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I have come across an old article in the Observer (2005) titled “If MSG is so bad for you, why doesn’t everyone in Asia have a headache?” which discusses the fifth flavour – umami – and glutamate, commonly referred to as Mono Sodium Glutamate or MSG.
As the presence of MSG is often a criticism of Chinese take-away food – we don’t bother stocking it for sales to home chefs – the most fascinating part of this article is the list of foods containing glutamate (and therefore giving that umami taste) including:
parmesan and other cheeses (seems obvious)
tomatoes
soy sauce
mushrooms
I’d have to agree with the conclusion of the article though – if you want to enhance flavour, add one of these “natural” sources of glutamate, rather than reaching for the MSG.
Ingredients
10 oz Onion, peeled and finely sliced
1 lb Parsnips, peeled, cored and finely sliced
2 oz Butter, melted
14 oz Sausagemeat
1 Clove garlic, crushed
1 tsp Sesame seeds
1 Apple, peeled cored & cubed
2 tsp Lemon thyme leaves, chopped
1 tbsp Parsley, chopped
3 oz Fresh breadcrumbs
2 Eggs
Method
Saute onion & parsnips in butter over a low heat for 15 minutes until soft. Remove.
Fry together sausagemeat, garlic and sesame seeds for 5 minutes. Stir all of the time.
Drain any fat and add the sausagemeat mixture to the parsnip & onions in a large mixing bowl. Crush together well with a potato masher. Beat to blend well. Alternatively, use a food processor for this step, but don’t over-process.
Add the apple, eggs, breadcrumbs, parsley and thyme.
Bake in a hot oven for approximately 1 hour.
Resin flooring – NIFL.
Shopfront – Aluminium shop fronts.
Also:
Adams Glass & Windows
St George Street
Leicester
Leicestershire
LE1 1QG
Tel: 0116 2511715
Fire risk information. A search of Yell turned up:
Fire Safety Management, 45, Montague Drive, Loughborough, Leicestershire LE11 3SB. Tel: 01509 237218
Bollards – Barriers Direct
Well, the motiveAuto website is up and is based on WordPress – and because WordPress 2.3 is now on GA I thought it would be a good idea to upgrade before the launch. Big mistake; yes, it is a good idea to be on the current release, but not without some serious integration testing.
The biggest problem arises from the tidying up of URLs used to access posts, Canonical URLs. The author of these changes Mark Jaquith blogs the background to these changes and makes a good case for them. The first problem is that www.motiveauto.com/page/1 is no longer a valid URL; this is unfortunate because this is a commonly used method of accessing the posts from a static home page (see using WordPress as a CMS). The correct (i.e. valid) URL is now www.motiveauto.com/?page=1
OK, lesson learnt, but it is a pity that it took four hours to find the cause of the problem – WordPress documentation is – shall we say – “loose”.
The next problem relates to the “share this” plugin; this encourages linking to he social bookmarking sites and also emailing a page to a friend. The CSS form doesn’t seem to work (possibly because of a new version of prototype.js) but should degrade gracefully to a web page. Unfortunately this doesn’t work if the source is a WordPress static page rather than a post. URL rewriting again? Looks like it, but I can’t quite put my finger on the cause.
We have finally finished the MBO; Motiveauto Limited is now trading and the seven of us have transferred to the new company. We aim to be the implementation partner of first choice both in the UK and abroad for SAP’s DBM, and for second-tier parts distribution solutions.
Obviously we are all delighted and the feedback from both customers and others has been universally positive.
Contact details;
Motiveauto Limited website
Telephone: 08456 527240
Fax: 08456 527241
A full list of the use classes as defined in the Town and Country Planning (Use Classes) Order 1987 can be found on the planning portal.
I’m looking into 0870 numbers (or more generally non-geographical numbers) at the moment. Here is the short list:
Yac (£10-£20 per month depending on if we want to programme time specific forwards.)
BT themsleves (£10/month, same price for revenue sharing on 0871)
UK2Numbers (One-off registration depending on number chosen)
They have made an offer on this bungalow in Winsford: Google Maps aerial view here.
A list of laptop processors, ranked by performance.
Recently we have been trying to create a new company name – more on why later. I have used the following tools so far:
Anagram generator
Companies House WebCHeck
Unwanted domain names search
Demon InternetQuery Tools (including whois)
