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May I just tell you – this ship is cold. I mean, you know something's wrong when you walk outside and it's warmer than inside. And it's almost empty, no such urge for AC! We need to do something about it.
Meanwhile, Lisbon is gorgeous.
Day 1
Started the day before yesterday in a Museum of Fado. We walked around and then just sat there listening to their fado collection for about an hour.
"The melodies of fado resonate with the beating of your heart. They make your body vanish, leaving only the soft, touching melancholy that gets straight into your chest, making it hard to breathe. There's a machine in the fado museum, one artist – one song. They are so sad, these songs, and so out-of-this-worldly beautiful. They won't let you go.
This sadness is your sadness; this pain is your pain. It shouldn't be; it shouldn't be you, it shouldn't be in you. Yet it is. I just wish I knew the language and could sing along.
This music, it makes you dream. Crave for the beautiful visions of never-to-be, dangerous, tempting visions. I can't leave my seat, I keep going from one song to another, and then to another. Silence almost hurts. I wonder how it must feel after a live fado concert, when the fairytale is over, and Neverland suddenly slips away.
I have to know now." – from the diary
We didn't make it to any of the fado places (and there were many) that day, unfortunately. We walked around Alfama, the old part of the city; me, Kathy and Stephanie. Getting into this church on the top of the hill with a wheelchair, and then going down the hill… Old city of Lisbon is definitely not meant for wheelchairs, or anything on the wheels, or anyone who finds it difficult to climb. It was quite a challenge, but we made it. On our way to the church we had an amazing lunch with melons and ham and paella, and mango shakes followed by delicious ice-cream from a nearby cafe. It was a good lunch. Little pleasures in life. If you don't treat yourself every once in a while, it's so easy to get sad in this world.
In the evening we rode a bus to that other district that was supposed to have lights and pastries – we did find the yummy local pastries, followed by some porto, but alas, there were no lights. Now the way back to the ship was much trickier: we got on the wrong bus, had to go back, the driver told us to get off at the wrong stop, we had to catch a tram (and get a wheelchair onto this narrow yellow Lisbon tram), and then walk and walk and walk. So in the end everyone was too exhausted to look for the fado places, and ended up at a snack bar at the ship's piano lounge. But – at least home.
Day 2, the yesterday, I went off on my own. Started with the Saturday flea market, which was big and messy and boring, just like that one in Vienna last year. Yeah yeah, nothing like Portobello! Or that awesome vintage store in Dublin. I like vintage markets, for no reason at all. These little items that have history. Clothes that no one makes anymore, of fabrics and styles and patterns long-forgotten. Dusty books smelling of wet paper and time. Tarnished pieces of jewelry with stones lost and chains torn. I walk among them, touch them, breathe them in. I belong somewhere among them, in the cabinet of curiosities.
The market spread behind an old monastery, so in I went, discovering the dungeon where the monks used to stock rainwater, and the well into the dungeon, and beautifully painted blue-on-white tile ornaments, and a bunch of observation decks. The highest was by the bell-tower, and I could see the coast, and the Golden Gate bridge's sister, and that brother statue of Christ from Rio. And our MV Explorer in the middle of the sparkling waters. It's a very graceful ship, white top, blue bottom, just like Portuguese tiles, and moderately sized, unlike these huge ugly cruise liners.
The view on the old city was breathtaking, but it was also clear that the monastery wasn't the highest viewpoint. There was a castle on the top of the hill seen in the distance, and I decided to go there. My footsteps echoed in the monastery's corridors, and I tried to sing a simple tune to see how it works. Turned out that no matter what you sing, the acoustics would make it sound deep, spiritual, and generally awesome.
Finding the castle that seemed so close turned out to be a challenge. The streets of this city followed no logic. There would be dead ends and ups and downs and rough slippery cobblestone, and crazy trams rushing along the narrow streets. At last I got to the bottom of the hill, but the passage was blocked. The guard was explaining some guy how to get to the entrance, and when he finished, he told me to join the guy.
