Weekends & memage

[ellenscult]

Thanks to kiarapanther, 'Where does your soul originate?' and 'If you were in Beowulf...' *grin*
You come from an Ancient Civilization. Egypt,
China, Rome... a piece of all the greatest
civilizations of their time can be found in
you.


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You scored as The Dragon. Ancient, chaotic, and a bit mysterious is the Dragon figure. Awakened from your happy slumber upon a pile of gold, you go about the country slaying its occupants. Beowulf manages to kill you, but not before you ensure his death. Congrats.

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*tee hee* *roar* Well, I always did like Spyro! *big grin*

Well, the weekend was great. I met friends at VJs on Saturday, which was lovely, and bumped into Steve and Leslie, then failmaster, at Borders. Went to the Designer Outlet with medains and ravenlas and bought some wrapping paper, some gifts, and a sexy shirt (so I am assured). Got home and met Dave Hughes, who I haven't seen for almost a year, so that was lovely. Cooked spag bog (mmm - oh, meant to bring the leftovers for lunch, bah!) and didn't do much for the rest of the evening.

Sunday was great too, as gaxx, Adam, paul_marks, sunlessnick and john_hat gathered at my house. After a little shuffle of cars, we headed off into town for lunch at Orgasmic with ravenlas and Dave. Thence to the Pitcher and Piano (minus gaxx, and on to Vue to see Blade Trinity, which was much fun, but be careful not to poke at the holes in it or it will fall apart on you. It was highly entertaining, and yet again, I enjoyed the cinematography. Back to my place, then john_hat headed home, and shortly thereafter did Dave. The remainder of this ragged band watched Taxi (the French film - v. funny), and I got some work done - more than I have all week, so yay!

The only slight flaw in the weekend is that Leo is once more peeing at the foot of the stairs, but I have hopes he's just miffed at his vets trips, and will stop soon.

And to today? Well, the train went from platform 5 rather than platform 3, was incredibly crowded, and then came in on platform 8 rather than platform 6. *shrug* Oh well! Change is good...

Have a great week!

Comments

odd trainage

[fire-kitten.livejournal.com]

my trains were odd too.

there was a stop missed out entiriely (most worrying as I was planning on changing to get the train from there in future) and hald of the platforms were wrong too.

no idea what was going on though

Re: odd trainage

[ellenscult]

Just random train chaos, I'd imagine. Although I did hear on the news this morning there's a new train service going direct from Sheffield to Leeds and taking *gasp* Less Than An Hour!!! So that could be affecting things. Or it could just be a Monday. *shrug*

[ex-john-hat807.livejournal.com]

It was good fun and great (as usual) to meet all your friends (even the conservative chappie!...which one was he?)

Looking forward to murdering people at the wall though...

**cackles**

[ellenscult]

That was Paul Marks - he's definitely unique! He knows more about politics and history than anyone else I've ever met. I get lost with all the names... I'm glad you had fun. I hope you're looking less pale and tired now! Have fun tormenting folks! ;-)

[kyryn.livejournal.com]

Okay. What's spag bog? That's one that I haven't heard before. And, if it sounds good enough, I'll want a recipe. :)

[ellenscult]

It's spaghetti bolognese, and it's made with whatever comes to hand. My usual receipe goes like this:

some onions, chopped reasonably small, fried in olive oil until they go translucent.
Add beef mince if you're making a meat dish (or lamb if you fancy it, but it tastes very different). Stir until the meat browns.
Add several carrots, peeled and chopped reasonably small, some celery, mushrooms, sweet peppers, (ditto). Add some peas if you like (I do), and two tins of chopped plum tomatoes and maybe some tomato puree if you don't think it's tomatoey enough. Add garlic, mixed mediterranean herbs, vegetable / beef stock cubes, basil leaves, to taste.
Add tofu or quorn mince if you're making a vegetarian dish.

Cover the pan with something to stop splatters, and leave it on a low heat to cook for around half an hour, depending on how chewey you like your veg.

Grate a lot of mature cheddar (to taste, entirely optional).

Cook some pasta, which (despite the name) doesn't have to be spaghetti.

Voila! One beautiful spag bog! ;-) I hope you like it - it's kind of a staple of my family.

For variety, you could add in some smoked back bacon, chopped up quite small, if you like; it gives it lots of flavour. Use whatever veg you have to hand - the only essentials are the mince, onions, tomatoes and herbs.

Mmmmmm!

[kyryn.livejournal.com]

Now my mouth is watering. Sounds wonderful! I'm printing out the recipe now and I'll hand it over to our resident cooks (roomie ldhummingbird and husband crazymike), since they're much better at that sort of stuff than I am.