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Small-Scale Question Sunday for May 3, 2026

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So in the spirit of small scale, what's for dinner tonight?

My wife was up tonight and made the following:

Regular onigiri with white rice

Pork-wrapped julienned carrots and green peppers with some sort of sour plum paste seasoned with salt and pepper. Sautéed so it was like a little roll of meat with vegetables inside

Some sort of kimchee vegetables that included celery sections. Was surprisingly good

miso soup (tofu, green onions, spinach)

tofu (kinugoshi or soft) in squares topped with thin sliced onions, sesame oil, and her family's soy sauce, which I'm told is noticeably different than that you can buy in stores

cucumber medallions and daikon radish and carrots pickled in some way

udon noodles topped with some meat and baby leaf lettuce seasoned in some way (I think the noodles were the main?)

I had all this with two very cold beers.

I imagine @Tretiak eating pizza topped in butter, how about the rest of you?

I'm gonna say Ramen noodles, some spring rolls and a peanut butter sandwich.

I know I'm meant to pretend to have a 3 course meal here, but sometimes you're spending the evening alone and go for convenience.

Probably making either a curry or a dal. Easy to heat up during the week when I don't feel like cooking. Also got a leek & potato pie on tap to make at some point, although I will freely admit I just use storebought puff pastry for the topping. I do need to learn how to make a proper shortcrust at some point, since I love meat pies & pasties, but that's sure as hell not a today thing.

My MIL is cooking mashed potato patties stuffed with chopped wild mushrooms, which I consider a waste of effort. Frying some potatoes with the same mushrooms would be like eight times quicker and would taste better IMO. But she really loves the dish along with the rest of the terrible Soviet canteen-style cooking, so she gets to make it once in a while.

My wife is cooking us two a steak as well, so the dinner won't be so depressing.

We don't usually cook anything special on Sundays but I'm planning to try to make a version of this green pea pasta.

My eldest loves green peas and I've been on the lookout for a decent recipe that uses them that I could cook on a week night (I don't make new recipes I haven't tried before on weekdays). I was thinking about adding some stock and garlic but otherwise keep it pretty much the same.

A simple stew made with a ham that was on sale for $1.50/lb, cabbage, onions, the last of the garlic from last year's harvest, and some paprika and black pepper.

For me this week was lazy. So, chicken enchiladas with ranchero sauce/Oaxaca cheese, made from a broken down rotisserie, and some steaks that were actually top blade short ribs just grilled to rare with potatos and creamed spinach. Both really easy when you purchase the rice/beans/potatoes premade.

Got more energy this week, so gonna try a panang curry for the first time, and then just do homemade buffalo mac n cheese and grilled chicken for the second meal. I usually just cook twice a week and get 8-10 servings out of each one. My wife gets fed catered meals at work, so her interest in cooking is pretty low atm. I tend to do all of it since I'm technically unemployed and I have the time.

Is anyone else starting to freak out about the whole Hormuz situation? 13% of the world's oil, 22% of global LNG and a sizeable chunk of fertilizers is blocked. That means 13% fewer big machines running. That is a major decrease in the global economy. Yet markets seem surprisingly stable and people don't seem to be freaking out despite the impending cliff.

Is Trump actually crazy enough to cause a major crash in the global economy or is he willing to admit defeat and pull out? How bad will this crisis actually get?

There are two separate issues you've mixed together. The increasing supply crisis. And your hate for the West, the US and Trump. Trump didn't block the strait. Iran did. Only putting blame and responsibility on Trump is a sign of bias.

There are two separate issues you've mixed together. The increasing supply crisis. And your hate for the West, the US and Trump. Trump didn't block the strait. Iran did. Only putting blame and responsibility on Trump is a sign of bias.

If I was your older brother, the appropriate response to this would be to grab your arms, give you a couple good whacks, and tell you to stop hitting yourself.

You and @TowardsPanna - stop this. Engage in the question, not in petty bickering with each other.

Good thing your wish to engange in violence based on a pretty brief and innocent internet post is only a hypothetical.

The point is that forcing somebody to do something and then blaming them for doing it is petty and sadistic.

If somebody controls an important pass, and you slaughter their family and make it clear that you will continue to slaughter until you get unconditional obedience, then closing off the pass is the obvious and natural response.

Some Americans seem to have got so fed up with being criticised unreasonably that they have lost the capacity to see when they are being criticised reasonably. Others seem to believe that Red Americans (as opposed to the hated Blues) can do no wrong and should be acclaimed throughout the world as the righteous God-Kings they obviously are - or else.

If somebody controls an important pass

Question: does Pakistan also control the Strait of Hormuz? It's within range of their ASBMs, so what's stopping them from threatening to close it every time they get into a scrap with India?

Nothing, I guess, if they really do have that ability. I would dispute equating "conducting a sneak-assassination of the entire leadership plus an extended bombing campaign, aimed at some combination of overturning the country's government + preventing them from developing weapons that might actually hurt their attackers" with "getting into a scrap". But yes, if India did that and Pakistan succeeded in closing the Strait of Hormuz, I would naturally blame India.

The US is currently blockading the straight. The straight was open until Trump and Netanyahu started the war that brought us the completely predictable result of the straight being closed. The straight won't be open until they sign a peace deal with Iran.

I don't hate the west. I do hate wars that flood the west with migrants, stop oil supplies and cost a fortune. The wars in the middle east are anti west.

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