Wednesday 13 March 2024

Midweek Munchies

Hey friends.

Today I am writing with sadness. We got the news that Our Flag Means Death will not be being picked up for a third season by another network. They have already started auctioning off things from the set. The streaming industry right now is in freefall, and getting the show picked up straight away didn't work out. The OFMD community is very, very, very sad. Just clinging to hope that I will get to see my blorbos again one day, maybe in a few years when the industry has hopefully improved. In the meantime, I will just be very sad about it forever.

Let's look at some munchies. Chips and jams and a few other things.

Ninja vegan chips, these Sausage Sizzle chips were a bit underwhelming at first. I always want more flavour. But, if you stick a bunch in your mouth at once, then you get great flavour. I really liked them. Of course, they were limited edition, so I can't get anymore... Just like OFMD.😭

Sausage Sizzle Chips


This St Dalfour's French Grape jam was a bit strange. Much sweeter than other jams, and with big grapes in it, which made it a bit big for spreading on things. Did you know there is a character in OFMD called Frenchie? He's not French. I miss him already.

St Dalfours Jam


Vitasoy's soy yoghurts are so good, so I tried these oat ones then they came out. Unfortunately they have pea protein in them, and leave a bad aftertaste in my mouth. Kind of like the bad taste about the way WBD/Max threw OFMD under the bus.

Vitasoy Oat Yoghurt


These Thins Outback BBQ chips were really good, they had a great strong flavour! Once again, limited edition, because why keep something great around when you can just kill it instead?

Outback BBQ chips


Some Loving Earth chocolates. The Dirty Rose was nice, but no surprises the Berry Wild was not to my tastes. Give me cocoa poweder in my chocolate or give me (our flag means) death.

Loving Earth


Another St Dalfours jam, this time kumquat. It really enjoyed this in overnight oats and also with peanut butter. It was like a fancy marmalade. Damn good marmalade, one might say, and then cry about Ed and Stede eating marmalade. Marmalade has a special place in the hearts of OFMD fans.

St Dalfours Jam


This St Dalfours Heritage Peach jam was quite lovely and sweet. I used it mostly in overnight oats. Edward Teach, arse like a peach, you would have loved this.

St Dalfours Jam


Finally, this Veef Pulled Beef. Which I guess was OK? I don't have much of a memory about what it was or what I did with it. I think I put it into some pasta sauce, possibly. As you can see I got it on sale, and it was deep in my freezer for a long time. Sort of a shredded meaty/mushroom texture. Shredded like the hearts, hopes, and dreams of the OFMD community.

Veef Pulled Beef


Friends, I am really really sad. You might scoff at being so cut up about a TV show, but the way I have found a new community through this show, they representation this show has that is just so unique and diverse, the fact that it is a love story between two men discovering themselves and each other in their late 40s... I honestly can't describe how important this show is and will continue to be. Anyway, I'm sad.

Cute Kitty Photo of the Post

Eloise


Here is an Eloise belleh, for comfort. Also possibly may be a trap, you have to stick your hand in there to find out.



Wednesday 6 March 2024

Midweek Munchies

Hello hello!

Love being back, it is nice to have something familiar and comforting to return to, which is what this blog is. Easing myself back in with another midweek munchies post!

I love Bennetto chocolate, the raspberry one in particular is my favourite! But I finally got around to trying some other flavours. The hazelnut one is fine, I am just not as big a fan of hazelnut and chocolate as a lot of other people I think. The sea salt amaranth one was lovely, salty and cruncy and delicious.

Benetto Chocolate


I tried this new flavour from Plantry, their carbonara meal. It does NOT have coconut in it, which is exciting. But it is pretty bland, which is less exciting.

Plantry Carbonara


Tomato and Mushroom Smoked Salt is something I didn't know I was missing in my life, but it is so good!

Smoked Tomato & Mushroom Salt


These Lifesaver Grape Peelies are accidentally vegan (obviously they are vegan, they are on my blog), but the flavour is the gross kind of fake frape flavour and the texture is too hard, do not recomment.

Grape Lifesaver Peelies


Sometimes you raid the freezer for a very silly dinner. Like this one, with Pie Society Meatless Party Pies and Not Nuggets. I'd heard good things about the nuggets, but I found them pretty meh. The party pies were great! I love Pie Society's vegan pies.

