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Inspired by a few comments on the other thread, particularly when vampireshark didn't understand the meaning of the term "vent", I've decided to create a happy thread to counterbalance it. So, post things that have made you happy recently!

For me, I graduated the other day with first class honours. 8)

And today I saw two films for free - brilliant offer....

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It sounds annoying. The only upside is that she seems to be defeating herself each time.

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Mmm, just had an absolutely delicous courgette and mushroom pie. Mushrooms from the wild (my gf assures me they're edible - I shall know by tonight) and an egg from our chicken coop. Maybe, one day, it'll be our courgettes!
It was about time I changed this.

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Courgettes, like aubergines, are vegetables that I have never really seen the point of. Not keen on the texture when cooked, and their native flavour is stubbornly indistinct.
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I've never had courgettes without a bit of flavouring or mixed in with other ingredients. On their own, I can imagine they're not very exciting.
It was about time I changed this.

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Ew courgettes are vile and I should very much like to stomp on every single courgette plant in existence. If I want tasteless sludgy green gunk in my food I'll leave it in a stagnant pond for a month.

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Sludgy? They sound overcooked. They're better crisp, or soft but still solid.
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You guys are crazy. Grilled courgettes and egg plants are amazing, and it's so easy. It really brings out their inner flavor. And then there's stuff like baba ghanoush.

They're definitely prone to overcooking if you prepare them differently though. Or making your dish watery. Best try to extract some of the water with some salt, first, especially with courgettes.

If you ever decide to grow courgettes, though, be prepared for more courgette than you ever thought of consuming in a year.
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din wrote:You guys are crazy. Grilled courgettes and egg plants are amazing, and it's so easy. It really brings out their inner flavor. And then there's stuff like baba ghanoush.

They're definitely prone to overcooking if you prepare them differently though. Or making your dish watery. Best try to extract some of the water with some salt, first, especially with courgettes.

If you ever decide to grow courgettes, though, be prepared for more courgette than you ever thought of consuming in a year.
E.g. 1 courgette.
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Translation for Americans: courgette = zucchini, aubergine = eggplant

Happy: I'm back home in the States after 15 months abroad. It's weird, but good, to be back

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Dewrad wrote:
din wrote:You guys are crazy. Grilled courgettes and egg plants are amazing, and it's so easy. It really brings out their inner flavor. And then there's stuff like baba ghanoush.

They're definitely prone to overcooking if you prepare them differently though. Or making your dish watery. Best try to extract some of the water with some salt, first, especially with courgettes.

If you ever decide to grow courgettes, though, be prepared for more courgette than you ever thought of consuming in a year.
E.g. 1 courgette.
In that case, change year to decade. Eggplants are great in Indian food, too, by the way. They absorb all the flavor (and oil, and therefore flavor...).
Rui wrote:Translation for Americans: courgette = zucchini, aubergine = eggplant
I went for a happy, confused, intercontinental mix. I sometimes forget which one's which, living in a French-speaking area and the French terms also being acceptable in English.
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Stuffed marrow is nice.

Marrow is just a big courgette. A courgette is a little marrow.
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Rui wrote:Translation for Americans: courgette = zucchini, aubergine = eggplant

Happy: I'm back home in the States after 15 months abroad. It's weird, but good, to be back
xD I needed that, thanks.

yay back home.

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Courgettes/zucchini and aubergines/eggplant are delicious when done right. When done wrong, they can be horrible. They're also an acquired taste: it wasn't until I became a vegetarian that I started liking imam bayildi (cold eggplant/zucchini/other vegetable salad).

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I am 19 today.

Happy Birthday to me.
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Pole, the wrote:I am 19 today.

Happy Birthday to me.
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ObsequiousNewt wrote:
Pole, the wrote:I am 19 today.

Happy Birthday to me.
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Dzięki.
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I do have to wonder, though: what happens if another Pole joins the board? Then our Pole won't be the Pole anymore.


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ObsequiousNewt wrote:I do have to wonder, though: what happens if another Pole joins the board? Then our Pole won't be the Pole anymore.
Though! There could be many Poles, but the Pole is there only one.
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It would be like films: the first one is The Pole, the second one would be The Pole II.
It was about time I changed this.

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New laptop! :mrgreen: It's dark red and really cool looking >:3

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ol bofosh wrote:It would be like films: the first one is The Pole, the second one would be The Pole II.
POLE II: THE REVENGENING

Some of my friends hosted a clothing exchange this weekend, and it was a pretty good time. I got some slacks and a nice khaki skirt (which I never would have considered, but I love it).

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Morrígan wrote:I got some slacks and a nice khaki skirt (which I never would have considered, but I love it).
Cool! What's it like?

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KathAveara wrote:
Morrígan wrote:I got some slacks and a nice khaki skirt (which I never would have considered, but I love it).
Cool! What's it like?
Slacks are plain black, and dark grey and pinstripe. The khaki skirt is a fairly short a-line, probably mid-thigh. Plus I got a light, plaid blouse, and some kind of clutch-wallet thing that I see Persons of Quality use.

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