Dillottante

For those who made "impressed" kinds of noises about the yoga on Friday - click here.
See? Thats proper yoga blogging, that is. I am a yoga dilettante. (no, not Dillotante) (well...maybe).
I do the yoga once a week, about 6 months of the year, and never at home. She (could be he?) is obviously a true devotee.

I am more the Tamsin Greig school of yoga, in Black Books.

Yoga might feel like sunshine in your veins
(sometimes) (not at the time - sometimes afterwards)
(before the cramps set in)

but I'm still craving the red wine and chocolate by early evening.

(btw, the Tamsin Greig will soon be returning (March 31) in the excellently funny Green Wing Watch it, if you didn't first time around. Witty, surreal, original, often laugh-out-loud funny.)


And here is what we apparently should be consuming, instead of the red wine and chocolate.
Does that help at all? Hahahahahahahhahahahahahahah

Saturday night I opened a bottle of wine which I had made myself in 1989. Blimus!
And we're still here. And no, I didn't even have a headache on Sunday morning.
I used to make lots of wine, when we were poverty-stricken students, and lived in the country, with an abundance of elderberries, sloes, blackberries just up the lane. Most of it was pretty drinkable. Some of it (like the haw) (yes, haw, [as in hawthorn]) had to be thoroughly mulled first, and then it still made your mouth pucker up a bit.

We were desperate, I must admit. No other wine in the house. This vintage home brew was still surprisingly good. No, really! And I am much fussier about wine now than I was all those years ago. Though there was only one bottle left, so we couldn't prove it by drinking a second.

I will have to do some shopping next week.....

This is also quite funny, I got it in an email so some of you might have seen it. For those in other countries who might not know, Delia (Smith) is a best-selling cookery writer in England. When Delia is on TV with a new recipe using lemon-grass, all the supermarkets sell out of lemon-grass within days.

Which one are you???????
Delia's way & the real womans way.

Delia's Way
Stuff a miniature marshmallow in the bottom of a sugar cone
to prevent ice cream drips.

The Real Woman's Way
Just suck the ice cream out of the bottom of the cone, for God's sake.
You are probably lying on the couch with your feet up eating it anyway.

Delia's Way
To keep potatoes from budding, place an apple in the bag with the potatoes.

The Real Woman's Way
Buy Smash and keep it in the cupboard for up to a year.

Delia's Way
When a cake recipe calls for flouring the baking tin, use a bit of the dry cake mix instead
and there won't be any white mess on the outside of the cake.

The Real Woman's Way
Tescos' sell cakes. They even do decorated versions.

Delia's Way
If you accidentally over-salt a dish while it's still cooking, drop in a potato slice.

The Real Woman's Way
If you over salt a dish while you are cooking, that's tough sh*t.
Please recite with me the Real Woman's motto: "I made it and you will eat it
and I don't care how bad it tastes."

Delia's Way
Wrap celery in aluminium foil when putting in the refrigerator
and it will keep for weeks.

The Real Woman's Way
It could keep forever. Who eats it?

Delia's Way
Cure for headaches: Take a lime, cut it in half and rub it on
your forehead. The throbbing will go away.

The Real Woman's Way
Cure for headaches: Take a lime, cut it in half and drop it in 8 ounces of vodka.
Drink the vodka. You might still have the headache,
but you wont give a sh*t?

Delia's Way
If you have a problem opening jars, try using latex dishwashing gloves.
They give a non-slip grip that makes opening jars easy.

The Real Woman's Way
Why do I have a man?

and finally the most important tip

Delia's Way
Freeze leftover wine into ice cubes for future use in casseroles and sauces.

The Real Woman's Way
Leftover wine???? Hello!!!!!

I bought a wine box this morning. 3L. Well, its cheaper that way you see........

And this is the Dillottante of the title (No.12) :