June 2010
1 post
Potato, Tomato, Onion Gratin
The wider the dish, the quicker this will cook and the more of the crispy topping you’ll have.
Thinly slice 1 potato, 1 tomato, 1/2 onion (or multiples in that ratio) and layer with some freshly ground black pepper and thin slices of cheese (I used a local farmhouse cheese, like a gruyere). Top with cheese. Bake for 45-60 minutes until fully cooked. Serve with green salad.
May 2010
16 posts
Seasonal Mediterranean Bag w/ Eggs €29.50
6 eggs
4 bananas
3 tomatoes
salad leaves
4 apples
head cauliflower
1 lemon
4 oranges
1 red bell pepper
1 cucumber
3 carrots
3 small onions
1 head fresh garlic
new potatoes
Greens with Miso Gravy
Fry 1/2 chopped onion in a little oil until very soft. Add a grated/finely chopped clove of garlic, stir, then add chopped greens (I used rainbow chard). Stir, then add vegetable stock and simmer until greens are wilted (not long). After removing from the heat, stir in a small spoonful of miso paste. I served this over mashed potatoes.
Seasonal Mediterranean Bag w/ Eggs €29.50
6 eggs
rhubarb
salad onions
3 oranges
2 apples
1 lemon
1 avocado
1 red bell pepper
1 bulb fresh garlic
2 onions
rainbow chard
3 tomatoes
3 carrots
13 potatoes
mushrooms
mizuna
Baked Stuffed Aubergines with Mashed Potatoes
Followed this recipe for stuffed aubergine. Fabulous! I used green olives, black would probably have been a little nicer but green were fine.
Tips: Very important for the filling not to protrude too much above the edge of the aubergine shell, and for it all to be covered by the layer of breadcrumbs so it doesn’t burn in the oven. Scrape as much flesh out of the aubergine as possible...
Seasonal Mediterranean Bag w/ Eggs €29.50
6 Eggs
4 Bananas
1 Avocado
Mushrooms
1 head Lettuce
Pak Choy
Ginger Root
4 Tomatoes
6 Kiwi
3 Leeks
1 head fresh garlic
2 onions
large courgette
3 apples
1 lemon
6 carrots
9 potatoes
Chicken Pie
1/2 onion, chopped
medium potato, chopped
2 carrots, chopped
leftover cooked chicken pieces, chopped
Fry the onion in some oil, after a few minutes add chopped potatoes and carrots and fry until all are softened slightly. Add chicken pieces and mix together, set aside.
1-2 T butter
1-2 T flour
Make a roux, set aside.
3/4 pint milk
1T Marigold stock powder
rosemary/thyme or...
Chicken & Potato Salad
Steamed Potatoes, chopped.
1/2 Romano Pepper, grilled and chopped.
Chicken from roast, chopped.
Dressing
lemon juice
white wine vinegar
olive oil
garlic
brown sugar
dried oregano
Roast Chicken with Stuffing
Roast Chicken
Stuffing
Leftover bread, defrosted and turned into breadcrumbs.
4 Mushrooms, blended to large crumbs.
4 T marigold powder
black pepper
lemon juice
melted butter
olive oil
dried sour cherries, chopped coarsely
Roast Potatoes & Carrots
Roasted Whole Fresh Garlic
Salad with Courgette Bread
Salad tossed in dressing of grated garlic, balsamic vinegar and olive oil.
lettuce
cucumber (shredded)
carrot (shredded)
cherry tomatoes (halved)
avocado
sunflower seeds
Courgette (Zucchini) Bread
As per this recipe, omitting feta and peppers. Nice result but bread quite crumbly, should have taken more care to grease and flour pan, perhaps needs less zucchini, or should grate it more...
Seasonal Mediterranean Bag €27
1 head lettuce
1 bag leaves
1 avocado
3 pears
1 cucumber
1 courgette
1 aubergine
7 medium carrots
3 apples
4 oranges
1 lemon
1 lime
cherry tomatoes
1 onion
1 head fresh garlic
8 potatoes
Black Eyed Peas and Rainbow Chard
Used the bunch of rainbow chard with 1 cup of dried black eyed peas, soaked with kombu then prepared as per:
http://www.vegan-food.net/recipe/326/Black-Eyed-Peas-and-Collard-Greens/
Served with Corn Bread made with yogurt as per Mark Bittman’s How to Cook Everything.
