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I've been experimenting with making my own lazy electrolyte drinks since all the ones I could find had artificial sweeteners which tend to disagree with me.

Currently I'm basically just making dilute cordial(*) plus about 1/4 teaspoon of table salt per litre in a jug in a fridge, which has been SUPER refreshing.

Commercial electrolyte drinks have other salts like magnesium and potassium but all the easily available unsweetened powders I could find included a variety of other vitamins etc which I'd feel weird having in such inconsistent amounts and they also probably don't taste great in aggregate.

I'm wondering if something like Heart Salt would be better than regular salt, it has a little artificial sweetener to cut the bitterness of the potassium but presumably less than stuff like Hydralyte/Gatorade etc. The fact their website says nothing about it being a more varied electrolyte makes me wonder if the potassium isn't very bioavailable or something.

My favourite flavour combo so far is 1.5L of raspberry cordial plus an extra cup of water to reduce acidity and sugar, with two tulsi teabags left in it for a few hours to add more complexity of flavour. Which is still a fair amount of sugar and artificial colouring but unfortunately lightly flavoured water easily falls into an uncanny valley of undrinkability for me. Though maybe chilled lightly salted water would be ok? Wouldn't taste as nice though...

Experiments continue!

(*)I know people overseas use 'cordial' differently than we do here. I'm talking about an uncarbonated drink made by diluting a flavoured sugar syrup with water.

A great post by Skygiants about why Mob Psycho 100 is great.

Cute Scum Villain's Self Saving System and Heaven Official's Blessing animatics

Deleted scene from She-ra, a bittersweet Entrapta/Hordak moment

Also, fellow Australians: we recently discovered Cob's Pop'd Chips, they're pretty tasty for low-ish fat potato-chip/crisp type things.

This is relatively healthy, and pretty forgiving, if you're open to the general not-quite-right-ness common to single serve microwave cakes.
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This makes 1-2 servings.

Ingredients:
1 tablespoon peanut butter
1 tablespoon vegan margarine
2 tablespoons brown sugar

Method:
Mix ingredients in a mug. Microwave on high for 20 seconds.
Stir. Keep microwaving on high then stirring for 10 seconds at a time, until it starts bubbling.
Microwave for 10 seconds more, and stir one final time.

LET IT COOL A LITTLE. It is very hot.

Notes:
I pretty much exclusively eat this on So Good Salted Caramel Almond Milk icecream, sometimes with chopped banana.

The fudgyness comes from the combination of sugar, protein and fat, plus the butter flavour from the margarine and caramel flavour from the brown sugar.

Mixing in chocolate at the very end once you're done microwaving would probably work well. Adding marshmallows might work well too, I should try that! Back when I had less dietary restrictions I made a lot of fudge with chocolate and marshmallows, it's good stuff.

To try:

• Ming Dynasty Chinese
  
• Hiss & Smoke Japanese
  
• Palsaik Korean
  
• Lido Vietnamese looks expensive
  
• Zushi Zone
  
• Zushi Bento Only open before 5
  

Places we actually go:

• New Place Japanese
  
• Kaze Bento
  
• 8fry Korean
  
• Poppo Korean and Japanese
  
• Pizzarella Very customisable pizzas!
  
• Little China Girl
  Wing Soon Chinese Restaurant
  
• Golden Star BBQ Seafood Chinese Restaurant bad soup, middling sweet and sour pork
  
• NewRoz kebabs
  
• ribs and burgers
  
• GYU - EN Japanese BBQ Cam finds them too plain
  

Middling Japanese

• Sakaba Japanese
  
• Shimizu
  
• Kabuki Bento Good tataki, bad katsudon
  
• Restaurant 1903
  
• Mr Oro Custom sushi, deep fried chicken teriyaki
  Tak'e Sushi Cam liked, had ok greasy plainish beef teriyaki
  

Tried, disliked:

• DON'T USE MENULOG, THEY ARE TOO SLOW.
  
