WORLD SLEEP DAY 🛌
I’m thinking about the milky caffeinated dumplings (edit) @Force_majeure123 was dreaming of.
I have zero energy, lactose intolerance and my stomach is being a massive jerk so I can also only dream. But I found a coffee pastry cream recipe. You could probably stir some condensed milk in there too for a Vietnamese coffee sort of taste.
I was thinking the thin slippery unleavened dumpling skins might not go well unless you wanted to fake it with mochi or use one intended for sweet buns. I wondered about sweetening a pork bun dough recipe and making it like bao.
Then I found out Cantonese custard buns exist. Perhaps if you cooked the pastry cream down thick enough or added coffee to the intended custard filling it might work. It doesn’t look quite creamy though. These are more complicated but look runnier.
Actually… the supermarket used to sell tubes of coffee flavoured condensed milk. You could put the flat dough skins in muffin trays to hold up the edges against spillage, squeeze it into the centre and quickly wrap it inside. I can’t see the coffee tubes at Woolies or Coles but there are still tins you can spoon it out of… unfortunately the brand is Nestle.
Or chocolate steamed buns with white chocolate for the ganache.
I love that you have put so much thought into this!! I think the ‘more complicated’ Cantonese custard buns look like the closest to my dream - but it was even runnier. I feel like you could just add some caffeine powder to that and it would be the one. Strangely enough - in my dream the dumplings were caffeinated for sure, but were not coffee flavoured, just milk flavour. Maybe I need to think about it it patenting this idea… 🤔
Yeah I love weird food science. It’s interesting to think about. There was this Wonka book when I was a kid that let you make edible marshmallow pillows.
Sounds like a great breakfast idea, or perfect for an afternoon slump
Edit: The filling sounds like an unfrozen ‘sweet cream’ flavour icecream base
I think steamed is probably the way to go. The filling would need to be either frozen or some sort of gel to melt when you cook the outside. Not going to try it, coffee disagrees with me.
You could use invertase like in chocolate cherries. I have no idea how it would respond to heat though. Would it speed the liquification, get denatured/not survive the cooking process, or would it still take weeks as the dough went stale…
Freezing is possible. They do it for Bombe Alaska. But it could cause the filling to split
I know it’s world sleep day but I don’t wanna. After sleep comes waking up and going to work and I am really not ready for that.
tomorrow is day of the book smugglers in lithuania
This interests me. ( these people are heroes )
Opposing imperial Russian authorities’ efforts to replace the traditional Latin orthography with Cyrillic, and transporting printed matter from as far away as the United States to do so, the book smugglers became a symbol of Lithuanians’ resistance to Russification.
Book smuggler Jurgis Bielinis, who created a secret distribution network for banned Lithuanian books, was born on 16 March 1846, and this date is commemorated in Lithuania as the Day of the Book Smugglers (Knygnešio diena).[5]
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ok, so I reupped my sub to nyt for the xwords
I used to do them years ago, would buy the print books
Might take today off. You can have a super short week if you and the kids are sick
the kids are ALWAYS sick. At least thats my experience so far.
I read somewhere kids get on average 11 viruses a year.
How did scientists tell?! They all blur together into one big mess of continuous being sick.
The crow remake looks like a piece of shit.
Time to torrent the old one and watch it tonight in 4k.
I’m fed up with remakes in general. Yes, there are purportedly only X number of plots, but you could at least try to make something new.
I’m shocked at how oddly nondescript it looks. It looks like a boring revenge flick. What’s up with all these revenge flicks anyway? Someone needs to make a cinematic universe revenge crossover spoof series. Where’s Leslie Nielsen when we needed him most. Oh, right. Yeah.
It took about a minute for the hot chip line to run out of chips
Cool neighbour is going travelling for like 12 months and leaving a set of keys with me.
Basically told me to have at anything that edible, potable or smoke able.
He’s a good egg
Do you get the use of his car? Is it better than yours?
He sold his car recently. So no.
Atleast you got the liqueur cabinet and the snacks. 👍
For someone who’s really well off, his liquor choices are quite plain.
Ain’t complaining, but I expect better than Jameson.
What about the yacht?
With someone else unfortunately.
Obviously at the marina. Keys are with a mate.
careful with that time machine
I’m cool with that one. The Gimp dungeon is where it gets interesting.
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Look it’s great my friend loves his dog but posting 10+ photos a day of the dog on social media makes me think he might have issues.
some people might want to his dog pictures :)
they might not be able to have a dog and are living vicariously
Honestly there are better ways to do that - go volunteer at a shelter and offer to walk a homeless dog etc.
Metal detectors at the G.
Rumours of my criminality precede me
I saw them doing sniffer drug dogs at Oakleigh station early last year. It was a full scale operation, with command vehicles and everything. Kinda wanted to go through it just because I’ve never experienced it before, but my roommate was smoking a lot of weed and I didn’t want to end up being strip searched so I just took photos of them from a safe distance away instead
Boss calls: “Can you please call supplier and organise X?” Me: does exactly that and notifies people boss requested Half hour later, supplier calls: “Your boss just rang and asked for Y, can you please confirm?”
WHYYYYY ask me to do something, if you’re just going to call up and arrange different shit?!
Cheers everyone 🍺. Sorry @Force_majeure123@aussie.zone
water for force💧
That’s not water… It’s tears!
it’s crocodile’s
Cheers
Here’s to clearing debt on the Ides of March 🍻
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He’ll always be Mr Bean to me.
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The week after I got my breadmaker, I discovered my really itchy eczema rash I’d had for a year could be gluten related. So I cut out gluten and wasted $180 on a breadmaker.
3 weeks later when I had little one over, decided to use the last packet to make bread and because I have zero self control and the smell of it made me drool I had some and no rash/no return/nothing (but still staying away from gluten if I can).
My body is a mystery.
Gosh I had such a good streak going and then last Sunday I became a couch potato cuz it was like 89494 degrees outside 😪
Forgot to mention Mrs’s B’s car got a good mechanical check, its with the mechanic today getting the RWC sorted but so far it looks and feels pretty good for a 12 year old car. Might need to replace the stereo with something carplay compatible though. Lets just say Bluetooth tech has come a long way.
Definitely socking away money for carplay installation if I get a car without one (likely). Can’t live without it now after getting used to it. So much safer than phone on a cradle
Awesome news! Hope this one is a keeper!
What’s for dinner folks? I’m thinking either Chinese style eggplant with capsicum and minced tvp to go with rice, or a quick dal to go with upma (savoury semolina mush)
A weird gin & beer combo that was 50% off.
Also sounds like what you need - hopefully it recharges you. Or makes you get funky, as needed.
Actually a bit too weird. To the back of the cupboard for emergencies.
Mexican restaurant with a mate to celebrate the job news. Haven’t been to St Kilda in ages. I might move back that way in a couple of months
Depends what I find near my seat at the G
Chicken and chorizo sub topped with whipped spinach and feta, red onion and roquette
That’d be an easy $23 at a cafe. Sounds tantalising!
salmon veggies rice
I could go for that. Grilled salmon?
baked
420(°F) blaze it
Chicken soup with pasta for me.
Sounds like what you need - hopefully it recharges you.
