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Mulligatawny

Mulligatawny   As usual, the spouse did the shopping this morning. He brought home a chicken, saying that they were cheap today and he would make stock with it. So I thought that I would check in The Soup Book to see if there were any recipes calling for cooked chicken. That's how I decided upon mulligatawny.  The recipe in The Soup Book is by Roopa Gulati , who describes it in her introduction as "as Anglo-Indian soup from colonial days." Although I have Anglo-Indian antecedents (in the original definition of the term), mulligatawny did not feature in my Anglo-Indian parent's repertoire of dishes. I do, however, remember eating a canned version of it. Today's recipe lists the following ingredients: onion, root ginger, garlic, apple, carrot, celery, mild curry powder, flour, tomatoes, tomato puree, hot chicken stock, bay leaves, coconut milk and cooked chicken. As the weekly shop had been done by the time I had picked out this soup, I was running the...

Vanishing of the Bees

Vanishing of the Bees Vanishing of the Bees is a film made in 2007 about bees and colony collapse disorder. Here are a couple of links: www.vanishingbees.com and www.vanishingbees.co.uk. I've just added my first widget to my blog! It's from the UK website address above. Why Bees? My rather cursory interest in bees dates back to my primary school days. I must have been nine or ten years of age and was supposed to be working on a project of my choice. A deadline was looming and everyone else seemed to be working away on their projects. I couldn't think of anything and had been told off for my previous project work! Exasperated, my teacher told me to do my project on bees. I remember reading just the one book - and probably copying it. In spite of myself, I became interested in what I was reading. I must have run out of time because I remember getting to the section about bees' dances as a means of communication but not including the information in my project. One of the ...

Funny Honey

Funny Honey Just a very quick post today. We're back from Austria. In a supermarket we saw jars of pink and green honey! We didn't go close enough to find out what was in them. Also in Austria I tried out different soups - Erbsensuppe mit Wurstl (lentil soup with sausage), tomato, potato, broccoli, etc. All tasty, but definitely not home made! Colony - Update MH tells me that Colony (www.colonymovie.com; see my blog of 25th January) may have won an award recently. I haven't been able to confirm as yet but here are a couple of links to articles about the documentary and colony collapse disorder - Suite 101 Film Ireland