ruthi

How I curried some chickpeas today:
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I made a quiche. Or at least a quiche-like thing. I cleaned up the milk and glass and the blood.
( leek quiche recipe )
More or less. I skipped the pastry altogether and added cubed boiled potatoes.
I chopped leeks, put potatoes on to boil, then went online to look for a recipe. I found recipes (and addresses for a couple of kosher shawarma places in New York.)

I got back to the kitchen just as the potatoes had boiled dry, but before anything burnt.

I put olive-oil and butter in a frying pan and added paprika, then added chopped leeks and onion, and a couple of cubed boiled potatoes.

I put cheese in the food-processor to turn into small bits of cheese.

and I poured some milk into a bowl, and then the milk-bottle fell out of my hand, crashed on the floor, and a shard of glass bounced onto my slipper under my heel. There was glass and milk all over the kitchen floor, and shortly thereafter, blood, too. I found where the blood was coming from and lifted my foot, thus dripping blood more widely, then found paper towels to press against my foot, paper towels to mop up the blood and the glass and the milk.

I went and sat down and calmed down and ordered pizza.

The beloved is now claiming that quiche does not need a sacrifice. I am not sure I agree.

I have baked a cake.
Recipe stolen from :
http://gottalittlespacetofill.blogspot.com/2009/09/easiest-cake-ever.html

( cake recipe )

I didn't have vegetable oil, so I melted butter instead and used that. But as written, the cake is dairy-free. It does use eggs, though.

Carrot Burger ( recipes )

Rabbits, rabbits.

Things Learnt on Monday:

• How to make an unordered list in HTML



• Banana Curry is tasty

linkses:

http://imgur.com/2UQd.jpg Warning signs about the internets.


http://www.wired.com/techbiz/people/magazine/17-09/st_thompson the New Literacy
as examined by Andrea Lunsford

http://gizmodo.com/5348516/cd-case-features-built in-theremin-and-artistic-circuitry-match-that-bittorrent Built-in Theremin!

Geek Social Fallacies


And from the Financial Times, a story that is too long for me to read right now:

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/eeca345e-8de1-11de-93df-00144feabdc0.html How Music Changes Through the Years
( Mitch Miller's Part in Pop History )

Hello.
Tell me lots of recipes or recipe ideas, please.
Ones with beef in them.
Or bread.
Or eggs.
Or none of those.

Happy Passover.


about ( food )

( larp widow )

Salad last night:
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I think only the salt there was inorganic.
I thought it was a thin-person thing, forgetting to eat.

food:

3 tins of tuna.
2 tins of tomatoes.
1 broccoli
2 small beets
a bulb of garlic

blanch, boil, peel, chop, chop, chop, chop, chop.
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beetroot in the sauce dyed some of the potato slices pink: that was pretty.

On Saturday, had a long and busy day.

I got up in the morning and confusedly made my way to Borough Market. Planned engineering works on the tube! So obvious in retrospect. I should have done what I tell other people to do, and checked http://journeyplanner.tfl.gov.uk/

I met yonmei and we wandered around the market and it was beautiful and fun and tasty. Yay.

Tasted many things, bought a few. Forgot to buy a couple of things I had meant to -
must get the pear and vanilla butter preserve next time. And some olives.

Then we went to soho and had lunch at Imli and it was good. Some of it I'd had before, some of it I don't remember having before. It was all good.
Some of it was hotter than I remember enjoying before - my tongue was burning but I was enjoying it. I seem to be developing my tolerance to spicy-hot food. Or it may be that spending time in the cold outside helped. I don't know.

Then we looked at the decorations up at Carnaby Street - they look disturbing this year!

And I took Yonmei to Beard Papa to get a cream-puff, because they're good, and they had cappucino-flavour cream, which was nice. We were both too full from Imli to eat the cream-puffs then and there.

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In the afternoon I went to abigailb's housewarming party. I brought the clotted cream I bought at Borough Market, and just as I suspected, she baked scones.

There were many people and nice and interesting things to eat and drink and it was good and pleasant and fun. Yay Abi's parties.

There was mention of muppet-pelt. I link to a photo of a muppet-hunter.

I had a good time, even though I was tired from an early-for-me morning and going to sleep late the night before. There was rose-petal schnapps and violet creme ( liqueuer, I think?) and champagne which kind people brought and later Steve came and brought mead (*יודע צדיק נפש בהמתו) and other people started arriving and when a party is getting a second shift, you *know* it's a good party, and I started to feel energetic enough to take myself home, so I slowly negotiated my way down the hallway (it was full of people) to the door, where I was startled by the coat-hanger - my long black coat was hidden by a profusion of long and black coats - and out, and home.

It's been a good day.

*Proverbs, 12:10

Last week I went up north to Lancashire and stayed with supermouse. It was good.
We went out and did stuff and I enjoyed supermouse's company a lot.
There were flowers
and fresh-grown herbs
and a garden
and a balloon (went and bought it in a shop. The shopkeeper was amused by a grown woman coming in, looking for a baloon).
and the small children of the street coming to borrow a hammer to build a tree-house.

Got out to the local caff three times - they had nice food, and they bake their own custard tarts fresh every day. One day supermouse suggested we buy custard tarts to take home, and I thought I won't want any. And the caff owner just gave us two tarts.
We bought seven the next day. (To take to share with friends.)

