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I just had a burst of motivation to use an appliance I've owned for years and only used maybe 3 times ever. I'm not sure I've even used it once in this apartment and I moved here in 2018.
It's a pressure cooker which also does slow cooking, I think. I feel like making some sort of yum fall-apart meat based.. thing.. but not sure what.
Lamb shanks, pork shoulder, beef brisket or just plain chuck steak & veg. This sort of thing is GREAT for the cheaper cuts of meat that need long slow cooking in moisture, but are seriously yum when you do. A beef daube (fancy for pot roast) would be pretty damn yum too.
Hmm I might have to shop tonight and think about using it tomorrow instead, just looking at the time and my afternoon meetings.
I had a scroll through the express recipes on the device and I could maybe do one of the easy/quick ones tonight like gnocchi with pancetta
I'm having a look, it looks like it also steams. Very nice.
Have a look at instapot recopies for inspiration.
God I hate Instagram, no wonder why I don't use it. When searching through tags you can't search via chronological anymore, it's either "top" or "recent top" and recent top you'd think is chronological. Nope! It's basically the most recent posts but has a higher like or view count. So you can get posts from a few days ago, then one in February and then one in July and then one from a week ago. It's ridiculous.
And the other thing I noticed is if you search through someone's feed, no matter if you follow them or not, you'll get ads! Look I get that ads are something the site will have, it sucks but like sure. The app needs to get paid somehow. But why in the middle of people's feeds? That is ridiculous!
I hate the internet.
I wouldn't mind ads except I still get ads even when I'm a paid subscriber,
I’m getting logged out using safari to browse from time to time. But then I refresh and magically logged back in. I don’t remember my password and the reset link never works. It’s stressful.
Anyway, today was a good day. WFH but not crazy, got time in the sun, fresh cut and now sushi train for dinner. Dreaming of going back to Japan. Or any holiday really.
Yeah… my spinach seedlings are damping off. It took a while for them to get going and then forgetting to drain the self watering reservoirs during those heavy rains has wrecked them.
The carrots might be ok and the cat grass/parsley are doing well but more of the spinach is just dying. I might have to trash them and try again with new potting mix after bleaching the pot
check out perpetual spinach if you can - it's technically a chard (like silverbeet) but it's bloody hard to kill and won't bolt in hot weather
I've bought some Biscoff spread. What do I do with it?
Spread it on your Biscoffs?
Damn it. I'll have to get some next time.
Crumpets! Or as a cake/pastry filling. Or a dollop on ice-cream. It's very sweet, a bit crunchy and tastes like every baking spice in existence except for chilli.
Interesting. Thank you.
My colleague has recently used it as an addition to Rocky Road. It's literally the best Rocky Road I've had
This is the reason I asked here.
