I’m planning on hanging shit on one of the darts players tonight, if the fucken prick shows up, that is. Stupid cunt parked his car facing east beside mine in a supermarket car park (weather today features a strong westerly wind).
Dickwad opened one of his back doors, the wind caught it and bashed another dent into me car’s rear quarter panel.
I told him he was a stupid old cunt, that he knew the wind was likely to catch the door and should have held onto it harder.
The local Catholic church has recently opened up its commercial kitchen & hall on the first Sunday evening of each month to provide a free 2-course roast dinner to families in need or to those who are finding life difficult at the moment.
If I was a church-going type, that would fit in with the religion I was raised under. I found out about this via the Catholic charity I volunteer for once per month.
@streakmachine Why not an iMac Pro? Shitloads of cores available with that beast.
I have repurposed the 12South Bookarc
which I bought to use with the 2009 13-in MacBook Pro I used to own. I also used it with the 15-in 2011 MBP that died last year.
I removed the silicone protective insert and now use it in the kitchen to hold the paper filters for my Hario V60 coffee dripper. It can hold a full pack of 100 filters.
@jussipekonen About 4 weeks ago I had to travel 340 km to attend a funeral. The route was a mix of 20% suburban roads, 50% single carriageway rural highways & 30% freeways. For most of the way I used the cruise control and found the driving experience to be much less stressful. Including rest stops I did the trip in 4 hours & 20 minutes. I had allowed 5.5 hours.
Whipped up some 35% pouring cream to go with a coffee prepared in my Hario V60 dripper. That was very fine indeed. Smooth Guatemalan medium roast beans, freshly ground. Sweetened with a mix of local honey & Lyle’s golden syrup (I’m out of sugar again).
Heavenly match, so smooth.
@phoneboy I tried lard in preference to dripping or ghee. It’s three times the price of dripping but definitely not three time as good.
Lard here is pig fat; dripping or tallow is from cattle. I’m told that roast potatoes are best done in duck fat, but that’s too expensive for me.
/@hazardwarning @variablepulserate
@phoneboy In the early 1990s Mcdonalds in Australia shopped cooking their chips (I refuse to use the word fries in this context) in beef dripping. By no coincidence whatsoever, that’s also when the flavour of the product changed & not for the better.
Any frying I do at home is with the products of live or dead cattle: beef dripping if I can’t get any ghee.
With a growing Asian population in these parts, more & more little Indian/Sri Lankan grocery stores are popping up locally. It’s actually reasonably easy to source ghee now. The best stuff I’ve found is a lille rarer, being 50% buffalo/50% cow’s milk sourced.
// @hazardwarning @variablepulserate
@phoneboy There’s a farm-based cheesemaker 53 km away that also sells their own pasteurised-only milk, which tastes just like real milk should taste. They make great yogurt & their cream is really special. The packaging of the cream doesn’t mention the percentage but in Australia, double cream starts at 48% butterfat. This suffis just short of double cream in consistency, so I’d imagine it to be around 45%.
#Lush
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@jussipekonen My latest car also has cruise control, a basic & simple one with on & off buttons, cancel & resume previously set speed button & a rocker switch to vary the speed up & down in 1 k/hr increments.
On those longer drives it’s a blessing. I often find myself using the speed increase setting instead of the accellerator pedal.
