Posts by Russell Brown
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But I wonder on what position you would have taken (or did) if some rich prick gave mega bucks to the National party and recieved a knighthood in his christmas stocking
That happened quite a while back in some cases. But given Glenn's long-term contribution to the country of his birth, the Herald's angle is just insulting. They're calling the guy corrupt.
Especially when the F F A seemed to be specifially changed to allow the afore mentioned Labour rich prick to keep on giving
It really does look like a Government out of touch with the people it is meant to representI think the restriction of donations to NZ nationals (which would also include National's major donors) was in the EFA right from the start, and whatever the bill's flaws, I suspect that most people would have sympathy with the idea of preventing wealthy foreign interests from influencing elections. Britain has a similar restriction.
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__Where, if not on Lorne Street, was Simple Cottage then?__
High Street! (Not that I ever went there.)
As I recall, yes. Downstairs from where Vivace is now. They were hippies. Dominos were glam vegetarians, and also served espresso coffee well before it was common. I quite miss these places. These days you have juice bars, which is like the accelerated, gym-bunny, executive version of healthy eating.
Seeing as this is the way the thread's gone, I'd like to put in a major word for the curry stand at the food hall that used to be adjacent to Vulcan Lane. My Friday ritual usually involved a late afternoon meal there, served by a matronly and handsome Fijian woman, as a prelude to whatever brand of risky behaviour was planned for later.
Oh, and how abut the Middle East? Essentially the same as it was in 1983, and still great at what it does. It was only when I first landed in Amsterdam that I realised it was a Dutch cafe version of middle eastern street food. Although they seem to have lost the plot on it even there lately ...
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I'm not vegetarian, but I still hanker after the tofu burgers that we used to get at the wee place on Lorne St, in the 80's. Does anyone remember it's name?
Dominos. And yes, they were nice -- most of the food was, as I recall.
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That all sounded really appealing until I realised you were talking about scoffing down lard. That's enough to nearly make me retch, and I'm from yorkshire for feck's sake!
(And, it's worth mentioning, vegetarian. So I suppose that disqualifies me - but eating lard is still totally rank, sehriusly!)
Not lard, pork fat cured with salt and herbs, sliced thinly and presented by the same chef who cured it with salt and herbs, and who oversaw the pigs' diet. Not exactly yer packet of of dripping ...
PS: The tofu burgers this evening were quite nice. Lots of satay sauce.
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The most gorgeous morning and afternoon - sitting happily in our new little bit of paradise ...
You've got space!!
That house looks really lovely, but you should knock out both sides of the serving hatch from the kitchen. Cooks like to socialise too. And you can't need that much storage ...
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What a flash feed you had! Hand stretched mozzarella and vine ripened tomatoes? Olive oil? Where's the pipi's?
The pipis aren't good for my gout unfortunately -- and there were none handy anyway (have you noticed how live mussels with their constant shower have disappeared from supermarket?).
The mozz was from up around Matarangi, I think. Beautiful stuff that came in a solid log.
That was my inner brown person, sorry. She pops up in my conscious mind from time to time, particularly when issues such as race relations or food are mentioned. That's the same part of me that expects to have had loads of boil up and hangi at this time of year.
I came back from London for the summer of 88-89 basically a vegetarian. By the time I'd been to a hangi and a barbecue that was over. The meat was just too nice ...
Ever watch Kai Time on Maori Television? Those bros had a really good handle on cooking traditional kai along with new ingredients, including plenty of olive oil.
But on the other hand, there's the more dominant, self appointed Herbivorian in me that is naughtily (I know I'm terrible, I'm horrible!) drooling and fantasizing over the home-smoked salmon and other succulent, big, hot and juicy.... meats that everyone has been bragging about on this thread.
I recall we had a nut loaf one year. It was pleasant enough, but not really the business. What I like is that my local butcher can sell me free-range ham and turkey at a decent price (they also demonstrate that you don't have to pump bacon full of brine to make it affordable -- their dry-smoked bacon is excellent and really nicely presented). I won't eat factory pig or chicken (although I presumably get the latter at restaurants and takeaways).
Sure we have one up on the Vegan's ...
Doesn't everyone? I respect the decision, but I just like food too much for that sort of carry-on.
I got Bill Buford's Heat for Christmas. It tells the story of the author's George Plimpton-style internship in the kitchen of a very good Italian restaurant, run by a mad, brilliant Italian-American chef called Mario Batali.
The first two pages are largely a rhapsody about being fed thin strips of lardo -- the fatty back of a pig -- specially cured by Mario himself and taken from a very fat pig that had spent the last months of its life eating apples, walnuts and cream. The instruction was to let the fat dissolve on their tongues to fully savour the flavours.
Mmmm.
But I'm not trying to sway you, honest. You started it ...
PS: Dinner tonight is ... tofuburgers!
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it was screened in america a couple of weeks ago.
torrent already available. its quite stunning. a multi layered, moving and damn funny triumph.Watched it last night. It's definitely all that. Hugely impressive.
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Some Christmas links I didn't put in the post ...
The War on Christmas nonsense regrettably spreads to Britain.
The already copious Voyage of the Damned Wikipedia article (SPOILERS!!)
And if anyone can find a link to Steve Braunias's wonderful meditation on parenthood in last weekend's SST Sunday magazine, feel free to post it ...
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We're off to the in-laws' tonight. Somehow the atheist Jewbag got volunteered to cook on Christmas Day, ...
Well, you do know how to have fun with meat ...
Your host has been drinking liberally on Ponsonby Road, and may yet go and see Graham Brazier play at a local garage party.
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Let's not be too sharp with each other in the festive season.
Rich, I appreciate you making the contrary argument, but the DRM angle is a bit thin ...
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