katsmeat

Breakfast this morning..

http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2008/11/make_cake_in_a_mug.html?CMP=OTC-0D6B48984890

Well is does work, sort-of. If a touch chewie.

I've gone vegetarian, at least to a limited extent.

I'll happily eat free-range meat. But no more pies, pasties, etc - I think it can safely be assumed that any processed product containing meat is going to contain the cheapest, crappiest, most hormone and antibiotic infused animal-product the manufacturer can possibly source. That originates in some Animal-Auschwitz industrial unit whose name includes the word 'farm' but which otherwise has as resemblance to the traditional idea of agriculture as a pit-viper has to a Sherman tank.

Unfortunately, while I like pasties in general, I loathe cheese and onion ones and nine times out of ten, that seems the only non-meat option.

< shrugs >

Back...

I came in to the department to check my email. Some of which was about work I should have been doing but haven't. So I got it started and sent back a response which amounted to

"Look, stop bugging me. I'm doing it - and on a SUNDAY, OK!!!Please ignore the fact I've been bunking off in Switzerland for the last week, please, pretty please."

Geneva is cool. Do drop in if you're passing. The old town is picturesque and every single shop sells either watches or Swiss Army Knives. I passed a restaurant that took fusion cookery to its silliest extreme by offering Chinese Fondu. Possibly that involved spearing bits of beef in black bean sauce and dipping them in a pot of melted cheese. They weren't open at lunchtime, unfortunately, so I never found out.

Actually I did try meat fondue for dinner on the last night. Please don't tell my equine obsessed sister, but viande de chevaline turns out to be pretty darn good!