"Blue hydrogen" is even more unjustifiable economically. It's effectively government subsiding the mass production of a product for which there isn't a demand beyond the existing market, in the hope of creating one.
And the cost of production, while for now substantially cheaper than 'green hydrogen' (produced by electrolysis of water, is both subject to commodity prices, and technologically unlikely to fall much. Whereas ghee's a great deal of headrooom to improve the efficiency and capital cost of bulk electrolysis.
A lot of industry wants to fuel switch from natural gas to low carbon hydrogen in order to decarbonise their operations.
Then we have the whole question of domestic heating. Hydrogen boilers or god-awful heat pumps and an entirely new central heating system. I know which I prefer.
I'm no expert, but I'm not keen on getting hydrogen supplied through the existing gas pipes into our homes. AIUI they want to mix it with methane to avoid problems - which also makes it kinda pointless.
Hydrogen might be the answer, but blue hydrogen certainly isn't.
This is quite something. Guy's first reaction to the Sydney killings is to feed it into his.... anti-bike-lane narrative
"The police and ambulance staging outside Westfield Bondi Junction would have been severely impacted by bike lanes which had been proposed for the area. The Eastern Suburbs is a heavily congested area which impacts ambo arrival and transport. This will be a first responder case study for years."
Hypothetical bike lanes are evil and the lady policeman lost her hat.
What gets me about the whole Ukraine situation is that there's no provision for vegans
Like, OK, 300,000 are dead and Russia has laid waste to most of east Ukraine and it will possibly turn into World War Three but surely there could be at least one pop-up falafel stall? Is that so hard? Or a tofu buffet in a tent?
Outside of London, Brighton and its colonies Veganism is non-existent in most parts of Europe.
In fact, it would be considered deeply weird.
Vegan food can be found in every supermarket in Britain and Ireland, possibly Europe.
It's possible that this is because a few Vegan activists have captured the decision-making of Europe's supermarkets, and at some point they will stop throwing money (and unsold vegan food) away, but I think it shows that there is a niche there, and there are actually a few vegans, sprinkled around the place.
Are you sure your neighbour isn't a vegan?
The fact that almost all supermarkets might have a (tiny) section of plant-based crap around the nation doesn't disprove the point.
Veganism is a tiny percentage (2-3% of the population, at best) and that cultural and social phenomenon is heavily concentrated in London and Brighton and a few other Met colonies, which manage to spin off and sustain a few restaurants and so forth.
Elsewhere it's negligible but of course supermarkets cater to all tastes, just as they sell all sorts of niche ingredients and foods to others who exist in even fewer numbers.
"plant-based crap" How do you know it's 'crap' if you don't eat it?
"Elsewhere it's negligible" Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha Ha ha ha ha-ha-ha-ha ha ha ha
I'm in Bulgaria right now, you dipstick. Doesn't exist.
It's fairly easy to be Vegan/Vegetarian in many places. The key however is not to mention it, just order the many Vegan or vegetarian dishes on the menu. Asking for a vegetarian menu just confuses them.
This is quite something. Guy's first reaction to the Sydney killings is to feed it into his.... anti-bike-lane narrative
"The police and ambulance staging outside Westfield Bondi Junction would have been severely impacted by bike lanes which had been proposed for the area. The Eastern Suburbs is a heavily congested area which impacts ambo arrival and transport. This will be a first responder case study for years."
Hypothetical bike lanes are evil and the lady policeman lost her hat.
What gets me about the whole Ukraine situation is that there's no provision for vegans
Like, OK, 300,000 are dead and Russia has laid waste to most of east Ukraine and it will possibly turn into World War Three but surely there could be at least one pop-up falafel stall? Is that so hard? Or a tofu buffet in a tent?
Outside of London, Brighton and its colonies Veganism is non-existent in most parts of Europe.
In fact, it would be considered deeply weird.
Vegan food can be found in every supermarket in Britain and Ireland, possibly Europe.
It's possible that this is because a few Vegan activists have captured the decision-making of Europe's supermarkets, and at some point they will stop throwing money (and unsold vegan food) away, but I think it shows that there is a niche there, and there are actually a few vegans, sprinkled around the place.
Are you sure your neighbour isn't a vegan?
The fact that almost all supermarkets might have a (tiny) section of plant-based crap around the nation doesn't disprove the point.
Veganism is a tiny percentage (2-3% of the population, at best) and that cultural and social phenomenon is heavily concentrated in London and Brighton and a few other Met colonies, which manage to spin off and sustain a few restaurants and so forth.
Elsewhere it's negligible but of course supermarkets cater to all tastes, just as they sell all sorts of niche ingredients and foods to others who exist in even fewer numbers.
"plant-based crap" How do you know it's 'crap' if you don't eat it?
"Elsewhere it's negligible" Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha Ha ha ha ha-ha-ha-ha ha ha ha
I'm in Bulgaria right now, you dipstick. Doesn't exist.
It's fairly easy to be Vegan/Vegetarian in many places. The key however is not to mention it, just order the many Vegan or vegetarian dishes on the menu. Asking for a vegetarian menu just confuses them.
Jeff Dunham (a vegan)
'In Texas, vegans do not live longer. If you go into a restaurant in Texas and ask for their vegan options, they'll say 'You have the option to get the hell out.''
Caveat for PBers are that these are the panels, so that you need someone who knows how to put together a system. But worth buying for a future project if eg you are using them as an off grid setup.
I wouldn't be investing in a Western panel maker at this stage, as either a bloodbath or major subsidies are probably on the way. It feels a little like the previous occasion when the German solar panel industry evaporated.
This is quite something. Guy's first reaction to the Sydney killings is to feed it into his.... anti-bike-lane narrative
"The police and ambulance staging outside Westfield Bondi Junction would have been severely impacted by bike lanes which had been proposed for the area. The Eastern Suburbs is a heavily congested area which impacts ambo arrival and transport. This will be a first responder case study for years."
Hypothetical bike lanes are evil and the lady policeman lost her hat.
What gets me about the whole Ukraine situation is that there's no provision for vegans
Like, OK, 300,000 are dead and Russia has laid waste to most of east Ukraine and it will possibly turn into World War Three but surely there could be at least one pop-up falafel stall? Is that so hard? Or a tofu buffet in a tent?
Outside of London, Brighton and its colonies Veganism is non-existent in most parts of Europe.
In fact, it would be considered deeply weird.
Vegan food can be found in every supermarket in Britain and Ireland, possibly Europe.
It's possible that this is because a few Vegan activists have captured the decision-making of Europe's supermarkets, and at some point they will stop throwing money (and unsold vegan food) away, but I think it shows that there is a niche there, and there are actually a few vegans, sprinkled around the place.
Are you sure your neighbour isn't a vegan?
The fact that almost all supermarkets might have a (tiny) section of plant-based crap around the nation doesn't disprove the point.
Veganism is a tiny percentage (2-3% of the population, at best) and that cultural and social phenomenon is heavily concentrated in London and Brighton and a few other Met colonies, which manage to spin off and sustain a few restaurants and so forth.
Elsewhere it's negligible but of course supermarkets cater to all tastes, just as they sell all sorts of niche ingredients and foods to others who exist in even fewer numbers.
"plant-based crap" How do you know it's 'crap' if you don't eat it?
"Elsewhere it's negligible" Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha Ha ha ha ha-ha-ha-ha ha ha ha
I'm in Bulgaria right now, you dipstick. Doesn't exist.
This is quite something. Guy's first reaction to the Sydney killings is to feed it into his.... anti-bike-lane narrative
"The police and ambulance staging outside Westfield Bondi Junction would have been severely impacted by bike lanes which had been proposed for the area. The Eastern Suburbs is a heavily congested area which impacts ambo arrival and transport. This will be a first responder case study for years."
Hypothetical bike lanes are evil and the lady policeman lost her hat.
What gets me about the whole Ukraine situation is that there's no provision for vegans
Like, OK, 300,000 are dead and Russia has laid waste to most of east Ukraine and it will possibly turn into World War Three but surely there could be at least one pop-up falafel stall? Is that so hard? Or a tofu buffet in a tent?
Outside of London, Brighton and its colonies Veganism is non-existent in most parts of Europe.
In fact, it would be considered deeply weird.
Vegan food can be found in every supermarket in Britain and Ireland, possibly Europe.
It's possible that this is because a few Vegan activists have captured the decision-making of Europe's supermarkets, and at some point they will stop throwing money (and unsold vegan food) away, but I think it shows that there is a niche there, and there are actually a few vegans, sprinkled around the place.
Are you sure your neighbour isn't a vegan?
The fact that almost all supermarkets might have a (tiny) section of plant-based crap around the nation doesn't disprove the point.
Veganism is a tiny percentage (2-3% of the population, at best) and that cultural and social phenomenon is heavily concentrated in London and Brighton and a few other Met colonies, which manage to spin off and sustain a few restaurants and so forth.
Elsewhere it's negligible but of course supermarkets cater to all tastes, just as they sell all sorts of niche ingredients and foods to others who exist in even fewer numbers.
"plant-based crap" How do you know it's 'crap' if you don't eat it?
"Elsewhere it's negligible" Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha Ha ha ha ha-ha-ha-ha ha ha ha
I'm in Bulgaria right now, you dipstick. Doesn't exist.
Even by virtue of that wanker map you linked to.
Are they still doing the 0.5/1kg options for how much meat, even in the posher Sofia places?
"Blue hydrogen" is even more unjustifiable economically. It's effectively government subsiding the mass production of a product for which there isn't a demand beyond the existing market, in the hope of creating one.
And the cost of production, while for now substantially cheaper than 'green hydrogen' (produced by electrolysis of water, is both subject to commodity prices, and technologically unlikely to fall much. Whereas ghee's a great deal of headrooom to improve the efficiency and capital cost of bulk electrolysis.
This is quite something. Guy's first reaction to the Sydney killings is to feed it into his.... anti-bike-lane narrative
"The police and ambulance staging outside Westfield Bondi Junction would have been severely impacted by bike lanes which had been proposed for the area. The Eastern Suburbs is a heavily congested area which impacts ambo arrival and transport. This will be a first responder case study for years."
Hypothetical bike lanes are evil and the lady policeman lost her hat.
What gets me about the whole Ukraine situation is that there's no provision for vegans
Like, OK, 300,000 are dead and Russia has laid waste to most of east Ukraine and it will possibly turn into World War Three but surely there could be at least one pop-up falafel stall? Is that so hard? Or a tofu buffet in a tent?
Outside of London, Brighton and its colonies Veganism is non-existent in most parts of Europe.
In fact, it would be considered deeply weird.
Vegan food can be found in every supermarket in Britain and Ireland, possibly Europe.
