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3 minutes ago, Michaelaway said:

1 1/2 lbs. chicken livers (can use duck)

1 large onion, chopped  

2 eggs, hard-boiled (can use duck)  

Kosher salt

Black pepper

Chicken fat, mayonnaise, oil +/or butter

1/4 cup Chinese cooking wine, dry sherry or chicken stock- a little

Optional: 4-6 cloves garlic, smashed & minced   

 

 

Wash the livers and sauté them in 2 tablespoons of chicken fat, oil or butter over medium-high heat for about 5 minutes, until just about done. Transfer to a large bowl.

 

Sauté the onions & mushrooms in chicken fat, oil or butter until browned. Add the garlic, if using, near the end to brown, but not burn.

 

Add the wine, dry sherry or chicken stock and deglaze the pan, scraping the sides and boiling for about 15 seconds. Pour into the bowl with the livers.

 

Add the eggs, salt & black pepper to the bowl. Toss quickly to combine.

 

Blend the mixture in a food processor until a thick paste develops; remove to a large bowl.

 

Blend in the amount of chicken fat, mayonnaise, oil +/or butter you prefer and season to taste.

 

Chill and serve. 

Thank you for that recipe, though I would probably swap out the chicken livers for pork liver.

50 minutes ago, Denim said:

Just made up a tub of pork liver pate to spread on my home baked bread.

Delicious and easy.

That sounds great.

Do you have a recipe for that that you could post?

4 hours ago, Georgealbert said:

Yes very good informative and advice, but best to consider hydration before and during any period is better than trying to recover and suffer after.
 

When I expect to exercise or work in heat I always use electrolytes powders and find I also I hydrate better on room temperature water, rather than cold water, that is just my personal preference.

 

But just like anything, too many electrolytes can be unhealthy, if done to excess. I doubt you are going to overdose on them, but;

 

Too much sodium, hypernatremia, can cause dizziness, vomiting, and diarrhea.

 

Too much potassium, hyperkalemia, can impact your kidney function and cause heart arrhythmia, nausea, and an irregular pulse.

 

Too much calcium, hypercalcemia, can lead to fatigue, lethargy, seizures, and bone and joint pain.

 

Too much magnesium can cause muscle weakness, nausea, dizziness, confusion, and heart arrhythmia.

 

https://www.wellandgood.com/overdose-electrolytes/

I just drink cold water from the fridge with Blue Boy Sala (a red syrupy stuff) to give it some colour and taste. I drink about 3 or 4 litres of that every 24 hours.

For some odd reason, today it has been cloudy and we had a couple of 5 minute showers this morning. The temperature the afternoon was only 30.1C compared to yesterdays 39C.

38 minutes ago, dinsdale said:

Bit like Christmas then as I posted above. As for being the current attitude towards Songkran it's been the same (barring the lockdown fiasco) pretty much every year for the last 20 I've been here.

It was similar to this when I came here  in 1994, but there was much more water and less people then.

1 hour ago, dinsdale said:

Lowest 29% and highest 56% according to the PDF naming 4 reservoirs. 29% is low but 45% -50% for this time of year isn't that bad. It's been worse with several reservoirs being below 30% at the same time. If I remember correctly Nakhom Ratchasima was hit hard by this drought. >than 10 yrs ago I think.

That is true enough.

Unfortunate my records crashed along with my pc back in 2016 so all the syuff I had before was lost.

I used to have the url for Most of the dams but that disappeared a while ago as well.

1 hour ago, dinsdale said:

Water splashing is of course part of the cultural tradition of Songkran. It is historical. It's about washing away the last year's bad luck. Catching up with family, showing reverance to elders, going to the temple, eating, drinking, gambling, etc, etc. and chucking water is a massive part of Songkran. The traditional bit about showing reverence to elders by washing head and feet is part of the superstitious belief but the party always outways  religion during Songkran big time.

But that is all about the old Songkran which is the one I was talking about.

