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A photo of a large stainless steel pot extremely full of the aforementioned Cajun beef pasta. You can't really see any of that though because there's a delicious layer of partially-melted cheese across the top of it all.

And then we made Nagi's one pot Cajun beef pasta recipe (https://www.recipetineats.com/one-pot-cajun-beef-pasta/)! Absolutely delicious as always, but I think her recipe assumes you have a significantly larger pot because the amount of water ended up being a fair bit too much and it came out rather on the soupy side (plus the cheese on top at the end didn't melt as much as I was hoping). It made like six and a half serves though, and I'm sure that the extra liquid will all be absorbed by the pasta for the leftovers.

Posted on 2 November 2024, 19:57

A photo of a round table with Magic the Gathering cards all over it (it's a four-player game).

A photo of a bowl of chilli con carne with rice, veggies, and a big dollop of sour cream.

I'm in the office today for ALL OF THE THINGS. First up, playing Magic the Gathering at lunch with the usual pre-COVID crew. 😁 They changed caterers for the hot food a few months ago and man, they're doing a bang-up job. Day was chilli con carne and it was delicious.

darkroom food portrait mode magic the gathering in the office

Posted on 24 October 2024, 13:07

A photo of the partial timber hull of a huge sailing ship, the Batavia, from the 1600s.

A wide-angle photo of a big black submarine sitting in a dry dock.

A photo of a piece of focaccia with tomato sauce (as in the pizza basing, not like ketchup), blobs of fresh melted mozzarella cheese, cherry tomatoes, and fresh leaves of basil.

Back to Fremantle today, we went to the Shipwreck Museum (free entry, small, but very good) and the Maritime Museum ($15/ticket, larger than the Shipwreck Museum but not very good, and as far as I can tell none of the exhibits have had the statistics they mentioned in the descriptions updated since the early 2000s). The Maritime Museum had a couple of interesting bits about things during World War II, and there was an Oberon-class submarine in dry dock that was cool, but you had to pay extra to go on it as a part of a tour. I also got a margarita focaccia and custard tart from a place called Common Bakery and OH MY GOD they were SO GOOD. The focaccia was absolutely perfect and the toppings were completely fresh.

darkroom food portrait mode perth museum ship submarine

Posted on 9 October 2024, 17:23

A photo of a big bowl of tonkotsu ramen with three pieces of fried chicken beside it, as well as an extra boiled egg.

Today was a quiet one, but we _did_ go out to Japanese in Chatswood (once again, shout out to the Sydney Metro) and it was excellent.

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Posted on 28 August 2024, 20:38

A photo of two flour-covered round golden brown loaves of bread with magnificent splits in the top, sitting on a cooling crack.

I haven't made any bread since March, but aw yiss, still got the touch. 😎

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Posted on 28 August 2024, 11:49

A photo of a rather tall beef burger with a slice of cheese on it, and a big blob of ketchup dripping out one side.

A photo of a partially-completed jigsaw puzzle. The artwork is of a stylised seaside town with ships on the ocean in the distance, and a some nautical-themed shops in the foreground. It's all done in pastel sort of colours.

For @yayKM's birthday we made home-made burgers, then did some of one of her new jigsaw puzzles!

our house darkroom food portrait mode burger jigsaw puzzle

Posted on 18 August 2024, 21:28

A photo of a big deep frying pan sitting on a stove, it has chilli con carne in it and you can see all the diced onion and capsicum plus the red kidney beans. It LOOKS like beef mince but it's actually Quorn.

Aw yissss. 😎 I followed Quorn's own recipe (https://www.quorn.com.au/recipes/chilli-con-carne-quorn-mince) but doubled it, did three stock cubes instead of two, and did more smoked paprika and less ground coriander seed (mostly because we ran out). It's SO GOOD, the sweetness of the capsicum really comes through.

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Posted on 10 August 2024, 20:49

A photo of a big white casserole dish with tuna mornay in it, and a crunchy panko bread crumb topping. (It looks delicious and was absolutely as good as it looks.)

And then we made Nagi's tuna mornay recipe (https://www.recipetineats.com/tuna-mornay-casserole-pasta-bake/) and it was goooood, and now we're playing more Guitar Hero and @yayKM is currently having a go!

our house darkroom food portrait mode tuna mornay

Posted on 3 August 2024, 21:11

A photo of a white bowl with vanilla ice cream in it, covered with Ice Magic chocolate topping, chopped up strawberries, and some butterscotch sauce. The rum is there too but it's all in the bottom of the bowl so you can't see it.

I burnt 1020 calories on the elliptical after work watching an episode of The Wheel of Time, so now I've ruined it by having a big ol' trashy bowl of ice cream with a shot of The Kraken coffee spiced rum while I watch an episode of The Expanse. 😎

our house darkroom exercise portrait mode ice cream rum

Posted on 29 July 2024, 20:27

A photo of a big bowl of tonkotsu ramen, with two hard-boiled eggs and slices of pork floating in the broth.

Day two of team event involved stopping actual work at 11:30am and going to Cockatoo Island for hanging out and drinks and nibblies. I took some RAW photos with my iPhone that I'll process and put on Flickr (assuming they come out any good, it was very grey and dreary so they might actually be just flat and boring). Then we went out for ramen at Ippudo for dinner and it was gooood.

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Posted on 2 July 2024, 20:35