Mail-Art Cafe

Yes Ruud, just the one, it's all related to getting the perfect balance of tastes, of course you could always use more garlic but then the balance would be altered and, as I wrote, this recipe has been developed over a long time. 

PS I love garlic and tend always to use too much in other recipes!~)

Sounds delicious, Rod. I can't eat garlic, though I might add just a pinch of garlic salt instead of a glove of garlic. "vegetarian mince"? Won't a shepherd use minced lamb? ;-) A Greek shepherd would. (Although the Mediterranean diet is basically "vegetarian"). Might try making this on Monday...

Ah, Dear Kate... in your case I would just leave out the garlic altogether... but then I hate garlic salt, it is a poor substitute.  In Iceland at my friends sheep farm  I use minced cooked lamb with some bread run through the mincer but here in the Netherlands lamb is very expensive and not very good (In my opinion as I have eaten splendid Icelandic lamb ¦~)) and so I tried to make an alternative using the processed vegetarian mince we can get from the supermarket, then after several tries I finally arrived at a very tasty meal.  The shepherd's pie I make in Iceland is very different in taste (mmmmmm) and much less fiddly to prepare.  I go up to Iceland for a short visit next month but then I'll be letting my friends cook for me, Helgi, the Viking for whom I write the sagas is a brilliant cook and his brother Darri is also cool in the kitchen.  My friend Ásta cooks Puffin for me but perhaps I had better not mention that :))))))

In August I will go back to Iceland and visit the sheepfarm and will certainly cook shepherd's pie for them and, for sure, the chicken curry that the farmer's children like so much... they all came to visit me here in Maastricht just before Christmas and demanded chicken curry, I was more than happy to make it for them.

looks delecious....!

proyectos para el 2012

Intercambio postal

(Primera fase)

Objetivo:            establecer un contacto con personas de la red postal  (no necesariamente  artista visual, puede ser cualquier persona que guste y disfrute del arte) mediante un intercambio postal ya sea por correo convencional o por electrónico.

Mecánica:           envió una invitación abierta a la red de mail art y quien corresponda o me envié una postal y de acuerdo a como llegue esta ya sea por correo convencional o electrónico YO les reenviare una postal de mi autoría por el mismo medio ya sea por correo convencional o electrónico. Todas las postales que reciba serán expuestas en mi galería virtual GUIJARRO GALERIA

Tema:                   libre

Técnica:               libre

Tamaño:              mínimo tamaño postal 4” x 6” máximo tamaño carta 8.5” x 13.5” para correo convencional y para el electrónico el equivalente a 90 dpi

Fecha limite       febrero del 2013 (primera fase)

Enviar a:              GUIJARRO

Calle 46 # 790-15 x 131-A y 135

Fracc. Villa Magna del Sur

Mérida, Yucatán, México

CP. 97285

e-mail:                 guijarro.galeria@gmail.com

Galería virtual:  guijarrogaleria.blogspot.com  (en construcción)

Para la segunda fase y dependiendo de la respuesta a la convocatoria hay varias opciones: una exposición en un espacio físico, un catalogo de todas las postales recibidas, un evento interactivo virtual.

Arte correo mexicano

(Primera fase)

Objetivo:            crear un directorio de personas que estén dentro de la red de mail art o que estén interesadas en esta que sean mexicanos o residentes en México y también mexicanos viviendo en el extranjero.

Mecánica:           envió una invitación abierta a la red de mail art y en especial a las personas que nacieron o vivan en México y también mexicanos que vivan en el extranjero para que me envíen sus datos para poder armar el directorio este directorio estará disponible en la galería virtual GUIJARRO GALERIA  además les reenviare una postal de mi autoría

Datos para el directorio:              nombre

Nick o seudónimo

Dirección

Correo electrónico

Sitio web o blog

Fecha limite       febrero del 2013 (primera fase)

Enviar a:              GUIJARRO

Calle 46 # 790-15 x 131-A y 135

Frac. Villa Magna del Sur

Mérida, Yucatán, México

CP. 97285

e-mail:                 guijarro.galeria@gmail.com

Galería virtual:  guijarrogaleria.blogspot.com  (en construcción)

Para la segunda fase y dependiendo de la respuesta a la convocatoria hay varias opciones: un directorio de mail artistas mexicanos y o  un evento  interactivo virtual

That shirt is wonderful! :D

Anyone for some Irish coffee today?

Happy St. Pat's Day...the Tall Greek Blue Grass has turned GREEN!

Hello everyone! I'm getting ready for a breakfast out on the streets. The sun shines on this morning. No signs of rain. But I feel like doing mail art all day long. :D

Hello everyone! it seems it passed a long time since I last came here. The Cafe is always inspiring. And even better if it is with mail art. Fancy a tea? 

Because there is no performance group (except Tiziana’s poetry tree) I post this here. Went crazy this morning and did performance on DIVINE INSPIRATION with LAMP-SHADE as funny hat, a light BULB and SPECTACLES, first on my head and then on the floor because my youngest kitten interacted !!!

