Author: Stephanie Booth

Chick Pea Salad [en]

Whoo! I’d forgotten how nice and easy to prepare this chick pea salad was. I used to do it quite often pre-India.

Here is my no-fuss meal-for-one version of Roshi Razzaq’s original recipe. It’s “Indian” – the kind of Indian you find in western cookery books – and it’s really yummy.

First, stick the following into a tupperware (or any lid-able recipient):

  • 250g cooked chick peas (that’s about one tin)
  • 3 tablespoons of fresh chopped mint and corianders leaves
  • chilli powder (use paprika if you don’t want it strong), salt, ground cumin (the white “asian” variety) – 1/2 teaspoon of each
  • 1/4 teaspoon of pepper
  • 1 teaspoon of chopped fresh ginger (in little sticks)

Put the lid on, and shake.
Then, add about 200g of cooked potatoes (cut them up!), plus – follow your inspiration – tomato, cucumber, radish, spring onions (I usually end up with tomatos and spring onions, because I’m too lazy to buy everything).
Mix everything up together with some lemon juice – it’s ready!

You’re supposed to serve it with tamarind sauce, on lettuce leaves, with lots of fancy decoration. The tamarind sauce is really nice but a bit troublesome to prepare for one. If you have guests though, do take the trouble.

Bon appétit! – and tell me if you liked it…

Grimm Fusion [en]

So maybe you have heard about fusion. Now there is the text equivalent, daniel’s latest creation.
Have a peek at the second grimm. There’s a surprise for you at the end.

Blog Stuff [en]

Going through the bookmarks I had collected when I was staying at my brother’s, I pulled out
non-negative blogging for you. What is it about?

First of all, if you are not very familiar with the “blogging” subject, read Rebecca Blood’s excellent essay on weblog history. You might also want to read Deconstructing “You’ve Got Blog” (a comment on Rebecca Mead’s article) which puts notes the “star-system” and “incestuous nature” of blogging.

Sorry for the interruption. Dink’s take is that lots of bloggers openly criticize other bloggers. Not their opinions, but their person. Not later than yesterday, I must say I noticed something very similar to a blog-war going on not far from what I call the “waferbaby community”.

Before I had a site, I spent the major part (if not all) of my online time in chatrooms. I used to go on crusades to convince my fellow chatters to treat “online people” with as much respect and care as “offline people”. Too often, it was not the case.
People online are treated as “virtual”, denied an existence of human beings with feelings.

Positive blogging goes in exactly that direction. “Think of the person behind the webpage or the keyboard, maybe at the other end of the world.

Excess [en]

There are lots of talented people in the world. They produce good music, that I can hear on the radio, or write interesting things that I can read on the Internet.

I can access something that was produced at the other end of the world in the click of the mouse or a flick of the radio button. And that is wonderful.

But it also brings on some sense of frustration: there is too much good music for me to listen to it all. There are too many interesting sites or articles for me to visit them all.

There is too much out there for me to absorb.
Life is too short. Choices have to be made.

Writing for the Web II [en]

Thanks to Zeldman and webtype, here are a few more links on the writing for the web issues – and a bit on CSS.