Posts by Stephen Judd
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PROBLEM: recipes call for bacon, in small amounts, eg those French and Italian style recipes that are always wanting you to saute onions with some chopped salt pork product, and you don't want a manky packet of crappy bacon festering in the fridge, and you are too cheap to buy horrendously expensive lumps of speck or pancetta or what have you, and too busy to do your own charcuterie at home*.
SOLUTION 1: keep bags of bacon offcuts in the freezer. For preference buy them from your local butcher who smokes their own, but such things are usually tucked away in the meat case at your supermarket. On no account buy the branded Hellers bacon bits which are hella expensive and not very good.
SOLUTION 2: buy bacon bones (again, preferably from the butcher who smokes their own) and keep a bag in the freezer. What you want for anything slow-cooked and wet.
* although this is totally worth it and fun if you have the time.
PROBLEM: your recipe calls for smoked meat, but you are cooking for vegetarians or pork avoiders.
SOLUTION: smoked paprika, aka pimenton, conveys a delicious smoky savoury flavour. A tin costs about $10 but lasts for ages as only small amounts are required. Watch out lest it you end up using it in everything and getting sick of it.
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I repeat, it's an unsourced rumour.
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Up Front: An Open Letter to the Labour…, in reply to Emma Hart,
National will probably stand a candidate in a Christchurch East by-election but with low expectations of winning
I don't know why. The party vote stats in East suggest that a good Nat candidate could win -- Lianne got a far greater proportion of candidate votes than Labour did party votes. The onus is really on Labour to a) field a decent candidate and b) go all out for that candidate.
I note that the Stuff article carefully says "there is speculation" and does not say who is doing the speculating.
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Coming to Gerry's defence doesn't come naturally to me, but is he actually behind this? If I understand the article correctly, it's this lot who make that decision. Brownlee's not making the threat here.
I heard Glen Livingstone on the radio last night saying that the fateful letter from IANZ was received by council staff some days ago but most councillors only found out via the media last night. There seemed to be a suggestion that the relevant council committee had been sitting on the news.
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they tend not to start out as systems administrators.
No doubt the NSA runs a tighter ship than most people, but it's impossible to do your job as a sysadmin without being entrusted with access to things you wouldn't otherwise have access to.
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BTW I take it SCIENTIA EST POTENTIA is "Knowledge is Power"?
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Don’t overlook the Telecommunications Interception Bill, described in admirable and hair-raising detail by Thomas Beagle on the Tech Liberty blog here .
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Alex Coleman (@shakingstick) had a rather good series of tweets a few days ago, provoked by a recent Listener editorial, suggesting that the current "gotcha" mode of political journalism exemplified by Gower and co was actually a consequence of the slick media management now practised by modern parties -- that far from being the victims of shallow coverage, they positively encouraged it. Interested to hear Bryce's view on that argument.
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Hard News: A plea for sanity on the…, in reply to InternationalObserver,
Welcome back! I wondered where you went.