Things I have done today

[lnr]

• Got up at around 10:30 to answer door
• Opened parcel and ripped 5 CDs in it
• Showered and dressed
• Ate breakfast: toast and yoghurt and fruit
• Put some washing on
• Put dinner on: a variant on cassoulet, with whole dug duck legs rather than lamb pieces
• Made lunch: tom yum noodles, then raspberries with porridge oats and yoghurt, then some biccies
• Wiped worksurfaces in kitchen, and stacked washing up more sensibly
• read and geeked a bit in between it all

I guess that's not bad really.

Comments

[k425.livejournal.com]

What did you dig the legs off?

(You did lots. I'm still trying to hang the washing up...)

[hoiho.livejournal.com]

I read it as "dug", as in Glaswegian "dog".
Perfectly sensible for King's Hedges, innit?

[ottah.livejournal.com]

What are "dug legs"?

[tea-cantata.livejournal.com]

Unlike the other pedants, I'll actually ask what the CDs were. (So, what were the CDs?)

:-)

[lnr]

Legs are now corrected. The CDs were mostly U2 stuff that I don't have on CD only tape or LP (The Unforgettable Fire, The Joshua Tree, Rattle and Hum, and Achtung Baby), plus Travis The Man Who. These were only ordered from Woolies online yesterday, so I'm quite impressed. I might have another 5 coming from CDWow as well, any day now.

[kake]

That's loads of stuff! Well done!

[lnr]

Yeah, mostly I've been getting up in the afternoon, having one much less healthy meal instead of breakfast and lunch, and maybe getting one useful thing, so today has been a great improvement. But it does help to actually make a note of acheiving small things.

[hoiho.livejournal.com]

a variant on cassoulet, with whole duck legs

Isn't that the original recipe, and lamb pieces the variant?

[lnr]

No idea, I looked it up in my 1000 classic recipes, since it sounded like more or less what I was aiming for, then adapted. It came out rather well.

[hoiho.livejournal.com]

A little Googling sugegst that you have indeed pretty much re-invented the classic form (http://www.banlieusardises.com/delices/archives/000358.html) of the dish!

[sparrowsion]

The only cassoulet I've encountered had has been vegetarian with a huge variety of beans. From the way it was referred to as just "cassoulet" not qualified by "vegetarian" or "bean" I wouldn't have guessed there was any other variety.

[burkesworks.livejournal.com]

"Cassoulet" isn't vegetarian at all. As I understand it, while the main ingredient is indeed haricot beans, the classic cassoulet also contains either duck or goose (in its own fat, to form what is called the "confit"), pork, and Toulouse sausage.
The dish dates back from the Hundred Years' War where some besieged Frenchmen in the town of Castelnaudary, near Toulouse, had cooked a big stew using their rations of beans and preserved meats, and feeling fortified by that, they were able to fight off the English.