Posts Tagged ‘Recipe’

Tonight I take my inpiration from darkdwarf’s post Tuna Fish Pitta Bread Pizzas. I thought I’d share two versions of a quick Soda Bread pizza recipe. First up is the quick version from when I was a students…

1. Take one soda farl and slice in two.
2. Lightly toast the uncut sides under the grill. When golden brown remove from the grill.
3. Spread the cut side with tomato puree (or tomato sauce if you don’t have any tomator puree) and lazy garlic. Cover with grated cheese. Add any other toppings.
4. Grill till the cheese melts.
5. Serve hot.

Here is the "posh" post student version:

1. Drain a can of chopped tomatoes or chop and drain fresh tomatoes. Mix the tomato with tomato puree, finely chopped onion and chopped garlic.
2. Take One Soda Farl and slice in two.
3. Lightly toast the uncut sides under the grill. When golden brown remove from the grill.
4. Spread the cut side with butter or olive oil and toast briefly.
5. Spread the tomato mixture onto the cut side of the soda farl.
6. Cover the tomato with grated Mozzarella. Season with fresh black pepper, basil and oregano.
7. Add any other toppings.
8. Sprinkle a little more cheese over the top.
9. Grill till the cheese melts.
10. Serve hot.

1. Roget’s Thesaurus: I’ve yet to find a better thesaurus than the one that has evolved through Longman to Penguin.
2. The Story of Western Architecture: More about the history of the development of architecture and the social and economic setting for that development than a manual of style (although it does cover that too)
3. A History of England (Sir Keith Feiling): Not the best or most up to date history of England but it’s a book I’ve had a long time and I know where to find what I’m looking for in it.
4. The Wordsworth Dictionary of the Underworld (Eric Partridge): Good for ideas for characters’ criminal schemes and associated language.
5. The Book of Comparisons (The Diagram Group): I was taught to make sure my answers and data made sense in science at school by comparing them to other things I knew. This is the best book I know for helping with that and it avoids putting in details that are just silly too.
6. The Encyclopedia of Fantasy: An essential reference to classic works, authors and publishers but also a mine of concepts.
7. The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction: Does for Science Fiction what The Encyclopedia of Fantasy does for fantasy.
8. Brewer’s Rogues, Villains and Eccentrics: A great read with some really odd and nasty characters in it’s pages. Pretty much all of them real. Some of them still alive. A great source of ideas for characters.
9. The Tough Guide to Fantasy Land: Where The Encyclopedia of Fantasy is a serious work this is a comic guide to fantasy cliches. Very useful for avoiding the danger of slipping into dangerously over done territory.
10. The Encyclopedia of Forensic Science (Brian Lane): There are a fair number of books like this on the market. I bought this one as a present for a friend and then kept it having found a better present. Lots of inspirational material again with many case studies accompanying the entries on a variety of macabre happenings that are ideal for inflicting on characters.
11. The New Metric Handbook: Where The Story of Architecture is a book about the development of architecture this is a useful guide to the layout and structure of buildings.
    Just beating Neufert to a place on this TT because it got me through my final year degree project. Rather pricy but if you want to know what a particular building will have in it and how it is laid out this is the book.
12. Food in England: An essential guide to the evolution of cooking in the UK including recipes and lots of other useful information that is great for adding colour to stories.
13. Gary Gygax’s Extraordinary Book of Names: Gary Gygax, one of the original creators of Dungeons and Dragons, had put out a lot of books trying to milk his name over the years. This is one of the few that I’ve found to be worth the money (I did get it in a sale). Listings of names by gender, country and time period along with useful notes on how a culture usualy puts them together and some additional sections on special cases like place names and names for Inns and Taverns.
14. Oxford Senior Dictionary: My very battered dictionary that served me through school. Not the best or most complete dictionary I have but a handy quick reference.

Links to other Thursday Thirteens!

1. Thomma Lyn
2. jenny
3. Randa Clay
4. Fence
5. Nicole Austin
6. Nancy Lindquist
7. Michelle M Pillow
8. Crystal Jordan
9. HighlandAmy
10. Susan Helene Gottfried
11. Janet
12. Lori
13. colleen gleason
14. This Eclectic Life
15. Joely
16. Nicholas
17. scooper
18. Dane Bramage
19. karen (miscmum)
20. Lulu
21. Language Boy
22. Nancy
23. Christine d’Abo
24. Nadine

Heston Blumenthal: In Search of Perfection isn’t as polished as a Delia or an Oliver. Not as in-yer-face charismatic as a Ramsay or as passionate as a Stein. He sometimes appeared awkward presenting his recipes. This though is a new kind of cooking show. Torchwood joked about CSI Cardiff and the speed of a flying kebab. Well this is the chef to calculate that speed. To perfect the recipe and to have the animated graphics to illustrate it too. Name me another TV cooking show where liquid Nitrogen is an ingredient. You can’t. That’s what makes this show special, new and different. I’m looking forward to the next few Tuesday nights.

A bit of a bitty day today.

Warmer but raining instead.

Testing code at work that takes time to do a run so much twiddling of thumbs.

Tried a chicken korma recipe that took my head off. Still it cleared my sinuses.

Enjoyed the new BBC2 show”It’s Not Easy Being Green” especially the water wheel.

And Kim’s sold another story. The blog police may be knocking on her door…

“Can we have a word miss. There seems to have been a complaint. The title of your blog, how shall we put it, a little bit of a fib. You have been writing and we hear even selling your work. The super would like to have a word with you down at the station. Just wants to check your artistic licence is in order”.