The guy turned out to be from Moscow, in Lisbon for an IT event. We ended up exploring the castle and going down to a fair at one of the squares for lunch. Met Kathy on our way, got a bunch of meat plates and some white wine, and then the rain started. I mean, it'a been pouring both days – five minutes of rain, an hour of sun – but that one was no rain, 'twas a freaking waterfall. We sneaky Russians arranged the sun umbrellas in the way that they shielded us from the rain (as the only seats available were open-air ones), but then the rain got an angle. The moisture filled the air; we had our hair covered in tiny drops, like spider webs; we could see the rain surrounding us, it was physical, we were breathing it in. The owners of the food stands kept pulling their roofs with sticks and brooms, sending the streams of water down to the ground. We were laughing at being soaked and sitting there in the middle of the rain, and eating ham and cheese and drinking wine. At last, when there wasn't a dry spot on any of us, the rain stopped.
We said goodbye to Kathy who was heading back to the ship and made our way to this Gubenkian museum to see the impressionists. There turned out to be very few, but an awesome exhibition of Rene Lalique's art nouveau jewelry made up for it all.
We returned to the historic center and kept walking. Saw a ridiculous tram line of 300-400 meters down the hill, 3.60 euros per ride. And there was a line to get on! Well.
Lisbon was interesting, very interesting, and much bigger than it seemed at first glance. And the humidity was just divine (I know, crazy me). I missed that kind of Europe, Spain and Mallorca, where I've been what – 10 and 5 years ago? I missed the palm trees and the cobblestone, and these Catholic churches of the south. And the food for sure!
Okay. Time for bed. Arriving to Cadiz tomorrow morning. I ended up staying on the ship because I felt exhausted – and slept till 12 today. The ship is relaxed and quiet, most of the people are overlanding, and it's good to have some quiet time.
The skies are starry again this night.


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Hong Kong authorities said police allegedly involved in the beating of a pro-democracy protester would be removed from their positions after footage of the overnight incident went viral, sparking outrage from some lawmakers and the public.
Police said they arrested 45 protesters in the early hours of Wednesday, using pepper spray on those who resisted, as they cleared a major road in the Chinese-controlled city that had been barricaded by pro-democracy demonstrators with concrete slabs.
Several officers appeared to beat and kick one protester for several minutes after dragging him to a dark corner next to the protest site in footage aired by television broadcaster TVB.
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Hong Kong Secretary for Security Lai Tung-kwok told a news conference that police would investigate the suspected use of excessive force. The officers shown in the video would be removed from their positions, Lai added.
The incident threatens to inflame tension in Hong Kong, where more than two weeks of protests over Chinese restrictions on how Hong Kong will choose its next leader in 2017 had been losing steam.
Alan Leong, leader of Hong Kong's pro-democracy Civic Party, identified the person in the video as Ken Tsang Kin-chiu and said he was a member of his party.

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We recently came across a very interesting article while scrounging the internet for advertising awesomeness, and found this on The Ad Woman. Here's what she has to say.
"Advertising has its phases just like a human. It's had its jingle phase, its objectification of women phase, it's mindlessly ridiculous yet unforgettable ads phase, it's let's all copy each other phase and more recently, the story telling phase. But the current trend in the industry is one that's drawing every brand into it's clutches – The Breaking Stereotypes and Taboos phase.
We've seen endless adverts, poster series and conversations around various thriving stereotypes and taboos that have been a part of our society. Be it related to women empowerment, gender equality, racial discrimination, caste discrimination or cultural conventions, we've seen brands attempt to break them all while trying to win hearts across the world by being seemingly progressive.
Except, there lies beauty in the way this particular ad is written. It's the words this girl recites that grip you right till the very end."
Couldn't agree more!


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Junior Legion falls to Armstrong, playoff run ends
Monday, July 13, 2015
The Junior Legion team from Punxsy hosted Armstrong on Monday, and in a back-and-forth contest, Punxsy fell 5-3, eliminating them from the tournament.
Senior Legion's game that was scheduled for Monday was not played, as the other team couldn't make the trip.
For more from the Junior Legion game, see Tuesday's print edition of The Spirit.


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Cowed by the recent success and outpouring of affection for the Canadian rock trio Rush, music critics have largely refrained from laying a glove on the band, which first hit the music scene in 1974 and today is enjoying something of a renaissance as it basks in the success of its most recent album Clockwork Angels.
But several music critics, including most prominently Adam Carter of Rolling Stone, are bucking the trend and slamming the band for its pretentious lyrics, over-wrought drumming, and, most of all, the screeching vocals of bass player and lead singer Geddy Lee.
