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(62 posts)- Started 7 years ago by unhurt
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Pastel de nata are nice
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Street bicycle repair station in Gdansk
They're all over the place in Poland
Pump, tools, stand
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Pastel de nata eaten at a street bike repair station in Gdansk: even better?
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“all gorgeous water surfaces and dogs gratefully received”
A more common level of Forth choppiness -
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Courgette soup recipe (unfortunately this one requires a blender).
1 onion
some potato
some courgette
about 200 grams cheese (I usually use cheap cheddar).
2 stock cubes (the kind that are 1 for 200ml water) (I usually use vegetable ones, but chicken would probably work. Beef would be a bit strong.)Chop and fry onion.
Chop potatoes. Place on top of onion and add enough water to cover them. Crumble in the stock cubes. Bring to the boil and boil for five minutes.
Slice courgette thinly. Put on top of potato and cook for 10 minutes, give it a stir and cook for another 5 or so.
Remove from heat.
Grate cheese and add to mix. Blend the whole thing really well. Add pepper (salt if you want) and a bit of nutmeg to taste.Can be frozen.
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"unfortunately this one requires a blender"
I bought a hand blender some years ago just for soup.
Some people generally don't like 'big bits' in their soup.
Blending can make soups better - smooth, creamy homogenised taste, but big bit soup good too.
Most of my soups start with lentils.
When organised, these are soaked overnight - rinse and leave in plenty of water. In the morning boil, turn off and leave with lid on until later.
At some point chop some or all of onion/leek/garlic and fry in butter or olive oil, tip in saucepan.
Chop some other vegetables e.g. carrot, parsnip, cabbage and fry with onions or add to lentils directly to cook by boiling.
If you intend to blend, things like the stalky bits of cauliflower or brocoll can be used.
If not blending and want an extra bit of texture, grate a carrot into simmering pot about 5 mins before you want to eat.
Basically anything can go in soup depending on what you have to hand and think can be eaten together add salt, pepper, chilli etc to suit.
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My "unfortunately" was more in the sense of "if unhurt can't even find her coffee pot, she's not likely to be able to find her blender (if she even has one)".
I love a nice blended soup. My husband is less keen. However he also doesn't like courgette, so I get to eat all the above soup all by myself (I freeze it and take it to work for lunch).Posted 7 years ago # -
"My "unfortunately" was more in the sense of "if unhurt can't even find her coffee pot"
Ok
"However he also doesn't like courgette"
One thing about blending is that it can disguise things if objections are actually to appearance more than taste!
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Stick blender was located early on. (Still no coffee stuff.) Though now I have a vat of chicken & brown rice soup with garlic & chili on the grounds that it might be medicinal: courgette soup will have to wait till next week.
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"...chicken & brown rice soup with garlic & chili..."
This sounds like the sort of thing Mr Fimm would eat. Any chance of a recipe?Posted 7 years ago # -
Chicken & Rice Soup w/garlic and chilli and thyme
Ingredients:
• Butter
• 2 chicken breasts (or leftover roast chicken)
• 2 celery sticks, chopped
• 2 carrots, chopped
• 2-3 garlic cloves,crushed or chopped
• 1 medium onion, chopped
• 1 medium chilli, chopped
• 1.5 litres of chicken stock
• small teacup of brown rice (or more and it comes out more like a stew; still good)
• sprinkling/small bunch of fresh/dried thymePrep: 10-15 mins Cooking Time: 30-40 mins Serves: 4-6
Heat up a large knob of butter in a medium to large pot. Add the chopped carrots, onion, celery, garlic & chilli and cook for approx 5 mins (add fresh thyme at this point; otherwise add dried thyme at end). If using uncooked chicken breasts, cut them to bite sized pieces and add to the pot and brown. If using leftovers just add to the pot and jump straight to adding the stock. Add the chicken stock to the pot, bring to the boil then add the brown rice. Simmer for 20-30 mins, till rice (and carrots) are done. Season to taste.
