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I am experimenting for the first time with roasting vegetables. I found a couple of good recipes online.
Now if the other sites would just agree on whether or not olive oil is good for you or not, and how, if its smoke point really is 410 degrees, it is safe in a 425-degree oven.
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The vegetables are smelling very good at this moment. :)
 
SaskiaKC said:
I am experimenting for the first time with roasting vegetables. I found a couple of good recipes online.
Now if the other sites would just agree on whether or not olive oil is good for you or not, and how, if its smoke point really is 410 degrees, it is safe in a 425-degree oven.
:rolleyes:
The vegetables are smelling very good at this moment. :)
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Vegetables roast very well with olive oil and a light sprinkle of dried herbs or spices if thats your fancy. One of my favourite and frequent meals is chunks of aubergine (egg plant) red onion and a few fresh tomatoes halved drizzled with OO and baked spread out on a flat tray at 180 degrees (not sure how that converts to US ovens, maths never my strong point) for about 25 mins. I imagine harder veg take longer eg squashes. You can just stick a fork in to check when ready. Delicious.
 
Muddy Cyclist said:
Off to Shropshire for group rehearsal and Recorder quartet, lovely evening here but going chilly.

No watercolour today but got the coloured pencils out and sketched an image I took this morning on my bike ride. Feel it needs more work as the tones are a bit light. These pencils blend easily and so might do it later on getting back from Shropshire, no time now. A4 size paper, pencils are Fabre Castell polychromes which I carry everywhere in the pencil roll, yes I have a man bag, very robust Copper River Leather, from USA @SaskiaKC

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Oh thats lovely MC like @SaskiaKC I would love to lean on the bridge and watch the water flowing through on a glorious summer evening. I have zero abilities in art but I used to and still do love good colouring pencils. Used to love colouring books with the boys on wet days in the summer hols. Might revert to doing it in my dotage.
Have a great eveningwith the quartet.
 
trick60 said:
Good morning/evening folks, a 6.1 on the dice, 33 years wed today, so I've put the central heating on early for her.
Have a lovely day all.

Good evening/morning folks, obvs didn't send again this morning.
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Congratulations to yourself and Mrs T. You do realise you have set the bar very high for the rest of us.
 
5.4 this morning, 4.3 this evening before supper. I have also got my laptop back and its working beautifully, so going to go back through the posts now to read what you guys have been doing today. :)
 
trick60 said:
Good morning/evening folks, a 6.1 on the dice, 33 years wed today, so I've put the central heating on early for her.
Have a lovely day all.

Good evening/morning folks, obvs didn't send again this morning.
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Krystyna23040 said:
@SlimLizzy @ianpspurs is absolutely right. It is not surprising your numbers are a little higher this morning.

Any stress triggers the fight or flight response. If you really had to fight or run for your life the higher blood sugars would be so useful. Unfortunately not so useful in modern life when most of our stresses don't require physical action.
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Absolutely right. And frustrating. I have mitral valve prolapse syndrome dysautonomia (dysfunction of my autonomic nervous system) which means my fight-or-flight mode is almost always revving, rarely idling.
 
SaskiaKC said:
Absolutely right. And frustrating. I have mitral valve prolapse syndrome dysautonomia (dysfunction of my autonomic nervous system) which means my fight-or-flight mode is almost always revving, rarely idling.
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Hugs @SaskiaKC
I have mitral valve prolapse too, diagnosed 2006. It makes me very tired.
 
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jjraak said:
Hey @DJC3

do you think the weather boffins have been reading the forum and your posts...;)

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-norther...om/news/uk&link_location=live-reporting-story

i'd say for this one, batten down the hatches if your in range of it..

But the Next ONE..OMG

HANG ON TO YOUR SLIPPERS...:woot:

:D
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Storm Dennis! Hahaha that’s going to be a terror! Love ‘hang on to your slippers’ I can just imagine everyone’s slippers swirling round like autumn leaves in the wind.
 
jjraak said:
Too little ..Too late ..sadly.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-51364382

think it's not a question of when we join china,

it's how bad it gets..
IF we don't find a cure asap.


https://nypost.com/2020/01/27/half-...-town-before-lockdown-raising-risk-of-spread/

https://www.businessinsider.com/5-million-left-wuhan-before-coronavirus-quarantine-2020-1?r=US&IR=T

Bearing in mind NO symptoms* while infected early on.
means we have to test EVERYONE..(german case disproved, but still accepted it can happen)

*https://www.statnews.com/2020/02/04...d-on-faulty-information-health-officials-say/

and if you consider the struggles to control immigration over the years, across europe, one, two or many hundreds WILL get past any attempts we make to do that successfully...and then it starts again with a European city replacing Wuhan


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Finally confirmation of the death of Dr Li
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-51403795

some confusion over previous post re his demise.
RiP.

and for those seeking to keep abreast of details.

i found this on line..
sadly updated as i googled ...deaths on Thursday were 69
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/



Edit: found this ok n the above link report under AGE.

" Considering that SARS ended up infecting 5,237 people in mainland China, Wuhan Coronavirus surpassed SARS on
January 29, 2020, when Chinese officials confirmed 5,974 cases of the novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV).
One day later, on January 30, 2020 the novel coronavirus cases surpassed even the 8,096 cases worldwide which were the final SARS count in 2003."

And 7th feb.2020 9 days later it had crept up by close on 25 thousand


Coronavirus Cases:
31,481
of which 4,824 (15%)
in critical condition
 
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trick60 said:
Good morning/evening folks, a 6.1 on the dice, 33 years wed today, so I've put the central heating on early for her.
Have a lovely day all.

Good evening/morning folks, obvs didn't send again this morning.
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Congratulations to you both, as @ianpspurs said you have set the bar high, just so glad you didn't turn the heating up also, that really would have been a step to far.
 
PenguinMum said:
Vegetables roast very well with olive oil and a light sprinkle of dried herbs or spices if thats your fancy. One of my favourite and frequent meals is chunks of aubergine (egg plant) red onion and a few fresh tomatoes halved drizzled with OO and baked spread out on a flat tray at 180 degrees (not sure how that converts to US ovens, maths never my strong point) for about 25 mins. I imagine harder veg take longer eg squashes. You can just stick a fork in to check when ready. Delicious.
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Thank you. :) Your mix sounds delicious. Today I did broccoli, Brussels sprouts, carrots !!!), a small potato (don't tell anyone! ;) ), tomato, yellow crookneck squash, and zucchini (courgette?). I skipped the OO but did sprinkle on some dried herbs. Very colorful, and very tasty.
Next time I will try the OO, for the sake of the pan!
 
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