See photos

http://kiekjesdief.blogspot.be/2012/07/linspiration-divine-performa...

Superb, Gweedio!  Early this morning this was a treat to rise to.  Bravo, 2 hands clapping many times and bouncing Ben Cat in thanks for that!

Zois

THE COFFEE WORLD MANIFESTO

My Mail Art Café Dream...

Greetings HeMi

Thé hier or coffee break, collage from Robert Varlez in collaboration with Gaurko Bihar Atzetik.

For those who do not get the subtle word play in French: Thé hier means tea yesterday but also tea pot

My drink of the moment: Home made Galão. HAHA! :P

Galão - Milk with coffee. Very similar to caffè latte.

This might be the group with the MOST members at IUOMA...

A home made strawberry smoothie and a 6 minute boiled egg for breakfast...now, shall I brew up the second pot of tea of the day... or should I get on with some work? Kate promised me cake...but not for breakfast;~)

choco cake for your birthday, Rod...

(did you already eat a piece???)

...as was to be expected Kate, it was scrumptious... cut me another (small) slice whilst I go and put the kettle on.

Did you have a good cup of tea, Rod?

I was sipping Turkish tea during the storm we had this evening...

Ik zou een electricien willen worden.

"Anybody in this group going to NYC for the September 29th (Sat) Artistamp Flash Party at NY Art Book Fair at P.S. 1 MOMA? All are invited!" Cheers, CrackerJack

Artistamp Flash Party at NY Art Book Fair at P.S. 1 MOMA is at #A  - 5 to 5:15pm

Tell your artistamp making friends - bring cameras

That's a long way to go for a lick of glue... heel ver weg!

Season's Greetings and Blessed Be¡

i'll be in the area next year... enjoy!

hello ...
mt name is Inigyo Montoya...
you Killa my father ..
prepare to die...

sur un mur du café littéraire

Hi Angie, a cold wind blew in from the north yesterday,

so me sitting drinking some hot choco :-)

Have a good day...

bom começo de semana...deixo um café da

frutaria & ARTES

see you there..fatima

Happy Thanksgiving Day to fellow Americans!

(me having no Turkey in Greece...heee hee hee...

Coq au Vin and spring rolls, how's that?) 

I'll celebrate with a mug of tea Boston:~)

Monotipia Café

by fatima varella

estudio macromicro

Winter Solstice, 21 Dec. 2012...and the  world still is intact, yes?

Happy Holidays at the Cafe

Please.... nobody mention turkey and sprouts for a day or two...

Hi Kate!~)

Now you see "IT"

Now you don't :-)

Happy, happy, Rod!

Ummmm, looks a bit like deja vue...except... our wine was different  and we had parsnips too and heaps of sprouts ....but apart from that.... and the sun shining through the window.... it was the same here¦~)

There is a narrow tiled path that cuts through the park that lies between my home and the super market where I do my daily shopping, I walked it four times today.

Yesterday one of the house guests staying over Christmas and New Year requested that we eat cauliflower au gratin for this evening's meal, I agreed immediately, anything to make a change from  the ubiquitous turkey.

Just after midday I marched off to the shop through pouring rain and assembled all the necessities in a blue shopping basket but when I reached the cash desk I realized that I had left my money in my other coat!

I left the basket with Jos the cashier and walked, again through pouring rain, back to my house to get my wallet.  By the time I made it back home my feet and coat were soaked so I changed coats, made sure the wallet was now safely in my pocket and  went  back out into the rain which was by this time coming down in torrents. I sloshed and sploshed into the supermarket and paid for the groceries. Jos asked "How did you come to forget your wallet?" "Ah the affluence of having two coats." I replied.  We talked for a while about the film The Hobbit which I saw yesterday then went back outside for my fourth treading of that sodden park path.

As I walked, head down heading for home, I saw before me two earth worms that had come from opposite sides of the grassy verge that flanks the path and who were heading for each other for what I sensed was a sex tryst.  At that moment a pavement riding punk on a motor scooter raced passed me and ran over one of the worms effectively bisecting it.  I walked on thinking "Not a good day for shopping if you're a man or for a shag if you're a worm."

It has stopped raining now, my house guests have gone shopping for bric-a-brac, I need to par-cook that cauliflower.

Aw, the poor earth worm ( to say nothing about a soaked rod...Rod)

IF however, the motorbike sliced off a lower part of the wormand left its "saddle", and IF that worm takes time and buries its a$$ in the earth...it will survive, perhaps to shag again:

"...There is a common myth that has been around for a long time now that if you cut a worm in half, the two halves will grow into worms - making 2 worms out of 1. This is very untrue. It is true that if a worm loses part of its body it will survive, but if you cut a worm into 2 pieces, one half will surely die. The half with the saddle (the fatter, pink part) will burrow itself into the soil and survive. It is not a good idea to cut worms in half or any other creature for that matter - it is very cruel - so please do not be taken in by this myth and leave the worms whole."

Is there a Be-kind-to-Worms Day?

Hearts to all at the Cafe on Valentine's Day xxx

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