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Food - November 2006

Simple Shortbread

November 30th 2006 10:37
Ingredients:
2 1/2 Cups Plain flour
½ Teaspoon of Vanilla
½ Cup castor sugar
180g butter, chopped


Method:
Use an electric mixer to cream the butter, sugar and vanilla together. Sift the flour then use your fingers to rub the flour into the butter mixture to form a smooth dough. Knead well and spread the dough out on a floured board so that it is an even ½ cm in thickness. Use cookie cutters to make interesting shapes with the dough.


Place the shapes onto a lightly greased oven tray, ensuring there is some room between them to expand. Cook in a low oven for up to 45 minutes, checking the shortbread to ensure that it does not over cook. When they are finished allow to cool for at least fifteen minutes before trying to remove from the tray. Additional decoration can also be added, such as dusting with icing sugar or rolling in raw sugar.
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River Cottage Road Trip

November 29th 2006 10:58
River Cottage Road Trip is yet another TV cooking show hosted by a strange Englishman. Each week Hugh adventures through a gorgeous part of Britain, discovering what culinary treats it has to offer.

Like any good Brit he likes to kill his food before he eats it, and thus much fishing and hunting ensues. In this episode they perform a not very serious hunt for the mythical haggis beast, which mostly involves several drunken Scotsmen running around the moors in tartan kilts yelling and carrying on while waving weapons in the air. They eventually catch the poor wee beastie (a sack of haggis with feathers stuck into it and eyes drawn on) and devour it, but not before soaking it with a good deal more scotch



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Low Food Security

November 28th 2006 02:20
Political correctness is something that annoys a lot of people. We’re now supposed to dwarves ‘little people’ and call fairy penguins ‘little penguins’ in case homosexuals get offended. But having vaguely studied semiotics I can understand why this is an issue. It is an attempt to remove damaging connotations from words in order to create new, less offensive meanings. For example ‘little people’ does not have the same bearded, axe wielding connotations. Similarly people can reclaim words by using them in new contexts, such as the words ‘fag’ and ‘wog’ have been adopted by those they were previously used derogatorily against, thus removing some social prejudice from the words.

Low Food Security
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Left Over Rice Cakes

November 27th 2006 10:47
I often have a bowl of left over rice or risotto in the fridge and don’t like the prospect of resurrecting it the next day. Yet here’s a clever way you can reinvent last night’s dinner without too much trouble.


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Shiraz Restaurant Parramatta

November 25th 2006 07:46
The Shiraz Restaurant was recommended by an Assyrian taxi driver, so we decided to check it out.

Shiraz Restaurant
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Country Pikelets

November 24th 2006 06:55
Ingredients:
1 Cup of Plain Flour
1 Teaspoon of Vanilla Essence


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KFC Targets Extraterrestrials

November 23rd 2006 06:34
This image was found in an article in the Sydney Morning Herald. Were it in some more dubious source, I would find this very hard to believe. Though I guess it should technically be possible to check its validity on Google Earth.

www.smh.com.au

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Cool Cucumbers

November 21st 2006 07:27
Recently I spent some time on a cucumber farm near Coffs Harbour. It was great fun as we got to go swimming, ride horses and tear up the grass on the quad bike. Less fun was the actual farming, which is tougher than most people realise. One essential part of tending cucumber plants is to pluck off deviant leaves and tendrils every so often, being careful to leave the flowers unharmed. They plants are then wound further round the strings that support them. All this has to be done by hand in the heat of a green house. Though I only kept it up for about an hour, the prickly leaves of the cucumbers irritated my exposed skin, all of which turned itchy and bright red. I call it ‘cucumber burn’.


