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My dinner tonight was fabulous
Image of a plate with Mediterranean chicken drumsticks, lebanese rice, hummus, toum,spicy roast pumpkin and a piece of lebanese bread. 5/5 yum yums.
I need more details on that Lebanese rice 👀
This is probably the closest to what I make.
https://amiraspantry.com/lebanese-rice/
I just use 1/2 cup of noodles, 1 cup of rice, 2 cups of water.
Whoa, cool! Noodles AND rice together! I must read more about this…
It’s a very forgiving dish because the noodles soak up residual moisture leaving the rice fluffy.
Components look delicious but also scared of eachother
A place for everything and everything in its place.
Oh you did the food seperation thing and now I must have a cold shower.
It wasn’t deliberate. I don’t mind if my food make love on the plate.
The food makes love in your mouth silly…
So my wife just told me that shortly after I went to the office, one of the cats parked herself on top of her.
With her butt right up her face.
Apparently she also just took a shit moments before.
And then she just stared at my wife like there she didn’t do anything wrong.
Ah yes, the good old Eye Of Sauron
This is why I get fluffy cats. You cannot see their bum.
Oh it’s breakfast time so I can show you all my breakfast from this morning. Humungous breakfast burrito from that same diner I went to last night. Fork for scale. That’s their home made “green chilli” on the side, which was not green but was delicious.
Breakfast burritos are actually the best burritos. I hope it was excellent!
It really was. It had egg, sausage, cheese, onion, hash brown and peppers in it I think. Only thing was it was so chonky I had to use a fork’n knife!
I must admit I’m quite jealous of you Bull… How have you found the portion size to price ratio? The food there does look gigantic, but is it actually as good value as it seems once you convert the freedom eagles over into dollarydoos?
It hurts the wallet. It’s not a good time to be an AUD wielder in USD land at the moment. They are having their own cost of living crisis and a lot of places food items look like our prices, making them mega expensive when you convert to AUD. Plus you have to add tax and tip.
Yeah that’s what I was thinking. Even before recent times when prices there were like half of ours, once you convert nd add tax + a tip I always thought it’d probably end up being the same or more expensive
The last time I was here our dollar was worth more than theirs and their prices still low (2012), so with conversion tax and tip things were CHEAP. Not now that our dollar is only worth 65c to theirs and the price hikes of everything. Those cheap days are gone.
Tried to convince my manager that we should shut the office for the afternoon and go for a trip to one of the chocolatier places as a team bonding experience. It didn’t work today… but I’m sure I’ll try again tomorrow.
Because you were let down I think you need a basket of office support kittens and/or puppies.
Yes, yes, I do believe you’re correct!
behold Casey in all his fluffy glory
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Omg. Which way is the head? Hahaha.
see his flat feetsies, his head is the other way
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Floofmeister.
I’d be extremely tempted to give that tum a pat. I have all my shots and I’m okay with Bartonella if it’s that fluffy.
I have a throat infection or a cold or flu and man it is fucking me up baaaaadly. Tomorrow is eofy work dinner at a really nice place. I just want to be able to go.
It is brutal. I was even 100% recovered and I’m back in it again. You should hear some of the kids coughing and spluttering in daycare.
I had that or not dissimilar from when I went OS 3m ago. Rude upper respiratory it lingered.
Yuppp I’m on the arse end of one. It’s going around. 3 days of torture.
Been to pub. Mildly inebriated (this word took me three attempts on the phone keyboard)
Yup I’m definitely in middle-America…
I have and could have taken so many more photos of stuff like this
Imagine spending your hard-earned money on merch that features people you despise.
The political merch grift is something I can never understand.
The people making those shirts have a very good hustle though, make a shirt with trump on it and now all the MAGA types are basically throwing their money at you to get their hands on it, and then make one mocking trump,and the people really against trump will do the same
My ex-stepdad would be one of those people.
I mean hey a grifts a grift.
Oh man…
I was there during the 2016 elections and couldn’t believe the amount of “political merchandising”:
I actually wouldn’t mind a Hilary Nutcracker.
Chicken and cashew tonight.
With that magical bull’s eye carolina reapr hawt sauce. only a few mls left which makes me sad.
Stock up while it’s available!
Now you’re scaring me. This better not be another sriracha type sitch.
Can’t be too careful. Buy gold while it’s cheap
Thank you for the inspiration, I just had some chicken and cashew
15 years in prison for Malka Leifer somehow doesn’t seem enough
Apparently she’ll be put in immigration detention and then deported as soon as she’s done the minimum sentence of 11 1/2 years. abc article
Din dins tonight - pork shoulder chop marinated in nostimini, mashed spud and brussells sprouts dressed in dijon mustard and butter.
