Niki Dolfi Hall

@profdolfi

Sociologist by birth, weird-ass human by training… Researching religious discrimination | nontheism | microaggressions & pop culture. Coming soon chapter on Father Brown & nontheism Me in a nutshell:🌱🍽🎤🎨🎬🏳‍🌈♿ Follow ≠ Endorse. Mix of personal + professional.

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Niki Dolfi Hall@profdolfi· 24d

Today I had to say goodbye to Mischievous, aka Mister, aka Bean. He was born under my couch 18 years ago. He was named Mischievous because he was always the first kitten to figure out how to escape an enclosure to get to me… he was obsessed. The poop machine will be missed!

A black cat lays spread out on the comfy lap of his human mom.

Niki Dolfi Hall@profdolfi· 26d

Holy shit. In 30 minutes it jumped from unhealthy to dangerous!

A circle chart showing the Air Quality Index at 276, now labeled as dangerous

Niki Dolfi Hall@profdolfi· 26d

My asthma is really kicking off. It is very smoky where I live right now! Reminds me of a few years ago when we were in Canada during some pretty bad wildfires. So today is a sit-in-my-bedroom-with-an-air-purifier kind of day.

A circle chart showing that the Air Quality index is at 216 in my area. The chart visually tops out at about 300 (though it is not labeled with 300).

Niki Dolfi Hall@profdolfi· 27d

Spaetzle w/ green beans! If you’ve never had it it’s a great comfort food. Spaetzle (a style of egg noodle), green beans, bacon, w/ some a few spices, bacon grease & plenty of butter. I also made jagodzianki for the first time after I saw a pic on the BBC news app. They’re a berry filled sweet roll.

Lightly browned buns with crumble and powdered sugar topping.

Niki Dolfi Hall@profdolfi· Jul 9

Can anyone tell me what is going on w/ my blood orange trees? The picture shows burrows or cankers on the trunks. I’ve tried looking it up but not having much luck. These are older divots & new ones don’t *seem* to be occurring but nervous as they’re 7–8 years old & I love them.

Closeup of an orange tree trunk with cankers or burrowed areas.

Niki Dolfi Hall@profdolfi· Jul 2

Get yourself some art brushes and thin out with water and you can paint your pies!

Pie with Doctor Who Tardis in the middle with swirls of time

Pie with dough yellow flowers and Eeyore in the middle

Niki Dolfi Hall@profdolfi· Jun 9

The Bi Agenda Day 8 Get some work done ✅ Make a lovely FODMAP friendly dish from my garden ✅

A black plate with bok choy fried in butter and garlic-infused oil next to a helping of rice, soy sauce, and the greens of a green onion

Niki Dolfi Hall@profdolfi· Jun 8

Holy fuck. What!?! apnews.com/article/ap-p...

A graph showing that only 66% US adults think democracy is extremely or very important to the United States identity as a nation. That is broken down by age groups: 51% of 18–29 year olds, 61% 30–44 year olds, 66% 45–59 year olds, and 81% of those 60+. Alarmingly 21% of 18–29 year olds it is “not too” important.

Niki Dolfi Hall@profdolfi· Jun 3

lol you all need to see this crockpot recipe for mascarpone mushroom risotto (was searching for recipes when I was working days for 16 hours) You literally cook almost everything first.

The recipe says to soak the mushrooms in warm water for 30 mins. Then you beat the butter with lemon zest and chives, roll it in a cylinder and put it in the fridge for 20mins. Next, cook onions for 5 minutes, strain the mushrooms, add those, and cook another 5 minutes. Take the liquid from the mushroom plus some stock, put it in a pan and heat it up. Take the mushrooms out and chop them. Add rice to the pan, add wine and cook for a few minutes. Add back the mushrooms. Only then can you put it in a crock pot and finish cooking it.

The butter stuff, along with mascarpone goes it only after it’s done in the crock pot.

Worst.Crockpot.Recipe.Ever

Niki Dolfi Hall@profdolfi· Jun 2

The Bi Agenda Day 2 1. Bake a loaf of classic white bread ✅ 2. Start building my brick raised bed for a flower garden ✅-ish

A golden brown loaf of bread sitting on a metal grate

Niki Dolfi Hall@profdolfi· May 30

An aviation & fire

A white woman’s hand holding a vintage glass with a recreational fire burning a bit beyond

Niki Dolfi Hall@profdolfi· May 24

Niki Dolfi Hall@profdolfi· May 17

Yo, they party hard for New Year OMG! My and my former students from Laos and Myanmar living it up.

Niki Dolfi Hall@profdolfi· May 15

My gorgeous unadulterated photo of my pain de mie. It’s just so golden!

A golden square loaf of bread on a silver metal cooling rack.

Niki Dolfi Hall@profdolfi· May 10

Had the first Pimm’s Cup of the season! From now until fall my official ‘working outside & being hot’ drink will always be Pimm’s (picture is from last year, too lazy today. Instead of sliced oranges I did cucumber)

A bottle of Pimm’s, a can of Whites lemonade, and a glass filled with a mixed drink and sliced oranges

Niki Dolfi Hall@profdolfi· May 10

!!!Need recommendation!!! Can anyone recommend a citrus potting mix? My blood orange trees have grown substantially (over 6ft) & I’m moving them to bigger pots. FYI they have not begun to fruit yet, I grew them from seed 7–8 years ago.

