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Check out Fre above. He's grown so much since the last time I saw him, which wasn't even that long ago. He's Greyn's ex-guitar player's baby boy. It was great to see Peter again after so long - probably since Greyn broke up in October. I miss seeing him every week like I used to when Greyn rehearsed on Wednesdays. But Greyn is long gone. Life has gone on and both Peter and I are looking at new band possibilities right now. Peter's wife Valerie made us such a great and tasty dinner. One of the things she made was a pesto-celeriac (knolselder) soup. It was so delicious! I will ask her if I can post her recipe here. If I do post it, I urge you all to try it out. She says it's easy and my oh my was it good! It's also healthy. I eat celeriac a lot as it's great grated and put in salads. It has such a soft taste. The rest of the dinner was really good too - eggplant and spicy peppers over thin pasta and shrimp mixed with tasty veggies with rosemary - covered in Ghanda ham and a slice of melted goat cheese. Yum!!! Thanks Val! And great to see you Peter!
Last night, we had some friends (Hilde, Steven and Tilly) over to play some games. We tried out a new one called Ticket To Ride. There's something about it that reminds me of the game Kolonisten, which we play often (ever since Heidi introduced us to it). In English it's known as Settlers of Catan. Anyway - Ticket To Ride is also nice to play. There was a lot of wine and a lot of laughs. It was a really fun night. Our friends brought their kids so there were 5 kids here and 5 adults. We all stayed up til around 2am! What were we parents thinking. We sort of forgot about the kids. They were all so tired and stared crying at about 11:30pm or so and we told them they could stop crying and keep playing or go home because they were so tired. We still had a game to finish so we were glad they stopped crying! We were being selfish. The kids needed sleep. Oh well, what the hell! You have to live a little - kids included, right?!
Today my husband and I searched for windows. The big question now is wood, PVC or aluminum! We have a big corner house with many very large windows and about 20 windows in total. The majority of them - and all of the big ones - are single-glass. That's the case in our living room where our thermostat is so we are screwed in terms of heating bills. We have to get double-glass. We have no choice. As our house is from 1912-ish and has a prominent place on the corner and has so many windows, it really deserves to have wood window frames like it has now - but that means re-painting them every five years or so, which is a HUGE job! PVC of course would be the most financially sane choice - white PVC at that. But no way!!! No white windows. So there are many other more expensive and better looking PVC window frames - but I don't know - it just doesn't go with the house style. Then there is aluminum, which is cold and modern mostly you'd think. We saw a beautiful example of it on an old home like ours and it actually looked pretty good. But it is really expensive! No matter what, we'll get a lot of subsidies for putting double-glass in as it is so much better for energy use and the like. Even so, can you even begin to imagine what the total costs will be for 20 new windows with so many of them being large ones? Plus there is the glass door and the garage door and the shutters. So we will get a lot of offers and compare the three types and we'll make a decision once we know what is feasible. I can't wait to see what our house looks like down the line when we complete all this renovation work and get the facade cleaned as well. I think the house will be magnificent. But man do we need to win the lottery fast!
Last but not least, I leave you with this small article from my favorite "news" source, The Onion. Playing the Devil's Advocate is something we (un)fortunately like to do sometimes just to make conversations more interesting and to stir stuff up and yes, to get people thinking and seeing alternatives too - so I am sure we all can relate to the idea that Devil's Advocate is very easily and often a synonym for asshole! Man I love The Onion! My dream job - working for The Onion!
Man Who Plays Devil's Advocate Really Just Wants To Be Asshole
March 9, 2007 Issue 43•10
COLUMBUS, MO—Though area graphic designer Derek Sills says he plays devil's advocate to help his friends better understand opinions different from their own, sources close to Sills claim he takes on the dissenting role merely to be an asshole.
"Now, I don't actually believe this or anything but, for the sake of argument, let's say your girlfriend is just dating you for your money," Sills said at a party last Saturday, after asking a group of friends to consider that the telephone may have been a "stupid invention." "Just playing devil's advocate here, guys, but perhaps slavery is the reason African Americans are so successful in sports these days."
According to sources, Sills "crossed the line" when he asked if their friend Jamie's mother might have deserved to die.
And here's a link to another funny one - especially if like me, you were/are a big Led Zeppelin/Jimmy Page fan.
