Harlescott Orange

[caddyman]

All in all, if at this moment in time I was informed authoritatively that should I never encounter another carrot stick, or tub of houmous, I would take it with the greatest of equanimity.

Tomorrow I shall have myself a lard sandwich and hang the consequences.

That is all.

Comments

[fencingsculptor.livejournal.com]

Are you eating goop and greens to be healthy ?

At lunch time tomorrow leave your desk and walk round St Jame's park briskly.

Twice.

Then have your lard sandwich.

Your increased metabolic rate will go some way to burning the yummy lard-wich, and the exercise will increase your heart rate.

A win on three levels I believe.

[caddyman.livejournal.com]

Mm. Sounds tedious. Once maybe. At a reasonable pace. To break up the boredom.

[fencingsculptor.livejournal.com]

A crisp dry autumnal day, walking around a Park, trees in their autumn splendour, Soldiers parading in the Baracks Tedious Sir !?! Tedious !

It has to be a brisk pace, to increase your heart rate, you don't have to be breathless. Just warm.

[littleonionz.livejournal.com]

I can't picture you eating huomous with a carrot stick, you were made for heartier fare. Obviously healthy, one is not advocating artery hardening grub or nuffink.

[caddyman.livejournal.com]

Can't I just wear a jumper and hold my breath?

[mollpeartree.livejournal.com]

I have several tasty Indian bean recipes that are pretty easy to make if you're interested. (Of course most of them involve ghee or cream, which is probably why they're so tasty. Well, maybe you could cut some of that down.) Also, probably not very good on carrot sticks, but excellent with pita bread usually. On the other hand, it's pretty easy to make a bunch at once then freeze it in little batches, beans survive freezing pretty well.

[caddyman.livejournal.com]

I have to admit that I am not a great fan of the bean family, unless they be of the baked variety, but then I haven't tried an Indian recipe, so I wouldn't mind having a go.

What have I got to lose? :-D

*looks at belly*

[fencingsculptor.livejournal.com]

There's snuggled-up-on-a-sofa-with-a-nice-thick-jumper-and-a-Furtle 'warm', and then there's increased-heart-rate-increased-circulation-improving-your-cardiovascular-fitness--while-admiring-squirrels-and-their-nuts 'warm'.

You can only do one during lunchtime at work....

[caddyman.livejournal.com]

There're words for people who go around admiring squirrels' nuts, you know.

[romney.livejournal.com]

You need to upgrade from lard to beef dripping (although please do not drip in person)
Dripping gives you all that lovely jelly and an assortment of crunchy and meaty bits, while lard - being a processed food - is unhealthy.

[bluesman.livejournal.com]

Boom-tish!

[bluesman.livejournal.com]

Harlescott - know it well. The first band I was in, after I left school, used to practice on Sunday aftyernoons in the vestry (!) of the local CofE church (the singer's dad was the vicar) and our first gig was at the church hall next door. April 1978, post-punk, cor those were the days. I still had hair.

[fencingsculptor.livejournal.com]

Yes there are...

His Royal Highness apparently !

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1083787/As-Prince-Charles-turns-60-exclusive-insight-man-king-lives-long-enough.html

[mollpeartree.livejournal.com]

Well, after Googling around and doing various calculations, I’ve come to the conclusion that most* of my bean recipes are indeed somewhat fattier than most hummus recipes (around 25% more), but in some cases about equivalent if they also add olive oil to the hummus (many just have tahini). And it looks like all of my bean recipes call for at least 1 tablespoon of oil or ghee per ½ C dried beans, so maybe it’s a bad idea to go lower than that. BUT if you go down to maybe 1 ½ tablespoons per full cup, you’re about equivalent to the tahini in most hummus recipes there. Maybe worth a try? See comments to my entry about this if you’re concerned about your ticker as well as your waistline. (I’m hopelessly confused about the various kinds of fats myself.)

I feel ooky about posting recipes from books that are still in copyright online, but if you’d send me your email address (my email address is in my profile), I’ll send you a couple.

*My super-best bean recipe calls for about that much oil or ghee, but also 2 tablespoons of cream and 1 tablespoon of butter just dumped in (which is probably why it's super-best) so I think we’ll leave that one aside ... it’s more trouble to make than the others anyway.