Blue plastic bag

All over Africa, the blue plastic bag. Blown by the wind, swept by the river, washed by the rain, lodged in a tree, deposited on the plains, baked in the sun, dumped in the landfill. On mountains, in deserts, at the bottom of the ocean, washed up on the beach, on river banks, in wells, in top soil, in lakes, in power stations, in sewage, in our own back yard.

The ubiquitous blue plastic bag, who makes it?. Ban its production now before it choke us. Do not accept the blue plastic bag.

Dragon Fruit

The sexy fruit I was telling you about in an earlier post cannot be named the St Valentine's pear because it is called a Dragon Fruit. I'm always too late- someone always pips me to the post.

Question is, apart from slicing it in half and wickedly scooping out the flesh with an extra small tea spoon nicked from SAA, what can be done with it? Make a sorbet! Boil some caster sugar and water to make a syrup. Add the flesh of a few dragon fruit. Put it in the freezer, give it a stir half hourly until it is at the slushy stage. Delicately fold in a stiffly beaten egg white (if that is politically correct) and pop back in the freezer. Stir once more after an hour. Leave to set. Voila!You now have a sorbet. Pile scoops of sorbet back into the reserved dragon fruit shells. Oops, go and retrieve them from the bin, wipe off the egg shells and potato peelings- no one will ever know.......