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[deptfordmarmoset]

I just realised that tomorrow's Olympic cycling starts around 2am tomorrow. There's a challenge. I may slope off quietly. Filer à l'anglaise, as the French would have it. One beer, disappear.

 

[newts]

Beers in the pub pre match, exciting 0-0. A couple more beers watching the lions match topped off with a mediocre curry & getting tucked up on the bill (that'll teach me to drink too many beers for the first time in 15 months). Hey ho it was a day out with friends🍻

 

[slowmotion]

@Fab Foodie of this parish mentioned Putanesca pasta a whole decade ago. I didn't discover it until last Monday and used this recipe.....

https://www.seriouseats.com/spaghetti-puttanesca-pasta-week-capers-olives-anchovies-recipe

If you don't have some kind of aversion to anchovies, olives or capers, this is the dish for you. It's tasty, tasty, very, very tasty...




Edit: it seems to have been so good that it struck me down with amnesia. I already posted about it a few days ago.

Apologies.

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

@Fab Foodie of this parish mentioned Putanesca pasta a whole decade ago. I didn't discover it until last Monday and used this recipe.....

https://www.seriouseats.com/spaghetti-puttanesca-pasta-week-capers-olives-anchovies-recipe

If you don't have some kind of aversion to anchovies, olives or capers, this is the dish for you. It's tasty, tasty, very, very tasty...




Edit: it seems to have been so good that it struck me down with amnesia. I already posted about it a few days ago.

Apologies.

I've developed a bad habit of buying Italian-style sauces and sticking olives and capers into them, plus some lemon juice. Anchovies are often added, but not essential for me. It's very easy to brighten up shop-bought sauces though, admittedly, it's usually some way along the road to Puttanesca....

Right, I'm off to find my Amnesia recipe. I can't think where it's gone.

 

[classic33]

I've developed a bad habit of buying Italian-style sauces and sticking olives and capers into them, plus some lemon juice. Anchovies are often added, but not essential for me. It's very easy to brighten up shop-bought sauces though, admittedly, it's usually some way along the road to Puttanesca....

Right, I'm off to find my Amnesia recipe. I can't think where it's gone.

Amnesia
Mixed Drink Recipe from Cocktail Builder
1/2 oz of DeKuyper Watermelon Pucker Schnapps
1/2 oz of Bacardi Limon Rum
1/3 oz of Orange Juice
1/2 oz of dekuyper island blue pucker schnapps
3 dash of Pineapple Juice

Combine both the watermelon and grape-flavored schnapps, Bacardi limon, orange juice and pineapple juice in an old-fashioned glass.
Serve.

 

[Reynard]

Reasonable YS hunting in Tesco - was on my ownsome for most of the evening. But there are staff and stock shortages thanks to the pingdemic, so the counters had packed up mid afternoon. Still managed to get some decent bits though, including loads of fruit & veg.

I will be making marmalade, as I scored four nets of oranges and six nets of limes.

 

[Reynard]

Ooooh, the winner of the men's modern pentathlon (Joe Choong) is rather

 

[slowmotion]

@Fab Foodie of this parish mentioned Putanesca pasta a whole decade ago. I didn't discover it until last Monday and used this recipe.....

https://www.seriouseats.com/spaghetti-puttanesca-pasta-week-capers-olives-anchovies-recipe

If you don't have some kind of aversion to anchovies, olives or capers, this is the dish for you. It's tasty, tasty, very, very tasty...




Edit: it seems to have been so good that it struck me down with amnesia. I already posted about it a few days ago.

Apologies.

I blame the in-house sommelier.

 

[tyred]

Have given my Brompton some much needed TLC this afternoon - new chain, new tyre, greased and adjusted headset, new brake pads all round. I also stripped and greased the jockey wheels in the tensioner, lubed the hinges and clamp bolts and gave it a much needed clean.

I celebrated with a thirty mile ride

 

[classic33]

Have given my Brompton some much needed TLC this afternoon - new chain, new tyre, greased and adjusted headset, new brake pads all round. I also stripped and greased the jockey wheels in the tensioner, lubed the hinges and clamp bolts and gave it a much needed clean.

I celebrated with a thirty mile ride

Not bad.
But which did you have, plain or milk chocolate digestives?

 

[tyred]

Not bad.
But which did you have, plain or milk chocolate digestives?

Both

 

[classic33]

New plan for the ride back:

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Removing the first set of hills and 20km makes it a lot more doable, especially as I still have to function as a normal human the day after.

Also, I kindof want to do the middle bit "properly" ie: as part of a ride from where I live to Stuttgart.

10mph which is faster than the speed it gave me for a 20 mile trip that was done in little over an hour. It gave a time of 2hrs 52m.

 

[tyred]

I think it's time that I went to bed. Me sleepy! 😴

 

[Jenkins]

Judging by the amount of wind & rain on my commutes this week, it appears that Autumn has arrived a bit early.

 

[classic33]

Judging by the amount of wind & rain on my commutes this week, it appears that Autumn has arrived a bit early.

They're saying there'll be another heatwave this month. Do you think you'll survive until it arrives?