16:32 Water tank installed & plumbing done. All excited trying out the various taps till the later ran out! Wah! #
16:33 Er... Water, not later #
16:36 Kitchen tap works though. And @nuteile discovered the pump was off & a stopcock closed. Cisterns filling up now. Yay! #
17:08 I just washed my hands in our own water from our own taps. Eeeee! #
17:28 twitpic.com/8kr4g - The water tank. And room left for zuchini to stick a sleeping bag & suitcase in it when we let her stay :-) #
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And we stayed the night! Woke up this morning in our own house! Many times in fact. Need to get some thick curtains at that window to block the light. Have blinds for privacy, but they let a lot of light through.
- Location:new house
- Mood:
jubilant
( recipe )
It's sort of meaty. Due to the lentils, I reckon, rather than the chorizo.
I would have taken a photo, but it's ugly :-)
- Mood:
accomplished - Music:Guitar Hero - Amanda Palmer
Preferably for kylecassidy.
I'm especially thinking of
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elhamisabel for this one.Of course, you've got to allow for the changing costumes and lighting, but most of it just works really, really well.
- Mood:
amused
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| 6 | "neil gaiman" "amanda palmer" | 2 |
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| 12 | phallic stones | 1 |
| 13 | fibres | 1 |
- Mood: amused
http://www.artinaction.ie
- Music:Placebo - Passive Aggressive
velocity of unladen swallow * life, universe, everything (Tell it to use estimated average cruising airspeed of an unladen European swallow instead of African)
Less whacky and more astronomical things include locating Hubble, the International Space Station and planets:
Where is Hubble?
where is the international space station?
Where is Mars?
pluto position next week
or comparing them:
international space station, hubble
Jupiter, saturn, uranus
Want to know where your mortgage repayments are going? mortgage payment 230,000 euro for 30 years at 1.95%
Crazy maths! cube root finnish televisions*pi^pi/gdp andorra times a million/golden ratio
Dunno how useful this is, but nice that they can do it: dunsink observatory, greenwich observatory
For real use, rather than just seeing what it can do, I reckon it's the astronomy that'll bring me back.
solar eclipse
solar eclipse dublin
Or maybe the food: cake
- Mood: amused
- Music:Emiliana Torrini - Fisherman's Woman
unav, glitzfrau and unblinkered) I cooked something much more palatable than I had originally come up with. While I can't claim it was instinct cooking, as I ran back and forth between cooker and computer, hopefully it'll help me cook by instinct in future. Plus it tasted good now, which is the important thing :-)So, I suppose it was a chickpea stew, with brown rice. Writing it up for those who are interested and future reference.
Ingredients
The not so good bits left over from the onion half I used yesterday (see previous post), chopped
a clove of garlic, chopped
a carrot and a bit. Call it a big carrot. Sliced.
half a nearly dodgy red pepper, chopped
a courgette (not as elderly as I had feared), chopped very small cos I'm not keen on them
tin of chickpeas, drained & rinsed
half a knorr vegtable stock cup mixed into a mug of hot water
around a cup of santini tomatoes, mixed red & yellow, halved
two normal tomatoes, chopped
small amount of frozen green beans, defrosted in hot water, chopped.
tumeric
ground ginger
oregano
chilli powder
salt & pepper
a teaspoon or so of tomato paste
sunflower oil for frying
It was suggested that I sweat the onion, but I didn't know how to do that and the internet was inconsistent (bad internet, no stew). I fried it and the garlic gently in a bit of oil. That maybe sweating it, I don't know.
Add the carrots, red pepper, courgette. Saute (or possibly just fry) for a while.
Add the chickpeas and about half the stock. Turn up the heat to start it simmering. Add both types of tomatoes, and the rest of the stock, or as much as fits. Simmer.
Add the green beans, herbs, spices, seasoning.
I tasted it after a bit and decided it needed something else, hence the tomato paste.
Not sure how long I simmered for. Probably about 15 mins. The rice went on just before I started frying (2 cups brown rice in rice cooker) and finished around the time the stew was a good texture, with plenty of the liquid gone. Pure luck. So... simmer till the chickpeas and carrots are softening and the liquid is reduced.
Serve on brown rice.
Probably enough for three. So that's my lunch tomorrow sorted.
I still felt it needed something more when I tasted it again after adding the puree, but it was grand when served. Don't know if it was the reducing, or the rice, or what.
I'd like to try something similar with lentils and probably a bit of chorizo. And get more confidence with the spices.
- Mood:
satisfied - Music:Hole - Celebrity Skin
the best bits of a half peeled onion that has been drying in the fridge, chopped
frozen peas, cooked. A cup?
two eggs, beaten
butter for frying
soy sauce
pinch of sugar
Fry the onion in plenty of butter.
Add the soy sauce and sugar to the egg and mix. Add to the onion and start scrambling. Don't turn the heat down so much that it just sits there being liquid, like I did :-)
Add the peas and continue scrambling till done.
Serve in small bowls. I garnished with two tomato quarters each for colour.
Obviously, this is too small for two people. I cooked soba noodles (where I did the opposite, leaving the heat too high, so it boiled over and I had to add more water); put a packet of instant miso soup into each of two bowls; split a portion or so of noodles between both; filled with hot water; mixed; and put some spare peas in the middle.
I didn't like the soup in the end. Nuteile did, though he added more soup mix to it.
I'd cooked too many peas and noodles. I turned the rest into a lunchbox meal for nuteile. The peas fit perfectly into the removable dish part of my bento box; the soba fit perfectly into the rest of that layer. Fate! The last packet of soup mix could squeeze into the lid (there's space for chopsticks and a serviette). Hot water and a bowl from work & he was able to make up noodle soup in the office.
