redfiona99 | Entries tagged with food

This is another one of those weird "must write about this" notes I've left myself

Some time ago (like pre-COVID ago), there was a departmental barbeque that we were all expected to contribute to. Not a problem, I don't cook often but I am not completely incompetent.

But, because I am not a horror, I wanted to cook something for the vegetarians.

Cue a level of panic because the only veggie barbeque dish I know of is tinfoil bananas (which are a delight) but 1) they're a dessert, 2) someone else was already cooking them.

Waitrose came through for me and suggested Jerk Halloumi, and let me assure you, it is the future!!!!

Archaeology:

'Big void' identified in Khufu's Great Pyramid at Giza - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-41845445 From 2017

Economics:

The island that swapped donkey rides for offshore cash - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-41891360

Paradise Papers: The professionals' responsibility - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-41902798

Education:

Free courses from Harvard - https://www.edx.org/school/harvardx

Free courses from MIT - https://ocw.mit.edu/search/#cat=engineering&subcat=nuclearengineering&spec=nuclearsystemspolicyandeconomics

Free courses from Yale - https://oyc.yale.edu/courses

Food:

Stinking Rich? Malaysia Aims To Cash In On China's Durian Craze - https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2019/06/02/728262024/stinking-rich-malaysia-aims-to-cash-in-on-chinas-durian-craze I have no doubt they are delicious, but the smell is literally the smell of a gas leak, which is off-putting if you've ever worked in a lab.

Healthcare:

NHS appeal for black blood donors 'drops straight knowledge' - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-trending-41898726

History:

In the shadow of Red October - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-sh/Red_October

Housing:

The families living in modern day slums - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-41776369 From 2017, it has not improved

Law and order:

Stop-and-search: A BBC reporter's own experience - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-41849256

Media:

Why George Orwell is returning to the BBC - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-41886208 From 2017, about a new statue

Miscellaneous:

The hospital helping heal the Middle East - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/in-pictures-41886227

Former 'Teen Vogue' Editor Shares Her Memoir — And Her Manifesto - https://www.npr.org/2019/06/11/731380634/former-teen-vogue-editor-shares-her-memoir-and-her-manifesto

Politics:

Trump Xi: Property man meets career communist - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-41882084 - From 2017

Sport:

Cricket:

Ashes: Inside story of England's 5-0 defeat in Australia in 2013-14 - https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/41859201https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/41859201

Football:

Andrea Pirlo: The football genius who defied the number crunchers - https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/41903596 If you like the tiny snippet they give you of his autobiography, the whole thing is like that. He (and his ghostwriter, and the translator) writes like he played.

Rugby League:

Micky Higham: Ex-Great Britain hooker retires to take up Leigh off-field role - https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-league/41887188 From 2017. In St. Helens at least, he'll always be under-rated because he was only very, very good, and the two hookers either side of him chronologically are 'the player voted the best Saint ever' and 'the only player ever likely to be voted above him'.

Technology:

'Do I Know You?' And Other Spam Phone Calls We Can't Get Rid Of - https://www.npr.org/2019/06/06/727711432/do-i-know-you-and-other-spam-phone-calls-we-can-t-get-rid-of

Food:

World Tripe Day: Can we fall in love with tripe again? - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-41734108 From 2017, but the recession might do it.

History:

The man keeping the world's lighthouses shining - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-40887830

Law and order:

County Lines: The children forced to sell drugs - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-41720980

Miscellaneous:

Paul Weitz: Skylab and shuttle astronaut dies aged 85 - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-41740076

Sport:

Gregor Townsend: We can learn from Pep Guardiola - https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-union/41714594

Football:

Watford: A rising force through careful planning not instability and chaos - https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/41710640 From 2017. Unfortunately, the BBC swallowed the Watford PR hacks' line, because, honestly, that club are the epitome of 'success despite chaos', and people who think coaches make a huge difference need to pretend you can't succeed despite that.

Economics:

Is the UK reaching coffee shop saturation point? - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-41251451 From 2017

Are rented micro-homes the future for young singles? - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-41229775 I cannot shout 'no' loudly enough. The UK already produces stupidly small homes, do not encourage property developers to go even smaller.

Food:

The problem for the world’s most expensive spice - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-41110151 Although this could go in the economics or politics section too. And I have an unfair advantage, I have many Iranian friends so I am aware that Iranian saffron is the best.

Miscellaneous:

Starting from scratch in Uganda - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-41255233

Photography:

Pictures: Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2017 finalists - https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/41239953

Politics:

Tiger fur-lined robes... what do Saudi gifts to Trump mean? - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-41168257 From 2017

Sport:

Football:

Megan Rapinoe & Alex Morgan: World Cup winners join Juan Mata's campaign - https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/41270796 From 2017

Crossposts: https://redfiona99.livejournal.com/1279980.html

(I am taking my joys where I can get them)

I use Delia Smith's pancake recipe (https://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/basicpancakeswithsuga_66226), with a couple of alterations.