"I know it's fashionable for one to pay one's respects to 'legendary' progressive rockers Rush, but I just can't hop onto this bandwagon," Carter says in his blog, Rock in/Site. "No one can tell me Geddy Lee has somehow learned how to sing. In fact, I would venture to say his singing has gone from sounding like the dead howling in Hades to inmates in a pentacostal prison for the deaf talking in tongues. Did I mention that it's bad?"
Carter, who has been one of Rolling Stone's most popular critics in the last few years, says Rush's Clockwork Angels album, which many rock critics have hailed as a masterpiece, is a clownish work of unrelenting tedium. "A concept album about a comic book character who joins the circus, meets a girl, is accused of being an anarchist, runs away and has some adventures, then ends up in a garden all weepy-eyed with happiness. Okay, it's an adolescent fantasy, but it's three 60-year-old men singing about this."
Nigel Porter of the U.K. rock publication New Music Express (NME) says he feels comfortable carrying on his publication's tradition of hating Rush. "I'm proud to say NME has never wavered in its hatred of Rush and you will certainly never hear an admiring word from me about these so-called fathers of progressive metal," Porter says in a rock documentary released earlier this year by Bong Video called "Metal Through the Mania."
Porter says he tried to have a fresh, unbiased take on Rush's last two albums, Clockwork Angels, released in 2012, and Snakes and Arrows, released in 2007, but everything critics hated about the band in the 1970s and 1980s, when Rush was churning out familiar pieces like "Closer to the Heart," "Tom Sawyer," and "Limelight," still seem on target today. "Are the concepts ridiculous? Check. Is the drumming as innovative as paint cans being dumped in a recycling vat? Check. Does the singing make you want to crush your skull with a sledgehammer? Check."
Rush manager Ray Danniels of Anthem Entertainment in Toronto says he couldn't care less what critics think of the band. "Some critics have liked the band, some haven't. It's all the same to me," he says. "I think Rush knows what it's about and its worldwide fan base knows what it's about, so the fact that some frustrated musician who writes for a publication has a chance to slam the band doesn't warrant attention from me and I'm sure from the band either."
The band certainly has a long history of enduring snarky write-ups about its music. In one of the most legendary pieces, NME writer Barry Miles blistered the band in a 1978 piece for what he saw as a right-wing conservatism masking as hard rock. Other writers of the era picked up on the right-wing label, typecasting the band as a conservative outpost in a sea of left-wing liberalism. But the band has always rejected that label.
Neil Peart, the band's drummer and lyricist, says that conservative label stems from his interest in uber-free-marketer Ayn Rand when he was a young man, but he's long since moved beyond that and today he decribes himself as a left-leaning libertarian.
All this criticism seemed to fade away, though, starting about 10 years ago, when Rush jumped back into recording and touring after a five-year hiatus. In quick succession the band put out four studio albums, including an extended play (EP) album of covers of such rock classics as "Crossroads," "The Seeker," "Mr. Soul," and "For What It's Worth." The albums did well on the charts, with Clockwork Angels hitting No. 1 for a few weeks on several charts, and reviews were good. Joe Bosso of MusicRadar pronounced Clockwork Angels a masterpiece, saying several of its tracks were destined to be classics. One reviewer, Mike Hsu of WAAF in Boston, said "Headlong Flight," the first single released off Clockwork Angels, was so good he was afraid of "losing my bladder."
The love affair with Rush reached its pinnacle last year when the band was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. Even long-time Rush nemesis Jann Wenner, founder of Rolling Stone and one of the founders of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, had seemed to come around, calling them the "high priests of high concept" on the night they were inducted.
But the earth still spins on its axis, day still follows night, and there are still music critics in the world that hate Rush, so all remains right in the world.
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The world becomes a slightly better place every time a 9-second Cadillac is built.
The Cadillac CTS-V you will see here is described as the "world's fastest and quickest." For those unfamiliar with drag racing terminology, these are not actually the same thing. Fastest means that it achieved the highest trap speed, while quickest means it got the lowest quarter mile time. The two are obviously closely related, but you might be surprised to learn how often a car sets only one of these records at a time.
Not to worry here though, this Caddy grabs both titles, and it's great to watch, so enjoy.


