Tag: food

I recently caught a combee and her ability is honey gather, its creating an awful lot of honey though, I have more jars than I know what to do with, I don’t know if this is in your area of expertise but got any recipes I can use to help me and my pokemon use some of it? Also, is it okay to feed her honey back to her?

In reverse order, it is absolutely all right to feed a combee its own honey! The truth of the matter is honey is combee food, simply in a form that can be stored for long periods of time. (Some combee even store honey within their bodies during the winter.)

As for recipes … I fully admit that cooking is not at all my area of expertise. I’m actually (and unfortunately) quite useless in the kitchen. I can say, however, two things:

1. Tea with a couple teaspoons of honey alongside honey on toast is an absolutely divine breakfast.

2. Cooking is more Lanette’s expertise, so for the rest of this post, I’ll defer to her.

LH: 
Honey is a really versatile ingredient, actually, and can be a decent substitute for granulated sugar in practically every dessert recipe. You just have to remember the four basic rules if you choose to do this:

1. For every cup of sugar your recipe calls for, only use a half cup of honey. (Maybe a little bit more, if you prefer something sweeter, with a more pronounced honey taste.)

2. On the subject of taste, add a quarter to a half teaspoon of baking soda. This will help cut the natural acidity of the honey and bring out the sweetness.

3. Remember that honey is, well, a liquid. So you need to reduce all of your other liquids (or add more flour) to balance it out and get the right consistency. This typically means for every cup of sugar the recipe calls for, reduce liquids by a quarter cup or, if it’s a recipe that doesn’t call for many liquid ingredients, add two tablespoons of flour.

4. Reduce your oven’s heat. Honey browns anything it’s put in, so cooking at a lower temperature will help keep the end product from browning too much.

Of course, these are all just hard rules for making baked desserts or breads. If you’re not baking a pastry or bread, then honey can be even more versatile. You can, for example, mix honey with a few spices and coat chicken with it for an excellent baked chicken. Likewise, a few tablespoons of honey on fresh fruit with cream can either be a great breakfast or a great recipe for a smoothie. Be creative and don’t be afraid to experiment.

If you’re interested, though, here’s one of my favorite recipes:

Leppa Berry Flaugnarde

Ingredients
* 3 large eggs
* ½ cup milk
* ¼ cup honey
* 2 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted
* dash vanilla extract
* dash salt
* ½ cup flour
* 2 cups leppa berries (de-stemmed, washed, and dried)
* Cinnamon (optional)

Note: If you don’t have access to leppa berries, two or three large apples—peeled, cored, and cut into chunks—will also do. I would recommend something sweet but tart, such as honeycrisp.

Steps

1. Preheat oven to 325 degrees F (about 162 degrees C). Grease a pie tin or a cast-iron skillet and set aside. (You can use either of these things, but I like how traditional a cast-iron skillet is.)

2. Whisk the eggs until they’re just foamy. Add in milk, honey, butter, vanilla, and salt, and mix until they’re incorporated. Gradually add flour until you’ve created a smooth batter.

3. Pour half the batter into your pie tin or skillet. Spread leppa berries (or apple chunks) across the batter, then carefully add the remaining batter without shifting the fruit around. Sprinkle cinnamon on top to taste.
Helpful tip: A ladle may help you add the remaining batter without going too quickly to disrupt your fruit.

4. Bake for 40 minutes or until the center is set.

absolutely not the same texture, it’s not as… crumbly? almond ice cream feels more watery and when frozen it’s crumbly, cashew milk is thicker and lovely

In response to your comment about almond milk ice cream, exactly. Then there’s coconut milk, but as much as I like coconuts, I’m afraid whoever says it’s easy to mask their flavor is lying.

That having been said, though, this does sound quite lovely. Thank you, anonymous!

bill imma tell you this once so listen to me close: cashew milk. it is our saving grace. moomoo milk is too watery, it tastes terrible even if it’s flavored, and the film in your mouth is god awful. but cashews? creamy. perfect. chocolate cashew milk is the best thing i’ve ever tried. and with veganism on the rise you can now find this glorious creation in ice cream form, and i gotta recommend the caramel, either on sticks or in tubs. take this knowledge. use it well. feast.