Party Pies and Nuggets


Party Pies and Nuggets


My friend from Scotland sent me this very deliciously dark chocolate. I hope I will be able to get some myself when I am there in... SIX WEEKS! You know I love my chocolate dark, and you can't get darker than this. SO GOOD.

Montezuma's 100% Dark Chocolate


These Vegan Cheddar Cauliflower Puffs had some sort of weird taste to them. I wouldn't get them again.

Cauliflower Puffs


Finally these vegan lentil chips, which a friend told me about. I got them from The Reject Shop, and I don't know if they're available anymore. Which is a shame, because they are so good. I love both flavours. They also had a third one but it was spicy.

Lentil Chips


Before we move onto the cats...

I am once again just a girl, standing in front of the internet, asking everyone to please sign and share the Our Flag Means Death.

Cute Kitty Photo of the Post

Mirabelle


A very thoughtful Mirabelle.



Wednesday 28 February 2024

Midweek Munchies

Hello friends!

Yesterday I got back from a trip to Sydney (the first trip I've been on since several years before COVID even started), where I saw Taylor Swift! I also ate some great food. And I wore my N95 mask and sprayed my nasal spray frequently because we are still in a pandemic! Even if I was the only one who was doing that.

I will share some of my Sydney foods soon, but today as I ease back into blogging it seemed like some Midweek Munchies would be a good way to go. Especially as it is Wednesday today. So, let's see if I can remember anything about these things!

I love kraut, and I love dill pickles, and this was an excellent combination. I had it on sandwiches, salads, and bowls, and very much enjoyed it. I'd buy it again.

Dill Pickle Kraut


This is a new brand of vegan M&M type things, that you can get in Woolworths. They suffer slightly from them trying to reduce the sugar content in it, but at least they don't have stevia in them. They use monkfruit. The peanut ones are the best!

Vegan M&Ms


After trying the Impressed Strawberry Oat Milk, I tried the chocolate one after I found it on sale. Again, a but of a funny aftertaste, there are much better vegan chocolate milks out there.

Impressed Chocolate Oat Milk


It had been years since I'd had the Field Roast burgers, but they were on sale at The Green Edge so I bought some and stashed them in my freezer until the time was right. I'd forgotten how much I enjoyed them!

Field Roast Burgers


Some yummy savoury pies from Coles.

Nature's Kitchen Mushroom and Lentil Pies


I found these vegan friendly chips at Ikea. I don't remember what they were like, which I guess means they were fine. Not good enough or bad enough to leave an impression.

Ikea Chips


Of course I had to buy the sweet mustard pickle made with kombucha, how ridiculous. Alas, it wasn't that good. I like my sweet mustard pickle to have actual chunks of pickle in it, and this was weirdly smooth and sludgy.

Kombucha Mustard Pickle


Coles makes a Vegan Caesar Salad dressing, and it is great! Though the most recent bottle I got looks different, so I hope they haven't changed the recipe.

Caesar Dressing


Cute Kitty Photos of the Post

Eloise


Eloise, helping me pack for Sydney.



Sunday 18 February 2024

BrisVenture 2023 Day Six and Seven: The Final Edition (also, I LIVE!)

HELLO FRIENDS, I AM ALIVE!

I don't know how it has been almost three months since I have posted on here. Time and things just got away from me. Then I fell into a spiral where I was really far behind on catching up on blog posts, but then for some reason blogger and google wouldn't communicate properly and stopped me from commenting a bunch, so then I felt bad about posting again before I'd caught up. Which is silly talk, I can post and then catch up! Also I have fixed the blogger/google thing so now I can comment again on the posts I still haven't read.

So, what have I been doing?? I have been pretty much working, being with my cats, and my hyperfixation on Our Flag Means Death is as strong as ever. Did you know that MAX cancelled the show even though pre-production for the third season was already underway, and it is one of their highest rating shows?? They did. And it may sound silly, but that really put me in a very not good place. Thankfully part of my OFMD hyperfixation is that I have a wonderful community online of fellow fans, how great is that! Also, we are going to save our show, or possibly die trying.

With that in mind, before you read on could you please visit SaveOFMD.com and sign the petition? Sign it from every email account you have. Share it with your friends, family, colleagues, strangers. The petition is just one part of the campaign to save the show, but every signature could help!