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World Bank inquiry into India's Tata Tea over labour issues
The other matches at the venue will be Iran-Nigeria on June 16, Algeria-Russia on June 26 and Honduras-Ecuador on June 30. Even if FIFA allows Curitiba to remain as a host city, the stadium is not expected to be fully finished until sometime in April, two months before the World Cup begins. One of FIFA's concerns is whether it will have time to install all temporary facilities that will be needed at the site. Lack of funds has been the greatest problem affecting the stadium construction in Curitiba, but the state government said in the joint statement that it requested a loan of about $100 million from a Brazilian government-owned bank on Wednesday. World Cup organizers last week also told local officials to increase the number of workers at the stadium to make sure the work could completed in time, and Atletico Paranaense said that would be done as soon as the loan was approved. ''We believe the analysis of this loan request will be prioritized,'' the statement said. Brazil's Sports Minister Aldo Rebelo, in charge of the country's World Cup preparations, visited Curitiba last week and said everything would be done to try to guarantee the loan as soon as possible. Adding more workers was one of the requests made when FIFA Secretary General Jerome Valcke gave the ultimatum in late January, along with the implementation of financial guarantees and the improvement in the pace of construction.
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The World Bank's International Finance Corporation (IFC) also said it believed standard industry practices were followed on the plantations. The IFC added that it would "await the findings of the compliance investigation and will undertake relevant action steps to address identified issues." The IFC pledged US$6.7 million in equity in 2009 to the AAPL, which is 41 per cent owned by Tata, with the rest held by other investors. IFC saw an opportunity to "work with a long-term partner committed to improve sustainability and achieve positive development outcomes in the northeast India," it said in an email to AFP. Tata, which owns the Tetley Tea brand, did not respond to requests for a comment on the matter. Three non-governmental agencies from Assam filed a complaint on behalf of the workers in February last year to the bank, highlighting concerns about inadequate compensation, and poor health and hygiene conditions at the tea plantations. The Compliance Advisor Ombudsman is compelled to review complaints filed about the IFC and other World Bank arms.
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It's never easy to give up on a patient, but it's time for us to admit that The Strain may be too far gone to save. There are several signs in this week's episode that the show may be giving up the will to live. In one scene, during a vampire attack, we finally glimpse one of the plane survivors who were almost the shows central characters for the first half of the season, before disappearing completely. Reduced to a mindless zombie like all the rest, distinguishable only by his Marilyn Manson fright-wig, he barely registers more than the other extras in the scene, and none of the human characters recognise him before he vanishes again.
The flashbacks of holocaust survivor turned vampire hunter, Abraham Setrakian, remain predictable and unnecessary – although at least his story has moved on a few decades, so we no longer have to add "gratuitously exploitative of holocaust imagery". The most striking feature of these scenes is the astonishingly bad "age" makeup applied to young actor Jim Watson, in order to indicate that he's slightly older than in the previous round of flashbacks. To make sure nobody was in any doubt that the actor is playing a younger version of the Setrakian character, Watson is now required to wear a baldcap and receding-hairline-wig – complete with prosthetically wrinkled forehead – neither of which are very convincing. The real tragedy is that, having given him an artificial frowny-face, they then felt they had to go one step further, and replace his eyebrows with what looks like the ghostly, phantasmagorical echo of two caterpillars. Like Romeo and Juliet, these star-cross'd lovers chose to die for and with one another – on his face.
The fact that this particular pair of fake eyebrows was not only applied to Watson's face, but made it past every check and balance from the makeup studio to the business end of a camera is truly shocking, and represents the attitude which has sadly come to characterise The Strain – nobody behind the camera gives that much of a shit. It's a shame, because the actors are mostly doing good work in the middle of it all – particularly Kevin Durand, whose exterminator-come-gladiator is consistently charming. However, most of the roles as written in the scripts, at best, give the actors nothing to work with – at worst, they hamstring them. Feel for Mia Maestro, who is required to drag herself on-screen every week in the "part" of Nora – a character who started out as a one-dimensional mashup of the 'other woman' and eye-candy stereotypes, and has only gotten flatter and less involved from there. There is a very telling moment this week in which Ephraim – our supposed hero – is required to give an emergency broadcast, alerting the people of New York to the vampire invasion. This is necessary because, as previous episodes have established, the people of New York are proving remarkably oblivious to the hordes of insane, flesh-eating zombies with six-foot, poisonous tongues roaming the city every single night.
