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Red Thai Curry Soup Experiment

Friday, July 13th, 2007

In the spirit of throwing things in a saucepan and hoping for the best I attempted to create a red thai curry soup last night.  It worked out rather well so I thought I’d share it.

1 tablespoon oil
4 leeks, sliced
2 carrots, chopped
1 large sweet potato, cubed
1 can reduced fat coconut milk
1 pint vegetable stock
2 teaspoons red thai curry paste

Fry the leeks, carrot and sweet potato in a large saucepan for 10 minutes.  Add the coconut milk, vegetable stock and curry paste, bring to the boil and simmer for 10 minutes.  Stick it all in the blender and zjuush until smooth.

Scran with some nice bread. Simple. 

Telephone Preference Service (TPS) and Mailing Preference Service (MPS)

Saturday, February 10th, 2007

We signed up to the TPS a few months ago.  It’s an online service where you can register your telephone number (landline and/or mobile) to prevent companies from cold calling you trying to sell you stuff.  It’s free, it only takes a few minutes to sign up and their website is http://www.tpsonline.org.uk/tps/

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