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letscookvegan Baked banana bread almond donuts by @rainbownourishments 💗⠀ Recipe⠀ Banana bread dry ingredients⠀ 1 cup gluten free plain flour⠀ ½ cup almond meal⠀ ½ – ¼ cup coconut sugar⠀ 2 tbsp chia or flax seeds, ground⠀ 1 tsp baking powder⠀ 1 tsp ground cinnamon⠀ ½ tsp bicarbonate soda⠀ ½ tsp ground nutmeg⠀ Banana bread wet ingredients⠀ 2 bananas or ½ heaped cup of bananas, mashed⠀ ¾ cup unsweetened almond milk⠀ ⅓ cup light-tasting oil, such as grapeseed, canola or sunflower oil⠀ Dash of white vinegar⠀ Frosting⠀ ¾ cup cashews, soaked in water for 4 hours⠀ ¼ cup unsweetened almond milk⠀ ¼ cup maple syrup⠀ ½ cup almonds, crushed⠀ 1. Preheat oven to 180C.⠀ 2. Add all dry ingredients to a medium-sized bowl and mix until combined⠀ 3. Add all wet ingredients to a small bowl and mix until combined.⠀ 4. Add wet ingredients to the dry ingredients and mix until combined⠀ 5. Pipe or spoon banana bread mixture into a non-stick donut tray. Bake in oven f...

Some of science fiction's appeal is shared with other sorts of literature: if one of the aims of writing fiction is to explore the human condition, science fiction allows literature to explore that even further.  Science fiction can place humanity in situations it cannot or has not encountered , test our identity and inner nature against new and extreme conditions. How do human values and emotions change or endure in a far-flung future? How much can we change and still be human? One example of humanity in extremis I often think of is  Gateway  by Frederik Pohl, a novel; but some short stories online that explore this are "Wind from a Dying Star" by David Levine and the recent "I'm Alive, I Love You, I'll See You in Reno" by Vylar Kaftan. Science fiction allows us to compare humanity against other intelligences.  While some might maintain there are other sentient species on our planet -- chimpanzees and dolphins are often nominated -- there is no specie...

I'm answering on behalf of my dad who grew up on a farm. He grew up farming banty chickens and ducks, (among other farm animals and crops). Banty chickens are excellent and responsible egg layers, and will not give up until their eggs hatch. When they have a “miscarriage”, they just don't stop trying to lay them. Ducks, on the other hand, quickly loose interest in laying their eggs and wander off. In order to sustain the ducks, my dad’s job was to collect duck eggs and place them under banty chickens. When they hatched, the banty chickens couldn't tell the difference. But the poor ducklings had a hard time understanding “mom”. Banty chickens dart around eating insects; the ducklings’ natural instinct is to follow their mother in a neat line. Now imagine a bunch of ducklings trying to make a neat line behind their difficult to follow, zigzagging mother. Oh, and then comes drinking from the pond. A banty chicken will lead her chicks to the pond, and everyone takes a fe...