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[nny]

OKAY! Packages for strangefrontier, tacittype, midnight_violet, looking4tarzan and my little sister are now POSTED. And I have the ingredients for leek and potato (leek and potaaaaaato, leek and potAAAAAAto dun-dun-dun-DUUUUUUN!) soup, so I can now fester a little more happily in my flat and not go out. I haven't washed up yet but so far I call today a win and will go watch 50 First Dates apparently.

(It has a happy ending, right?)

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[foreverdirt.livejournal.com]

I love

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I love <i">50 First Dates</i> -- it's a surprisingly clever, surprisingly thoughtful movie. And yes, it has one of the loveliest endings I've ever seen in a straight romcom.

[foreverdirt.livejournal.com]

...let's pretend I know HTML, yeah? :/

[villainny.livejournal.com]

*SMOOCHES YOUR FACE*

*to hide giggling*

[pennyplainknits.livejournal.com]

Yay for packages! Are you feeling a bit better today?

[villainny.livejournal.com]

a bit. I still feel like I'm breathing underwater at times, but I am up and about and not having to nap every five minutes, which YAY!

[pennyplainknits.livejournal.com]

Yay for staying awake!

[looking4tarzan.livejournal.com]

heh thankyou!

Oooh 50 first dates, I quite liked that film!

[mashimero.livejournal.com]

Oooh, you know I've always wanted to try leeks. This might be good to make on my next vegetarian day :)

[villainny.livejournal.com]

You want my recipe-ish thing? XD It's not much of a recipe, more of a CHUCK IT IN A POT OMG, but still. :D

[mashimero.livejournal.com]

Yes please :DD

[villainny.livejournal.com]

Okay, so you need an onion, a few cloves of garlic, leeks and potatoes. Obviously the amount of these varies according to how much of the soup you're going to make - I tend to make a vat at a time so I can live without cooking for a bit. You also need some butter, and some sage or thyme, depending on your preference. (Smaller and I have a longrunning disagreement about this; I'm more of a thyme person, which I suspect stems from the fact that I associate sage with meat, and I've been a vegetarian for a shorter length of time than she has. I still give in to cravings, here. XD) Also veg stock works too, like cubes or bouillon.

Sautee (I CANNOT SPELL) the onion, garlic, leeks together in the butter, until they're softened. Chop them reasonably small for this - I'm going to use a hand held whizzer thing for this, so I can get away with bigger chunks than otherwise. Add the thyme - a goodly shakin' of it, but this might just be me. While that's all softening up, cut up the potato into smallish chunks, and boil the kettle for stock. Mix up the stock, add the potatoes and stock to your pan. There should be enough water so that the potatoes are floating, but you shouldn't swamp 'em because otherwise you're left with really insipid soup. Add salt and pepper to taste, and leave to simmer for however long you want to - it really tastes better to leave it simmering for a good while, at least 40 minutes but more if your stomach can stand to wait. Once you've taken it off the heat you can add cream if your tastes run to the heavier, but it means that you have less time to store it. Serve with breeeeeeead omg bread I miss you. I'm totally eating bread today with it, which might be a bad idea, but I've given my stomach so long away from wheat it might let me get away with it this once.

:D

Oh, right. Er, whiz it, if you have a whizzy thing, and then eat. HOM NOM.

[mashimero.livejournal.com]

Aaaand now I'm hungry.

I've found that Chinese/tofu/buddhist stores have like, the best vegetable stock, made from mushrooms.

Thank you for this! :D

[strangefrontier.livejournal.com]

Mmmmmmmmm, leek and potato sooooooouuuuuup! Yummy.

Stuff in the post! Is always exciting, except when it's a credit card bill. (Because they want my money and because they always give me paper cuts. Can't remember the last time I opened a Barclaycard envelope and didn't get a papercut from it.)

[midnight-violet.livejournal.com]

YAY:) *sends virtual crumpets to go with the valkries soup* 50 first dates does indeed have a happy ending.