It's possible that this is because a few Vegan activists have captured the decision-making of Europe's supermarkets, and at some point they will stop throwing money (and unsold vegan food) away, but I think it shows that there is a niche there, and there are actually a few vegans, sprinkled around the place.
Are you sure your neighbour isn't a vegan?
The fact that almost all supermarkets might have a (tiny) section of plant-based crap around the nation doesn't disprove the point.
Veganism is a tiny percentage (2-3% of the population, at best) and that cultural and social phenomenon is heavily concentrated in London and Brighton and a few other Met colonies, which manage to spin off and sustain a few restaurants and so forth.
Elsewhere it's negligible but of course supermarkets cater to all tastes, just as they sell all sorts of niche ingredients and foods to others who exist in even fewer numbers.
"plant-based crap" How do you know it's 'crap' if you don't eat it?
"Elsewhere it's negligible" Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha Ha ha ha ha-ha-ha-ha ha ha ha
I'm in Bulgaria right now, you dipstick. Doesn't exist.
It's fairly easy to be Vegan/Vegetarian in many places. The key however is not to mention it, just order the many Vegan or vegetarian dishes on the menu. Asking for a vegetarian menu just confuses them.
Jeff Dunham (a vegan)
'In Texas, vegans do not live longer. If you go into a restaurant in Texas and ask for their vegan options, they'll say 'You have the option to get the hell out.''
Luckily, even back in 2011 when I worked there, Boulder, Colorado, and even Denver had decent vegetarian restaurants/takeaways.
1. Make a new friend 2. Visit a new country 3. Fuck a new woman
The latter is optional but ONLY if you are desperately in love
This is genuinely good advice by the way. I think I’ve managed it every year since my late 30s. Apart from the years when desperately in love, and even then there’s an argument you should do (3) just to “keep your hand in”
Never mind desperately in love, just sounds desperate.
Sad to see you back, I was hoping you'd "found some better place"
You do know I came back for JUST this reaction, don’t you?
You weren't gone that long. Just the equivalent of a long weekend. An impressive and theatrical flounce, nonetheless.
Yes it wasn’t an epic of a flounce. About a week?
I’ll tell you what tho. I got a noticeably larger amount of work done. So I may be a little more absent in future. Except when I’m travelling and want to post photos of drinks obvs
I need to flounce, midweek. Instead I waste good earning time whining about SHIT spelling on here and arguing with @Mexicanpete, which is like trying to put lipstick on a pig.
You're not really a proper pb'er until you've had at least one good flounce.
It all comes to the media and expectation management of May's elections.
On the assumption Khan wins in London, we'll be looking at some of the other Mayoral contests and the council elections and given the number of seats being contested is many fewer than in the 2022 and 2023 rounds, how will the loss of 400-500 seats be spun as a good result - only by comparison with the 1,000 losses in 2023 and the 500 losses in 2022 I imagine.
Would Houchen and Street winning be a good result? What if both lost?
This is quite something. Guy's first reaction to the Sydney killings is to feed it into his.... anti-bike-lane narrative
"The police and ambulance staging outside Westfield Bondi Junction would have been severely impacted by bike lanes which had been proposed for the area. The Eastern Suburbs is a heavily congested area which impacts ambo arrival and transport. This will be a first responder case study for years."
Hypothetical bike lanes are evil and the lady policeman lost her hat.
What gets me about the whole Ukraine situation is that there's no provision for vegans
Like, OK, 300,000 are dead and Russia has laid waste to most of east Ukraine and it will possibly turn into World War Three but surely there could be at least one pop-up falafel stall? Is that so hard? Or a tofu buffet in a tent?
Outside of London, Brighton and its colonies Veganism is non-existent in most parts of Europe.
In fact, it would be considered deeply weird.
Vegan food can be found in every supermarket in Britain and Ireland, possibly Europe.
It's possible that this is because a few Vegan activists have captured the decision-making of Europe's supermarkets, and at some point they will stop throwing money (and unsold vegan food) away, but I think it shows that there is a niche there, and there are actually a few vegans, sprinkled around the place.
Are you sure your neighbour isn't a vegan?
The fact that almost all supermarkets might have a (tiny) section of plant-based crap around the nation doesn't disprove the point.
Veganism is a tiny percentage (2-3% of the population, at best) and that cultural and social phenomenon is heavily concentrated in London and Brighton and a few other Met colonies, which manage to spin off and sustain a few restaurants and so forth.
Elsewhere it's negligible but of course supermarkets cater to all tastes, just as they sell all sorts of niche ingredients and foods to others who exist in even fewer numbers.
"plant-based crap" How do you know it's 'crap' if you don't eat it?
"Elsewhere it's negligible" Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha Ha ha ha ha-ha-ha-ha ha ha ha
I'm in Bulgaria right now, you dipstick. Doesn't exist.
Even by virtue of that wanker map you linked to.
Are they still doing the 0.5/1kg options for how much meat, even in the posher Sofia places?
Dunno, but my father-in-law has a got a whole lamb (and a mean a whole one - even the head) in the garage ready for a spit-roast tomorrow.
In the UK it'd probably cost, like, £300 but it's not much here.
Caveat for PBers are that these are the panels, so that you need someone who knows how to put together a system. But worth buying for a future project if eg you are using them as an off grid setup.
I wouldn't be investing in a Western panel maker at this stage, as either a bloodbath or major subsidies are probably on the way. It feels a little like the previous occasion when the German solar panel industry evaporated.
"Blue hydrogen" is even more unjustifiable economically. It's effectively government subsiding the mass production of a product for which there isn't a demand beyond the existing market, in the hope of creating one.
And the cost of production, while for now substantially cheaper than 'green hydrogen' (produced by electrolysis of water, is both subject to commodity prices, and technologically unlikely to fall much. Whereas ghee's a great deal of headrooom to improve the efficiency and capital cost of bulk electrolysis.
A lot of industry wants to fuel switch from natural gas to low carbon hydrogen in order to decarbonise their operations.
Then we have the whole question of domestic heating. Hydrogen boilers or god-awful heat pumps and an entirely new central heating system. I know which I prefer.
I suggest the smart call at present is perhaps air to air heat pumps, of which there are various options available. Perhaps with photovoltaic solar water heating.
Obviously like all types of everything for heating the philosophy is fabric first.
I’ve just installed air to air heat pumps in a loft conversion. Think a/c that can run in reverse. You ask it for 21c, and it does what it needs to do to reach that temperature.
You don’t actually need to heat a modern loft conversion. Insulation + heat rising means cooling it the issue.
I’d also recommend an opening skylight. Lots of light pouring in and when open, you get incredible passive ventilation.
Caveat for PBers are that these are the panels, so that you need someone who knows how to put together a system. But worth buying for a future project if eg you are using them as an off grid setup.
I wouldn't be investing in a Western panel maker at this stage, as either a bloodbath or major subsidies are probably on the way. It feels a little like the previous occasion when the German solar panel industry evaporated.
At some point, that madcap idea of buying up a few square miles of Morocco for a solar farm, and running a cable to England with the power, won’t seem quite so madcap.
EXCL: Rishi Sunak may call a summer election if he avoids a Tory wipeout in the locals on May 2.
The choice between June/July and October/November is now "paper thin", government sources say
But Tory MPs say they could topple Rishi if he dares go early
Opens a whole new avenue of tactical voting: vote Tory in the locals, get rid of this useless government quicker.
I think this is actually really simple, politically: if Rishi goes ahead in the polls, or his hand is forced by a complete political collapse, he goes early. Otherwise, he goes as late as possible.
It really is that simple. The rest is a mixture of wishful thinking and media speculation, bit like how they like to do on the next James Bond.
In 2018, Stonewall literally told schools to shred a research pack saying there were risks to puberty blockers. "We, in the strongest possible terms, denounce and condemn this publication. If it lands on your desk, do the right thing: shred it.” 1/3
In 2022 Stonewall told the world that 'research' suggests two year olds can be trans. It advocated for nurseries - NURSERIES - to start teaching kids that there are more genders than boy and girl. 2/3
Politicians have snuggled up to Stonewall and Mermaids, given them privileged places at the table and adopted their talking points, to the detriment of very vulnerable children, young people and women. When are we going to see this fully investigated? When will this end? 3/X
This is quite something. Guy's first reaction to the Sydney killings is to feed it into his.... anti-bike-lane narrative
"The police and ambulance staging outside Westfield Bondi Junction would have been severely impacted by bike lanes which had been proposed for the area. The Eastern Suburbs is a heavily congested area which impacts ambo arrival and transport. This will be a first responder case study for years."
Hypothetical bike lanes are evil and the lady policeman lost her hat.
What gets me about the whole Ukraine situation is that there's no provision for vegans
Like, OK, 300,000 are dead and Russia has laid waste to most of east Ukraine and it will possibly turn into World War Three but surely there could be at least one pop-up falafel stall? Is that so hard? Or a tofu buffet in a tent?
Outside of London, Brighton and its colonies Veganism is non-existent in most parts of Europe.
In fact, it would be considered deeply weird.
Vegan food can be found in every supermarket in Britain and Ireland, possibly Europe.
It's possible that this is because a few Vegan activists have captured the decision-making of Europe's supermarkets, and at some point they will stop throwing money (and unsold vegan food) away, but I think it shows that there is a niche there, and there are actually a few vegans, sprinkled around the place.
Are you sure your neighbour isn't a vegan?
The fact that almost all supermarkets might have a (tiny) section of plant-based crap around the nation doesn't disprove the point.
Veganism is a tiny percentage (2-3% of the population, at best) and that cultural and social phenomenon is heavily concentrated in London and Brighton and a few other Met colonies, which manage to spin off and sustain a few restaurants and so forth.
Elsewhere it's negligible but of course supermarkets cater to all tastes, just as they sell all sorts of niche ingredients and foods to others who exist in even fewer numbers.
"plant-based crap" How do you know it's 'crap' if you don't eat it?
"Elsewhere it's negligible" Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha Ha ha ha ha-ha-ha-ha ha ha ha
I'm in Bulgaria right now, you dipstick. Doesn't exist.
Like people bringing dinosaurs back to life, prospective vegans should spend a little less time thinking about whether they could, and a little more pondering whether they should.
Can someone explain to me the RUBBISH Sky coverage of The Masters? Please?
Why are we hearing chat from Nick Faldo and Laura Davies on the patio, when there are guys out on the course?
Because Sky are not very good at covering sport.
They pay vast amounts of money out, but generally do a pretty underwhelming job of actually broadcasting it.
Football coverage is okay.
Cricket coverage is excellent.
This is utter shit. Just. Show. The. Golf.