Check out Fre above. He's grown so much since the last time I saw him, which wasn't even that long ago. He's Greyn's ex-guitar player's baby boy. It was great to see Peter again after so long - probably since Greyn broke up in October. I miss seeing him every week like I used to when Greyn rehearsed on Wednesdays. But Greyn is long gone. Life has gone on and both Peter and I are looking at new band possibilities right now. Peter's wife Valerie made us such a great and tasty dinner. One of the things she made was a pesto-celeriac (knolselder) soup. It was so delicious! I will ask her if I can post her recipe here. If I do post it, I urge you all to try it out. She says it's easy and my oh my was it good! It's also healthy. I eat celeriac a lot as it's great grated and put in salads. It has such a soft taste. The rest of the dinner was really good too - eggplant and spicy peppers over thin pasta and shrimp mixed with tasty veggies with rosemary - covered in Ghanda ham and a slice of melted goat cheese. Yum!!! Thanks Val! And great to see you Peter!
Last night, we had some friends (Hilde, Steven and Tilly) over to play some games. We tried out a new one called Ticket To Ride. There's something about it that reminds me of the game Kolonisten, which we play often (ever since Heidi introduced us to it). In English it's known as Settlers of Catan. Anyway - Ticket To Ride is also nice to play. There was a lot of wine and a lot of laughs. It was a really fun night. Our friends brought their kids so there were 5 kids here and 5 adults. We all stayed up til around 2am! What were we parents thinking. We sort of forgot about the kids. They were all so tired and stared crying at about 11:30pm or so and we told them they could stop crying and keep playing or go home because they were so tired. We still had a game to finish so we were glad they stopped crying! We were being selfish. The kids needed sleep. Oh well, what the hell! You have to live a little - kids included, right?!
Today my husband and I searched for windows. The big question now is wood, PVC or aluminum! We have a big corner house with many very large windows and about 20 windows in total. The majority of them - and all of the big ones - are single-glass. That's the case in our living room where our thermostat is so we are screwed in terms of heating bills. We have to get double-glass. We have no choice. As our house is from 1912-ish and has a prominent place on the corner and has so many windows, it really deserves to have wood window frames like it has now - but that means re-painting them every five years or so, which is a HUGE job! PVC of course would be the most financially sane choice - white PVC at that. But no way!!! No white windows. So there are many other more expensive and better looking PVC window frames - but I don't know - it just doesn't go with the house style. Then there is aluminum, which is cold and modern mostly you'd think. We saw a beautiful example of it on an old home like ours and it actually looked pretty good. But it is really expensive! No matter what, we'll get a lot of subsidies for putting double-glass in as it is so much better for energy use and the like. Even so, can you even begin to imagine what the total costs will be for 20 new windows with so many of them being large ones? Plus there is the glass door and the garage door and the shutters. So we will get a lot of offers and compare the three types and we'll make a decision once we know what is feasible. I can't wait to see what our house looks like down the line when we complete all this renovation work and get the facade cleaned as well. I think the house will be magnificent. But man do we need to win the lottery fast!
Last but not least, I leave you with this small article from my favorite "news" source, The Onion. Playing the Devil's Advocate is something we (un)fortunately like to do sometimes just to make conversations more interesting and to stir stuff up and yes, to get people thinking and seeing alternatives too - so I am sure we all can relate to the idea that Devil's Advocate is very easily and often a synonym for asshole! Man I love The Onion! My dream job - working for The Onion!
Man Who Plays Devil's Advocate Really Just Wants To Be Asshole
March 9, 2007 Issue 43•10
COLUMBUS, MO—Though area graphic designer Derek Sills says he plays devil's advocate to help his friends better understand opinions different from their own, sources close to Sills claim he takes on the dissenting role merely to be an asshole.
"Now, I don't actually believe this or anything but, for the sake of argument, let's say your girlfriend is just dating you for your money," Sills said at a party last Saturday, after asking a group of friends to consider that the telephone may have been a "stupid invention." "Just playing devil's advocate here, guys, but perhaps slavery is the reason African Americans are so successful in sports these days."
According to sources, Sills "crossed the line" when he asked if their friend Jamie's mother might have deserved to die.
And here's a link to another funny one - especially if like me, you were/are a big Led Zeppelin/Jimmy Page fan.
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Velouté met pesto :
-1l kippenbouillon
-400gr knolselder
-200gr witte bonen (blik of tetrapak)
-4 eetlepels groene pesto
Breng de kippenbouillon aan de kook. Doe er de knolselder bij. Laat 10 min koken. Voeg er de uitgelekte bonen aan toe. Laat 4 min koken.
Roer de pesto door de soep.
Doe in kommetjes, strooi er (knoflook-)croutons overheen en werk eventueel af met extra toetsje pesto.
Smakelijk!
Thanks Valerie! So there are beans in there too - who would have known - I guess that gives it the special texture! I will surely make this soup soon. Cheers, Sarah
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