Welcome to the Melbourne Community Daily Discussion Thread.
My neighbour opposite just came over and gave me some of his first harvest of broad beans. So young and fresh they don’t need to be skinned. Marvellous!
Yum!
Are you talking about the neighbour or the beans with the whole skinning thing?
The beans. Though as a neighbour the giver is pretty good too.
Ugh, so good! What’s your favourite way of cooking them? (I presume even baby broad beans shouldn’t be eaten raw…) I love them in a salad or just quickly sautéed in a good olive oil with some garlic.
When they’re this young and sweet, then raw is fine! I do toss them in a vinaigrette sometimes when they’re really young. Saute in oil & garlic sounds damn yum though! Must try that. This lot though I stirred into the ramen I was preparing anyway. That had noodles, some good stock, sliced salsicci sausages (try saying that really fast!) and broccoli florets and sliced capsicum and onion. The beans went really well with it.
What noodles do you recommend for ramen? I’ve never made it.
I just use packet 2 minute noodles without the stock packet supplied. I save those for adding to stews & soups. I like wiggly noodles, they stay on the fork better imo. The noodles that come with Shin Ramyun Black and Shin Ramyun Red are extra good but there’s a lot of them in each packet. Which means enormous servings for each noodle cake. For just me, the ordinary Maggi 2 minute noodles are perfectly good and a better amount for my preferred serving size. You can get specialised ramen noodles that are not wiggly, some in interesting flours like buckwheat or barley, but I like the ordinary Maggi ones better. But that’s just me - a real ramen expert would probably be quite scornful of my choices.
That sounds like a divine noodle stir fry - and I actually didn’t know you could eat them raw that young. Must be a bit like snow peas fresh off the vine?
Re noodles - presume the stock was for creating a sauce, not boiling the noodles in. I confess my noodle adventures are still quite restrained.
I did cook the noodles in the stock - which had been made by simmering the sausages in water to parcook them before slicing. Salcissi sausages are strongly flavoured, so 1 or 2 is quite enough for one person per meal I find, but I had six of them. Which meant that I had enough nice stock available for noodle cooking and 4 cold sausages for lunch sangers this week. The rest of the ramen ingredients just went in so they’d all be cooked just at serving time. I like a generous amount of liquid in ramen, so that worked out fine too. I still have about a half cupful of stock left, and the cold bangers so might do a hash with them and some potat if I get ambitious tomorrow. Or maybe a stirfry …
! I would’ve thought Good Stock was too good for cooking noodles in. But then of course, noodle soup! This is all very delicious and economical. I learn so much from your comments. I should try this with Very Nice Vegetable and Mushroom Stock on the rare occasion I am hankering for soupy noods.
Do it! Very Nice Veg & Mushroom stock sounds absolutely yum! And very flexible for adding whatever takes your fancy on the day. Quantity of liquid is wonderfully optional with such dishes. And leftover stock can be frozen …
It’s been getting kinda scary on the trains recently, even for me. Every single train I’ve been on in the last few months has had someone being aggressive on it. Coming back from Albury there were 3 people all very much off their faces screaming at nothing and punching the air, a few days ago there was some dude screaming at me for some reason about Elon Musk AIs and that I kill Europeans because Germany was right. Today there was some lady absolutely screaming her head off at anyone that moved, and apparently I look brave enough to save people so people started standing behind me for I presume protection, which I don’t mind, but that did mean I got turned into a target. A few weeks ago I was abused by a junkie looking dude at Southern cross for no apparent reason. I’m not really sure what I specifically do that always brings me trouble, I try to just mind my own business and not pay much attention
i don’t have an important flippant comment.
I hope we all have a kind tuesday :)
Can I just say hash browns are the best.
I couldn’t resist and ate some.
Are you reading this, Aldi!!! shakes fists furiously
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The hash browns came from Aldi.
Did you buy these recently?? I haven’t seen them in stock for a while but now I must go check it out
Yup. I bought them last week on Thursday.
Praise be to @AldiSaturdaySpecials and all associated deities. The dark days of the Potato Famine must be over.
Are hash browns back in stock?!? Seemed like they weren’t for ages
I agree. Even better in a burger or English muffin.
All forms of fried potato are magnificent. Chips, hash browns, potato cake. But the waist line consequences are not so magnificent.
Got the sad news from my landlord that they’re going to have to sell this house. They just bought it last year and have been lovely. They really like us as tenants so I know that it’s not what they want to do.
Mortgage rate rises just mean they have to sell.
They given us a months notice.
But now onto the house search.
Have a look at the laws first. You may not have to move.
Phrases to put on my tombstone.
Fate is a cunning hussy…
I don’t know why I love this, but I do… 😂
You can thank Elizabeth Gaskell for that one. Mr Gibson (the main characters Dad and county doctor) in Wives and Daughters often has some very funny outbursts that make very modern me giggle. My favourite is when he intercepts a love letter for his daughter from one of his student doctors and he writes back a doctors script that basically says “fuck off buddy boy”.