I think their cricket coverage is generally pretty naff, actually. Tests are not terrible but the other events, my goodness, more pointless hype and stupid talking heads than around Harry's memoirs.
It's better than the BBC highlights package,but since only about one-third of that is highlights and the rest is drivel that's not saying much.
1. Make a new friend 2. Visit a new country 3. Fuck a new woman
The latter is optional but ONLY if you are desperately in love
This is genuinely good advice by the way. I think I’ve managed it every year since my late 30s. Apart from the years when desperately in love, and even then there’s an argument you should do (3) just to “keep your hand in”
Never mind desperately in love, just sounds desperate.
Sad to see you back, I was hoping you'd "found some better place"
You do know I came back for JUST this reaction, don’t you?
You weren't gone that long. Just the equivalent of a long weekend. An impressive and theatrical flounce, nonetheless.
Yes it wasn’t an epic of a flounce. About a week?
I’ll tell you what tho. I got a noticeably larger amount of work done. So I may be a little more absent in future. Except when I’m travelling and want to post photos of drinks obvs
I need to flounce, midweek. Instead I waste good earning time whining about SHIT spelling on here and arguing with @Mexicanpete, which is like trying to put lipstick on a pig.
You're not really a proper pb'er until you've had at least one good flounce.
This is quite something. Guy's first reaction to the Sydney killings is to feed it into his.... anti-bike-lane narrative
"The police and ambulance staging outside Westfield Bondi Junction would have been severely impacted by bike lanes which had been proposed for the area. The Eastern Suburbs is a heavily congested area which impacts ambo arrival and transport. This will be a first responder case study for years."
Hypothetical bike lanes are evil and the lady policeman lost her hat.
What gets me about the whole Ukraine situation is that there's no provision for vegans
Like, OK, 300,000 are dead and Russia has laid waste to most of east Ukraine and it will possibly turn into World War Three but surely there could be at least one pop-up falafel stall? Is that so hard? Or a tofu buffet in a tent?
Outside of London, Brighton and its colonies Veganism is non-existent in most parts of Europe.
In fact, it would be considered deeply weird.
Vegan food can be found in every supermarket in Britain and Ireland, possibly Europe.
It's possible that this is because a few Vegan activists have captured the decision-making of Europe's supermarkets, and at some point they will stop throwing money (and unsold vegan food) away, but I think it shows that there is a niche there, and there are actually a few vegans, sprinkled around the place.
Are you sure your neighbour isn't a vegan?
The fact that almost all supermarkets might have a (tiny) section of plant-based crap around the nation doesn't disprove the point.
Veganism is a tiny percentage (2-3% of the population, at best) and that cultural and social phenomenon is heavily concentrated in London and Brighton and a few other Met colonies, which manage to spin off and sustain a few restaurants and so forth.
Elsewhere it's negligible but of course supermarkets cater to all tastes, just as they sell all sorts of niche ingredients and foods to others who exist in even fewer numbers.
Not logical in the least. A lot of vegans avoid the supermarket ultraprocessed foods anyway. So you can't go on that basis.
You are just a very sad dull dogmatic Scot who tries to make themselves feel better about the fact you haven't got Independence by trying to score minor points of fantastic pedantry with a selection of Sassenachs you think represent those who are holding you back, and fail to recognise your greatness.
It's all rather sad, really. Like this post.
Get a grip, you sound like baby huey, get the dummy back in your mouth and get a sense of humour.
Does anyone have any exciting fish recipes? I accept this is not quite OMG IRAN HAS ATTACKED ISRAEL
But there's a lot of culinarily clever people here on PB. I love fish and I like fish recipes that take about 30-40 minutes, to prep and cook. Enough to be a tiny mental challenge and to use my hands satisfyingly, but not Michelin standards of complexity and boiling-fish-heads-for-stock
My ideal is this fish risotto which I found on BBC GoodFood, which - if suitably adapted with garlic, white wine, parmesan, dashi, and parsley, is fab, and takes about 30-35 mins
This is quite something. Guy's first reaction to the Sydney killings is to feed it into his.... anti-bike-lane narrative
"The police and ambulance staging outside Westfield Bondi Junction would have been severely impacted by bike lanes which had been proposed for the area. The Eastern Suburbs is a heavily congested area which impacts ambo arrival and transport. This will be a first responder case study for years."
Hypothetical bike lanes are evil and the lady policeman lost her hat.
What gets me about the whole Ukraine situation is that there's no provision for vegans
Like, OK, 300,000 are dead and Russia has laid waste to most of east Ukraine and it will possibly turn into World War Three but surely there could be at least one pop-up falafel stall? Is that so hard? Or a tofu buffet in a tent?
Outside of London, Brighton and its colonies Veganism is non-existent in most parts of Europe.
In fact, it would be considered deeply weird.
Vegan food can be found in every supermarket in Britain and Ireland, possibly Europe.
It's possible that this is because a few Vegan activists have captured the decision-making of Europe's supermarkets, and at some point they will stop throwing money (and unsold vegan food) away, but I think it shows that there is a niche there, and there are actually a few vegans, sprinkled around the place.
Are you sure your neighbour isn't a vegan?
The fact that almost all supermarkets might have a (tiny) section of plant-based crap around the nation doesn't disprove the point.
Veganism is a tiny percentage (2-3% of the population, at best) and that cultural and social phenomenon is heavily concentrated in London and Brighton and a few other Met colonies, which manage to spin off and sustain a few restaurants and so forth.
Elsewhere it's negligible but of course supermarkets cater to all tastes, just as they sell all sorts of niche ingredients and foods to others who exist in even fewer numbers.
"plant-based crap" How do you know it's 'crap' if you don't eat it?
"Elsewhere it's negligible" Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha Ha ha ha ha-ha-ha-ha ha ha ha
I'm in Bulgaria right now, you dipstick. Doesn't exist.
Caveat for PBers are that these are the panels, so that you need someone who knows how to put together a system. But worth buying for a future project if eg you are using them as an off grid setup.
I wouldn't be investing in a Western panel maker at this stage, as either a bloodbath or major subsidies are probably on the way. It feels a little like the previous occasion when the German solar panel industry evaporated.
At some point, that madcap idea of buying up a few square miles of Morocco for a solar farm, and running a cable to England with the power, won’t seem quite so madcap.
The power generation stats over the last week have been fairly interesting (i.e. good from a green pov): https://grid.iamkate.com/
Much more solar than I'd expect, lots more wind power, and much less gas usage.
This is quite something. Guy's first reaction to the Sydney killings is to feed it into his.... anti-bike-lane narrative
"The police and ambulance staging outside Westfield Bondi Junction would have been severely impacted by bike lanes which had been proposed for the area. The Eastern Suburbs is a heavily congested area which impacts ambo arrival and transport. This will be a first responder case study for years."
Hypothetical bike lanes are evil and the lady policeman lost her hat.
What gets me about the whole Ukraine situation is that there's no provision for vegans
Like, OK, 300,000 are dead and Russia has laid waste to most of east Ukraine and it will possibly turn into World War Three but surely there could be at least one pop-up falafel stall? Is that so hard? Or a tofu buffet in a tent?
Outside of London, Brighton and its colonies Veganism is non-existent in most parts of Europe.
In fact, it would be considered deeply weird.
Vegan food can be found in every supermarket in Britain and Ireland, possibly Europe.
It's possible that this is because a few Vegan activists have captured the decision-making of Europe's supermarkets, and at some point they will stop throwing money (and unsold vegan food) away, but I think it shows that there is a niche there, and there are actually a few vegans, sprinkled around the place.
Are you sure your neighbour isn't a vegan?
The fact that almost all supermarkets might have a (tiny) section of plant-based crap around the nation doesn't disprove the point.
Veganism is a tiny percentage (2-3% of the population, at best) and that cultural and social phenomenon is heavily concentrated in London and Brighton and a few other Met colonies, which manage to spin off and sustain a few restaurants and so forth.
Elsewhere it's negligible but of course supermarkets cater to all tastes, just as they sell all sorts of niche ingredients and foods to others who exist in even fewer numbers.
"plant-based crap" How do you know it's 'crap' if you don't eat it?
"Elsewhere it's negligible" Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha Ha ha ha ha-ha-ha-ha ha ha ha
I'm in Bulgaria right now, you dipstick. Doesn't exist.
Even by virtue of that wanker map you linked to.
Are they still doing the 0.5/1kg options for how much meat, even in the posher Sofia places?
Dunno, but my father-in-law has a got a whole lamb (and a mean a whole one - even the head) in the garage ready for a spit-roast tomorrow.
In the UK it'd probably cost, like, £300 but it's not much here.
That's Eid, though. And for Muslims it is a huge tradition.
I'd suggest that for the UK £200 is closer, but perhaps more like £170 at Halal outlets. Both quick Google search results.
If you go to organic retail, it may well not be the lamb that is the spit roast.
Caveat for PBers are that these are the panels, so that you need someone who knows how to put together a system. But worth buying for a future project if eg you are using them as an off grid setup.
I wouldn't be investing in a Western panel maker at this stage, as either a bloodbath or major subsidies are probably on the way. It feels a little like the previous occasion when the German solar panel industry evaporated.
"Blue hydrogen" is even more unjustifiable economically. It's effectively government subsiding the mass production of a product for which there isn't a demand beyond the existing market, in the hope of creating one.
And the cost of production, while for now substantially cheaper than 'green hydrogen' (produced by electrolysis of water, is both subject to commodity prices, and technologically unlikely to fall much. Whereas ghee's a great deal of headrooom to improve the efficiency and capital cost of bulk electrolysis.
A lot of industry wants to fuel switch from natural gas to low carbon hydrogen in order to decarbonise their operations.
Then we have the whole question of domestic heating. Hydrogen boilers or god-awful heat pumps and an entirely new central heating system. I know which I prefer.
The ghosts of those who died in R101, R38 and the Hindenburg are waving at you...
But not the Shenandoah. That had helium.
Full marks for mentioning the Hindenburg.
Zero marks for failing to mention the multitude of deaths from natural gas explosions and carbon monoxide poisoning.
While hydrogen is more likely to leak, it disperses more readily so you are less likely to end up with an explosive mixture inside a building. And it doesn't generate CO when it burns. Or CO2 of course, which is the primary point of fuel switching.
Like people bringing dinosaurs back to life, prospective vegans should spend a little less time thinking about whether they could, and a little more pondering whether they should.
"Blue hydrogen" is even more unjustifiable economically. It's effectively government subsiding the mass production of a product for which there isn't a demand beyond the existing market, in the hope of creating one.
