Comments on: What’s Good-What’s Bad

by: miles

Tue, 01 Apr 2008 05:54:34 +0000

Dave,
A great list! Great to hear your daughter is already into cooking-you’ve trained her well
I shall be meeting with an obnoxious person this morning who shall have to explain what he has done to my kitchen (at work) whilst I have been away. He may find me equally obnoxious!
Don’t worry about being drunk-how do you think I do this blog?! Good luck with the hangover!
Miles
ps just googled why NYC is called ‘The Big Apple’ didn’t realise it came from jazz musicians-is that correct?

by: Dave

Tue, 01 Apr 2008 01:52:57 +0000

Elise - Dandelion is very trendy in NYC right now. Even to the point of dandelion Eau - de - Vie. It’s awful by the way.

by: Dave

Tue, 01 Apr 2008 01:50:58 +0000

hmmm A list is pretty tough when liquored up.

Good things:
My 9 year old daughter being determined to make a perfect omelet, and succeeding.
Spring finally showing it’s face in New York.
Opening season for trout beginning next week.

Crappy things:
Meeting the singularly most obnoxious person I have ever come across this afternoon.
Forgetting about the beautiful Italian sausages I bought 2 weeks ago from the pork store in the back of the fridge.
Debilitating aches and pains from old injuries that are seriously becoming irritating. I’m only 40 for Christ’s sake.
Typing drunk and having to spell retype every other word.
Thinking of tomorrow’s hangover - or looking for to a great bloody and wondering if I have a problem.

Good Thing:
Finding this blog. Thanks for the effort Miles.

by: miles

Mon, 31 Mar 2008 20:56:35 +0000

Elsie,
Dandelion has long been used in French salads and I use nettles a lot around this time of year. Nettles are packed with nutrients and make excellent soups and bright green purees. Always make sure you pick the small, young leaves though.
I look forward to an invasion of finches!
Miles

by: Elsie Nean

Mon, 31 Mar 2008 18:51:57 +0000

Miles,
I knew the Goldfinch would find you. Wait when his mates follow! For the first time ever I saw a long tailed tit in our garden. Things are a-changing.
Good luck with your kitchen garden this year.
An old (age) friend told me the other day that they used to harvest the dandelion leaves and nettles which her mother would cook as a vegetable and put it through a mincer, will you believe?
Very nutricious and I suspect that the minced veg. doubled up as a sauce?
Elsie

by: miles

Mon, 31 Mar 2008 17:18:20 +0000

Rod and Elsie,
Great lists, sounds like we are all enjoying the sunshine!
Elsie, regarding the finches; literally five minutes after posting this I went downstairs, looked out of the kitchen window and saw one on the feeder!
Miles

by: Elsie Nean

Mon, 31 Mar 2008 12:35:31 +0000

Smiles
Weather warming, lovely sunshine
walks
Birds singing and nesting in garden
Great family and friends get-togethers

Frowns
Cats visiting my garden
Ageing - aches & pains creeping up
Not being able to re-stock my wardrobe - nothing suitable out there

by: Elsie Nean

Mon, 31 Mar 2008 12:18:35 +0000

Miles,
I am sure that those Goldfinches will find you. Are they on a flightpath where they might spot the seeds?
Bet you are glad a new month is starting
Elsie

by: Rod

Mon, 31 Mar 2008 10:25:04 +0000

Phew !
sounds like a hell of a week
I nearly suffered a wallet attack just reading it.

Paul Gilbert DVD
Weather turning
11 Thousand notes DVD
Eating fish
Sold a book this weekend

Gary Moore DVD
Messing about with clocks
Year end coming up
etc etc

I could go on but better not
Le Carre’s hard to beat !