Being with people who you want to be with and vice versa. You raise each other up and are supportive, and are there for you as you are for them. "Blood is thicker than, water" is stupid. What if the blood is trying to hurt you? Plenty of people have this in their life and it's not worth it. Life is too short.

Thank you! I don't eat it often, and first time making it. Found the easiest recipe I could find, and I knew Maangchi has a good reputation, so thought I'd give it a try. I'd do it again for sure!

As a Canadian living in Australia, I am satisfied with Canada, minus Alberta. As for Australia, I am afraid of what might become reality at the next election.

Likewise. I part time health inspect and part time desk job, and the contrast is night and day. In one job, it's a game as to figuring out how many lies they've told me and where things are hidden (found a big knife once wedged underneath a steel prep bench??? Found a toilet cistern once mounted on the walk-in cooler wall to catch the condensate???), and the other is crunching numbers and other money things.

Kinda miss going in to as many restaurants as I used to finding the weirdest things (male fertility medication in the kitchen???) and hearing the weirdest excuses.

The best and the worst.

Thank you!! It was super easy.

https://www.maangchi.com/recipe/yangbaechu-kimchi

Gochujang chicken over brown rice; stir fried capsicum, and homemade kimchi on the side!

Lunches for a few days.

Noted, thanks! I just called it kimchi because Maangchi called it kimchi throughout the recipe.

https://www.maangchi.com/recipe/yangbaechu-kimchi

Oh yum!!! I roast with just regular potatoes cut in to pieces. Or if I do them dry roasted, I'll make sriracha mayo on the side for dipping.

I'm trying to do the sleeping thing and drinking more water. I think I've just grown up as a prune that it just feels like my normal to not drink loads of water everyday.

I cook at home a lot, and teach am always teaching myself new recipes so I'm never bored.

Ah, that's why my feed is full! I was wondering why a post for Wednesday posted today/yesterday.

Are they just roasted with olive oil, or is there a, sauce that goes with it??

I'm not sure which is worse, seeing a female cockroach with an egg sac in my house or any cockroach on my face. I react to cockroaches like some people react to spiders: Overreact. I'm also glad that you moved out the following month.

I DON'T KNOW WHAT CHAT POTATOES ARE, BUT I, TOO, LOVE POTATOES.

I'm meal pepping for weekday lunches, so it'll be brown rice, gochujang chicken breasts, and some roasted eggplant and capsicum.

Everything about cockroaches is bad - sheddings, poop, eggs, everything. Same with rodents! When I see rodent droppings in restaurants and storage sheds, and I always warn the staff to wear a mask and gloves, and to give the poop a good spritz of water before doing a bleach sanitise. Aersolised rodent droppings = hantavirus. I think we've had enough of that this year in the news already, let's not add to it.

Leftovers, so more lentil fish curry!

Let's go to the local pub for some drinks and pizza tonight! My treat.

Good question. I'm not sure about the smell of ants because in public health, we don't consider them to be a concern because the ones that we find in restaurants and such don't carry diseases that concern us. (AFAIK, anyway.) They act as indicators that they've found unprotected (spilled, spoiled, etc.) food. I haven't encountered such a huge population of ants that I can smell them, so refer to the other person's comment.

Cockroach smell: It's really hard to explain well because it's so unique. I liken them to the smell of a grease trap (old oil mixed with detergents, spoiled food, sewage-y kind of smell. This does not bother me whatsoever), except with a distinct meaty, animal kind of smell that makes it horrible. It doesn't smell like spoiled chicken, beef, pork that's been in the fridge for too long, kind of meat.

The words that come to mind are: Heaving, warmth, animal and spoiled... I can usually sense them when I walk in, but when I can smell them, the place is infested = massive heebie jeebies.

Oh, that's so gross. The building manager should get that looked at because that's a public health concern to have sewage exposed like that. When it rains, the water will take up the space in the tank, and when there's no space for the sewage to go, it'll spill out in to the open and go everywhere.

As for the cockroach on your face, I personally would just leave and never come back (from a professional view, put down all the baits and get pest control if it's too far gone). Cockroaches do bite, so be careful. If you could tell it was a mother cockroach (do you mean it was big, or it had an egg sac attached to it?), then there's a bigger problem than just one egg sac. You're either already or about to be a co-parent to millions of babies.

Just an FYI for anyone else who is currently living in a situation similar. 🪳 ☠️

"I am currently stuck in the morning and I am so sorry to hear about your basketball Jersey and I have been going to the gym."

It's 4:31PM and I haven't spoken to anyone or even thought of basketball in a long time??

Just had a slice of toast with cheese, scrambled eggs, and chilli oil on top.

I'm thinking I'll do a fish lentil curry tonight! Just ran out of my meal prepped food, and I'm on a seafood craze right now. You?