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Been along time, been a long time, been a long lo...well, not so lonely in fact. I've been doing loads of things and meeting loads of people. That's why there haven't been any recipes for ages. Sveta and I have put in a lot of travelling over the last few months. We've been exploring the Caucasus and Turkey. I'm writing from Yerevan in Armenia but the day after tomorrow we're off to India for a month of sunshine. It's been great here, but it's getting a little cold. There's snow and ice on the ground and everything has gone all monochrome. There's a word that takes me back...The Monochrome Set, Monochrome Set, Monochrome Se-e-e-et. Whatever happened to them? Good songs, daft name.
We were in Istanbul last week and I had the best avocados I ever tasted. They were from Antalya. We didn't do anything fancy with them - just cut them in half and ate them - but there are lots of good dishes you can make with avocado as an ingredient. There are a few on my avocado recipes page and I've posted a two ones in this update. And that's about it....
New recipes
pasta with avocado and spinach
basil and bean salad
avocado pasta salad
Wow!
Howzat? Another update within a couple of weeks. I got stuck for a few days,
trying to get motivated enough to dig out the mincer again for the olive
tapenades. Once I'd cleaned and dismantled it and packed it away, it seemed
an awful lot
of trouble to get it out again. But I did eventually.
New recipes
green olive tapenade
black olive tapenade
stir-fried
mushroom and aubergine with coconut
lettuce and cream cheese trumpets
cabbage cream salad
New photo pages
Lisbon, April 06
This
update, we begin with a picture of some ants shifting a fragment of crisp.
I say 'crisp' but of course that would be 'potato chip' for our US readers.
I took this photo in south India - I'm not sure whether peple say 'crisp'
or 'chip' there when they're speaking English. Indeed, since the deep-fried
crispy snack was probably invented in India, it would come as no surprise if
Indians have
their very own English word. Whatever it's called, the ants seem to like it.
I've been unusually busy lately. It's not often I post two updates in the same month. I used to do it a long time ago - way back at the beginning when I was just starting the site, but the last while, I've grown kinda lazy. This may be just a temporary burst of enthusiasm, but let's see; maybe I can keep it up.
New recipes
fat-free lentil pate
mushroom pate
aubergine caviar
stuffed courgettes
cherry-tomato and pine-nut salad
spinach, feta and red onion salad
New photo pages
Crazy horses
New cartoons
Vegan footwear
The second update of the year! Ya lazy so-and-so, Macbean!
Some good recipes in this one, but....and I finally got round to doing some photo pages from our winter wanderings. I've put a few new photos on some older pages too - additions to my mountains, boats, sunsets and wallpapers pages.
My cartoons are still as lame as ever.
The handle came off the oven door last week. I'm thinking it really is time to get a new cooker.
New recipes
baked red cabbage with
cashew sauce
cauliflower and spinach
sirniki (cottage cheese patties)
fruit compot
refried beans
garlic beans with olives
green olive, walnut and cherry
dip
potato, coriander and
feta bake
ultra-fast dill pickled
cucumbers
New photo pages
Singapore 06
Malaysia 06
Thailand
06
New cartoons
Animal sounds
Small furry animals
New links to other sites
Downbound.co.uk Down the corporate ladder, down the food chain and down to earth,
this is the place to find hundreds of organic, vegan and no-sweat-shop products
An appropriate date, I think. I finally got round to writing up some new recipes. Been travelling a lot recently. Started in India in December, then on to Malaysia and up to Thailand. We liked Malaysia so much we had to go back and we travelled down through the peninsula to Singapore. Back in Central Asia for a month and we spent the time back and forward between Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan. The road between Almaty and Bishkek has finally been fully repaired after four years of major roadworks and diversions. It now takes a matter of hours to do the journey instead of the whole day.
I've got loads of photos to put up but they'll have to wait till next time (along with a load more yummy recipes I've worked out lately but haven't had time to post). Sveta and I are off to Portugal tonight then next week we'll be going to the UK - a few days in England then up to Scotland to visit mum and dad. A wee stop-over of a couple of days in Amsterdam might be in order if we have time on the way back. Should be at the computer again by the end of April.
As usual I'll be trying to update my travelblog periodically while we're on the road.
New recipes
carrot and rosemary soup
fried green beans and beansprouts
baked beetroot
bruschetta
spinach and pistachio salad
baked potatoes
New cartoons
What next?