What should be banned is the practice of?

Righto, make that this weekend. I'd hate?

The state fails hugely at suppressing weed, after all.

You'll find there's no real intention to suppress weed. it's set up as the borderline/no man's land between legal and illegal drug use. Hence possession largely usually just being punished with confiscation.

Essentially you'd be giving him a fairer indication of what really goes on and better competitive grasp of market realities, which I guess you are doing writing about this here...

I think he'd be fully appraised of market realities in his own line of business, Mark.

In the case of?

I shouldn't think Wine Vault guy necessarily expects all your purchases to be through him.

Oh, of course not. It was just a funny situation.

Of course, the government wants to shut them down..

work on their strengths.

fair enough.

I think he'd be fully appraised of market realities in his own line of business, Mark

so why hide?

Because they're humans, Mark, not just market actors. People get embarrassed irrationally. Sheesh.

Yes. The situation amused me, and I went home and wrote a blog post on the strength of it.

India Village restaurant in Morningside

Is that the one in the small block of shops on the corner of Morningside and New North roads?

Sadly, it is only the?

Is that the one in the small block of shops on the corner of Morningside and New North roads?

Yup. Used to be the Flying Rani – also known to fans of Leigh Hart's Moon TV as the set for "Naan Doctors".

- Willis St Lunch Cafe, home of the Cheese Puff.

Always interested in a new baked good, me, and always interested in a new vehicle for cheese. What are the points of similarity/difference between a cheese puff and a cheese drop scone?

I quite like the fact that they don't sell cigarettes or Woodstock and their staff are knowledgable.

Amen. And welcome into the light, brother. No more lurking.

I can buy Waiheke wine either at the Waiheke supermarket,

And you're positive the wine doesn't go to a South Auckland warehouse and back before hitting the shelves?

What are the points of similarity/difference between a cheese puff and a cheese drop scone?

I am sadly not yet familiar with the cheese drop scone. But I am willing to become so.

And you're positive the wine doesn't go to a South Auckland warehouse and back before hitting the shelves?

Given the shelving shambles for which Woolies is justifiably famous, I'd say that's a fair question...

I also like Kingsland Liquor (by the Gull). Pretty basic stuff but cheap and a good selection. They do sell subourbon RTDs too on the (very) odd occasion I feel like a sugar hit.

What are the points of similarity/difference between a cheese puff and a cheese drop scone?

Stephen, Amy: you haven't lived until you've had a Southland cheese roll (recipe posted on request).

if there is one thing PA System is crying out for, it's reader recipes.

Good suggestion. Some ideas on how to deal with the on-going feijoa glut would be welcome--but not chutney, as we still have chutney from 3 years back!

Cheese Rolls

1 tin reduced cream
1 packet onion dip
300g cheese, grated
1tsp mustard powder
1 small minced onion
White pepper
Butter
Thin sliced white bread

Make dip, add cheese, mustard and pepper.
Butter bread, spread 2/3 of the?

Moore Wilson is the best. I used to live in Waikanae and would drive into Wgtn every weekend to spoil myself rotten at Moore Wilson. You could get the best of the local producers all under one roof.

Conveniently, they have a branch in the semi-industrial no-man's-land between Porirua and?

Some ideas on how to deal with the on-going feijoa glut would be welcome--but not chutney, as we still have chutney from 3 years back!

Send them to me. They're freakin' expensive and don't grow well down here.

(apparently they can be frozen as pulp if you're going to be?

Good suggestion. Some ideas on how to deal with the on-going feijoa glut would be welcome--but not chutney, as we still have chutney from 3 years back!

Put them in the blender with a couple of handfulls of icecubes, the juice of a fresh lime or two, a splash of?

Stephen, Amy: you haven't lived until you've had a Southland cheese roll (recipe posted on request).

You mean Southland Sushi?

_____

Also, I think its worth noting the buying power of supermarkets. I heard recently that Yellowtail (not that I recommend it), were not prepared to supply at the requested?

Feijoa wine? Apparently well regarded as among the best tasting of the fruit wines.

Person of the till:
That'll be $100 please
HaveYouGotAOneCardWouldYouLikeToDonateToOurTaxDodgeCharityOfTheMonthHowWouldYouLikeToPay
Customer:
There you go, $99.70.
Person of the till:
Sorry, that's $100
Customer:
Yes, less 2.5% discount. I get this from all my suppliers.

Also, HTML fail..

Apparently well regarded as among the best tasting of the fruit wines.

provided that you ignore that grapes are fruit?

Doh... I knew I should have quoted.

Some ideas on how to deal with the on-going feijoa glut would be welcome

This is why we need socialism – to send surplus feijoas to places where there is real need. Feijoas are still $6.99 kg in the supermarket here. I have planted many feijoa trees in my time?

