Posts by Che Tibby
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Hard News: The Language of Climate, in reply to Bart Janssen,
bart, what's the need for lowering the methane output of ruminants? my layperson's understanding says that as long as you're not introducing fossil-carbon to the feed end then the back end is "carbon neutral"
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Hard News: The Language of Climate, in reply to Rich of Observationz,
An interesting fact, which you may already know,, is that the fertiliser we use is made from hydrogen extracted from natural gas
absolutely. i thought sue kedley was crazy when she said that "we're literally eating oil". until i figured out that this was what she meant.
ian - none taken.
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Hard News: The Language of Climate, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
what the. why the liberal edit?
i'm pretty sure i meant that we need cars - but they don't need to be hydrocarbon powered. otoh we need plastics, and they'll have to be from oil or coal.
regarding "global warming" vs. "climate change". i used to think the same. but then someone pointed out that climate change is more accurate. the freezing temperatures in the US over the past two winters are explicitly linked to global warming, but it's a tough sell. call it climate change, and ur munters are more easily convinced.
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Hard News: The Language of Climate, in reply to George Darroch,
But it's okay to drive to an anti-oil protest.
yeah, we need to drive cars. there are limited options to get around otherwise, even for greenies. i think the real hypocrisy is driving to the dairy when you could walk. or refusing to take public transport, etc.
let me put on the record that i'm not against oil extraction - even with the pollution. or entire civilisation is based on cheap plastics.
i'm against burning it, or using it to fertilise.
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slight threadjack - after 30 years of watching this debate unfold, be explored, be proven in favour of one side, and slip gradually beneath the waves of momental public apathy, my response for the past decade has been simple: just don't be part of the problem. do all the things that you want everyone to do to save the world, so if they ever start to catch up you're already showing the way. and if need be you can help them.
and most importantly. when that day comes that an angry young tibby stands up in front of me and demands to know, "WHAT DID YOU DO?!" while the world was being poisoned, i can look him in the eye and say, everything i could.
including teaching you to survive it.
(which kind of makes me a latter day jane connor)
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i can highly recommend this tome by the formidably named pushpesh pant.
it's pretty good, and reads a heck of a lot like a set of recipes collected from a diverse range of other cookbooks, and poorly translated. the descriptions are sometimes out of synch, and other times missing key ingredients (which are in the list, but not in the instructions), so it can be a bit of an adventure.
have been slowly working my way through the chicken curries, but they seem to have recipes for pretty much anything you can name. it's almost solely responsible for a doubling of space needed on the spice shelf.
that said, after awhile you find it's like having 1000 italian recipes - which coincidentally sits next to it on the shelf.
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Feed: My Life in Curry, in reply to Dave Patrick,
curried eggs (which I still have an enormous soft spot for) were my introduction to curry
BOOM. that was mine too. i had completely forgotten.
i very first job (1982) involved peeling and halving boiled eggs, scooping the yolk out, mixing it with powder and mayonaisse, and piping back into the whites for display with a wee sprig of parsley.
this was then placed on a tray for display with the rest of the smorgasbord.
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Growing coriander. Seems like it's mostly luck. Most things in Newlands really struggle, but for some reason despite the unpredictable weather, high winds and poor soil coriander seems to go great.
Except this past year.
Damn fickle herb...
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Feed: My Life in Curry, in reply to Greg Wood,
Yeah man. When the crop is successful I like to sit outside on a warm day and strip the seed heads for an afternoon. The full hippie trip. Cicadas, birdsong, harvest.
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Feed: My Life in Curry, in reply to Ben Chapman,
It is often all that is listed when an Indian restaurant's menu has a children's selection
yep. so far, it's the only curry the wee man (5) will eat.
i also make my own pastes and powders. do a mean ras hanout too.