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[–] rbos@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

I always cook the mushrooms first with soy sauce and red pepper flakes. Cook them down and toss them so they're well coated and the water is all reduced off. Six or seven minutes while we roll out the dough.

Tip; cook mushrooms covered until they release their water. Steam them hard for like 5 mins. They'll shrink and squeeze out their moisture. Don't use oil, they just absorb it. Then reduce the liquid.

[–] rbos@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago

Well 'meme' is an older idea than image macros =p

[–] rbos@lemmy.ca 21 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Spider bro is my ally against the wool moths, at the moment. If I catch one I'm putting it in the closet.

They earn their keep.

We had aphids in the garden last year. Wolf spider moved in, big fat guy. Made short work of em. Wolf spider is welcome among my lettuce any day.

[–] rbos@lemmy.ca 22 points 1 day ago

so uh this guy once ordered a pizza with no toppings but only beef on the left side and that's why I have a 40-year-old man's face on my shirt with a pizza background.

[–] rbos@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 day ago (7 children)

I think it comes from an episode of Sabrina the Teenage Witch and exploded as a meme.

[–] rbos@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Bisected, trisected, quartered.. What's a word for cutting something into 5 pieces? 6?

[–] rbos@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Ah. Really, I thought it was. Thanks. :/

See Wikipedia: "France ceded to Canada the perpetual use of a portion of land on Vimy Ridge on the understanding that Canada use the land to establish a battlefield park and memorial."

[–] rbos@lemmy.ca 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

Canada also had a land border with France. Vimy Ridge is sovereign Canadian territory, ceded by France after WW1.

So, in a way, we're already a European country.

[–] rbos@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 days ago

Odd Bunch is the one we get.

[–] rbos@lemmy.ca 16 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I wouldn't, as Canadian, because California would fully dominate such a union. It would be Canada joining California, not the reverse. Economically, politically, you'd be the biggest and most important province. I doubt you'll be happy being part of Confederation or being technically a monarchy.

[–] rbos@lemmy.ca 9 points 3 days ago

There are a few disagreements where I'll immediately pop on the horns. Not recognizing the right of trans or gay people to exist for instance. Denying someone's basic right to exist is nazi shit.

[–] rbos@lemmy.ca 14 points 3 days ago

I think EU membership is a huge stretch, but we could certainly move in the direction of harmonizing with EU trade regulations. A good medium-term goal might be to join the Schengen trade zone, and then move on from there.

 

This is a pretty cool event. $100 for basic, $150 for VIP. We really enjoyed it last year.

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submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by rbos@lemmy.ca to c/classicwow@lemmy.ca
 

I'm having a bit of struggle tanking (prot paladin) Vek'linash. I'm able to hold threat on him fine, but unbalancing strike (-100 defense) rocks me pretty hard, since I keep getting scarabs on me, which eats up all my HS charges and I'm pretty sure that's pushing me into crittable range as well as crushable.

I've taken consecrate off my bars and de-runed HotR for exorcism, but I keep getting the scarabs too, and then get rocked down to 20% health.

Any advice? I've stacked as much +def as I can and am using Greater Stoneshields and armour elixirs as well as the usual suite of ALL THE CONSUMABLES.

 

Today's bake. 30g gluten flour, 270g sprouted whole spelt flour, 700g AP flour, 80g wheat germ. 850g water, 150g starter.

Added in 50g flax soaked 100g water, 50g chiaseed 100g water, 50g each sunflower and pumpkin seeds. 30g salt. Topped with black sesame seeds.

 

As subject. In Gastown, a plane flew over putting out rainbow contrail. Why? O_o

Some festival?

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submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by rbos@lemmy.ca to c/thelongdark@lemmy.ca
 

Splitsie's Scrapyard Engineers scenario is pretty great, I've been enjoying it, and if you haven't tried it, it's worth a crack.

The concept is that you basically don't get refiners or assemblers, and only a limited number of blocks you can make. Everything else, you have to find from wreckage strewn about the landscape. The goal is to get to space.

In addition to the base modpack, I strongly recommend Improvised Experimentation. The author also recommends it, but tunes down the carry weight so that you have to use cranes more. I didn't, but a crane is still extremely useful.

 

Apologies for the English, my monolingualism is entirely my own fault at this point.

The tldr: my grandmother grew up during WW2 in the occupied Netherlands, and migrated to Canada in the 1950s in her 20s.

She is likely in the stages of early dementia, and one of the recommendations for dementia patients is to find music that they'd likely enjoyed as teenagers or young adults. I'd like to see if I can find something that fits that rough description. I expect I can make do with the English catalogue of classic rock and country from that time, but it'd be nice to find something a little different.

Can someone make any broad recommendations for popular Dutch music from the 1950s? Ideally, something I can find in mp3 format, but I'm willing to spend some money.

 

Officially out!

There's a video trailer, too.

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