I think lice aren’t rather nice

The other weekend I was sitting on the train with my family (something we rarely get to do) after a trip into the city to buy a tea pot (I am sure another blog will surface about tea when I get around to it). Anyway…it was a pleasant morning, and I was thinking about the…

Experimental with the lentil

Sure, I have eaten lentils before, and sure, if you know how to accompany them with the right spices, they can taste amazing. However, I don’t. So…I thought I would experiment with the humble lentil this year, and expand our food repertoire a little from the rice/pasta/mash bases to include this pulse. My memories of…

Lentil salad

This recipe comes from the recipe book Cool food. There a whole series of these books which I have (including Bowl food, Hot food, Sweet food) that are really very good. With the exception of only one of two recipes that haven’t turned out so well, I think most I have made or tasted from…

Reusemoose makes the news

I am a big fan of ReuseMoose, mostly because I was there for his birth (after totally loving the whole Freecycle concept, but complaining to my geek husband and his geek friend Vincent that it wasn’t the nicest interface and there were about 500 million rules). Today they noticed the traffic going mad on it,…