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If anything this is a gigantic improvement on the thread premise and to be encouraged.

LJ's recipe honestly looks pretty good but I'm not sure about the inclusion of fish and jackfruit together.

well 2 weeks i have been using it but I have started with some quite unadventurous recipes like playing very fast + loose with authenticity chicken masalas or beef stews until I get a feel how this high pressure beast works. I bought a little platform for steaming chicken on and am cooking a beef brisket in it at some point this week.

it's a blessing on hot days and my kitchen has no extractor fan, so I can put the pot next to window when I release the pressure drop (rip Toots!)

lol I meant Ilx user harbl xxp

not that there is anything wrong with playing fast and loose with trad recipes in the comfort of your own kitchen. But when tory cunts like Jamie Oliver sell 800000 books/get a million youtube views murdering food and have the audacity to call the dishes by their traditional names - that's where it becomes bad imo.

The only Tory cook I pay attention to is user imago.

remember Jonathan Meades brought out a cookbook and it was full of joyless unappetising recipes involving the likes of boiling bones and Parmesan rinds with a bit of sherry? At least imago recipe didn't seem that bad!

I'd still read it tbf!

Have we ever done a worst celebrity cookbooks thread?

Do it

Guy Fieri lol

are we sure the jackfruit fish pie stew didn't cure the illness?

lol i bought that Meades book for my brother, i haven't read it

I was strapped for time today because of cutting my hedges earlier so just sauteed some onions/garlic/celery/beef strips, added some stout/beef stock/tom puree/vegetables/green bell peppers/oregano/spring greens/chick peas and incinerated it in the pressure chamber and viola ..very reasonable stew done in 30-40 minutes.

that sounds nice!

today is exclusively soup for me. my mum just dropped by with some vermicelli in vegetable stock and insisted I have it. so I'm having it. it feels very medicinal

medicinal? you are actually eating the soup and not draping the vermicelli over your forehead and other limbs?

depends on whether you've got vermicelli or sanguisughe.

I want to say this here instead of taking it up on the other thread.

But the one thing in 2020 I would've 100% believed had you told me in 2010 is that while a worldwide pandemic sickens and kills millions, imago would pop up on the ILX appropriate thread to report that he's had symptoms, only for it later to be revealed as a simple case of food poisoning.

I am completely sincere when I say this, LJ: Dude, don't you ever change.

Otm. Truly the hero we need in these dark times - as long as he’s not cooking for you.

it is a weirdly reassuring occurrence

I want to have a moan about something, congratulations you are going to read it (or not)

In the first days of the pandemic my wife ordered about 300 n95 masks from China, these cost a fair amount of money. The idea was to give a handful to every old relative / friend we could think of, keep a few for ourselves, then donate the rest to the NHS. Well the NHS trust didn't want them, said they didn't know the brand (!), so we tried to sell them online, but sites like gumtree don't let you sell them, they just delete the listing. So on Sunday I got up at 5.15 to drive to the local car boot sale and see if I could sell them there. Not only did nobody buy a single mask, I had a stream of punters and stallholders walking past me, making fun of me, insulting me, some were anti-maskers, some thought I didn't have a "proper stall", some said they could get three masks for £2 at Wilko, it was a miserable morning and I hate everyone at the car boot sale. So I don't know, we shouldn't have ordered them, it was a stupid idea I suppose, nobody's fault but our own.

Would legit be interesting in buying some(provided you test -ve lol)

I can send you some, no need to pay me

or to any of you in uk - james at centuriesofsound dot com - as long as i test negative i suppose, yes

ooh another James solidarity brother

most popular boys name of the late 70s, we are legion

Lol if only I was born in the late 70s

I instantly thought of you as cams o’ donnell, tbh. Ok, I will email you at some point, please do not dox me as you will only upset the other ilxor I live with, tyia.

i keep reading "breaking up with a friend" to the tune of gloria estefan coming out of the dark

I also don't want to sit around and wait by the phone for someone who doesn't seem to give a shit to call me.
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― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, December 17, 2003 3:27 PM (sixteen years ago)

i still don't know what a "hard g" is or why it is harder than a "soft g" whatever that is

Posted here because the thread has been derailed enough already

hard g = gift
soft g = giant

I would call them /g/ and /dʒ/ but "g sound" and "j sound" work much better than "hard g" / "soft g" for people who don't use the phonetic alphabet, mainly because the latter sounds just as hard as the former.

I agree with that! Also when you say "hard g" out loud you're using a soft g, which doesn't help

hard g = gif, the proper way
soft g = gif, the wrong way (That the creator thinks is right)

lol now I'm wondering: is it "guy ack" or "gee why ay see." I think I can rule out "jai ack"

I actually don’t know myself, it’s an old popbitch board acronym I’ve never said out loud ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

at first I thought it was "cagy" backwards but then I realized that shoulda been "cagey" and also it's "cayg" backwards.

i lose.

I, too, have never been convinced by the 'hard G' and 'soft G' and possibly thought they were the other way round for some time.

somebody’s feeling supersonic

Get Yourself A Clue!

Gyacety yac, don't talk back.

decided to change my mental pronunciation to jai-ass in solidarity with the creator of the .gif

laughing out loud at you anglophone people and your "hard" and "soft" Gs. you'll have to come to the Netherlands to experience the real nitty "g"ritty.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNOebbyUgI4

...and then there's Swiss German:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxGbZkQ2u0k

André Rieu p much the strongest case against using the soft G tbf. That video is otm about the regional differences though.

Chuchichäschtli is the only Swiss word I ever learned. It's a treat to pronounce it.

everything everything everything everything everything everything everything everything everything an eraser of love an eraser of love an eraser of love any reason will do any reason will do any reason will do

NPR already has radio in it

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Thank u for the ghoulish offer but I think I will pass, NBC News.

bringing a fainting couch to a knife fight