Margaret Rose Stringer's Blog, page 23

My favourite meme of late

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I do believe I’ve done it ..

.. posted a recipe that needs no alteration or faffing about with in order to be able to be consumed by my mate Sue !!

HOORAY !    [grin]

Spicy Lentil, Sweet Potato and Coconut Casserole (Serves 4)

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Ingredients:

1½ tbsps coconut oil an onion chopped small piece of ginger, chopped small seasoning 1 cup red lentils medium sweet potato, cut into 1 cubes medium carrot, chopped smaller than s.p. ½ teaspoon ground turmeric 2 tsps curry powder 3 cups Massels stock 300ml coconut milk

Directions:

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[Sob !]

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My Noro Silk Garden ! its in there, somewhere.

No-one in Australia Post is saying Oh look: heres one for that Stringer woman .. put it on the next flight, cause shes been ordering on-line for the last umpteen years !, like they should !

This is what I get for living in a regional centre.

Shall I be grumpier than ever today ..?

Naah; the weathers good (I think: its dark outside right now ! But it was good yesterday) and I have a Coles delivery arriving this-arvo. Im ploughing ahead with my...

My first lentil recipe

I went to a shop that sells bulk foods, a couple of weeks ago, and bought (inter plura alia) half a kilo of small sort of green lentils. Today I decided it was time to cook the little buggers not the whole ½k ! and found in my recipe files the following:

Borlotti & Lentil Casserole

Prep: 10 Cook: 1 hr 30 Servings: 6 portions

Ingredients

2 tbsp olive oil 1 red onion, finely chopped 1 leek, finely sliced 1 red capsicum,finely chopped parsley stalks chopped fine, leaves rough 2 garlic...

WIPs are multiplying like rabbits :(

It took me forever to finish another cardi; and as I ran out of wool I was obliged to crochet the drop-shoulder sleeves out of a much darker blue. In trying to provide an (unspoken) excuse, I used the same darker blue to edge around the whole thing. End result: wearing it, I look as if I have peripheral artery disease of the arms. Sighh ..

I was stuck doing this bloody thing for so long that when I finally finished it I instantly began on something entirely different to excise the V-stitch...

Boodie on the wander

Looks like a little angel. Is actually a very small monster .. Well, OK, not that bad; but he was making my life a misery with wanting to escape. And then he found out how. Did my best to prevent it, but couldnt block up the escape route. For a while I was intending to spend a painful amount of money on having a professional bit of cat-fencing-in done (which wouldve brought his cost, so far, to over $2,000, what with the vet fees); but before that came about, the solution did !

After yet...

Funniest CV-19 video I’ve seen !

This is me being helpful, see ..?

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Phil, the gasp-making knitter I posted about some days back, has herself posted about re-growing vegies one of her many gardening activities (inverted commas to divide this one from those where she is actually out in the garden). Definitely worth reading, as its couched within writing about knitting !

This is of great interest to me: buying seeds is fairly expensive; and the whole process fraught with the difficulty of dealing with flying or crawling or hatching pests.

So I draw your...

This made me laugh like an idiot (shut up !)

I do like all the Covid-19 memes and jokes and spoofs that are going about: they often make me laugh A Very Good Thing, eh ?

But this one ! it was meant for a crochet site, so mine will have to do:

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I laugh every time I look at it !   :D

And heres another one, thats just nice:

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Whaddya reckon, eh ?   :)

P.S.: you probably need this I did !

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A rave about a blogger

There is a Pom up there in the country where Spring is happening who has a blog called A Twisted Yarn.

She is without peer in her field mostly because her field is not small. Phil is a truly expert knitter, hence my choice of category; but she has a wonderful garden in which she does wonderful things; she has 9-y-o twins (the twinnage) upon whom she dotes in a practical manner; she has an almost tame robin (Robyn) who consumes meal-worms with an appetite more than merely voracious and is...