And the cost of production, while for now substantially cheaper than 'green hydrogen' (produced by electrolysis of water, is both subject to commodity prices, and technologically unlikely to fall much. Whereas ghee's a great deal of headrooom to improve the efficiency and capital cost of bulk electrolysis.
A lot of industry wants to fuel switch from natural gas to low carbon hydrogen in order to decarbonise their operations.
Then we have the whole question of domestic heating. Hydrogen boilers or god-awful heat pumps and an entirely new central heating system. I know which I prefer.
The ghosts of those who died in R101, R38 and the Hindenburg are waving at you...
But not the Shenandoah. That had helium.
Full marks for mentioning the Hindenburg.
Zero marks for failing to mention the multitude of deaths from natural gas explosions and carbon monoxide poisoning.
While hydrogen is more likely to leak, it disperses more readily so you are less likely to end up with an explosive mixture inside a building. And it doesn't generate CO when it burns. Or CO2 of course, which is the primary point of fuel switching.
"it disperses more readily so you are less likely to end up with an explosive mixture inside a building"
But you are more likely to end up with a leak, coz hydrogen loves leaking.
Caveat for PBers are that these are the panels, so that you need someone who knows how to put together a system. But worth buying for a future project if eg you are using them as an off grid setup.
I wouldn't be investing in a Western panel maker at this stage, as either a bloodbath or major subsidies are probably on the way. It feels a little like the previous occasion when the German solar panel industry evaporated.
This is quite something. Guy's first reaction to the Sydney killings is to feed it into his.... anti-bike-lane narrative
"The police and ambulance staging outside Westfield Bondi Junction would have been severely impacted by bike lanes which had been proposed for the area. The Eastern Suburbs is a heavily congested area which impacts ambo arrival and transport. This will be a first responder case study for years."
Hypothetical bike lanes are evil and the lady policeman lost her hat.
What gets me about the whole Ukraine situation is that there's no provision for vegans
Like, OK, 300,000 are dead and Russia has laid waste to most of east Ukraine and it will possibly turn into World War Three but surely there could be at least one pop-up falafel stall? Is that so hard? Or a tofu buffet in a tent?
Outside of London, Brighton and its colonies Veganism is non-existent in most parts of Europe.
In fact, it would be considered deeply weird.
Vegan food can be found in every supermarket in Britain and Ireland, possibly Europe.
It's possible that this is because a few Vegan activists have captured the decision-making of Europe's supermarkets, and at some point they will stop throwing money (and unsold vegan food) away, but I think it shows that there is a niche there, and there are actually a few vegans, sprinkled around the place.
Are you sure your neighbour isn't a vegan?
I have black, muslim, Irish, Albanian and even Scottish neighbours. No problem with any of them. But I also have a vegan neighbour. 😱
I suspect this is because no one has an interest in converting you to being black, muslim, Irish or Albanian (and I presume you are already Scottish) whist the messanic zeal of some vegans would put 19th century Christian missionaries or 7th Day Adventists to shame.
I wouldn't dream of criticising a vegan for what they eat and yet those I have met seem incapable of getting through a meal without making some comment on either the health or morality aspects of what is on my plate. More than anything it is just tiresome.
It’s the messanic zeal that grates. If you watch any cookery or entertaining programme, the non vegans/ vegetarians are expected to provide a vegan/ vegetarian option. The vegans/vegetarians are never expected to provide a meat based alternative. That’s the case whether the hosts are black, muslim, Irish, Albanian or Scots, or English.
Like people bringing dinosaurs back to life, prospective vegans should spend a little less time thinking about whether they could, and a little more pondering whether they should.
And the answer is yes.
Are you vegan? That would account for the mood swings tbf.
"Blue hydrogen" is even more unjustifiable economically. It's effectively government subsiding the mass production of a product for which there isn't a demand beyond the existing market, in the hope of creating one.
And the cost of production, while for now substantially cheaper than 'green hydrogen' (produced by electrolysis of water, is both subject to commodity prices, and technologically unlikely to fall much. Whereas ghee's a great deal of headrooom to improve the efficiency and capital cost of bulk electrolysis.
A lot of industry wants to fuel switch from natural gas to low carbon hydrogen in order to decarbonise their operations.
Then we have the whole question of domestic heating. Hydrogen boilers or god-awful heat pumps and an entirely new central heating system. I know which I prefer.
I'm no expert, but I'm not keen on getting hydrogen supplied through the existing gas pipes into our homes. AIUI they want to mix it with methane to avoid problems - which also makes it kinda pointless.
Hydrogen might be the answer, but blue hydrogen certainly isn't.
20% hydrogen (by volume) can be used in existing appliances. So that is a way to start using low carbon hydrogen. Above that, you need a hydrogen-ready boiler, so it makes sense to jump to 100% hydrogen. In terms of the "existing gas pipes", there is a multi-year programme to replace all of the old cast iron low pressure mains with plastic. You might have been done already.
And of course, let's recall that before we had "North Sea Gas" every home was supplied with Towns Gas - a blend of hydrogen and carbon monoxide. That's why sticking your head in an unlit over was a good way to top yourself - CO poisoning.
This is quite something. Guy's first reaction to the Sydney killings is to feed it into his.... anti-bike-lane narrative
"The police and ambulance staging outside Westfield Bondi Junction would have been severely impacted by bike lanes which had been proposed for the area. The Eastern Suburbs is a heavily congested area which impacts ambo arrival and transport. This will be a first responder case study for years."
Hypothetical bike lanes are evil and the lady policeman lost her hat.
What gets me about the whole Ukraine situation is that there's no provision for vegans
Like, OK, 300,000 are dead and Russia has laid waste to most of east Ukraine and it will possibly turn into World War Three but surely there could be at least one pop-up falafel stall? Is that so hard? Or a tofu buffet in a tent?
Outside of London, Brighton and its colonies Veganism is non-existent in most parts of Europe.
In fact, it would be considered deeply weird.
Vegan food can be found in every supermarket in Britain and Ireland, possibly Europe.
It's possible that this is because a few Vegan activists have captured the decision-making of Europe's supermarkets, and at some point they will stop throwing money (and unsold vegan food) away, but I think it shows that there is a niche there, and there are actually a few vegans, sprinkled around the place.
Are you sure your neighbour isn't a vegan?
The fact that almost all supermarkets might have a (tiny) section of plant-based crap around the nation doesn't disprove the point.
Veganism is a tiny percentage (2-3% of the population, at best) and that cultural and social phenomenon is heavily concentrated in London and Brighton and a few other Met colonies, which manage to spin off and sustain a few restaurants and so forth.
Elsewhere it's negligible but of course supermarkets cater to all tastes, just as they sell all sorts of niche ingredients and foods to others who exist in even fewer numbers.
"plant-based crap" How do you know it's 'crap' if you don't eat it?
"Elsewhere it's negligible" Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha Ha ha ha ha-ha-ha-ha ha ha ha
I'm in Bulgaria right now, you dipstick. Doesn't exist.
It's fairly easy to be Vegan/Vegetarian in many places. The key however is not to mention it, just order the many Vegan or vegetarian dishes on the menu. Asking for a vegetarian menu just confuses them.
Vegetarian is pretty easy; I've never travelled with a vegan but I guess it's far from impossible.
Asking politely is good; a S Korean barbecue restaurant - which are *really* meat only - worked out a vegetarian meal for my wife, and were quite charming about it.
Does anyone have any exciting fish recipes? I accept this is not quite OMG IRAN HAS ATTACKED ISRAEL
But there's a lot of culinarily clever people here on PB. I love fish and I like fish recipes that take about 30-40 minutes, to prep and cook. Enough to be a tiny mental challenge and to use my hands satisfyingly, but not Michelin standards of complexity and boiling-fish-heads-for-stock
My ideal is this fish risotto which I found on BBC GoodFood, which - if suitably adapted with garlic, white wine, parmesan, dashi, and parsley, is fab, and takes about 30-35 mins
Indeed I'd take this for any healthy meat: venison, guineafowl etc
A Moroccan fish tagine is certainly worth trying.
I did once do a bizarre recipe from a Moroccan book of fish encrusted in a sugar and almond crust. Which actually kind of worked. There are plenty of almond crust fish recipes, but not many that are deliberately sweet. There is a historical story behind that recipe, but I can’t remember what it is.
Does anyone have any exciting fish recipes? I accept this is not quite OMG IRAN HAS ATTACKED ISRAEL
But there's a lot of culinarily clever people here on PB. I love fish and I like fish recipes that take about 30-40 minutes, to prep and cook. Enough to be a tiny mental challenge and to use my hands satisfyingly, but not Michelin standards of complexity and boiling-fish-heads-for-stock
My ideal is this fish risotto which I found on BBC GoodFood, which - if suitably adapted with garlic, white wine, parmesan, dashi, and parsley, is fab, and takes about 30-35 mins
Indeed I'd take this for any healthy meat: venison, guineafowl etc
Not strictly a recipe but I used to go to a restaurant in St Malo a lot, which sadly is no longer, where they did a fantastic dish of monkfish in a light curry sauce in a crêpe. Lots of green vegetables and French fries on the side. Sounds odd but really worked very well. So monkfish with a light curry sauce with whatever else you want I guess.
Like people bringing dinosaurs back to life, prospective vegans should spend a little less time thinking about whether they could, and a little more pondering whether they should.
And the answer is yes.
Are you vegan? That would account for the mood swings tbf.
No. But I occasionally cook vegan food coz it tastes nice. And I know a few vegans who I respect both personally and professionally.
As for my mood: at least whatever mood I'm in, I wouldn't use the deaths of 298 people to shill for Russia.. What 'mood' were you in when you did that?
Caveat for PBers are that these are the panels, so that you need someone who knows how to put together a system. But worth buying for a future project if eg you are using them as an off grid setup.
I wouldn't be investing in a Western panel maker at this stage, as either a bloodbath or major subsidies are probably on the way. It feels a little like the previous occasion when the German solar panel industry evaporated.
At some point, that madcap idea of buying up a few square miles of Morocco for a solar farm, and running a cable to England with the power, won’t seem quite so madcap.
Our village is about to get a cable factory for exactly that reason.
This is quite something. Guy's first reaction to the Sydney killings is to feed it into his.... anti-bike-lane narrative
"The police and ambulance staging outside Westfield Bondi Junction would have been severely impacted by bike lanes which had been proposed for the area. The Eastern Suburbs is a heavily congested area which impacts ambo arrival and transport. This will be a first responder case study for years."
Hypothetical bike lanes are evil and the lady policeman lost her hat.
What gets me about the whole Ukraine situation is that there's no provision for vegans
Like, OK, 300,000 are dead and Russia has laid waste to most of east Ukraine and it will possibly turn into World War Three but surely there could be at least one pop-up falafel stall? Is that so hard? Or a tofu buffet in a tent?
