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Thing-a-Day #6 : Yellow Tulip
Yellow Tulip, originally uploaded by kcm76.
I was worried I wouldn’t get to do anything new for Thing-a-Day today (tho’ I do have a few posts on standby from earlier in the week) but here’s a yellow tulip from a bunch of flowers my wife was given a few days ago. Shame the photo is a bit underexposed.
Thing-a-Day #5 : Cheese & Onion Muffins
Today I made muffins, which are incredibly easy as well as hugely versatile. And you don’t have to stick to the omnipresent blueberry or chocolate chip varieties as this shows.
The recipe is adapted from “Savoury Cheese Muffins” in Muffins Fast and Fantastic by Susan Reimer.
This is what I did, but it is almost infinitely adaptable for other savoury ingredients including broccoli, peppers, chilli, mushroom, courgette, cherry tomatoes, ham.
Ingredients
9 oz (255 g) plain flour
2 tsp (10 ml) baking powder
½ tsp (2.5 ml) bicarbonate of soda
¼ tsp (1.2 ml) salt
2 oz (60 g) grated strong cheddar cheese, plus a bit for topping
1 egg
2 tbsp (30 ml) fine white granulated sugar
½ large red onion, finely chopped
2 tbsp chopped fresh herbs (I used fresh tarragon)
1 tsp garlic paste
2 tbsp sesame seeds
4 fl oz (120 ml) plain yogurt
6 fl oz (180 ml) milk
3 fl oz (90 ml) good olive oil (vegetable oil is OK)
Method
1. Prepare muffin tins. These tend to stick to paper liners so just using a well greased non-stick tin is probably better.
2. Preheat oven to 200°C for a conventional oven, or 180°C for a fan assisted oven.
3. In a large bowl, sift together flour, baking powder, bicarbonate of soda and salt. Stir in grated cheese, sesame seed and onion.
4. In another bowl, beat egg with a fork. Stir in sugar, yoghurt, milk, oil, garlic paste and fresh herbs.
5. Add all wet mixture to dry mixture and, with a metal spoon, mix ingredients together with a minimum of stirring. The batter will have a “thick dropping” consistency.
6. Fill muffin cups three-quarters full. Sprinkle tops with extra cheese.
7. Bake for about 20 minutes until tops are browned and spring back when pressed gently. (Mine could have done with an extra couple of minutes.)
8. Cool for several minutes to make removal easier.
Best eaten fresh and slightly warm.
Thing-a-Day #4 : 10000 Yonis of Mother Earth
My original intention was to make cheese and onion muffins today, but the day hasn’t worked that way. So here is a a photo I took this morning instead. It’s one of the 10,000 Yonis of Mother Earth (as in Hinduism and in Jung).
And here, in case anyone is too confused, is the original image straight from the camera.
Thing-a-Day #3 : Postbox
Paintingised shot of the pillarbox outside Waitrose at South Harrow.
Thing-0a-Day 02; Water_Tablet
Paid a flying visit today to the Kew Bridge Steam Museum in west London, which occupies a former waterworks site. Amongst the exhibits of enormous steam-driven beam engines for pumping water I found this tablet, obviously from an original waterworks site in east London. I shall definitely go back to take more photographs.
Thing-a-Day
I’ve just signed up for this year’s Thing-a-Day which means I also now have a Posterous account. Aarrrgggghhhhh!!!! Yes this is another blogging tool I really didn’t need. But hey, ho!
This is really by way of a test message to see how posting by email to Posterous actually works – and where the results end up!
Keith
My Friends Meme
My Friends Meme, originally uploaded by kcm76.
This week’s Flickr meme is to use the first names of 12 friends and see what we get.
So I chose: Gabriella, Sue, Stephen, Rob, Tom, Christine, Malin, Ziggy, Prue, Les, John and Katy.
1. Don’t Go Yet, 2. Sue W., 3. tempest three, 4. Very sticky flip-flops that don’t flop!, 5. Naked Bill But Still Beautiful, 6. In A Dream With You, 7. encadrée, 8. Angelic Fruitcake, 9. Parisian Stories 5 – The Brawl 15, 10. NYC – MoMA: Pablo Picasso’s Head of a Sleeping Woman (Study for Nude with Drapery), 11. INTO THE SUN. PAINTING BY JOHN P. BUTLER, 12. Katy Kitchen
As always the photographs are not mine so please click on individual links below to see each artist/photostream. This mosaic is for a group called My Meme, where each week there is a different theme and normally 12 questions to send you out on a hunt to discover photos to fit your meme. It gives you a chance to see and admire other great photographers’ work out there on Flickr.
