Nothing is as certain as the Unforeseen
Saturday 9 March 2024
Monday 26 February 2024
How to spend Mondays
What a healthy lunch! Cherry tomatoes, avocado and roasted garlic on some home made pan grilled wholemeal bread, with a side of kale chips coated in home made 'vegan parmesan'; made with nuts and nutritional yeast.
Wednesday 14 February 2024
Happy Valentine's Day to my wonderful wife
Monday 12 February 2024
Weather perfect for our daily walk
The sun was shining and today we really enjoyed getting out of the house for our daily walk. It took us through Phillack Church graveyard and over the Mexico Towans to the sand dune we have affectionately called "Our Happy Place". The following image doesn't really do the view justice. To the west from Carbis Bay to St Ives the sun reflected off the white buildings against the hilly backdrop. To the east Godrevy Lighthouse stands proud off the headland at Gwithian. In between the blue sea, which was calm today, complements the golden beach and tall Mexican grass on the Towans. The word Idyllic really does capture the view, even if this picture doesn't.
After a rest at "Our Happy Place" we made our way through the Haven campsite to the South West Path and on to the North Quay and back home via the King George V Memorial Walk. Sadly the view of the North Quay development is depressing. It currently looks like what it is - a building site. Worse still is that as the developer has gone bankrupt it's going to look like this for a while.
Thankfully with Spring around the corner, or we hope it is, the walk along the Memorial Walk was a little more pleasant than usual. The warmth of the sun sparked the yellow petal daffodils into life adding a little more colour to our day.
Friday 2 February 2024
Reinstating our Blog
Sunday 25 March 2012
Mother's Day 2012 and more.....
Thursday 8 March 2012
Pico de Gallo
However, it was Mexican food that really opened my eyes to the concept that food could be pleasurable, nourishing and eye candy. And the one dish that captures this more than other is Pico de Gallo. This simple salad (or salsa, as it is better known) combines a handful of diced ingredients and spices and can compliment an enchilada or taco or another Mexican dish you choose.
The refreshing tomato and lime juice bring the taste buds to life, while the red onion gives you a bite, the jalapeno adds heat, and the cumin and coriander takes you to exotic lands of warmth only dreamt about on a cold winter day in England. Best of all is that there is no cooking involved. All you need to do place diced the tomatoes and red onion in a bowl. Add a finely chop a jalapeno (remove the seeds if you don't want too much heat), squeeze in the juice of a lime, stir in the minced garlic and ground cumin and leave in the fridge for an hour or two (the longer the better) for all the flavours to mingle.
1/2 red onion diced
3 tablespoons chopped fresh coriander
1 tablespoon lime juice
1 clove garlic minced
1 tsp ground cumin
Salt and Pepper to taste