Generally understood convention.

Sangria

– several bottles of the cheapest red wine you can find that isn't complete shite
– any fruit juice you like (start with orange, maybe boil some mint and make a little tea ) to taste
– chop up some fresh fruits, perhaps half a pineapple as?

Some ideas on how to deal with the on-going feijoa glut would be welcome

Put them in the blender with a couple of handfulls of icecubes, the juice of a fresh lime or two, a splash of sugar syrup depending on how sweet your palatte is, and a couple of?

s/99.70/97.50/p

Also, HTML fail..

But sed win, so you're even.

Pure genius. Thanks for that.

I can always be relied on for cocktail recipes. I would be the ideal addition to any workplace, and I am available after June 30...

Small independents of Wellington that I rate for the quality of their repartee as well as their product:
– Rumbles (wine)
– Wine Seeker (wine)
– Mandatory (clothes)
– Unity (books)

Seconded on all of those, especially Wineseeker, which probably counts as my local and has introduced me to many?

Because they're humans, Mark, not just market actors. People get embarrassed irrationally. Sheesh.

Wrong. But try again.

Some ideas on how to deal with the on-going feijoa glut would be welcome

Get a still and make your own vodka.

Balmoral Liquor on Dominion Rd has an extensive range of Wines and Spirits and many foreign beers sold also as singles

Dominion Wines and Spirits is also surprisingly good on the foreign beer front, I can't speak for the wines.

Chef Co. which is a fantastic Lebanese food outlet that?

Wrong. But try again.

I'm not really looking to pursue the point, but Sacha corrrectly deduced my meaning.

Some ideas on how to deal with the on-going feijoa glut would be welcome

Whatever happened to "put them in a plastic bag and hang it off your letterbox for passers-by"? And why are they so expensive to buy, in the unlikely event that you crave some, and your neighbours?

2: Stephen?

Here is a good documentary about it, for distinguished grown ups.

I'm an Aucklander with a Moore Wilson wholesale card, and I'd dearly love that company to open a branch here.

I often thought the same, Russell. That huge empty warehouse section on the south-west corner of Wellesley St West and Nelson St would be ideal. Close enough to Ponsonby, yet?

I'm not really looking to pursue the point, but Sacha corrrectly deduced my meaning.

your point was you hid because your human? or you hid because you're not a market actor? I'm not angling for an indepth sociologocial/ psychological inquiry here, but a little depth never goes amiss.

One thing is that I find distasteful is the vast majority of their staff are causal?s, even the ones doing 30-40hr weeks for months or even years. I presume it helps the supermarket profits in?

The other day I went to my nuts, bolds and screws shop. And, I parked,?

Just like pharmacists are the appropriate distributers of diastop.

A little bit too much information there Steven :)
Could I suggest that an environment like teh supermarket could subconsciously have the effect of introducing food to be consumed with the alcohol which can be good for the binge drinker and may?

if there is one thing PA System is crying out for, it's reader recipes. Go to it, I say.

Hear hear.

On my way round the south island earlier this year I was introduced to many great NZ craft beers, so for a recent party I wanted to get some?

But wait, that might actually work. The problems resulting from meth-amphetamine use have excavated since it started being called P, and?

One thing is that I find distasteful is the vast majority of their staff are causal?s, even the ones doing 30-40hr weeks for months or even years.

[citation needed]

Another thing I dislike is that their big margins or mark-ups on items are on what should be the basis of?

*also called in good Scots a griddle – I have a girdle?

What the hell, why not sell in at the supermarket (just as long as the supervise waves there thing in front of the beeper of corse:)

Or beeper of corpse. Prohibition has never worked Steven, didn't you know that? I am surprised.
"Let them eat cake".....

Prohibition has never worked Steven, didn't you know that? I am surprised.

I think the sarcasm punctuation, might have gone in the wrong place. I was serious about selling Meth-amphetamine in the supermarket , as a way of it de-stigmatizing. I was joking about the teen aged cashier need to?

I find the Wine Vault a hit or miss affair.
Though it's good have a shop like it 10 minutes walk away.
(Dairy pricing)

Requiring more planning is a trip to Fine Wine on Cook St.?

What I find salient in the local context, is that the Wine Vault is bit of a hike from the Chevalier, and in my mind, only compounds the AkCityCouncil's estimate of over 90% retail flight from a community of comparitive affluence to neighbouring suburbs.

This is why we need socialism – to send surplus feijoas to places where there is real need. Feijoas are still $6.99 kg in the supermarket here

Hilary: I am coming down to Wellington for my son's graduation from VUW on Tuesday May 19 and I would be happy to?

