Monday, November 17, 2008
Feline news
Franklin, the new marmalade cat from next door, does not appear to have a runny nose this morning. First time since I made his acquaintance a few months ago.
Blood lentil levels are rising and are now, after some disturbance, at near normal levels. A lentil soup at Exminster last week did a lunch, a supper and a breakfast. A lentil soup at Epsom over the weekend did a further lunch, supper and breakfast. On both occasions using the dry cure bacon from Exminster. Will have to revert now to streaky from Cheam. And a lentil and pork mince experiment for lunch today. Chop onion, chop fresh sage (bush in garden now looking a bit woebegone. Perhaps we had better plant a new one next spring) and stir into elderly pork mince - which has been pushed out of the freezer by the arrival of various Exminster delicacies. Fry for a while in an ounce of butter. In the meantime, start cooking about 4 ounces of orange lentils. Stir the whole lot together and simmer down as dry as it will go without burning. A sort of saucepan rissole. Report results in due course.
Big day at the Cheam baker. The shop was full of 800 cup cakes. Yellow affairs, about two and a half inches across, with what looked like raisins inside. Turned upside down in large trays, from which we deduce that they were not cooked in paper cups but in trays with cup shaped dents. And further deduce that bakers carry enough such trays to cook such a large numbers of cup cakes.
And a successful day at the bank. Managed to change a standing order on a machine without needing any help from an assistant. And, even better, managed to pay a cheque into a machine for the very first time. On the various occasions which I have tried in the past the machine has always spat the cheque back, with the result that I usually use the rather faster human bank clerk rather than a mechanical one. But today there was a queue so I give the mechanical one another go and eureka!
Blood lentil levels are rising and are now, after some disturbance, at near normal levels. A lentil soup at Exminster last week did a lunch, a supper and a breakfast. A lentil soup at Epsom over the weekend did a further lunch, supper and breakfast. On both occasions using the dry cure bacon from Exminster. Will have to revert now to streaky from Cheam. And a lentil and pork mince experiment for lunch today. Chop onion, chop fresh sage (bush in garden now looking a bit woebegone. Perhaps we had better plant a new one next spring) and stir into elderly pork mince - which has been pushed out of the freezer by the arrival of various Exminster delicacies. Fry for a while in an ounce of butter. In the meantime, start cooking about 4 ounces of orange lentils. Stir the whole lot together and simmer down as dry as it will go without burning. A sort of saucepan rissole. Report results in due course.
Big day at the Cheam baker. The shop was full of 800 cup cakes. Yellow affairs, about two and a half inches across, with what looked like raisins inside. Turned upside down in large trays, from which we deduce that they were not cooked in paper cups but in trays with cup shaped dents. And further deduce that bakers carry enough such trays to cook such a large numbers of cup cakes.
And a successful day at the bank. Managed to change a standing order on a machine without needing any help from an assistant. And, even better, managed to pay a cheque into a machine for the very first time. On the various occasions which I have tried in the past the machine has always spat the cheque back, with the result that I usually use the rather faster human bank clerk rather than a mechanical one. But today there was a queue so I give the mechanical one another go and eureka!
# posted by Jim @ 4:08 AM 