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And a knob of butter in the crater of the mash. Yes I know that little trick. I know it well.
The classics never date.
TIL a new word: nostimini, thanks, looks delicious 🙏
Pleasure! I’m often at Woolies so I can check them quite frequently.
Enjoy!
I see you. Let me know if you see King Oscar Briesling sardines on sale!
Hoping today will be the last day I need off due to sore throat. Can’t work with no voice. Can’t risk making throat worse until it’s healed. Feeling better today but still sore and swollen lymph nodes. This week has sucked
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Rum or Brandy also work in a hot toddy.
Hi kids. I’m about to start work and I don’t want to
Hi not kid, I feel you. It’s cold and early and working sucks
Hi mum, we are hungry and we gratefully wait for you to put bread on the table.
🍞
delicious thanks mum
more floofiness , Oscar ( blue himalayan ) with totoro
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I’m gonna put my money on the cat if things escalated between those two.
He was a great cat beloved by all. 💗
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Brains trust. I somehow have inherited 5 heads of broccoli that I need to use this week.
Recommendations? (Other than soup which is sorta my last ditch option…)
Make a gratin. Blanch the rest and then freeze them.
I’ve never made a gratin in my life and I haven’t been having that much dairy recently so wondering if I want to go down that route. But blanching and freezing looks like a winner - that way my friends can use some when they come back too! Thanks for that link
I can’t see why you can’t make it with coconut cream or another alternative. As for cheese it uses such a tiny amount you could skip it all together. Top it with breadcrumbs and butter/margarine/spread/oil. Very easy to do and there would be so many vegan recipes out there for you to try.
Not going to lie I’m definitely not a fan of a lot of the non dairy alternatives in dishes like gratin :( I feel like maybe I might go for something less stodgy. Might change my mind tomorrow though…
shiitake, chinese cabbage, vermicellii, red bean curd, and really just any vegetables capable of soaking up juice, for this: https://en.christinesrecipes.com/2010/02/braised-vegetables-with-red-fermented.html
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Oh! I didn’t read the recipe :P Didn’t know there’s oyster sauce there. I just fry the red bean curd with ginger for a bit and then put the chinese cabbage in, followed by the rest of the veggies and what not. Baby corn goes well in there too. Do not eat immediately. The longer it sits in the fridge the better it tastes.
@baconmash good tips thanks - will grab ingredients this week and give it a try… I am not a ginger fan at all… if I reduce the quantity of ginger a bit can you suggest anything to fill in the flavour gap?
You could just leave it out. I also add some brown sugar to it but you don’t have to. It’s mostly just fry the red bean curd and put in any veggies you like.
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Ooh thanks for that rec. The place I’m staying at has plenty of East Asian ingredients and condiments so braising might be very much on the menu.
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I’ve definitely got broc and tuna pasta on the list for one of the heads… I couldn’t do more than one head with pasta though. Reckon I’d get sick of it
Add some anchovies and capers.
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Definitely adding those, I love the combination of anchovies and broccoli
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Username does not check out … 🤨
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Anchovies and a little oil in first, stir to dissolve anchovies - then broccoli etc
Bit of stir fry broccoli with maybe some garlic and soy sauce?
Roast broccoli with a little oil and chilli is delicious
You could make a broccoli frittata. My favourite pasta has broccoli fried with bacon, onion, pesto and a dash of cream, all done while the pasta is cooking. You could do those Indian style vege Fritters. Or a chicken and broccoli stir fry with hoisin or cashews.
Wait, didn’t Smeg or someone have a broccoli pasta they really liked? A while ago a few DT regulars were cooking it for dinner. Broccoli was cooked down into a liquidy looking sauce, I can’t find it.
But Tin Eats is a very popular DT recipe site so maybe it was theirs https://www.recipetineats.com/quick-broccoli-pasta/ It uses two whole heads
Ah yes now that you mention it I do remember! That would actually be a perfect use of this broccoli glut. I think maybe it was styled off this https://www.smh.com.au/goodfood/recipes/broccoli-and-anchovy-penne-20140310-34gsq.html
Where the broccoli is grated to help it become liquidy
Yeah that looks like it
This is my all time favourite salad and so easy to make!
I vote for doing some cheese and cauliflower style pies, as they freeze well.
I’m not experienced with making pies and the online recipes look annoying. But I’d probably steam the veg, make a roux cheese sauce with garlic and onion powder, mix, then either use a pie maker or do pastie shapes with premade pastry sheets. It’s uh… a hand pie.
