Babara (Al's aunt) gave us some of her asperagus which grows in abundence in the garden - I was about enough to serve steamed as a starter for one and a half people so i decided to soup it!
I boiled it up then poured it and and the boiling water into the blender, adding a veggi stock cube and a paint of milk (goats milk becuase thats what I had in the fridge at the time). I then cheated and use dried chopped garlic - about a tea spoon fall and crushed fennel seeeds, again about 1 teaspoon fall to flavour it with. It was however a thin insubstantial soup so out came the corn flour and a a rapid thickening of the soup.
It was lovely and filling and as always I had accidently made enough for four people - oh well Jean loves it to which is good as shes getting it again tomorrow!
Jean is now regularly laying at least three sticky smelly eggs a day - they never end and they are foul!!!!
This is a change to the norm, one we are hoping is temporary after the virus infection she had.
Al tends to wear gas masks when chaning her - sigh.
The tea appears to be working, mum even took Jean for a couple of walks up and down the drive which with gout should have been too painful. Then she decided she wouldnt drink anymore becuase it made her need the loo (somethingt dad suffered too but me and didnt?) as a result the next day she was in lots of pain 🙁 from her gout flaring up becuase she hadnt drunk the tea (edit to make things clear).
I found that the best tasting brew was created by chopping the dried roots up but leaving the eaves whole. The leaves were dried too. I put the eqivalent of a 5cm long by 5mm(sorry about the units) diameter root into a tea pot per person. This is 2/3rds of the mix the remaining third being the leaves.
It needs quiet alot of breing/steeping so a tea cosy is useful (I have a rasterfarian looking one that Als aunt gave us - I love it!) honey is also good as a sweetner in it. I only served small coffee cups of the stuff.
I now have awaiting list for the stuff!
I suppose I'd best dig up a lot more dandilions!
Mum and dadsefforts to get Jean clapping worked - today she clapped her hands instead of just getting too interested in the adults hands that were clapping 🙂
Anyone else noticed the numrical date today?
If I was an evil genius type I would probably have picked today as the day of take over/destruction of the world!
Of course this is an artifact of our current calendar system and occures every hundred yrs. Also in the original langauge (hebrew I think but cant remember, it means the same inverted meaning that it actually will occure in another three years time!).
Oh actually it will happen twice more for a whole month in yrs like 66 and 99 but that will be four and not three and so probably doesnt count!
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Thu 8th Jun 2006 12:34 am | 
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