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Originally Posted by Stitchawl
Let him take you! It's the second best place in the world for eating, after Singapore. We lived in Thailand for many years, and even today you can get a great dinner for less than $3! Every night the local sidewalks turn into restaurants as the vendors set out tables and chairs next to their carts, and on some streets you can walk for miles and never be more than 20 feet from a vendor's stall!
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I intend to let him!
It sounds similar, but moreso, than Tuban-Kuta-Legian in Bali.
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I think Bali is the most beautiful country I've ever seen, and the eating there is great too. The variety of Muslim-influenced cooking is wonderful when combined with the exotic local spices of Indonesia. We always bring back fresh black peppercorns when we visit! They smell sooooo good!
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Ahh, you need to stop that right now.
[stares wistfully into memory-space...]
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Not knowing much about the geography of Oz, are you in a flood area too? I thought Noosa was at least 100k north of Brisbane. I hope all is well for you! 
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Technically, yes, but practically, no. Our
local area got quite significant flooding, but being coastal and somewhat hilly, the floods come and go relatively quickly too. We are not unused to it (I shouldn't say "we" - we're up a hill and, relatively speaking, unaffected)...towns get isolated, roads get cut and wrecked a bit. There's more, but...
As you say, Brisbane, Ipswich, Lockyer Valley, Gympie (about 45 minutes drive), Rockhampton...all those and others are areas where the big, bad stuff happened or is happening. The effect it has tends to be fairly broad, as nothing can move around (transport routes everywhere cut and sometimes destroyed), and a lot of those regions are "food bowl" type regions too. Queensland is a very "fertile" part of Oz, hitting the tropics halfway up its height, and so a lot of produce has been destroyed or stalled. Prices Australia-wide on a lot of produce is likely to be affected (again, not complaining, just observing).
I won't go into the charity and volunteering that has been occurring (not just locally, but broadly across Oz), but it has been massive. It even flares an ember in this cold, cynical heart.
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Originally Posted by nohmi2
I have a *jumbo* size slow cooker, even though there are only two of us.
Like Marc I also do large silverside. The georgeous smells are torture.
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I notice that silverside recipes have lots of seemingly essential sames, but differences too. If you have a family recipe, I'd love a share.
Mine was cribbed from multiple sources and was just malt vinegar, an onion studded with cloves, brown sugar, white peppercorns, and a chopped carrot, and then topped with water.
Cheers,
Marc