BBQ (28 August 2021)

BBQ (28-26°)

Aperitif and salad (chickpea, cucumber, tomato, etc)

Thing

Chicken lime salt

Chorizo

Escalivada (Janneke Vreugdenhil)

Pff

 

Spark plugs (25 August 2021, March 2022)

Unhappy: the motor of the car ran a bit irregular at low speed. Jittering a bit when starting to drive. Not normal. Looked at the bill of the last workshop visit, no spark plugs were changed, and no valves were adjusted, a thing they did about every year, or two, in NL.  

Suspected a spark plug before valves, but asked them to take care of both, as it is 5-6 years ago since spark plugs and valves were looked at, still in NL. The valves did not need any adjustment. But, one of the spark plugs indeed was off. 5 spark plugs showed a white end bit, but nr 6 was dark. 

It now runs again as it should. (44 years!)

Happy again. Another triumph for engineer Jansen! 

Update March 2022: again trouble.  The garage determined the spark plug cables were bad, resulting in insufficient ignition. Well, new spark plug cables for this 40+ year old car are not so easy to find. Apparently my engine is very long, which it is, and needs a longer version of the cables than normal. That took almost two weeks! But now the motor runs smoother than ever. Happy again again.

Watermelon pickle (18 August 2021)

Making watermelon pickle, using the leftovers of Monday's salad.

A brilliant pickle, actually.

From: https://www.theguardian.com/food/2018/sep/08/watermelon-rind-skin-pickle-recipe-waste-not-tom-hunt

Pickled watermelon rind

Take 400g watermelon rind with a little flesh still attached, peel off the hard skin and cut into 3cm pieces. Put 275ml water, 100ml vinegar, a teaspoon of red pepper flakes, four teaspoons of salt and 100g sugar in a saucepan, bring to a boil, add the rind, return to a boil and turn off the heat. Fill a clean jam jar with the pickled watermelon and juice, top with a few slices of green chilli and screw on the lid. They’re ready to eat once cooled, and will keep in the fridge for a month or longer.