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Thank you. Sounds delicious.
I hope you are feeling a bit better (physically and mentally) today.
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More cheery news for you unhurt. Three 19th century Scottish wheat varieties have been found in gene banks around the world. Someone has grown them again in sufficient quantities to test and they are higher in micro-nutrients than modern varieties bred and grown for their protein or carbohydrate content. This is being done an hour's bike ride from Edinburgh.
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That is satisfyingly good to hear.
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Hey @Fimm, I missed the BOFFOFHOF announcement or maybe that was it?
CONGRATS
You favour Mr Fimm over HOF. I was hoping for the The HOF. But Mr Fimm is equally good.
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I went with fimm's courgette recipe except used chick peas instead of cheese, spring onions, carrots, masses of fresh coriander, did not blend it much, and added soya sauce and that chilli sauce that is all the rage as garnish. Apart from that it was the same after a long walk looking for hawfinch - a winter warmer.
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Hmmm that sounds very good. Now reconsidering fish and chips for dinner...
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@unhurt, yup, everyone ate it but I liked it best with two bowls and a sistema in the freezer for later. The potatoes and carrots I cooked in a different pans but ended up jut chucking it all in together. I had fought maybe blend the root vegs and add to the thinner courgette consommé but in the end worked fine. The hand blender has jizzed up the making of soup as it were.
Bake spuds in oven whilst we went to odeon luxe at Wester hailes with the new reclining seats. Thor raggnarok with everyone from the directors previous great movie Wilder People, except maybe Ricky baker himself.
The baked pots, baked but removed and mashed with cheddar and put back in to brown. Then have with rocket, Tom and avocado salad, it's gonna be awesome
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Eating at casa gembo sounds like good times.
My Sunday good thing: remembering I own a BATH now. Filling it too full and lying in it for ages with a mug of tea reading a thematically relevant book (RLS's An Apology for Idlers).
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Baths are good. The one in this house when we first moved in was a big belter you could swimi I it. Enamel bit chipped. EASY came and took it away.
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Good news story:
"Writing on his online fundraising page, Cody explained he was inspired to fundraise for bicycles after he realised not all children had their own when doing Bikeability sessions at school. He said: “I hope to raise as much money as I can to purchase shiny new bikes for local children in time for Xmas."
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Thursday things X4: (1) Positive PoP meeting. (2) Chilly cold birl home hitting green lights all the way from The Mound. (3) Remembering (once again with slight surprise) that ooh, yes, I own a bath now. One environmentally questionable vat of hot water and (4) a glass of red wine coming up.
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The black dog came back. Pulled me into a dark well - the anti-Lassie. Intermittently less dark the past few days but still So. Anxious. About. Everything. Including posting here. Thanks, brain.
A piece of burned meat
wears my clothes, speaks
in my voice, dispatches obligations
haltingly, or not at all.Posted 6 years ago # -
“Including posting here”
Good that you can.
A bike ride doesn’t cure everything.
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@unhurt, hang in there.
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"A bike ride doesn’t cure everything."
My wife finds that bike riding is dangerous because it allows time to ruminate with little interruption.
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I spoke to a runner getting into cycling about being a cyclist getting into running. One of my favourite things about a long cycle is indeed the first while of rumination, and "thought sorting" if we can call it that, but then I love the moment of nirvana akin to what I assume truly successful meditation is like. Just the moment is in your mind.
My frustration was that I'm not good enough at running yet to achieve that during my runs as I have to focus on keeping my pounds of flesh plodding along at a reasonable rate. Her complaint was similar as a novice cyclist, she struggles to get past thinking about form etc (she's particularly cycling to aid recovery in a knee operation)
So to each our own way of getting to that state, but good for the mental health it is (along with the exercise of course).
@Unhurt - we are all here to hear from each other. I hope your swims over the weekend did some good and you're doing ok.
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Greyhounds have the best ears
I wish to retract this statement.
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That be a podenco.
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