But I know what you are here for, food times! So, time to finish up my adventures with my friends who visited me in November. On our final day, we went to a vegan market. Not one of the regular Brisbane Vegan Markets, this was a ticketed event for one weekend only. I was thinking it was going to be like the Brisbane Vegan Expo I'd been to before. I could not have been more wrong. It was tiny, and had almost no interesting stalls. We were so disappointed. Luckily, it at least had a small collection of food stalls that we visited. And it was in a pretty location.

The Vegan Market


Helen went straight for this plate of Balinese food.

Balinese Food


I started with some tofu rice paper rolls. Molly also got a noodle bowl from the same stall, but I forgot to take a photo of that!

Rice Paper Rolls


And Sharnette tried a cheeseburger served on a doughnut bun from Vegood!

Cheesebuger from Vegood


I also got a pretzel with mustard beer sauce, and a trio of bao from Vegood.

Bao Trio and Pretzel from Vegood


And we all got some lychee iced tea, lychee was the flavour of the day!

Lychee Drink


What did we do after this? We went home and did... things. I don't quite remember what we got up to in the afternoon. But I do remember we got pizza for dinner from Pizza Hut, and everyone was very impressed that we had several pizza chains with vegan options. We also had fairy bread and Vegemite on toast, and watched the movie of What We Do In The Shadows.

We had a pretty low key day for the final day, starting with Helen making us all beans on toast. This is a very common thing here in Australia, but apparently not in the US!

Beans on Toast


We ate some vegan meat pies for lunch (apparently also not a thing in the US) and then went back to The Green Edge for everyone to do a final shop. Then home for Helen to make us dinner! Helen and Molly had bought some Plant Based Garlic Kievs, and we cooked those up with some sauteed brocollini and roasted potatoes.

Kiev Dinner


Kiev Dinner


Early the next morning, I took them to the airport and they headed off to Sydney. I had so much fun with them while they were here! Australia is so far away from most of the rest of the world, and Brisbane doesn't have the general appeal of Melbourne or Sydney, so the fact that they came and spent a whole week with me was so special! And I'm always open to visitors from cool overseas friends!!

I plan to be back as much as I can. I still have so many photos to share for things! Though lately I have hardly been cooking, thanks fibro! Chronic pain and fatige sucks. I also have some cool things coming up - I am going to Sydney on the weekend to see Taylor's final Australian Era's show on Monday the 26th of Feb, and then this time in two months I will be on my Scotland/Barcelona adventure! All with my N95 mask strapped to my face, of course.

How have you all been??

Cute Kitty Photo of the Post

All the girls


Ignore the messy background, but this is a rare photo of all of the girls! They are all doing pretty well, and are as adorable as ever!



Wednesday 29 November 2023

BrisVenture 2023: Day 5: Kangaroos, Koalas, and Izakaya Midori

Hello and welcome back to the penultimate post about my adventures with my friends from American.

I took then out to Coombabah at the Gold Coast, for some guaranteed kangaroo watching and probably koala sightings. I am happy to report that both were achieved! Excuse the fuzzy koala picks, it really is like trying to photograph a backlit blob high up in a tree.

Coombabah


Coombabah


Coombabah


Coombabah


Coombabah


Coombabah


Then we hit up Izakaya Midori for a late lunch.

Smoked Edamame.

Smoked Edamame at Izakaya Midori


Agedashi Tofu.

Tofu Agedashi at Izakaya Midori


Edamame Chips.

Edamame Chips at Izakaya Midori


Okonomiyaki and Veef Sushi.

Okonomiyaki and Veef Sushi at Izakaya Midori


Teriyaki Tofu Don.

Teriyaki Tofu Don at Izakaya Midori


Katsu Sushi.

Katsu Sushi at Izakaya Midori


Terichiki Don.

Terichiki Don at Izakaya Midori


Chiki Avo Nigiri.

Chiki Avo Nigiri at Izakaya Midori


Aka Ramen.

Aka Ramen at Izakaya Midori


After this incredible feast, we headed home, and there was a little bit of resting. Molly made us a late dinner, which included some Lamyong Salty Crispy Chicken she had bought from The Green Edge, rice, salad, and croutons.

Molly Dinner


Only one more post to share with you about our final two days together! A week goes so quickly.

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Dim Sim


This Monday just gone (the 27th of November) was the three year anniversary of Dim Sim's passing. I miss her so much.