Posts by Hebe
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I like that Lorde and her dark pop: tints of shoe-gazing and Katy Perry-when-she-was-good magimixed into her own blend. Great. And 16!
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Capture: Dogs Love Cameras Too, in reply to Nora Leggs,
Pigging. Winnie in pic 2 may also be protecting her treasure from Nina. Puppy experts told us to smear a little food in their mouths or mix it with puppy milk and they would slowly get used to the idea of solids. We did that and both then tried to devour our hands, so we put a little plate down. Voomph! Gone.
BTW... good homes are being sought.
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Pupdate: Nina and Winnie (she's become a girl) have consented to pose for photos. They are three weeks old today, have been eating solids for three days, and Winnie is self-toilet-training. She is also teething.
They are a fine diversion from 3 weeks of flu for all round here: the three-hourly feeds were almost like having baby twin peoples again.
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The anchor project funding split is out: http://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/business/the-rebuild/8849251/Anchor-projects-bill-totals-4-8-billion
Looks okay apart from the fatal flaw of having a huge convention centre in the heart of our city and having no opportunity for citizens to have input into its placement or even desirability: Design the paddock and the sheep will fight over the best blades of grass.
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Hard News: Kitchen Hacks, in reply to Thrash Cardiom,
You explained it! Thin pans burn. The best small one I have is a Copco omelette pan: beautifully smooth cast iron.
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Hard News: Kitchen Hacks, in reply to BenWilson,
Yeah: for a decade of having kids I had no other small appliance apart from the stick blender and a flash coffee machine (nuked by a neurotic cat: she leaped from the top of the fridge where she slept, knocked over the espresso maker, which was still plugged into the power socket, the water emptied out, the switch on the machine turned on and the thing burned out. I wept at the time.)
Now I covet a Magimix food processor (but $800!).
Kitchen cat hack #1: Don't leave the espresso machine plugged in case of katmikaze attacks.
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Hard News: Kitchen Hacks, in reply to Raymond A Francis,
Comfort food.
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Hard News: Kitchen Hacks, in reply to Amy Gale,
Our standby food for almost nothing: Frog pond Soup
Saute in EV olive oil 2 or 3 onions cut into wedges. While that's cooking pick a colander-full or so of green veges; if kale take out the ribs, then chop (or tear if you don't have a knife). Dice 4 big potatoes. Add to the pale brown onions. Cover with water, or stock. Salt or kelp is good here, crushed garlic; splash of tamari, splash of apple cider vinegar. Cook all till soft. (Add Miso if it needs some zap and you haven't used much in the way of other flavours). Whiz with the stick blender till smooth and very thick and deep green. Grate or crumble a mountain of favourite cheese in each bowlful.
Another hack: colanders: useful for everything from gathering veges to fruit bowls to lightshades. And because I like old colanders.
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Hard News: Kitchen Hacks, in reply to Sofie Bribiesca,
Kale loves bacon and good sausages! And extra-virgin olive oil. I like the idea of lime very much Sofie. Cavolo nero is my favourite, though I'll happily go with Red Russian or plain old curly green. It does seem to improve with a few frosts, happily for southerners.
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Capture: Two Tales of a City, in reply to Gudrun Gisela,
Not long now: most of the cordon is down on Friday at 3pm.