Outside of London, Brighton and its colonies Veganism is non-existent in most parts of Europe.
In fact, it would be considered deeply weird.
Vegan food can be found in every supermarket in Britain and Ireland, possibly Europe.
It's possible that this is because a few Vegan activists have captured the decision-making of Europe's supermarkets, and at some point they will stop throwing money (and unsold vegan food) away, but I think it shows that there is a niche there, and there are actually a few vegans, sprinkled around the place.
Are you sure your neighbour isn't a vegan?
The fact that almost all supermarkets might have a (tiny) section of plant-based crap around the nation doesn't disprove the point.
Veganism is a tiny percentage (2-3% of the population, at best) and that cultural and social phenomenon is heavily concentrated in London and Brighton and a few other Met colonies, which manage to spin off and sustain a few restaurants and so forth.
Elsewhere it's negligible but of course supermarkets cater to all tastes, just as they sell all sorts of niche ingredients and foods to others who exist in even fewer numbers.
"plant-based crap" How do you know it's 'crap' if you don't eat it?
"Elsewhere it's negligible" Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha Ha ha ha ha-ha-ha-ha ha ha ha
I'm in Bulgaria right now, you dipstick. Doesn't exist.
"Blue hydrogen" is even more unjustifiable economically. It's effectively government subsiding the mass production of a product for which there isn't a demand beyond the existing market, in the hope of creating one.
And the cost of production, while for now substantially cheaper than 'green hydrogen' (produced by electrolysis of water, is both subject to commodity prices, and technologically unlikely to fall much. Whereas ghee's a great deal of headrooom to improve the efficiency and capital cost of bulk electrolysis.
A lot of industry wants to fuel switch from natural gas to low carbon hydrogen in order to decarbonise their operations.
Then we have the whole question of domestic heating. Hydrogen boilers or god-awful heat pumps and an entirely new central heating system. I know which I prefer.
The ghosts of those who died in R101, R38 and the Hindenburg are waving at you...
But not the Shenandoah. That had helium.
Full marks for mentioning the Hindenburg.
Zero marks for failing to mention the multitude of deaths from natural gas explosions and carbon monoxide poisoning.
While hydrogen is more likely to leak, it disperses more readily so you are less likely to end up with an explosive mixture inside a building. And it doesn't generate CO when it burns. Or CO2 of course, which is the primary point of fuel switching.
On the other hand, as someone who actually done work, personally, with hydrogen, I do not think that re-writing safety rules is a good idea.
The handling rules for hydrogen would mean replacing all pipes it runs in - unless you can guarantee composition and gas tighteness. Which is much more difficult than for natural gas.
The plumber who did some work for me recently, was hydrogen trained. Except they hadn’t actually used hydrogen on the course. Because they hadn’t refitted the training site and it was judged too dangerous…
Braverman and Boris dream ticket seems unlikely. Him joining the Penny/Patel campaign seems likelier - she was his HS. Seems like maybe some Suella supporters wanting to keep her name out there to me.
"Blue hydrogen" is even more unjustifiable economically. It's effectively government subsiding the mass production of a product for which there isn't a demand beyond the existing market, in the hope of creating one.
And the cost of production, while for now substantially cheaper than 'green hydrogen' (produced by electrolysis of water, is both subject to commodity prices, and technologically unlikely to fall much. Whereas ghee's a great deal of headrooom to improve the efficiency and capital cost of bulk electrolysis.
A lot of industry wants to fuel switch from natural gas to low carbon hydrogen in order to decarbonise their operations.
Then we have the whole question of domestic heating. Hydrogen boilers or god-awful heat pumps and an entirely new central heating system. I know which I prefer.
The ghosts of those who died in R101, R38 and the Hindenburg are waving at you...
But not the Shenandoah. That had helium.
Full marks for mentioning the Hindenburg.
Zero marks for failing to mention the multitude of deaths from natural gas explosions and carbon monoxide poisoning.
While hydrogen is more likely to leak, it disperses more readily so you are less likely to end up with an explosive mixture inside a building. And it doesn't generate CO when it burns. Or CO2 of course, which is the primary point of fuel switching.
On the other hand, as someone who actually done work, personally, with hydrogen, I do not think that re-writing safety rules is a good idea.
The handling rules for hydrogen would mean replacing all pipes it runs in - unless you can guarantee composition and gas tighteness. Which is much more difficult than for natural gas.
The plumber who did some work for me recently, was hydrogen trained. Except they hadn’t actually used hydrogen on the course. Because they hadn’t refitted the training site and it was judged too dangerous…
Ben Rich's Skunkworks book contains some good anecdotes of when Lockheed were trying to build the hydrogen-powered Suntan. It was problematic, to say the least - although it did inrectly lead to the Blackbird, and also some of the knowledge gained was used in the space program.
"Blue hydrogen" is even more unjustifiable economically. It's effectively government subsiding the mass production of a product for which there isn't a demand beyond the existing market, in the hope of creating one.
And the cost of production, while for now substantially cheaper than 'green hydrogen' (produced by electrolysis of water, is both subject to commodity prices, and technologically unlikely to fall much. Whereas ghee's a great deal of headrooom to improve the efficiency and capital cost of bulk electrolysis.
A lot of industry wants to fuel switch from natural gas to low carbon hydrogen in order to decarbonise their operations.
Then we have the whole question of domestic heating. Hydrogen boilers or god-awful heat pumps and an entirely new central heating system. I know which I prefer.
The ghosts of those who died in R101, R38 and the Hindenburg are waving at you...
But not the Shenandoah. That had helium.
So I always assumed that hydrogen airships(oxymoron) were a very stupid idea because, you know, hydrogen isn't the most stable of elements, but as it turns out it is quite hard to set fire to one and I know this because of the efforts to shoot down Zeppelins during WW1.
Initially that shot at them but bullets simply went through and the leakage was trivial compared to the amount in the balloon. Next they invented the tracer bullet so as to set fire to it. It had phosphorus inside a bullet with a plug that would melt when fired. As the bullet spun there would be a flame as the phosphorus ignited on contact with the air. However that failed because as it entered the airship into the hydrogen it would go out because there was no oxygen. Next they invented the exploding bullet (I believe it used nitroglycerine) and the machine guns on the planes had alternating explosive bullets and tracer bullets. However this was still difficult to make work and when they strafed the airship from one length to the other it still did not ignite. Finally a pilot concentrated his fire on one spot and got a Zeppelin to ignite and as a bonus won himself the VC.
Does anyone have any exciting fish recipes? I accept this is not quite OMG IRAN HAS ATTACKED ISRAEL
But there's a lot of culinarily clever people here on PB. I love fish and I like fish recipes that take about 30-40 minutes, to prep and cook. Enough to be a tiny mental challenge and to use my hands satisfyingly, but not Michelin standards of complexity and boiling-fish-heads-for-stock
My ideal is this fish risotto which I found on BBC GoodFood, which - if suitably adapted with garlic, white wine, parmesan, dashi, and parsley, is fab, and takes about 30-35 mins
Indeed I'd take this for any healthy meat: venison, guineafowl etc
A Moroccan fish tagine is certainly worth trying.
I did once do a bizarre recipe from a Moroccan book of fish encrusted in a sugar and almond crust. Which actually kind of worked. There are plenty of almond crust fish recipes, but not many that are deliberately sweet. There is a historical story behind that recipe, but I can’t remember what it is.
Ta, I shall investigate. Tho I generally DO find tagines a bit sweet
Like people bringing dinosaurs back to life, prospective vegans should spend a little less time thinking about whether they could, and a little more pondering whether they should.
And the answer is yes.
Are you vegan? That would account for the mood swings tbf.
No. But I occasionally cook vegan food coz it tastes nice. And I know a few vegans who I respect both personally and professionally.
As for my mood: at least whatever mood I'm in, I wouldn't use the deaths of 298 people to shill for Russia.. What 'mood' were you in when you did that?
Does anyone have any exciting fish recipes? I accept this is not quite OMG IRAN HAS ATTACKED ISRAEL
But there's a lot of culinarily clever people here on PB. I love fish and I like fish recipes that take about 30-40 minutes, to prep and cook. Enough to be a tiny mental challenge and to use my hands satisfyingly, but not Michelin standards of complexity and boiling-fish-heads-for-stock
My ideal is this fish risotto which I found on BBC GoodFood, which - if suitably adapted with garlic, white wine, parmesan, dashi, and parsley, is fab, and takes about 30-35 mins
Indeed I'd take this for any healthy meat: venison, guineafowl etc
Not strictly a recipe but I used to go to a restaurant in St Malo a lot, which sadly is no longer, where they did a fantastic dish of monkfish in a light curry sauce in a crêpe. Lots of green vegetables and French fries on the side. Sounds odd but really worked very well. So monkfish with a light curry sauce with whatever else you want I guess.
Cool, thanks
I may just go to my local fishmonger in Primrose Hill, see what they've got, then work from there. Probably that makes sense, in fact
In a sane timeline, Deputy Chairman could have been a sensible use of BoJo's undoubted talents. Make lots of speeches on the rubber chicken circuit, cheer up the activists, that sort of thing. Jeffrey Archer for the 21st Century.
Doesn't work now, because of all the baggage. And the fact that I'm pretty sure that Boris doesn't want to be Deputy Chairman.
"Blue hydrogen" is even more unjustifiable economically. It's effectively government subsiding the mass production of a product for which there isn't a demand beyond the existing market, in the hope of creating one.
And the cost of production, while for now substantially cheaper than 'green hydrogen' (produced by electrolysis of water, is both subject to commodity prices, and technologically unlikely to fall much. Whereas ghee's a great deal of headrooom to improve the efficiency and capital cost of bulk electrolysis.
A lot of industry wants to fuel switch from natural gas to low carbon hydrogen in order to decarbonise their operations.
Then we have the whole question of domestic heating. Hydrogen boilers or god-awful heat pumps and an entirely new central heating system. I know which I prefer.
The ghosts of those who died in R101, R38 and the Hindenburg are waving at you...
But not the Shenandoah. That had helium.
So I always assumed that hydrogen airships(oxymoron) were a very stupid idea because, you know, hydrogen isn't the most stable of elements, but as it turns out it is quite hard to set fire to one and I know this because of the efforts to shoot down Zeppelins during WW1.
