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You will need:

• Roasting potatoes
• Pumpkin
• Broccoli
• Dill, rosemary & salt
• Ginger & garlic
• Salmon cutlets
• Spinach (or alternately lettuce, if perchance the spinach you thought you had looks like this:
  
  … and smells even worse)
• Soy sauce
• Honey
• Parsley
• A lemon

1. Preheat oven to 200C whilst parboiling chopped potatoes for 5 minutes.
   


2. Put the potatoes in a pan with olive oil, dill, rosemary and salt. Roast in oven for 30 minutes.
   


3. Remove pan from oven. Turn the potatoes, and add the pumpkin. Return to the oven for a further 30 minutes. Turn once more, then return to oven again until serving time.
   


4. Commence steaming broccoli.
   


5. Meanwhile, melt butter in a frypan and saute garlic & ginger for 1 minute on medium heat.
   


6. Add salmon cutlets.
   


7. Turn heat to high for one minute and sear both sides. Return flame to medium.
   


8. Add a few of drops of soy sauce, a smidgeon of honey, and a handful of chopped coriander and a little parsley. Cook as one would a steak.
    
   


9. Five minutes before serving, remove salmon from pan (keep warm in oven), add spinach lettuce, and stir through the juices in the pan.
   


10. Serve salmon on bed of spinach lettuce, accompanied by boiled roast potatoes in their jackets and some steamed butternut pumpkin and steamed broccoli.
    


11. Lemon juice to taste.
    

It worked for this fish wuss.

(Thanks, SFHB.)

• Milk – Milk is delicious added to a range of hot beverages, and can also be poured very effectively over almost any breakfast cereal. It is an excellent source of calcium, so essential for building strong healthy bones and teeth with which to crush and dismember your enemies.
• Corn – Corn is not only an entertaining vegetable, it also contains a winning combination of fibre and protein!
• Evil battery-Farm Eggs – God help me, they were cheap.
• Nutritionally Indifferent White Bread – Also cheap. And novel!
• Burger-In-A-Biskits – Again with the novelty value. I’ve had these before but never when my good friend Ganj was in the haus.
• Two Environmentally-Unfriendly Plastic Bags – Which I badly needed to put rubbish in, and stuff.

Contrary to intentions, I got nothing of any real note done today. But I did dispose of quite a lot of trivial domestic and administrative tasks which had been bugging me. And cleared my email (er, more or less), which is always good. So I will be in an excellent position to actually accomplish stuff tomorrow.

My sister and her boi have stocks of strawberry, blueberry, blackberry, apricot, and lingonberry (no, I don’t know either) jams. And herrings. It’s a Scandinavian thing, apparently.

But they had no raspberry jam. So I bought some.

I also got brownie mix. I thought I would make some and send them to Chris Titan. I kind of feel sorry for him.

In other news, the camera seems to be having serious exposure problems.

I am listening to “Blind” by the Sundays, but I think I’m going to have to turn it off, because it is making me very nostalgic and causing me angst. Lovely album, though.

Now I’m gonna go and cook that roast I was talking about yesterday.

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