Welcome to the Comedy Phone-In
It wasn’t supposed to be that, but the breakfast phone in on BBC Radio 5 was that this morning.
It was supposed to be on the Pope’s views on homosexuality and his criticism of equality laws. We had people on both sides quoting the Bible. I bet if you wanted to prove the sky is yellow, you can find the proof in the Bible.
All very funny!
Shouldn’t we get on with solving the world’s problems, rather than creating more, and discriminating against those who don’t fit our views of what the world should be like.
Spring Onion Chicken
The basis for this recipe comes from Group Recipes, although I’ve modified it slightly to make it gluten-free.
The ingredients were.
- 2 chicken breasts
- 2 tablespoons of gluten-free soy sauce – I used Life from MH Foods.
- 3 stalks of spring onion
- some root ginger, peeled and finely chopped
- a clove of garlic, crushed
- 1 tablespoon of dry sherry
- 2 teaspoons of Demerara sugar
- 1/4 cup of chicken stock
The original used rice wine, but I substituted dry sherry as I had a bottle to get rid of. Does anybody drink sherry these days?
The method was as follows.
- Cut the chicken into pieces. Marinate with dark soy sauce and set aside for about 15 minutes.
- Heat up 2 tbsp of vegetable oil in a wok. I used a large flat frying pan, as AGAs don’t do woks well. While doing so, cut spring onion in the bias into one and a half inch pieces. Finely chop the ginger.
- Stir fry the garlic and chicken until chicken changes colour. Set aside on a hot plate.
- Stir fry the ginger and spring onions until fragrant. Add chicken, sherry, sugar and chicken stock. Mix well, cover and allow to braise over low heat for about 10 minutes.
I served it with rice.
Erica Roe
Britain’s most famous streaker is Erica Roe who ran across the pitch at Twickenham during an England Australia match on 2nd January 1982. She was mentioned on BBC Breakfast this morning. According to her Wikipedia entry, she and her family are farming organic sweet potatoes in Portugal.
Erica Roe
I wonder who the gent in the left of the photograph is? And note Erica’s belt. We all had belts like that at some time, if you were born before 1960. I haven’t seen one in years.
Is that a ciggie in her mouth? How very 1980’s.
Sir Terry Pratchett
Sir Terry wrote and read part of the Richard Dimbleby lecture last night. It was a moving and very powerful performance as the writer is suffering from early-onset Alzheimer’s Disease.
His plea for a right to die, when he chooses is summed up with this last sentence of the lecture.
Let us consider me as a test case. As I have said, I would like to die peacefully with Thomas Tallis on my iPod before the disease takes me over and I hope that will not be for quite some time to come, because if I knew that I could die at any time I wanted, then suddenly every day would be as precious as a million pounds. If I knew that I could die, I would live. My life, my death, my choice.
He is right and everybody should see or read his lecture from last night. The Guardian has an edited version here.
The Anonymous Widower 