It all started with Derrick J Knight. The man is a bad influence, though probably not as bad as Wikipedia.
His mention of a Spong mincer set my mind back to a time when, in my early 20s, I was firmly based in the cookery traditions of my mother – Be-Ro cookbook, Spong mincer and pressure cooker.
I’ve just spent a happy couple of hours delving into various links and thinking about the cookery of my youth.
In those days we had savoury mince or Cottage Pie (which is not much of a stretch, just savoury mince with mashed potato on top). Spag Bol and chilli con carne were still some years off. If you wanted exotic food when I was a kid you had a Vesta meal or prawn cocktail, and you had it with lettuce. Avocados ranked with Unicorns in those days. (I was going to say “hen’s teeth” but even as a kid I knew chicks were born with an egg tooth. It’s a throw-back to when they were dinosaurs). Not all my useless knowledge comes from Wikipedia.
I’ve also been looking into the Laws of Rugby in reply to a discussion on yesterday’s France v Wales game. That’s not as relaxing as thinking about food.
I’m planning to look at poetry next, as I need some new titles and I should really give Gray’s Elegy a rest.
No photographs for now, I don’t have any relevant food photos and there’s no point photographing a pile of poetry books as I’ve just said I’m browsing poetry on the web.
Instead, I’ll leave you with this thought:
“There’s never enough time to do all the nothing you want.”
― Bill Watterson