Initially that shot at them but bullets simply went through and the leakage was trivial compared to the amount in the balloon. Next they invented the tracer bullet so as to set fire to it. It had phosphorus inside a bullet with a plug that would melt when fired. As the bullet spun there would be a flame as the phosphorus ignited on contact with the air. However that failed because as it entered the airship into the hydrogen it would go out because there was no oxygen. Next they invented the exploding bullet (I believe it used nitroglycerine) and the machine guns on the planes had alternating explosive bullets and tracer bullets. However this was still difficult to make work and when they strafed the airship from one length to the other it still did not ignite. Finally a pilot concentrated his fire on one spot and got a Zeppelin to ignite and as a bonus won himself the VC.
Not often I know stuff like this.
The big destroyer of airships was weather. The surface area to propulsive power means that the wind does what it likes. Hence the fates of the American helium filled rigids.
"Blue hydrogen" is even more unjustifiable economically. It's effectively government subsiding the mass production of a product for which there isn't a demand beyond the existing market, in the hope of creating one.
And the cost of production, while for now substantially cheaper than 'green hydrogen' (produced by electrolysis of water, is both subject to commodity prices, and technologically unlikely to fall much. Whereas ghee's a great deal of headrooom to improve the efficiency and capital cost of bulk electrolysis.
A lot of industry wants to fuel switch from natural gas to low carbon hydrogen in order to decarbonise their operations.
Then we have the whole question of domestic heating. Hydrogen boilers or god-awful heat pumps and an entirely new central heating system. I know which I prefer.
The ghosts of those who died in R101, R38 and the Hindenburg are waving at you...
But not the Shenandoah. That had helium.
Full marks for mentioning the Hindenburg.
Zero marks for failing to mention the multitude of deaths from natural gas explosions and carbon monoxide poisoning.
While hydrogen is more likely to leak, it disperses more readily so you are less likely to end up with an explosive mixture inside a building. And it doesn't generate CO when it burns. Or CO2 of course, which is the primary point of fuel switching.
"it disperses more readily so you are less likely to end up with an explosive mixture inside a building"
But you are more likely to end up with a leak, coz hydrogen loves leaking.
Yes I said that.
On balance, the risk is about the same as natural gas. And most of us consider that to be an acceptable risk.
"Blue hydrogen" is even more unjustifiable economically. It's effectively government subsiding the mass production of a product for which there isn't a demand beyond the existing market, in the hope of creating one.
And the cost of production, while for now substantially cheaper than 'green hydrogen' (produced by electrolysis of water, is both subject to commodity prices, and technologically unlikely to fall much. Whereas ghee's a great deal of headrooom to improve the efficiency and capital cost of bulk electrolysis.
A lot of industry wants to fuel switch from natural gas to low carbon hydrogen in order to decarbonise their operations.
Then we have the whole question of domestic heating. Hydrogen boilers or god-awful heat pumps and an entirely new central heating system. I know which I prefer.
The ghosts of those who died in R101, R38 and the Hindenburg are waving at you...
But not the Shenandoah. That had helium.
Full marks for mentioning the Hindenburg.
Zero marks for failing to mention the multitude of deaths from natural gas explosions and carbon monoxide poisoning.
While hydrogen is more likely to leak, it disperses more readily so you are less likely to end up with an explosive mixture inside a building. And it doesn't generate CO when it burns. Or CO2 of course, which is the primary point of fuel switching.
On the other hand, as someone who actually done work, personally, with hydrogen, I do not think that re-writing safety rules is a good idea.
The handling rules for hydrogen would mean replacing all pipes it runs in - unless you can guarantee composition and gas tighteness. Which is much more difficult than for natural gas.
The plumber who did some work for me recently, was hydrogen trained. Except they hadn’t actually used hydrogen on the course. Because they hadn’t refitted the training site and it was judged too dangerous…
Ben Rich's Skunkworks book contains some good anecdotes of when Lockheed were trying to build the hydrogen-powered Suntan. It was problematic, to say the least - although it did inrectly lead to the Blackbird, and also some of the knowledge gained was used in the space program.
Though Ben Rich wasn’t good at understand what he didn’t know. The chapters on trying to sell acoustic stealth and stealth warships to the Navy were quite damning. For Ben Rich.
Like people bringing dinosaurs back to life, prospective vegans should spend a little less time thinking about whether they could, and a little more pondering whether they should.
Does anyone have any exciting fish recipes? I accept this is not quite OMG IRAN HAS ATTACKED ISRAEL
But there's a lot of culinarily clever people here on PB. I love fish and I like fish recipes that take about 30-40 minutes, to prep and cook. Enough to be a tiny mental challenge and to use my hands satisfyingly, but not Michelin standards of complexity and boiling-fish-heads-for-stock
My ideal is this fish risotto which I found on BBC GoodFood, which - if suitably adapted with garlic, white wine, parmesan, dashi, and parsley, is fab, and takes about 30-35 mins
Indeed I'd take this for any healthy meat: venison, guineafowl etc
Not strictly a recipe but I used to go to a restaurant in St Malo a lot, which sadly is no longer, where they did a fantastic dish of monkfish in a light curry sauce in a crêpe. Lots of green vegetables and French fries on the side. Sounds odd but really worked very well. So monkfish with a light curry sauce with whatever else you want I guess.
Cool, thanks
I may just go to my local fishmonger in Primrose Hill, see what they've got, then work from there. Probably that makes sense, in fact
Ask them for recipes. They will probably have something you wouldn’t have thought of.
Does anyone have any exciting fish recipes? I accept this is not quite OMG IRAN HAS ATTACKED ISRAEL
But there's a lot of culinarily clever people here on PB. I love fish and I like fish recipes that take about 30-40 minutes, to prep and cook. Enough to be a tiny mental challenge and to use my hands satisfyingly, but not Michelin standards of complexity and boiling-fish-heads-for-stock
My ideal is this fish risotto which I found on BBC GoodFood, which - if suitably adapted with garlic, white wine, parmesan, dashi, and parsley, is fab, and takes about 30-35 mins
Indeed I'd take this for any healthy meat: venison, guineafowl etc
Not strictly a recipe but I used to go to a restaurant in St Malo a lot, which sadly is no longer, where they did a fantastic dish of monkfish in a light curry sauce in a crêpe. Lots of green vegetables and French fries on the side. Sounds odd but really worked very well. So monkfish with a light curry sauce with whatever else you want I guess.
Cool, thanks
I may just go to my locl fishmonger in Primrose Hill, then work from there. Probably that's what makes sense in fact
I should have been a bit clearer, the curry sauce had the texture and creaminess of a pepper sauce you would have with a steak but obviously a really good light flavour of curry spices. Monkfish works v well in a curry though as it has the solidity and texture that holds up well.
Otherwise I love steamed Brill, it really is brill. With a good white whine and cream sauce with prawns and spinach. If Brill is on the menu I will take it over pretty much anything.
"Blue hydrogen" is even more unjustifiable economically. It's effectively government subsiding the mass production of a product for which there isn't a demand beyond the existing market, in the hope of creating one.
And the cost of production, while for now substantially cheaper than 'green hydrogen' (produced by electrolysis of water, is both subject to commodity prices, and technologically unlikely to fall much. Whereas ghee's a great deal of headrooom to improve the efficiency and capital cost of bulk electrolysis.
A lot of industry wants to fuel switch from natural gas to low carbon hydrogen in order to decarbonise their operations.
Then we have the whole question of domestic heating. Hydrogen boilers or god-awful heat pumps and an entirely new central heating system. I know which I prefer.
The ghosts of those who died in R101, R38 and the Hindenburg are waving at you...
But not the Shenandoah. That had helium.
Full marks for mentioning the Hindenburg.
Zero marks for failing to mention the multitude of deaths from natural gas explosions and carbon monoxide poisoning.
While hydrogen is more likely to leak, it disperses more readily so you are less likely to end up with an explosive mixture inside a building. And it doesn't generate CO when it burns. Or CO2 of course, which is the primary point of fuel switching.
"it disperses more readily so you are less likely to end up with an explosive mixture inside a building"
But you are more likely to end up with a leak, coz hydrogen loves leaking.
Yes I said that.
On balance, the risk is about the same as natural gas. And most of us consider that to be an acceptable risk.
That's not what I'd heard. Do you have a source for that claim, or a paper I could read? It's something I'd quite like to read up on, and you seem to be up on it.
Does anyone have any exciting fish recipes? I accept this is not quite OMG IRAN HAS ATTACKED ISRAEL
But there's a lot of culinarily clever people here on PB. I love fish and I like fish recipes that take about 30-40 minutes, to prep and cook. Enough to be a tiny mental challenge and to use my hands satisfyingly, but not Michelin standards of complexity and boiling-fish-heads-for-stock
My ideal is this fish risotto which I found on BBC GoodFood, which - if suitably adapted with garlic, white wine, parmesan, dashi, and parsley, is fab, and takes about 30-35 mins
Indeed I'd take this for any healthy meat: venison, guineafowl etc
A Moroccan fish tagine is certainly worth trying.
I did once do a bizarre recipe from a Moroccan book of fish encrusted in a sugar and almond crust. Which actually kind of worked. There are plenty of almond crust fish recipes, but not many that are deliberately sweet. There is a historical story behind that recipe, but I can’t remember what it is.
Ta, I shall investigate. Tho I generally DO find tagines a bit sweet
I like smothering a piece of pan-fried salmon in home made beurre-blanc. For anyone uninitiated, it's a sauce made with white wine, white wine vinegar, onions and blocks and blocks of butter, whisked into the vinegar reduction to make an emulsion. Serve with boiled new potatoes and a green veg like kale or asparagus.
Like people bringing dinosaurs back to life, prospective vegans should spend a little less time thinking about whether they could, and a little more pondering whether they should.
And the answer is yes.
Are you vegan? That would account for the mood swings tbf.
No. But I occasionally cook vegan food coz it tastes nice. And I know a few vegans who I respect both personally and professionally.
As for my mood: at least whatever mood I'm in, I wouldn't use the deaths of 298 people to shill for Russia.. What 'mood' were you in when you did that?
Like people bringing dinosaurs back to life, prospective vegans should spend a little less time thinking about whether they could, and a little more pondering whether they should.
In a sane timeline, Deputy Chairman could have been a sensible use of BoJo's undoubted talents. Make lots of speeches on the rubber chicken circuit, cheer up the activists, that sort of thing. Jeffrey Archer for the 21st Century.
Doesn't work now, because of all the baggage. And the fact that I'm pretty sure that Boris doesn't want to be Deputy Chairman.
Also a bit less scrutiny if, say, you wanted to earn a bit from a meagre 'side hustle' or three.
There appears to be a considerable Israeli EW effort underway and there are a notable number of US aircraft up over Iraq. That the they are in air is not unusual but the number is. The assumption is that they are there as a protective screen for their own assets.
