I made a cramique loaf of bread, it has sultanas, chopped turkish apricots, eggs, nutellex ( instead of butter ) , sugar and vanilla. It’s a Belgian breakfast bread. It’s kneaded well so it’s like bread, not like a cake or brioche.
Sounded yumm until you mentioned nuttelex. But given the dairy sensitivity, maybe a free pass on that front. I have an irrational hatred of nuttelex.
Is there something I could use instead? Maybe just sunflower margarine.🤷♀️
My distaste for nuttelex and marge in general is irrational, so I would think that any marge including olive oil spread would probably have the same effect as using it. Nuttelex is a holdover from the anti-cholesterol panic of the 1990s and early 2000s. It’s full of trans fats, just no cholesterol.
The butter/marge/oil is probably there in the recipie to keep the crumb soft - and almost any oil will do that. One of my beefs against marge of any kind is that it is chock full of hydrogenated fats (trans fats) to make it solid enough to spread like butter. So it’s bloody unhealthy to use a solidified hydrogenated fat in a recipie when almost any oil will do the same without the hydrogenated trans fats. Maybe substitute peanut butter or almond butter? Or even a couple of eggs? Same effect but much less trans fats. Butter has some useful vitamins and calcium as well as it’s fat which is why it appears in bread recipies so often.
Marge is fundamentally a lie - I’d rather use the naked oil or squished peanuts or eggs without all the baggage. But I digress. You do you.
oil it is 👍
butter is in bread recipes because of “mouth feel”, butter melts/dissolves/digests at mouth temperature, nearly every other fat , other than cocoa butter, does not.
*adjusts clock to breakfast *
have toasted with butter and jam
the one I made tastes different to the bought ones, most were supermarket breads as it’s a traditional bread and not many bakers make it. I figured it was because I don’t use boatloads of sugar, just a few tbsps. The Jam is all the sweetener you need.
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Ooh looks good!
That looks so delicious 🤤
A woman at work resigned in such a hurry she left her umbrella here. I wonder what’s going to happen to it
This happened at a previous workplace, and ended up really complicated to be honest. I’d tell you, but it might go over your head.
Sounds like one case where it’s better to be clear of the downpour and left high and dry
🤣🤣🤣
We had many redundancies years ago with very little notice given. There was a lot of stuff left behind in the kitchen. I believe the large volume of abandoned cereal was a major contributor to the serious pantry moth infestation we had a bit later.
You have to take those small revenges where you can. Maybe I should have some backup food somewhere if anything happens
Crushed peanuts. Pantry moths love them. Runner up would be a muesli mix (especially if it contains nuts). If you can hide it down the back of the cupboard a moth infestation can develop quietly, unnoticed until the larvae head out to find new food sources and you you get traumatised staff horrified by the “maggots” crawling through all the food.
I’ll have a packet of peanuts ready to turn into a moth bomb if I ever think the day is coming. Thank you
Bad reading: panty moths. Do not want.
Just keep peanuts and muesli out of your panties and you should be fine.
Aged 11 I left an open bottle of school milk on top of the gas water heater in the kitchen just opposite the head masters office. Stank quite well. I’m not sure if they ever found the bottle because I was expelled for other reasons.
It needs a new home. You know what to do.
If it doesn’t get touched for the next couple of days then I know where to turn if I get caught in the rain
Today is a better day than yesterday and yesterday was a better day than Wednesday. 👍
I’m glad things are on the up
I’ve been listening to a lot of vintage records lately
this is a nice one, a lovely day tomorrow https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkBVCdP7vAI
Great to hear ❤️
I live in a building that has both serviced apartments and actual homeowners and tenants in it. For the ~3 years I’ve been here, the serviced apartment sold monthly Internet to tenants (access to their wifi) which was great, and they’d OFTEN forget to deactivate my code for logging in (I haven’t paid for a new code in about 9 months). Last night I was kicked off. Today i got around to asking reception what was going on, and they will no longer be offering tenants access 😭 so my super cheap Internet is gone and I need to put on my big boy pants to get new Internet 😭
We had free wi-fi for about 7 years. YL complained it was crap. She didn’t know we got it for free and we weren’t gonna alert TPG to that fact after such a long time.
*It was TPG’s fault we weren’t charged for it after repeated emails with credit card details from us.
