I thought I was on top of everything, but I decided to leave making the cheesecake until today, but now I’ve realised we don’t have the right kind of pan. Recipe calls for a 22cm round spring form, we don’t even have any round pans, let alone a spring form one :/
We also only have baking trays (like what you’d make cookies on), so I can’t even substitute it for a rectangle or square pan
The only thing I can think of is we have cupcake trays, so I’m wondering if I should try to make cheesecake cupcakes instead. I realllllllly don’t want to have to venture on the bus down to Kmart
Cupcake cheesecakes will be madly delicious. Just use a packet biscuit of some sort on the bottom and fill up the cupcake with the cheesecake mixture and set overnight in the fridge. As per @CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone 's recipie from a few weeks back. Might help to line the cupcake tray with clingfilm to make getting them out of the tray easier. That is, grease the cupcake tray, then put the clingfilm on loosely and poke it into the holes until it’s tight up against the sides. Or use paper cupcake cases if you have these available. Easy to serve too - one each. Maybe put some berries or jam on the top of each one for fancy.
Cup cake cheescakes are awesome .
I’ve never tried one, but it looks like tomorrow’s going to be the day I do…
At least it’ll save me from a sugar induced coma though 😂
Kmart, woolies etc are open until 10pm in most locations.
$7 for this https://www.kmart.com.au/product/23cm-springform-cake-tin-43153312/
My old Melbourne Kmart was 24hr. I wonder whether it stayed open for Christmas?
Edit: just looked them up - no longer 24hr. Can’t say I’m too surprised, I always wondered who would visit Kmart at 3am and why. They’re open 8-Midnight these days. And yes, they close at 10pm tonight.
My Kmart when I lived in a country town was open 8am-midnight. Coles was 6-midnight. Everything stopped being open late during COVID times and things never went back to usual.
I used to hang out in the 24hr Kmart in Burwood (still 24/7, fyi, and there’s also a 24/7 Chinese restraint next to it too) at my last place when things got abusive. If I had to flee on a weekend, I’d just chill on the trains and night buses all night, but on weeknights I would take the last 75 out to Burwood and very slowly and meticulously look at every item in excruciating detail then head over to the Coles and if I had money grab a drink. So me + really really tired parents seen to be the main demographic of 24 hour kmarts
Fallout 3 GOTY free on epic. Daily freebies for xmas.
Breakfast 🍏🍎🍐🍊🍋🍈🫐🍓🍇🍉🍌🍒🍑🥭🍍🥥🥦🥑🫛🍆🍅🥝🥬🥒🌽🥕🥐🍠🫚🥔🧅🥯🍞🥖🥨🧀🧇🥞🧈🍳🥚🥓🥩🍗🍖🫓🍕🍟🍔🌭🥙🧆🌮🌯🥗🍲🍜🍝🥘🍛🍣🍱🥟🦪🍥🍘🍚🍙🐠🍤🪼🦀🐙 🍗🥮🍢🍡🍧🍰🧁🥧🍦🍨🎂🍮🍭🍬🍫🥜🌰🍪🍿🍯🥛☕️🍵🍺🍶🥤🧋🧃🥂🍷🥃🍸🍹🧉🔋
Steak, eggs, grilled tomato and a hash brown with lots of tea please.
🥩🍳🍳🍅🥔☕️🫖🫖🫖🫖🫖🫖
Thanks. Busy day ahead.
5oz broth and a celery stick please
🍯🎋
Thanks, that should last until next cheesetime
One humungous fatty burrito please
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Three more of those fellas please
👨🏼🦰👱🏻♂️🧔🏻♂️
If it’s not too much trouble may I have a seafood platter and a bit of meat for my dog.
🦐🦞🦀🪼🐙🦑🐡
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Delicious. So fresh. You’re a bacon of many talents. Thanks.
Little dog really enjoyed his leg. He says WOOF.
Despite all the pearl clutching about an El Nino summer I have to say it’s been pretty mild so far.
Don’t jinx us!!
I’ve got a sore throat and am feeling a bit stressed out… I probably won’t go to Christmas at my sisters. Maybe just send Merry Xmas texts. Lemmy gets to deal with me instead.
I finished a practice piece, challenging myself to just do the work and not get it perfect (ie get bogged down). It is done and I learned a lot on a couple of skills I set out to practice but I still hate it in another way. Also it was digital not traditional so I worry that I’m just taking shortcuts rather than training muscle memory and learning properly.
Sometimes the lurge is lurge, sometimes its your body externalising mental stress. Listen to the lurge and rest.
Watched The Holdovers last night. Now that was a good film and an Xmas one no less. Aside from the setting and characters feeling very authentic, the film’s writing and direction really had the solid and unpretentious feel of films from the 70s. It’s a slow burn and there’s no jawdropping twists or anything, but the characters felt so real. And there’s no pat, easy endings either.
Arsehole ex landlord has not let out house yet. Went to neighbour’s bleating aww i don’t know why they moved, aww they shoulda put in an offer i woulda sold, awww the agent told me none of this
Thing is, said neighbour is the tree-swinging little old indian dude. Who i’ve basically been the surrogate daughter to for the past decade. And knows every intimate detail of how it went down.
Suffice to say, Don was pissed and that narrative-spinning conversation did not go as hoped.
Very satisfying coda to the saga of the shitty ex-landbastard. Surprising he can’t let out a whole house in a good area in this housing crisis! Mayhaps it wasn’t fit to be rented out…?