Bottom layer was rather random. Chocolate cake cut to fit; a couple of Japanese sweets; raw carrot and santini tomatoes (grape sized ones).
- Location:Dublin
- Mood: accomplished
- Music:Jack L - When the Moon is High
- Mood: amused/groaning
22:46 Arrived home last night. Good morning Dublin. #
( blurb )01:19 Another #bookcrossing catch and new member! bookcrossing.com/journal/6555820 #
01:21 Tried getting to the airport early to get a good seat. Couldn't even get aisle seats together. Bah. Stupid overbooked flights. #
01:22 Not overbooked enough though - thought we were in with a chance of another day in Singapore for free, but no such luck. #
03:16 We're in the comfy seats! Woo hoo! #
15:48 First impression of Germany: very foggy #
22:15 At the top of a tower, looking out over Frankfurt with Elham. It's much sunnier than I thought it would be this morning, but distance hazy. #
( blurb )19:03 In a non air conditioned food hall in Singapore. Thank goodness it's not as hot as when we were here a couple of weeks ago! Still v hot tho' #
19:06 Despite it being a food hall, we've both ordered from the same stall - duck rice and duck noodles. Side from a different one - calimari. #
23:07 We had 20 minute back massages involving elbows. Painful bliss :-) #
23:10 Tried taking photos of #geocaching travel bug dangly things, but they keep coming out blurry. Bah. Must learn more about camera #photography #
( blurb )14:09 #bookcrossing in Sydney on the way home. Left Fallen Dragon in a phone shelter in Martin Place. @skyring, maybe it's on its way home to U :) #
15:32 Important business dealt with - bank account closed, tim tams bought - so back to the airport with us. Next stop Singapore. #
( blurb )11:23 Released three #bookcrossing books outside Knit World in Christchurch and went in. Two gone when I came out! #
21:43 out of mobile range for a few days there. Milford Sound=beautiful. Tried to see glaciers, roads closed due to rain. Back in Chch, fly tmrrow #
( blurb )11:41 We decided to skip the Catlins and ended up in Gore. Heading to Te Anau now. Much colder than Dunedin! And foggier. Lots of patches of f ... #
11:41 t I still managed to see a shooting star! #
12:41 We've passed the road to Fangorn Forest. I'd be tempted if we had a four wheel drive. #
( blurb )11:33 Left a book called "Dunedin" in a phone box outside Dunedin info centre, The Lynx Hunters in the foyer of Otago Museum #bookcrossing #
11:46 Learning that about 3/4 of all animal species are arthropods (1 million/1.3 million) and that most of them are insects (925,000 species) #
13:08 Driving along the coast road of the Otago Peninsula. Lovely calm blue water. #
13:11 If you're near Dunedin & like butterflies, the artificial rainforest & live butterfly exhibition is well worth visiting. Not for the phobic! #
14:26 Shockingly slow service in the cafe in the Albatross centre. #
15:48 Albatross! 2 choc ices, please. I haven't got any choc ices, I just have this albatross. Saw 3 chicks. Very fluffy in theory, but too far2C #
17:49 Missed the penguins. Stupid migraines. Even when not mine Driving back the hilly route. Lovely views. Sheep dotted like pimples across hills #
19:53 More tasty Japanese food:yakitori & other grilled skewers in Izakaya Yuki. Why no Japanese restaurant in Dublin with great skewer selection? #
20:17 Left Wrong About Japan and yet another Mills & Boon (In Bed With the Boss, again) outside Minami on Stuart St, Dunedin #bookcrossing #
20:57 Bye bye Dunedin. Would have liked to stay longer. Don't know where we'll stop tonight. #
21:11 Orion has fallen over! Yes, this is the first time this trip I've managed to recognise a constellation. #
21:20 Woo... spooky fog. No more star gazing for me! #
22:01 Weird. Fogged road (it keeps coming and going) yet, looking to the side, I had a great view of stars. Even saw a shooting star! #
22:28 Leaving Clinton, heading for Gore. Coincidence? #
( blurb )11:16 Took Beach Rd from Oamaru. Detour, maybe because road collapsed! Beautiful - green fields+hills; sea, surf, beach; mountains in the distance #
13:29 Saw some very round rocks at Moeraki. Also saw penguin cross stitch in the shop, yellow eyed and blue, so purchases were made :) #
21:44 Ah, internet! Finally doing some release notes. And I had a wild catch! short.ie/8hm6r7 Also a BCer catch - short.ie/jy0cag #
23:04 Phew! Finally finished by release notes and journal entries! Have a book to register, but that can wait. #bookcrossing #
( blurb )23:49 Bye bye Christchurch. Spending our first night in the campervan, a little south of Timaru. We can hear the sea. #
10:01 Plenty of classic cars along the road between Timaru and Omaru. #
10:35 Breakfast and #bookcrossing. Left Winter In July in Espresso/The Roost in Oamaru. #
12:21 Laundry day, see you there. underthings, tumbling. #
15:13 Bumped into miketroll and mrs troll. I think we'll have company penguin watching tonight. #
17:35 Saw some yellow eyed penguins. Slightly odd looking. Now waiting to see blue penguins. These ones are very cute-have seen them before in Oz. #
19:57 Yellow eyed penguins are more impressive but, omg, blue penguins are so cute, I was in danger of exploding. V cold-warmer clothes next time. #
( blurb )Winter in July: http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/622
Songs for Alex: http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/709
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