Prasanth in work has described to me how to make paneer. And recommended paneer masala as a nice dish to try. Fionn bought some paneer cheese, sooo....
Looking up recipes some look fierce complicated with alot of ingredients. Hummm. We have leeks, onions, carrots, beetroot, . . .
This worked:
Paneer masala and rice
Method:
Chop paneer in rough chunks. Liberally add garam masala. Roughly chop garlic. Grate ginger. Add some sweet chilli sauce and oil(rape seed). Add mixed herbs. Leave to marinade.
Put on rice cooker. Rice. Turmeric. Chopped onion. Water.
Coriander seeds into pot with oil. Turn on low heat.
Clean and chop leeks. Add to pot green parts first. Add more garam masala with the leek. Chop carrots small round slices. Add to pot. Add herbs and pepper and some salt or a bit of stock or bouillon. Add 500ml of tomato, passata or tinned tomato or chopped real tomato. Stir. Rinse out tomato containers with water and add to pot. You want it liquid enough so it will simmer happily and not stick to bottom of pot too much and reduce to nice sauce. Leave to simmer stirring occasionally.
After a good simmer taste. Adjust seasoning. Add paneer. Leave to simmer for another short while.
Serve rice in bowl, paneer masala on top.
Ingredients:
500g paneer cheese
Marinade:
garam masala
5/8 cloves garlic
ginger root(or I guess powder)
sweet chilli sauce
oil(rape seed/olive/vegetable).
mixed herbs
Rice.
Turmeric.
1 onion
Water.
1 or 2 table spoons Coriander seeds
More oil
Vegetables e.g. 3 leeks, 2 carrots
more garam masala
more mixed herbs
Black pepper
salt or a bit of stock or bouillon
500ml of tomato, passata or tinned tomato or chopped real tomato
You can get a cheap and simple trickle charger. This thing is a simple 12V DC transformer that plugs in with crocodile clips for attaching onto car battery. It takes a good few hours to charge but plug it in and leave overnight and battery will be fully charged without the need for bringing the car on a big drive. I had one originally for a motorbike which is long gone but it has rescued us in the car a few times over the years.
A few weeks ago before covid-19 we got all ready for hike, hike clothes on, boots, some food for picnic . . .
We all piled out to the car . . .
Which refused to open! Not a geek out of it!
We used the key to unlock the driver door.
Key into ignition and turned . . completely dead .. no lights .. nothing!
Got a friendly neighbour to help jump start it . . .
With their car running and attached with jump leads to ours the ignition lights went on ... but our car still han not enough oomph to start.
We postponed hike until next day.
Attached trickle charger.
In a few hours it started a bit reluctantly.
Left it attached overnight.
Next day it started grand.
We drove nervously around for the next week or so.
Battery is absolutely fine still (even though our car has been sitting doing nothing all week except for a shopping trip close to home).
HIKE
We did manage to go hiking . . . the next . . WEEKEND!
Over to the loop around Kilbride army camp - Seefingan tomb Seehaun hills,
Confirmed using viewranger, google photos, google maps location timeline . . . yes, the car battery fafooo was Sat March 14, I went for a local MTB three rock on March 15 and the NEXT weekend we went around Kilbride.
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Fionn and I cycled to Knocksink and back and did a run.
I was interested in discovering ramsons(wild garlic) and lords and ladies growing close together.
Learning some new plants. A little wood anemony starting to appear In Knocksink woods near Ennniskerry. Pretty. Feb 29, wild garlic(edible) and lords and ladies(poison!) leaves emerging from the ground beside each other in places. Wood anemony related to buttercups, poisonous also. Mostly the wild garlic not in same place as the lords and ladies but in a few places they are and when very young can see how bits of the lords n ladies leaves might have been gathered by mistake. Be careful! Not sure what vthe big spear shaped leaves beside the ferns on wet banks are. Our scout Survivor we cancelled due to Storm Jorge orange wind warning for a time Sat afternoon weather was very windy and wet. We met 2 people with rucksacks who were beading to bivvy. Knocksink was very sheltered from the W/SW winds but it might have been an interesting afternoon/evening!!
More Hart's tongue fern. A hart being a male red deer. Ferns with simple, undivided fronds. As Gaeilge(Irish name): Creamh na muice fia. Creamh = Ramsoms = wild garlic. Muice fia = pig-deer, huh?. So, the ramsoms of the pig-deer. http://www.wildflowersofireland.net/plant_detail.php?id_flower=341&Wildflower=Hart%27s-tongue Latin Asplenium scolopendrium, scolopendrius=centipede, The sori pattern is reminiscent of a centipede's legs. A sorus (pl. sori) is a cluster of sporangia (structures producing and containing spores) in ferns and fungi.
Some of the old laptops getting a bit of attention now whole family is Work/School from home.
Fionn has a good work laptop and setup recently new monitor with good resolution on table in Mezzanine. Daire has own laptop and table in his room. Maeve started using phone, Fionn got old but not too old windows laptop and set it up for her. Kate using older Dell laptop in "library". James using old Dell linux laptop in sitting room, now moved to standy up station in kitchen thanks to Fionn. And monitor Fionn also.
James old laptop was 2G now 4G memory taken from not working other laptop.
Kate's laptop windows 7 Dell Latitude, 8G RAM. Disk 300G but 270G used. yeow.
Defrag stuck 5% says it last ran July 2017.
This laptop fondly remembered as the one where(long long ago) the login for the main user account and the Administrator account were corrupted somehow so a system rescue CD and ntfs account password editing tool was used to recover Administrator access.
Running ok but maybe some things a bit slow . . .
