The recipe for endive our aunts Yaya and Janneke posted worked!
Daddy slave didn't want to eat endive for another day,
so we got the leftovers:
P.S. Can you see how big Lily'explorer (top right) and Lil'wheeker (top left) have gotten?
Saturday, November 20, 2010
It worked: Endive feast!!
Hi there,
The recipe for endive our aunts Yaya and Janneke posted worked!
Daddy slave didn't want to eat endive for another day,
so we got the leftovers:
Yummie!
P.S. Can you see how big Lily'explorer (top right) and Lil'wheeker (top left) have gotten?
The recipe for endive our aunts Yaya and Janneke posted worked!
Daddy slave didn't want to eat endive for another day,
so we got the leftovers:
P.S. Can you see how big Lily'explorer (top right) and Lil'wheeker (top left) have gotten?
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
Interviewing Caplin Rous using Twitter
Hi All,
We, Guinygirlz, said:
@caplinrous Okay first questions for the interview came in on our blog. http://bit.ly/b235ip
@caplinrous The piggyfriends, little piggy sanctuary in the UK, say they love you and wish they had a capybara friend!
@caplinrous The piggyfriends adore the video that shows your cousins being tickled and falling over. (Do we have link of that?)
Caplin answers:
@Guinygirlz Here's the link to best capybara video EVER: http://youtu.be/3A2s70Z_LTg
Guinygirlz:
@caplinrous First question from Ghost, a piggy living with the Hamster in UK: What is the weirdest website you have found about capybaras?
@Guinygirlz: Gosh, I don't think I've ever found a weird capybara website! There aren't that many of them.
Guinygirlz:
@caplinrous Surrey squeakers, UK, think they eat a lot, they want to know what sort of quantity of food you munch your way through in a day?
Caplin:
@Guinygirlz I don't know how much I eat since mostly graze. Reports say 5 lbs of grass per day but I don't know. Plus 4 popsicles, 4 yogurts
Guinygirlz:
@caplinrous Last one now, Ghost again: Mummy is making us new bedding tomorrow so we would like to know what sort of bedding a capybara has?
Caplin:
@Guinygirlz I don't use bedding. I have dog beds around the house and on the porches. I urinate/defecate in a bowl of water in the bathroom
If you have more questions for Caplin, please comment here.
We asked Caplin Rous the Capybara the first questions that were asked on the blog.
Below a copy of our Questions and Caplin's answers send using twitter.
We are @Guinygirlz (it means caplin said something to us), and @caplinrous (is us talking to caplin) is our friend Caplin.
We, Guinygirlz, said:@caplinrous Okay first questions for the interview came in on our blog. http://bit.ly/b235ip
@caplinrous The piggyfriends, little piggy sanctuary in the UK, say they love you and wish they had a capybara friend!
@caplinrous The piggyfriends adore the video that shows your cousins being tickled and falling over. (Do we have link of that?)
Caplin answers: @Guinygirlz Here's the link to best capybara video EVER: http://youtu.be/3A2s70Z_LTg
Guinygirlz: @caplinrous First question from Ghost, a piggy living with the Hamster in UK: What is the weirdest website you have found about capybaras?
@Guinygirlz: Gosh, I don't think I've ever found a weird capybara website! There aren't that many of them.
Guinygirlz: @caplinrous Surrey squeakers, UK, think they eat a lot, they want to know what sort of quantity of food you munch your way through in a day?
Caplin:
@Guinygirlz I don't know how much I eat since mostly graze. Reports say 5 lbs of grass per day but I don't know. Plus 4 popsicles, 4 yogurts
Guinygirlz:@caplinrous Last one now, Ghost again: Mummy is making us new bedding tomorrow so we would like to know what sort of bedding a capybara has?
Caplin:
@Guinygirlz I don't use bedding. I have dog beds around the house and on the porches. I urinate/defecate in a bowl of water in the bathroom
If you have more questions for Caplin, please comment here.
Sunday, November 14, 2010
Endive; the Recipe
Hi all,
Since the veggie of the week is endive, I thought I'd write down a recipe for endive, so here we go:
Ingredients:
- (Broad-leafed) Endive
Directions
As soon as the endive is dropped into your cage, it is important to start slicing and dicing right away since endive is at it's best while it is still crunchy. Endive is always a tasty veggie, but at it's best when fresh.
