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  • Turns out someone else likes dim sims.

    She's so sneaky and brazen but never pushes the limit.

    She ignored the wine thankfully that is off limits.

  • Inspired by the aldi camping sale this weekend I was looking up gear because I want to get a basic camping setup (ex had all the gear when we got together and I left it all with him). Aldi was a good start but then I made the mistake of looking on Facebook marketplace and now my internet experience is just tents all the way down....

  • I put out some marble plant pots on my porch 3 days ago.

    They have not been stolen!!

  • After yesterday's really lovely day I feel energized today (rare for a sat am, usually I sleep in and feel groggy and need the day off to recover from the week). Already got on top of a few long delayed chores including washing some woollen things sitting around for months. I have nowhere to dry clothes outdoors and no direct light indoors, hopefully they'll dry well enough...

    Gonna try doing my last big cook up for a while - making dal makhani for the first time later today (with butter but no cream - cashew cream instead), use up those Jerusalem artichokes, and do a nice green side dish, maybe stir fried greens. Hmm maybe the Viet groceries on Vic st have something interesting. Craving amaranth...

    • Pretty interested in the cashew cream dal update.

      • Will let you know how it goes. Dal makhani is a bit different to most dals I've made as it's entirely whole pulses not split. Everything's still got a couple more hours to soak.

  • Can feel the first hint of properly cold air in my oven of an apartment. Summer is over for real!

    Last day of daylight savings, too... and I'm relieved because the dark mornings are hard.

  • I made the dal makhani after 7 hours of soaking and an hour of boiling the pulses. Alas, it didn't really turn out like I expected - granted, it's not a dish I grew up with or ate enough of to be really familiar with. Neither do i have much experience with these ingredients. Bought the wrong kind of urad dal (no skin) and followed recipes with too high a ratio of urad dal:kidney beans to my tastes. The end result was a bit too mushy and bland for my liking although it was no fault of the cashew cream, which I can report to @dumblederp worked well despite all the other problems. It reduced the slimy texture of urad dal and gave it a lovely creamy mouthfeel.

    Ended up adding way more spices and eating it with copious amounts of lime pickle. Would try cashew cream again but need to change a few things if I try this dish again.

    Kidney beans I can use in other dishes, but man I have a lot of urad dal to go through.

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