It’s not hot take Tuesday but here’s my hot take anyway: eggplant is terrible. How do people like it?!? It’s so soggy and bland no matter how you cook it 🤢
I like eggplant. Moussaka. Babaganoush. In curries. Yum.
+1
Dad used to slice it, bread it and shallow fry it. I remember enjoying it, but, then again most anything is good when fried innit.
Brinjals? Yuuuuummmm…
I can’t eat them, they make me want to throw up :/
Just like many other foods…it’s dependent on how you prep it, cook it and serve it.
Seasonings are your friends.
Another vote for eggplant being vile
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Best reframe the discussion to ‘creamy and delicious’. Does absorb other flavours well. I quite like eggplant cut in 12 or so lengthwise wedges, then the cut surfaces dipped in lemon juice and dusted with seasoned flour, then sprayed with a bit of oil and then put under the grill cut sides up. Leaving the skin on keeps each wedge together, so you get the creamy inside and the crunchy coating. A hawt dipping sauce goes well with this. Sort of eggplant chips.
Gets the go ahead in a fresh thai curry but the next day it is mush.
sitting and thinking on the train about who I am, who I wanna be and where I’m (metaphorically) headed. Anyone else feel like there is all these versions of you crowding around almost like ghosts all trying to fit into the one vessel?
Yep, all the time. Lifelong condition. I blame being a Gemini. I forget which philosopher said ‘Do I contradict myself? I contain multitudes’ but it is so bloody true.
“I may contradict myself, but at least I don’t contradict myself.”
Another favourite, though unrelated:
“What does a snake do, when it feels like having a lie down?”
Hot take Wednesday. When a recipe says to scoop out the seeds in tomatoes or cucumbers for a salad or whatever. No. I paid for those seeds. They are going in. I don’t care if it makes it soggy. Plus that’s extra work that I’m not prepared to commit to.
it’s good food , plus it’s nice on a hot day
Save more time and just throw out the whole cucumber. Genuinely the worst vegetable ever.
I believe that dishonour belongs to the chokoe
I nominate the turnip. There’s a reason why it gets pickled. Because it’s weird.
Turnip isn’t the most exciting vegetable but it’s certainly not the worst
Fully agree. I quite like it grated with a squeeze of lime/lemon on it and some black pepper. It has a unique sulfur laden burn but is also cool and refreshing. Peeling the turnip reduces the burn.
Tzaziki. Pickles. You shut your whore mouth.
Cucumbers are just expensive crunchy water, does absolutely nothing for me. Delete this vegetable
:(
Cucumbers, capsicums, carrots, and lettuce are the only vegetables I actually like
No way. Cucumber soup on a hot day is the best. Cucumber, yogurt, mint, bit of water and salt & pepper. For those days when it’s too hot to chew.
Try this:
Yogurt
Salt
Squeeze of Lime
Black pepper
diced tomatoes (optional)
Grated cucumber (into thin strips)
Give it a nice whirl and it makes an excellent side on a warm day!
I like that!
Correction: celery is the worst vegetable ever. I will die on this hill.
Nope. ‘Tis the perfect vehicle for conveying peanut butter into one’s mouth
No, apple wins that title
Apple, cheese, & peanut butter!
If I ate peanut butter I would maybe, just maybe, feel differently. But I don’t.
When I was a kid you used to be able to get a tray of soup/stew mixed veg from Safeway. I used to eat the celery, someone else the carrot. I can’t remember what else was in there but all that would be left would be the turnip and the parsnip. No one wanted them.
Somes Coleses still have those trays. So does Piedmontes.
Parsnips are delicious, fightme!
I don’t want to fight you. You can have all the tasteless, colourless, pointless parsnips in the world. I will not be missing them.
Om nom nom
Tragedy has struck the Raven household. My faithful beaters will beat no more. Over 20 years of faithful service, rest well my friends you will be missed.
All licked out. RIP.
no longer beats
all licked out
😂
RIP Beats By Raven. You will be missed.
We had a set of Kmart ones last 3 years, then the replacements lasted 9 months
Ours died last year. I wouldn’t have it. I took them apart, cracked out the soldering iron and repaired them. I broke the slow/fast switch and the blitz button in the process, but they work again.
Good thing, as they have mixing bowl attachment and it’d be so wasteful to throw the whole thing away over an internal switch wearing out.
I think mine might have a broken/worn gear. The motor still works and they sort of still turn but slowly and with little power.
So I don’t qualify for the Sydney role because they require someone in office once a week.
Got some really useful feedback and info from the recruiter though, so that’s something.
Another interview tomorrow at 2pm. Not super excited about this one, but if it comes through so be it.
Poor kitty in the photo.
Kitty has seen some things.
Cats are still on a diet. The fighting between them gets more intense as they stake out the limited food resources.
Bill is looking good , just a little bit chomnk. Ted is on the light side of hefty chonk whereas he used to be on the heavy side, Ted waddles 😞.
Your cat finds itself most happy with a portion of the food given
I don’t know any cat that thinks “I’m full now. Please don’t give me anymore”.
All my previous cats had an unlimited crunchy bowl, unlimited food. None over ate and got fat. Ted, Ted will eat until he can’t move.
Gibson has unlimited dry food and wet food at night and she’ll just graze.
exactly.
Poor kitties. Can you stir some cooked pumpkin in to fill them up a bit more, and/or feed them separately?
You haven’t lived until the smoke alarms go off when you’re in the dunny 😂
I burnt my dinner :/
Caramelised, the term is caramelised …
Which is what you should do to parsnips
Fennel. Caramelised fennel is chefs kiss
You may like Fennel with Sops. Medieval English dish. Utterly nom.
Yes. Though I rather like it raw also.
Lightly charred.
