Feckless Student

"The vicar of Sonning was accused of adultery, quarrelling with his parishoners and going about at night with a longsword, contrary to clerical decency."

I love the middle ages, truly I do. This must have been a particularly naughty parish. Other highlights include a pair of necromancers and a man who withheld his tithe of swans.

So I made this by accident when it turned out I had no spinach.

You fry a load of onion with some garlic and cumin and sliced chorizo. Then you add the spinach and some cinnamon and cook through. This is what you are supposed to get and it is nice.

I had no garlic today and so just fried the other things. Then upon realising I had no spinach I had the bright idea of making the onions and sausage a sandwhich filling. Add some feta chunks and it's really delicious and I think better than what I had intended to make.

I did go to the supermarket after though. Because when your house contains nothing but onions, feta, and a chorizo sausage this is when you know it is grocery time.

A friend's mother inexplicably gave me a pink teapot when I visted her at home some time ago. I have painted it.

I do not understand the desire to mix eggs with alcohol.

So Kali and I got our staff passes for the festival today, along with a pile of leaflets to hand out for the show. It pleased me immensely I'm slightly embarrassed to say, getting to wonder around looking like a not-tourist and as if I actually knew what I was doing. I also get to see shows for free, which is nice.

So Bjorn and his fiance came for dinner the other night and he and I had smoked venison wraps but she is a vegan, so what to cook for her?

Mung Bean salad.

Boil the beans for ten minutes then drain.

Chop a small red onion very fine, almost mince it. One beef tomato cut into little cubes and a handful of mint and a handful of coriander, also chopped very fine. Mix them together with olive oil and balsamic vinegar and let it sit in the fridge for about half an hour.

She liked it too, so win.

Coriander is a seasoning and not a vegetable.
Ditto garlic.
There are methods of cooking other than frying.
Excessive amounts of butter are bad for you, or even that there can be excessive amounts.

Come on, what shall we add to the list?

Fry (have you noticed everything I cook starts this way?) onion, garlic, chilli, ginger and cumin seed and then boil the mung beans for ten minutes until they give in (ie the poisonous enzyme is denatured). Then add stock, carrots, coriander, tumeric and cinnamon and cook until the beans are all soft.

Mostly because it's been months since I invented and blogged something. For two people.

Beat four eggs with soy sauce and some five spice powder. Fry spring onion, onion, broccoli cut up very small, three green chillis and about six cloves of garlic. Then pour the egg mix over and behold, omelette. Serve with rice, additional soy sauce and if you are mad like me some chilli sauce.

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/4/20081125/ten-judge-s-barry-and-barney-punishment-ea4616c.html