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meat, three-day cooking adventure 

I've been feeling depressed lately so I decided it was time to drown the noise in an arduous cooking project.

I've made many wonderful chilis in my time but I always used store-bought stocks/broths when doing so, and I always thought it would be fun to make a homemade stock, so that's what I'll be doing today

Here we have a whole chicken, ham hocks, half an onion, carrots and celery, and some smash garlic that are hiding under the other ingredients. Normally when I make chicken stock I add whole allspice and other warming ingredients (I recently tried a cinnamon stick and that was wonderful) but I don't think I want those flavors in this chili. So instead I'm using whole peppercorns and sichuan peppercorns. We'll see how it turns out!

I've never done this with ham hocks before but I've used them in a number of red bean recipes and I really like the subtle flavor they add, and they're cheap

I have one more thing I'm preparing today that I will use some of the stock for, so you can look forward to that :clodsire_head:​:clodsire_tail:​

re: meat 

@lapis one of the wonderful things about cooking is, aside from food safety violations, you can do whatever you want :)

meat 

my delicious plans are coming to fruition.....

food 

one of britain's precious few good cultural exports

I am getting a coffee from the nearby coffee shop as consolation

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the grocery store is out of the one single thing i visited it for :clodsire_angy:​

Today I learned that 1111111111111111111 is a prime number

@vaporeon_ for whatever reason the instant Halloween is over Americans decide it is now Christmastime, and as such they starting selling eggnog in the grocery store

@vaporeon_ it's a sweet, creamy milk/cream product with nutmeg and other winter spices. Sometimes has raw egg in it. It's often consumed during the Christmas season, at least here in the states

@vaporeon_ if I'm not mistaken undefined can be reassigned in javascript because the language made some Choices

@vaporeon_ because of const in C++ there are plenty of lvalues which cannot be left of an =

In regards to C, I have no idea, I am not very knowledgeable about C :clodsire_head:​:clodsire_tail:​

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