While preparing for his Extremely Important Man task, Ephraim is interrupted by Nora's mother who suggests that her daughter could help, revealing that she was "first in her class at public speaking…she won every debate at school". Our hero simply brushes this off with the hilarious line "She still does!" (am I right, fellas? Huh? THE WIMMIN, right?!). The issue is never brought up again but, considering that Nora is also a high-ranking CDC official – and, as Ephraim himself points out, that he has recently been smeared to the whole world as a potential murderer – why the Hell shouldn't it be? It's just the latest in a long line of tone-deaf moments in which the show, expecting the well-established cliches it relies on to do all the work, unwittingly makes its supposed leading man unlikeable – even if Corey Stoll keeps him watchable.
With just one episode left in this first season, The Strain is in pretty bad shape on every level that counts. Here's hoping they can pull off a last-minute recovery, before the disease takes hold completely.


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Cr Ludwig said both developments were critical for the region's economic future.
"The Federal Government's stated objectives in both their recently adopted budget and the recently released northern Australia white paper is to boost tourism and provide infrastructure to create investment opportunities that will generate jobs and grow the region's population base," Cr Ludwig said.
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- Cover your dog from the top of their head to the tips of their paws to prevent fleas from congregating in an untreated area.
- Massage solution into their fur really well to get the oil down to their skin.
- Let their fur dry.
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- Shake the solution vigorously to combine.
- Spray your dog's entire body with the solution and rub in to repel fleas.
- Keep a bottle of spray solution on you or in your car to use on both your dog and yourself whenever heading into a wooded or grassy area where you may encounter fleas or ticks.
- The spray solution can also be used as an easy way to follow up if the first application from the flea bath or sponge bath does not get rid of all the fleas.
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Don't get a CL75. The support is crap. Lost all the themes and files so downloaded the phone manager and presets, got myself a DCA540 cable. Hey presto, doesn't work. Siemens support say the CL75 does sweet FA with the phone manager apart from "smart sync" which is not what it says on their downloads page. And do they care?
Poppy CL75 was Xmas present.
Infra Red only communicates with another CL75 not with my son's and husbands Sony K300 or K700. SPoke with Siemens who said it should work with both.No way to get pictures off for free other than Infrared. Got USB DCA 540 cable and downloaded latest drivers and Mobile Phone Manager from Siemens Benq website. You can sync the address book on phone with the computer but nothing else. Spoke to Siemens again and they confirmed that is all you can do with this phone. I wonder if it is locked in some way by the manufaturer. Taking it back tomorrow for a refund or to swap to a Sony K520i.
hey! u cant get a usb cable for it, well i didnt and i got my phone from carphone warhouse. the recording lasts for about a minute if you go on to options and change the time to maximim. ive had loads of troubles with this pohone my screen goes blank and it plays the ringtones weneva it wants. sometimes it doesnt change the profil wen u try and change it. ive had to take this phone back to the shop for a repair and hopefully it will be fine. i will give u some advise dont buy this phone all my friends have had problems with this phone as well. xxx
Hey I'm thinkin of getting this phone but I wanna know what the camera and film is like?? Also can u get a USB thing for it?? And has anyone tried the e-mail??? Pz write back!!! xxxxx
to get the poppy back on the screen, got into your pictures and you'll find a folder called SkinScheme, open that and the poppy picture is in there, and just "set as wallpaper".
Hope this helps x x
i have had the poppy phone for a couple of weeks. the battery life is absolute rubbish and a full charge is only lasting 24 hours maximum and that is without using it for making calls or sending texts. i also lost the poppy when changing themes and have also tried master reset and it still isnt anywhere to be seen. most likely taking this one back to the shop and will keep my fingers crossed for the replacement
hi, kk anyone who is having trouble with battery life should cut out all non essential items. I turned off the light on my keypads, turned off GPRS and illumination at minumum! seriously works. Did the keypads thing today and there is only a little bit of battery gone after I charged it 24hrs ago!which for this phoen is quite good!!!
my boyf bought me this phone 4 xmas after i winged on about it! anyway been having a few probs.
this screen keeps going blank white on me after a few seconds of it being on and then you have to turn it back off and restart it again but it just does the same thing.
can anyone help me plz? im going bonkers!!!!!!!! is there any way to fix it myself or will it have to go back?
I don't know about the question below, it is kind of strange it doesn't give you a time like on the Nokia phone! I'll see what I come up with and get back to u!I have a little query 2!In c'est La Vie, I can't seem to handle the dating game... I'll turn up to the location and it still says that I missed the date! what is happening there? no its silly but sure its the little things that keep me going:)
Ive got the Poppy phone but i cant get my organizer to work properly. when i set a birthday, the alarm doesnt go off at all. even for memos nothing happens at the time i set for it to ring. if anyone can please give me a step by step on how to set a memo to ring that would be great. thanks!
