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Sprout the Brussel

By E | Posted on: November 23, 2006
Here’s another important fact about me. I like brussel(s) sprouts. Nay, I love them. Just look at that, how can you not love them? I don’t eat nearly enough of them. But if I did, I would always start by steaming them lightly (yes, this is why people don’t like them, they are always horribly [...]
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Dinner for One

By E | Posted on: November 22, 2006
Here’s a quick and delicious fix for coming home hungry and not in the mood for “cooking”: rice cakes topped with a few pieces of iceberg, followed by some kind of cheap-ish pepper salami that has been fried gently on a dry pan (for that crispness, you gotta render the fat), followed by thin slices [...]
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The mighty olive strikes again

By E | Posted on: November 22, 2006
I had big plans for a productive day yesterday. Then I was reminded of a plan that I myself had instigated last week for a collective outing to watch the notorious Borat. And so it was that I found myself back in a shopping mall, that den of evil that once was my favourite haunt. [...]
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Crap TV

By E | Posted on: November 21, 2006
It’s a sorry situation when you’ve had a long Monday and all you want to do when you get home is to relax in a comfortable couch and watch some good TV. I have the comfortable couch, but my remote freedom is constrained to the four channels on offer via public broadcasting (make that three: [...]
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The elusive martini

By E | Posted on: November 19, 2006
On recommendation from my friend, Mr. 302, who drives a nicer car than me (yes, it’s a 302), this advice from MisterLucky: “Before leaving for the office, place the best gin your paycheck allows in the icebox, along with a bottle of Noilly Prat or other fine vermouth. A glass pitcher and stemmed glasses should [...]
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United Colours of Google

By E | Posted on: November 17, 2006
These chocolate pots are not what I had for breakfast, nor what I will be having at any point today. But they came up in conversation yesterday over steak and red wine, so naturally I had to Google them this morning. In fact they are not chocolate pots at all, but, according to Nigella, Molten [...]
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oh

By E | Posted on: November 14, 2006
and here’s another tip: Obey the speed limit (even when you think they aren’t watching). and another: If you sell an old car to a “friend”, make damn sure that “friend” actually changes the car into their name, lest you try to renew a licence on a different car and find out that you can’t [...]
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A friendly reminder

By E | Posted on: November 11, 2006
For any of you who – like me – may have forgotten to renew your car licences: do it! The tail end of my otherwise nice Friday night (there was chicken, whisky and dancing) was a not-so-friendly pink slip stuck on my car window this morning. So many things to remember that are too easily [...]
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Eggs à la…

By E | Posted on: November 4, 2006
I don’t like to think of myself as someone who gets joy out of pinching things from others. But I just found this little list of how some of the world’s SUPERstar chefs might cook an egg (it’s from The Observer Food Monthly, find the full article here). It’s good for a little laugh (I [...]
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A joke.

By E | Posted on: November 3, 2006
Approaching Frankenstein’s table, George thinks out loud, “I wonder what will happen if I pull this lever?” Inspector Plod suggests that he had better not. George: “Why not, I’m a born lever-puller”. Get it? Lever-puller. Li-ver-pool-er. And George is of course none other than one of the long-gone Beatles, and the joke is in fact [...]
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