Three green trees in grey pots on a darker brown floor in front of large windows

Niki Dolfi Hall@profdolfi· May 7

Made some bagels today. As shown in the pic, half are light in color & other half darker. I use them for different purposes, one type is for toasting with cream cheese and the other is for sandwiches. I went with a much longer ferment AND rise in the fridge this time—hope they aren’t terrible!

a metal cooling rack that has a dozen bagels on top. Half of them are lighter in color the other half darker

Niki Dolfi Hall@profdolfi· May 6

From Mohamad safa
The Iranian navy, which has been destroyed eight times, closed the Strait of Hormuz again, because the United States for the seventh time won the war that wasn't a war, so the United States can open the Strait of Hormuz that was open before the not war.
The not war that started to get the uranium that was completely obliterated, so that the Iranians can't build the nuclear bomb that they weren't building for the not war that the United States started.
Then the United States which has nuclear weapons threatening to use nuclear weapons to prevent Iran from having nuclear weapons because having nuclear weapons is dangerous.
If the United States saw what the United States is doing in the United States, the United States would invade the United States to liberate the United States from the tyranny of the United States.

Niki Dolfi Hall@profdolfi· May 6

Woah, wild violet leaves are delicious! They taste like spinach. What I really need to know is if they are low FODMAP, bc spinach & some other greens are absolute no-gos. AND I also need to know if they are low in oxalates (bc being chronically ill means I can’t have nice things)

A small bunch of purple violets with green heart-shaped leaves surrounded by leaf litter.

Niki Dolfi Hall@profdolfi· May 4

Ahh ok. The confusion is that you replied to my sub thread about squash blossoms instead of the main thread about onions. In short. If you grow squash you harvest the flowers (blossoms) batter & then deep fry them. It’s popular in Italy. These look small but they are about 6” long give or take 1.

Moderately brown deep fried squash blossoms sitting on paper towels to soak up excess oil

Niki Dolfi Hall@profdolfi· Apr 30

They even sell them in bulk at Costco!

Niki Dolfi Hall@profdolfi· Apr 30

Today was the last day for my high-intermediate ESL class. We always have a potluck… and OMG did we have a lot of food!!!

A very, very long table that has various dishes of food, including egg rolls, tostadas, carne asada tacos, Laos spicy papaya, mole, & so much more!

Niki Dolfi Hall@profdolfi· Apr 29

lol my rep’s newsletter got marked dangerous Yeah, Darin LaHood has a lot of dangerous messages… he’s a right-wing Trumper. What’s apparent too, is that he lauds himself in these newsletters showcasing things happening for which he & the GOP are against. What an absolute wanker.

A screenshot of an email from Darin LaHood (a rep in Illinois) to a constituent that has a large red box warning from Google altering the recipient that “This message seems dangerous” and that it contains “a suspicious link that was used to steal people’s personal information.”

Niki Dolfi Hall@profdolfi· Apr 29

Pomelo Stone

Your Indie band name is:
Your favourite fruit + the last reason you took painkillers

Niki Dolfi Hall@profdolfi· Apr 23

I have seen quite a few nostalgia posts geared toward Gen X that goes something like, does anyone remember __shows movie poster of insanely popular movie__? And I’m all over here like, who watched this a million times?!?!

A young girl is modestly dressed with a Christian religious head covering and is surrounded by a faint yellow glow. The title of the 1943 movie “The Song of Bernadette” appears above her.

Niki Dolfi Hall@profdolfi· Apr 20

My god the costumes in the show Lidia Poet are to die for. My medical conditions do not allow me to remember tv shows I have watched in the past. So, by rewatching it I get to fall in love w/ her outfits all over again!

A white women dressed in Victorian era clothing. Her bodice is in chevron strips with alternating shades of gray, and her waistcoat is black with puff sleeves. (I’m guessing the clothing terminology as it is late and I cannot remember clothing terms from this era).

A montage of 8 different photos showing a white women in various styles of Victorian dresses. The dresses featured are orange with black stripes, red with gold, gold with cream, black and white, and blue with orange.

Niki Dolfi Hall@profdolfi· Apr 15

As someone who researches within the realm of nontheism, it is not all that common to see the word “atheist” in a major headline…

BBC
Bogus websites, staged protests and pretend atheists: Inside the fake asylum industry In the second part of an
undercover investigation, the BBC exposes elaborate deceptions being used to bolster fake asylum claims.

Niki Dolfi Hall@profdolfi· Apr 10

Just came out of the oven

Niki Dolfi Hall@profdolfi· Apr 5

This is all that remains 🤣

An last 1/4 of a deep brown 4-braid loaf of challah

Niki Dolfi Hall@profdolfi· Jan 17

I have a bunch of vintage cook-booklets from the Culinary Arts Institute from the 1950s. The one shown below “250 Ways to Prepare Meat” even has recipes for squirrel and opossum—both of which my grandfather ate.