Oxford gluttony

Spent the weekend in Oxford, ostensibly attending a work conference, which was actually very stimulating and productive. But the real impetus to return to Oxford was to catch up with friends still there. All keen cooks, we cooked up a storm in a wonderfully large, warm and homely kitchen. I've uploaded some of the recipes to this site:

• Chilli con carne. Update: Wow, this has been downloaded alot. Must be the winter weather. It's certainly stomach-warming comfort food.
• Yoghurt cornbread
• Fluffy tea biscuits
• Goats cheese and red plum salad
• Avocado, red onion, tomato and lime salsa

Lots of food, lots of wine and lots of silliness.

Oxford trivia:

• Hitler was intending to use Oxford as his capital if he conquered England. It is one of the reasons it was not bombed.
  
  
• Oxford was the country's capital city during the Civil War (1642-1651) and King Charles 1's reign.
  
  
• Cambridge University was founded by Oxford scholars. They were fleeing the first of many 'Town versus Gown' riots that erupted in Oxford in 1209 following the murder of a local townswoman by students.
  
  
• Dating back to the 1000s (there's no clear founding date but the earliest teaching there dates to 1096), Oxford University is the oldest English speaking university in the world.
  
  
• New College, founded in 1379, holds the record for having constructed the largest cesspit in Oxford's history. The location now houses the student common room.
  
  
• The University's Bodleian Library currently houses more than six and a half million documents on 169 Km (105 miles) of shelves. Its collection is growing at a rate of 300,000 documents every year.
  
  
• Oxford University has educated 25 British Prime Ministers including William E. Gladstone, Clement Attlee, Harold Macmillan, Harold Wilson, Margaret Thatcher and Tony Blair. Australian Prime Minister Bob Hawke, Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi and USA President Bill Clinton also studied at Oxford. Famous Oxonians.