- I don't use the leftover melted butter to fry the pancakes, I use sunflower oil, because I find butter-fried pancakes to be too much and slightly sickly, to be honest.

- Because I don't have a ladle, I use 4 spoonfuls of mixture per pancake.

The pancakes come out alright, not as good as my Nan's, but alright. I am slowly learning the patience required to let them cook enough to flip. It is a process that has involved many tasty disasters.

Crossposts: https://redfiona99.livejournal.com/1270297.html

Animals:

Penguin using Plenty of Fish to try and score a date - https://metro.co.uk/2017/05/20/penguin-using-plenty-of-fish-to-try-and-score-a-date-6649984/ And in a vitally important update, he was successful - https://www.metro.news/spruce-the-lonesome-penguin-finds-love-match-on-dating-site/721626/

Culture:

Somalia's lost tapes revive musical memories - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-40966656

Food:

West Africa steams over jollof rice war - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-trending-41053424 From 2017

Politics:

Tory Pollster: Theresa May's Election Campaign Trashed Her Brand As Badly As Gerald Ratner - https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/theresa-may-ratners-trashed-brand-lord-hayward-tory-pollster_uk_599f2eace4b0821444c1e5d7?ev5 From 2017

Sport:

Baseball:

Manny Machado and the Postseason Narrative Tax - https://www.theringer.com/mlb/2018/10/30/18041606/manny-machado-free-agency-dodgers-yankees-phillies This is in the baseball section, but similarly biased commentary has been demonstrated to occur in football.

Boxing:

World Amateur Boxing Championships: Cheavon Clarke on coming back to life - https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/boxing/41035191 From 2017

Football:

YouTube football team Hashtag United 'living the dream' - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-40973109 From 2017

Rugby:

Ex-England rugby captain Gill Burns camps in bar - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-41037891 From 2017. She's from round our way.

Crossposts: https://redfiona99.livejournal.com/1266083.html

Crochet:

Stingray Purse or Pal – Free Crochet Pattern - https://blackstone-designs.com/stingray-purse-or-pal/

Food:

Invasion of the jellyfish: Is it time to get frying? - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-40899378

History:

The family who brought an Indian sweet to Pakistan - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-40849101 In the grand tradition of BBC headlines, please ignore it. It's a history article.

Independence: Do Indians care about the British any more? - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-40887900 See previous note.

'I've come to rescue you': My grandfather at Dunkirk - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-40852280

Media:

Magazines: How print is surviving the digital age - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-40897967

Miscellaneous:

'Airlines keep breaking my wheelchair' - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-40876598

Politics:

North Korea crisis: What does Kim Jong-un really want? - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-40913650 From 2017

I’M A GOOGLE MANUFACTURING ROBOT AND I BELIEVE HUMANS ARE BIOLOGICALLY UNFIT TO HAVE JOBS IN TECH - https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/im-a-google-manufacturing-robot-and-i-believe-humans-are-biologically-unfit-to-have-jobs-in-tech Although this could go under technology too.

Crossposts: https://redfiona99.livejournal.com/1249744.html

Actors:

Obituary: Robert Hardy - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-13783739

Robert Hardy: Harry Potter and All Creatures Great and Small star dies - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-40818839

Economics:

Rise in Living Wage may have to wait, say small firms - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-40824937 From 2017, so goodness knows how we're going to get one now. And it's like, it's not like inflation isn't going up and if the rise doesn't at least keep up with that, it's pretty useless.

Food:

Mormon Funeral Potatoes: The Carb-Heavy Meal For The End of The World - https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2018/05/30/613017175/if-it-s-the-end-of-the-world-make-sure-funeral-potatoes-are-on-the-table

History:

The friendship that survived the division of a nation - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-40749476

Miscellaneous:

How one man built a $51m theme park for his daughter - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-40742586

'We need to talk about male rape': DR Congo survivor speaks out - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-40801782

'I beat my fear of water and plan to swim around Britain' - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-40519155

She rang me as bombs fell... Then she vanished - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-40488225

50 years of gay rights - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-sh/lgbtq_how_we_got_to_now

Photography:

In pictures: Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2017 - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/in-pictures-40789348

National Geographic Travel Photographer of the Year contest 2017 - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/in-pictures-40801658

Politics:

After Trump, "big data" firm Cambridge Analytica is now working in Kenya - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-trending-40792078 From the 2017 Kenyan election, but important to note, they get everywhere.

How Kenya election puts strain on ethnically mixed couples - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-40815064

The man who has focused on one word for 23 years - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-40781213 About the great Macedonian question.

