Morning, noon and night
Three random things I learned, or remembered, todayArchive for September 25, 2007
Mince and potatoes
NIGHT
I noticed someone has searched my blog for “mince and potatoes recipes.”
It struck me that maybe there’s lots of young people wondering how to cook the old fashioned unsophisticated meals of their childhood, or their mother’s childhood and maybe even their grandmother’s childhood.
Or maybe men living alone who have never cooked at all.
Maybe I’ll try and put my simple recipe for mince and potatoes on this blog, once I get round to working out how to put such an automatic process that doesn’t reach consciousness, into print.
Yes, I’ll add a category “Old Recipes”
Food pyramids
NOON
“A food pyramid is one tool to help you eat better. Find out how to use a food pyramid to create a healthy diet.”
“With the variety of food pyramids available, you may wonder which one to follow. It may help to know that the basic principles of food pyramids are largely the same and generally emphasize the following:
Eat more fruits, vegetables and whole grains.
Reduce intake of saturated fat, trans fat and cholesterol.
Limit sweets and salt.
Drink alcoholic beverages in moderation, if at all.
Control portion sizes and the total number of calories you consume.
Include physical activity in your daily routine.”……..READ MORE
Split infinitives
MORNING
Split infinitives are often frowned upon.
Here is one here.
“To boldly go where no man has gone before!”
I’ve never understood why because they often sound OK and less formal than the un-split variety.
Apparently its sometimes OK to use them according to the experts at ASK OXFORD
This is what they say:
“Split infinitives are frequently poor style, but they are not strictly bad grammar. In the example above, to avoid the split infinitive would result either in weakness (to go boldly) or over-formality (boldly to go): either would ruin the rhythmic force and rhetorical pattern of the original. It is probably good practice to avoid split infinitives in formal writing, but clumsy attempts to avoid them simply by shuffling adverbs about can create far worse sentences.”
I’m glad about that because I use them a lot.
