Posts by Lyndon Hood
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Apparently, birds flying into the path of microwave transmitters don't do too well, if they're close enough to the source.
Maillard ducks?
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I thought I'd google for a feijoa liquer recipie.
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Beaten to it, but anyhoo...
Feijoa Jam
This is adapted from a recipie for guavas in a big Krishna-style book I've got at home. Is also from memory.
You will need
Equal amounts by weight of fruit and sugar (as per any jam expect berries). You might include some jaggery or brown sugar in the latter for flavour.
Some whole spices (think coriander seeds, cumin, cardamom pods), grated fresh ginger and dash of chilli - just enough to make it gently warm on the tongue.
Ghee or clarified butterScoop out the feijoa, chop it a little and cook it until it's the texture you want - I like little lumps but you can go for smooth pulp if you like. Add you sugar a bit at a time, keep cooking till it dissolves and the mix starts boiling. Keep going till it's ready - I generally see if a little bit on a spoon forms a skin as it cools. Take it off the heat.
Melt some ghee in a frying pan and cook the whole spices a bit (you might add the ginger but not the chilli, I think), then mix this a lot and the other spices into the jam.
I put the pot in a sink that has cold water to cool it quicker, stirring as I go. When it gets thick and warm rather than hot put it in sterilised jars. Seal when cooled closer to room temperature.
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Mind you, on the bush the landlord put in the other year there is currently one feijoa, which is a slight comedown from last year. Seem to be heading for some lemons tho.
Growing up in Dunedin with a family house in Queenstown, when used to go through central otago in summer a lot. Om nom nom. While some year have been awful for stonefruit in Wellington lately, this one hasn't been so bad - I did make some decent peach jam when they were really cheap. It's just that the apricots, for instance, taste of nothing.
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we are talking capitalised TASTE here though
and you get to grow whatever kind of tomatoes you like. Not that I've tried it, I'm just frustrated that the ugly, lumpen, butter-ily yummy variety that was at the LHutt market last year seems to be missing. Just the 'normal' small medium and large ones.
Re cheese, it does get fiddly and specialist very quickly. In my minimal experience the only thing worth trying to make at home would be the fresh white curd sort of thing like cottage chees or the equivalent of indian paneer (I failed with an authentic version). And I didn't find it very satisfying in the end.
Plus you do need lots of milk, and powder doesn't really work.
For domestic quantities of milk you can use a yoghurt maker to make cultured buttermilk too. Which tastes like cheese.
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Well, let's be charitable Shep -- I'm sure they were all working off the same press release a platoon of ministerial press secretaries slaved over a hot laptop all weekend to produce.
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subsequent to a release from Victim Support
If it was - and it certainly looks like it was - said release doesn't seem to have been widely distributed. It's not on their website.
</grizzle>
I'm starting to feel like Ministers are more and more avoiding Questions they could easily answer, and often preferring (if mostly on policy) to abuse the questioner. Like it's a matter of principle.
Considering that lowering the tone will only alienate people - people generally considered unlikely to be right-leaning voters, that's sad.
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Snap!
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is one of the more facile and insulting questions I've come across.
Listen to question time much? It's the exact format National constantly uses on crime or health or pretty much anything; and to my mind a bit more justifiable.
FWIW you can, as usual, read the question time transcript on Scoop. Although it was I think during the general debate (which is to say, after withdrawing and apologising for the initial remark) Cullen tabled the article in question (it hasn't been tabled already?).Some time later Locke heard about it and made his extended and anguished personal explaination. Cullen responded by explaining that he hadn't said Keith had supported mass murder, he said he'd supported Pol Pot. Charming.
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