before i forget

2 veggie oxo cubes
a bag of carrot baton things
a load of water
handfuls of fresh basil and coriander
spoon of aubergine pesto
spoon of garlic paste
bit of soy sauce
water
some basil from a choob.

... makes a nomworthy soup.

i just thought i'd post this before it goes into the land of things i make that i can't remember how...

drawin, continued.

my new hobby has now lasted 3 days. i see things wrong (badly wrong) in all of these, and keep wanting to do something better next time! u might recognise some of these..

fire coming out of a monkey's head

Got off a plane to the country sound
I drove to the mountain and a hole in the ground
There was crack on the corner and someone dead,
and fire coming out of the monkey's head
Put me in a cab to suburbia
I just took a line but I wasn't with ya
There was more of it there, when I got back home
But you left me,you don't know my soul

neglecting the blag.

i have been neglecting this blag recently, but after a re-arrange today (new theme anyone?) i should be bombing in the blogosphere again.. hopefully!

move!

This week my car and my love are on a [his family] men’s holiday. This means that I was wrong in assuming both the gender of my wicked car, and its affiliation. Heartbreak aside, I have been leant a replacement for my ugly duckling, in the form of a smaller and uglier duckling. It looks like this:



It has a 850cc litre engine. That’s smaller than some bikes. It’s an automatic, and it’s very silly.


I have to say I have never been so confused in a car in my entire 3.2 year driving life! The clutch is my point of reference, the thing you need to know, and the thing that will make your car pull away smoothly or stutter and stall. A car without a clutch is like a computer without a mouse. It’s like a man without an appetite, all my knowledge on keeping car/computer/man happy & making it work is to do with good clutch control, mouse moving and lunch cooking. I had better luck driving the transit.


When I purchased my first love car, the paxo, its then owner said (puffing delicately on a cigar and drinking a glass of expensive looking red wine) “dear, it’s a very simple little car, it just goes.” The same can be said for the move, but this would be a massive understatement! No remote central locking, no electric windows, no stereo, and wing mirrors that you lean out of the car and wiggle around yourself. Mental.


I was tres spun out by this strange little machine. At 720kg, it has a nifty little power to weight ratio, and on fast roads it drives like a leaf. It has a top speed of a mighty 81 mph. Overtaking a lorry on a fast road you take your life in your hands, on a windy day you will get flung about like you don’t even exist and at 90mph I’ve heard it can take off. Despite this, I am glad to report that I am still alive and by the time I publish this post the little demon will be back with its rightful owners (phew!)

butternut squash soup for cheapskates

cooking stuff is all good fun but when you are trying to please a bunch of people at the same time, you need things that are low carb, sugarfree, low in fat, have loads of ur 5 a day in, dairy free, vegetarian and cheap. oh, and nice.

there's a load of butternut squash recipes out there, but i thought i'd add one that's easy, and a quick lazy adaption of gordon ramseys recipe.

Feeds about 10, depending on how hungry 10 are!

Ingredients (tesco value ftw!)
1 Butternut squash (about £1)
3 Onions (about fiddypee)
1 Apple (20p)
5 Veggie Stock cubes (10p)
Big spoonful of curry powder (10p)
Cinnamon (10p)
Olive oil (30p?)
Milk/Soya Milk (10p)
a few handfuls of sweetcorn (30p)

total cost: £2.70 or 27p a head.

what you need: a big old non stick saucepan or 2, 2 hobs, a blender and a good chopping knife

first, peel your butternut squash, get the seeds out and chop it up into small chunks. pop them on the hob to boil for about 10 minutes.

whilst they are boiling, chop up the onions and apple, (leave the skin on the apple) put them in a stick proof pan and cover them with the curry powder, cinnamon, and some olive oil. Let them fry together for about 5 minutes. then take it off and give it a little while to cool down.

next you need your blender, drain the squash and keep the water you've boiled it in in a saucepan, you'll need it later. blend up the squash, adding milk/soya milk to make it blend easy. if you aren't too fussed about fat, add some now! bzzzzzzzzzz

pop ur value veggie stock cubes in the old squash water and boil up some veggie stock, when the squash is fully blended, pop in in the stock and mix till it looks... like soup

then blend ur spicey appley onion mix up good, and put that in as well.

mixalot.

chuck in a couple of handfuls of sweetcorn as well if you want chunks of stuff in your soup at this point, if you have posh bread, prepare it.

bangin. off you go.