Magic Theatre

http://old-nick.blog.co.uk/2009/01/14/they-re-here-5376199/

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I might leave her alone as I am fond of her and there are too many nice memories and it is all too complex.

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I think it might be time for Mrs F to retire from blogland. She came for one reason and then stayed for another but those reasons have ended, and she does not blog these days, but she asks Queenie to keep an eye on her blog and delete all the spam and stuff, but Queenie is going to be around less in future and doesn't have time, so maybe it is time for her to pack up her soup cauldron and leave. She shares admin rights for Ceridwen's cauldron with Shipscook so that is another complexity. There are some good memories on there and deleting them is hard, there are recipes she would like to salvage, and some photos which she does not have anywhere else as they were on the hard drive of our old computer or have been deleted and I need to figure out a way of transferring them into the hard drive of our computer but it is very difficult to do so, she will remain for a few days while she tries to figure it out.

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Now Mr S has the sneezles as well.

So I went to see my very good friend Queene Mab this morning (those of you on my friends list may know I am a bit of a soup dragon and have some good recipes for fighting colds).

Here is one of her recipes, so I may make it this evening if Mr S remembers to get the ingredients.

Fry up a chopped red onion, I chopped red chili, I small chopped potato, two very thinly sliced medium sized mushrooms with garlic, mustard seeds and onion seeds and 2 teaspoons of paprika and a pinch of asafoetida to kill all that nasty cold/flu virus.

I like to add a pint of stock, a glass of white wine and a couple of bayleaves, a teaspoon of dried lime powder and a handful each of dried red and green lentils and a tin of tomato puree and a twist of black pepper. Some fine green Kenyan beans chopped into inch long pieces and chopped courgette if available and either a mini red cabbage shredded or a mini cauliflower if there are any.

And let it boil away for half an hour and then add a handful of the tiny shell pasta.

It is delicious medicine and will go very nicely with some crusty french bread and some cheese, I recall there is a nice smelly camembert festering in the fridge which we bought in the farmers market for a start.

Now I am off enjoy some OCDs while I am sneezed on by complete strangers on the tube who have no social skills and do not cover their faces when they cough and sneeze.

Have a good day.

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having two blogs. I started the second Queenie cos I had trouble accessing the Magic Theatre for a while as Mrs F had locked me out (stoppy mare). I am keeping them both because I am fond of them no other reason and cannot bear to kill either of these ladies off.

BUT I keep forgetting which one I am in and find myself answering people who have answered one blog in the name of the other blog.

Clearly I am too stupid and badly organised to cope with having two. Lucky one of them is not a secret identity. I would make a hopeless spy.

Oh well.

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Well we were out quite late last night in that there fancy London. No we were not rioting about Boris's alcohol ban http://uk.news.yahoo.com/afp/20080601/tod-lifestyle-britain-transport-offbeat-6058bda.html, we were celebrating my new job by doing a riverside and Fleet Street pub crawl ending with a fabulous Tapas Meal orgainsed by Nick at Navarros in Charlotte Street ( I might blog the piccies if we ever get our internet back) on a reconnaissance mission so I would know where to go on Monday Monrning and how to get there. We got back just before midnight but then there were Vampire movies to be watched and vodka to be drunk.

Anyway, I am rambling the point which is that it is the Farmers market today, so we started the day off right with some ostrich steak in burger buns and a nice strong coffeee. We had that quite late so Mr S has only just cooked an amazing lunch using some smoked duck breast which I purchased in the farmers market, some single cream, fressh basil, onions and mushrooms and linguine with a tomato, snap pea and coriander salad on the side served with a choice of white wine which has had peaches marinading in it all morning or some Heck's cider or both and so now it is time to have a nap in front of the telly for a few hours.

BUT before I go off to do that, maybe I have to confess to buying some Biltong today in the farmer's market from Wobbly Bottom the excellent goats cheese vendor. Seems like they make their own. Yum! Mmmmmmmmmm, Biltong will make a good and tasty late night snack next weekend I am thinking.

Time for 40 winks now.

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So time for some celebratory chocolate, fireworks and a big hug for Mr Wolf who is my hero.

Oh and some pics of swans which should have been posted last week. Was going to post them on Queenie but Blog seems to be playing up.

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Whats a going on?

Yes blogland does look odd well if I go into QueeneMab anyway, Mrs F seems fine. BUT I cannot comment or open some posts from Queenie.

Anyone else having problems?

That smoking prematurely ages the skin

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/rtrs/20080512/thl-uk-japan-smoking-ed2dca9.html

So is it accurate?

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