The current all singing, all dancing, water splashing, water wasting is all about making money and has nothing to do with the old traditions at all.

In many rural areas the old traditions are kept alive but sadly, are slowly dying out, and the modern Songkran is really about making money and nothing else.

10 hours ago, Georgealbert said:

Please remember there is a big difference between heat exhaustion and heat stroke.

 

Heat exhaustion you can normally deal with yourself, but heat exhaustion requires medical care and attention. The same easy preventative measures will help avoid both, drink plenty of water, not alcohol, avoid dehydration, wear light coloured loose clothing, think about time of day when exercising or working in the heat.

 

https://www.healthline.com/health/heat-stroke-vs-heat-exhaustion

 

 

 

Good advice.

On 4/9/2024 at 1:53 PM, prakhonchai nick said:

That make me a "local peasant"🤣

Me  too.

1 hour ago, Jumbo1968 said:

I would like to know when Songkran developed into a water throwing event with water pistols etc instead of the cleansing of hands ?

It must have been before 1994 when I came here to work, so more than 30 years ago.

5 hours ago, kamma said:

Yeah sure tough guy!

 

How about taking a hike back home instead of coming to someone else's country and bitching about their customs and traditions?!

How about listening to some common sense for a change?

BTW do you know what Songkran is really all about.

One clue is that it is NOT about water splashing.

17 hours ago, dinsdale said:

I'm from the 2nd driest place on Earth. I well know about water conservation and water wastage. 20 years here and I've seen plenty of wastage on an almost daily basis nevermind just Songkran.  Yep the reservoirs do get low BUT they do tend to fill up again. This isn't to say that some regions will experience drought conditions. I very much doubt that Sonkran alone will have such a devistating impact you seem to imply.

I have done a search for water levels in the large dams in Central and Northern Thailand and I came across this item.

https://water.rid.go.th/flood/flood/weekreportnew_e.pdf

Page 6 of 10 gives some interesting information, and this is before Songkran and the expected rains.

This morning here in rural Kamphaeng Phet we had a couple of 10 minute rain showers, enough to wet the concrete and leave a couple of small puddles. The first rain since 22nd March when we had 0.2mm rain.

So far this year in the village we have had 19mm of rain since 1st January 2024. We are luckier than a lot of rural villages who have had less rain than us this year.

And still this stupid government is going ahead with wasting billions of litres of water, again this year, on their poncy version of Songkran. 

Next month, they will be bleating about the drought.

On 4/7/2024 at 2:32 PM, poppysdad said:

Having been seriously ill for the past few months with pneumonia on top of my advanced COPD I’ve either been in hospital or housebound. 
But this past week I’ve been feeling a lot better so we decided to try going out for the first time in many a week so off to Robinsons. Very easy to access in the wheelchair from the carpark as were Amazon, the ATM and all the other outlets inside so full marks. 

 

So we then thought about lunch in one of our regular cafes we used to visit and came to the conclusion that not one of them was wheelchair friendly in the slightest. Most of them had at least 2 steps to climb, when fit and able they pose no problem whatsoever and it never enters your head they they would be a problem but suddenly when even 1 step is your nemesis getting into them becomes a major headache. And even if getting up them it still means leaving the wheelchair outside which isn’t a sensible idea. At one there are no steps but you would need to push the wheelchair over a lot of mini pebbles which isn’t the easiest of things to do. But not one of them has a ramp of any description for people like me. As I say it never enters your head until it does become a problem and then well it means not getting in without a lot of difficulty.

 

I can probably walk 10-20 paces unaided  but even just 1 step becomes a major obstacle, it’s not the lifting of the foot but pushing yourself up with other that is. Hopefully in the future I might overcome this but currently there are now a lot of places that are simply unavailable to me and those like me and I would really love to get back into those cafes where we were once regular customers. 

Robinsons in KPP is a great example of a mall where access, is good and flat on all floors, though I have no idea where the lifts are.

