Ashy Macbean's Vegetarian Ramblings
..a veggie traveller wanders and wonders

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Hey, Bo Diddley...

Tuesday, 3 June 2008 7:10 P GMT+05:30
The great man died yesterday, aged 79. All over the world people are digging out their old Bo Diddley records, downloading his songs and searching him out on YouTube at this very moment. The planet moves to the Diddley beat. Rock on, Bo Diddley....

Cooking fresh field mushrooms again

Saturday, 24 May 2008 11:51 P GMT+05:30
We just spent a fantastic few days in the south of Armenia, exploring old churches and ancient stone circles. On the way back we bought a bucket of field blewits from mushroom and herb gatherers on a grassy alpine plateau....

Sample code for creating redirect pages

Saturday, 24 May 2008 12:09 A GMT+05:30
Here's the html code for my home page. The URL has to be substituted for that of each page to be redirected. It took me a long time, but it worked.

Meta refresh redirects to a new home for the old dog...

Thursday, 22 May 2008 6:45 P GMT+05:30
That's it. I now have my very own kennel after a week of writing HTML script with redirect tags for each page of my site. Which means the tom yam tofu recipe still isny up...but the move to a new domain was more important...I had to get it right.

Tom Yam beansprout

Tuesday, 13 May 2008 2:29 P GMT+05:30
Or Tom Tom Mushroom....Yum Yum baby corn - whatever. Yesterday I made Vegetarian Tom Yam soup based on a quick 'cafe' recipe I got from a guy in Thailand and you know what It was really good - tasted just like his! Yum Yum fast food...

Just downloaded Nine-inch Nails Slip for free

Friday, 9 May 2008 2:16 P GMT+05:30
And I think it's the biz, so here's a link. Reminds me I also wanted to mention Audacity multi-track recorder at some point, so I'll do that today as well. And the vegetarian connection? Well, here's one veggie that listens to NIN and uses Audacity..

Lean, green Macbean

Wednesday, 7 May 2008 1:54 P GMT+05:30
Spring has sprung and everything is green...including the Macbeanoblog. And on that theme, here's a link to recipe for a fat-free, low-calorie spring green chilled soup - go green and get lean with Ashy Macbean...

Week six of the Macbean low-calorie diet..

Tuesday, 6 May 2008 4:31 P GMT+05:30
Sveta has lost 5 kilos and I've lost.....none....

You know you're back in Armenia when....

Saturday, 26 April 2008 10:03 P GMT+05:30
...some arsehole reverses into you while you're trying to cross the road on a green light.

Fancy a Chinese cake?

Thursday, 24 April 2008 11:53 P GMT+05:30
Check out what's on offer in Hong Kong supermarkets....

Goji berries

Wednesday, 23 April 2008 1:44 P GMT+05:30
I impulse-bought a sack of these small, pink berries in a health-food shop in Exeter. They're meant to be full of good things and that's just what I need at the moment. I'm back on a health-kick-detox-getfit trip, after a month of doing the opposite.

The story of Popeye the tree-frog

Saturday, 12 April 2008 2:32 P GMT+05:30
I'm going to be checking my spinach leaves carefully before stabbing a fork into them...

FastStone free image editing software deserves a plug...

Thursday, 3 April 2008 1:15 P GMT+05:30
So far this is the best free image editing software I've found on the web. It's the reason why I've been uploading so many new photogalleries lately. I found the site a few weeks ago and after testing out the software I want to share my discovery....

Chocolate, falafel and beer - a recipe for good cheer!

Wednesday, 2 April 2008 5:06 P GMT+05:30
If Fassbender and Rausch had another partner, they would be 'the three chocolatiers'. But they don't..and that's probably not how the word is pronounced anyway. All the same...their chocolate is magic!

Vegetarian Sushi in Berlin

Monday, 31 March 2008 3:05 A GMT+05:30
We've had Thai, Vietnamese, Indian, Italian and Lebanese veggie food...but the best so far has been Vegetarian sushi and pad thai in Papa No's restaurant...