Eat whatever is left after you're done slicing and dicing.
Enjoy!
Yaya
A crop of endive is kinda big, so it is okay to share a bit with your humans for the following traditional Dutch recipe:
Andijvie Stamppot
(endive 'mash pot')
Ingredients (serves 4 humans)
- 400 gr. broad-leafed endive
- 1200 gr. potatoes (preferably floury)
- 80 gr. butter
- 4 cups of water (500 ml)
- pepper, salt and nutmeg
- warm milk
- Rookworst (Dutch smoked sausage)
- mustard
Variation tip: stir little pieces of bacon and Dutch cheese into the stamppot. My human likes old dutch cheese, but it has a strong taste so if you're not sure a young dutch cheese might be better.
Directions
Put the potatoes into the water and boil them until they are soft (about 30 minutes). Cut up the endive into small strips. Boil the rookworst. Drain the water from the potatoes. Mash the potatoes with a bit of warm milk, butter, a pinch of salt, pepper and nutmeg. Stir in the raw endive and serve with the rookworst and a bit of mustard.
For the non-dutchies: rookworst and dutch cheese (e.g. Old Amsterdam)
Since the veggie of the week is endive, I thought I'd write down a recipe for endive, so here we go:
Ingredients:
Directions
As soon as the endive is dropped into your cage, it is important to start slicing and dicing right away since endive is at it's best while it is still crunchy. Endive is always a tasty veggie, but at it's best when fresh.
Eat whatever is left after you're done slicing and dicing.
Enjoy!
Yaya
The Leftovers
A crop of endive is kinda big, so it is okay to share a bit with your humans for the following traditional Dutch recipe:
Andijvie Stamppot
(endive 'mash pot')
Ingredients (serves 4 humans)
- 400 gr. broad-leafed endive
- 1200 gr. potatoes (preferably floury)
- 80 gr. butter
- 4 cups of water (500 ml)
- pepper, salt and nutmeg
- warm milk
- Rookworst (Dutch smoked sausage)
- mustard
Variation tip: stir little pieces of bacon and Dutch cheese into the stamppot. My human likes old dutch cheese, but it has a strong taste so if you're not sure a young dutch cheese might be better.
Directions
Put the potatoes into the water and boil them until they are soft (about 30 minutes). Cut up the endive into small strips. Boil the rookworst. Drain the water from the potatoes. Mash the potatoes with a bit of warm milk, butter, a pinch of salt, pepper and nutmeg. Stir in the raw endive and serve with the rookworst and a bit of mustard.
For the non-dutchies: rookworst and dutch cheese (e.g. Old Amsterdam)
Saturday, November 13, 2010
Christmas Fayre at Raystede Rescue
Piggyfriends agents Thorntons, Firenze and Venezia reporting.
On Sunday 5th. December from 12 until 3 there is going to be a Christmas Fayre at Raystede. This is the rescue from which we three came, as well as several other current Piggyfriends. It featured in Algernon Rat's travels when he was staying with us in April and can be seen on the Remembering Alge blog for that month.
We hope that somepig reading this will be able to persuade his/her slave to go along and support the cause. They need all the help that they can get so that they can care for even more animals.
Here is their website.........
Slave will be there, desperately trying to avoid the cavy house as we do not have any room for more piggies right now.
Her son, Kevin, who is shown in the blog, will be manning the car park as he does not want to get roped in to sing in the choir. Slave is a show off and will sing anywhere. Sigh............
Friday, November 12, 2010
Veggie of the Week Endive
Here are Agent Dinosaur and Agent Bumble Bee eating a leaf of Endive:) they love it!
Wednesday, November 10, 2010
GPDD got problems again
As most of the GPDD readers probably noticed we haven't received the Guinea Pig Daily Digest for a few days now.
M and me were discussing whether GPDD had spam problems again, or that no one hadn't posted for a few days now.
As I wanted to know what was going on, I wrote an email to the GPDD and also to Tex.
---
Hi there,
I haven't received the GPDD again for a few days now.
