Sunday, 16 October 2011

Time for a quick soup

This recipe was sent to me by Shapeshifterbelly. It's vegan, so I suppose the non-vegetarians could use real chicken stock...


Veggie Soup in “Chicken” Broth

4 cups of water
4 cups of chopped veggies (cauliflower, carrots, broccoli, mushrooms, etc.)
½ chopped onion
1 clove chopped garlic
1 tsp onion powder
2 heaping tablespoons of Nutritional Yeast
2 tablespoons of Braggs Liquid Aminos (or soy sauce)
1 tsp Italian seasoning
Salt and pepper to taste

Put it all in a kettle and bring to a boil. Reduce heat and simmer for 10 minutes. Makes 6
cups, or thereabouts.

This is LOADED with B-12 from the supplemented nutritional yeast. If you use the
liquid aminos instead of soy sauce, it also has plenty of protein.

Thank you, Shapeshifter. There's nothing like a nice soup now that temperatures are dropping...

Registering with Disqus - UPDATE

UPDATE - I may have confused people with this post. Registered readers should ignore it. This tutorial is to help unregistered people who may have been given the runaround by charming but temperamental Disqus...

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This is a long overdue tutorial about registering with disqus. Only registered users can have avatars and the "edit" button feature. It also means you'll have the same identitity on all sites using Disqus.

Start by clicking on the settings icon (gear symbol), and a drop menu will appear. Click on "Login."


A box will appear. Click on "Need an account?"


Fill in the required fields. Click "Register."


Once you've clicked "Register," an email will be sent to you for confirmation:


Click on the "Verity" button and you'll be taken to a Disqus page to choose a password:


Type your chosen password, then "Let me in!"

On the blog, you will appear next to the comment box, still showing the default clock avatar. Now you can edit your profile. Click on the gear icon again and choose "edit settings" from the drop menu:


You'll be taken to a disqus page, with your account open. Click on "avatar" on the left menu.


Choose how you will upload the picture. It may be from your own files or from the web. If from your files, click on "Browse" and choose the file you want to use. Click on "Upload." Scroll down and click on "Save changes." A new box will allow you to tweak your picture. Play with it until you're happy and click save.


Make sure that the picture has appeared at the top, scroll down and click on "Save changes" again.


Now refresh the blog page and your profile will be updated to show your chosen avatar. That's it. You may repeat the process whenever you wish to change the picture.


If uploading from the web, you'll need to find the picture you want and have it on its own on the webpage. Copy the text on the address bar. Just click on it and it will turn blue. If it doesn't turn blue with one click, left click on your mouse, hold it and run it over the whole address. Once it's all blue, press the control key on your keyboard, followed by the "c" key. Go back to the disqus box and click on the field under the upload from the web, press the control key followed by the "v" key and the text you copied will be pasted there. Scroll, save and the process will be the same as for uploading your own file. Always click save at the bottom of every box in the process.


That's how you can post links in the comments: Copy the address bar (Control + "c") click on the comment box and paste (Control + "v").

When you want copy & paste text, choose that start point in the text you want to copy, left click on your mouse, hold it and run it over the text, up to the point you wish to copy. It will turn blue. Do the control + "c" as explained above, go to where you want to paste, click on the field, then do control + "v." I copied this from Palingates last open thread:


Then I pasted it in the comments:


You may also set your "Notifications" to anything you wish. Click on it on the menu and check the things you want, then save.

Welcome to Disqus. It's guaranteed to give you hours of exciting fun and drive you up the wall!


Saturday, 15 October 2011

What time is o'clock?


Welcome!

The name of this blog comes from an amusing episode involving my sister back in Brazil. Angela doesn't speak any English, but hit it off with my husband Peter, despite the language barrier. One day, trying to make conversation, she concentrated very hard and came up with "What time is o'clock?"

We have been using it ever since when we want to know the time...

It reminds me of this scene from Casablanca:



I hope old friends and newcomers will feel at home here. All posts are open threads and any topic may be freely discussed.

Please send any contributions (jokes, recipes, photos... anything) to the email address on the sidebar on the right.

Here's to the future!