I get that people feel affinity for the players at their club, but Crows fans getting shirty about players leaving is so weird. If ever there was a season that sent a clear message that big changes are needed, we just had it. And you want big changes while keeping the same list?!
We need speed and youth. The last 2 years we tried to keep a window open by pushing on to maintain the list that made the 2017 GF. 2018 was cruelled by injury, which probably hid the fact that we were too slow to compete in the modern game in 2019.
Fans complained about Pyke's 2019 style, but it's all he could do. We had to play a possession, key position style. We couldn't have 30-year-olds in free-flowing midfield footraces with 20-year-olds over 4 quarters. These days, a lack of flexibility is too easily shut down.
I don't think the rebuild will take too long. We have good young talent already. Doedee's already a gun, Jones is a future Dangerfield, and Fogarty is Tom Hawkins 2.0. With a good spine and a few fast midfield ballwinners we'll be back before you know it. #weflyasone 👍
Anyway, this was just a long way of saying I don't think I can watch the #AFLGF today because football is pain.
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The absolute easiest thing most people could do to immediately improve the taste of their cooking is start using MSG. No kidding.
It should be as basic to seasoning as salt or sugar, and that most of us don't use it based on old, debunked misinformation is quite ridiculous.
We season food to our five tastes and keep basic seasonings to achieve that efficiently. Most kitchens will use:
Salt - salt
Sweet - sugar
Sour - vinegar
Bitter - pepper
Umami - stock, soybean/seafood sauces, MSG
(Note: while we can say pepper is a bitter seasoning, we primarily use it for a sensation called "chemical irritation" like chilli, which is not technically a taste.)
Win or lose, this #auspol election is an existential threat to the Liberal party. The political calculus of sacrificing moderates to teals might seems like a handful of seats that they hope to win back with conservative candidates elsewhere, but it’s much more than that.
The Liberals have already lost one generation of moderates in the era of Turnbull, Bishop, Pyne etc.
Add to that the likes of Berejiklian, Banks and soon possibly Zimmerman, Wilson, Sharma and even Frydenberg and what’s left?
The right will welcome that shift, but centrist LNP voters won’t stick by a coalition where the defining voices are the likes of Dutton, Morrison, Canavan and Joyce, or culture warriors like Hastie and Paterson. To imagine they will is dreamland stuff.
The biggest ploy, however, was once "MSG is bad" became an ingrained belief in the West (despite ample evidence to the contrary), "No added MSG" became a processed food marketing point.
There's still plenty of MSG in there, but it's just added under another name.
Hydrolyzed soy protein, hydrolyzed vegetable protein, yeast extract, vegetable extract, hydrolyzed whey protein etc., all contain MSG and are added for the same flavour enhancing purpose.
There's nothing wrong with them, except you can't buy them off the shelf like MSG.
Two things Chinese chefs do that can improve your cooking at home is (1) marinating meats with a pinch of bicarb before cooking, and (2) adding MSG to your food.
These are straight up game-changers and if French chefs did them we'd rightly call them geniuses.
The pinch of bicarb creates an alkaline environment that inhibits the tightening of muscle fibres, which gives you more tender meat or seafood. It's actually a very old technique known as velveting where meat and seafood are "washed" with running water before frying.
Most water sources are slightly alkaline. In ancient times this was because of spring water running through alkaline rocks, and in modern times tap water is kept alkaline to reduce corrosion.
Tonight’s dinner. Shared steak on mushroom sauce. Two things I always do when having steak:
1. Cook one good quality steak for the whole family, and 2. Serve it on top of the sauce.
On 1, we don’t need to eat 300g of meat each, so serving a whole steak per person seems like overkill. 80-100g of good quality steak is totally enough, tastes better and is better for your health and the environment.
And on 2, if you’re going to get a nice seared crust on the outside of a steak you don’t need to douse the whole thing in sauce. Having the sauce underneath catches the steaks juices and lets you decide how much sauce you want. 👍
The reason we get frustrated with the digital world is because EVERY product or service is a bait and switch. It's not news that Facebook is a data harvesting/sales operation masquerading as a way to connect with friends, but that applies to literally everything online.
A mobile game isn't a game. It's an advertising delivery platform. Your photo editing software isn't a way to edit photos, it's a subscription revenue platform. Your bikeshare app isn't a transport solution, it's a capital raising.
When the revenue stream for a business isn't aligned to the product, there is always going to be frustration because the design and delivery of the product is separate to the success of the business, which is dependent on revenue.