Thursday, October 11, 2018

Mountains, Elephants in London, Spam,

The current Windows 10 Lock Screen shows snow topped mountains. Looking at the picture, it occurred to me that I have never seen real mountains. Or if I did I was too young to remember. I should put that on my bucket list, they are so majestic. Although, unlike the two fellers in The Bucket List (Morgan Freeman and Jack Nicholson,  I can't afford to go see the Himalayas and even if I could, I no longer have the ability to climb them. That is one of my favourite films by the way. Matt's too.  Also those actors are two of my favourites.. I thought they were wonderful in this movie. The Rockies are probably more in my reach these days. I started thinking about this some more and remembered that I had seen the fjords of Norway and Norway has mountains. I don't remember seeing them although  the fjords are extremely high. Same in, what was, Yugoslavia. Fjords and what I would describe as high hills

If my typing appears weird, it's the Lyrica. I am getting to be a bit zombie like, if this continues I will be stopping them.

Came across and email from World Wild Life Fund - Ahead of the London Conference on Illegal Wildlife Trade later this week, we're making some noise with a life-size elephant travelling around London. Although normally found on the plains of Africa, we've released this majestic elephant hologram as part of our Stop Wildlife Trafficking campaign, which is supported by players of People's Postcode Lottery. I would think this would really make you Stop and Think. Look at the size of that thing. There is a London  Double Decker Bus in the background.

I have been spammed lately and I was thinking, what is the point of sending silly, meaningless messages to someone's blog. Seems daft to me.

I thought this looked good, I don't use my slow cooker nearly enough, it is rather large. I wonder what they use to make this look shiny, olive oil sprinkled over top perhaps?

Slow cooker Spanish chicken

1 Spanish onion halved and sliced
12 large bone-in chicken thighs, skin removed
225 g pack chorizo picante, thickly sliced
3 pack pack fmixed colour peppers, cut into chunks
150 g (drained weight) pitted Spanish pimento stuffed green olives
300 ml dry white wine (serve the rest of the bottle with the meal)
300 ml chicken stock
1 Tbs tomato purée

1. Heat 2 tbsp olive oil in a large frying pan. Fry 1 sliced Spanish onion for about 5 mins until golden.

2. Tip into the slow cooker pot (we used a 6.5-litre model), then fry 12 large bone-in skinless chicken thighs and 225g thickly sliced chorizo picante in the same pan until starting to colour – you will need to do this in two batches.

3. Add to the slow cooker with 3 mixed colour peppers, cut into chunks and 150g pitted Spanish pimento stuffed green olives.

4. Tip 300ml dry white wine, 300ml chicken stock and 1 tbsp tomato purée into the pan.

5. Scrape up any bits stuck to the bottom, then tip into the slow cooker, cover and cook on Low for 6 hrs.

Servings: Source: BBC Good Food.



Have a great day
 

18 comments:

  1. I love the Bucket List too - great film. Spam is becoming a real pain - we're all getting countless fake friend requests on Facebook that are all aimed at collecting addresses ... I met a woman a few years back who works on internet crime and apparently what the hackers want is to keep collecting addresses which they can then use to send mass emails to crash some big organisation's network at a crisis time - they can then demand money in return for fixing it ... or something like that ... It seems never ending.

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    1. Spammers go on and on even on blogs which are no longer active. I guess highwaymen are still alive and well.

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  2. I love mountains and have taken many vacations in them. Got up to 9000 feet on one part of my latest trip. Yes, they places were on my bucket list. I knocked off three of them.

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    1. Lucky you Denise. Thinking about it, I have got to have seen some mountains even if not very high ones. In Scotland for instance.

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  3. You've never seen real mountains? You definitely need a trip somewhere that you can see them.

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  4. Growing up in Oregon, we had a clear view of a mountain from just about everywhere. We could see Mt. Hood clearly from Salem and I went skiing there. Also watched Mt. St. Helens erupt the second time from Portland.

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    1. Yes, lots of mountains there. Think that would have been scary Diane.

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  5. Hi Jo - travel across the country and the Rockies are just here ... land in Vancouver - mountains galore ... but understand travelling places without the energy and too much in the pocket makes that unlikely. Still you've seen lots of places ... and probably the Alps? Love the idea of slow cooked chicken - cheers Hilary

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    1. Would love to Hilary but unlikely now. Yes, I have crossed the Alps, but in the dark.

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  6. I grew up in New England and I had quite the surprise when I moved to CA and crossed the Sierras. But Washington State takes the prize for most dramatic mountain scenery. On clear summer mornings I'd be on my way to work with Mt. Rainier & the Cascades in my rearview mirror, and the Olympic Mtns way ahead of me. I miss it so much. To have mountains, rainforests and ocean all in one place is amazing.

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    1. Yes, quite a difference I think JoJo. Lovely country you have lived in, but I love the seascapes of where you live now.

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  7. My favorite mountains in the US are the Grand Tetons. They are very raw and majestic looking.

    The chicken recipe sounds delicious.

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    1. Seen pictures of them Liz, but never seen them in fact. Would love to do so.

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  8. I live on a mountain. The place I live is the edge of a gigantic crater called the Scenic Rim. There are mountains all around us.

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    1. Funny that, I knew you lived on a mountain Pinky, but didn't register it was a really big mountain.

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  9. Two of the best actors in one of the best films... How did you live in NC and not go to the mountains? Granted they aren't the Rockies, but they were once upon a time! And, Mitchell is over 6,000 feet, so that's nothing to sneeze at!

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    1. I do so agree Lisa. You're right, I am getting forgetful, yes, I went to Blowing Rock a couple of times. Never went to Mount Mitchell itself though. But I guess I was thinking more of places like the Rockies and the Mount Everest type.

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