#584 Birthday.

Sally's birthday - we went for lunch.

#583 Old Stuff

Just about finished my early220.blogspot.com site.
In time for 220 Magazine's 25th Birthday in March.

#582 Fat Orange and Trek Farley

My resprayed Fatty with new carbon forks.

Borrowed for the morning from my LBS a Trek Farley.
It's a bit lighter by a kilo but costs 500€ more.

#581 Click to Fix

New floor in our kitchen. Easy to install (as long as you have four hands).

#580 Salt Baked Sea Bass

Salt Baked Sea Bass with Orange Carrots

Followed by:

White Chocolate, Cardamon, Pistachio and Rose Pannacotta.

#579 Shorts (and T shirts)

Even the wind is warm :-)

#578 Asiatic Vegetable Curry

#577 Keeping Amazon in Business

#576 It's a Wash

#575 Rabbit stew and cabbage

#574 Weather today will mostly be . . . . . .

. . . . . even warmer on our terraza :- )

#573 Onion Soup

Onion Soup: gently fry two onions for at least half an hour - with a secret ingredient, three or four pieces of Star Anise. Once fried to a nice medium brown (but not burnt, hopefully) add chicken stock and bring to a simmer for 15 minutes. Add some salt and pepper. Done.

If you are French, grate Gruyere cheese on top and grill.

#572 Tom

#571 Stock to be.

Bits of vegetables and chicken, simmered for four or five hours - et voilà!

And the next day - Chicken Broth from the stock
with new vegetables and chicken.

#570 Stop!

#569 Sudsy

#568 December Books

#567 Chilli con Carne

Ingredients
350 grams Beef minced by your friendly butcher
1 Onion, red but if not, any colour.
4 cloves of Garlic
2 tablespoons of Chorizo chopped into minute pieces
1 tin Tomato pulp
1 big spoon of concentrated tomato or perhaps a squirt of Heinz tomato sauce

Cumin, Cinnamon, various Chilli Peppers all ground up.
(a variety of peppers is good; hot, spicy, smokey, paprika - you choose).
Salt and Black pepper

1 Jar or tin of cooked red beans

Juice of one Lime
Sour Cream

Method
Heat a strong solid frying pan till it is very very hot.
Fry the meat, keep stirring, it will start to stick but don’t worry, water will eventually come out, keep frying until it starts to brown - stop and set aside.

Fry the onions till transparent, add garlic then spices then tomatoes.
Add some water if it’s thick and stogy (or red wine, stock or even strong black coffee).
Add back the fried meat and cook very slowly for 40 minutes,
Add red beans for five minutes more.
Salt and Pepper to your taste.
Squeeze on some lime juice.

Serve with a dollop of sour cream plus any side dishes; rice, vegetables, guacamole as you wish.
Enough here for four or two servings and freeze the other half.
Left overs are good with a baked potato.

#566 Jay's Birthday

It's Jay's birthday today.
Here is a photo I took earlier.
He is with Mika, Gloria, Bella, Helenium and Eomer.

Barcelona