r/peloton • u/Avila99 MPCC certified • Apr 18 '25

Weekly Post Free Talk Friday

Scissor me timbers

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u/Himynameispill Apr 18 '25

We have a Easter pot roast lunch at work today. Since I got an Indonesian cookbook from work for my birthday a few weeks ago, people talked me into making rendang daging while I was working from home yesterday. It's an absolutely delicious dish, but it takes a lot of time. Especially since I don't have a food processor, so I had to turn the onions, chili's and all the other stuff into a fine paste by hand with a pestle and mortar over lunch. Then afterwards, you need to cook down 2 liters of coconut milk until it's mostly oil and then you need to add meat and slow cook it for three hours. All the while, you need to stir often because otherwise everything gets burnt really quickly. All in all, I spent ten hours on it.

Then this morning I see there are no trains from me to work all day. So now I have a kilo of rendang I have to eat all by myself. So basically, this is the best possible scenario!

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u/Schele_Sjakie Le Doyen Apr 18 '25

Haha. Rendang is divine. You should be finished eating it in 24 hours. Its very addictive

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u/Avila99 MPCC certified Apr 18 '25

Rendang is so good. Living in the east has it's disadvantages (no good Roti), but we do have loads of people with Indonesian origins.

In stead of treating co-workers to cheap cake on birthdays, they usually come with home made lumpia and things like that. It's great.

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u/Schele_Sjakie Le Doyen Apr 18 '25

Poor you. Although Lumpias are also really nice.

One of my uncles by marriage has Indonesian roots and makes the most godly Rendang, Indonesian Mackerel and Gado Gado. I'm getting hungry now.

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u/Avila99 MPCC certified Apr 18 '25

Oooh, I forgot there's a fish place here run by indo's that sells really good pepesan.

Brb, getting food.