just saw a cop car with an arrow pointing to the cabin saying UNDERPAID and another pointing to the cage saying “BAILED”
…fuck right off you gurning hemorrhoids. I feel the call of my people to hurl a goddamn brick
first taste is… not great. And thats without the mushroom soup. the tomato and beef stock arnt really complementing each other. will see how it tastes closer to the finish time. Worst case (and I stress, this is the worst case) i can just drain the sauce and serve it with the mushroom soup.
Seems like you’re missing a key ingredient…
Sounds dumb, but try adding salt and a squirt or two of citric acid (lemon, lime, not another tomato). If it tastes like it’s “missing something” it’ll generally be because it needs either salt or citric acid. Not a lot of citric though, but yeah, like a half lemon/lime squeezed. Just a thought
add japanese curry
Yeah I’ve never done it but someone on the internet used to just heat up cream of mushroom soup and straight up use it as gravy.
Feeling muted and wibbly and bleah… working up the courage/timing to commit to only one job and say goodbye to the other. Ugh I cannot please everyone.
One bit of extremely good news that I’m looking forward to more than anything else is the return of a familiar guest (after more than a year!) this weekend for about ten days… stay tuned 😺
SOXCAT!
It’s gonna be a boozy Monday coz the man has finished the project and he has tomorrow off. I got one hours notice to get everything ready. The mic is now on charge. Atleast it will take my mind off this relentless fucking hayfever.
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All this stew and food talk got me hankering for something spicy.
Going to make a korean stew with beef tonight. Made one last week with pork and it was okay (the pork was the worst part). Gonna try it on noodles instead of rice as well.
Wish me luck
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It’s vengeful today
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Erhem, over the weekend I indulged in glace orange slices half dipped in dark choc - would recommend.
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Fuck the banana! 🔫
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A classic French stew please
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Nailed it
Its in the slowcooker. I compromised on my original vision and took some advice but not all. Its got the veggie soup (but blended so the chunks dont go mushy), beef stock and passata. Will give it a taste towards the end and see if the mushroom soup is still a good idea (gives me a chance to back out if its not working rather than commit early on to something I’m not sure about). Will saute the mushrooms and add towards the end and add then. Its probably gonna have more a curry style gravy consistency but thats actually ideal.
I detest the texture of mushrooms but will use and discard the dried Chinese sort for broth etc. Stroganoff also. Have quite a few truffle flavoured things from CBM, powder good, sauce overrated
if I want a mushie taste I use a portobello mushroom stock cube. I get them from the Italian supermarket
You usually do tomato or cream based. Not both. Hope it works out. Sounds delicious. 👍
A tomato based sauce with cream and banana mashed through is classic French cuisine
Oh the very popular dish à la vomir.
You’re gonna get a welfare check called in.
Needs a hug first
Very complex discussion about stew for a monday morning.
I vote for the Perpetual stew
the Ship of Theseus under “See also” is absolutely sending me
I feel like people ain’t listening to what Tiny is asking and instead throwing out their own family recipes instead.
Not really. I would have said pour a pint of Guinness in if that were the case😎
I generally take today off of work as it’s the anniversary of An Event, but this year I didn’t and now all I want is to stand up and walk out.
Do it. Go home early and look after yourself. Powering through is very overrated.
Dumb questions, but I got a bunch of gravy beef from aldi. I was thinking about chucking it in the slowcooker with a couple of cans of vegtable stew and a couple of cans of cream of mushroom. then probs some actual mushrooms and water. Reckon this would work taste wise?
Normally when I do gravy beef I cut a bunch of the fat off, is that the right approach? Or do i just leave everything on?
Don’t bother putting in any kind of creamed tinned soup or stew. It’ll only curdle unless your slow cooker is really really slow. Add the real mushrooms for the last hour of cooking along with extra veg. Except for peas - add for the last 5 mins if using frozen peas. For me, I’d use a couple of tins of crushed/diced tomato for liquid, topping up with water or stock or red wine. Trim the worst of the fat off the beef, then brown it before putting in the slowcooker. Brown any onions if using too. If you like a really really thick gravy, add 1 tablespoon of cornflour blended with 1/2 cup COLD water for the last 15 mins of cooking and stir it in well - this will thicken things up but will blunt the flavour, so feel free to use as much extra flavoring as you want if you plan to do this. Blend the cornflour with the water really well so it doesn’t go lumpy.
All you need to ask yourself is: Do I like cream of mushroom soup? And if the answer is yes go ahead and do it.