• Southern Star Vietnamese* expensive, spicy, greasy. Tasted ok.
  
• Osaka Sushi Cheap and mediocre. Not inedible though.
  
• Yama Sushi: mediocre, unexpectedly spicy.
  
• Happy Fortune Chinese Gives me reflux
  
• Tonku Sushi Yokine Greasy
  
• Itoshii Japanese: Greasy and expensive
  
• Bariuma Greasy
  
• Seoul Delish: spicy
  

Looks good/Used to like but they stopped delivering here:

• Fuku Sushi
  
• Aladdin's Pizza and Kebabs Too far :(
  
• Yummy House Chinese Restaurant A bit pricey but very nice. Doesn't deliver to us any more ;_;
  
• Taka's Japanese
  

OLD VERSION:

So after vaguely noticing the rise of Ubereats I decided to investigate the options for food delivery in Perth again, and lo! They have improved enough that there are now options I can eat available in my area!

The sites I have found and how they looked for my fairly central suburb:

• Menulog Moderate range, what I ended up using.
  
• Eatnow Similar to Menulog, but website was a little less helpful regarding opening times.
  
• Ubereats Largest range. But part of Uber and thus evil.
  
• Deliveroo Range has recently increased
  

I ended up picking Taiwanese Cafe which has a nice range of food I can eat as well as some stuff Cameron likes. And Taiwanese desserts!! I LOVE TAIWANESE DESSERTS and have had trouble finding anywhere easy to get them. The food was overall pretty good: the red bean and pearls dessert wasn't the best I've had but still satisfying, the popcorn chicken was super tasty, the teriyaki chicken bento perfectly nice, and the egg pancake a little greasy but ok. The only genuinely mediocre dish was the spring rolls.

The menulog ordering process was very painless, and the delivery guy had my number for when he got lost (our set of units has a very confusing numbering system) You're in trouble if you want ingredient lists etc, but that's true of most delivery.

Untried:

• Cay Dua Vietnamese Restaurant*
  
• Hongkies Hong Kong Kitchen Closed Tues
  
  
• WEST PERTH CARVERY
  
• Abra Kebabra
  
• Chuan Yue Garden Chinese Restaurant
  
• Ming's BBQ House - Northbridge
  
• ChopChop BBQ
  

Tried, liked:

• Shunking Chinese Restaurant* black pepper a bit spicy
  
• Golden Star BBQ Seafood Chinese Restaurant* Can be a little spicy
  
• New Place Japanese Kitchen*
  
• Taiwanese Cafe
  
• Parklane Chinese Adequate and cheap with large servings.
  
• Wah Sun Chinese Restaurant* Closed Tues
  
• Pizza on Beaufort nice burgers
  

Am still feeling depressed, but getting by. My apologies to the multiple people who subscribed to me recently, you all seem very cool but unfortunately my brain's response to "do I want to see the kinds of posts this person makes on my reading list?" was "Who knows who cares EVERYTHING IS TERRIBLE" which was not very helpful.

I have recently made this zuchinni slice minus cheese and oil plus extra egg and some savoury flavours (garlic oil, msg, pepper, salt) a few times using the very convenient zucchini spaghetti from WA Fresh and it is great, though removing most of the fat makes it a trifle rubbery and in need of extra toasting. Going to try it minus bacon next because I don't like eating pork if I can help it.

Though as much as WA Fresh has a nice variety of produce, as I discovered last night they are lacking one very important staple: a "cancel order" button. I had to make a panicked email at 10pm after accidentally ordering twice, it all turned out ok but was rather more stress than I like.

As you may guess from the title, this is neither nut free nor vegetarian. The original recipe I'm adapting, and made a LOT when I could still eat dairy and chocolate, is nut free. Here's something very similar, with a vegan alternative on the side bar. The cashew based Indian desserts Kaju Burfi and Kaju Katli are vegan and pretty great (I have no recipe since I just buy them from Indian supermarkets) Also this Dairy Free Fudge site has some promising looking recipes including ones that are vegan and nut free.

