Where do you go when you need to get out of the house but it's raining?
I...don't understand the question. I stay in the house when it's raining. The library? The shopping centre? I'd probably pick the library before the shopping centre, and I'd probably drop in to a garden centre rather than a shopping centre.
What's your go-to tape?
Go-to music? Or movie? Or some other meaning of 'tape' that I don't get?
Music? My Spotify "M&P Conn-Pod Playlist"
Movie? Pacific Rim. Happy, world-uniting, brain-sharing, soul-melding, feelgood saving the world. We so need something like that right now.
What's in your freezer right now?
A lot of things. If I took an inventory, it would get a little crazy.
- meat (salmon, beef, chicken, lamb, goat)
- dumplings (home-made and shop-bought)
- vegies (at least three or four different mixes) and pumpkins
- croissants and flaky butter pastries
- stock (chicken, lamb)
- beef bones for making stock
- scallops, prawns
- dairy-free ice-cream (for the sister)
- gelato (2 tubs, also the sister)
- assorted herbs or herb mixes (garlic, ginger, coriander, shallot sauce for Hainanese chicken, home-made pesto)
- sourdough starter (don't ask how old it is; I don't even know if it's alive)
- breads and buns (several gluten-free breads, hot cross buns)
- individual serves of soups and curries ready for defrosting and eating
I also think I have two containers of bunya nuts in the bottom of the murder freezer. They've been there entirely too long. The woman I was going to swap them with is flaky about actual delivery (I once swapped her some things in advance for a cabbage that was growing in her garden; by the time the cabbage was ready, the cabbage moth caterpillars had gotten it, so she dropped it off and said "maybe the chickens can eat it" and that was it. No offer of a replacement or something else. So, yes: FLAKY is a good thing for pastries, but a terrible thing for people.)
That's the short version of what's in there; there's undoubtedly a lot of other stuff, much of which we've forgotten. We try to cycle around what's in there, work our way through it; it doesn't always turn out that way, though...
Last concert you attended?
My brain is telling me "Roxette" but that's the first concert I attended. I know that I saw Offspring in the late 90s, early 00s with friends. But I'm pretty sure I saw U2 during the 00s and it was an utterly miserable experience. Nosebleed seats and I think it was just me and a friend, and I wasn't hugely into U2 anyway.
Oh, wait, P!NK! I saw P!NK around 2013, and it was an awesome show, because she does showmanship with flair and style. So good. I was going to see her again earlier this year and simply couldn't get myself out there.
Favourite grocery store?
This is a bit of a weird question to me: we don't really have the kind of "brand loyalty" that Americans seem to have. My local is Harris Farm Markets/IGA Supamart and that's where I go for just about anything. I don't price-shop, I occasionally use the local Woolworths ("Woolies") when it's at the edges of 'open hours' for shopping, but I very rarely do Coles (the other major supermarket in our duopoly). I almost never do Aldi, unless it happens to be the easiest one to access (after physical therapy or when picking something up at the little shopping centre).
Probably Harris Farm Markets/IGA Supermart, if you go by frequency. But if there's local markets on, I will always go there and buy a few things at the least.
I...don't understand the question. I stay in the house when it's raining. The library? The shopping centre? I'd probably pick the library before the shopping centre, and I'd probably drop in to a garden centre rather than a shopping centre.
What's your go-to tape?
Go-to music? Or movie? Or some other meaning of 'tape' that I don't get?
Music? My Spotify "M&P Conn-Pod Playlist"
Movie? Pacific Rim. Happy, world-uniting, brain-sharing, soul-melding, feelgood saving the world. We so need something like that right now.
What's in your freezer right now?
A lot of things. If I took an inventory, it would get a little crazy.
- meat (salmon, beef, chicken, lamb, goat)
- dumplings (home-made and shop-bought)
- vegies (at least three or four different mixes) and pumpkins
- croissants and flaky butter pastries
- stock (chicken, lamb)
- beef bones for making stock
- scallops, prawns
- dairy-free ice-cream (for the sister)
- gelato (2 tubs, also the sister)
- assorted herbs or herb mixes (garlic, ginger, coriander, shallot sauce for Hainanese chicken, home-made pesto)
- sourdough starter (don't ask how old it is; I don't even know if it's alive)
- breads and buns (several gluten-free breads, hot cross buns)
- individual serves of soups and curries ready for defrosting and eating
I also think I have two containers of bunya nuts in the bottom of the murder freezer. They've been there entirely too long. The woman I was going to swap them with is flaky about actual delivery (I once swapped her some things in advance for a cabbage that was growing in her garden; by the time the cabbage was ready, the cabbage moth caterpillars had gotten it, so she dropped it off and said "maybe the chickens can eat it" and that was it. No offer of a replacement or something else. So, yes: FLAKY is a good thing for pastries, but a terrible thing for people.)
That's the short version of what's in there; there's undoubtedly a lot of other stuff, much of which we've forgotten. We try to cycle around what's in there, work our way through it; it doesn't always turn out that way, though...
Last concert you attended?
My brain is telling me "Roxette" but that's the first concert I attended. I know that I saw Offspring in the late 90s, early 00s with friends. But I'm pretty sure I saw U2 during the 00s and it was an utterly miserable experience. Nosebleed seats and I think it was just me and a friend, and I wasn't hugely into U2 anyway.
Oh, wait, P!NK! I saw P!NK around 2013, and it was an awesome show, because she does showmanship with flair and style. So good. I was going to see her again earlier this year and simply couldn't get myself out there.
Favourite grocery store?
This is a bit of a weird question to me: we don't really have the kind of "brand loyalty" that Americans seem to have. My local is Harris Farm Markets/IGA Supamart and that's where I go for just about anything. I don't price-shop, I occasionally use the local Woolworths ("Woolies") when it's at the edges of 'open hours' for shopping, but I very rarely do Coles (the other major supermarket in our duopoly). I almost never do Aldi, unless it happens to be the easiest one to access (after physical therapy or when picking something up at the little shopping centre).
Probably Harris Farm Markets/IGA Supermart, if you go by frequency. But if there's local markets on, I will always go there and buy a few things at the least.
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