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At long last! Irish postcodes!
Sausages and lentils
Time for a recipe, inspired by Giorgio OnTheTelly. This is a tasty dish and also costs about 3p to make – rather fitting for our times.
Ingredients:
- 4 sausages. You want good meaty sausages to get the best outcome for this recipe, but we found it worked just fine with supermarket own brand ones. (If you want to cook with six, then just increase all the other ingredients by 50%).
- 1 smallish carrot – chopped reasonably finely.
- 2 smallish red onions – also chopped. You can use white onion if you like – we just like the colour.
- 1 celery stick – chopped as well.
- 170g lentils – you can use fancy pants lentils if you want, we used standard supermarket own brand jobs.
- 350ml passata – normally I object to using passata and would get a (cheaper) tin of tomatoes and mush them up, but for this recipe it is worth spending the extra pennies on passata.
- 500ml vegetable stock – make your own or use a cube, whatever.
- fresh sage and fresh rosemary – from your garden, of course. Don’t be stingy with this – you want enough to taste it.
- a little olive oil for frying (or you can use butter if you like); salt, pepper.
In a casserole, heat the oil/butter over a medium high heat and fry one chopped onion (not the other one – keep that aside for a moment) with the carrot and celery until a little browned.
Then add the lentils and the stock and simmer gently for 30 minutes.
Whilst that is going on, fry the sausages in a pan until brown. Remove from the pan and keep warm.
Fry the rest of the onion until golden in a little more oil/butter. Add the passata to the onion until warmed through. Return the sausages to the pan with the herbs and cook gently for 15 minutes.
Then, add the sausage/passata mixture to the lentil/vegetable mixture in the casserole and stir.
Serve with some crusty bread. You’ll find this remarkably filling.
Diigo links for 12/25/2014
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One of the best reference works on trees and shrubs for British gardens – and the whole text free on the Internet! Hats off to the International Dendrological Society.
Diigo links for 12/17/2014
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State and Federal Noxious Weeds List | USDA PLANTS
Handy list of noxious weeds in the US – essentially, if it is listed here, forget trying to commercialise it in the US.
Diigo links for 11/19/2014
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Publish your own magazine | Blurb
This looks very interesting. We’ve been looking at ways to have a convenient mode of displaying our product range and we had begun to think about photo books. The problem is cost – it’s likely to be the case that we have only one or two copies and treat it as a disposable item, updated and replaced several times a year. Then I found Blurb and their magazine product – the price is amazing. Anyone else used these people?
Diigo links for 07/10/2014
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Signable | Online contracts and electronic signatures
We are planning to switch to digital contracts, as paper is both slow and expensive. This looks like a good solution, but I want to check it over with my legal eagle first.
Diigo links for 06/09/2014
Diigo links for 06/03/2014
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Consolidated version of Plant Health Directive 2000/29/EC
Perhaps to be replaced, but will do for now.
Diigo links for 03/31/2014
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BT Office Furniture – Modern & Contemporary Office Furniture Suppliers
good office furniture range
Diigo links for 03/14/2014
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Has the Imperial Pure range that we like, with free delivery and good pricing – comparable with IKEA and more contemporary and bigger range.
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Liking this office furniture range. But how much? And what are their office hours?
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Bespoke Handmade Furniture, Carvings, Commissions.
We reckon we can make a bench that looks like that from oak sleepers.