Huh.

Does it have the same texture as almond milk? Because if so, then I’m afraid I’ll still pass, but thank you for the suggestion!

Hey Bill, Diabetic Gardevoir Anon again. Thank you for your advice. Me and my Gardevoir have recently gone on a new Diet and Exercise plan (I’m doing it with her to support her). She certainly seems happier and isn’t being too fussy about her Insulin shots. Do you know any good Restaurants/Fitness Centers in the Celadon City Area i can take her to to help keep up this healthy lifestyle? ALso, any suggestions on Ice Cream substitutes? SHe really misses it.

You’re welcome, anonymous.

To answer your first question, you may wish to try the Celadon Gym. They may specialize in grass-types, but they’re willing to work with any trainer and pokémon who needs help. They may also recommend other fitness centers in the area that specialize in physical fitness for delicate psychic pokémon such as gardevoir. (My own knowledge is unfortunately limited, not only because I’m not local but also because, when I had been … I wasn’t exactly familiar with local fitness centers, to put it lightly.)

As for restaurants, most are generally diabetic-friendly. Just be sure to choose lighter options and skip dessert.

Finally, regarding ice cream, you may not have to skip the real thing. Pay attention to nutritional labels and choose ice creams with lower total carbohydrates. This translates into lower sugars, so the lower your carbs, the better. Additionally, you’ll still need to be aware of her blood sugar levels and what she’s already eaten before giving her ice cream. Of course, don’t forget the portion size. Let your gardevoir enjoy ice cream, but don’t let her overdo it. After all, just because you have a dietary restriction doesn’t mean you have to give up the things you love; you just have to do a bit more self-checking and a lot of label reading before you jump in and indulge. And believe me: as much of an annoyance as that sounds, all of that is actually not that bad once you get used to doing it.

Best of luck!

Can a Burn Heal help with the fiery fury of Tamato Berry burns? is it safe to be applied orally to Pokemon who’ve been tricked into eating the berry, or for poor human victims of the berry?

No. Nothing will be able to save you. I’m sorry, anonymous.

In all seriousness, burn heal is a topical medication designed to help alleviate non-chemical burns, such as those caused by exposure to fire. Using it for a chemical burn such as the sort spicy food will cause can make things worse, as the treatment may simply spread the chemical elsewhere—or worse, cause a reaction that will burn you further. Also, under no circumstances should it be ingested.

For tamato berries, milk is (unfortunately) your best hope. If you’ve gotten tamato juice on you, cover it with yogurt. (Do not use water to wash the juice off. This will make things worse!) If you’ve ingested it, drink a glass of cold milk.

If you’re lactose intolerant, soy milk is actually just as effective, as is antacid. Or raw suffering, if you have no milk and if antacid doesn’t work for you.

… so I got my Ditto as a 5 year old and named it accordingly, Jello. Well Jello is insanely Uncomfortable when I eat The gelatinous treat, Jell-O. When I do, Jello slithers around me and gives me side eyes and glares. I’ve tried explaining that Jell-O isn’t refrigerated Dittos but my sweet Jello still doesn’t like it. What do I do… besides not eat jell-o anymore

I’ll give you two answers here, anonymous: the one my editor would want me to give and the one my editor would actually want me to give.

The one my editor would want me to give: Look Jello dead in the eye as you consume a cup of gelatin. Establish dominance.

The one my editor would actually want me to give: Allow Jello to inspect a cup for itself. You can do this by simply showing it a cup or by allowing it to taste a little. (Gelatin isn’t poisonous to ditto, for the record.) You may even wish to purchase a box of Jell-O mix and make a batch yourself, so Jello can better understand what it is you’re actually eating.

If all else fails, may I suggest switching to fruit snacks instead?

