u/DrunkAndUnaware

Are they blind? KFC Pakenham, 11 AM, August 20.

Saw this guy crawling in my yard. Never paid much attention to caterpillars but in my head they were much larger than this. Any ID advice appreciated.

Located in south eastern suburbs of Victoria.

Spoilers obviously if you want to do it yourself.

My answer is off by a factor of -1. I think it has something with the way I've set the variables u and v because the official solutions has them swapped.

I have a feeling I stuffed up the order of integration on the new variables, but could someone explain exactly what the error is? It's been a very long time since double integrals.

Got for it

I’m not Vietnamese but my best friend is, so I try to learn some recipes from his culture to give him when we get together.

I followed Kenji’s recipe here: https://www.seriouseats.com/vietnamese-grilled-pork-chop-thit-heo-nuong-xa-recipe

Very delicious, my 2 and 4 year olds ate it all up!

I have an abundance of feijoas this year so I decided to use them as a base for hot sauce, with my own home grown birds eye chillies (at least I think they are, but irrelevant for recipe).

I’m using the recipe linked to at the end (having trouble making a proper link on phone), but substituted 5 of my own birds eyes instead of their chillies.

Otherwise I’ve followed the recipe exactly the same, however I have not placed any weight or leaf on top to keep submerged because after blending there was no clear separation between ingredients and liquid. Perhaps I blended it too much.

Attached are photos of the initial jarring vs 48 hours later where there clearly are signs of fermentation. But since this is my first time I am slightly worried about mold. I can’t see anything suspicious yet, however there are still 5 days to go for the ferment. I may have slightly over salted to 3%, if that may change anything.

On top of the jar is just a paper towel with a rubber band. I leave it out on my kitchen benchtop. Jar was steam sterilised before use.

Any advice is appreciated.

Recipe link: https://www.thefermentary.com.au/blogs/brined-vegetables-and-hot-sauce/feijoa-hot-sauce

Parents in law recently visited Japan and brought back some snacks. These were particularly delicious but my in laws are notorious for not noting down where and what they bought.

These two packages were mixed and there were dried small fish and prawns in the mix along with all the soy products.

I’d love to buy more of this from Australia, if possible.

The bag is just so I don’t have to wash plates. It tastes really good.

Edit: it is not bacon. Here we purchase this cut as “speck”.

I’ve cooked a modified recipe very many times, it’s always a hit. But I’ve halved (or even less) the salami, and I have never literally counted out 40 olives, maybe max 30, which I cut in half (which the recipe doesn’t call for).

If this is a legit Calabrian recipe I’d love to be corrected and adhere to the formula, but otherwise WTF? As a meal for 4?

What?

Edit: I understand the downvotes because you may think I’m trying to shitpost, but I’m actually very interested in how this recipe got into a published book. Downvote all you want but please contribute to the discussion.