10 December
18 November
10 November
08 November
06 November
25 October
19 October
29 September
09 August
31 July
12 July
27 April
18 March
15 February
05 February
10 January

10 December

Tomorrow were heading to Scotland for New Year - the first time in about 20 years. I'm looking forward to it, but I'll miss the sunny beaches we usually spend New Year on. We'll be on the beach this year, but wearing scarfs and hats.

Here's a quick recipe for fried tofu sandwiches before I go.

I also stuck another track on my sounds page today.

18 November

Here's a nice soup recipe to try.

Red pepper and bean soup

..and heres another drosophila cartoon.

10 November

A few recipes this time, for a change....

New recipes
rice with black olives and cashew nuts
courgettes with chilli, saffron and lime
beetroot and blueberry salad

8 November

I uploaded four new music tracks today.

6 November

A few wee cartoons about drosophela, or fruit flies....

Drosophila #1
Drosophila #2
Drosophila #3

25 Oct

Just one wee recipe today.... This one is mmmmmm... delicious.

New recipes
Brussels sprouts and courgette soup

19 October

I've got something completely new to offer today: the sounds page ! I've uploaded some audio tracks that I recently made and wanted to show off. Absolutely nothing to do with vegetarianism whatever - except that I named my first collection of tracks after a well-known vegetarian animal. I'll maybe name subsequent collections after my favourite vegetables.

I've posted a new recipe, too. Just the one, but it's a good one.

New recipes
Pumpkin and walnut risotto

29 September

A few more recipes.... I've also stuck a few video clips up from the Bute highland games and a couple of boat pictures.

New recipes
carrot, sweetcorn and coriander salad
rice with courgettes and capers
red cabbage and cranberry salad
carrot halva

...and since I now have quite a few carrot recipes, I though it was time to introduce the Carrot recipes page...

09 August

simple simple

New recipes
tomato and onion salad
tropical fruit with sago and coconut milk

31 July

Right, so.... Here's another bunch, inspired by our recent travels around south east Asia. I thought I'd put a photo on each page for a change. Some of them have only tenuous connection with the recipes, but they brighten up the page a bit. I like that. I might do more of it in future. I've started using the spell check in Dream Weaver, too. Altogether you should notice a big difference.

New recipes
Malaysian pineapple curry
Thai spicy salad with cashew nuts
tofu and green bean laap
Hat Yai bus station fried rice
spicy pineapple salad with toasted coconut

I've done quite a few recipes with pineapple in them, so I think now's the time to introduce the Pineapple recipes page.

12 July

Been sort of fed up with the cookbook lately...even thought of shutting it down, but I felt a burst of inspiration to write up the recipes I had lying around.... I'm not giving in so easily.

New recipes
Sri Lankan aubergine salad
chilled carrot and coriander soup
Thai-style tofu and pineapple red curry
Lao breakfast noodle soup
broccoli braised with potatoes and olives
tofu and mushroom laap
salting herbs
pasta with green peppers and rosemary

27 April

At last, here are some of the results of this winter's travels in south east Asia. It's not all I have - the rest will be along soon. There are still a couple of Lao recipes to try, Thai red curry and some other bits and pieces. I've really been enjoying getting back into cooking after taking a few months off. Haven't managed to burn or completely ruin anything, although I have noticed I'm a wee bit rusty. Soon sort that out, though (I mean the 'rusty' thing... not the 'haven't ruined anything yet' thing).

New recipes
vegetarian pad thai
spicy pumpkin soup
tofu and broccoli with chilli and basil sauce
thai-style tofu burgers
saffron cauliflower with raisins and green olives
veggie Thai green curry

18 March

Just one new recipe today... but that's one more than last time. And here are some more photos...

New recipes
Fat-free low carb Hong Kong tofu salad

New photo pages
Hong Kong 09
10 000 Buddhas

15 February

No more goldfish jokes, but a couple of goldfish videos instead. I've also made a couple of new photo galleries:

Sculptures in Thailand
Laos, January 09

5 February

Here are a couple more goldfish jokes... I think I've taken this about as far as it will go. These will probably be the last. I'm lagging behind a bit with the photo galleries - I've taken a lot of good pictures but I need to sit down for a while and convert the best ones and put them into galleries. Here's one anyway, and I've stuck a couple of new video clips up, too.

New cartoons
The goldfish lexicon 6
The goldfish lexicon 7

New photo galleries
Kuala Lumpur

10 January

Happy New Year! Last year it was March before I got round to doing any work on the cookbook.... Maybe this will be a productive year.

This update is coming from Nong Khai, Thailand, on the banks of the Mae Khong River (named after the famous Thai rice whisky). The opposite bank is Laos and that's where we're headed tomorrow.

Just a couple of bits and pieces today, but there will be more photo galleries coming shortly....

New cartoons
The goldfish lexicon 4
The goldfish lexicon 5

New photo galleries
Sri Lanka 2008