Recently a sunken historic ship was explored further, years after the obvious valuables had been removed and catalogued. And they found even more valuable cargo. The back story
From where I stand, keep the gold and jewels, just let me loose on those spices.
Speaking of valuable food-related information, this came today
Families displaced by the fire, largely Muslim, led by Munira Mahmud, made homeless by the fire, with nowhere to cook, arranged for space for a community kitchen at a nearby Muslim center.
Bed pillows, throw pillows. The green one has a cover I designed and knitted, different design on the back.
Meghan put her name and a lot of effort into working with the women leading the cooking, getting stuck in to cooking along with them, then helping get these recipes collated, published and distributed, proceeds to the Grenfell charity.
The community kitchen, named the Hubb, Arabic word for love, could only afford the space twice a week. With the proceeds from the cookbook sales, they could expand to seven days a week.
Here it is in action
This book has, at last count, raised upwards of half a million pounds, enabling the project to keep its kitchens open seven days a week.
So my buying the cookbook not only brings me new ideas to explore, but helps with their funding. And connects me, however humbly, to these heroic women.
A cheering note on a gloomy, lonely, wet February day.
About cool food ideas, I saw this one on Spain on a Fork and forgot to mention it. He slices cheese with a vegetable parer. Easier than grating, less annoying than the cheese slicing side of the box grater.
So I've started doing it, and wonder why I never thought of this before. I expect a lot of blogistas are thinking she didn't know that? Where's she been living? Well I didn't, but now I do, so I'm happy to have learned a little trick.
About the Lenten activity around here I was thinking about. I'm not religious, just borrowing the idea of doing something consistently for forty days, with an end in view.
I decided that winnowing will start again. Every day I'll offer either via Freecycle or the thriftie, things I can live without, to try to get simpler. By Easter, I'll be further ahead. St least, that's the plan.
Here's the start
Bed pillows, throw pillows. The green one has a cover I designed and knitted, different design on the back.
We'll see if Freecycle does it, or if I'll have to put this batch in the car, ready for a thriftie trip when there's enough to warrant it.
Happy evening everyone, I'm going for a cup of tea now, the cup that cheers, but not inebriates. Good old Hazlitt, a saying for every eventuality.
