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In the oven GM3, covered roasting tray - branch of rosemary, about 25 peeled garlic cloves and the olive oil they were in, 2 big spoons of capers, a big jar of butter beans and liquid, smoked paprika, a seasoned 880gm boned rolled shoulder of mutton, a little water. Now we have to wait 5 hours.

Seen it! There's a lovely scene where his family are burning to death in a car crash, but the production team ran out of money and it's a few minutes of an empty street with a caption "insert flame fx here".

ON BOTH SIDES

In the slow-cooker - chopped smoked bacon, red cabbage, bramley apples, garlic/ginger paste, sugar, sherry vinegar, concentrated chicken stock, cinnamon stick. To add more liquid if needed and cooked chestnuts. Other slow-cooker holds a gammon joint poaching in dandelion and burdock for 24 hours.

Trump looking at a photo of himself, Prince Andrew and Jeffrey Epstein

"And this is a gift from my brother, he says he took it at one of your parties"

In the slow-cooker - a base of onions, cabbage and leeks caramelised in PX sherry, beef stock, olive oil and thyme. Now stewing with jarred chickpeas, venison meatballs, dashes of liquid pecan smoke and liquorice sauce. To be served with lingonberry jam and the Last Night of the Proms.

Our local ice cream van plays "Yankee Doodle Dandy". I mention this every so often as apparently it really pisses off Confederate supporters.

I have learned a phrase from Ted Lasso tonight that I think may be my life mantra. "Oops, innit."

Oooh, Alien Earth is rather good.

Ozmen International in Sheffield usually have them, ask Alice.

OH YES

If you can get hold of it, Mad Love - the films of Yevgeni Bauer features loads of experimental camera and light work from the 1910s. Unfortunately the Soviets categorised him as decadent, and a lot of his work didn't survive.

Cool enough to cook again. Courgettes, garlic, olive oil, preserved lemon, jar of green olive tapenade, butter beans. Parmesan to finish.

keeping an eye on this

It’s similar ingredients to Imam Bayildi (The Priest Fainted), and one of the legends about WHY the priest fainted is that his wife used up her entire olive oil dowry in the first moon of their marriage making this, his favourite dish. Personally I’d add garlic. I bet it’s delicious cooled as well.

Hopefully the BBC will stop showing any sort of art altogether, in case it has the wrong ideas in it.

The black cats of the household have decided that THE place to sprawl in a heatwave is across my chest. Luckily they are good at taking turns.

You’ll be too young to remember, but there was a time when you could wake up as many as three mornings in a row and not find the world had lost its fucking mind.

Base of oil, cabbage, leek, green peas, padron peppers, cashews, turkey mince. Cumin / coriander seeds, asafoetida, ground fenugreek, turmeric, cinnamon stick. Pulped tomatoes and stock. Give it a couple of hours slow-cooking and maybe add some heat. Have sweet potato pakoras.

It's what fresh greenery I have to hand - there's sorrel, dandelion, chives and wild garlic in the garden. My mint bed needs a replant, it got overwhelmed by brambles last year.

If we have battered or breaded fish, I make a green yoghourt loosely based on tartare sauce. Tonight - whizzed fresh dill, fresh spinach leaves, garlic paste, salted capers, gherkin relish - stirred into 10% greek yoghourt. Excellent with battered cod, jersey royals and green peas.

In the slow-cooker: fried sage leaves and chopped onion, topped with lots of fresh rhubarb, garlic, pinch mixed spice, a little veggie stock, and pork belly slices. 3 hours. Might have - quinoa, sweet potato mash, butter beans.

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It is wonderful! Especially enjoying Sanctuary Moon.

In the oven GM3. Roasting tray layered with chopped onion and 5 giant sticks of rhubarb in 3" lengths. Added lamb stock, green ginger wine. Topped with a boned rolled shoulder of mutton, seasoned. Cover with foil. After 4 hours, unwrap, add a jar of queen butter beans. Re-cover, 2 more hours.

Two of my coworkers are yelling about the pope being a cubs fan. It’s getting heated in here

Movies Trump must never see?
White House Down / Olympus Has Fallen, obvs
Triumph of the Will
Mars Attacks
Being There
The Omen
Clockwork Orange
I think he's already seen Wizard of Oz

me too!

Murderbot's TV adaption will feature major changes. I talked to the creators about how those decisions were made - The Escapist Murderbot Season 1 will feature some major changes to the novella, but the creators are doing so for good reason.

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