There is no healthy version of this recipe, since the basic structure of fudge is sugar and fat. MMmmm.
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Went to The Little Shop of Plenty in Maylands today with lilysea and had quite a lovely time.

It's as expensive and pretentious as it looks but they HAD FOOD I COULD EAT and the staff were all very friendly and helpful, so I'd still rec it to anyone with dairy/soy/gluten/meat issues who's ok with most of the dishes containing raw vegetables or coconut (sigh) and drinking out of a jar.

I drank a blackberry smoothie made with their in house almond milk, which was SUPER creamy and quite nice once I added extra sugar (which Lily had thoughtfully brought with her, the provided sugar is all made from the nectar of coconut flowers) And at least the jar didn't have a handle. (WHAT'S WRONG WITH CUPS)

The only mains I could (mostly) eat was lupin tempeh with grilled mushrooms, quinoa, and cashew based creme fraiche. Would probably have been nicer with the mixed greens I had removed but was still pretty tasty once I added (pink) salt, and satisfyingly different from the usual things I eat out.

Lupin tempeh was less "a thing I can eat" and more "a thing I did not even realise was a food so let's give it a shot" and it tasted ok and didn't make me horribly ill but I think next time I'll ask them to replace it with an egg. I got the same "This tastes weird and will also probably make you sick" feeling I get from eating soy bean stuff, so congratulations on mimicking actual tempeh I guess? The creme fraiche, while satisfyingly creamy, was too sour for me to eat quite so much of.

I also had a free sample of the date and nut based peppermint fudge which was ok, but much like other date-and-nut based bars I've had. I think my main enjoyment was the peppermint, since I haven't been able to eat that in larger than free-sample level quantities for a few years. Looking at the site it has coconut oil in it because OF COURSE IT DOES.

All that cost $32. Right now I feel a little odd, but it was worth it to have a genuinely interesting and original meal. I don't get those very often. Lily can eat more of the menu and speaks well of all the mains she's tried.

Been feeling a bit down so let's think some happy thoughts! Like cuddly cats overcoming their misanthropy because the weather has turned cold.

I got THE BEST story for Spaceswap:
A Secret Garden She Hides (3646 words) by opalmatrix
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Imperial Radch Series - Ann Leckie
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Tisarwat, Piat, Administrator Celar, Athoek Station, Mercy of Kalr, Seivarden Vendaai
Additional Tags: Friendship, Bonding, Developing Friendships
Summary: When Tisarwat and Piat end up working together on the rebuilding of the Undergarden, Tisarwat finds out there's more to the Administrator's daughter than she had thought.

And I am all done working on things for exchanges for now! I just have to wait for Jukebox to open *twiddles thumbs*

I made chips from the purple sweet potato they sell at Coles and they were TASTY. Sweet and salty and chewy and crispy.

I know I already mentioned it but the new anime MY love STORY!!/Ore Monogatari!! is freaking adorable.

This turned out legitimately nice, not just "well if I ate real pasta sauce I'd be sick" nice.

Fry a tablespoon of onion, then add a cup of frozen peas and a little water/stock, simmer a few minutes until cooked.
Add a chopped avocado, a chopped bunch of coriander, salt and pepper, maybe extra liquid, whizz with hand blender. That's about 3 serves of your basic sauce.

Add:
Baked sweet potato (about 1.5 hours at 180C)
Chopped baked chicken (chicken breasts, salt and pepper, dash of soy sauce, parsley, baked covered at 180C and turned every half hour until cooked. Use the liquid as stock)
Boiled brocolli (chopped broccoli, lots of salt, a little water, simmered in a covered pot until cooked and then drained)

Serve on fresh pasta (the Coles brand fettucine is actually pretty nice)

This is the culmination of several nights worth of bulk cooking, I didn't do it all at once! The version without sweet potato looked much prettier but didn't taste quite as nice :)