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  • Yeah, you could easily just stir the spinach through immediately before serving the rice. I might try that next time. Like I say, always tweaking!

  • Za’tar Salmon And Spinach Rice

    • Make a thick dressing from mix a tbsp of sumac, 2 of za'tar, and 1 of olive oil.
    • Season skin on salmon fillets with a little S&P (bearing in mind za'tar also has a little salt in it) then spread the dressing over the salmon. Not too thick, you don't want a crust, but you do want the salmon covered.
    • Bake the salmon in a 180'C oven for, maybe, 10 minutes and check it for doneness. It'll vary depending on the fillets you have.

    I like to serve this with a West African spinach rice.

    • Toast some cashews and set aside.
    • Gently fry some onion and garlic then add some washed rice, crushed vermicelli, a little curry powder (an African blend if you can find it, or a Jamaican blend if you can't), and continue to gently fry until the rice is starting to get a little toasty and the curry powder fragrant.
    • Add twice as much chicken stock as you had rice, bring to a simmer, cover, and set it as low as it'll go.
    • After 10 minutes, most of the liquid will have been absorbed. Take the lid off the pan and quickly cover the rice with chopped spinach then recover the pan, turn off the heat and leave it for 5 minutes.
    • Mix the now-wilted spinach in with the rice, fluff it up and serve with the toasted cashews on the top and a good wedge of lemon per person since both rice and salmon love a good hit of lemon juice.
  • Bit of both. Generally what happens is that I come across a reference to a dish that makes me want to try it, then look up a bunch of recipes to get an understanding of how to make it, mix and match from the recipes I've found, then write up what I did. But I could probably buy the ingredients and cook at least half of these dishes from memory.

    I also maintain a spreadsheet of what I cook every day which helps me not repeat dishes too often (e.g. I can tell you that it's only been 21 days since I last cooked the Za'tar Salmon and Spinach Rice someone else asked about in another comment, so I'll probably give it at least a month before I cook it again.

    I also score (and get the wife and kids to score) each meal when I first cook it (to my satisfaction - sometimes it takes a couple of goes to tweak it). The ones I listed here are all ones which worked out ok and which I enjoyed. The kids inevitably score veg-based meals low but I mostly ignore them!

  • You hope his wife is significantly younger than 15?

  • Er, I feel like this is my time:

    African Chicken And Jollof Rice
    Asparagus And Crayfish Tail Tagliatelle
    Aubergine Laksa
    Baked Salmon W. Lemon Couscous
    Barbecued Spatchcock Chicken With Potato Salad
    Blackened Chicken And Dirty Rice
    Blackened Salmon And Dirty Rice
    Burgers
    Butter Chicken
    Cajun Chicken Thighs And Dirty Rice
    Caldeirada - Portuguese Fish Stew
    Carbonara
    Carnitas
    Chicken Adobo
    Chicken And Butternut Squash Tray Bake
    Chicken And Mushroom Casserole
    Chicken Biryani
    Chicken Caesar Salad
    Chicken Enchiladas
    Chicken Fried Rice
    Chicken Kebabs And Couscous
    Chicken Kyivs
    Chicken Milanese
    Chicken Paprikash
    Chicken Ramen
    Chicken Shawarma
    Chicken Taquitos
    Chicken Thighs - Greek Style
    Chicken Tikka Kebabs
    Chilli Con Carne
    Doner Kebabs
    Fish Pie
    Fish, New Potatoes, Asparagus
    Fish, New Potatoes, Samphire
    Gnocchi And Green Veggies
    Grilled Chicken Tacos
    Jamaican Chicken Curry
    Jambalaya
    Kedgeree
    Kofte Kebabs And Koshari Rice
    Mac ‘N’ Cheese
    Mediteranean Chicken And Cous Cous
    Oklahoma Onion Burgers
    Paneer Curry Wraps
    Pasta Alla Norcina (Sausage & Cream)
    Penang Curry
    Penne Alla Vodka
    Peri Peri Chicken
    Pesto Pasta
    Portuguese Baked Cod
    Portuguese Green Soup
    Ragu Alla Bolognese Tagliatelle
    Ragu Alla Genovese Tagliatelle
    Red Beans And Rice
    Red Salmon Pasta
    Risotto – Chicken And Asparagus
    Risotto – Mushroom
    Roast Chicken
    Salmon, Asparagus, And Crushed Potatoes
    Sausage And Potato Tray Bake
    Sicilian Chicken Spaghetti
    Smoked Salmon, Lemon And Garlic Spaghetti
    Steak/Chicken And Chips
    Stir-Fried Tofu
    Tandoori Chicken
    Tortellini Soup With Chicken & Spinach
    Tuna Pasta Bake
    Tuscan Chicken, Bean, And Spinach Soup
    Tuscan Pork Pasta
    Veggie Chilli
    White Chilli
    Za’tar Salmon And Spinach Rice

    Edit to add: I can dig up my recipe for any of these if anyone is interested.