I always wondered if the eeveelutions are considered omnivores what specifically do their diets consist of? And does it differ on the specific eeveelution?

Eevee and its evolutions lean more toward (for the most part) carnivorous lifestyles, actually. While, like most pokémon, they can eat nuts, berries, grains, root vegetables, and so forth, much of their diet should be meat and protein of some kind.

That having been said, the answer to your second question depends. In captivity, the eevee family can actually be fed the exact same diet, regardless of what evolution each individual takes, with no real consequences so long as their trainer keeps in mind that they should be fed a balance of foods.

In the wild however, absolutely, it depends on the evolution.

Eevee tend to have the most balanced diet (as one would expect) and will eat whatever it can find in its immediate environment.

Flareon often stick to slower animals and pokémon, and its favored food sources tend to be small mammals. It will also display the unusual behavior of roasting their food with the intention of cooking it before eating. (Trainers should be aware that tamed flareon also display this behavior and should only be fed in fireproof environments.)

Vaporeon, being aquatic pokémon, will eat mostly seafood, including fish, amphibians, turtles, jellyfish, and aquatic mammals (such as seals). It tends to avoid shellfish, likely due to the difficulty in getting them open, but it will also hunt for larger meat sources (such as walruses, dolphins, and even sharks) in packs.

Jolteon, being faster and gifted with electrical attacks, often hunt for birds and forage for eggs. It’s also the one eeveelution that prefers pokémon meat over animal meat, as bird pokémon tend to be larger targets than their animal “counterparts.”

Espeon and Leafeon both tend to eat more of a herbivorous diet than their cousins. This does not mean that they are strictly herbivorous; simply that they forage more often than the others. Espeon tends to hunt for insects and other animals with lesser cognitive functions thanks to its psychic abilities. Leafeon, meanwhile, avoids insects (due to its plant biology) and consumes largely rodents, rabbits, frogs, and anything else it can find in its forest habitat. (Leafeon also photosynthesizes whenever a food source isn’t readily available.)

Umbreon, meanwhile, is much more of a carnivore than its cousins in that its diet consists almost entirely of meat. As a nocturnal, forest-dwelling pokémon in nature, it will often hunt for small, ground-dwelling pokémon and animals, particularly diurnal ones. It has no qualms raiding the nests of sleeping prey, in other words.

Glaceon will often consume whatever it can find in its colder, more arctic environment—usually seafood (for polar glaceon) or rabbits (for mountainous). Glaceon may also share territory with vaporeon, sometimes even hunting alongside them to take down larger prey (such as seals and even walruses).

Finally, Sylveon, like eevee, will eat whatever it can find in its environment but typically chooses prey it can lure into dark corners of its habitat and then devour.

So when Blissey sense sadness they share their eggs right? Well how do you eat them? It’s a relatively large egg so do you crack a mass yolk into a bowl and cook it? Like could I make pancakes, cupcakes, and just plain eggs with it? Will all the foods have the happy effect?

To the first half of this ask, essentially, yes. Blissey eggs are simply giant eggs, and whatever you can do with ordinary chicken eggs, you can do with blissey eggs. However, most trainers prefer having their blissey use Softboiled and then serving the newly literally soft-boiled egg over freshly made, hot rice. This method “activates” the egg (in that the blissey imbues it with further healing properties) and slightly cooks it at the same time. Thus, it’s less work for the trainer and twice as potent as normal.

Although the above is the preferred method, non-activated eggs are also effective at curing sadness. In fact, a lot of trainers prefer cooking their egg to allowing their blissey to use Softboiled, as this provides more flexibility. (You can’t un-Softboiled an egg, so if you prefer your eggs any other way but soft-boiled, you’re out of luck if you use the above method.) However, it’s important to note that the more ingredients you add to a blissey egg, the more diluted its effects will be, so while pancakes made with blissey eggs are, from what I understand, both delicious and capable of making one happy, they won’t be as effective at lifting one’s spirits as blissey eggs sunny side up.