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  • Reine’s cooking adventures part 3

    2 months in Adelaide, and three posts about my cooking! If all goes well there might be a part 4 as I really want to make kingfish ceviche, but alas no kingfish fillets yet! I may consider buying a whole fish…

    Anyway, so I’m finding that I’m actually getting bored of cooking, not because of the cooking itself, but trying to find inspiration for new experiments (dishes). I’ve gone through so many different animals/meats that I’m running out of proteins to play with. I’m deliberately avoiding quail because I have no way to debone it.

    Instead of boring text, onto pictures! Since I’ve moved apartments I’ve had to transition from gas to electric cooking with mixed results (undercooking kangaroo), but for the most part I still have some magical godlike luck/ability to make fantastic, medium rare meats.

    Following straight off from my last cooking post, this was kangaroo with leftover zucchini flower. I had two that I accidentally damaged so I figured they’d look just as good as petals.

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  • Another dream, another mystery

    So I’ve been reading back on my past blogs and it turns out I blog about my dreams! I figured this one is blog worthy too.

    It all started when a bunch of friends and myself were asked to save the world from a big evil doom (not sure if those last three words strung together make sense). As my weapon, I took my violin bow. Not the violin, just the bow. If I waved it around, then it became deadly somehow, except that I didn’t tighten my bow because apparently it had to be left loose, but then all my waving andย whackingย it about caused the hairs/strands to come loose, so then I started to tighten it.

    During all this, we had to catch numerous buses and trains to where we needed to go. Luckily, one of my friends offered me a new bow that I could use, turns out she had an electric violin she didn’t use. Eventually after a lot of travel we ended up on a giant mansion-like building. In my dream the word mansion didn’t pop up – just a big house of sorts. We split up to try and find the bad guys, and for some reason I no longer had my bow.

    Unlike most other “save the world” dreams, I didn’t have invisibility in this one. It was instead replaced with the ability to shapeshift – very rare for me to experience this! I could also walk through some walls, mostly glass window things though. Anyway, so I looked out of a window of this house and saw a black cat with these bright yellow eyes meowing really loudly at me. I then figured I should trick this cat, so I morphed into a black cat, walked through the window and onto the wall that the cat was on. I started pawing at this purple flower thing, and that caught the other cat’s interest. I knew that this flower was poisonous to cats but not to me, so I nibbled on a bit of it, which lead the cat to eat some too, and I must have psychically forced it to eat a bit cause then it died. And my only thought after that was “ok, now that Meowth is dead, what will Pokemon do with the series and Team Rocket???”

    With the cat gone, we could now explore the rest of the house. I had two people with me and we were wondering how to defeat the bad guy. The bad guy was actually in a room that was down some stairs. He was totally calm but you could tell he knew exactly what was going on. He was in fact performing on some musical instrument to half a room of audience, and we knew that they were his henchmen. So with only three of us and about thirty of them, what were we going to do?

    Sadly, that’s where my memory of my dream ended. I’m sure I never dreamed the ending either, so it will continue to be a mystery.

    In other thoughts, I should create myself an “IRSC” card – which would stand for “Irresponsible service of caffeine” which would allow me to overdose myself on coffee ๐Ÿ™‚

  • Reine’s cooking adventures part 2

    I love mussels, so when I found some at another seafood store, I was YES PLEASE. I didn’t even know how much to get, so I started with 250g. Turns out this is about 11-12 mussels, and never enough! However when I was reading up on how to cook them, I also grabbed a baguette and butter as a side.

    I had found a few different liquids suggested, and ended up choosing water first, with some butter. I did make one afterwards with white wine, but funnily enough I preferred the one with water.

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  • Reine’s cooking adventures part 1

    Re-doing this blog so that I can actually post progress pictures and nice photos of how my cooking went.

    Part 1, my first real time actually experimenting with food. The house/cat-sitting time doesn’t really count ๐Ÿ˜›

    After the ceviche, the next thing I made was tuna tataki. There’s this place called Central Markets and it’s the best place ever! There’s so many fruit and veg stalls, as well as several seafood shops. And lots of protein. Mmmm all kinds of protein!

    Anyway, so having never made anything that required paying a lot of attention, I think my tataki came out very nicely. As I hadn’t explored every stall, my salad was still very basic, with quinoa everywhere!

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  • Living the radelaide

    So work has called me to Adelaide, to like, do things and stuff, including eat, cook and explore. Oh, and actually work.

    But during non work hours it turns out I really don’t have time to work on the story that will never end. Instead I’m constantly debating where and what to eat, which cafes to go to, and whether I can find enough food to cook up something and somehow save money.

    So my experiment has been living without “sugar” (have honey and agave syrup instead), making wholemeal spelt pancakes and messing with other things, such as undercooking fish ๐Ÿ™‚

    Here are some of the things I’ve done. I wish I had a nice picture of some food from a cafe called A Mothers Milk – they make some amazing baked eggs mmmmmmmmm but instead all I’ve got is a very bad shot from the outside:

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  • Home Cupping + Zumbo

    Hallo!

    An interim post as I’m too lazy to actually put effort into making a blog about my Adelaide/Melbourne trip of caffeine.

    So in the meantime here is my attempt at home cupping without any instructions! Plus some obligatory Zumbo pictures ๐Ÿ™‚

    Basically I bought some Proud Mary Brazil CoE (can’t remember which) in Melbourne, roasted on 18/10 – that’s on the left. Then today I went to Reuben Hills and got some Kenya Nyeri, also roasted on 18/10 – that’s on the right. Since I have no idea how to cupping (yes), I made it up by putting 7g of each in roughly 175mL water.

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  • FTL: I won the game!

    So I’ve been playing this game called FTL: Faster Than Light and it’s very fun! Very frustrating and I totally hate it at times, but I like the fact that I can make a boat collection because I like collecting things.

    I finally won! Without even trying to beat the boss cause I was after the “collecting every system + subsystem” achievement. And also contrary to the screenshot I beated it on normal ๐Ÿ™‚ Now my entire body hurts from freaking out.

    I really need to buy a good grinder + scales + thermometer + aero/V60

  • Photoshop Takes Zero Skill

    Random post that I might move/delete/etc

    I love coffee.

    Plus my ability to utterly destroy things ๐Ÿ˜€

    Basically many years back in order to try and make my rough sketches look “good,” I decided that I would make fun of people who abused Photoshop with stuff like lens flare, and basically filter stuff until it was no longer recognisable… or anything near what it was. And I called it Photoshop Takes Zero Skill!

    The only rule is to run sketches through every filter possible!