Jesus, fucking Typepad. I just wrote a post and tweaked it and was happy with it and pressed Post and like magic it disappeared. I hate it when that happens; it's such a time-waste and just makes me so pissed off I could march into the Typepad offices and ping eraser heads at people until they do something about it. Like find my lovely post.
Arg.
You'd never know it now, but that post was so cheery and ready to embrace the world. I'm sure the sunshiney lemondrops of old are around here somewhere, they're just covered in cat hair and melted bits of the crappy instant coffee we bought for Simon 'Powered By Caffeine' Mastrantone.
Anyway, I think the gist of it was that I've twisted my ankle. It happened Sunday night, I somehow misjudged the distance between the stair and the landing, which I have successfully navigated for over two years, and came crashing down in a puddle of screaming ouch. It now looks like a quail has made her nest just below my ankle bone, except less lumpy and a lot more bruised. This is far better than I looked when I sprained it a few years ago and my whole foot swelled into a giant purple rugby ball. I can actually walk on it relatively pain-free today, all thanks to several packs of ice and one glorious bag of frozen peas
Fortunately Matthew's back from touring and so breakfast yesterday comprised of pancakes for all! We had no food in the house, because the Woebies were staying all weekend and I'm supposed to be concentrating solely on writing a paper, so it was the most logical choice. And it just so happens, the most delicious! My regular pancake recipe is awesome, but these -- the Blueberry Cornmeal Pancakes out of Veganomicon -- are divine. I don't care how much meat you ingest, no serious foodie's kitchen should be without this book. At some point I'm going to embark on a Isa and Emmms adventure, because I there isn't another food writer out there who inspires me quite so much.
Because we couldn't let that bag of peas go to waste, Matthew also whipped up my favourite summer soup: Pea! This soup is one of the fastest soups around and definitely one of the tastiest:
ingredients:
2 tbsp olive oil
1 small yellow onion, diced
500 g frozen peas
600 ml vegetable stock
pinch of nutmeg
salt and fresh cracked pepper to taste
method:
In a heavy-bottomed saucepan, heat the oil over low heat. Add the onion and saute until transluscent. Stir in the peas. When the peas are bright, add the stock and bring to the boil. Add the nutmeg, salt and pepper, then reduce the heat and let simmer for about 5 minutes.
Transfer about a quarter of the peas to a bowl, using a slotted spoon. Blitz the soup in the saucepan with a hand-blender until smooth and creamy, then return the peas, et voila! The soup, it is ready.
It's hard to say how I prefer this soup: as the fresh taste of summer or as the bright soup in winter that reminds me summers on the way. No matter when you have it, it's delish. We've put together a couple of variants of it for the Loumms Grow Your Own series, just because it's so fast and versatile. Nom!
You know, I think that sunshiney feeling might have returned. I'm feeling light and bright and keen to face the world. And I'm feeling all ready to go with some paper-writing, too. It's a Tuesday miracle.
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