Jun. 20th, 2012

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Pete brought home a small bag of trimmed green beans from Morrisons last Sunday. We wouldn’t normally buy trimmed veg, but these were 50p. And I always feel guilty about the food miles with Kenyan beans, but it’s very efficient (the Food Programme told me so), and Kenyan farmers are entitled to a living.

Anyhow, we needed to be fed and out quickly last night, so here’s a 15 minute meal start to finish.

  1. Put a pot of salted water on to boil for the pasta
  2. Chop one onion, and a couple of cloves of garlic (or more – entirely up to you)
  3. Make sure the beans are in fact trimmed – sometimes packets lie (snarl)
  4. Weigh 125g of pasta quills (that’s what we have for two of us)
  5. Heat some olive oil in a frying pan, and put the onions and garlic in to cook gently
  6. When pasta water is boiling, add pasta *and* beans (thus saving time and washing up). Set timer for 10 minutes
  7. Realise that the small packet of beans is really quite small, and add some pancetta cubes to the pan
  8. (Ideally get husband to) grate lots of parmesan
  9. When timer goes, drain pasta and beans, add to frying pan, add parmesan, stir around, eat, run.

Mirrored from Reactive Cooking.

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Jun. 20th, 2012 03:57 pm
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I had a routine retinopathy scan in the mobile van clinic thing a few weeks ago, and the technician said everything was fine. So I was a bit taken aback to get a letter from the Eye Hospital saying they needed to see me. In fact, I had four separate letters, all moving the appointment a little bit, but off I trundled (after phoning to make sure that I had the right time).

It transpires that I have Macular Oedema, which is a side effect of diabetes, and they want to pump me full of dye, and then give me laser treatment for it. To say that I am not looking forward to this Friday would be a bit of an understatement.

I phoned the surgery and got a prescription for some Valium – no idea if I will take them (probably not), but at least they are there. Aaargh.

Mirrored from kestrel.org.

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