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Smoked Haddock Risotto
Footnote and I picked up some reduced undyed smoked haddock from Tesco this morning (their Finest range from the fish counter). I would traditionally default to fish pie or kedgeree with such fish, but we agreed that it was too summery (in spite of rain) for the former and Footnote vetoed the latter unilaterally. A quick google for smoked haddock ( Read more... ) -
Vintage Olympia Typewriter
Hello, hello!
Is anyone on my flist interested in a vintage typewriter? It is an Olympia make (made in Western Germany), probably dating from the 50's (it was my grandfather's). It's portable(!), in that it has its own carrying case. The notion of portable ends there, however, as the case is made from metal and thus adds a couple of kg on to the ( Read more... ) -
Dear God
On the BBC news website today, there was this story (a brief summary: some Evangelical Christian pastors have been telling their congregations to stop taking their antiretroviral drugs because God will heal them. This has so far resulted in the predictable deaths of three women who did indeed stop taking their drugs). In the article there is, of ( Read more... ) -
Rail fares explained
[WARNING: This post may make you lose any remaining faith you had in the railway network in this country]
Recently, Erethorn discovered that by breaking his tickets into two (instead of buying a ticket for the whole of journey A->C, he bought a ticket from A->B and a ticket from B->C) the price did not, as you would expect, go up but instead went ( Read more... ) -
Amendments to the health and social care bill
Next week MPs are voting on amendments to the health and social care bill, I'm specifically concerned about the amendment that women should be required to have independent counselling before having an abortion.
There's been quite a lot of news coverage on this issue. Some articles I found useful were Education for Choice's investigation into some ( Read more... ) -
Travel vid recommendation
The Guardian had a really awesome article/post on their website linking to short films about travel. I really enjoyed watching them. Even though the first three were very slick, the one I most enjoyed watching (but missed during its first rounds on the internet) was the "Where the hell is Matt?" one. It made me think "Wow, humanity is magical", ( Read more... ) -
Food stuff
I have:
Tomatoes
Aubergines
A tin of chickpeas (possibly 2)
A jar of harissa paste
Some uncooked chicken (~500g)
A large tub of yoghurt
Lemons (not preserved)
Cinnamon sticks
I feel sure that there should be some Moroccan-style recipe which incorporates all of these, but I've yet to find it. What I would like is some kind of stew thing (maybe sans yoghurt ( Read more... ) -
Places to eat in Cambridge?
From this evening until Friday afternoon I'm at a conference in Cambridge. Breakfasts and lunches are provided, but dinners are not which leaves me in the (simultaneously enviable and unenviable) position of having to find places to eat. This is where you can help! I am looking for cheap (less than £10) places which do good food and are reasonably ( Read more... )