tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-76217300644620627852024-03-06T01:58:12.434+00:00The Bare NecessitiesIsabel Spooner-Harveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16038242120656955819noreply@blogger.comBlogger34125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7621730064462062785.post-2812848072615136922012-03-25T17:03:00.001+01:002012-03-25T17:03:44.423+01:00Junk shopA delightful junk shop that popped up for a few weeks in Herne Hill. Bought a women's magazine from 1907.<div class="separator"style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjH0gU0h4z8AZ43k70Lf4d8zJSqTw49mQVvdrhVbst-lK2TV7TBpXX23rQZGQWLoBDNxJJ-cQ6Ala9mEr9-yymNO8_L7zAdaxl3Vpx64-MpwSgyYzmzZDxhE5pZsKm1ns3C7DeNnrW29xo/s640/blogger-image-2096249834.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjH0gU0h4z8AZ43k70Lf4d8zJSqTw49mQVvdrhVbst-lK2TV7TBpXX23rQZGQWLoBDNxJJ-cQ6Ala9mEr9-yymNO8_L7zAdaxl3Vpx64-MpwSgyYzmzZDxhE5pZsKm1ns3C7DeNnrW29xo/s640/blogger-image-2096249834.jpg" /></a></div>Isabel Spooner-Harveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16038242120656955819noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7621730064462062785.post-5555523775938055452012-03-25T17:02:00.001+01:002012-03-25T17:02:08.447+01:00Healthy BentoOk so this is just a bit of pure showing off but I love putting together my bento every morning. Sometimes they look really nice and I feel the need to take a photo and show them off a little.<div class="separator"style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9f8DlIBOXNKRiV3vYAIbcMm9SBdZ2v-m3lVOvQgGxoTHEeRx6pfb6Bnl-1NEI9bN2Mt5n5caFnUPLvKxzyuDw8UQXeqMrOPz4H5o3Tup2yUhpxyvBkYCeIpktFWo5MOGOMLZkDCTGIWAF/s640/blogger-image--179251790.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9f8DlIBOXNKRiV3vYAIbcMm9SBdZ2v-m3lVOvQgGxoTHEeRx6pfb6Bnl-1NEI9bN2Mt5n5caFnUPLvKxzyuDw8UQXeqMrOPz4H5o3Tup2yUhpxyvBkYCeIpktFWo5MOGOMLZkDCTGIWAF/s640/blogger-image--179251790.jpg" /></a></div>Isabel Spooner-Harveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16038242120656955819noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7621730064462062785.post-17374993243641211552012-03-25T16:56:00.001+01:002012-03-25T16:59:18.015+01:00Bento PrideCurry peanut portabello mushroom stir fry with steamed broccoli and rice, and fruit salad with strawberries and orange segments.<div class="separator"style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgf5zs3AM26zHxC1x5C6R6Q1g-q1hXZ13-GRxEQe6wJOLpyK63JP4UyQ8ZtVSpwC1ViZyuaj3MEbczppYqX5VvhHWsWAtkuChzkwv9-oMPMaHQZk8qB2yZHDCxCqHocylZ03BNyzWDRiUP8/s640/blogger-image-1889007214.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgf5zs3AM26zHxC1x5C6R6Q1g-q1hXZ13-GRxEQe6wJOLpyK63JP4UyQ8ZtVSpwC1ViZyuaj3MEbczppYqX5VvhHWsWAtkuChzkwv9-oMPMaHQZk8qB2yZHDCxCqHocylZ03BNyzWDRiUP8/s640/blogger-image-1889007214.jpg" /></a></div>Isabel Spooner-Harveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16038242120656955819noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7621730064462062785.post-4611694638509663822011-08-26T00:10:00.001+01:002011-08-26T00:11:21.922+01:00Elderberry Cordial, August 2011<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1ZWSIb7IffTKgS0667F09Rh1PmpVyXXkNEnprcv5Uv74IGGHd6hAv1BBk756meiTejZkFy9i7PWumPAQwFX0sJn7DDNLNfLxtMYeOIq8f3O1Vy3pvAHoxH_VdYlCf8kqMRNVEcET4Lh7F/s1600/DSCN1218.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1ZWSIb7IffTKgS0667F09Rh1PmpVyXXkNEnprcv5Uv74IGGHd6hAv1BBk756meiTejZkFy9i7PWumPAQwFX0sJn7DDNLNfLxtMYeOIq8f3O1Vy3pvAHoxH_VdYlCf8kqMRNVEcET4Lh7F/s320/DSCN1218.JPG" width="320" /></a>Yes, elderberry cordial, in August no less! Normally I'd expect to go berry picking in September, closer to my birthday (the equinox), but as we had our summer in April we are now experiencing one of the earliest autumns I can recall. Not only have I been out picking elderberries and blackberries, but I have even picked a handful of sloes. Usually one does not pick sloes until after the first frost so this is all completely topsy-turvy. One should not be picking sloes on a muggy August afternoon during the tea break at a cricket match. It's just plain wrong.<br />
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SO. Eldberry cordial. Just about the easiest preserve to make, ever. So easy even I can do it. The basic recipe goes thusly:<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Post-prandial wine and cheese, and one of mom's radical 1970s Reform haggadah's. Complete with prayer for Soviet Jews!</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Just thought I'd post a more recent photo of myself. Taken at the Sleeping Lady cafe in Fairfax, Ca, at my best friend's bridesmaid's brunch. </td></tr>
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Usually I would pick and bottle my sloes in the autumn, but this year I wasn't able to pick any sloes, blackberries or elderberries because I was busy getting married in California. That means no elderberry cordial or blackberry jam this year but I think it is a fair trade. Anyway my friend Fruity and I went foraging for sloes in November but the birds had gotten them all already, so I gave in and bought some from Messr. E. Bay. Desperate times call for desperate measures. <br />
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I've never seen sloes growing in California, so I thought I'd share the process here for anyone who hasn't heard of them. Sloes are small, marble-sized blue-black berries in the prunella family. They grown on blackthorn hedges. They taste terrible raw, but if you put bottle them with gin and sugar and leave it sitting in the back of your pantry for a few months, they transform your plain old gin into a magical purple liqueur of delight and wonder. No other drink comes close to sloe gin's toe-warming power. I drink it neat in very small amounts. It doesn't make you feel drunk, but your whole body warms up and you sink into a haze of midwinter cosiness, with your feet up in front of the fire and the wind whistling outside.<br />
