... are cropping already, so time for some garden soup. All you need is a big fat leek (or ordinary onions) quite a bit of garlic, some lovely dark green zucchini, butter, salt, pepper and chicken stock. Oh, and some old faithful soup bowls with mermaids on (or whatever takes your fancy really). 
Although the recipe doesn't call for it, I like to add a swirl of cream at the end, because I can.
And I just finished reading Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont - the closer I got to the end the more I dreaded a tragically sad ending. But it didn't happen, well not completely sad anyway.
Although the recipe doesn't call for it, I like to add a swirl of cream at the end, because I can.And I just finished reading Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont - the closer I got to the end the more I dreaded a tragically sad ending. But it didn't happen, well not completely sad anyway.
It's a lovely calm book. Not a lot happens but still it draws you in and makes you care about the characters. In fact, it's the characters that are the book, they are beautifully, painstakingly written. I'm so glad I decided to give this writer a go, although now I'm going to have to go and find all the rest of her lovely books.
I don't think I'll bother seeing the film though, I suspect "they" buggerised about with it.
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Love the bowls!!
BUGGERISED!! Ha, ha, ha! While I think the American spelling might be buggerized, I'm going to have to find a good way of using this today.
Back in my long passed ship days, I used to be an occasional visitor to the Garden Island Naval Base in Sydney. The sailors there referred to the Naval Police guards at the gate as "Zucchinis"... because they couldn't think of a more useless vegetable.
Hey... I didn't say it (though some small part of me is crying out to agree).
UK - please feel free to splash buggerised about with wild abandon, I'd like to see such a useful word do well overseas.
Chester - the zucchini is a beautiful veggie, you can make muffins, cake, bread, fritters, a lovely soup, a very nice lentil, zucchini braise, you can bbq & marinate it and (I'm told) you can make jam with zucchini. Hmmm, I wonder if I could be bothered to make jam...*wanders off in a zucchini daze*
clearly my fingers slipped, that comment above was made by the one & only Dancingmorganmouse!
Add some crumbled feta cheese to your soup - it is delicious - hot or cold. Nana Fi
Nana, fetta? yummy.
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