Cumin and coriander seeds warmed then blitzed, along with lotsa thai basil, chillies, ginger, garlic and shallots. Paste fried, chicken, aubergine, courgette and pepper slices added. Garnished with coriander leaves and served on steamed long-grain rice. Edit: It’s still going, 2 days later.
From BBC news: UK calls for wild bird import ban. Aberdeen University microbiologist and bird flu expert Professor Hugh Pennington said Britons should not be alarmed by the discovery. He said the virus had been “doing the rounds of the Far East for about 10 years” but still had not mutated into the “form that […]
I’ve been pretty lucky so far, living close to Amandine on Wilshire Blvd, where I get my weekly fix of French pastries. There’s also a Belgian chocolatier on Wilshire, which is also meant to have good croissants. Le Pain Quotidient in Santa Monica was one of my first stops for a post-beach breakfast when I […]
I’ve been pretty lucky so far, living close to Amandine on Wilshire Blvd, where I get my weekly fix of French pastries. There’s also a Belgian chocolatier on Wilshire, which is also meant to have good croissants. Le Pain Quotidient in Santa Monica was one of my first stops for a post-beach breakfast when I […]
From the sharpener, a comment piece about the media in politics. Which leads me to wonder if David Cameron is the Tony Blair of the Conservative party.
After yapping on about the recent worry about avian influenza, these arrived in my inbox: Measuring fecal glucocorticoid metabolites in mammals and birds: the importance of validation. Sampling effort/frequency necessary to infer individual acute stress responses from fecal analysis in Greylag geese (Anser anser). Ah ha ha… Not something I want to do right now…
Maybe it’s because I’m way over here on the other side of the Atlantic (with a whole continent inbetween to boot!), but the current worry about bird flu in Europe isn’t keeping me up at night. Standard disclaimer: I don’t know any better than your regular layman/woman about H5N1, other avian viruses, let alone virus […]
And another one from nature news (you can tell I’m work-avoiding, can’t you?): Laser printer dot code revealed. Am I the only one not surprised by this? (Tinfoil hat always on…) This is merely the modern version of the crime writer’s old standby: the “fingerprint” of a typewriter.
From nature news: Goldfish enlisted in fight against floods – Fish could stop residents carping about open-air drainage ponds. (pun not mine…) Sounds like a might fine idea: re-introducing wetlands… Like the name too: SUDS. Ah ha ha. I laugh. And while this sounds like good environmental practice, in the hands of local councils, glorified […]
Cheney resignation rumors fly. Ooer… Interesting. [Tinfoil hat on] What are the chances that suggestions of Condoleeza Rice suceeding Cheney should he resign should be floated a few episodes in to the new Commander-in-Chief TV series? Has an idea been planted into public consciousness? [Tinfoil hat off] Speaking of which, if The West Wing is […]
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