It wont clash with the vegtable soup?
No it won’t but the vegies will most likely go mushy. To avoid that add the vegie soup about an hour before it’s ready.
So fry your meat (no need to flour) add to the pot, add mushrooms, add cream of mushroom soup, add water or the liquid from the veg soup or stock to just cover the meat. Let cook. An hour before it’s ready add the vegies from the soup.
As others said, skip the tinned soup. Stock or water is best, with ample seasoning. I generally add a bit of Worcestershire sauce and even MSG to elevate the flavours.
And I’d probably skip the mushrooms too. I don’t think they’ll hold up well in the slow cooker. Fry them up and add them to the final product.
Generally I’d trim some of the fat, but only after cutting up into smaller pieces and before browning.
Some, but not all? I’ve tried before with like a pot roast, just some beef and tomatos but it really wasnt that amazing. Was kind of hoping the soup gives it A) a bit more veg, and B) more of a stew flavor. good call on the mushrooms!
Keeping some of the fat helps during the browning. For more veg throw in carrots and celery. Cheap and filling (tasty too). Season the beef before browning too. And be liberal with the flavours. Rosemary, thyme go well with beef.
A personal preference, but I don’t like putting tins of soup in the slow cooker. I’d put in some beef stock, tinned tomatoes, garlic and veg. Red wine if you have it. Leave the fat on, coat in flour and brown in a pan first. Also fry the onion off too.
unfortunately i’ve tried this before and wasn’t a huge fan. Cant have onion (or at least, cant have a lot of it) so thats probably where it all went wrong.
Will deffo flour and brown if first though.
This is the way☝️. I add a tablespoon of vegemite as well.
Yeah it’ll work. Still cut off as much fat as you can. Just make sure the beef is covered with liquid so don’t add too much water.
I don’t know how rude mowing at 7am on a Monday morning (in school holidays) is, but today it’s my house doing the mowing.
Don’t blame me, they sent some drongo gardener around who apparently has a key to my gates I guess, and he was banging on my door at 7:10 while I was in the shower. Needless to say, he was ignored
NB: they call themselves gardeners, but they really aren’t. The department hires lawn mowers for all the properties, including ours. They do an awful job and never take their clippings with them (or even put it in the compost bin, like we’d asked multiple times). They basically just come to mow the lawns poorly and then spray poison on anything that looks green. Not a hyperbole. So far, they’ve sprayed a capsicum tree, a watermelon seedling, a patch of strawberries, and a zucchini bush. They were all in the garden beds, with only a few weeds in there (nowhere near anything that was growing).
You should change the lock on your gates and next time they come round just ignore them again
If they’re spraying poison on food plants, you have a wonderfully large stick to start beating with
Disposing of clippings almost doubles the effort of the job. I mow my lawns without the hopper so the clippings are free to return to nature, and I don’t have to stop and empty the hopper 4-5 times.
Meh, they’re getting paid a pretty substantial amount of money to do a poor quality job. The least they can do is leave the place in a respectable state. It’s not that difficult.
I reckon you’d find their boss was getting paid well for the job. As it’s government work, they charge high and send some numpty to do it because as you know the complaints process isn’t functional.
I’d be furious about that. Had a previous landlord ‘trim’ the hydrangeas to 2 inches with a whippersnipper, then creosote the entire fence….
So far, they’ve sprayed a capsicum tree, a watermelon seedling, a patch of strawberries, and a zucchini bush
Ooh I’d be very pissed off about that.
This was back before I got into the gardening, when it was just the old LT working on it. He was reeeeeaaaaalllllly pissed, and I can’t blame him. It was my little patch of strawberries that they poisoned though, but I’m not super mad about that because they were just cuttings from a larger patch that’s in a raised planter box. If they poisoned that though, I’d be about ready to throw hands
The nap was a bad idea, but I guess I needed it.
Grounding myself with the cat, though I’m floating away.
Writing here helps, sorry for dumping a lot :/
Don’t be sorry. I’m not sure the affordability or availability (or quality) of counseling these days, but I hear good things about EMDR?
I’m sorry you’re going through this. Let Mickey be a comforting friend
You’re fine. Pancake breakfast? 🥞🐱
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Double moon starts soon!
Wake up.
Let him snooze one more day. its not technically over till tomorrow.
I forgot to ask you guys on the 21st if you remembered
I do that every year (except the years I forget, which is most of them)
I just did sleeping cat music cos Bill is next to me snoring really loudly 😄
