Thursday, 23rd July 2009

Spending the beautiful warm summer evenings together with my computer

There are days where you do not check what is going on. Last week I had even more of these days. Of course there are times where nothing happens and everything runs smoothly. But frankly speaking, I do not remember having such a day for the last weeks. In my vocabulary the word "quietness" does not exist at all and particularly the word “boredom” is more than a strange word for me. So I can and will not understand if the youngest members of my family just sprawl around  and  declaiming and complaining how boring the life is today. I started to explain how many toys and books they have in their rooms, marking all the toys and items for playing  waiting for them in the garden, and emphasizing last but not least that their best friends are living just in the house next to us. And at the end I hit their nerves and they vanished direction neighbours. But the  quietness lasted  only for some moments and they returned again, but now four of them, declaiming that they bored to death.
I wish I could have the opportunity to feel similar but as I told you, there is no chance at all.
I am aware that the time between the Whitsun- and summer holidays a lot of work is coming up but additional to all that I got a call from a journalist of the “Starnberger Merkur” telling me that the paper intends to issue a report about “Table Talks” and if I agree. Of course, I did, but at the day of issue I found out that all of the comments on my homepage, given by the reader of “Table Talks”, just disappeared. There was not a single one left. I was more than frustrated. I get quasi a „free of charge“ advertising in the newspaper and people have no chance to place their comments. I tried to find out what can be the reason, checked everything and talked to the people of the concerned company, but without any success.
I decided even to build up a new homepage with an own commend-script and bought a very expensive web design program. The most of the evenings I spent together with the computer of mine,  trying to solve the problem.
Today I received a new code from my provider and I could not trust my eyes, suddenly all the missing comments appeared - just so. And belief it or not, everything works smoothly again so as nothing has happened before.
Forgotten were all the lost evenings which I spent  with my pc instead of sitting comfortably on the veranda sipping a glass of wine and reading a good book. But it was worth it!

Now I am presenting a wonderful recipe which does not need much time to prepare and matches well with the beautiful summer days, a tomato-chutney which can be added to the grill-food or served even as a light dinner snack.

Ingredients:

Directions:

1. Wash, quarter and seed tomatoes. Then dice them.
2. Clean shallots or spring onions.
3. Mince garlic and mix it together with tomatoes and onions/shallots.
4. Wash the lime and grate zest of lime. Then squeeze 2 or 3 tbsps. Mix grated zest of lime together with honey and olive oil.
5. Mix dressing together with tomatois and onions. Then add salt and pepper.
6. Chop coriander leaves and add to the chutney.