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[Speedcuffs]

Went to Taygeta in the new Krait.
Conclusion: Plasma Chargers are excellent for offing Scouts, struggling to get correct hits on Interceptor hearts though.
Jumped back to Ray for some more Gauss.

Sometimes I've just got to try stuff for myself. ✌

 

[MaxG10]

Cooking Friday Lentils stew.

17 Liter stainless steel pot.
7 Kg beef with bones, different superb cuts.
1Kg bacon cubes
8 Liter water, black Malabar pepper, white Kampot pepper, pimento, cloves in a tea egg, laurel leaves.
Two large onions, slize in half, on medium heat in a stainless steel pan without oil until brown to black. Add bacon and brown, add little water and render.
Whack it all into pot
Start from cold, bruing to cook, 3 hours simmer on low.
When meat tender and bones cooked out, slize and dize meat, put aside.

Add 2.5 kg brown lentils to broth, simmer 30 minutes

Approx. 10 Kg (before peeling)Carrots, parsley root, celery, leak, potato all cut to small cubes, - Yes, its a grind!!! LOL - three tins Pomodorino D'oro tomatoes, add and simmer another 40 minutes.

Add high quality apple vinegar, Dijon mustard, freshly chooped parsley, marjoram, salt, pepper & a little sugar to taste.

Serve in a deep large bowl with a large Wiener sausage, a cold Pilsner Urquell compliments it well. "Sticks to the ribs" food in cold and wet weather.

 

[MaxG10]

Forgot to say. Eat next day, not same day!! Seriously!

As you might imagine, makes quite some portions for the freezer. Lot's of work, but once frozen, doesn't get more handy, just add a Wiener, ready.

Apart from that, you'd be astonished how very affordable that works out in terms of Euro/portion (large!), albeit I used premium Angus and Galloway cuts and prime bio veggies lentils and rather expensive spices, it ends at around Euro 3 including Wiener, and is most certainly healthy and tasty food.

 

[Ashnak]

Hmmm.... apart from the problem of cooking for 30 people, I see a small problem with your receipe.

10 kg of vegetables, 8 kg of meats, 8 liters of water, 2.5 kg of lentils, sundry seasonings - putting all of that (ok, you remove the meat inbetween) inside a 17 l pot would require (for me) Time Lord technology.

 

[MaxG10]

Hmmm.... apart from the problem of cooking for 30 people, I see a small problem with your receipe.

10 kg of vegetables, 8 kg of meats, 8 liters of water, 2.5 kg of lentils, sundry seasonings - putting all of that (ok, you remove the meat inbetween) inside a 17 l pot would require (for me) Time Lord technology.

Filled to the brim it is, but no problem.

We are two btw. But I always cook large portions for the freezer. You want to see me making a bolognese in my 25 liter. Cutting garlic and chopping onions here is a mega grind. LOL

The peelings btw. do not throw out. A second smaller pot with 8 liter, add bones and simmer altogether for 6-7 hours on low to make broth from. Or over night in slow cooker. delicious super high quality broth.

 

[Tyres O'Flaherty]

For a little piquant zing, try adding a dozen chocolate bhutla's.

I was feeling a little churlish earlier and wondered what the negative would be on taking down the wedding barge.

 

[MaxG10]

For a little piquant zing, try adding a dozen chocolate bhutla's.

I was feeling a little churlish earlier and wondered what the negative would be on taking down the wedding barge.

I finish final spicing usually with chilli salt and cayenne, or hold on to your butt - This Cmdr is proud of that because it impressed a 2 star cook thoroughly - to bring this Lentil stew into a totally different direction, I subsitute the Wiener with Chorizo sausages and use Harissa & a tiny amount of Ras el hanout (works also very nice in a Cali Flower-Potato soup with slices of smoked salmon) as final spice, but not too much, just that distinct zzzinnnng.

LOL... Never did that Wedding Barge thing. Lots of mats and cargo one would assume, or not?

 

[MaxG10]

OMG... I had to look that up, never hard about that before.

Against our jalapeño reference point, the Chocolate Bhutlah is at maximum 800 times hotter than a jalapeño. It sits at the pinnacle of the pepper scale, with the likes of the Trinidad Scorpion (1,200,000 – 2,000,000 SHU), Komodo Dragon (1,400,000 – 2,200,000 SHU), and Carolina Reaper (1,400,000 – 2,200,000 SHU).

 

[WeComeInPeace]

Cooking Friday Lentils stew.

17 Liter stainless steel pot.
7 Kg beef with bones, different superb cuts.
1Kg bacon cubes
8 Liter water, black Malabar pepper, white Kampot pepper, pimento, cloves in a tea egg, laurel leaves.
Two large onions, slize in half, on medium heat in a stainless steel pan without oil until brown to black. Add bacon and brown, add little water and render.
Whack it all into pot
Start from cold, bruing to cook, 3 hours simmer on low.
When meat tender and bones cooked out, slize and dize meat, put aside.

Add 2.5 kg brown lentils to broth, simmer 30 minutes

Approx. 10 Kg (before peeling)Carrots, parsley root, celery, leak, potato all cut to small cubes, - Yes, its a grind!!! LOL - three tins Pomodorino D'oro tomatoes, add and simmer another 40 minutes.

Add high quality apple vinegar, Dijon mustard, freshly chooped parsley, marjoram, salt, pepper & a little sugar to taste.

