Crocuses just emerging near our house, despite frost - I had to lie right down on the ground to get these angles
Friday, 26 February 2010
Sherborne, Dorset, UK, February 2010
Crocuses just emerging near our house, despite frost - I had to lie right down on the ground to get these angles
Monday, 22 February 2010
Cabbage Rolls, Georgian Style (Recipe)
By popular request. More recipes, perhaps, to follow.Get a large pot of water boiling for the cabbage blanching.
Filling:
1 kg ground beef, pork or other meat
300 g uncooked rice (long/short grain, brown/white, as you like)
200 g raw onion, grated or machine chopped fine
4-5 med. cloves garlic, minced
c. 250 g chopped tomato, fresh or tinned, or taste equivalent in paste
salt & pepper, dry basil, & dill, & ground coriander, all to taste
300 mL boiling or hot water
Mix these all in a large bowl & set aside.
2 large cabbages
Cut out the cores from the cabbages, & put 1 of them into the blanching pot of boiling water to cover, letting it continue to boil. As the outermost leaves soften, carefully remove them & put onto a plate, continuing thus until all leaves are done. Repeat with the 2nd cabbage. De-vein the leaves of their large, thick central vein with a sharp knife, leaving some behind so as not to cut a hole through the thickness of the leaf. Save this pot of water hot to use for boiling the rolls, if you like, but you'll need to put them into the pot & THEN add the water.
Stuff each leaf with a tablespoon or so of the filling, placing it near the leaf base. Fold the base over the filling; fold in the sides; then roll it up towards the "upper" edge of the leaf.
Place the rolls into a large pot. When they're all in place, just cover with the hot cooking water, to which you may add some stock cubes, seasoning, etc. Simmer for at least 1/2 hour, then check. Serve several rolls per person in a bowl with some of the liquid too, garnished with a sprinkle of the seasonings on top if you like.
You can similarly fill bell peppers, eggplant (aubergine), tomatoes, and even blanched grape leaves! The latter version traditionally has a sauce of cold plain yoghurt with plenty of fresh minced garlic in it on top. Gemrielia (= YUM)!
Tuesday, 16 February 2010
Saturday, 13 February 2010
Oborne, Dorset, February 2010
More scurrying ducks, slow shutter speed & panning the camera to follow themChurch wall
Reflection in car's front end
Friday, 12 February 2010
120th visitor country is...
Bolivia! Congratulations and welcome to you! Been waiting for this number for a long time!
Saturday, 6 February 2010
Sherborne, Dorset, UK, February 2010
Lali cutting up fresh khachapuri (Georgian cheese bread) made with a mix of extra mature cheddar & a bit of stilton cheeses - yum!Ducks moving along, Oborne, Dorset
Wednesday, 3 February 2010
Sherborne, Dorset, UK, January 2010
Espresso, meet capuccino. Tony, meet RuthTony trying in vain to blow out the blasted self-relighting candles on his birthday cake, to the endless amusement of Anne Charlotte, June, Karen and Mark, with Lali behind the camera lens
Yummy mince-stuffed cabbage rolls, part of my birthday supper, which was mostly delicious and sorely missed Georgian food
Monday, 1 February 2010
Sherborne, Dorset, UK, January 2010
New job: part-time chef (among other things) at a nursing home in Sherborne). First time I've had the proper uniform!A couple of shots from the UK's Big Freeze of earlier in January. Not much snow if you're used to it, but if you're not, a whole new world in both good and bad ways
Saturday, 30 January 2010
Sherborne, Dorset, UK, January 2010
Weeeellll, it's about time I posted some more photos before I forget HOW. Got a new part-time job which is keeping me busy - about which more later.Eggs, shop window
Lali & our hostess, Anne Charlotte McDermid, outside the house (our window is top left)
Dogs patiently waiting for owner outside a supermarket
Tuesday, 19 January 2010
Sherborne, Dorset, UK, January 2010
Tony & Lali doing what the kissing gate tells them toKaty & Paul doing what Tony tells them to
Sunday, 17 January 2010
Sherborne, Dorset, UK, January 2010
Ice near Sherborne New Castle - structure and pattern everywhere one cares to look
Friday, 15 January 2010
Sherborne, Dorset, UK, January 2010
Pond ice at home... goldfish don't mind it at all, they're safe below
Wednesday, 13 January 2010
Sherborne, Dorset, UK, January 2010
Dear Me: Happy 43rd Birthday!A frosted leaf, in shadow and sunlight
View over Sherborne including its ancient Abbey
Monday, 11 January 2010
Sherborne, Dorset, UK, January 2010
Just frost scrapings off a car window... and observation drinking in the amazing capabilities of H2O to take on any form
Saturday, 9 January 2010
Sherborne, Dorset, UK, late December 2009
William McDermid doing his stuff - he's an amazing magician, baffling, self-confident, great at parties. Once again, I'm playing with slow shutter and flash to freeze at the same time.
Thursday, 7 January 2010
Tuesday, 5 January 2010
Sherborne, Dorset, UK, late December 2009
That festive period between Christmas and New Year's Day... a Sunday pub lunch (hooked on blur/shutter), and late Christmas cake, which I hated as a child but have since grown to love
Sunday, 3 January 2010
Pond Ice, Sherborne, UK
A fascinating discovery: pond ice 1/2-1" thick, cracked with the heel of my shoe, reveals nice (polarised?) light patterns in the fault lines
Friday, 1 January 2010
Wednesday, 30 December 2009
Sherborne, Dorset, UK, December 2009
Morris Dancer's splendid jacketAncient High Street architecture, Sherborne
Ivy
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