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Prism Mirror Lens posted:Sure. But there are still problems with buying simple ingredients. Like, given I don’t own a herb garden, if I want to make something with a bit of mint, I now have a huge packet of mint I have to use up on other recipes, or I have to make bulk meals (which needs huge pans, takes more prep time, it’s boring eating the same thing for multiple days, blah blah...) It makes infinitely more sense for a company or restaurant to make huge batches of meals that I can then buy, imo. Coohoolin posted:That most British people have no idea how to make a simple cremina is just sad. e: brisket is done when the internal temperature reaches 185F or 85C. Guavanaut fucked around with this message at 17:51 on Apr 20, 2020 |
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One of my favourite dishes to make is particularly simple. My friends all for me to make this all the time asking for the review and are surprised how simple it is. Chicken breast, approximately that much. Slice it up Add a mug of water to saucepan Boil water Add chicken Add tarragon. You'll want somewhere between a teaspoon and half the bottle. Boil until chicken cooked Remove chicken, continue to boil water until it's thickish. Readd chicken. Throw in some spoons of Creme Fraiche. Could be teaspoons or table spoons. I don't know. Add salt and pepper to taste. You can of you want to get fancy add garlic or ginger to the meal, but that not important.
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Cooking's a skill and an art really - it's a skill in that it's a thing you can git gud at, learn some basic techniques with a few basic tools, and you'll be able to make good food for yourself and others with minimal hassle. It's a good thing to learn! And it's an art in a creative sense - you can try a lot of different stuff, just for the experience of making a new thing, learning some new techniques, experimenting with different flavours, whatever. I think this is where people enjoy the higher effort stuff, because they like the process and having something neat they made at the end of it. And a lot of recipes are going for that creative angle, so they're always pushing new ideas, new ingredients, new gimmicks - partly to stand out and partly because people can only watch Gordon Ramsay make scrambled eggs so many times so like, don't worry if recipes all seem to call for weird ingredients or complex techniques - you can just learn some basics, and if you want to branch out from there you can. But if you're into a certain kind of food (say Chinese cooking) you'll probably have to pick up some stuff you don't have, just because the common ingredients are things you might not have
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Having never made bread before getting furloughed I've now made two regular white loaves, a sourdough loaf, some pretzels and a focaccia in the past week. Baking's pretty cool. Need to do another sourdough tomorrow, my starter's getting big.
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WhatEvil posted:This is shady as poo poo: Oh I think they have overplayed their hand on this. I am not sure of course because we still live in hell, but there is a difference between "we botched the response, whoops!" which I think a lot of people will forgive to "We made up people to stand against us so that we could do the opposition down".
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WhatEvil posted:This is shady as poo poo: I know it's naive but I really, really hope some media outlet bothers to make this news maybe the FBPE crowd will be outraged enough
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baka kaba posted:I know it's naive but I really, really hope some media outlet bothers to make this news If the government department even bothers to respond, they'll say something like it was one individual contractor no longer with them who overstepped his remit, or that while the accounts were not genuine, they represent the views of real NHS staff and so the thought was good even if people misunderstood, or some bollocks like that and everyone will nod and say 'ah, fair enough' 
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WhatEvil posted:This is shady as poo poo:
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Wonder how that aligns with this https://twitter.com/Independent/status/1252157557092675589?s=19 loving disgusting
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Danger - Octopus! posted:If the government department even bothers to respond, they'll say something like it was one individual contractor no longer with them who overstepped his remit, or that while the accounts were not genuine, they represent the views of real NHS staff and so the thought was good even if people misunderstood, or some bollocks like that and everyone will nod and say 'ah, fair enough' Oh but they are specifically posing as people who are AGAINST the government. That is what makes it worse.
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Gonzo McFee posted:Wonder how that aligns with this
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Josef bugman posted:Oh but they are specifically posing as people who are AGAINST the government. That is what makes it worse. I'm not sure I can get my head round the play here: government department specifically makes fake posters to post against the government so - what - the government can answer with links to their own propaganda and/or get the right wound up so much that they entrench in support of the government even more? (Just seen some bollox a friend posted on facebook about Churchill - I think I'm going to have to unfollow her again!) Jaeluni Asjil fucked around with this message at 18:30 on Apr 20, 2020 |
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Apr 20, 2020 18:28
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Guavanaut posted:Herbs are about the easiest thing to keep in a vertical garden and take up next to no room for how much you use. Doesn't even have to be a fancy gadget one, soda bottles will do. See this is the thing, cremina is the simplest type of pasta sauce made by combining olive oil sauteed flavourings (ex garlic, chillies, etc) with a little bit of pasta water. The first time I made my gf pasta al tonno I described it as tuna pasta and she was expecting an unholy baked abomination. You all eat pasta, why not learn the incredibly simple way to make it the best? Is it just British solipsism? Latent anti continental racism? gently caress me.
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I don't think there are any oil based sauces native to UK cooking, they're all meat or dairy based.