Does anyone have any exciting fish recipes? I accept this is not quite OMG IRAN HAS ATTACKED ISRAEL
But there's a lot of culinarily clever people here on PB. I love fish and I like fish recipes that take about 30-40 minutes, to prep and cook. Enough to be a tiny mental challenge and to use my hands satisfyingly, but not Michelin standards of complexity and boiling-fish-heads-for-stock
My ideal is this fish risotto which I found on BBC GoodFood, which - if suitably adapted with garlic, white wine, parmesan, dashi, and parsley, is fab, and takes about 30-35 mins
Vegan food? I spent the best part of a decade selling plant based food. Huge improvements in choice and quality in that time. Reality is that most people eating vegan food are not vegan.
Meat reduction is fine. If that's what people want to do, let them. I whore myself for a global meat company these days, so sod vegan...
Caveat for PBers are that these are the panels, so that you need someone who knows how to put together a system. But worth buying for a future project if eg you are using them as an off grid setup.
I wouldn't be investing in a Western panel maker at this stage, as either a bloodbath or major subsidies are probably on the way. It feels a little like the previous occasion when the German solar panel industry evaporated.
Does anyone have any exciting fish recipes? I accept this is not quite OMG IRAN HAS ATTACKED ISRAEL
But there's a lot of culinarily clever people here on PB. I love fish and I like fish recipes that take about 30-40 minutes, to prep and cook. Enough to be a tiny mental challenge and to use my hands satisfyingly, but not Michelin standards of complexity and boiling-fish-heads-for-stock
My ideal is this fish risotto which I found on BBC GoodFood, which - if suitably adapted with garlic, white wine, parmesan, dashi, and parsley, is fab, and takes about 30-35 mins
This is quite something. Guy's first reaction to the Sydney killings is to feed it into his.... anti-bike-lane narrative
"The police and ambulance staging outside Westfield Bondi Junction would have been severely impacted by bike lanes which had been proposed for the area. The Eastern Suburbs is a heavily congested area which impacts ambo arrival and transport. This will be a first responder case study for years."
Hypothetical bike lanes are evil and the lady policeman lost her hat.
What gets me about the whole Ukraine situation is that there's no provision for vegans
Like, OK, 300,000 are dead and Russia has laid waste to most of east Ukraine and it will possibly turn into World War Three but surely there could be at least one pop-up falafel stall? Is that so hard? Or a tofu buffet in a tent?
Outside of London, Brighton and its colonies Veganism is non-existent in most parts of Europe.
In fact, it would be considered deeply weird.
Vegan food can be found in every supermarket in Britain and Ireland, possibly Europe.
It's possible that this is because a few Vegan activists have captured the decision-making of Europe's supermarkets, and at some point they will stop throwing money (and unsold vegan food) away, but I think it shows that there is a niche there, and there are actually a few vegans, sprinkled around the place.
Are you sure your neighbour isn't a vegan?
The fact that almost all supermarkets might have a (tiny) section of plant-based crap around the nation doesn't disprove the point.
Veganism is a tiny percentage (2-3% of the population, at best) and that cultural and social phenomenon is heavily concentrated in London and Brighton and a few other Met colonies, which manage to spin off and sustain a few restaurants and so forth.
Elsewhere it's negligible but of course supermarkets cater to all tastes, just as they sell all sorts of niche ingredients and foods to others who exist in even fewer numbers.
"plant-based crap" How do you know it's 'crap' if you don't eat it?
"Elsewhere it's negligible" Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha Ha ha ha ha-ha-ha-ha ha ha ha
I'm in Bulgaria right now, you dipstick. Doesn't exist.
Even by virtue of that wanker map you linked to.
Are they still doing the 0.5/1kg options for how much meat, even in the posher Sofia places?
Dunno, but my father-in-law has a got a whole lamb (and a mean a whole one - even the head) in the garage ready for a spit-roast tomorrow.
In the UK it'd probably cost, like, £300 but it's not much here.
That's Eid, though. And for Muslims it is a huge tradition.
I'd suggest that for the UK £200 is closer, but perhaps more like £170 at Halal outlets. Both quick Google search results.
If you go to organic retail, it may well not be the lamb that is the spit roast.
I'm waiting for payday to do a bit of a freezer-restock from these folk :
The Blackface Meat Company believes passionately in the link between a healthy landscape and the highest quality meat. The two are so closely bound that the flavour of our products is of the land itself, the heather and the berries, the wild grasses and fresh waters of the burns found in the most beautiful, unspoilt regions of Britain.
We are a small family business based in the South West of Scotland. We supply a wide range of high quality, oven-ready game from selected estates and we also source finest quality Outdoor Reared Pork, Blackface Lamb and Mutton, Salt Marsh Lamb and Mutton, Native Scotch Beef, and Free Range Bronze Turkeys.. This is the heritage lamb, mutton, game and beef enjoyed by our ancestors, now available all over the UK via our efficient home delivery service. We also source wild boar and goat, although may not always have stock.
In a sane timeline, Deputy Chairman could have been a sensible use of BoJo's undoubted talents. Make lots of speeches on the rubber chicken circuit, cheer up the activists, that sort of thing. Jeffrey Archer for the 21st Century.
Doesn't work now, because of all the baggage. And the fact that I'm pretty sure that Boris doesn't want to be Deputy Chairman.
Also a bit less scrutiny if, say, you wanted to earn a bit from a meagre 'side hustle' or three.
Whether he wants it depends if it's the way back to getting a seat, and getting back in as leader.
Vegan food? I spent the best part of a decade selling plant based food. Huge improvements in choice and quality in that time. Reality is that most people eating vegan food are not vegan.
Meat reduction is fine. If that's what people want to do, let them. I whore myself for a global meat company these days, so sod vegan...
As a good Muslim for many years I was forced to choose the vegetarian/vegan option in restaurants when there was no acceptable fish option.
I can say the vegetarian/vegan options have become better in the last 20 years.
"Blue hydrogen" is even more unjustifiable economically. It's effectively government subsiding the mass production of a product for which there isn't a demand beyond the existing market, in the hope of creating one.
And the cost of production, while for now substantially cheaper than 'green hydrogen' (produced by electrolysis of water, is both subject to commodity prices, and technologically unlikely to fall much. Whereas ghee's a great deal of headrooom to improve the efficiency and capital cost of bulk electrolysis.
A lot of industry wants to fuel switch from natural gas to low carbon hydrogen in order to decarbonise their operations.
Then we have the whole question of domestic heating. Hydrogen boilers or god-awful heat pumps and an entirely new central heating system. I know which I prefer.
The ghosts of those who died in R101, R38 and the Hindenburg are waving at you...
But not the Shenandoah. That had helium.
Full marks for mentioning the Hindenburg.
Zero marks for failing to mention the multitude of deaths from natural gas explosions and carbon monoxide poisoning.
While hydrogen is more likely to leak, it disperses more readily so you are less likely to end up with an explosive mixture inside a building. And it doesn't generate CO when it burns. Or CO2 of course, which is the primary point of fuel switching.
"it disperses more readily so you are less likely to end up with an explosive mixture inside a building"
But you are more likely to end up with a leak, coz hydrogen loves leaking.
Yes I said that.
On balance, the risk is about the same as natural gas. And most of us consider that to be an acceptable risk.
That's not what I'd heard. Do you have a source for that claim, or a paper I could read? It's something I'd quite like to read up on, and you seem to be up on it.
Sorry, I don't have a paper, but this was stated at a conference by someone doing the safety work on hydrogen.
Vegan food? I spent the best part of a decade selling plant based food. Huge improvements in choice and quality in that time. Reality is that most people eating vegan food are not vegan.
Meat reduction is fine. If that's what people want to do, let them. I whore myself for a global meat company these days, so sod vegan...
There is an definite issue with the competing issues of processed/ultra processed food, and much of the plant based products available in supermarkets.
"Blue hydrogen" is even more unjustifiable economically. It's effectively government subsiding the mass production of a product for which there isn't a demand beyond the existing market, in the hope of creating one.
And the cost of production, while for now substantially cheaper than 'green hydrogen' (produced by electrolysis of water, is both subject to commodity prices, and technologically unlikely to fall much. Whereas ghee's a great deal of headrooom to improve the efficiency and capital cost of bulk electrolysis.
A lot of industry wants to fuel switch from natural gas to low carbon hydrogen in order to decarbonise their operations.
Then we have the whole question of domestic heating. Hydrogen boilers or god-awful heat pumps and an entirely new central heating system. I know which I prefer.
The ghosts of those who died in R101, R38 and the Hindenburg are waving at you...
But not the Shenandoah. That had helium.
Full marks for mentioning the Hindenburg.
Zero marks for failing to mention the multitude of deaths from natural gas explosions and carbon monoxide poisoning.
While hydrogen is more likely to leak, it disperses more readily so you are less likely to end up with an explosive mixture inside a building. And it doesn't generate CO when it burns. Or CO2 of course, which is the primary point of fuel switching.
"it disperses more readily so you are less likely to end up with an explosive mixture inside a building"
But you are more likely to end up with a leak, coz hydrogen loves leaking.
Yes I said that.
On balance, the risk is about the same as natural gas. And most of us consider that to be an acceptable risk.
That's not what I'd heard. Do you have a source for that claim, or a paper I could read? It's something I'd quite like to read up on, and you seem to be up on it.
Sorry, I don't have a paper, but this was stated at a conference by someone doing the safety work on hydrogen.
Just to add, you need to take the CO poisoning risk into account, not just the explosion risk.
Does anyone have any exciting fish recipes? I accept this is not quite OMG IRAN HAS ATTACKED ISRAEL
But there's a lot of culinarily clever people here on PB. I love fish and I like fish recipes that take about 30-40 minutes, to prep and cook. Enough to be a tiny mental challenge and to use my hands satisfyingly, but not Michelin standards of complexity and boiling-fish-heads-for-stock
My ideal is this fish risotto which I found on BBC GoodFood, which - if suitably adapted with garlic, white wine, parmesan, dashi, and parsley, is fab, and takes about 30-35 mins
For fish, an air fryer cooks slightly chunky fish (eg salmon / cod steams) beautifully. Just spray with olive oil. Or foil bake.
Then put creativity into the veg and carb parts of the meal. Say a stir fry, which can include literally anything + any spices / sauces, or a salad. Then carb can be rice or garlic bread or a baked potato.
I quite often enjoy doing microwave sachet rice + vegetables (eg sweetcorn, chopped up beans). I sometimes freeze portions of that, too.
It's surprising what works well - I am just about to have salmon with garlic bread, stir-fry veg and a cheese sauce for supper.
