What made me unhappy today ?

[Rath Darkblade]

For the second day in a row I've been up since 4am after finally making it to bed at 12:30.

So sorry, Trish. Hopefully you get more rest tonight! Please do get more rest.

Everything is going wrong today. I spent half the morning fighting with Google's ad support team, who don't appear to know how their own products work and are requesting a document that simply doesn't exist, and my repeat medication hasn't been sent out for delivery and I'm going to run out of all of it today. And a payment I was expecting hasn't arrived because of problems with the bank's online systems.

I hope that your medication and payment arrived, and that Google's support team got their collective heads out of their arses!

 

[Trish]

So sorry, Trish. Hopefully you get more rest tonight! Please do get more rest.

I tried. Unfortunately there was a family emergency at 10 pm (the phone rang when I was walking up the stairs to bed) and I finally got to lay down for a little bit at 3:30 am. I've been up since 6. Everything is okay now, thankfully, and I will hopefully be able to crash early- very early tonight. My ass is dragging lol.

 

[Iain Aschendale]

So my doc has me on a low-carb diet because reasons. Learned about egg bites recipes, pretty simple, eggs, cottage cheese, regular cheese, spinach, whatever.

Cottage cheese is not a thing here, but I know where to get it. Not that I would ever, ever in my life eat it again straight up or even with canned pineapple because it's an abomination against food, dairy, and the label of cheese, but I'm willing to give it a shot as an ingredient in a cooked reci...

You want how much for this stuff? Five bucks for 200g? Like, 3/4 cup?

Nopety nope nope nope, guess I need to look for a different recipe.

 

[Hammer]

So my doc has me on a low-carb diet because reasons. Learned about egg bites recipes, pretty simple, eggs, cottage cheese, regular cheese, spinach, whatever.

Cottage cheese is not a thing here, but I know where to get it. Not that I would ever, ever in my life eat it again straight up or even with canned pineapple because it's an abomination against food, dairy, and the label of cheese, but I'm willing to give it a shot as an ingredient in a cooked reci...

You want how much for this stuff? Five bucks for 200g? Like, 3/4 cup?

Nopety nope nope nope, guess I need to look for a different recipe.

Very easy to make... add vinegar to hot milk, let it curdle, and strain. Salt the milk first for a bit more flavour.

 

[Iain Aschendale]

Very easy to make... add vinegar to hot milk, let it curdle, and strain. Salt the milk first for a bit more flavour.

Yeah, it's just a long-running battle of mine, finding a recipe, then finding out that the ingredients are either unavailable or reedonkulosly expensive and only available at specialty stores. I call it "The Cookbook of Theseus" when I've made so many substitutions that the intended dish is unrecognizable.

 

[Trish]

So my doc has me on a low-carb diet because reasons. Learned about egg bites recipes, pretty simple, eggs, cottage cheese, regular cheese, spinach, whatever.

Cottage cheese is not a thing here, but I know where to get it. Not that I would ever, ever in my life eat it again straight up or even with canned pineapple because it's an abomination against food, dairy, and the label of cheese, but I'm willing to give it a shot as an ingredient in a cooked reci...

You want how much for this stuff? Five bucks for 200g? Like, 3/4 cup?

Nopety nope nope nope, guess I need to look for a different recipe.

Do you have ricotta cheese there? It can be a good substitute for cottage cheese in most things.

 

[Homer Potvin]

Do you have ricotta cheese there? It can be a good substitute for cottage cheese in most things.

Japan has many things. Cheese is not one of them. The whole continent has a notable dearth of cheese in their cuisine, which I never noticed until Iain pointed it out once in a similar discussion. That sent me on a quick menu analysis across the Chinese, Japanese, Thai, Vietnamese, et al world. No cheese, no cheese, no cheese, and... no cheese.

 

[Trish]

Japan has many things. Cheese is not one of them. The whole continent has a notable dearth of cheese in their cuisine, which I never noticed until Iain pointed it out once in a similar discussion. That sent me on a quick menu analysis across the Chinese, Japanese, Thai, Vietnamese, et al world. No cheese, no cheese, no cheese, and... no cheese.

Didn't know that.

 

[Naomasa298]

About the cheesiest things I've found in Japan are cheese-in-hamburg-steak and potato gratin. Outside of those two things, your best bet is a cheese slice from McDonalds. A Japanese "rare cheesecake" is not what you think it is.

Historically, most people around that area of the world were lactose intolerant. Many still are.

 

[big soft moose]

I presume it’s because land is at a premium and running a dairy herd takes a lot of space

 

[Amontillado]

I got my first ever case of poison ivy, and, wow, is it a doozy. But that wasn't the unhappy part.

