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« Reply #1710 on: 17:01:25, 23-03-2008 » |
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Currently cooking here: rhubarb, apple and stem ginger simmering on the stove (and wafting a wonderful smell through the house) - to be made into a crumble later on, following a fruitful (in every sense) trip to the local farmers' market this morning. Came back with loads of fennel and beetroot, so it's either fennel soup or borscht for lunch tomorrow.
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At every one of these [classical] concerts in England you will find rows of weary people who are there, not because they really like classical music, but because they think they ought to like it. (Shaw, Don Juan in Hell)
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« Reply #1711 on: 17:06:37, 23-03-2008 » |
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Currently cooking here: rhubarb, apple and stem ginger simmering on the stove (and wafting a wonderful smell through the house) - to be made into a crumble later on, following a fruitful (in every sense) trip to the local farmers' market this morning. Came back with loads of fennel and beetroot, so it's either fennel soup or borscht for lunch tomorrow.
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« Reply #1712 on: 15:16:12, 24-03-2008 » |
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Bank Holiday Monday. What to cook? Best nosh of the weekend was the cold roast lamb in stoneground wholemeal soda bread sandwiches with lashings of Colemans English mustard that blew the sinuses into orbit never to be seen again In the fridge I have: chillies, bacon, free range eggs from Welsh happy hens, Laughing Cow cheese triangles  , leeks, celery, cabbage, broccoli, cheddar, parmesan, olives In the cupboard, every variety of bean, pasta and rice. So, your starter for 10 - omelette or risotto or chilli? Or spag carbonara? Or puttenesca? |
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Reality, sa molesworth 2, is so sordid it makes me shudder
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« Reply #1713 on: 15:27:25, 24-03-2008 » |
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Puttanesca gets my vote, Ants. I am just so predictable  But it is yummy |
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« Reply #1714 on: 15:32:59, 24-03-2008 » |
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Puttanesca gets my vote, Ants. I am just so predictable But it is yummy Oh I just knew you would say that!! Bless You! Can I ditch these Novenas now  |
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« Reply #1715 on: 15:46:19, 24-03-2008 » |
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Well, seeing as it's Easter, I release you from your Novena obligations, Sister Antheil. Now get those pots and pans rattling, girl!  |
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« Reply #1716 on: 16:04:16, 24-03-2008 » |
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Bless you Sister, Unfortunately the black olives have not been pitted and are in a state of ungrace Sorry, schoolgirl giggles. Ahem. Forgive. I now retire to the kitchen. |
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« Reply #1717 on: 17:25:30, 24-03-2008 » |
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Good Lord, is that the time? Better serve up then! Bon Appetite  |
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« Reply #1718 on: 20:09:40, 24-03-2008 » |
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I is back from Wales, look you. A brief preliminary report on the Nige gammon: NOM NOM NOMI thank you. (The only question mark was over the 'whole' cinnamon stick. It certainly made it cinnamon-ny, not that that's a Bad Thing, but I thought it might have elbowed too much of the other flavours out of the frame. Or it could have been that I used too big a stick. Wouldn't be the first time... ) |
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« Reply #1719 on: 20:21:56, 24-03-2008 » |
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I is back from Wales, look you. A brief preliminary report
Marty, Marty, Marty, sorry. No cinammon sticks were harmed in this recipe. Plenty of juniper berries were You sure you got the right receipt? |
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« Reply #1720 on: 20:24:46, 24-03-2008 » |
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Antyantyanty,
Yes plenty of junipers, plus the veg, apple juice and peppercorns, bay leaves. I just think I should have used a smaller stick. I'm not really complaining though!
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« Reply #1721 on: 20:41:29, 24-03-2008 » |
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Marty,marty,marty.
I never knew! OMIG, I have been reading the recipt wrong all this time! I blush with shame and hide beneath me dimity bonnet. Never, ever, have I included a stick of cinammon!
I don't even like cinammon (Just as well then isn't it?)
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« Reply #1723 on: 21:59:05, 24-03-2008 » |
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PS I haven't got any idea what string theory is and the following "basic" description is  Think of a guitar string that has been tuned by stretching the string under tension across the guitar. Depending on how the string is plucked and how much tension is in the string, different musical notes will be created by the string. These musical notes could be said to be excitation modes of that guitar string under tension.
In a similar manner, in string theory, the elementary particles we observe in particle accelerators could be thought of as the "musical notes" or excitation modes of elementary strings.
In string theory, as in guitar playing, the string must be stretched under tension in order to become excited. However, the strings in string theory are floating in spacetime, they aren't tied down to a guitar. Nonetheless, they have tension. The string tension in string theory is denoted by the quantity 1/(2 p a'), where a' is pronounced "alpha prime" and is equal to the square of the string length scale.
If string theory is to be a theory of quantum gravity, then the average size of a string should be somewhere near the length scale of quantum gravity, called the Planck length, which is about 10-33 centimeters, or about a millionth of a billionth of a billionth of a billionth of a centimeter. Unfortunately, this means that strings are way too small to see by current or expected particle physics technology (or financing!!) and so string theorists must devise more clever methods to test the theory than just looking for little strings in particle experiments.
String theories are classified according to whether or not the strings are required to be closed loops, and whether or not the particle spectrum includes fermions. In order to include fermions in string theory, there must be a special kind of symmetry called supersymmetry, which means for every boson (particle that transmits a force) there is a corresponding fermion (particle that makes up matter). So supersymmetry relates the particles that transmit forces to the particles that make up matter.
Supersymmetric partners to currently known particles have not been observed in particle experiments, but theorists believe this is because supersymmetric particles are too massive to be detected at current accelerators. Particle accelerators could be on the verge of finding evidence for high energy supersymmetry in the next decade. Evidence for supersymmetry at high energy would be compelling evidence that string theory was a good mathematical model for Nature at the smallest distance scales.PPS this hasn't got much to do with cooking |
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« Reply #1724 on: 22:05:24, 24-03-2008 » |
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Made chicken fajitas tonight. Multi-coloured peppers, red onion, and chicken that had soaked in lime (both juice and zest), chilli powder, oregano and tequila, wrapped up in flour tortillas with salsa and mumble half-fat crème fraîche instead of proper sour cream
In the eloquent words that have appeared frequently on this thread:
NOM NOM NOM
(edited to adjust diacritical marks)
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