Amy – a drop scone, from my brief research, seems to be a pikelet.

While we're on this subject (well, sort of: obscure baked goods, anyway): why did the Edmonds Cookbook get rid of the ginger gems recipe? Is it that no one has gem irons any more? I know?

Poor old Murray? much maligned I?m sure, Rickai. He used to hang out with us at Limbos in ChCh in 1990 (he dated the pretty young girl who worked at the pharmacy on Cashel St)?

For all of you feijoa fans, how about the decision by producers to dump 3.6 miliion kilo of kiwifruit in May & June:

I just knew I should have built an industrial sized moonshine still, when I had thought about it. I just wasn't counting on the economy slumping.

And I have a suspicion that DB's lawsuit against GreenMan (I mean I'm not suing them), might be a bit?

Re gem irons. Ruth Pretty- shop or mail order -sells gem irons with recipe. I can provide gg recipe via PA if required.

"2 cups of flour, 2 eggs, 1/2 cup pf sugar, I oz. butter, 1 cup of milk, 3 tspns. baking powder. Beat eggs and sugar very well, melt ounce of butter and add. Then add milk and other ingredients. Have gem irons very hot, and?

What I find salient in the local context, is that the Wine Vault is bit of a hike from the Chevalier, and in my mind, only compounds the AkCityCouncil's estimate of over 90% retail flight from a community of comparitive affluence to neighbouring suburbs.

Oh lordy, what could happen in?

To the point where we order wine for kiwi's from them, from London. Bank transfer, badaboom. Two cases of champers for a friends wedding, on time, with a couple of free?

Amy – a drop scone, from my brief research, seems to be a pikelet.

Regional variation is always with us, but the item I call a pikelet (whole egg foam method, cooked in frying pan) is not the same as the one I call a drop scone (cut in butter?

I know I would love to see marijuana decriminalized at least. I am a?

a Saturday morning market in the shopping centre car park.

Countdown would probably not be too happy about it in "their" carpark, they're open 8am-8pm 7 days.

re: Westmere butcher, we're loyal customers too but the the "B" rating from the council always makes me flinch a little as does the shanty town they've constructed out the back

Actually, the other day we were watching Parliament TV (hadn't tried it before), and they were discussing the new Patent Bill. Suspect that if its?

The problems resulting from meth-amphetamine use have excavated since it started being called P, and was made a more seriously illegal substance.

You got a licence to drive that cause-and-effect? Source, please.

Rich Lock can bore you to tears with more detail.

In these troubled financial times, I am willing?

It's called terroir living: low food miles + high quality produce and advice = the good life.

Aren't most Waiheke wines made from grapes from other regions? While some of the wines may be local a lot only have a token splattering of local grapes.

Oh lordy, what could happen in the Chev in a retail sense .... if only.

I've almost given up thinking about it now, but try this: a Saturday morning market in the shopping centre car park. The westernmost inner-city suburb presents the best of the West's food and drink and?

Moore Wilson is the best.

Moore Wilsons is also the cheapest place in Wellington to buy Lego. They have the full range, normally 15-20% cheaper than anywhere else. Word to the wise.

Last year they had 99cent pineapples while the supermarkets were selling?

Moore Wilsons is also the cheapest place in Wellington to buy Lego.

I hope it's not bootLego, Jack.

So, ha ha. I was describing this very blog post in the supermarket tonight (produce section), and happened at that very moment to see my go-to wine guy buying mushrooms.

The Dunedinistas have put James on a contract to bring PAS to the people not privileged enough to have internet?

Wine, at the moment some very well?

the "B" rating

While I can't comment on your specific operation, the difference between an A and a B food rating is mostly in planning. It has very relatively little to do with the cleanliness of the store, but in your ability to do a lot of paperwork, outlining how?

opening up a farmers market in the area

How about in the bottom of the So-hole Square? Might as well make the damn thing useful...

"So, ha ha. I was describing this very blog post in the supermarket tonight (produce section), and happened at that very moment to see my go-to wine guy buying mushrooms."

The Dunedinistas have put James on a contract to bring PAS to the people not privileged enough to have internet?

Has anyone seen Sanguinello/Blood Oranges on sale in NZ?

And while on obscure produce, does anyone know where I could get fresh tomatillos? They make fantastic salsa verde but are very hard to get in Wellington.

Has anyone seen Sanguinello/Blood Oranges on sale in NZ?

There were some at my local greengrocer the other week. They freaked the hell out of my daughter, and largely it's only Daleks that do that.

It's quite old-school – quality at an affordable price is the?

Blood Oranges are available in Christchurch – my flatmate received 3 as a gift last week.

