Sunday, 21 August 2016

Human After All

I don't know the origin of the original meme, frankly I can't be bothered to waste the time looking for the source, but I've corrected it.

Not a single one of us is pedigree. How black is black? How white is white? How yellow is yellow? 

What exact genome means you are any one of them? What genome variation means you are not one of them? What about mutant variations within standard patterns?

Why does a race definition fall down once you start to try and apply it to different human collectives around the planet?

Race is a social construct not an actual thing. It's most often used to give a prejudice a name so that it can be excused.

The colour of someone's skin has everything to do with the evolutionary environment a particular localised variant of human grew up in and nothing to do with a label we made up somewhere along the way.

Our species is human and race as a label serves no constructive purpose. It does not define the culture you choose to subscribe to, it does not define your chosen tribal rituals. This is the same sort of crap that divides humans at a border level. 

If there is such as thing as race then every country border defines a different race and there is by definition no possibility of there being a race of Europeans, or Asians, or Africans because they would already be divided into races of Scottish, Welsh, English, French, German, Spanish, etc... How could there be a German race when Germany has only existed for such a short period of time?

This is the path to eugenics by another name.

Tuesday, 9 August 2016

Cooking For One Or More - Peppered Chicken Breasts

Cut a red bell pepper into slices and spread them on the base of an oven proof dish.

Skin and slice some shallots and spread them amongst the peppers to cover the base of the dish. Grind some szechuan pepper corns and mustard seeds liberally.

Slather with several teaspoons of chopped garlic.

Smooth some greek yoghurt over the base ingredients.

Finally place some mini chicken breast fillets on top of the yoghurt and cover with a steak or chicken seasoning.

Cover with tin foil and place in the oven at gas mark 6 for at least 30 minutes. 40-45 if the mini chicken breasts are frozen.

Nom

Thursday, 4 August 2016

Cooking For One Or More - Peppered Meatballs

Take a long sweet pepper and cut it into four pieces. Lay them over the bottom of an oven proof dish.

Add some frozen meatballs, some shallots, and grind some szechuan peppercorns and mustard seeds.

Squirt half a tube of tomato puree and mix in some chopped garlic and greek yoghurt (or sour cream) and a dash of olive oil. Sprinkle some ground salt, ground coriander and anything else that takes your fancy.

Cover with foil and place in the oven at gas mark 5 for 50 minutes. Uncover for the last ten minutes or so.




Big Scary Doggo

I got sent a message and some pictures today, of a timid rescue dog that has, after a couple of weeks I believe, taken ownership of the bed ...