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Monthly Archive for August, 2006
A colleague of mine has just pointed this out to me.
“Don’t be sad when it’s pouring down with rain. At least the people standing in the streets hassling you to give money to charity are getting soaked.”
(Complaints should be addressed to Jeremy Morgan c/o Space Age Bachelor Pad No.23, London).
In need of a chuckle, I was going to get myself a copy of Yes Man by Danny Wallace.
But then I saw someone reading it on the train and it says on the cover:
“THE MAN’S A GENIUS!”
In slightly smaller type underneath it tells us who supplied this helpful comment.
Which is like a book on chastity being recommended by Peter Stringfellow.
Came back from Cornwall to find a bumper crop of plum tomatoes on the allotment. They are so sweet Tilly, 14 months old, loves munching them straight from the vine.
We have so many we need to preserve some, so here are two things we’ve been doing with them:
1) Making tomato sauce for freezing, and using in pasta sauces etc. Thanks to Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall’s River Cottage Cookbook for this tip. Cut the tomatoes in half and roast them in the oven with a clove or two of garlic and a little bit of olive oil. Then I skin them once roasted and sieve the roasted tomatoes. The pulp goes on the compost heap and the sauce goes in the freezer. It tastes almost as good as…
2) Roast Tomato Soup. From ‘Stones Spells for Magic Feasts’, a veggie cookbook from a cafe in Avebury, Wiltshire - near the stone circle.
Again, halve and roast the tomatoes with garlic and onion, scattered with oregano and basil (we used dried mixed herbs and fresh basil). When skins start to blaken, pulp in the Magimix. Put the puree in a pan with some red wine (we skipped that with no ill-effects), stock and tomato puree. Whisk to combine, reheat gently on the stove and then stor in some cream or fromage frais (we used double cream) when it simmers. Just delicious.
Now available from my Spreadshirt shop - the cool shirt that says it’s always time for Lunch. Well, it should be.
The Unazukin toy had passed me by completely until just now when Ashley Pomeroy posted a photo of his on his Flickr page. He has written an excellent blurb to go with it.
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