On Wednesday, I realised that it was months since I’d done one of my favourites: chilli con carne. (I’m not going to give recipe links; this is a standard with hundreds of slightly varying recipes, and in the end, you never follow any of them exactly anyway.) So I trotted off to the foodie shop for a 1lb pack of organic beef mince. (And the onions and tinned tomatoes and veg and stuff.)
Does anyone out there actually use dried kidney beans? I always end up getting them from a tin (once I’ve decided I want chilli, waiting till next day for beans to soak overnight is so not going to happen…), although it’s more expensive that way. And I use chilli sauce and cayenne pepper rather than fresh chillies too (easier to control the heat).
And as you’ll have noticed, that was a big pot of meaty stuff for one girl. So this is what happened to the leftovers: two tubs for the freezer, one small tub for the fridge. That was meant to go with a baked potato yesterday, but I forgot to put the potato in the oven until it was far too late… so in the end it made a soup with extra potatoes and peas and chunks of granary bread.
That’s quite enough red meat for a few days. But I haven’t quite decided what I’ll do with my baked potato tonight. (Following some very serious thought, I think just creamy goats cheese and a tomato salad should be nice.)
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PS: a question to those who know these things. Don’t alt tags work in Firefox? Or does it need to be coded slightly differently? I’ve just noticed that none of the images here are showing the alt text, but it’s fine in IE…
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ALT tags work perfectly in Firefox, they’re just broken in IE.
No really! ALT is supposed to be shown as an ALTernative (geddit? :) ) to a picture, in case the picture doesn’t display for some reason. If you want some text to appear when you point at a picture you should use TITLE. IE makes its own rules of course, which is why ALT behaves as it does there.
You can get a plugin that displays the ALT text, which may be handy :)
I seeee…. And how long have I been doing HTML without realising that? Didn’t even know what the title tag was; I’m now realising that all this time I’ve really been using alt to do the job that title is supposed to do. (Although a quick google suggests that I’m not alone…) Thank you, Paul.
No, you’re certainly not alone, I think I’ve done it too! I think the best solution is to have both tags.
I use dried kidney beans, but not being the cooking kind, all I do with them is bring to a boil, drain, rinse, throw ’em in the Crock Pot with whatever else; four hours later they’re in good form.
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Need to find a good recipe for lamb shanks this morning. Anybody got one?