Chilli (served with Corn Bread)
Adapted from Healthy Eating for Two
450 g ground beef
1 onion
1 clove garlic
2 bay leaves
secret spice blend
1/2 Ramiro Pepper
2 carrots
2 small potatoes
5 cups Marigold broth
200g (1 jar) biona tomato paste
Corn bread as per http://www.howtocookeverything.tv/
Rhubarb Compote
Chopped 1 (rather large) stalk of rhubarb. Cooked in saucepan with 1 large spoonful of strawberry jam and a little water. 1/2 teaspoon of Cinnamon. Cooked until soft, served on vanilla ice cream.
Spaghetti with Mushrooms
Sauteed 1/2 large clove grated garlic and 3 anchovies in some olive oil until anchovies fell apart. Added 4 chopped green olives, 3 sliced mushrooms and cooked until mushrooms ready. Juice of 1/2 lemon, breadcrumbs from 1 pita, more olive oil, parmesan cheese. Tossed with cooked spaghetti.
Seasonal Mediterranean Bag €27
4 stalks rhubarb
1 bunch rainbow chard
1 large, perfect head of cauliflower
4 large carrots
cherry tomatoes
7 mushrooms
1 avocado
1 lemon
5 oranges
3 apples
3 bananas
1 Ramiro Pepper
8 potatoes
2 onions
June 2008
1 post
May 2008
7 posts
Luas Construction... it could be worse! →
“[This photograph is copyright by Sarah McCarthy and may not be used without her...”
– Explaining copyright to the LOLCAT generation.
“Nutrition science, in my opinion, is sort of where surgery was in the year 1650....”
– Michael Pollan at google
“Instead, the government fashioned an extra-legal solution. The combatants would...”
– Sally Jenkins in The Real All Americans on the legal difficulties facing the United States Government in the 1870s.
April 2008
8 posts
Where would you like to be 5 years from now?
“Let me show you how I’ll do the job. If I can pull this off, then hire me. If you prefer instead to ask about my vision for my life, buy me a beer and we’ll talk, then I’ll be moving on to join one of your competitors.”
scratch the CVV code off of your card →
Wikipedia's Lamest Edit Wars →
If you wanted to explain the Internet to aliens, this one page would do it.
“It’s no problem to apply a 0.2 Newton preload to a patch of gecko adhesive...”
– Kellar Autumn in a National Geographic article about Biomimetics
“Java is a ceremonious language because it needs you to do several dances to the...”
– Ola Bini on the distinction between essential vs. ceremonious languages.
The Monty Hall Problem
I had a very hard time accepting the truth of the Monty Hall problem the first time I heard it, but eventually I figured it out. When Monty Hall opens one of the two “other” doors, Monty Hall is INTRODUCING MORE INFORMATION INTO THE SYSTEM. He is not choosing a random door, he is choosing a door which he KNOWS does not have a prize behind it.
“[count]<C-a> Increments the last number in URL by 1, or by count if given.”
– Accidentally discovered features are my favourites.
“The guitarist attributed U2’s longevity to a consensus-based approach, which...”
– U2 endorse Agent Based Modelling. Sweet!!
March 2008
15 posts
“He told BBC Radio 4’s World At One programme that if one of the numerous...”
– Willie Walsh evidently thinks that you evaluate the robustness of systems based on how they handle problems in isolation.
“When, in our heterogeneous community, a man and a woman decided to live...”
– From The Truce by Primo Levy.
Brilliant Way to Dispense Drugs →
From the “why didn’t someone think of this years ago” department.
Keyboard Driven Browsing
So, I’ve been thinking it would be nice to do less mousy browsing and control Firefox using keystrokes, but I didn’t bother researching the idea at all. And, I didn’t have to. Today, both vim and emacs style browser navigation tools dropped into my lap.
Chapter 3: Starting and Stopping ANA. →
(To install ANA on your computer system, see Installing ANA). You begin an ANA session by typing at the keyboard the name of the program on your system (probably ana). After some initialization and a greeting message, the main ANA prompt appears:
ANA>
ANA is now ready to take your commands. Any complete command that you type is executed immediately. For example, if you type the command...
World Wide Telescope →
More amazing visualization being supported by Microsoft. Do any of the other big players understand that visualizing data is what the next 10 years are going to be all about?
My favourite thing about Google Reader...
…is the search feature. So if you read something in your feed and forget to bookmark it, you are searching a much-reduced subset of the internet to find it again.
Carl Sagan's Search for God →
If you are in a hurry, then just listen to the first 3 minutes in which Ann Druyan summarizes the gift which was Carl Sagan’s incredible life. After that, you won’t be in a hurry any more and you can listen to the rest of this wonderful podcast about a true hero.
February 2008
26 posts
I already didn't like Blackboard... →
“Blackboard has patented one or more things, such as the idea of having a single human play more than one roll in a CMS system. So Blackboard is the only company that can have the option of a teacher also being a student.”
