this was good http://www.publicradio.org/columns/splendid-table/recipes/soup_corianderlentil.htmlthere is a lemony lentil-spinach soup in claudia roden middle east book too
― spite n ease (harbl), Monday, 4 June 2012 11:15 (eleven years ago) link
thanks xp, i'll use regular ones, but i do love meyer lemons and wish they sold them here.
that looks good too, harbl.
― estela, Tuesday, 5 June 2012 00:39 (eleven years ago) link
i hope that book can't play bridge because i can't and i think i never will.
― estela, Tuesday, 5 June 2012 00:51 (eleven years ago) link
when my sister and i were teenagers we went to stay with our excellent elderly aunts for a week and they taught us 500 and gin rummy and then made us go and play in a local gin rummy tournament in a freezing country hall with them (where an old man shouted 'my goodness those two girls laugh a lot' and someone pointed out to him that our aunts were known for this also and then he said he hadn't realised we were with them and that he wasn't complaining anyway just making an observation) and we didn't disgrace our aunts who had been a bit worried about how we'd go and then when our holiday was over they gave us a pack of cards for our long journey home (a train, a ferry and another train) and by the time we got to the ferry we were fuzzy on the rules again and we had a bitchy row about it so in the interests of harmony we threw the pack of cards over the railing into cook strait and we have never played again.
― estela, Tuesday, 5 June 2012 01:07 (eleven years ago) link
i ordered that cookbook and it came today!
― smoove operator, Tuesday, 5 June 2012 03:23 (eleven years ago) link
<3 you sound like a gilbert and sullivan chorus.
― estela, Tuesday, 5 June 2012 03:35 (eleven years ago) link
i drank a bit too much tonight but that whole bit about the cookbook and the cards and the repeats has revived me a little.
― lxy, Tuesday, 5 June 2012 06:04 (eleven years ago) link
<3 you all so much.
+ lentils are A+
― lxy, Tuesday, 5 June 2012 06:05 (eleven years ago) link
i was at the grocery store earlier and 'i ordered that cookbook and it came today!' x2 flashed into my mind and i laughed helplessly and a man frowned at me for being a loon.
― estela, Tuesday, 5 June 2012 10:05 (eleven years ago) link
this all made me smile
― tehresa, Wednesday, 6 June 2012 01:59 (eleven years ago) link
thank you
<3 you all so much also.
― estela, Wednesday, 6 June 2012 07:34 (eleven years ago) link
this thread, hearts and flowers
― lxy, Thursday, 7 June 2012 12:50 (eleven years ago) link
it rained and rained and the cilantro died before i could make the lentil soup but it was sunny yesterday and today and there are some small straggly new shoots coming through. the parsley and basil are thriving though, in fact they have a virtuous ironman giving it 110% air about them that is making it difficult for me to like them.
― estela, Monday, 18 June 2012 13:18 (eleven years ago) link
at the risk of hating nature/fun/kittens
the cilantro died before i could make the lentil soup
sounds like plato's otm
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 20 June 2012 03:23 (eleven years ago) link
jaq the peonies are still in shock
― jergins, Wednesday, 20 June 2012 23:55 (eleven years ago) link
poor things - well, if i got dug up with a sharp steel shovel to the midsection, i'd be in shock for a season or two. If the leaves are still green, they'll probably bloom next May.
― jaq, Thursday, 21 June 2012 00:27 (eleven years ago) link
i made t.s's lentil soup and it is really delicious, a keeper.
― estela, Friday, 6 July 2012 22:48 (eleven years ago) link
; )
― t. silaviver, Saturday, 7 July 2012 02:27 (eleven years ago) link
i picked nearly 300 raspberries this morning, and two strawberries.
― lxy, Saturday, 7 July 2012 17:02 (eleven years ago) link
did you make a strawberry pie?
― estela, Monday, 9 July 2012 12:04 (eleven years ago) link
so, did you?
― tehresa, Tuesday, 12 February 2013 02:54 (eleven years ago) link
our almond tree, all dressed up for easter
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8367/8532196586_e3dc49b1ea_z.jpg
― lxy, Tuesday, 5 March 2013 18:45 (eleven years ago) link
and the peonies from jaq are coming up!
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8252/8532212784_702fdb9881_z.jpg
― lxy, Tuesday, 5 March 2013 18:51 (eleven years ago) link
brave little soldiers!
― jaq, Tuesday, 5 March 2013 19:26 (eleven years ago) link
So pretty!
― tehresa, Wednesday, 6 March 2013 14:35 (eleven years ago) link