I propose…
Landbasturd
He can’t. The roof issue means it fails minimum standards - as officially stated by a CAV building inspector - and has already been flagged with VCAT as such. He’s gotta do those repairs we were on his arse for for fourteen fucking years first
I feel we are about to begin something similar. Both roof and dodgy rear extension are fit to go down any second. Not looking forward to this!
ours ended with an illegal eviction attempt and leaving the house we’d lived in for 16 years.
But on the plus side, we actually bought a house and now don’t shit ourselves in high winds
Nowhere near that long here, but three burst water mains, a peeling roof, and exploding tile work had me not even bothering to report the dead thing in the chimney. Need a lottery ticket.
Merry Xmas! 🎄
E: that was aimed at Almut’s post, but merry Xmas to you, too! Also, nothing like a bit of cold revenge on a nasty landlord, either
Dearest Santa, if you read this could I please get a new fence cos the one I have is hanging by a thread and it may not last much longer. I don’t wanna see the neighbour’s putrid yard. I’ve been good I promise. Love CEO. oxoxox.
Just some basic cleaning to do, will put up tree, then the christmas cooking commences. I’ll be doing a big loaf of olive bread, a few dozen iced shortbread biscuits and double amount waldorf salad. 😊
I used to record short clips of me singing Christmas songs each day in December in the lead up to Christmas and send them to a bunch of my friends over Facebook Messenger for a laugh. I called this event my Bradvent Calendar.
This weather is reminding me of the first year I did it, 2017. This was the second Bradvent Calendar clip I ever made which I recorded while it was piiiiishing down rain. It flooded pretty bad that year.
You can hold a note!
The christmas tree made it to work in one piece. And I was able to separate the biscuits out to eat, so I am declaring the Christmas Cookie Tree a complete success. Much of it has already been eaten 😁
I have managed to make my summer pudding without turning the kitchen into a crime scene, so that’s a win. Bit of lunch, then off to pick up seafood, then all my Christmasly duties are done and I can curl up with a book.
oohh what’s a summer pudding??
It involves bread, berries, and sugar syrup. The bread soaks in all the berry juice & syrup overnight to turn into a gorgeous spongy mush. I use defrosted frozen berries for extra juice, so it can get messy.
I would die for that sort of pudding. Sweet and berry like.
drool
Christmas pudding icecream made, roast turkey done and carved and carefully stored, last of the presents wrapped, arguments between the other adults in the house mediated. Tablets taken for sudden migraine caused by the arguing. Minipeelers and I went to bed, a little subdued and somewhat downhearted about the arguing. Could they not even have one Christmas without it? Just for a change? Just once?
The Minipeelers really got involved in the food prep this year and I enjoyed sharing my knowledge with them. A treasured family member who lives at the end of our street came to visit in the afternoon, which I thought worthy of cracking open the Bailey’s Tiramisu I received as a gift from a colleague. Bloody nice, so smooth.
There is a bird on a nest just outside my loungeroom window and there is a baby bird. It’s only a blackbird, but they’re not a problem in my yard and far from pestiferous. I find myself hoping they’re ok in all this rain, and worrying about them a bit.
I think there needs to be a conversation with one or both of them about the arguing, because it’s just rude to ruin the day for everyone else. Especially every year. Buttt… I’m aware some people who are unaware or uncaring enough to do this stuff will only double down and make it even harder on you for having tried to have the conversation/set a limit. So then you’re left with the original problem plus being punished with passive aggressive butthurt.
A more subtle way might be in order.
It could be that there’s a blanket rule about not arguing at the dinner table (make sure others back you up). And there’s conveniently some post meal activities for you and the kids to remove yourselves to if they start beefing. A Christmas movie is a good one because it’s obviously gonna be rude to argue during a movie. Or perhaps you and the kids ‘found the meal a bit heavy and need a post prandial walk’.
They’re adults. They choose to get into conflict. It’s not your job to mediate and make things easier for them. It’s not your problem. Your duty of care is to yourself and your children.
I have no idea who the instigator is (or if it’s both) but I’ll leave you with this. https://community.babycenter.com/post/a73920524/dont-rock-the-boat
A lot to unpack here. Tell me all about the Christmas pudding. Slowly in detail. Don’t skip anything. I need to imagine things.
You get your favourite rich creamy vanilla icecream (I like Streets Blue Ribbon) and any dark fruitcake or rich Christmas cake or pudding you like (has to be a dark style of cake, rich and fragrant). You break up the cake/pudding and crumble it up as best you can while allowing an equal amount of icecream to soften slightly. You then mix them with a fork until well combined. You have to take another bowl the appropriate size for the quantity you’re making and line it with cling wrap (I’ve got a favourite ceramic mixing bowl that’s kind of pudding shaped that I always use). Spread the icecream mixture out as flat as you can into the bowl and freeze until ready to use. When ready to serve, take the bowl out of the freezer, allow to sit for a moment, then invert onto a serving plate, remove all plastic and cut into slices. It became a tradition at Christmas time after too much dithering and debate (and a couple of doses of awful cheap clearance microwave puddings MIL got from NQR) about whether we should bother with Christmas pudding at all. The kids aren’t huge Christmas pudding fans, MIL can’t be bothered, Mr P insists on a sweet and I like tradition with a twist. This way everyone gets what they want.
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It begins. Merry Christmas DT
Merry Christmas to you too!
Merry Christmas! 🎄🎉
Merry Christmas AJ 🎅
Merry Christmas 🎁🎁
Merry Yule!
Limoncello is some poignant stuff. So many possibilities.
I ordered that instead of San Pellegrino Limonata by mistake once. It was certainly a surprise 😁
I’m having a blast. Luckily I’m not driving tomorrow.
I’ve been curious about this stuff lately. My Italian boss said he’d bring some homemade stuff into work sometime. Apparently his family have been making it for a long time.
