Rabbit flamande

My rabbit flamande (from Jocasta Innes' "Pauper's Cookbook", although according to the Web what makes the dish Flemish is the ingredient she lists as optional and that I omitted, namely the beer/cider!) was a great success. I ended up stewing it with two and a half onions and some slices of elderly butternut squash -- as this is also a sweet vegetable -- instead of the 'eight small onions' listed in the recipe, put in 4oz mixed sultanas and raisins, added the optional prunes and a bayleaf as well as the thyme, and stirred in a tablespoon of homemade chutney at the end instead of three tablespoons of sugar caramelised in vinegar. The resulting casserole was extremely tasty, with the joints of meat nestling in a rich dark sauce.



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I also managed to retrieve all the remaining FFNet reviews for my stories -- including the ones on the old account, which I'd forgotten about -- and to grab the text for the three stories on that account and the translation of "Please Pretend", which I thought I didn't have the original document for. (Actually, I still do -- it turns out to be in the form of plain text files in my "Internet" directory as opposed to documents in my "Fanfiction" sub-directory, but I've now got the HTML version anyway!)

Food!!

The snow is melting, the sun is out, and the greengrocer's stall is back in its place. I went out on the offchance, and came back with 12lb (according to my brass Hughes's Pocket Balance (British Made)) of potatoes, onions, beetroot, lemon, celery, leeks, eggs (local but not free-range, I'm afraid; the small print on the box says 'enriched cages', which are the new minimum-welfare replacement for battery cages) and oranges. ( Read more... )

FFNet Igenlode's own stories

And here is the one list I forgot to retrieve for possible future reference -- courtesy of pedanther, some of my old stats posts which fortunately archived the story links, a homebrew awk script to recombine the two, my browser bookmarks for the reviews on my 'old' account, and the fact that I managed to get the first page of my FFnet story list to display a couple of days ago, which happens to cover the URLs of the remaining stories written since that last full stats post.
I hope I really have got all of the relevant data out now; I still need to have a go at fixing all the local links to those files so that the index pages actually point to the relevant stories and the 'next chapter' links work again, but the actual content should all be saved.

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