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Hey, so I mentioned this a while ago, but at Momentum we have relaunched the volunteer slack: https://volunteer.peoplesmomentum.com/ A bunch of people from here were involved on this during the election, and seemed to have an alright time of it. It would be great if they could return, but everyone is very welcome. In the election we obviously had a very focused goal, but now we're planning this out as more of a long-term thing for community organising, political education and just socialising. Obviously right now we are fairly centred on Covid 19 stuff, but we're fully intending to keep this going once/if this is over. Our main current activities: Skill shares - currently about three times a week at 12:30pm we're having Zoom Calls where someone will take you through some skill. Usually this is organising-oriented, for instance today we had a look into how to use the fiddlier functions of Zoom and last week we had someone talk through how to extract clips from TV news to edit into your own videos. But we're also doing some more chill stuff like knitting and Bob Ross-esque painting/drawing sessions. Solidarity ring-rounds - calling people up using the same software we used to phone canvass in the election, but now with the intent of just giving people someone to talk to in what is a very lonely time for many. Not necessarily political, but we're calling people from the Momentum database so they may be keen to get into it. Political Education - This is early days yet, but we have a channel on the Slack looking into how we can get this going. Lot of good possibilities here. We're also relaunching the Labour Legends programme that we had during the election, though this is obviously going to be all remotely obviously. We're coordinating with mutual aid groups and Labour's Community Organising Unit to dispatch people to help with specific tasks. This is really for people who can donate either a big chunk of time, like a whole week of full-time work, or a chunk of time regularly, like four hours on the same day every week for a while. Longer term we have other ideas, like running AMAs with prominent people, someone suggested a Zoom call in show once, that could happen. I'm sure we'll have other ideas, maybe you have some too? Obviously a lot of us have a lot of time on our hands at the moment. This is a way you can use some of that time for something worthwhile. And at least one other goon will be involved, me. Anyway, that link again is https://volunteer.peoplesmomentum.com/.
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OwlFancier posted:I don't think there are any oil based sauces native to UK cooking, they're all meat or dairy based. Like, 50 years ago there was only one place you could even buy olive oil. In the chemist, for your ears.
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Comrade Fakename posted:Hey, so I mentioned this a while ago, but at Momentum we have relaunched the volunteer slack: lol at campaigning for Keir Starmer. Go off king
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sebzilla posted:Having never made bread before getting furloughed I've now made two regular white loaves, a sourdough loaf, some pretzels and a focaccia in the past week. Baking's pretty cool. Pretzels sound like a good idea, I was thinking of doing pretzel burger buns recently. For the sourdough, did you put it in anything specialised or can you just put it on a sheet in the oven?
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How does that guy know the gov set up the twitter accounts? I tried clicking through the links but don't often use twitter and couldn't find that part of the story.
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Coohoolin posted:See this is the thing, cremina is the simplest type of pasta sauce made by combining olive oil sauteed flavourings (ex garlic, chillies, etc) with a little bit of pasta water. feedmegin posted:Like, 50 years ago there was only one place you could even buy olive oil. In the chemist, for your ears.
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Guavanaut posted:That's loving disgusting. Grab random NHS photo, put a bio designed to play to transphobes and fash, start astroturfing for Tories. It's literal 8chan poo poo. I remember something like this before. It's not "grab a random photo" it's "we photographed this person a while back for a specific thing but the release we made them sign allows us to use their photo for a vaguely defined 'promotional purpose'" or something. So that person has technically given their permission but also lol. WhatEvil fucked around with this message at 19:02 on Apr 20, 2020 |
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Coohoolin posted:See this is the thing, cremina is the simplest type of pasta sauce made by combining olive oil sauteed flavourings (ex garlic, chillies, etc) with a little bit of pasta water. I cook pasta like this all the time, I've just never heard of it called cremina.
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WhatEvil posted:This is shady as poo poo: Same thing with all the twitter accounts being really seriously concerned about anti-semitism in Labour which stopped posting at the beginning of the year. Basically blue ticks on Twitter are verified morons, no one else is really who they're claiming to be.
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Oil is less than $0.15 per barrel right now.
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bump_fn posted:why’s there a chinook flying over west london If its the same one we have over here they occasionally just do fly overs. It's annoying but usually it's just flying overhead.
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bump_fn posted:why’s there a chinook flying over west london Flying expensive fulled aircraft is free now so they're just having some fun.
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Josef bugman posted:Oh but they are specifically posing as people who are AGAINST the government. That is what makes it worse. the original tweet says they were posting in favour of the government though, #bantheclap is against the good people of britane you see I haven't seen any of the posts but there's stuff like this https://twitter.com/StevePeers/status/1251629195735846915 so it makes more sense if they're mouthpieces for saying the NHS thinks the government is doing a good job, but also for breeding anger at someone other than the government also someone found the source of the image, a Unison page interviewing NHS workers who are immigrants. Here's a quote from that nurse who they're literally (literally) using to rile up the daily mail hordes quote:“Before I came to the UK, I had ex-colleagues who were already here. They were settled, they liked the environment, they said people were accepting of us coming from other countries. But that was way back, before the volcano of Brexit. why do I feel like this isn't a coincidence?
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Apparently there's been Chinooks in and out of London City (next to the Excel Nightingale) all day - 3 just came down the river in close formation, rattling my fillings and waking up all the loving seagulls again. I've no idea what this means* but I don't think it's a *good* sign when massively-expensive military transport helicopters are being used to get to and from somewhere with such excellent road links... * there's normally one or two up and down the river most days, supposedly transiting between Foulness (military testing grounds) and Farnborough/Aldershot (barracks town and with a lot of Qinetiq and assorted companies dotted around)
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