Look deep into a single human heart to find all the evil in the world; and in the same heart enough good to vanquish it!
A dish of spicy chicken in a paste of pounded coriander. An unexpected bonus is a rubber band used to hold the herb in a bunch which for a moment causes consternation because it looks like a blue worm
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Orange skins sometimes make me think of Gulliver's giants, whom he found repulsive because of their visible pores, an ugliness which belied their goodness.
Your elastic band reminded me of a couple of things: first, how working in kitchens we had to use blue plaster when we cut ourselves. A co-worker couldn't find one once and remarked how she'd have to use an ordinary one. At least it won't show up in the food if you lose it, I said.
Second, an obituary I read recently, for Robert Capon. I'd not heard of him before and thought to myself (as I often do) 'I must mention that to Joe and see what he knows about him...' I thought it was a wonderful name for an epicurean and food writer, and also it jumped out at me because we had a capon - a real one, you can still get them here - for Christmas dinner. It seems he sometimes deliberately teased his family by dropping 'a cigar wrapper in the casserole, or a match in the gravy'. He was also a theologian, who said that 'grace, not willpower, dealt with sin', and another quote 'food and company... don't slake man's thirst for being; they whet it beyond all bounds'.
My micro-coriander, grown from seeds on the windowsill like mustard and cress have been sad and weedy, but I'm sure since the turn of the shortest day they have picked up just a little. Maybe it's just because I watered them!
Snow and snow and more snow here. I've been shoveling the walks and my cheeks look like apples. Funny, but my snow shovel found a blue scrap of cloth. At first I thought someone had lost a glove, but no, it was just a bit of cloth. Funny. I'd certainly love a plate of your spicy chicken dish now!
In Heston Blumemthal's new coffee-table book - presently resting on our coffee table since neither of us has the strength to put it on the bookshelf - there is a recipe for rubber bands. Mace is recommended together with ten seconds in the LHC.
Capons are available here at Tesco from time to time. I think. I've always sheered away from them on the grounds that it might be catching. Thank goodness I don't have catholic reading habits.
Lucy Robert Capon is new to me. Love the quotes. I have been growing rocket under our hedge for two years. Astonishingly it doesn't bold and go to seed and and survives winter frosts and summer drought.
R Perhaps because of the weather and the circumstances I am experimenting with several spicy dishes at the moment, which Heidi's daughters, staying with me at present, seem to appreciate.
RR Heston Blumenthal whom I couldn't help admiring, seems to be rather over exposed at the moment. Are you sure that the coffee table book is in fact a book and not a soluble coffee table?
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