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Ambivalence

July 7, 2012 in Non-Food, Weekend Themes

View from the Side’s weekend theme is ambivalence. To be honest I did not even know the full meaning. After googling I had a better understanding, and decided to do this short post on the theme.

I love Roger Federer and I always hate anybody that plays against him, but for the first time – ever, I am ambivalent towards his opponent!

I sooooo want Rogerer to win Wimbledon, because if he wins it will be his seventh Wimbledon win and then he would be on par with the record currently held by former winners of this prestigious title, namely William Renshaw and Pete Sampras. If Federer wins, he will also become Number 1 again, matching Sampras’ record of 286 weeks at number 1.

If Andy Murray wins, he will be the first British man to win Wimbledon, since Fred Perry did so in 1936! I really like Andy Murray; he is a great tennis player and a real fighter on court!

For a preview of the men’s final go to www.shrewdtennis.com.

Something old, something new

May 21, 2012 in Meatless Mondays, Non-Food, Soup, Vegetarian, Weekend Themes

View from the side’s weekend theme is “something old, something new”. 

Since I had some very strange new visitors to my garden lately, I decided to do a post on mushrooms. 

My something old is two mushroom recipes, that I blogged about a long time ago. The first one is a mushroom soup and you can find the recipe here!

mushroom soup recipe

The second one is mushrooms stuffed with mashed peas and you can find the recipe here.

 mushrooms stuffed with pea mash recipe

My something new is photos of strange mushrooms that were in my garden recently. We have an area under one specific tree where there are always mushrooms growing. They look like white and brown large mushrooms, similar to the brown mushrooms that can be bought at any greengrocer.

These ones are however totally different. This beautiful one was growing in my garden about a month ago:

 mushroom 1

These ones are growing in my garden currently. It seems like they start out looking like this:

 mushrooms 2

and then change to look like this:

 mushrooms 3

and in the end they look quite awful and colour everything around them black:

 mushrooms 4

I have never seen mushrooms like these ones but find it quite intriguing. If you have any information about them please let me know.

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