#CookingForLieutenants

Dan's #CookingForLieutenants is a great series that is near and dear to my heart. This is also the sort of stuff that I used to do, passed down from my senior-enlisted, about how to whip up something with a lot of calories that was also (relatively) nutritious.
Only, think hot-plates and stingers.

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14. #CookingForLieutenants is dismissed. Here endeth the lesson. Be excellent to each other.

2c. Hence, #CookingForLieutenants was born so that these young officers wouldn't die of malnutrition. I'm still a little butthurt, tho, that @patdonahoearmy.bsky.social didn't follow through with his cheeky suggestion to make me a visiting life coach at the Basic Officer Leader's Course. Alas.

🧵 inbound.
Gimme a school circle, take a knee, take off your helmets, & drink water.
#CookingForLieutenants is in session.

Yaaas!!! An incoming #CookingForLieutenants 🧵

Still have about an hour left, and I’m serving this with egg noodles instead of mashed potatoes, but it looks like we’re gonna have an impromptu #CookingForLieutenants segment featuring Guinness beef stew. Follow this space.

It’s getting colder, which means @drjchernov.bsky.social brought the last good tomatoes from the Baltimore farmer’s market so I could make soup for the kids. Recipe to follow, maybe even a (gasp! 😲) a #CookingForLieutenants thread.

16. #CookingForLieutenants is dismissed. Be excellent to each other.

🧵
(lifts hand above head, waves in a horizontal circle)
Huddle up, make a school circle, & take a knee, #CookingForLieutenants is in session.
Task: cook Boeuf Bourguignon
Conditions: your kitchen
Standards: see the gif

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Who wanted a #CookingForLieutenants thread on Labor Day? Glory & praise to Freya, your prayers will be answered later tonight. On the menu: beef Bourguignon (beef stew with red wine for you Philistines).

If I’m known for something called #CookingForLieutenants, then this skeet was a former NCO’s hip pocket training.

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Sees #CookingForLieutenants....

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15. Here endeth the lesson. Be excellent to each other. #CookingForLieutenants is dismissed.

2. than zero knowledge of how to cook for themselves when not within walking distance of a military DFAC, or dining facility. To be fair, their civilian counterparts also in their early 20s would’ve faced similar challenges, so I started #CookingForLieutenants so they wouldn’t starve when off duty.

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It’s been a minute since I did a #CookingForLieutenants thread. Watch this space, & like the journalists say, more tk.

18. Hope you enjoyed the thread. Here endeth the lesson. Be excellent to each other. #CookingForLieutenants class, fall out.

🧵 As we used to say in a previous life, prepare to copy. #CookingForLieutenants is in session. First, more background.

Because of the torrent of positive feedback for resurrecting the #CookingForLieutenants hashtag, imma do another one tonight. Follow this space.

A pot of Dan’s #CookingForLieutenants tomato soup. Any deficiencies are purely the fault of the chef, not Dan.

One pot of Dan’s #CookingForLieutenants tomato soup.

Not bad, but will have to try again when it’s actually tomato season. Any flavor deficiencies are purely the fault of moi and supermarket tomatoes. 🍅

**warning: nondoctrinal #cookingforlieutenants content**

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My show is on, y'all!!!!

#CookingForLieutenants

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16. Here endeth the lesson. Be excellent to each other. #CookingForLieutenants is dismissed.

7. So, prepare to copy. #CookingForLieutenants is in session. Tonight we’re making tomato soup that doesn’t come from a can & tastes a hell of a lot better than that Warhol painting.

🧵 10 years ago, after I had posted a few recipes on Twitter, I received virtually the same DM from 2 different Army lieutenants at different posts. Both were living in, FAIP, their first adult apartments, & wanted to eat something besides ramen & pizza. #CookingForLieutenants hatched from this.

Okay, fine. @drjchernov.bsky.social convinced me to include a chapter about #CookingForLieutenants, how it came about, but also to include recipes & photos.