After my meal, you'll find the postively prettty pics I wanted to post yesterday.
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Here's what I had for dinner part II (aka supper part I) today. I know it looks like some faecal product, but the photograph does this excellent steak no justice at all. Juicy, tender and well-done in a George Foreman Lean Mean Grilling Machine, it is covered in a special red wine sauce.
small saucy sirloin steak
The following is what I did for that horrid looking tasty thing:
PART I
#01 marinade bloody beef steak in red wine for abt 3hrs
#02 somewhere during that 3hrs, sprinkle salt and pepper on each side; rub in thoroughly
PART II after 3hrs,
#03 heat up grill and hob
#04 fry a finely-chopped minute clove of garlic in a little olive oil
#05 pour red wine marinade in
#06 reduce the red wine on high heat, till half remains
#07 simmer sauce
#08 mix in 2tsps of Bramley apple sauce
#09 wait a while before mixing in 2tsps of Cumberland berry sauce
#10 mix in some thyme and bay leafs
#11 stir in 1tsp of mustard
#12 rub on 1tsp of Bramley a.s. per side of steak
#13 sprinkle pepper and mixed herbs to taste; rub in... mmmm...
#14 put steak in grill on highest heat for approx. 4mins
#15 stir in 2tBsps of unsalted butter into sauce
#16 stir in 1/4tsp of honey
#17 add pepper to taste
#18 take steak out of grill
#19 pour sauce onto steak
#20 serve
NOTE
#21 I might have left out some steps/ingredients as I just worked with whatever I had.
#22 Should be served with salad, potatoes, etc. if you have the time to prepare.
wahoo!
Snow!
But the fire is so delightful,
Since we've no place to go;
Let it snow! Let it snow! Let it snow!"
If only I had someone to say that to.
Rare is it that there be snow in the fair city of Dublin. Tonnes of snow might fall and delight Little Miss Elmo-Vanmala in Canada, but scroogey ol' me just gets blown by "gale-force" winds and delights in the occasional dampening drizzle. Oh, how I miss those tropical storms in the Straits of Malacca!
The 25th of Nov 2005 was, calendrically, a Friday. Around midnight, here I sat at this laptop with the blinds down, not aware that I had forgotten all about the weather forecast for Thursday night. In the middle of some song, I was unexpectedly interrupted by my housemate who just got back from his friends',"Nick! It's snowing outside!"
In the lane, snow is glistening.
snoggable snow on table in naked night vision glory on UCD campus... yeah baby!
Ah, snow. In a flash, faster that The Flash, I had me long pants on. Snow jacket on; check. ameraphone grabbed;
check. Socks on; negative. Shoes on; negative. Down the stairs I bounded, out into the courtyard around the block
to where my window faces. There, I revelled in the snow flakes whilst my toes froze merrily in a slippered shelter.
Girls passed by, screaming snowily at the sight of snow. Gals with cams snapped snowy pictures.
slippered feet & shivering hands kinda impaired the quality of this pic. frozen toes :-p
I, on the other hand, snapped a threesome. Sigh. Terrible threesome of pics of tables. Lots of T's there. Mumble
grumble. If it weren't for my so-called gf, it wouldn be pics of tables with ahems on top. As for the picture "perfect" threesome, I've only
used two here. You can see the entire collection of three on my flickr
page.
Play with My Pretty Pictures
Frosted grass. Not glass. Grass! St. Stephen's Green, Dublin, Ireland.
Woohoo! All on a delightfully frosty monday morn.
And here's a pretty pic of a pretty plant. All heavily frosted with sugar--i mean, ice--on the top.
I love this pic! Some Heavenly view of frost on moss in St. Stephen's Green.
Had enough of snow yet? Well, I haven't!
As you can tell from the pics/caps, all that white stuff is not snow. Nor is it coke. It's plain ol' Mr. Frost.
What's more, you can tell that I took this pics on a delicious mon morn (see caps); which was deemed by those
calendar creators to be the 21st of Nov 2005 (see pics).
That's all folks! I'll leave you with the following pic taken with my stylish black n3230.
