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Day 26 2015
Taken forThe Weekly Colour challenge "POSTBOX RED"
The Smallest House in Great Britian.
Just over a hundred years ago a tall fisherman left a tiny house on the quayside at Conwy, North Wales because it had been officially declared too small for human habitation
Since then the Conwy house has been visited by thousands of people from all over the world. After the last tennant left, the owner of the property travelled the country measuring tiny houses in order to prove that this was indeed the smallest house in Great Britain, the doors were opened to countless visitors, who came to marvel at the living conditions of yesteryear....
Measuring 72 inches across, 122 inches high and 120 inches deep, the Smallest house was built in the 16th century and lived in until 1900
The last inhabitant was a Conwy fisherman who was six feet three inches!
Inside the smallest house are just two rooms. Downstairs, a settle against the wall doubles as a coal bunker, a water tap behind the stairs and the cooking was done on the open fire. Upstairs there is a narrow bed, dressing table and washstand with a cubby hole for storage
Lady cooking street food and checking the order. On offer are Pork or Chicken skewers and Chicken Feet. Bacolod City, Philippines.
With some extra hands available in the store, Larry decided to spend some time in a cooking course.
Check out all adventures in Larry's store.
It's kind of like cooking with gas, but much, much harder. Top Chef tonight. Squeeee!
This is my photo for September 9, 2009.
A time-lapse video of me cooking dinner yesterday evening.
A fairly simple meal - Pasta Bake, designed to use up whatever happens to be lurking around in the fridge at the time.
Here's a quick synopsis:
Gently fry chopped onions, garlic and chilli until soft. Add coarsely chopped vegetables (courgettes, red peppers, aubergine). Add chopped chorizo, and some sausages (skinned, and coarsely chopped). Add jar of passata, slug of red wine, salt and pepper, and leave to simmer for a good while.
Cook pasta. Drain pasta. Mix pasta and sauce together and transfer to baking dish. Top with buffalo mozzarella and bake in the oven until the cheese has melted and the pasta has crisped up a little on top.
Very tasty...
1. Foremost health benefits of clay pot cooking come from its ability to circulate steam throughout cooking. This provides plenty of moisture and means that you can cook with less oil and fat.
2. Since Clay is alkaline in nature and when food is cooked it neutralizes the PH balance of food and hence acts as a natural detox. You will be surprised to know that mud contains all the possible vitamins; even Vitamin B12.
3. Slow cooking process retains all the nutrients of the food that we cook and hence the food is much tastier.
4. Reheating the food always leads to loss of nutrition but if you cook in a clay pot it retains the temperature for a longer time and no worries for reheating.
Hence there is no need to transfer it to a casserole.
Gastronomie très spatiale ! Malheureusement pour mes coéquipiers, mes talents culinaires ne sont pas à la hauteur de ma nationalité… Au moins, Shane et Oleg avec qui j’ai déjà vécu dans la Station étaient prévenus cette fois. Une création so frenchie aujourd’hui : crêpe chocolat-fraises. J'ai bien précisé que c'est exactement comme ça que les Bretons les faisaient (comment ça c’est une tortilla ?)👨🍳
Space cooking! My crewmates were very disappointed that my cooking skills are close to zero… shame on a Frenchman! Here’s my best culinary creation so far: with strawberries and chocolate (please disregard that the crêpe is actually a tortilla, who are you to judge 😉)
Credits: ESA/NASA–T.
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The Bishnoi are a tribal/religious sect whose belief in the sanctity of the environment, and the need to protect trees and animals dates from the 15th century.
Bishnoi (also known as Vishnoi) is a Hindu religious sect found in the Western Thar Desert and northern states of India. They follow a set of 29 principles/commandments given by Guru Jambheshwar (1451-1536). Jambheshwar founded the sect at Samrathal Dhora in 1485 and his teachings, comprising 120 shabads, are known as Shabadwani. There are an estimated 10,00,000 followers of Vishnoi sect residing in large number in states of Rajasthan, Haryana, Punjab and Madhya Pradesh.
The 29 tenets of Bishnoism state:
Observe 30 days' state of ritual impurity after child's birth and keep mother and child away from household activities.
[To prevent Infant and Mother from external infection]
Observe 5 days' segregation while a woman is in her menses.
[For Comfort and Hygiene]
Take bath daily in the morning before sunrise.
Obey the ideal rules of life: Modesty, Patience, Cleanliness.
Pray two times everyday (morning and evening).
Eulogise God, Vishnu, in evening hours (Aarti)
Perform Yajna (Havan) with the feelings of welfare devotion and love.
Use filtered water, milk and cleaned firewood.
Speak pure words in all sincerity.
Practice forgiveness from heart.
Be merciful from heart.
Do not steal or keep any intention to do it.
Do not condemn or criticize.
Do not lie.
Do not indulge in dispute/debate.
Fast on Amavasya.
Worship and recite Lord Vishnu in adoration
Be merciful to all living beings and love them.
Do not cut green trees, save the environment.
Crush lust, anger, greed and attachment.
Cook your food by yourself.
Provide shelters for abandoned animals to avoid them from being slaughtered in abattoirs.
Do not sterilise bulls.
Do not use or trade opium.
Do not smoke or use tobacco or its products.
Do not take bhang or hemp.
Do not drink alcohol/liquor.
Do not eat meat, always remain pure vegetarian.
Do not use violet blue colour extracted from the indigo plant.
Cooking dinner this evening and suddenly dawned on me that I was using the traffic light sequence on the veg, Red, Yellow, Green! Quick snap with phone camera before chopping commenced!