Base case dinners: Mid-week Popeye risotto

I think I’m going to write a “base case” recipe book. You start with one ingredient, and add to it what you can find in the cupboards. In this case, the base was spinach harvested from my own vegetable teepee. A teepee is what you get when you place a goal (a place to keep …

Taking time to take stock – Take a knee soldier!

Picture the scene, our space faring descendants have just crash landed on a hostile earth. And the earth has good reason to be hostile, because we are not very kind to it right now, are we? Anyway, in the movie “After Earth”, Cypher (played by Will Smith), instructs his son, Kitai (played by his son), …

The cheque is in the post

Yeah, how many times have I heard that before, over the last 6 months? So instead of philosophical debates about the origin, cause (which goes before origin – and addresses the root of why we are where we are right now), and consequences of COVID, today is about being real. I toyed for a few …