Is it me, or is this more widely available in Poppy Pink than Silk Flower Red/Pinstripe Black?
I posted below but have decided to post again just to clear a few things up for people who are thinking about getting this phone. My phone is the poppy version and it did freeze once so I had to take the battery out and put it back in to get it working again. I was worried about the battery life at first as at one point it only lasted a few hours after being fully charged, so I charged it again and since then it has been fine. I was worried I was going to have to take it back! But since then its completely fine. The instructions can be quite complicated but its fine once you get used to it. I would reccommend it to anyone.
I got the phone for christmas and I love it! I am having problems with sending pictures via MMS or infrared though. My SIM is Orange and I went onto the Orange website and followed the steps which is supposed to allow you to send pictures via MMS, but it still wont work. It starts and says "connecting" but then just says "connection failed". I dont know if theres just something I'm meant to do but havent. Anyone got any ideas?
I have the Poppy mobile,i bought it before xmas,worked fine for three weeks,then screen started freezing, contacted Siemens who arranged for free postage to get it fixed, so no problems with the customer service.
i have had this phone for a month and im glad to say it is great!!!! it does have picture caller id and whats this about the battery-ok its not brilliant but this phone is camera and video what do you expect. the games are very good camera and video quality good.the design is super and mirror has proved a real hit. i have had no technical problems and i think the siemens poppy phone is a great success!!!! xoxox
The battery is really really bad. It goes flat in 2 days regular use and the phone is 1 month old.
I was told, that there is no pic caller ID on this phone. Is that true? I wonder, how anyone can say, 220 h of battery-stand-by-time. But in general, it´s a smart phone.


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So yeah, it can be pretty stressful 😥. On the other hand, when you do find that perfect recipe, it's the BEST feeling ever. You know you can lock it down in your recipe binder, favorites folder (or um.. blog?), and enjoy it forever.
Since I discovered this recipe about a month ago, I made it about 10 times, double batch too. Ben has been requesting it over and over again, having beef stew for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. And no wonder, it's so good – nobody would mind having it 3 times a day 😋 .
This recipe was inspired by the beef stew of Once Upon a Chef.
Beef Stew Tips – Lazy Edition
- Use baby carrots and baby potatoes. It makes life SO much easier. I just cut the carrots in half, and the potatoes in quarters.
- Don't peel baby potatoes. Call the stew "rustic".
- If you don't have time to make the stew in one day (3hr in the oven, anyone?), prepare all of the ingredients the day before in a lovely mise en place – liquid in one bowl, onion& garlic in another, then carrots&peas&potatoes, and seared beef in the next.
- Don't tell anyone – but you can actually pulse the onion in a blender (or a nutribullet), until desired consistency achieved.
- To give the noodles a lovely taste of their own – sprinkle some chicken stock powder on them, it's so good!
- After cooking the noodles, mix some butter into the bowl – this will prevent the "dry-pasta" syndrome.
- grapeseed oil
- 1 kg of stewing beef
- 1 sweet onion
- 4-5 garlic cloves
- 2 Tbsp Balsamic Vinegar
- 2 Tbsp Tomato Paste
- 1/4 cup AP flour
- 1 cup red wine
- 2 cup beef broth
- 1 can tomato sauce ~10oz
- 1 bay leaf
- 1/2 tsp thyme
- baby carrots
- baby potatoes
- salt&pepper
- Preheat oven to 325F.
- Heat grapeseed oil in a dutch oven until sizzling
- Cut stewing beef into smaller pieces and fry in batches until lightly browned. Make sure to salt&pepper, and add oil as necessary.
- Remove meat from the pot, and place it aside. Add chopped onion, minced garlic, and salt.
- Once onion has softened, add balsamic vinegar and tomato paste. Mix to combine.
- Add beef back to the pot, mix to combine, and add AP flour. Stir until flour is dissolved.
- Add wine, beef broth, tomato sauce, bay left, thyme, and a pinch of sugar. Bring to a boil.
- Cover, and transfer to the oven for 1.5hr.
- In the meantime, cut baby carrots in half and baby potatoes in quarters. You may leave the skin on if you wish.
- Remove from pot and add carrots and potatoes. Salt&pepper. Continue cooking in the oven for 45min, or until vegetables are cooked.
- Serve with crusty bread.


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