I got bored by the cat, though. Okay, not very deeply, but blood was drawn. I stopped stroking her after that.

Went out to the cinema and watched Mummy 3: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor. It was *fun* and full of explosions and CGI. And just enough plot. I enjoyed it.
I liked the prologue in the beginning, ( spoilers )

I cooked a ragu - this bolognaise sauce recipe - and we ate some of it on Friday, then ate more of it - in a roast marrow on Sunday.
(pre-heat oven to ~200C, halve the marrow, scrape out seeds and pulp, fill the marrow boats with bolognaise sauce, wrap in foil and put in the oven for about 40-50 minutes. Then add grated cheese on top and put in the oven to melt or brown the cheese.) Nom.

On Friday I broke the bed. I sat down on it to get in. *crunch* and that was it: the central plank under the mattress broke. The planks running to the central plank had slipped out of place. Obviously I should have levitated lying down next to the mattress and rolled over onto the mattress. I shall know better next time.

On Sunday, watched Happy Feet. So much talent! So many songs! Such beautiful background and animation! So little story or characterisation! So pretty! ...one moment of suspense, two or three funny moments, not enough to hold up a film.

On Friday(11 July) there was travel up to Manchester, by delayed train (trouble with overhead lines at Watford, some trains cancelled, some delayed). Train was full, with people sitting between carriages, but mostly it seemed civillised, from what I saw. I was glad both the beloved and I had seats.
Traveling up took longer than usual - a slower route, and slower train-speed.

In Manchester we went into a comic-book shop and picked up a few comics. And a trade paperback. And a book.

Thence to the house of supermouse, where I went *splat*. I ran out of energy. I was made tea, and had conversation

supermouse:"Would you like to see my vegetables?" (The rodent has vegetables growing in the garden)
ruthi: (brightly)"Yes!"
ruthi: (dully, as realisation dawns)"Would I have to get up to see them?"

So I gave up on that, and went and had a nap.

The Saturday had a trip to the post-office, and I teased the beloved at some point, whereupon the beloved poured water from his bottle on my head. I said that was a waste of water, as the sky was full of heavy grey clouds that looked like they would pour water on me at any minute.

It didn't rain on me while I was outside for the rest of the weekend.

A trip around the supermarket, where the 'ooh! shiny!' got me, and I grabbed more food than I needed.(And so did others, I think.) The moral of the story is, not to go to the supermarket while hungry.

Then to Peter's Croft. Boo to the Tom-tom, for not knowing of Peter's Croft, and boo to the policeman who wouldn't let the taxi into the road to let us off.
I sat and read and wandered around the internet for a bit.
Later, I went out and wandered around for a bit. I looked at the graveyard around St. Mary's. I took pictures of some gravestones.

Tried to get a taxi to take us to the_ladylark's. It... did not go too well. After nearly two hours, seven phone-calls to the taxi-company, and three taxi alleged taxi drivers, none of whom showed up, we gave up. Called the_ladylark and she came and drove us to her place, where supermouse, oscarhocklee, and I stayed the night.

Sunday
the_ladylark drove us all to the Taste of Birmingham food festival, where we met sessifet25 and da_pol. Was fun and tasty. Bought and ate nice things.

We now have FOUR mortar-and-pestle sets:
The new one is tiny and cute and made of cast iron.
(They won't breed, each set is made of a different material).

Then back to London, by train.

Bright was the sun and high our hearts -

No, it wasn't quite like that.( being rewarded for not paying attention )
We went in, and started on the food.

( A List of restaurants and dishes tried from them )

I have tasted lobster, for the first time in my life.
It tastes good.

But it still looks like a big cockroach.

Strawberries!

Rewarded for muppetry!

Champagne-and-strawberries!

Also, Cocoon's wagyu beef. Small slices! resting on a hot stone so they were cooking after being served, And they were in a champagne teriyaki sauce.

In short, the beloved and I went to the Taste of London food festival.

It's all sunny but there was a nice breeze and it didn't get too hot, and people seemed patient, and happy, and enjoying themselves. There were many people.

Also, there was Pimms.

Promotions on the way in - a carton of fruit-juice, a bottle of mineral water, and, for some reason, skin-care product samples.

Ate many different and interesting things, tasted some others, bought stuff, sat in the shade as much as I could.

Bolognaise recipe by ccooke

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I'm going to the Taste of London festival.
So's the beloved.

It's next weekend : 19-22 June.

Who else wants to come?

I went out with my husband, and we ate in a restaurant, and it was fun and tasty and good.
Also I drank half a bottle of wine or so, and I may have got tipsy.

Trattoria La Ruga, on Orford Road 59.

It was a good way to celebrate the fourth anniversary of our wedding.

Oh! There was ratatouille chutney, and it was good.

This is mostly for my own use, in case I lose the piece of paper where I jotted it down.

dried crushed jalapeno,
garam masala
turmeric
mustard powder
coriander
(about teaspoonful or two of each)

fry in oil.

Add onions (sliced to rings)
fry

Add chicken (cubed chicken-breast)

fry.

Add chopped bell-pepper, (option: sliced courgette)

add coconut milk.
(coconut block, with enough water that it's gloopy instead of thick)

add lentils. (or leave them out)

adjust for flavour - I add salt and more mustard-powder and garam masala.

ccooke said add tamarind, and there is tamarind, but I left it out.

serve with rice.