Serve in a deep large bowl with a large Wiener sausage, a cold Pilsner Urquell compliments it well. "Sticks to the ribs" food in cold and wet weather.

Honestly, I'm not a gourmet. Far from it! I consider most food fuel for the machine. If I was to help evolution, I would change humans so that we had a slot where you could insert energy "tablets" looking like the soap tablets for the dishwasher. And now that we're at it, I would definitely also change the waste from the metabolism, so that it came out wrapped up in colorful cellophane, with a smell of perfume.

Here's one of the few I know:

Put (good) white fish in a tray and add chopped spring onion over it. Stir mustard (the grainy one) into cream while heating it (salt and pepper if needed). Pour the "sauce" over the fish, and put it all in an oven. Serve with rice.

Can't remember all the numbers though, except that you can make it with less than ten minutes of practical work, and that there's only a few ingredients. I've even managed to impress a few women with this one

 

[MaxG10]

Now base the fish with some lemon zest, juice, a splash of chablis, a sprinkle of Café de Paris and yes, white pepper on top before you pour the sauce and thank me later.

 

[MaxG10]

Mind you, I am not responsible for the resulting hordes of women though...

 

[Tyres O'Flaherty]

OMG... I had to look that up, never hard about that before.

It's a serious pepper for serious people. Or complete suicidal nut jobs. Personally, a jalapeno is about my threshold. After that, I'll be needing to pop heat sinks.

 

[Speedcuffs]

It's a serious pepper for serious people. Or complete suicidal nut jobs. Personally, a jalapeno is about my threshold. After that, I'll be needing to pop heat sinks.

I like to try any that I come across.
I like the heat, but the flavour is paramount.
I like Scotch Bonnet for cooking, sliced really thin. Mmm.

Currently stacking Scout missions in Taygeta. Once the 'weekend crew' get online, the Thargoid stuff will disappear fast. Unless FDev have upped the requirements for 'win'.

 

[MaxG10]

I saw comedians in a video trying the hottest currywurst on the planet which is supposedly here in Germany.....I think they had to sign a waiver first.

They also do competitions in that "greasy spoon", who can eat the hottest, and on these occaisions Doctors and Paramedics are required to be on the spot, just in case.

They try 600.000 SUV next 5.000.000 SUV... it is priceless. LOL

They continue with 9.000.000 and the problems start to get considerable!

The shop owner said they can go as high as 16.000.000 SUV.

Sorry only in German, perhaps CC works in other languages, not sure:

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWLRJW7cazk

 

[WeComeInPeace]

Went to Rigel and the Witch Head yesterday to see what all the fuss was about, and there were quite a bit of action going on, but probably because I wear a "XENO ALLY - DIPLOMAT" sticker, I was only interdicted by a human.

 

[WeComeInPeace]

Speakin of the hot flavours, this guy (to the right) made a name for himself inviting celebs to eat strong chili on TV. Here we see a danish celeb called "Bubber", known as a very mild children TV host, trying "the world strongest": Enable CC

Source: https://youtu.be/3zhym9oUSGU?t=226

 

[Alec Turner]

Speakin of the hot flavours, this guy (to the right) made a name for himself inviting celebs to eat strong chili on TV. Here we see a danish celeb called "Bubber", known as a very mild children TV host, trying "the world strongest": Enable CC

Source: https://youtu.be/3zhym9oUSGU?t=226

"When does it go away? When???" ...

Has the guy on the right ever actually killed someone with that?

 

[MaxG10]

"When does it go away? When???" ...

Has the guy on the right ever actually killed someone with that?

LOL I'd call that the worst possible time to get a hiccup.

Not sure about eating the raw though. It is not without danger indeed. People can collapse from that stuff, even suffer heart attack.

That danish chap was a couple of times dangerously close with his fingers at his eyes, this could have turned into a serious problem in no time.

 

[Speedcuffs]

Yay, got a Thargoid heart in my cargo bay!
The caustic cloud nearly killed me though, >5% hull.

So now I need ten meta-alloys. In my AX ship. With no fuel scoop. DOH!

 

[Simon Templar]

Or you could join the Martian Ambassadeur and not shoot at them. Seems Codger got all the eye candy anyhows (and then some, nice pics!). They haven't bothered me. The closest contact I've had was the big one scanning me at the crashed Conda (AFAIR). That one was pretty spectacular, and I remember jumping up very close to the thargoid ship in the SRV, and also flying into it with the camera drone. That was one of those situations where a replay binding would have been nice. Almost as much fun as running the SRV over a geyser at a low G planet. Stop shooting at them, and let Fdev come up with a more constructive narrative

Now, CMDR WeComeInPeace

Interceptors- AX/Guardian only.
Scouts- 'normal' weapons work, but are less effective.

I started with Scouts, fitted AX turrets. (Yeh, they're called turrets, actually function more like gimballed).

But yes, you can use regular weapons on scouts.

Thank you both.

And lol I feel I ought to point out at this juncture that I am not some raving intergalactic xenophobe. I was asking purely as I have gone engineering crazy this week, unlocking another six and getting them up to five star, so I feel the need to start the long trek to unlock Palin and the other distant ones (one needs an invitation from the Colonia Council, IIRC). Given that will be my longest-ever journey and I will take my time over it, I wondered if I might encounter some Thargoids at some point. And, should they attack me, would there be any merit in my returning fire, or should I just scoot out of there. I certainly won't fire the first shot - I'm much more Fox Mulder than Col Kilgore!

o7