Watching TV and listening to the Radio do inform me. I am really grateful to have found out on the Book Programme ,BBC radio 4 , that Phyllis James in her 91st year,has written in the style of Jane Austen a Detective novel and set it as a sequel to Pride and Prejudice. It has climbed to No 3 already in the Times H/B best Sellers. I have just finished it. In fact I hope she considers this a worthwhile genre as I am ready for Death in Lyme Regis, Sir Walters Body in the Library and The Highbury Poisoner.
So too I have really appreciated the series on BBC TV ,Great British Food Revivals. Do See it on iplayer if you have missed any of the programmes. Last night The Hairy Biker's recipe for a Curry of Cauliflower and Potato or Saag aloo with roasted gobi curry, had me straight round to Angela's our local greengrocer for a Cauli (and only 59p for a huge one).I was looking for an excuse to pick some spinach ,(chard actually) . Since C's visit to the Practice Nurse , we are taking her advice very seriously. We try to do everything Sister Rose suggests.
We are trying to eat from smaller plates to reduce our food intake. I am still cooking in my mind for all the children and their friends, old aunties , and frequent visitors. In reality I am cooking for Colin and I , and hordes only on Sundays and school holidays. My curries last for days , I buy several pineapples when 1 will do and usually have a harvest festival in the fridge. SO Today I divided the ingredients for the curry by 3 , except for the spices, I always double them, now that our palette is getting very accustomed to hot , sour , spicy ,bitter and unusual.
Thank -You BBC.
Thank -You BBC.
Perhaps you could open a small curry house/library/bookshop. You could live over the shop, read all the books before you either loaned them out (for a small fee), or sold them.
ReplyDeleteEveryone dining on your by now famous, curries would be asked to bring along a spare book so you need buy none.
Of course, sadly, you would never have time to go to church, but it's likely the curry would burn you from the inside out, before you were consigned to eternal flame.
Give me the books rather than the curry any day, Margaret. My DH has tried to educate me into liking it but I an't manage anything much spicier than a korma, I'm afraid. Must go and check out the new PD James, as it sounds great fun.
ReplyDeleteThis morning when I came downstairs the house reeked of curry !!
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