I also don't see any new posts in the archives,
so i'm wondering if the GPDD got problems again,
or that just no one posted lately...
Wheeks,
Slave Mikey and piggies:
Guinygirlz: Woopy, Lily and Daisy (almost same weight as 2 year old Woopy,
and they're only 6 months!)
and Valentine Chico
---
Hi!
Yes, the same problem that happened a week ago seems to be happening again. We have a ticket in on it, and hopefully it will be resolved soon.
Tex
--
Well, let's keep our fingers crossed, they fix it soon!
Grtz,
Mieke
M and me were discussing whether GPDD had spam problems again, or that no one hadn't posted for a few days now.
As I wanted to know what was going on, I wrote an email to the GPDD and also to Tex.
---
Hi there,
I haven't received the GPDD again for a few days now.
I also don't see any new posts in the archives,
so i'm wondering if the GPDD got problems again,
or that just no one posted lately...
Wheeks,
Slave Mikey and piggies:
Guinygirlz: Woopy, Lily and Daisy (almost same weight as 2 year old Woopy,
and they're only 6 months!)
and Valentine Chico
---
Hi!
Yes, the same problem that happened a week ago seems to be happening again. We have a ticket in on it, and hopefully it will be resolved soon.
Tex
--
Well, let's keep our fingers crossed, they fix it soon!
Grtz,
Mieke
Monday, November 8, 2010
Veggie of the Wheek: Endive
This weeks' veggie will be Endive. Slave says this is a winter veggie, which can be bought here mostly in autumn and winter period.
As you can see, the Endive looks like a big crop of Salad, the taste is quite bitter,
and we get to have a whole leaf per guinea pig!
According to the Guinea lynx vegetable chart below, it's also known as Escarole.
Here is a table with it's nutritional values:
Oh, wow, this is was wikipedia says about Endive: 'Endive (pronounced /ˈɛndɪv/[1] or /ˈɛndaɪv/), Cichorium endivia is a leaf vegetable belonging to the daisy family.' Wow, there is something like a Daisy family? I have got to be a part of that! Ow, it's a plant family? that is too bad...
Here you see me and Woopy sharing a leaf. Can you see, it's as big as me!
Slave says Endive is also very nice for people te eat, she likes in raw, mixed with mashed patatoes, and a sausage. What makes it really yummy is adding small chunks of Cheese (she's Dutch, huh?) and a little ketjap (soy sauce)...
Okay, those humans are weird, we just eat it raw.
Please send in your pigtures or stories about how you eat Endive!
Also i'd like to know if it's available in for example the US. It seems like a very Dutch veggie to us...
Green Wheeks,
Lil'Wheeker (aka Daisy)
Btw, Because of the Great Piggyfriend Slave Penny tips, our slave is now growing Endive and carrots inside (as it's cold outside)! We hope it will work, one of the seeds sprouted, but as slave planted both in one pot, we've no idea wether it will be carrot or Endive...
As you can see, the Endive looks like a big crop of Salad, the taste is quite bitter,
and we get to have a whole leaf per guinea pig!
According to the Guinea lynx vegetable chart below, it's also known as Escarole.
| Guinea Lynx' VEGETABLE CHART 100 gram portions | Percent Water | Energy (Kcal) | Protein (g) | Ascorbic Acid (C) | Calcium (mg) | Phosph. (mg) | Ca:P Ratio |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Endive (Escarole) | 93.79 | 17 | 1.25 | 6.5 | 52 | 28 | 1.9:1 |
We also read it's high in fibe, vitamin A and K
Here you see me and Woopy sharing a leaf. Can you see, it's as big as me!
Okay, those humans are weird, we just eat it raw.
Please send in your pigtures or stories about how you eat Endive!
Also i'd like to know if it's available in for example the US. It seems like a very Dutch veggie to us...
Green Wheeks,
Lil'Wheeker (aka Daisy)
Btw, Because of the Great Piggyfriend Slave Penny tips, our slave is now growing Endive and carrots inside (as it's cold outside)! We hope it will work, one of the seeds sprouted, but as slave planted both in one pot, we've no idea wether it will be carrot or Endive...
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