Posts by Hebe
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Venison is always right: seared ribbons with slow cooked onion wedges then tosed at the last minute in a little spicy plum sauce. Chuck it in your favourite good bread with any juices adhering.
General tip: As a long-term feeders of boys, I have found they eat most anything when put in bread/buns or spread on a pizza.
Great idea for a thread Russell,; just right for a day like today with storms to come. I'll try not to over-share.
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Up Front: An Open Letter to the Labour…, in reply to Graeme Edgeler,
John Kelcher's aimed for his supporters to give the Greens the party vote and to vote for Cosgrove for the electorate (thereby having Wilkinson come in on the National list rather than winning another seat). The message was not entirely taken on board by the voters. I don't know what the Greens' official position on that was.
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Food essential: Fiorenzo's "black salt" herb mix.
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Hard News: Kitchen Hacks, in reply to Gareth,
Yesss. I am not meant to be eating them but the duck in the freezer is winking at me today...Christmas dinner for the last couple of years has been Richard Till's twice-cooked duck. A considerable amount of duck fat comes out of that and is in the freezer for emergencies ( like tonight?).
I oven-bake, especially Agria, potatoes rather than fry so less oil and fat is needed. Adding fresh rosemary smells gorgeous, though I can never figure out if I can taste it or not. -
Hard News: Kitchen Hacks, in reply to Gareth,
I have been reading cookbooks since I was a child - for recreation - but never cooked much as an adult until I was 36 and gave up partying and started eating in a survival way. Now I cook all the time and really like it (mostly).
A wonderful cookbook new to me: The Sprouted Kitchen; a new way of thinking about some food. Also Ceres sent me a gorgeous cookbook as a birthday celebration: it's stunning (I do tend to simplify the recipes in terms of ingredients and time).
Last month's food discovery: tempeh. Rinse, slice thinly, squirt with Braggs aminos (or tamari or soy ). Pan fry in hot, heavy pan with a very tiny drip of EV olive oil - takes a couple of minutes and comes out golden and slightly crunchy to go with a stir fry, roast veges or whatever.
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Oscar juicer: so much more than a juicer. This auger-type juicer will make almost instant soups, ice-cream, pesto, curry and spice mixes, and spreads as well as juice. Too many to mention: it has revolutionised the way I cook this year. We eat far more plant foods -- especially veges .
It has become a kitchen essential. I have many recipes -- I'll post sometimes. The first is icecream: freeze whole very ripe bananas in their skins. Peel, and poke through the juicer with the mincer screen; out comes fluffy, silky icecream -- no dairy or sugar. You can add other frozen fruit, drinking chocolate powder for chocolate icecream for flavouring. The chocolate/banana is very good. -
Up Front: An Open Letter to the Labour…, in reply to Deborah,
If you go with the ‘living in the electorate’ criterion, people can get ruled in or out by a street or two, which seems a little arbitrary. Better to look at their credentials
You have never lived in Brighton. It is a little ... insular. When I first moved out there I met people proud to tell me they "only went over the bridge" (ie to town) a couple of times a year. Neighbourhood factionalism is so entrenched that South Shore. South Brighton, New Brighton, North Beach and North Shore all regard themselves as totally separate tribes, even though they are parked next to each other down a 10km (? maybe a little more or less) stretch by the beach.
Not the kind of place to welcome incomers (after 12 years living there I was only just being accepted as "from round here'' ).
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Up Front: An Open Letter to the Labour…, in reply to Keir Leslie,
Exactly why growing the name recognition of another person in a party with a small number of MPs is important when that party is the third-largest in Paliament by far and is likely to have more MPs after the 2014 election.
The two big parties are so threatened by the Greens' slow but steady increase in support that the spotlight on the likes of United Future suits them very well. Ignore the pests and they'll go away: they won't.
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Up Front: An Open Letter to the Labour…, in reply to Rich of Observationz,
I thought someone had OOS given the way the poll turned around from the showing in the first couple of hours to the result later this afternoon. Why don't Stuff just stop multiple voting on polls -- or is that impossible?
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Up Front: An Open Letter to the Labour…, in reply to Mikaere Curtis,
I think Mojo lives in the electorate - or she did. Another possibility is John Kelcher, who stood against Cosgrove in Waimak (costing Labour the seat), and who lives nearby. (I go for John on the basis that he'll throw a damn good party.) It would seem better tactics to me to give another Green the opportunity to get up some profile by contesting a by-election; Mojo could be out there in support.