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Sloe gin is just about the easiest home-made booze there is, especially considering the enormously satisfying returns on your labor. First you need to go out and pick some sloe berries. They are ripe in the late autumn. You can pick them as soon as they are ripe, but some people say you should wait until after the first frost. If you can't find them growing wild, you might be able to find them for sale on the interweb. <br />
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Next, buy some gin. Last year I used the second cheapest Sainsbury's own brand gin and it came out great. This year we are being extra frugal so I used Sainsbury's Basics gin. I know people like to go on about Bombay Sapphire and Tanqueray and all those other expensive gins, but gin has historically been a cheap and dirty drink, so I have high hopes for my crappy Basics brand gin. We shall see.<br />
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Now, you need to put the sloes into your container. I used an empty two liter water bottle last year. This year I'm using empty one liter liquor bottles rescued from the recycling. If you want to get all fancy you can buy a demijohn. Weigh your berries. You'll want to use about the same amount of sugar as berries. Prick each berry several times with a skewer or blackthorn thorn, and place it in the empty bottle. Once all the berries are in the bottle, add the sugar, and then top it up with gin. Basically you want to have one third berries, one third sugar, and one third gin. You can add all sorts of spices and secret ingredients but this basic recipe will produce a very tasty sloe gin. <br />
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Finally, when your sloe gin is all bottled up, place the bottle in a dark, cool area to chill out for a few months. For the first week, shake the bottles up once a day. After a few days of this, the sugar should have fully dissolved. After that, I give the bottles a shake once a week. The longer you leave the bottles, the better your sloe gin will taste, but it's best to leave it for at least two months before drinking.<br />
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When your sloe gin is ready to drink, strain out all the berries and bits. Decant it into smaller bottles and give it as Christmas gifts. There's nothing better than homemade presents, especially edible ones. Just promise me you won't buy store-bought sloe gin. If you want the full wild-tasting warming loveliness of sloe gin, you have to make it yourself the old-fashioned way. <br />
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I applied some fire cement to the collar of the stove, where the chimney meets the stove, where I could see some smoke leaking out, but that didn't solve the problem. The next step was to replace the fire rope, which is a gasket on the main door of the stove. It looked like it might have perished. We got some fire rope and I set to work on a very dirty task. <br />
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The first step was to take the door off the stove. That was easy enough, it comes off like a Jeep door. <br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Next, I had to remove the old fire rope. It had perished a bit and was really really crusty and compacted. I used a screwdriver to dig the old rope out of the channel in the door. It was pretty gross.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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Next, I used white spirit (rubbing alcohol in the States?) to clean the channel of any leftover bits of rope, glue and creosote. The groove needs to be clean and dry before you can put in the new rope. I also tried to clean the glass a bit but I didn't get very far. <br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">At the risk of jinxing it, I am very happy to say that our landlady came yesterday and lit some smoke pellets in the stove to see if she could pinpoint the leaks. She found and plugged up some leaks and lit the stove yesterday afternoon, and so far, after eighteen hours, nothing is beeping. Yet. Keep your fingers crossed.</div>Isabel Spooner-Harveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16038242120656955819noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7621730064462062785.post-41315197137258668462010-12-24T09:29:00.000+00:002010-12-24T09:29:22.756+00:00Puppy-Sitting 2 December 2010Some neighbors of ours on the mooring adopted a lurcher a couple of months ago. When they got her home, they discovered she was pregnant, and shortly afterward she gave birth to eight lurcher/whippet cross puppies. They are gorgeous black sleek little things, very wiggly and good-tempered. All of the puppies have been adopted into loving homes now as far as I know, but back at the beginning of the month there were two female puppies left, Eliza and Sweetpea. We were very tempted to adopt one of them as we've been discussing getting a dog for awhile, and so we puppy-sat Sweetpea for one night. She was absolutely lovely, but we decided, very responsibly and grown-up-ly, not to adopt her because we don't know if we'll be moving back on land soon and it's so hard to find a landlord who allows dogs. It was a tough decision because Sweetpea was very smart and affectionate and would make a terrific narrow dog for a narrow boat. <br />
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First up is a video I took on Tuesday 30 November, when I had a sick day and it snowed like crazy. It looked really pretty falling into the canal but I'm not sure I really captured it. Anyway there are some still photographs too.<br />
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