Tag Archives: soup

reflections and windows

By Lucy | Published March 9, 2010

The bridge did get finished:

Now this may appear to be a blurry photo gone wrong – well, it is - but it is also  a picture of trees reflected in chocolate so worthy of inclusion

It is a montezuma’s very dark bar…

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blog, Illich and broth

By Lucy | Published January 23, 2010

Have finally got the blog how I want it – a terrible tale of databases, installations of wordpress and corrupted (by me) css files ensued but I’ve now uploaded the archives (see drop down on sidebar) and cleaned up dead links too
Reading a book lent by my mum. She found it while scouring her shelves during the [...]

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Happy 2010!!!

By Lucy | Published January 1, 2010

Let it be a good one for all of us! Starting the year as we mean to go on… with yet more soup

recipe

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tomato and rice soup

By Lucy | Published December 29, 2009

recipe here on frugal - snow and ice continuing, rarely known it so cold!

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looking up

By Lucy | Published March 14, 2009

Sometimes you just need to look up to see beauty

Lots of reading and gardening going on here. How to Grow Your Own Food is a fantastic book, guiding you through the year on a week by week basis – I’m hoping it will keep me on the straight and narrow with weeding and resowing things, [...]

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candles, bread, pie, soup and dogs

By Lucy | Published December 5, 2008

been some baking and candle making…

Had joiners here fitting some new doors and windows – they needed the outside lights on which makes everything look different:

nice weather for sheperdess pie

Nicola’s golden vegetable soup (a weightwatchers recipe):

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sea spaghetti and volleyball

By Lucy | Published June 17, 2008

Bit of everything good, this soup. Put some water on and chuck the following in: broken spaghetti or other noodles, sea spaghetti, leek, garlic, celery, kale, chives, red pepper, frozen peas near the end of cooking, miso once off the heat and cooled slightly, seasalt to taste… garnished with parsely and radish Got the sea [...]

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minestrone

By Lucy | Published March 14, 2006

Another grey rainy day – were so going to appreciate sunny weather when it appears! Dan did a maths tutorial – still impressed with the 2XL program – it is so much better than the secondary maths I got at school (but then it’s not psychotic like the maths teachers I had were). Charlotte did [...]

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soups and games

By admin | Published December 28, 2005

Had a very industrious cleaning morning – all very boring really but nice now done. Have had a sprinkling of snow but mainly a hard frost – bin was frozen shut, maybe telling me not to be so lazy and recycle more stuff! Had a fresh and crunchy walk out of the village to the [...]

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cooking and coast

By Lucy | Published August 15, 2005

Got our Coast (accompanies the BBC series) pack today in the post – a very nice, fact packed booklet with some beautiful postcards in it. (no longer up). It came with lots of info. on the OU – I believe you can start a degree with them at 14 (or indeed at 34)…well you never [...]

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