What, has she time-travelled to 1947 England?

Amy Gale -ah hah! Just like fish names, different areas call the same foods different names...you are describing (I think!) the classic scone mix(we rub the butter?

Likewise?

I am wholly in agreement with the idea that supermarkets remove real provenance from foods they stock. Given the mass/ive market in some places (see Giovanni Tiso's comments apropos Mexico City) this seems to be a disease of cities.

And?

And spreads elsewhere-

I am glad I live in the city
I am glad my friends live all over the place.
I am glad I get to choose anywhere I wanna be,anytime of the day
I am glad to be here
Thanks for having me
:)
Knowledge Bro'

Choku Bai Jo, in North Lyneham, if you happen to be round here.

*waves at George*

I'm in the happy situation of being 10 minutes' bike ride from Choku Baijo, but I could wish that they stayed open later on Saturdays.

But really, if I'm out and about early enough?

What, has she time-travelled to 1947 England?

My mother used to get oranges for Christmas. In the 50s! It was in Invercargill though. (AKA Scurvytown. ;) )

I've only ever found canned tomatillos, Carol... but if you're going to do that, you might as well just buy the salsa verde?

Amy Gale -ah hah! Just like fish names, different areas call the same foods different names...you are describing (I think!) the classic scone mix(we rub the butter in, rather than cut it),

It's closely related, which I suppose is why the names are related, but a drop scone mix is?

I'm glad to hear that the wheels are finallystarting to turn for Auckland to get a farmers' market of its own. It's really taken long enough for a city of that size, and in a location that is surrounded by producers galore.

Oh it's got a few already – Parnell,?

I've only ever found canned tomatillos, Carol

I bought some fresh ones earlier in the summer at .. Moore Wilsons (where else?). They weren't particularly expensive so I guess that means they were grown here rather than imported. But no luck since.

I'm so looking forward to your drop scone?

they cook into shallow nubbly domes.

Yes! That sounds just like the cheese puffs I like so much.

I really like them. I'll dig out my recipe and post it next week.

Please do. I have made polite enquiries and been rebuffed.

(Dunedin, for the geographically challenged)

Now, that would be a good bumper sticker. ;-)

That comma needs to be a colon, though.

And people say punctuation doesn't matter.

What's wrong with a semi-colon and a bag?

Dude, if you have to ask...

Dude, if you have to ask...

Well, it could come in handy for long distance driving.
I think I'd better stop now, the visuals are getting mucky.
Speshly for the driver behind me.

Ta dah! We're into name-territory again.

Almost all sources give 'drop scones' as 'Scottish/Scots pancakes' aka
pikelets. Almost all?

fried breads can just get so hazardous late at night!

Curses! My oven doesn't heat up to Fahrenheit, it does Celsius only...

Most cookbooks have a conversion scale and there is doubtless conversions sites on the www (like the currency ones). I think you need to be a little cautious about cup sizes re the US and the ROTW.I suspect?

The standard conversion is 2 cups butter/pound, so 1/2 cup is 1/4 pound or about 115g.

Bless you, Amy, I've always mildly wanted to know that. I've always found the American practice of measuring butter in cups kind of nauseating. Nice hot cup of lard, anyone?

Thanks for the recipe Amy!

NZ cup _is_ bigger than US one, I'd forgotten that. Ours is a quarter of a litre and theirs is a quarter?

Most cookbooks have a conversion scale and there is doubtless conversions sites on the www (like the currency ones).

That was the sound of another one of my jokes bombing.

Feijoas (supermarket quality) – $2.99 and $2.49 per kg at Waitangi market this morning – so now we have enough for a while.

Gems (ginger) – Ruth Pretty and Aunt Daisy recipes produce quite different results although both delicious esp warm from oven. Ruth?

http://www.radionz.co.nz/popular/recipes/saturday/iron-age_gems

back to a little joy-gem I've discovered – savoury potato gems(not a dot of sugar)...cheers all, and great to get the receits-

Sorry Sofie – the point about gems is that they have to be warm out of the oven, so the butter melts just a little, accompanied by the gingery bakey smell in the house. Doesn't transport.

Excuses. ;)

People[*] bang on a lot about how baking is Precision Chemistry and you Can't Change Anything. It just ain't so. Sure, you might not want to make huge extempore alterations to a recipe you are about to?

but what's the worst that can happen, really?

Probably food poisoning. Maybe all your friends deciding that you don't like them. The sky's the limit really!

Probably food poisoning. Maybe all your friends deciding that you don't like them.

Now, now, this is exactly the kind of fear I'm trying to allay.

You can't give your friends food poisoning or make them not like you over a tablespoon of sugar more or less in your drop?