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'The Bread Book' by Sara Lewis

November 20th 2006 09:22
How good is bread?
There is nothing like the smell of baking bread, so why not fill your house with that delightful aroma while trying your hand at some really different varieties?
The book is described as, “The definitive guide to making bread by hand or machine.” We are lucky enough to have a machine and though its considerably harder working by hand, the results can still make it well worth the effort


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Spiced Chicken Wings on Saffron Rice

November 18th 2006 06:30
Ingredients:
1 Onion
2 Cloves of Garlic


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Bogey Hole Cafe Newcastle

November 15th 2006 02:20
I have to admit I was in a bit of a bad mood when I visited the Bogey Hole Café in Newcastle. I’d been locked out from my holiday house for about 3 hours and was still dragging around all my stuff. A text message instructed me to meet a stranger in the café at a certain time to pick up the keys.

Bogey Hole Cafe
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Food Lover's Guide to Australia SBS

November 14th 2006 01:59
The Food Lover’s Guide to Australia is a fantastic program that has run for several successful seasons on SBS. They showcase a diverse range of Australian cuisine stretching from the artful to the unusual and with a focus on Australia’s multiculturalism.
www.foodandwinelovers.com.au
www.foodandwinelovers.com.au

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Chelsea Buns Recipe

November 13th 2006 01:36
According to Recipe Tips chelsea buns were a specialty of the Old Chelsea Bun House which used to operate in London during the 19th century.

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Some of Sydney’s most prominent food writers (myself excluded, ahem) will be appearing at the Newtown Festival tomorrow on Sunday the 12th of November. The festival is usually a fantastic day out with a multitude of stalls, free entertainment and a range of food and beverages that will keep you amused until the whole thing shuts down at 6pm. This year features the introduction of the controversial fence, symbolising an ‘of-fence’ against punters who are not used to being subjected to a line and frisk before entering the park.

Nevertheless if you do decide to sacrifice your BYO and pay the exorbitant prices for alcohol on the premises then you should visit the 'Better Read Than Dead' writer’s tent at 2pm


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Feasting on Flesh - The Review

November 10th 2006 00:37
Feasting on Flesh brings a whole new meaning to the phrase “playing with your food”.

www.sydneyoperahouse.com

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Food Lover's Guide to Australia

November 8th 2006 07:04
The Food Lover’s Guide to Australia is a fantastic program that has run for several successful seasons on SBS. They showcase a diverse range of Australian cuisine stretching from the artful to the unusual and with a focus on Australia’s multiculturalism.
www.foodandwinelovers.com.au

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Florentines Recipe

November 7th 2006 06:54
These are good to make yourself because they are really expensive to buy in the shops.

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Cupcake Magic Animation

November 6th 2006 10:37


If only I had the power to create muffins with a swish of my fingers


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The Good Food Festival

November 5th 2006 02:28
Despite the frisky wind and the terrible allergies it provoked, my constantly running, itchy nose didn’t prevent me from smelling all the tantalising aromas wafting about.


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The Yummiest Pasta Salad

November 3rd 2006 03:55
You’ll never buy that manky old pasta salad from Woolies or the local fish and chip shop again.

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Post Punk Kitchen

November 2nd 2006 12:02
I have always been a fan of community TV. It’s usually fun and raw and unpretentious. Post Punk Kitchen is a cute little show produced in Brooklyn by a couple of sexy young girls with great taste (in clothes as well as food).
http://www.theppk.com
They say, “We've always loved cooking shows but they tend to be gross,” so what better reason to start your own? Like good socially conscious post punks they specialise in vegetarian and vegan cooking. They make all sorts of delightful treats including vegan cupcakes and ice cream which I believe is always of interest to Vegans who are trying to spice up their diet with a variety of tasty flavours.

The show is hosted by Isa Moskowitz and Terry Romero. They have a low budget, early Jamie Oliver style that works really well as the hosts are pretty relaxed and genuine. There’s usually a theme like Passover, Valentine’s Day or Mexican and each episode they also feature a local alternative band and talk to them about food and cooking


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Chicken in English Mustard Sauce

November 1st 2006 09:46
Ingredients:
1 Fillet of Chicken
1 Cup of Rice


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