Yesterday I walked 10 minutes around my house because my watch wanted me to. Today I half jogged and half walked because I wanted to. It’s a big deal for me because I suffer from vertigo and low blood pressure and weird shit happens to my ears.
I usually do a lot of walking and yoga to keep fit anyway but I need intensity movements if I’m gonna give up smoking. @PeelerSheila@aussie.zone you have inspired me.
You can do this. 🤗
Thank you. ☺
Hey that’s awesome! From my experience exercises really helped with giving up smoking. That vertigo and blood pressure issue is a bit of a worry… have you got a good GP you can talk to about finding more intense exercise that won’t upset the apple cart?
My low blood pressure I manage with diet (red meat, pulses etc). Vertigo has more to do with my inner ear and the fact that my eyes are different strengths (one is long sighted the other is short sighted). What I found is dancing helps a lot because I don’t have to get up and down. I just need to increase the amount I do. Thanks again for your posts because I genuinely get inspiration from you. You are a champion. ♥
I think it’s hilarious if pulses actually help with blood pressure
Haha. That is funny.
PANIK: The very first record my client reviewed threw up a discrepancy in my magical SQL aggregate code output compared to a manual aggregate, where I thought did everything right. Cue significant embarrassment at meeting.
KALM: I quickly realised the pattern of errors and learned something new about UNION (it removes duplicate rows - I’d included the primary ID for two tabled but not two others so if all the other attributes were the same they were excluded, d’oh).
Phew. Relieved that it was an understandable error at my level. Still rockin’ it. 😎
Fellow IT person! Yay! lol Good work :)
sweats nervously i-i’m not an IT person, I just randomly shoehorn in solutions and half learn SQL instead of python because I can’t be bothered doing manual analyses yet also am too lazy to actually program but thanks
If I repeated that sentence to any of my clients they would think I was speaking another language lol I hope you’re being renumerated well for your role :)
Hah, definitely not. I don’t think management really understands or appreciates what I’ve brought to the business at all - they can only see my failures and downplay my strengths (and in doing so create a vicious cycle where I underperform due to anxiety and poor self esteem). Definitely not a good fit any more, hence why I’m bowing out very soon once I finish my current project.
Sounds like a smart move. I’ll probably be doing the same at my current role in a month or so. It’s so hard to find a good company to work for these days.
So, I have the rest of the day to chill, before starting work tomorrow!
Ahhhhhhh! Finally, I did it! I still cannot believe it! Everything is coming up Spud! Eeeeeeeeeeeeee!
Woo hoo.
I hope you have a wonderful first day!
Woo! I’ll be thinkin’ of ya 💪 Go you!
You’re gonna put potato on the table!!!
Bringin home the bacon
Groceries were delivered 40 minutes early. What if I wasn’t home , eh. 🤬
Mine was an hour late the other day. Had to call to see if they were going to turn up at all. Got the delivery fee credited, too bad if I wasn’t home
struggling with emotional regulation today. The fact that I’m getting hit with a slew of bullshit (like, empirically proven bullshit, not coloured perception) is not fucking helping
ride the waves as best you can.
I’m in the LAX Qantas business lounge with the fancy people! There’s a free buffet and bar. I got some warm churros and they have serve-yourself fountain drinks with motherfuckin LEMONADE WOOO
Boarding doesn’t start for another 2 hours so imma just chill in here 😎
Your banned from lemonade for 12 months once you get off that plane
Tough but I think it’s fair… I had 3 pink lemonades with breakfast, one last free refill of Orangeade before I left Vegas which I drank while I drove, we stopped for lunch at IHOP half way to LAX where I had a lemonade and now I am sipping my second in the lounge. I also got some spring rolls!
Anyway, I am on strictly water once I’m home until I make my lemonade company because I’ll need to sample for quality control.
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Omg I just realised I can fill my travel cup with lemonade for the flight!! Muahahahaha
That sauce looks frightening.
yum
More lemonade for the rest of us! Woohoo!!!
LAX is my view of purgatory, however I was once in a lounge there that had a DIY Taco and Bloody Mary bar. Amazing.
I crave green leafy things. I may have stopped at Woolies for a salad just to indulge this craving
I love those wholesome cravings! Sometimes I crave spinach, but sometimes it’s a crunchy salady thing.
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Sunshine! Sunshine! Sunshine!
Feels like it’s been too long since we’ve had a warm day like this one.
Must have a wee fire under my butt… Changed the shower head yesterday, changed over the little name plates that’s few were all scratched up from my bike stack earlier the year and have been semi-spring cleaning in general.
Hmm, we’ll see how long it lasts…
same going on at our place. actually doing some genuine spring cleaning, booked someone to take some rubbish away, given a bunch of old furniture etc away. very cathartic.
Rolled in with some satisfaction and sense of achievement. Funny how much of a struggle it can be to do things and then when you finally get to them it’s always like, why didn’t I do this before?
Cheers to us!
