The solar panels excess hot water cooling device is up and running again. Andrea came yesterday, stripped off the cover, cleaned it all out thoroughly, topped up the levels, emptied the traps of unspeakable contents, set the pumps running, dumped in the chemicals, and said:
"Giovedi. With a bit of sun, 27 degrees."
Then he directed all the hot water being generated from the panels through the body of coolant and wished us a lovely summer. Tomorrow I shall be washing down the loungers and the umbrellas, looking out the bath sheets in bright colours, and trying on my cozzie.
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la dolce vita- I shall pass on the good news to the next lot of free loaders- happy days-oz anon
It's as if the ecohouse has opened its eyes for the summer. The kitchen garden's in full cry as well. Courgettes faster than we can eat them, I'm out day after day hunting down recipients of lettuce prestations, the onions are going for it this year anyone who eats a salad onion can burn a hole through the table cloth with one breath.
Lots of deer and the men have laid a creosote barrier outside the house garden to stop the boar eating my flowers. I didn't know that if you dig a narrow, narrow trench and pour creosote in the smell keeps them away. Kinder than an electric fence and much cheaper. I quite like the smell of creosote. Not that there's enough to scent the air for us.
I'm hoping the ploughing will have disrupted the life cycle of the horse flies which hang about in gangs waiting beyond the pool for someone to get out then chase them up to the house. Hundreds of lengths have been swum because there's no getting out while they are waiting for lunch. The men don't believe the ploughing does anything. For horseflies, they say, it depends. Depends on what? Ah.
wasn't creosote banned by Brussels a decade or more since ?
Inspired by Elizabeth David-
Onion and Cream Tart
Sour Cream pastry (double amount)
125gm plain flour
100gm unsalted & chilled butter
60ml sour cream.
Filling
100g butter
750g brown onion
2 tbls chopped lemon thyme
4 eggs
2 egg yolks
250ml cream
250ml creme fraiche
1/4 cup chopped flat leaf parsley
1 teaspoon ground nutmeg
12 slices smoked streaky bacon
Line 24cm spring-form pan with sour cream pastry and line with baking paper.
Blind bake for 10-15min remove weights and paper, bake further 5 mins to brown base.
Caramelised onion until soft add lemon thyme and parsley let cool
beat eggs and egg yolks and beat in creme fraiche, cream & nutmeg.
Add onions to bottom of the pastry case and pour egg mixture over the top.
bake 25mins 190c. Cool for 2 hours Crisp. bacon and place on top of finished tart. Enjoy!
Good luck with the tart - oz anon
It might need more than luck, Oz. Getting that much flour to absorb that much fat might be trikki.
French short pastry has 5 to 4 but sour cream is runny as well. Nothing ventured though. Unfortunately Italians will turn all perfectly decent bacon cuts into prosciutto, so it will have to be just onions and cream.
They do pick'n'mix with Brussels here, ND. Yes to the agricultural subsidies, no to the banning of substances. Even the sheets are made of hemp and flax (or used to be). Nothing like sleeping under one of those heavy canapa sheets that have been laundered and laundered and go silky.
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