Some actually worthwhile-seeming Netmums recipes/gift ideas

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I'm only on their list b/c I've used them to advertise myself as a nanny (what a terrible idea that turned out to me).

Christmas baking and gifts: http://www.netmums.com/family-food/seasonal/christmas-dinner-recipes/christmas-making-baking

Hampers, gift sets: http://www.netmums.com/family-food/seasonal/christmas-dinner-recipes/christmas-hampers-edible-gifts

Preparation Time Line: http://www.netmums.com/family-food/seasonal/christmas-dinner-recipes/christmas-planner-late-november-early-december

Stuff I discovered while bringing my gmail drafts folder down to 0

* a recipe for Tortilla Soup:

: 2 cups water
: 2 cans cut-up or diced tomatoes, mexican-flavor or plain
: 2 cans black beans
: 1 can kidney beans
: 1 can some other kind of bean, like red beans
: and a bunch of cumin and chili powder and salsa and tabasco (to taste)
: pour the tomatoes, broth and all, into the water
: strain-and-rinse all the other beans because otherwise you'll get gas
: Lady says: And they're all in oil or something, and it's gross anyway. Draining is rad.
: You can substitute the cups of water for cans of chicken broth
: or just use water plus bullion
: strain the beans, and throw everything in a pot together, and simmer for about half an hour
: and then you eat it with tortilla chips and grated cheese. : Haha, I like that you added my commentary again.
: Classy.
: yeah that bean juice shit is gross
: And there you go, you're caught up
: OH, and you have to cut the onion into bits.
: Unless you buy it pre-bitsed.
: oh, there was onion?
: Haha. Can you imagine just throwing the whole bulb in?
: okay, cool, dice and brown
: Hm, I forgot to mention the onion?
: There doesn't have to be onion. We don't even do anything with it. We just throw it in.
: Well, there WAS an onion. You can skip the onion if you want
: I mean, we cut it, but that's it.
: I throw onions in everything I can.
: no no: an onion. This shit is happening!
: Oh, and you can also stick in baby carrots!
: Onions are a tool of EVIL
: But you have to boil 'em for like ten or twenty minutes before you even get the rest of the soup going
: they slow things down.
: Onions are glorious. They are among my favorite things.
: yeah, fucking carrots
: Onions are proof that Satan loves us
: all the other veg has gone and standardized its boiling time
: and wants us to be happy.
: Aww
: ... Six is horrified by the thought of carrots fucking
: it's all ABOUT the same
: Eurgh, so am I.
: parsnips, potatoes, whatever
: though the juice had to come from som--*SHOT*
: but carrots, oh noooo
: I think you can use like, peas, and celery chunks? And corn?

* An incomplete list of my 10 all-time fav television shows:

1. Doctor Who
2. Star Trek
3. Buffy
4. The Muppet Show
5. All Creatures Great and Small
6. Blake's 7
7. Avatar?
8.

* A lot of REALLY RANDOM links (wacky/inexplicable spacing preserved):

http://www.rice-boy.com/see/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akhenaten
http://0-www.jstor.org.catalogue.ulrls.lon.ac.uk/stable/40000483?&Search=yes&term=akhenaten&list=hide&searchUri=%2Faction%2FdoBasicSearch%3FQuery%3Dakhenaten%26gw%3Djtx%26acc%3Don%26prq%3Dakhenatten%26hp%3D25%26wc%3Don&item=15&ttl=1487&returnArticleService=showFullText
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hh_SjJFDtJo&feature=related
http://www.scribd.com/doc/4612523/Mythologies-by-Roland-Barthes-as-selected-and-translated-by-Annette-Lavers
http://snowcherriesfromfrance.tumblr.com/

http://www.ehow.com/how_2118888_monte-cristo-sandwich.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saudade


http://www.sendspace.com/file/243vav
http://www.sfx.co.uk/page/sfx?entry=from_the_archive_jon_pertwee
http://ombredelarue.livejournal.com/2831.html?mode=reply
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Hilbert