Johnny Mercer: I'd never voted before becoming an MP - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-40791838 According to a friend who is in his constituency, it shows and he's a useless MP.

Female politicians and babies: a lose-lose situation? - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-40800687

Sport:

Cricket:

How one man (and his kit bag) is giving cricket-loving refugees hope in Serbia - https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/40814884

Football:

2017 FA Cup: AC London founded by a 16-year-old after London riots - https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/40685951

2017 FA Cup: Steve Hunt on life with Pele, Mick Jagger and managing Cowes Sports - https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/40605532

TOTTI'S FINAL SHIRT SUCCESSFULLY LAUNCHED INTO SPACE - https://www.asroma.com/en/news/2017/8/totti-s-final-shirt-successfully-launched-into-space

Crossposts: https://redfiona99.livejournal.com/1234518.html

Economics:

How much of the world's wealth is hidden offshore? - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-40442595

Food:

Inside the World’s Only Sourdough Library - https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/sourdough-library Article from 2018, but suddenly topical again.

History:

Passchendaele: The village that gave its men to war - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-40743806

A Country Divided - How it affected me - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-sh/partition_how_it_affected_me About the Partition

Language:

Baby Talk: Decoding The Secret Language Of Babies - https://www.npr.org/2018/05/14/610796636/baby-talk-decoding-the-secret-language-of-babies

Sport:

Mongolian teenage girl grapples for a future in sumo - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-40635752

Football:

Matej Delac, Chelsea's longest serving player, on the life of an eternal loanee - https://www.espn.co.uk/football/english-premier-league/23/blog/post/3168622/matej-delac-chelsea-longest-serving-player-on-the-life-of-an-eternal-loanee

Crossposts: https://redfiona99.livejournal.com/1233224.html

Food:

How Breakfast Became a Thing - https://priceonomics.com/how-breakfast-became-a-thing/ I always knew the breakfast thing was suspicious.

Healthcare:

Treating children with electroconvulsive therapy - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-39961472

Miscellaneous:

The fate of the Chibok girls - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-sh/chibok_girls

More Pritt Stick than Pippa: Why millennials want a DIY wedding - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-39966035

The princess, the palace and the shrinking royal line - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-39961749 For friend K, she's got a Museum Studies MA from Leicester too. All the best people do.

Dutch king reveals double life as an airline pilot for KLM - https://news.sky.com/story/dutch-king-reveals-double-life-as-an-airline-pilot-for-klm-10881947

The Love Letters Of A Young Barack Obama On View At Emory University Library - https://www.npr.org/2017/10/19/558755999/the-love-letters-of-a-young-barack-obama-on-view-at-emory-university-library

Ten Things That Occurred to Me When Someone Turned the Twitter Off - https://medium.com/@davepell/ten-things-that-occurred-to-me-when-someones-turned-the-twitter-off-abea82666b4e

Politics:

Election 2017: If more young people actually voted, would it change everything - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election-2017-39965925

Science Fiction:

Science fiction’s new golden age in China, what it says about social evolution and the future, and the stories writers want world to see - https://www.scmp.com/culture/books/article/2093892/science-fictions-new-golden-age-china-what-it-says-about-social

Sport:

London 2012 silver medallist Gemma Gibbons retires - https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/olympics/39978229

Rugby Union:

British and Irish Lions 2017: Gavin Hastings recalls 1993 New Zealand tour - https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-union/39942800

Exercise programme 'can reduce concussion' in youth rugby - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-39950814

Technology:

WannaCry: What can you do to protect your business? - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-39947944

Crossposts: https://redfiona99.livejournal.com/1191921.html

Adverts:

Ben Johnson: Advert featuring disgraced ex-sprinter criticised - https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/athletics/39921658

Eurovision:

Eurovision Song Contest: Who are the other Graham Nortons? - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-39825727

Food:

TV dinners: The hidden cost of the processed food revolution - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-39490182 You know when you read the first paragraph of an article and know it was written by a man. Yeah, this is one of those.

Miscellaneous:

The boss who lives as a medieval knight - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-39851253

Spring-cleaning India's most magnificent tent - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-39890722

How do you go about crowdfunding for someone you have never met? - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-39642967

Is Africa facing a new wave of piracy? - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-39849352 From 2017

I acted as a man to get work - until I was accused of rape - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-39705424

Venezuela protest victim's parents speak of ordeal - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-39885943

Weapons in schools: 'I used anything I could get' - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-39907769

Let's talk about why I had to terminate my baby's life - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-39885755

Sport:

Football:

Forest Green Rovers: The village team that reached the English Football League - https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39923153

Technology:

A sex doll that can talk - but is it perfect Harmony? - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-39859939

Crossposts: https://redfiona99.livejournal.com/1188202.html

Food and Drink

How Scottish salmon conquered the world - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-39777708