In case you need, here’s an NBN plan pricing spreadsheet.
That’s amazing! Thank you 🙏
CBF’d friday cooking crew signing in.
Egg on toast, sunny up. Then potato gems.
omelette with some vegies here
Tempeh and veggies in soft taco wraps.
I was tempted by chips and gravy at work, so dinner is the toasted roll I had planned for lunch.
Party pies here. And corn fritters for veg.
Right there with you. Eggs on toast sound great
Waffle fries and some veggies
Woke up wondering why I feel especially crappy and realised that with the hectic emotional roller-coaster of this week, I haven’t had a fresh vegetable since Monday. Whoops.
Christmas done - late this year - and tax finally filed. Wooo me adulting.
Oh wow. Melbcat was in her bed by the window and when I brought her afternoon tea in I saw a huge magpie perched really close to the window just observing. It was basically standing over her watching her sleep.
I wonder what that was about.
obviously read PHM
"You sleep, I watch, question? "
She doesn’t go outside and wasn’t even looking at it… so it was probably trying to figure out how to obtain an indoor nest and hand-served meals for itself. lol
Tickled to hear the announcer call it “State Liberry” station at my sticky beak this morning.
I saw the crew washing the lamp posts at Parkville 😺
nearly over the vaccinations, they were a little rough
Glad you’re on the mend ❤️
thanks for the kind thoughts 😘
I get the covid vax because I go on public transport a lot and because I have vulnerable people in the fam
and I don’t want it either, it scares me
Yay! I got the horrid arm thing at +10days guess that’s not relevant this round
Good to hear you are feeling better. I don’t do the covid vax anymore, it knocks me around way too much. The flu one I’ve never had more than a sore arm and mild headache from though, so I get that every year. I don’t know why the covid one hates me so much, I’ve been vaccinated up to my eyeballs with everything else and had no trouble.
That’s good. I felt sick with mine. Maybe a little warm clear soup might help
Absolute fucking banger. Honestly, their only decent album.
Edit: also snuck out of work early which is awesome
5/10 Ok, it’s been busy at work
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6/10 meh
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4/10. Sums up my day, really
late night nail art ✨💛🌸💜
Those are the best yet I reckon
Eeeeee thank you!! 🥹💜
Pretty!!! I love the gold tips!
Thank you! I used an old Warhammer paintbrush to do the tips and the flower haha!
nice colours 🙂
Pale purple and gold are a classic colour combination I couldn’t pass on 💛💜
I cancel my Spotify sub and then they come out with lossless and it’s great 😭 2 more weeks until I lose premium, so I’m going to annoy my neighbours with my music
#yolo
Edit: I have made a bogan cocktail: red goon, blackcurrant cordial, ice, water. Cheers! 🍷
I think there are some plugins or programs to back your music up and maybe you can put it on a mp3 player or burn the tracks to cd?
Here’s one at least https://www.noteburner.com/spotify-music-tips/transfer-spotify-playlist-to-external-hard-drive.html
Physical media ramble
There are external cd drives that plug in via usb if your computer doesn’t have one and you prefer that to hard drive. Unfortunately my cheap eBay model didn’t fully work and the ones in Officeworks are like $99. But it’s worth a try as it opens the door to ripping secondhand cds.
There’s Bandcamp but they might not have everything.
You can also buy off iTunes and burn to cd or use on mp3 player. (Kind of regretting converting my desktop with an inbuilt cd drive to Linux as I don’t know if iTunes runs on that. Doh. I may have to buy a non-Apple player but found the eBay mp3 players functioned but had a permanent weird hissing sound.)
Anyway I wish I had got onto all of this sooner myself. It might be too late for my YouTube playlists by now but I may end up getting the $99 usb cd drive
Edit: Try a Snakebite and Black. Equal parts cider and lager with a dash of blackcurrant.
I don’t want to give apple money lol, I think I’ll wait until I have a job and look at buying physical CDs. I’ll need to buy a CD player as my PC doesn’t have a disk drive lol
Revanced manager is your go to 😉
How busy do you think the new stations will be on Sunday? I know two kids that would love to go
Probably very busy on day 1 of opening, but they’re big stations so I don’t think it will be shoulder-to-shoulder or anything like that. Depends on your / kids tolerance with crowds. I’m going to wait a few weekends to do the full tour, the stations aren’t going anywhere.