Created with fd’s Flickr Toys
All About Animals Meme
This week’s Flickr meme is all about our favourite animals.
First here’s my usual slightly off the wall take; interpret liberally:
1. favourite mammal: pussy
2. favourite primate: nubile
3. favourite fish: mermaid
4. favourite marsupial: giant hopping mouse
5. favourite insect: wasp
6. favourite bird: parrot
7. favourite reptile: my physics teacher (excellent teacher and nice guy, but he did look a bit like a juvenile tortoise!)
8. favourite amphibian: (pissed) newt
9. favourite dinosaur: dragon
10. favourite invertebrate: (raw) prawn
11. favourite animal name: Emperor Haile-Selassie (a rare pedigree wire-haired Abyssinian tripe hound)
12. if you could be an animal, what would you be? nymphomaniac
1. Lady Lula’s Bright Eyed Stare, 2. Natsumi, 3. Sirenity, 4. Wallaby
5. New wasp nest in shed., 6. Major Mitchell’s Cockatoo, 7. Tortoise Yoga, 8. Palmate Newt
9. Chinese Dragon, 10. Prawns, 11. HM Supreme Emperor Haile Selassie I, 12. PZ HalloweeN Ball
And here, for those who realy want it, is a more serious version:
1. favourite mammal: cat
2. favourite primate: lemur
3. favourite fish: koi
4. favourite marsupial: thylacene
5. favourite insect: wasp
6. favourite bird: parrot
7. favourite reptile: lizard
8. favourite amphibian: newt
9. favourite dinosaur: ichthyosaur
10. favourite invertebrate: lobster
11. favourite animal name: Zen (for a cat)
12. if you could be an animal, what would you be? cat
1. Lady Lula’s Bright Eyed Stare, 2. Ring-Tailed Lemur, 3. We call the big white guy Jaws, 4. Thylacene
5. New wasp nest in shed., 6. Major Mitchell’s Cockatoo, 7. Lady, Please!!, 8. Palmate Newt
9. Ichthyosaur, 10. Lobster, 11. Sleeping Cat, 12. IMG03898
As always the photographs are not mine so please click on individual links below to see each artist/photostream. This mosaic is for a group called My Meme, where each week there is a different theme and normally 12 questions to send you out on a hunt to discover photos to fit your meme. It gives you a chance to see and admire other great photographers’ work out there on Flickr.
Mosaics created with fd’s Flickr Toys
Story of My Life Meme
Story of My Life Meme, originally uploaded by kcm76.
This week’s Flickr meme is to design the book of your life, giving each of the chapters a title. And what could be more appropriate for my birthday!?
1. Title (front cover): Zen Navigation
2. Introduction: Evening, All
3. Chapter 1: Family History. Tragically I was an only twin
4. Chapter 2: School Days. Rocking-horse brains
5. Chapter 3: Idle Students. Information is the flotsam left by the tide of entropy
6. Chapter 4: Research. Faultless inaccuracy
7. Chapter 5: The World of Work. Bean counters and biro command
8. Chapter 6: Everlasting Love. If you don’t concern yourself with your wife’s cat, you will lose something irretrievable between you
9. Chapter 7: Anthony Powell Society. Keeping the ball running
10. Chapter 8: Retirement. Large print audio books
11. Epilogue: Some things were never meant to make sense
12. Back Cover: Utterly forgettable
As always the photographs are not mine so please click on individual links below to see each artist/photostream. This mosaic is for a group called My Meme, where each week there is a different theme and normally 12 questions to send you out on a hunt to discover photos to fit your meme. It gives you a chance to see and admire other great photographers’ work out there on Flickr.
1. Boating, 2. Police officer G20, 3. twins (only not really), 4. WW12: Rocking Horse Head, 5. Urban Relics, 6. Ammonite Parkinsonia dorsetensi , 7. Look We’ve Got Pens, 8. Shasta | Gone Home | 3/9/00-3/28/08, 9. Macro marbles, 10. “Nature Combined with Nurture Makes People Mature!” 🙂, 11. Quite a Yarn, 12. Backlit Red
Created with fd’s Flickr Toys