After I moped for a week, my wife made me go to a doc-in-a-box for treatment. I got a steroid shot. Dorsogluteal, for any disturbed enough to seek details. Dr. F. Gump would have described it as in my butt-ocks. There. Now you know.

That wasn't the unhappy part, either. A little sting, the poison ivy is going to flee my performance enhanced blood chemistry, and all's well.

The unhappy part was when I got home. My wife asked what the doctor said about my shiny new steroids. I told her — with a tone of ultimate credibility and an absolutely straight face — we need to be aware of side effects. This steroid is known to cause extreme emotional vulnerability. If confronted with complex and stressful challenges, anything even approaching "take out the trash," irreversible impuissance may manifest.

As long as I am sufficiently nurtured through these trying times, I will probably recover.

That was the unhappy part. It seems she's been able to see through my BS for a while, the trash is out by the curb, and I still have no idea how to turn a case of poison ivy into a life of ease.

 

[Trish]

A Japanese "rare cheesecake" is not what you think it is.

I'm afraid to ask, but... what is it?

 

[Naomasa298]

I'm afraid to ask, but... what is it?

Well, it's not baked, for one - it's chilled to make it keep its shape. It's softer than western cheesecake, it's more like panna cotta in texture. It also doesn't use eggs. The main ingredients are still cream cheese and heavy cream though.

It's set using either gelatin or agar, and it's also not anywhere as sweet as its western counterpart.

Rare cheesecake is the default in Japan.

 

[Daisy Lee]

Nopety nope nope nope, guess I need to look for a different recipe.

I was about to send you the Keto Starbucks Egg Bites recipe I use because it calls for cottage OR cream cheese. I use cream cheese and they are delish.

But... then I checked if cream cheese is available in Japan and the approximate cost. A 2 pack of Philly Cream Cheese is about $24.

<gasps and slaps forehead>

 

[TrevorD]

Well, it's not baked, for one - it's chilled to make it keep its shape. It's softer than western cheesecake, it's more like panna cotta in texture. It also doesn't use eggs. The main ingredients are still cream cheese and heavy cream though.

It's set using either gelatin or agar, and it's also not anywhere as sweet as its western counterpart.

Rare cheesecake is the default in Japan.

Oh, for some reason my mind went in a completely different direction

 

[TrevorD]

Went to the gym today and tried doing pullups. Couldn't even do one I've been hitting the tread religiously for 6 months and have lost almost 20 pounds and have done resistance training for a few weeks too, which is a lot for me. My goal is to do ten pull ups by the end of the year, but we'll see..

For those of you who haven't tried one in gosh knows when, they're rough. You think you can do four but reality is a bitch, especially when you're in your upper 50s like me. Nobody's reading this but if you are, give em a try next time you're in the gym and let me know what you got! We'll have a competition!!!

 

[Trish]

Well, it's not baked, for one - it's chilled to make it keep its shape. It's softer than western cheesecake, it's more like panna cotta in texture. It also doesn't use eggs. The main ingredients are still cream cheese and heavy cream though.

It's set using either gelatin or agar, and it's also not anywhere as sweet as its western counterpart.

Rare cheesecake is the default in Japan.

At least it sounds good though! I was afraid it would be similar to balut or something. Which I know isn't Japanese, but is always the thing that comes to mind when someone says a food isn't what I'd expect lol

 

[Trish]

I was about to send you the Keto Starbucks Egg Bites recipe I use because it calls for cottage OR cream cheese. I use cream cheese and they are delish.

But... then I checked if cream cheese is available in Japan and the approximate cost. A 2 pack of Philly Cream Cheese is about $24.

<gasps and slaps forehead>

That is horrifying

 

[Homer Potvin]

Went to the gym today and tried doing pullups. Couldn't even do one I've been hitting the tread religiously for 6 months and have lost almost 20 pounds and have done resistance training for a few weeks too, which is a lot for me. My goal is to do ten pull ups by the end of the year, but we'll see..

For those of you who haven't tried one in gosh knows when, they're rough. You think you can do four but reality is a bitch, especially when you're in your upper 50s like me. Nobody's reading this but if you are, give em a try next time you're in the gym and let me know what you got! We'll have a competition!!!

How about push-ups?

 

[Iain Aschendale]

I was about to send you the Keto Starbucks Egg Bites recipe I use because it calls for cottage OR cream cheese. I use cream cheese and they are delish.

But... then I checked if cream cheese is available in Japan and the approximate cost. A 2 pack of Philly Cream Cheese is about $24.

<gasps and slaps forehead>

Actually I wouldn't mind, cream cheese isn't that hard to find and I'm sure that that price is an outlier. I've got some cream cheese in my fridge that I should check to see if it's matured to the traditional blue-green fuzzy stage or not yet. The harder (and more expensive) thing to find than cream cheese is...bagels. Which also aren't terribly compatible with a low-carb diet