Wrt to venison etc, beetroot works very well as something to add depth to flavour. That can also be in stir fries. I also love crumbled black pudding as a way to add depth to almost anything - even works as a contrast element with fish.
For breakfast - jugged kipper with a poached egg.
For supper - smoked haddock (the read stuff, not dyed) gently poached / steamed for a few minutes in shallow milk in a dish over a pan of boiling water. With a traditional sauce eg ketchup.
There appears to be a considerable Israeli EW effort underway and there are a notable number of US aircraft up over Iraq. That the they are in air is not unusual but the number is. The assumption is that they are there as a protective screen for their own assets.
Qatar and Kuwait have banned the US from using their airspace or bases on their territory for an attack on Iran. This includes Al Udeid in Qatar, the largest US base in the Middle East.
This is quite something. Guy's first reaction to the Sydney killings is to feed it into his.... anti-bike-lane narrative
"The police and ambulance staging outside Westfield Bondi Junction would have been severely impacted by bike lanes which had been proposed for the area. The Eastern Suburbs is a heavily congested area which impacts ambo arrival and transport. This will be a first responder case study for years."
Hypothetical bike lanes are evil and the lady policeman lost her hat.
What gets me about the whole Ukraine situation is that there's no provision for vegans
Like, OK, 300,000 are dead and Russia has laid waste to most of east Ukraine and it will possibly turn into World War Three but surely there could be at least one pop-up falafel stall? Is that so hard? Or a tofu buffet in a tent?
Outside of London, Brighton and its colonies Veganism is non-existent in most parts of Europe.
Does anyone have any exciting fish recipes? I accept this is not quite OMG IRAN HAS ATTACKED ISRAEL
But there's a lot of culinarily clever people here on PB. I love fish and I like fish recipes that take about 30-40 minutes, to prep and cook. Enough to be a tiny mental challenge and to use my hands satisfyingly, but not Michelin standards of complexity and boiling-fish-heads-for-stock
My ideal is this fish risotto which I found on BBC GoodFood, which - if suitably adapted with garlic, white wine, parmesan, dashi, and parsley, is fab, and takes about 30-35 mins
Indeed I'd take this for any healthy meat: venison, guineafowl etc
Not a recipe as such, but getting some 'fish pie mix' and then just lightly poaching it in a SE Asian broth of some kind - spicy or herby or zingy - some rice, some steamed veg with some sesame seeds or furikake. Very nice and very quick.
Like people bringing dinosaurs back to life, prospective vegans should spend a little less time thinking about whether they could, and a little more pondering whether they should.
(a) dinosaurs never died out, I was cleaning the crap off my garden water barrel this afternoon (b) the sort you are thinking of are in a film. Fictional. Anyone who knows *anything* about DNA and fossils will tell you that their chances of reanimation are about on a par with Ms Truss's chances, come to think of it.
Like people bringing dinosaurs back to life, prospective vegans should spend a little less time thinking about whether they could, and a little more pondering whether they should.
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(Because why get slaughtered six months before you need to)
Hydrogen might be the answer, but blue hydrogen certainly isn't.
'In Texas, vegans do not live longer. If you go into a restaurant in Texas and ask for their vegan options, they'll say 'You have the option to get the hell out.''
But that isn't the same thing. And well you know it.
https://aeclinic.org/aec-blog/2021/6/24/the-colors-of-hydrogen
Why are we hearing chat from Nick Faldo and Laura Davies on the patio, when there are guys out on the course?
It all comes to the media and expectation management of May's elections.
On the assumption Khan wins in London, we'll be looking at some of the other Mayoral contests and the council elections and given the number of seats being contested is many fewer than in the 2022 and 2023 rounds, how will the loss of 400-500 seats be spun as a good result - only by comparison with the 1,000 losses in 2023 and the 500 losses in 2022 I imagine.
Would Houchen and Street winning be a good result? What if both lost?
In the UK it'd probably cost, like, £300 but it's not much here.
They pay vast amounts of money out, but generally do a pretty underwhelming job of actually broadcasting it.
You don’t actually need to heat a modern loft conversion. Insulation + heat rising means cooling it the issue.
I’d also recommend an opening skylight. Lots of light pouring in and when open, you get incredible passive ventilation.
It really is that simple. The rest is a mixture of wishful thinking and media speculation, bit like how they like to do on the next James Bond.
Cricket coverage is excellent.
This is utter shit. Just. Show. The. Golf.
It's better than the BBC highlights package,but since only about one-third of that is highlights and the rest is drivel that's not saying much.
Does anyone have any exciting fish recipes? I accept this is not quite OMG IRAN HAS ATTACKED ISRAEL
But there's a lot of culinarily clever people here on PB. I love fish and I like fish recipes that take about 30-40 minutes, to prep and cook. Enough to be a tiny mental challenge and to use my hands satisfyingly, but not Michelin standards of complexity and boiling-fish-heads-for-stock
My ideal is this fish risotto which I found on BBC GoodFood, which - if suitably adapted with garlic, white wine, parmesan, dashi, and parsley, is fab, and takes about 30-35 mins
https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/smoked-haddock-leek-risotto
Ideas welcome. Gratitude
Indeed I'd take this for any healthy meat: venison, guineafowl etc
https://grid.iamkate.com/
Much more solar than I'd expect, lots more wind power, and much less gas usage.
I'd suggest that for the UK £200 is closer, but perhaps more like £170 at Halal outlets. Both quick Google search results.
If you go to organic retail, it may well not be the lamb that is the spit roast.
Zero marks for failing to mention the multitude of deaths from natural gas explosions and carbon monoxide poisoning.
While hydrogen is more likely to leak, it disperses more readily so you are less likely to end up with an explosive mixture inside a building. And it doesn't generate CO when it burns. Or CO2 of course, which is the primary point of fuel switching.
But you are more likely to end up with a leak, coz hydrogen loves leaking.
Here is a piece about new initiatives in the USA. They are quite concerned about Mr Chump. A lot of planned new facilities might not get very far.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/ap-georgia-asian-south-korean-joe-biden-b2431686.html
A piece on the current threat of reducing prices, Mr Biden's Inflation Reduction Act included subsidies.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-03-11/us-solar-factories-are-in-for-rude-awakening-report-warns
IMO the real problem in the USA is that have completely dodged attempting to reduce energy in their economy.
And of course, let's recall that before we had "North Sea Gas" every home was supplied with Towns Gas - a blend of hydrogen and carbon monoxide. That's why sticking your head in an unlit over was a good way to top yourself - CO poisoning.
Asking politely is good; a S Korean barbecue restaurant - which are *really* meat only - worked out a vegetarian meal for my wife, and were quite charming about it.
I did once do a bizarre recipe from a Moroccan book of fish encrusted in a sugar and almond crust. Which actually kind of worked. There are plenty of almond crust fish recipes, but not many that are deliberately sweet. There is a historical story behind that recipe, but I can’t remember what it is.
As for my mood: at least whatever mood I'm in, I wouldn't use the deaths of 298 people to shill for Russia.. What 'mood' were you in when you did that?
The handling rules for hydrogen would mean replacing all pipes it runs in - unless you can guarantee composition and gas tighteness. Which is much more difficult than for natural gas.
The plumber who did some work for me recently, was hydrogen trained. Except they hadn’t actually used hydrogen on the course. Because they hadn’t refitted the training site and it was judged too dangerous…
Worrying times; and I don't think Biden's got the capability to deal with it.
(Skunkworks is an excellent book.)
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Skunk-Works-Personal-Memoir-Lockheed/dp/0316743003
Initially that shot at them but bullets simply went through and the leakage was trivial compared to the amount in the balloon. Next they invented the tracer bullet so as to set fire to it. It had phosphorus inside a bullet with a plug that would melt when fired. As the bullet spun there would be a flame as the phosphorus ignited on contact with the air. However that failed because as it entered the airship into the hydrogen it would go out because there was no oxygen. Next they invented the exploding bullet (I believe it used nitroglycerine) and the machine guns on the planes had alternating explosive bullets and tracer bullets. However this was still difficult to make work and when they strafed the airship from one length to the other it still did not ignite. Finally a pilot concentrated his fire on one spot and got a Zeppelin to ignite and as a bonus won himself the VC.
Not often I know stuff like this.
I may just go to my local fishmonger in Primrose Hill, see what they've got, then work from there. Probably that makes sense, in fact
Doesn't work now, because of all the baggage. And the fact that I'm pretty sure that Boris doesn't want to be Deputy Chairman.
On balance, the risk is about the same as natural gas. And most of us consider that to be an acceptable risk.
Otherwise I love steamed Brill, it really is brill. With a good white whine and cream sauce with prawns and spinach. If Brill is on the menu I will take it over pretty much anything.
Iran closes airspace except for military and emergency planes.
https://x.com/ragipsoylu/status/1779230380085629270?s=61
Meat reduction is fine. If that's what people want to do, let them. I whore myself for a global meat company these days, so sod vegan...
https://www.meyerburger.com/en/newsroom/artikel/shareholders-of-meyer-burger-approve-rights-issue-of-around-chf-200-million-and-support-the-expansion-of-the-production-and-distribution-structures-in-the-united-states
https://www.blackface.co.uk/
I can say the vegetarian/vegan options have become better in the last 20 years.
For fish recipes, I'd say try some traditional things, for example kedgeree - which is easy and tasty and some portions can be frozen.
https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/smoked-haddock-kedgeree
For fish, an air fryer cooks slightly chunky fish (eg salmon / cod steams) beautifully. Just spray with olive oil. Or foil bake.
Then put creativity into the veg and carb parts of the meal. Say a stir fry, which can include literally anything + any spices / sauces, or a salad. Then carb can be rice or garlic bread or a baked potato.
I quite often enjoy doing microwave sachet rice + vegetables (eg sweetcorn, chopped up beans). I sometimes freeze portions of that, too.
It's surprising what works well - I am just about to have salmon with garlic bread, stir-fry veg and a cheese sauce for supper.
Wrt to venison etc, beetroot works very well as something to add depth to flavour. That can also be in stir fries. I also love crumbled black pudding as a way to add depth to almost anything - even works as a contrast element with fish.
For breakfast - jugged kipper with a poached egg.
For supper - smoked haddock (the read stuff, not dyed) gently poached / steamed for a few minutes in shallow milk in a dish over a pan of boiling water. With a traditional sauce eg ketchup.
Enjoy the cooking and the eating.
(b) the sort you are thinking of are in a film. Fictional. Anyone who knows *anything* about DNA and fossils will tell you that their chances of reanimation are about on a par with Ms Truss's chances, come to think of it. Vegan, even.
The idea of spending an entire Saturday knocking balls around a very big beautiful garden with your mates, then going for several beers, appeals.