Depends what kind of fragrant you like, mild or kapow.
I get some onions and red pepper (1 Medium onion, 1 medium pepper), dice them very finely. Fry them for about 5 mins on high heat, splash of water (about 2 tbsps). When thatâs going on prepare a stock (2 cup) using a bit of ginger (half TSP), garlic (1 crushed clove/quarter TSP of powder), coriander (1 tbsp) and pinch of lemon juice (roughly 1 tsp). When veggies done frying, pour cup of rice into the pan, followed by stock, bring to boil, then turn down to medium until the water reduces greatly (about 15 mins). I throw in some cardmom pods (small handful) once the boil is done so the flavour leaks in gently.
When water reduced, take off heat, stir and let rice sweat for about 5 mins. This is key to fluffy rice.
Swap the stock spices for whatever you like depending on flavour. For example I do a peri peri rice with similar technique, in the stock I put birds eye chilli (blended), lemon juice, hot paprika, pinch of cumin, oregano. Lovely spicy rice and great with homemade nandos chicken (which I make too, due to make a batch Friday actually)
Some people are in a bad day, some are always toxic. Today, I did a junkyard mythic+ and a warlock died to aggro because he was casting and hit the mob hard before I could even touch it. âTanks have no clue, get me out of this groupâ and he left. It was the first âmistakeâ in the run and we disbanded there. Another person in the group whispered me right after âI hope you rilly die irlâ (yes with that spelling)
People are like this, and itâs considered as completely normal now âshrugsâ
(the worst part is that he is right, I am not immortal)
Oh yes I like it hot hot. I boil the rice ahead of time with 1:1 ratio for jasmine rice, then make a stir fry sauce with a teaspoon of go chu jang, two table spoons of oyster sauce, two of regular soy sauce. While still hot sprinkle chilli flakes and cover so they get warm and let loose those oils. Also add two garlic gloves mashed with salt in a pestle and mortar and blend with the rice off heat so the garlic doesnât lose its punch.
I usually add the ginger in the other dish near the end so it doesnât lose the kick.
If you boil the stock with all those spices do they lose the heat or does it all get absorbed by the rice?
Mate, yes! Thatâs the way. I like bringing out my own mortar and pestle as well!
But that recipie sounds great, I love it hot so Iâll try it. Re the spice boil, it takes the heat out a bit but the flavour sticks in the rice, it kinda makes the heat more drawn out rather than slap in the face heat. My wife doesnât like food as spicy as I do, so doing in this way means she doesnât get the heat too badly until the rice is eaten (it builds up).if Iâm preparing for myself, I tend to put the hot spices in just before Iâm done reducing the rice so they take the heat, and then the sweat puts their flavour into the rice, but not as consistently as via my boil method but the taste will be potent.
Obviously spices vary, some lose their zing if you boil them outright so I wouldnât recommend it say for certain spice blends.
Iâm still happy Iâm no longer a loner in the mortal and pestle club. Like nobody I know owns one. To them Iâm like some wierd druid as I grow most of my own herbs and then grind them up and either dry and store or use directly.
I see, I still donât agree but I see what you are trying to say xD
I do think you shouldnât let one random interaction with a random player ruin your whole experience or day. By all means vent about it, it often makes people feel better to get it off their chest but donât let it put you off
No, itâs not considered normal mate, and it shouldnât be. Every once in a while threads like this are being open, because itâs not normal to behave like that. We are all human beings and we have feelings too. The things is, those who have a bad day wonât ever behave and bully other peeps ingame like some douchebags do ( I have my share of bad days and believe me, never ever have I belittle someone or bully them just because I was having a bad day.). And the worst thing is, some of them are actually having fun saying those things. Like I said in my post above, if the community can change for FF, so can for wow. At the end of the day, a game is just a game and it should be treated as such, but how someone behaves towards other players, can leave deep marks.
