In Autumn A Not-So Young Man's Fancy Turns to...

Kale.

I learnt last year that to ignore this is bad, because it's only going to get chewier. Serving suggestions welcome - it may be helpful to know I also have:

calabrese (broccoli)
1/2 red cabbage
1/2 swede
tomatoes
onion
little gem lettuce
endless carrots
leek
red pepper

By tomorrow I'm likely to have some bacon and cheese, and imagine the Ready Steady Cook store cupboard of stock, spices, herbs, dried fruit, flours, sugar, red lentils, yellow split peas, mung beans... There are (defrostable) turkey bits and white fish if it's an accompaniment.

Edit: Nibb'lous suggests:
curly kale and chickpea balti
cavolo nero with rosemary and chilli
colcannon
dijon chicken stew with potatoes and kale

and:
curly kale stir fry with lentils
curly kale and potato risotto

kale pesto


I think maybe the balti, but I'm sure there's more kale to come.

Square Eyes

Tonight is one of those rare nights when I need to watch three things at once - and catching up with repeats of Messrs Fry and Fairly-Witless end up with precedence over Harry Hill (and I confess I almost never watch him). Meanwhile Merlin drives a dragon and sword through the Arthur mythos so that only the names remain. It took four people to create this? And aside from Will Mellor, all the villains thus far are women. Do I need Timewatch to rewrite the Victorian age, or Timeteam to rewrite the bronze?

Films CXXI and CXXII

My choices are sometimes strange bedfellows. I suspect there are spoilers ahoy.

( CXXI: Dirty Love (John Asher, 2005) )

( CXXII: A Cottage on Dartmoor (Anthony Asquith, 1929) )

Totals: 122 (Cinema: 51; DVD: 66; TV: 5)