Outside I use a walking stick and I can manage maybe 50 metres before I need to stop.

In the big village near where I live, there is only 1 shop I have a problem with and that is because it has a ramp and not steps. I can get up the ramp and back down very slowly. I used to hold my wife's shoulder for balance.

What I do find in Thailand, especially in rural areas is that Thais will always help me if I need it. open doors etc, load stuff into the truck. Even the car park and the security guys will find a parking slot and help me.

20 hours ago, sirineou said:

This heat is getting to all of us, 

I was getting bored so I  went to the farm , about 5 min from our house to play around . It was so hot I thought I would have a heart attack , 

I paced it in and went back home. 

Got to be carefully in this heat. None of the people who have issues , think it would happen to them , until it does. 

Hope you have a fan going and keeping hydrated. 

At the moment I only do outside jobs until about 11 am. Now I am on my pc with 2 wall fans going flat out.

Inside the house it is 33.8 and in the shade outside it is 37,6 with a predicted 41C forecasted.

I drink around 4 litres of cold but not iced water a day mixed with Blue Boy Sala to give it some flavour, up about 1 litre a day from 2 weeks ago.

I even rum my bedroom a/c for an hour during my afternoon siesta and all night now. 

It must be really hot, as my wife sleeps with the a/c on at night and is waiting for her brother to come and fix the downstairs a/c so that shee can have a cool afternoon siesta as well.

19 hours ago, Korat Kiwi said:

I wonder if the rest of the world is aware that this is happening here in Thailand? 

 

I'll be checking world news in the next few days. 

from the BBC news Tuesday 09 March 2024.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-68730994

2 hours ago, transam said:

Hamas started the cr@p, you can make as many excuses as you like, it is fact.

 

Even the Israelis were in shock over it, as things were working quite well...🤔

Though Hamas started this particular phase the actual war and fighting over Israel and Palestine has been going on since the 1930's and probably longer than that. Certainly much longer than Hamas has been around.

Before Hamas was up and running there was Yasser Arafat who BTW was the President of Palestine from 1994 to 2004. He was also Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organisation from 1969 too 2004 and President of the Palestine National Authority from 1994 to 2004.

There is a lot of history about the region going back centuries if you want to take the time to look for it.

So, NO the conflict did NOT start on October 7th 2023 as many would wish to believe, Nor did it start in 1948 when the US declared that some of the land where Israel stands should be given to Israel.

Did you know that Irgun and the Stern Gang were proscribed  as terrorist organisations as was Likud, Netanyahu's political party before and after WW2?

2 hours ago, CG1 Blue said:

 

Maybe there's a misunderstanding, but this is the comment from Danny that's being referred to, which you say you liked: 

 

"Going by your twisted discriminatory logic, one might also wonder why 1% bearded big nose people with sideburns and stupid hats control 90% of the world's money and media."

I am sure that there is a misunderstanding.

quote ""Going by your twisted discriminatory logic, one might also wonder why 1% bearded big nose people with sideburns and stupid hats control 90% of the world's money and media."

I am sure that I am misunderstanding your twisted discriminatory logic when I ask what your words have to with the topic at hand?

Can you explain the connection between 7 foreigner's who were deliberately targeted and murdered by the IDF and your post?

Nobody else except you seems to have brought this up, and then you wonder why there are misunderstandings.

2 hours ago, hotchilli said:

I hope they all had the correct documentation to enter Thailand.

Perhaps they came in as refugees from the civil war. hopefully they were unarmed an had no war weapons with them.

7 minutes ago, transam said:

Even the modern stuff can go wrong, take those rockets Hamas were sending from Gaza to Israel, from next to a hospital, failed and blew up the hozzy car park........🤭

Of course it can.

Take for example the missile launch from the UK submarine which spectacularly failed or the space rocket failures.

In the UK and Germany even nowadays people keep finding live explosive from WW2 which can still kill after 80 years.

