packs stored this way are smaller than 1 pack from the store.

The final accordion of meat gets wrapped in a layer of waxed paper, then put into a freezer bag with the air pressed out, and now if I don't have cash for groceries I've still got something to eat.

This is also the way that I save meat that is close to its spoilage date that I won't be able to cook before it goes bad. If you stick a family pack of chicken breasts in the freezer, you have a family pack of chicken breasts to thaw. If you put them into little waxed paper envelopes, you've got single serving packets that you can easily toss into a soup or bake from frozen.

This is ALSO pretty much the technique I use to freeze banana slices when my bananas are going brown and I'm not in the mood to bake, only I freeze them on a cutting board before breaking them off and sticking them in a bag when they're frozen.

Freeze wet stuff in individual pieces, not big chunks, so you don't have to break up big chunks to use your frozen food.

I know this probably seems pretty obvious to a lot of people, but it wasn't obvious to me until a couple years ago because nobody ever showed me how to do it and I didn't grow up in a family that cooked a lot.

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Thinking about the parallels and differences between the 501st repainting their helmets in Ahsoka's facial markings and Anakin changing Ahsoka's lightsabers to blue.

I've talked before (although not on here) about how amazing of a characterization choice it is for Anakin to change her lightsabers; it shows so well Anakin's love and genuine care for those he's close to, and it also shows how he oversteps and becomes overbearing or controlling or even manipulative at points. He was thinking about her and so he did the only thing he knew how to do and tried to help even though it was at the expense of imposing his will on someone else. It's so well written.

But I only just realized that the clones repainting their armor is an amazing parallel. The clones are incredibly not imposing or overbearing. They express their appreciation and friendship with Ahsoka by making outward changes to *their* armor. They use some of their little expressive agency, their armor, to show their appreciation for Ahsoka and the fact that they are honored to serve alongside her again.

Both Anakin and Ahsoka of course care for the clones, and form close bonds with (especially) the 501st, but the clones do have a different relationship with the two of them. With Anakin, he is General Skywalker. He is their commanding officer. There is inherently a level of distance between them imposed by the structure of the GAR. But with Ahsoka, they primarily served alongside her, not under her (I know technically as is stated in TCW movie that Ahsoka is above Rex at that point but he says that experience is more important etc etc, but functionally, narratively, they are much closer to peers).

And so the clones change *their* expression to appreciate Ahsoka, while Anakin changes something *of Ahsoka's*

It's so beautiful