You can also try to do a lemongrass and coconut milk for some rice dishes, ginger near the end. Since the rice will be strong, chicken should be marinated for some 12 hours in a garlic, coriander and ginger paste to boost the flavour to be on par with the rice. If not lactose intolerant, add yoghurt as the lactic enzymes will tenderise and will also allow the fragrance to flavour the meat even more.
As for the mortar and pestle, if you have access to frozen herbs, by adding them to the garlic in the mortar you force the herbs to release the oils due to friction. This makes things like garlic coriander or garlic and basil much more potent.
I donât consider it normal myself, what I meant was that it is so common and nearly sounds like the usual way some people are beaving that it feels like they consider it ânormalâ.
I reported him obviously, you donât tell people that they should die. For me it is shocking because you donât know the person and how hard you can hurt them.
This was nothing to me but I have seen worse when I was actually depressed and it doesnât feel great when you launch the game to get some rest from everyday life problems.
Ill stop derailing at this point but thanks for the tips my good man. I look toward to trying them out! Always love to exchange cooking tips and recipies. Maybe we need a thread.
Exactly! That person might have some serious mental illness, and if X player spam the Y player with messages like ââretard, just kill yourselfââ, ââdelete your account, you suck, you souldnât have a lifeââ and so on, this might push him over the edge. Imagine someone saying that to your 12, 13 yo kid (or future kid), can you overlook this matter? Iâm guessing not. And I feel you, had my share of problems in the past and didnât need the wow toxicity above all. I recieved some toxic messages too (and they still kept going from time to time), which led me into a horrible state, but started playing other games and saw the gaming community shouldnât be like that, saw some games communities change for the better, and if for those average games was possible then it can be possible for WoW too. But that can happen if peeps have the courage to voice out and if theyâll say no to ââvote kickââ. Thatâs how it started for me too, saw one player defending another player, and that made me defending him too. Since then , I always defend those who are attacked. Only one will need to speak up, the rest will follow ^^.
More people should speak up in general, the least reasonable people are usually the loudest, while smart people prefer to say silent cause what you can really do, but only we can help ourselves as Illidan once said
I mean, depends of how you define toxicity. If you told some newbies, or in general, to kill themselves or delete their acc, Iâm sorry , but Iâll have to be on their side. If you only trolled around and just mess around with him/her, like, saying thereâs some awsome future in the game (which it isnât ofc) and youâll make him talk to other players about ââthatââ, thatâs innocent xd. (it acctually happened to me years ago, ohhh the shameee ). The worst that can happen is to both laugh talking about it later. (if youâll still be talking to him/her)
Well, my toxicity comes down to trolling like this: when I get Siege of Niuzao Temple, on 2nd boss, I throw bombs at people and then start a vote on the quietest person with a message âkick that warlock retardâ.
One of my friends didnât find it that funny recently, so Iâm trying to behave better, but Iâm just stupid
Itâs been like this as long as I can remember, and I played during Vanilla. I canât really offer a good reason why people are horrible, they just seem to take any minute dip in the arbitrary damage meters as a personal insult. Like youâre actively making their lives worse by not being as good as they think they are. Itâs not even about clearing the dungeon, raid, or whatever gear treadmill the devs want us to care about, itâs just arbitrary.
I wish I could offer you something better, some kind word that makes it all seem okay, but the best I can get you is âSome groups are okay. Pray that you get one.â If that makes a new player quit, theyâre probably right to do so. Gods know I wouldnât still be here if I didnât focus exclusively on solo content.
Blaming people for being quiet isnât helping. Frankly, the best solution would be to make it so nobody can see anybody elseâs damage. You can recount yourself and only yourself. Any addon that shows other peoplesâ dps should be banned.
I can give my perspective. People act like they do online cause thereâs little accountability and repercussion for the most part. Last few years weâve seen cancel culture emerge, I think itâs often too extreme, and we need some middle ground imo, but it could be useful for WoW as well. If people canât behave themselves properly in-game and on forums, they shouldnât have a voice nor get brought in for group content.