The Beauty of Online Recipes

Today I decided to cook Jersualem Artichokes... fancy eh? Problem was, I have never cooked them before. Where do I turn - the magic of the interweb of course. I never tire of looking at cooking and recipes online where I can find a recipes for any ingredient, to match any style of cooking and other ingredients.

The BBC recipe site is pretty good for this as you can narrow down recipes from the ingredients that you have to hand.

It is amazing how many sites, blogs and forums there are dedicated to the pleasure of eating. Everyone has an opinion on the best way to cook everything, from the humble spud, to the fanciest ingredient. Ironically, all the celeb chef sites are never that handy, as they don't want to give up their precious recipies without you buying the book.

So, I have found a delicious recipe for my artichokes on Abel and Cole - the veggie delivery folk and I shall be sauteeing them in stock, garlic and rosemary with a dot of sour cream. To go with it, there is a delicious shoulder of slow cooked lamb, fresh gravy made from scratch and some kale - all seasonal, all organic and all as local as possible...

And it's all made possible by the sharing, posting and viewing of recipes on the interweb!

And they say anorexia is on the rise?!?

I found this site the other day http://thisiswhyyourefat.com/ which made me a) laugh and b) feel pretty sick to be honest...

However, there are some corkers on there... I present to you the The McNuggetini - Yes, its chocolate milkshake with chicken nuggets. Or the French Fry-Encased Hot Dog On A Stick.

What a brilliant, if sickening way to show off the weird things you can buy in small town America, or Scotland!

Finding it hard to concentrate... the web is the perfect answer...

I have spent the last 2 hours trying to figure out how to connect my google feed reader to web clips in my google desktop sidebar without having to enter them manually - I am not having any luck. It is very annoying to have to do this manually... I hope they create a way to do this soon... But it was a fun way to lose some time!

The difference between young and old...

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e-borders... What's the issue?

The government plans to retain all travel data for everyone entering and leaving the country in a centralised database for 10 years, and is in the process of updating a centre near Manchester to process the data, the Home Office said on Monday.

"Our hi-tech electronic borders system will allow us to count all passengers in and out of the UK and targets those who aren't willing to play by our rules," said UK border and immigration minister Phil Woolas in a statement.

Personally I don't see the problem - there are so many ways for people to follow where you are nowadays, especially online that most people could find me in a heartbeat...

Between Facebook, twitter, blogs, comments etc, people could suss out pretty fast where I am going to be...

I know that the civil liberties people will be jumping up and down on this idea but is it really so bad - why is there always so much to hide....?

What is SEO?

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