Miscellaneous:

How I funded my studies by digging for Sierra Leone diamonds - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-39478462

Why 14 black male Cambridge students posed for this photo - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-39787690

Spain's 'Robin Hood Restaurant' Charges The Rich And Feeds The Poor - https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2017/01/24/511267616/spains-robin-hood-restaurant-charges-the-rich-and-feeds-the-poor

Documenting life in Latin America - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/in-pictures-39791816

My son died in 1994 but his heart only stopped beating this year - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-39422660

THE EUROSEARCH SONG CONTEST: What if Google searches were used to award points in the Eurovision Song Contest? What countries would make the final and who would cry victory? - https://googletrends.github.io/eurosearch-song-contest/

Why we still choose to work in our 90s - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-39806153

Politics:

How Trump Could Get Fired - https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/05/08/how-trump-could-get-fired From 2017

What if a President loses controls - https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/what-if-a-president-loses-control Also from 2017

A hundred days of Trump - https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/05/01/a-hundred-days-of-trump 2017

South Korea's 'life or death' presidential election - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-39801447 From 2017

Science:

The Real Chemistry of Making Drugs - https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2017/05/04/the-real-chemistry-of-making-drugs

The Urey Variation - https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2017/05/05/the-urey-variation

Sport:

Rugby league:

Bradford Bulls beat Featherstone Rovers to win Women's Super League Grand Final - https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-league/41539126 From 2017, which means Bradford will forever have been the first Women's Super League winners, bah humbug etc ;)

Crossposts: https://redfiona99.livejournal.com/1185491.html

Food:

Why Staffordshire oatcakes are being eaten in Arizona - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-stoke-staffordshire-39582338

Languages:

#Kazakhstan education ministry establishes working group to transfer alphabet to Latin - https://www.eureporter.co/frontpage/2017/04/21/kazakhstan-education-ministry-establishes-working-group-to-transfer-alphabet-to-latin/

Miscellaneous:

FGM: The mother trying to protect her daughters - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-39282927

The couple who want to rebuild their shattered city - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-39671004

Why are farmers in India protesting with mice and human skulls? - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-39650496 From April 2017

8 things you'll know if you're a Northerner living in the South - https://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcthree/article/0cf014f1-c420-4a95-b01f-dffef24e62a2 Every single one of these is the truest thing that ever was true.

MS-13 gang: The story behind one of the world's most brutal street gangs - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-39645640

35 Years Of American Death - Mortality rates for leading causes of death in every U.S. county from 1980 to 2014. - https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/mortality-rates-united-states/#2014

Torching the Modern-Day Library of Alexandria - “Somewhere at Google there is a database containing 25 million books and nobody is allowed to read them.” -https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/04/the-tragedy-of-google-books/523320/ Google, oddly enough, not at fault here.

Music Industry:

UK music industry braced for Brexit - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-39418829

News:

Australia unveils major changes to citizenship process - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-39637770 From April 2017

Politics:

Dennis Skinner: Theresa May called an election because of Tory fraud investigation - https://inews.co.uk/opinion/dennis-skinner-theresa-may-called-election-tory-fraud-investigation/ From April 2017

An Open Letter On The Subject Of Tim Farron's 'Homophobia' - https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/jennie-rigg/tim-farron-lgbt-record_b_16095906.html From April 2017, but I still agree with every word she wrote and the general principle is sound.

New NCP analysis – where the polls went wrong - https://www.ncpolitics.uk/2015/11/new-ncp-analysis-where-the-polls-went-wrong.html/ From November 2015, but some interesting data which remains relevant.

French Candidates Talk of ‘Frexit,’ but Le Divorce Would Be Chaotic - https://www.wsj.com/articles/french-candidates-whisper-frexit-but-le-divorce-would-be-chaotic-1492717343 From before the last French election, but still interesting.

Here's Why The General Election Will Actually Be Really Fascinating - https://www.buzzfeed.com/jamesball/heres-why-the-general-election-will-actually-be-really?utm_term=.rakr4zWGn#.tjdBYyKpG From before the 2017 General election so very, very wrong with regard to outcome, but wrong for interesting reasons.

Science:

CASSINI IS READY TO SACRIFICE ITSELF FOR THE GOOD OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM - https://www.wired.com/2017/04/cassini-prepares-sacrifice-good-solar-system/ From April 2017

Sport:

Football:

Ugo Ehiogu: Former England defender dies after suffering cardiac arrest - https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39664839 From April 2017. Posting late anyway because … just read his last tweet and know the measure of the man.

Premier League clubs make 'limited progress' over disabled access - https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39643089

Tennis:

Serena Williams: How did she compete while pregnant? - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-39653672 The subheading doesn’t correspond with most of the women I know. But the BBC subheading writer and I are in a permanent state of war.