I suspect we’re about 3 weeks off the house smoke alarms going off at 3am all the time because of internal humidity. Bye bye batteries
Oh yikes, we’ve never had that happen. The closest thing I’ve seen is at my last place, apparently a spider built a home inside the vent of one of the smoke alarms, so everytime there was some wind, the cobweb was pushed into the sensor and alarms would go off.
We can’t just unplug the batteries though, all of our alarms are hardwired and wired together, so if one goes off, the entire house starts beeping. We do have a control panel where we can pause an alarm for 10 minutes, but they aren’t very fond of us doing that since if there was an actual fire, we’d be clueless
Why do ducks have tail feathers? To cover their butt quacks.
>:(
Here’s your genuwine Dad Joke medal! 🥇
sky blue, balloons pretty
Sky blue, pretty balloons,
Eyes blue, pretty soon
Sunrise, sun rays
Cool air, warm days.Who told you there’s warm days? They lied to you
i say it, today will be warm, and tomorrow too
It’s 14 degrees…
15 now!
Still 14 in Sunbury
maybe don’t bury the sun…
Certainly not Fletcher Reed lying to me lol
Sorry reminded me of Liar Liar haha
I happened to be in the kitchen washing my dishes at 5 pm just now. The cleaner came in and emptied the organic waste bin into the general waste bin.
I’m scandalised. If the organic waste bin weren’t there, I wouldn’t think much of it. But to have it be there and be a total lie isn’t cool. 🤬
recycling is a scam
I do agree with recycling in principle and I do my bit regarding aluminium, glass and cardboard but everything else is just not recycled by industry or gov.
my bit for the environment is to consume less, a lot lot less,
I’m also trying to make choices that result in less waste, eg, a cardboard box is better than a plastic bottle
my bit for the environment is to consume less, a lot lot less,
This is the most important bit of anything for the environment. We’re so primed by our society to consume, to want more. It’s almost rebellious to go against it and deliberately consume less.
So much of what people buy they don’t even regard as consumption
like redoing a perfectly good kitchen every few years just because of fashion
Yup. The recycling bins at work are a lie. The cleaners dump them in together. Even the pure paper ones meant for the animal house. 😾
I have successfully aquired new bulbs for my headlights, after realising one of them was out last night. If I can now motivate myself to actually install them this may be my car’s shortest cyclops period yet. Usually I am terrible at getting myself organsed to actually buy the bulbs.
As a bonus Supercheap Auto is next to NQR, so I have also replenished my supplies of cheese, butter and fish. Also a couple of bonus meat pies.
A gold star to you for first class adulting! ✨️
Many thanks. I have actually installed the bulbs as well now, I am very proud of myself.
Sunbury? I love that NQR
No, Ringwood. A smaller store, but convenient location.
Ah. Supercheap and NQR must be friends. The NQR in Sunbury is right next to a Supercheap and another auto parts store too
In Ringwood they hang out with a Vinnie’s op shop, so its the ideal cheapskate shopping place.
Interesting. The one in Deer Park is right next to a salvos. Deer park is a nice store too, only opened last year
Edit: and it’s right next to a CDS machine too
Hands down hoisin duck spring rolls are amazing.
There is no turning back now.
I refuse to go back.
that looks delicious
In the continuing saga of trying to get the business verifed on google, we finally got the video call working, but the banner signage I had was deemed inadequate and ‘you need a permanent sign’.
I explained we never had one for privacy reasons (it was Mum’s house after all) and I’d be moving mid this month anyway.
So more or less back to square one. At least I got some clearing and sorting done.Guess I’m the night owl tonight.
I’m almost at the end of reading the entire SCP catalogue. It’s taken about 3 years and honestly, it was worth it.
Literally one of my fav sites. I was reading it back when they just started the competition for the 1000 series. And to see it grow the way it has is just incredible. There are so many amazing entries, tales, GoIs.
DjKaktus remains my favourite writer, especially their newest set of SCPs tying that flesh cult in with demons and folklore.
The Stairs (in the 000s iirc) was one of the first I read and it creeped me the fuck out. The Old Man as well. And anything that involves SCPs and archeology, hell yeah dig up that creepy-ass temple in Egypt/Persia/Mesopotamia and then make up a bunch of rituals from all the Abrahamic faiths to keep the “scary unknown” contained. Right up my alley.
Sorry for gushing! I just get too excited about that site 😬😅 What are your favourite ones???
I remember when 179 came out and I followed it on and off for years then lost track. Came back and was blown away by how far the whole thing has come! Series 1 was sooooo good, but the intense and really long Kaktus ones blew me away as well.
DJKaktus and Harry Blank are probs my favorites currently. Harry Blank has a cannon for site 54 which is really, really good. Just finished it the other night and it was basically a novel.
My personal favorite has to be the one where it’s a Sopranos DVD, and you can keep going into TV screens in the show. So they zoom into a TV in the Sopranos house, then zoom into another TV in the show that’s on and so on and so forth. It’s really, really good. SCP 2614.
Oh and the basketball game, SCP 1733. Read it tonight if you get a chance. Actually scared me.
My other favorite is probably the whole thing about the fairy queen that gave her heart to the SCP1000 children of the night. It’s a Kaktus one that’s really epic.
The canon ones can be really good too, but problem is a lot of them are unfinished, so you get really into it, then it ends on a cliff hanger.
Oh god, 1733 😭 I’d forgotten until I went to the page and saw the picture. Never play that again, every request for testing should be denied.
Alright, I don’t recall reading 2614, but I now have a severe case of the heebie jeebies. Utterly creep-inducing.
And now I’m back to reading this site, hooked again. I like series 1 just because they are quite contained, but the later series’ where an over-arching lore is established over multiple SCPs and tales is so damn addicting.
