I found this recipe in the Danish newspaper Politiken (22nd October 1995), and it soon became a favourite of both my sister Miriam and myself.It's one of those few veggie dishes that you don't want to add any meat to – it's perfectly balanced and complete in itself.Here's the recipe for two people:Salsa:Chop ½ largish salad onion, 2 tomatoes, 1...
Perhaps because my native language is Danish, where y is a vowel and (almost) never a consonant, I've always regarded the English letter as primarily a vowel that can sometimes act as a consonant. However, native speakers seem to regard it primarily as a consonant. When Charlotte moved it with me two years ago, she was six years old and...
There are lots of rumours on the Internet at the moment saying that Sarah Palin’s fifth child cannot possibly be hers but must be her 16-years-old daughter’s instead. For instance:
Personally, I couldn’t care less if her daughter had a baby, but I do care about honesty.
If she’s prepared to arrange such an elaborate cover-up, what else would she be prepared to do?
There was a story today about a Ryanair flight which lost cabin pressure as a result of which oxygen masks were released.Fairly standard stuff that doesn't worry me overly.However, it made me wonder what to do about babies under two. You see, you can't book individual seats for them, they have to sit on your lap.So what do you do if you need oxygen and you only get one mask for your baby and yourself?I asked in the comments section...
I seem consistently to disagree with the majority of libdems: I voted for Chris Huhne twice, not for Ming and not for Clegg, and this time I voted for Rumbles, not Scott. :-(However, Tavish Scott won easily with 59% of the first priorities.Something is rotten in the Libdem party. In all these elections, the membership have followed the advice of...
Der var tilbud på to flasker belgisk cider med frugt af mærket Jacques i Sainsbury's i dag.Jeg havde set den nævnt i nogle reklamer, og vi besluttede os for at prøve den, så vi købte en flaske rød ("fruits des...
This poster ("The Periodic Table of Mixology") that I once bought for my sister is hanging outside my parents' bedroom (click on it for a more readable version).As its name implies, it's presenting cocktails in a format similar to the...
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