But things like that are still happening with modern weapons, though hopefully less often.

34 minutes ago, sirineou said:

Dude!! How long do you know me in this forum????

Do you think that based on my 15 years in this forum attitude I would think that the aid workers were really Hamas??? 

"Now please explain the "You always seem to find an excuse, wrong words, missing question mark, but never seem to answer the questions."

Always???? realy ???? please provide another incident where I defaulted to excuses?? And "never seem to answer the questions " what are the questions and when did I not answer them ?

    You always used  to be a reasonable person, What happened to you? are the ravages of  old age finally catching up with you? 

i still am a reasonable person in many other threads, but the senseless slaughter from both sides has gone on endlessly for months and only a few people seem to protest about the needless deaths on both sides

Most of the time when I write any post on any subject, I get a redline under mis-spelt or mis-grammared words and I assume that everybody does. I usually go back and correct the error.

Then before I post I read it again for mistakes and then I post. This is usually the point that I see another mistake but by then I have to let it run before I can edit the post.

Your missing question mark changed the meaning of your post for me which triggered my response.

And, yes, the ravages of old age are getting to me on threads like this.

1 hour ago, transam said:

Did it happen in your country, did it happen in Germany and Japan...., well yes it did, my mum could vouch on the V1 & V2's, indiscriminate rocket landings...

 

As I said, it is up to those countries who support removing a terrorist organisation, in this case Hamas, to advise and take appropriate action, which I read Pres. Biden is doing......🤗

But that was about 80 years ago when missile and bomb accuracy was in its infancy. I have just read an interesting article about the much vaunted Norden bombsight. Its claim to fame was that it could hit a pickle barrel from 20,000 feet. In reality the average error was abound 300 feet.

https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/article/the-norden-bombsight-was-it-truly-accurate-beyond-belief/

During the Gulf War, Coalition forces dropped some 17,000 precision-guided munitions with mostly pinpoint accuracy, but also 210,000 conventional bombs that missed their targets by an average of more than 300 feet, faring no better than many World War II-era bombs. It was only with the advent of guided munitions that pinpoint accuracy has been achieved. 

Nowadays when a skilled operator can put a missile into the roof of a car, WHY is there a need to destroy a whole building, killing, wounding and burying alive so many innocent people? They should be able to even pick which window to put the missile through, rather than destroy the complete building, unless they are ordered to do it by their leaders,

The defence of "I was just following orders" was demolished during the Nuremburg trials of the 1940's and 1050's.

9 minutes ago, transam said:

There is a difference, Hamas executed 1200 civilians in cold blood, those killed in quashing Hamas, Gaza leaders/army is a consequence of any war, sad but true.

If the Israeli response is thought OTT, then that is for those who are supporting the removal of the terrorist organisation, and leaders of Gaza/Hamas, to sort out.

So destroying a whole building because some soldier 'thinks' there is a terrorist in one apartment is a legal act of war.

I, personally don't think that there is ANY justification for it and it seems more and more people agree with me.

Most of the problems that Israel is facing nowadays can be traced back to Netanyahu and his personally selected and hand picked ;war' cabinet. There are now thousands of Israelis even in Israel itself protesting about him.

51 minutes ago, transam said:

It is not the same as me, you are anti-Jew, I am not, I also am not anti-Gazans, I am anti-executioners, which is what Hamas is, Israel is dealing with the clear-out of Hamas, the same as was done to clear out the German Nazis, now you tell me there were no civilian casualties doing that.....😉

If you are anti executioner please tell us who has killed 32,xxx men, women and children, who has laid waste to vast areas of Gaza with air to ground missiles, helicopter gunships, drones, smart and dumb bombs, tanks, armoured bulldozers etc.

I had no idea that Hamas even had an airforce let alone, drones, tanks and armoured bulldozers.

5 hours ago, sirineou said:

What is missing is my question mark  LOL

You always seem to find an excuse, wrong words, missing question mark, but never seem to answer the questions.