C:\Users\Administrator>sfc /scannow Beginning system scan. This process will take some time. Beginning verification phase of system scan.Verification 100% complete. Windows Resource Protection found corrupt files and successfully repairedthem. Details are included in the CBS.Log windir\Logs\CBS\CBS.log. Forexample C:\Windows\Logs\CBS\CBS.log C:\Users\Administrator>chkntfsYou must specify at least one drive name. C:\Users\Administrator>chkntfs c:The type of the file system is NTFS.C: is not dirty.
After this disk defrag still seemed to get stuck at 5% . . stop operation . .
So . . Disk Cleanup running . . taking a while . . . system error reports, . .
After a while it reports it can clean . . . among other smaller items:
We did some Corona Virus information and Kim's game First Aid items in Scouts yesterday.
And County Cup prep.
And scotch game for starters.
And corona virus/first aid quiz.
What should we do: wash hands, isolate, protect yourself and others: https://www2.hse.ie/conditions/coronavirus/protect-yourself.html
1. WHY are we doing this? https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/coronavirus-symptoms/
80% of cases are mild at risk: people over 60 and people with pre-existing conditions. That is why we must try and slow down the spread, to look after vulnerable people.
2. Again, WHY are we doing this?
From the New York Times article below . . one chart(credit NYT/CDC/Economist) explains why slowing the spread of the infection is nearly as important as stopping it.
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"Mitigation
efforts like social distancing help reduce the disease caseload on any
given date, and can keep the healthcare system from becoming overwhelmed"
3. Again, WHY are we doing this?
Plea from doctors in the overwhelmed Italian hospitals to take this seriously.
From a well respected friend and intensivist/A&E consultant who is currently in northern Italy: 1/ ‘I feel the pressure to give you a
quick personal update about what is happening in Italy, and also give
some quick direct advice about what you should do.
2/ First, Lumbardy is the most
developed region in Italy and it has a extraordinary good healthcare, I
have worked in Italy, UK and Aus and don’t make the mistake to think
that what is happening is happening in a 3rd world country.
3/ The current situation is
difficult to imagine and numbers do not explain things at all. Our
hospitals are overwhelmed by Covid-19, they are running 200% capacity
4/ We’ve stopped all routine, all
ORs have been converted to ITUs and they are now diverting or not
treating all other emergencies like trauma or strokes. There are
hundreds of pts with severe resp failure and many of them do not have
access to anything above a reservoir mask.
5/ Patients above 65 or younger with
comorbidities are not even assessed by ITU, I am not saying not tubed,
I’m saying not assessed and no ITU staff attends when they arrest. Staff
are working as much as they can but they are starting to get sick and
are emotionally overwhelmed.
6/ My friends call me in tears
because they see people dying in front of them and they con only offer
some oxygen. Ortho and pathologists are being given a leaflet and sent
to see patients on NIV. PLEASE STOP, READ THIS AGAIN AND THINK.
7/ We have seen the same pattern in
different areas a week apart, and there is no reason that in a few weeks
it won’t be the same everywhere, this is the pattern:
8/ 1)A few positive cases, first
mild measures, people are told to avoid ED but still hang out in groups,
everyone says not to panick
2)Some moderate resp failures and a few severe ones that need tube, but
regular access to ED is significantly reduced so everything looks great
9/ 3)Tons of patients with moderate
resp failure, that overtime deteriorate to saturate ICUs first, then
NIVs, then CPAP hoods, then even O2.
4)Staff gets sick so it gets difficult to cover for shifts, mortality
spikes also from all other causes that can’t be treated properly.
10/ Everything about how to treat
them is online but the only things that will make a difference are: do
not be afraid of massively strict measures to keep people safe,
11/ if governments won’t do this at
least keep your family safe, your loved ones with history of cancer or
diabetes or any transplant will not be tubed if they need it even if
they are young. By safe I mean YOU do not attend them and YOU decide who
does and YOU teach them how to.
12/ Another typical attitude is read
and listen to people saying things like this and think “that’s bad
dude” and then go out for dinner because you think you’ll be safe.
13/ We have seen it, you won’t be if you don’t take it seriously. I really hope it won’t be as bad as here but prepare.
"While new cases in China have slowed, the rate of
known and reported cases is increasing rapidly in many countries as the
virus continues to spread globally."
Global Cases Added Per Day
New cases: 4,620
Jan 21
Mar 11
Mainland China
New cases: 24
Jan 21
Mar 11
Italy
977
Iran
881
South Korea
242
France
373
Spain
615
Note: On February 14, Hubei officials changed their diagnostic criteria, resulting in a spike in reported cases.
"While the virus is deadly for some, many who have
it experience mild symptoms or no symptoms at all, making it much harder
to detect and contain."
Testing google classroom app . . . .
class name: Balally 137th Scouts
section: Scouts
subject: first test class: FIRE, backwoods
room: Balally 137th virtual scout den
Balally 137th Scouts
Scouts
Class code
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assignments:
Backwoods Stage 6: I know what Team and personal equipment is necessary for a successful backwoods activity.
Backwoods Stage 6: I know all of the elements of the “Leave no Trace” programme.
Backwoods Stage 6: I can identify edible fruits and berries that are found in nature.
Backwoods Stage 6: I can prepare the foods I find in nature for cooking.
Backwoods Stage 6: I can find my way using natural direction indicators.
Backwoods Stage 6: I can catch and prepare a fish for cooking.
Backwoods Stage 6: I have led at least one backwoods activity.
Not sure what vthe big spear shaped leaves beside the ferns on wet banks are. Our scout Survivor we cancelled 
due to Storm Jorge orange wind warning for a time Sat afternoon weather was very windy and wet. We met 2 people with rucksacks who were beading to bivvy. Knocksink was very sheltered from the W/SW winds but it might have been an interesting afternoon/evening!!
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