Red chilli and bean soup!

• 1 red capsicum
• 1 medium onion
• 1 celery stick
• 1 medium carrot
• 1 clove garlic
• 2 tbsp olive oil
• 1/2 tsp chilli powder
• 400g can tomatoes
• 2 tbsp tomato puree
• 700ml vegetable stock
• 1 can mixed beans
• 25g kale leaves, shredded

1. Chop capsicum, celery, carrot, and onion. Crush garlic.
2. Heat oil in large pan, add chopped vegetables, saute for 5 minutes but don’t colour the vegetables.
3. Add chilli powder and cook for a minute.
4. Blend the tomatoes and add to the pan with puree and stock. Bring to the boil and simmer for 10 minutes.
5. Drain and rinse the beans, stir into the soup with kale. Cook for a few minutes until the beans have warmed and the kale wilted.
6. Season with pepper and serve.

Love this soup! Usually swap the kale for spinach though.

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I’ve had 2 sleep paralysis episodes in my life and both of them were themed around The Grudge. I’ve never really been scared by horror movies before or since I saw that at the cinema as a teenager, but for some reason that movie rocked me. It also started my lifelong obsession with Ju-On (though I have never rewatched The Grudge) and Asian horror in general.

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Thanks for that link to The Gaming Emporium… so many projects to try out!

No haven’t seen GBOperator before… that’s really cool! Perhaps a bit redundant for LSDj but very cool for gaming.

I like this whole idea of hardware attachments for the Steamdeck. Hopefully Valve will add some sort of standardised mounting points on future iterations so we don’t have to rely on flimsy printed clip-on bits so much… I reckon a VESA mount could be good!

Nice post!

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Fun read as always!

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