Salads/Vegetables

Russia - Russian Salad (Mandy)
Romania - baked pumpkin (got)
Latvia - Kurzeme (Sauerkraut) (got)
Hungary - Hungarian Cucumber Salad with Sour Cream Dressing (got)
Georgia - aubergine and walnut sauce and Georgian salad (got ( Read more... )

Made this up tonight due to buying some heavily reduced chilli crusted smoked mackerel yesterday in Waitrose. Threw it together with stuff we already had in and it was rather yummy ( Read more... )

Other recent hits on the food front include:

Polenta and game stew: we had four pheasant breasts in the freezer which we wanted to use, and this was the answer. Adapted and scaled down brillantly. I initally thought there would be leftovers but Alex and Cory went at it with gusto (as did the adults) so there was none.

Parmesan biscuits: I made ( Read more... )

So the Eurovision Song Contest was last night and we had a party. It was rather short notice as we only decided to host a party a couple of weeks ago), and we decided at even shorter nice (during the first semi-final) that we would try and have a foodstuff or a dish from every country in the final.

And we managed it, except for Romania who we ( Read more... )

Yesterday the Spouse and I took the day off work, abandoned the kids to school and nursery and went to Chichester to see Frank Langella as King Lear in the Minevra Theatre. This was, I'm rather ashamed to say, the first time I'd ever seen Lear in any sort of performance, nor had I read it thus many aspects of the story were new to me. I knew the ( Read more... )

Poor old Aunitie is having a packed week, celebrating/commemorating the centenary of Benjamin Britten's birth and the fifith anniversaries of C.S.Lewis's death, JFK's assassination (all 22nd November) and the first airing of Doctor Who (23rd November). I wouldn't have liked to have chaired those scheduling meetings...

Today he got grabbing your hand and walking off to get you to follow him (or, if he couldn't reach my hand, dragging my shirt tails). He also realised that if I couldn't see what he was gesticulating towards, he had to grab my hand and pull me to where he was so I could see what he could see.

He's also got a few more words that I didn't notice ( Read more... )

There's a definite autumnal feel in the air today and I really should get around to recording this summer, Cory's first, before I forget so expect to see a flurry of back-dated posts over the next couple of days as I finally get around to writing the half-formed posts I have in my head.

However today, the day I woke up to hear that Murray had won ( Read more... )

Just filled in the Home Office's consultation on marriage equality.

It only took a few minutes and you can bet that the Christian Right have mobilised their forces to fill it in, so please, please, if you are a UK citizen and believe that everyone should be able to get married, fill in the consultation.

The consultation ends on 14th June so to ( Read more... )

Had a fennel bulb that needed to be used and had some cooked chicken which also needed to be eaten. So found this chicken, fennel and pepper ragout and it is yummy ( Read more... )