Zenutiae

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

- Dave Barry

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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

And the angels, they’ll know where to find me
There’s no place I’d rather be
Right behind the bowlers
They’ll know where to find me, ten rows back with sunburnt knees
Right behind the bowler’s arm”

- Paul Kelly

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.”

- Bertrand Russell

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

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

Method:

Pre-heat a moderate oven

Get a muffin pan and prepare it for pastry, the silicon one’s need nothing, others might need to be lightly oiled/greased.

Cut the sheets of pastry to fit inside the muffing holes. on mine I just cut the sheets into 4, and fold them so they fit. Don’t cut off the excess, just leave it stand outside.

Finely slice the ham and capsicum, and tomatoes.

Put a slice of tomato in the base of each pasty cup.

Evenly divide the ham and capsicum between the cups, put half in the botom, and keep the rest for after putting the egg in.

Break an egg into each pastry case.

Add the remaining capsicum, ham, and a pinch of mustard powder, and use a skewer to stir them in and break up the yolk.

Float the remaining slices of cherry tomato on top. Salt and pepper to taste.
Place in oven and cook until firm all the way through, and puff pastry has crisped up - about 15-20 minutes.

Serve as a breakfast treat or with a salad for dinner

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?

Though flowers bloom year after year, not everyone who sees them gains enlightenment.

Bamboo always gives off sounds, but not all who hear them become enlightened.

- Dogen 1200-1253