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Chili Sauce worthy of a 2am kebab

February 23, 2010 – 6:51 pm

I’ve been eatting fajitas all week. As per normal when I become facinated with some sort of food, I’ll eat it all week (sometimes all month) until I get bored and latch on to something else. This week fahitas, last week baked red cabbage, the month before that juices made in the blender, last year clear Chinese soups.

I’ve started making fajitas so unauthentic that your average Mexican would probably cry. Never mind, they’re very tasty. They all demand a good sauce to go with them though, and after having gone through all 9 different chilie sauces I own, it was time to make one myself. Annoyingly I’ve reinvented what ever kebab shop owner already knows…

1 tin of tomatoes
Half a big white onion
1 clove of garlic
2 hot red chillis (add me if you like)
1 table spoon of brown suger
5 pickled onions
1 green pepper (cored)

Stick them all in the blender for a minute until smooth, pop it into a hot wide pan or frying pan, bring to the boil and then turn off the heat. Leave it until it goes cold and it’s thickened.

Tasty tasty will ensue.

By coldclimate | Posted in food | Comments (0)

E by gum

February 8, 2010 – 8:48 pm

A rant I’ve been queuing up for a good couple of years, but haven’t yet got round to committing to ink (or pixels) is the strange phenomenon of e-things. It started reasonably enough with e-mail. Its like normal mail, but sent electronically. Fair enough. I’d argue that the UK should be talking about “I’ll drop you an e-post” but it’s tolerable.

E-mail is one thing, but enough is enough. In the last week I’ve been heard of e-newsletter (aka. newsletter, sent via email). I can live with this. I cannot take anymore of the following though…

E-postcard eg. an email
E-shot (a spammy mass email)
E-brouchure (a PDF created from a brochure)
E-database (fuck only knows)
E-CRM – yes – electronic customer relationship manager, the alternative being one of those very fashional things, a card index
E-flyer (you guessed it – an email)

I’ve had enough, I’m fed up to the back teeth with it. If you say these words on a regular basis why not just go and chop off the first joint of your little finger to teach yourself a lesson, I’m off for a w-bath.

By coldclimate | Posted in rant, technology | Comments (2)

A twitter inspired wedding cake

January 31, 2010 – 4:43 pm

I saw this at the weekend in the window of a wedding cake shop. To me it clearly looks twitter inspired, I wonder what the story behind it is?

By coldclimate | Posted in life | Comments (0)

Amazing tasty Chinese seasoning stuff

January 25, 2010 – 9:10 pm

I’ve no idea exactly what this stuff it, it’s not crazily hot, but it is crunchy and has that slightly soapy taste of Chinese pepper and is amazing on top of noodle, soup noodles and grilled meats. Go to your local Chinese supermarket and hunt it down.

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A lexicon for the uninitiated

January 24, 2010 – 11:36 am

Most of my readers can ignore this, or just roll their eyes.

I’ve just seen a tweet by Suw that made me thing of a post I half wrote about a year ago and never got round to publishing. I keep hearing people mixing up their nouns for “nu-media”, so here’s a handy guide for all you radio/tv/people.

Blog: A sequential listing of blog posts, written by a defined person or group of people. You can’t post to my blog unless I invite you. You can comment however comment on one of my blog posts however I I provide that facility. Example: www.coldclimate.co.uk is my blog.
Post (or blog post): An individual article on a blog. Often associated with a category or set of tags (to allow readers to find other posts on a related subject). Blogs often organise their posts into reverse chronological order, making the newest posts available first.
Twitter: A service which allows users to post tweets and follower other Twitterers.
Twitter feed: A list if tweet by a single user. Only I can post to my twitter feed (http://www.twitter.com/coldclimate/) Often identified by the @ symbol eg. @coldcliate
Tweet: An individual post to Twitter

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