immature

“You can only be young once. But you can always be immature.”

- Dave Barry

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Behind the bowlers arm

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“When the angels add my days and say my time is up
I’ll say to them now hold on please there’s one thing you forgot
I know each man must leave this world behind when he gets called
But we had a deal that you won’t count the days I watched the bat & ball

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great injustice

In the part of this universe that we know there is great injustice, and often the good suffer, and often the wicked prosper, and one hardly knows which of those is the more annoying.”

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Quick Egg Pie

This is a quick egg pie, good for breakfast or dinner.

quick egg pie

Ingredients:

2 sheets of puff pastry

6 Eggs

2 slices of ham

half a capsicum

4 cherry tomatoes

mustard powder, salt and pepper for seasoning

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enlightenment not brilliance

Think of those who gained enlightenment upon hearing the sound of bamboo when struck by a tile or seeing blossoms in bloom.

Does the bamboo distinguish the clever or dull, the deluded or enlightened; does the flower differentiate between shallow and deep, the wise and stupid?

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Salad of Char Grilled Chicken & Thai herbs with a Chilli & Tamarind dressing

DishesIngredients
500 grams of chicken breast, char grilled, cooled & chopped.
8 red shallots, finely sliced
2 stalks of lemon grass, tender part only, micro planed
8 kaffir lime leaves, finely sliced
3 tablespoons of ginger, julienne
Half cup of coriander leaves*
quarter cup of mint leaves*
1/4 cup Viet mint leaves*
250 grams chopped cos for the base.
*Never cut herbs with a knife, if leaves are too big just tear with your fingers.

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