  • I learned how to solve them from a book when they first came out in the late 70s. I can still remember enough of the moves to get two layers, but not the third.

  • I mean, I have a lawyer I've used for a few things over the last decade or so, and they'd be my goto, but they're not on retainer.

  • What, cannibalism?

  • Go to the Winchester, have a nice cold pint, and wait for this all to blow over.

  • Also missing: pure random-roll character who makes no sense and contributes nothing other than needing to be rescued a lot.

  • At my best I was a seven, I guess, but for a while I was going out with a model who was a compfortable nine. We were walking through town and bumped into a friend of hers I hadn't met before. She said: "Oh, this is the new guy?" My girlfriend replied in the affirmative, and this other woman paused for a moment, looking me up and down, and then just asked in an incredulous tone of voice: "Why?"

    [My girlfriend later explained that the other woman was bi and into her (unreciprocated), so that took the edge off it.]

  • Perfect except for ‘Thoughts?’ Instead of that it should be an appeal to the speaker’s boss: ‘Chris, do you have any builds?’

  • My sister literally tried the first one in high school. She lay in wait, probably for hours, on the country road she knew the guy she fancied lived down. Once she saw him in the distance she dropped her bicycle so it lay across the road and hobbled around for a bit until he got there.

    I can't say it worked. He stopped, helped her get her bike up off the road, then went on his way.

  • Toad The Wet Sprocket, of course!

    "Rex Stardust, lead electric triangle with Toad The Wet Sprocket, has had to have an elbow removed following their recent successful worldwide tour of Finland. Flamboyant, ambidextrous Rex apparently fell off the back of a motorcycle. "Fell off the back of a motorcyclist, most likely," quipped ace drummer Jumbo McClooney on hearing of the accident. Plans are already afoot for a major tour of Iceland.

    "Divorced after only eight minutes, popular television singing star Charisma changed her mind on the way out of the registry office, when she realised she'd married one of the Donkeys by mistake. The evening before, in LA's glittering night spot The Abbatoir, she'd proposed to drummer Reg Abbott of Blind Drunk, after a whirlwind romance and a knee-trembler. But when the hangover lifted, it was Keith Sly of the Donkeys who was on her arm in the registry office. Keith, who was too ill to notice, remained unsteady during the short ceremony and, when asked to exchange vows, began to recite names and addresses of people who also used the stuff. Charisma spotted the error as Keith was being carried into the wedding ambulance, and became emotionally upset. However, the mistake was soon cleared up, and she stayed long enough to consummate their divorce.

    "Dead Monkeys are to split up again, according to their manager Lefty Goldblatt. They've been in the business now ten years, nine as other groups. Originally the Dead Salmon, they became, for a while, Trout, then Fried Trout, then Poached Trout In A White Wine Sauce, and finally, Herring. Splitting up for nearly a month, they reformed as Red Herring, which became Dead Herring for a while, and then Dead Loss, which reflected the current state of the group. Splitting up again to get their heads together, they reformed a fortnight later as Heads Together, a tight little name which lasted them through a difficult period when their drummer was suspected of suffering from death. It turned out to be only a rumour, and they became Dead Together, then Dead Gear, which led to Dead Donkeys, Lead Donkeys, and the inevitable splitup. After nearly ten days, they reformed again as Sole Meunière, then Dead Sole, Rock Cod, Turbot, Haddock, White Bait, the Plaices, Fish, Bream, Mackerel, Salmon, Poached Salmon, Poached Salmon in a White Wine Sauce, Salmon Meunière, and Helen Shapiro. This last name, their favourite, had to be dropped following an injunction, and they split up again. When they reformed after a record-breaking two days, they ditched the fishy references and became Dead Monkeys, a name which they stuck with for the rest of their careers. Now, a fortnight later, they've finally split up."

    Monty Python

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  • So no one knows I'm here? I'd head upstairs to a bedroom and sleep for 24 hours without the kids bothering me.

  • Eleven states require automakers sell a certain percentage of zero-emissions vehicles by 2025. If they can’t, the automakers have to buy regulatory credits from another automaker that meets those requirements – such as Tesla, which exclusively sells electric cars....The $1.6 billion in regulatory credits it received last year far outweighed Tesla’s net income of $721 million – meaning Tesla would have otherwise posted a net loss in 2020. - source = CNN

  • First time I saw it, it was Picard telling the joke and Ryker rolling his eyes.