First Foodie Friday of 2016

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Alright then, youse people, since the topic seems to have turned (once again) to food, please feel free to put up your fave pics of your fave eats and we will have a virtual progressive feast.

I have just finished cooking this, but as a sauté rather than as a daube (and definitely without carrots), to be served very soon with noodles and asparagus:

Bleu Ribbon Kitchen

The bar is open: help yourselves!

Cescaphe Event Group

144 thoughts on “First Foodie Friday of 2016”

  6. gigilene

    “Not as food. I mustn’t be a true Bretonne.”
    .
    So Brittany is the source of French = frog eaters ?

  13. TLBD

    Gigielen looks German indeed. But I’m pretty sure the Germans know the name “Gigi” and would pronounce it the French way.

  17. Quite partial to a Burgundy. A bit tastier than the stuff from Bordeaux (not that there is anything wrong with that).

    I have never had a vin ordinaire but I believe it is several degrees inferior to our cask wines.

    • Very nice and “patriotic”.

      I thought they were about to do a recipe for Boeuf Bourguignon once or twice.

  21. Vin rouge ordinaire – my dad’s drink for lunch. He liked it. He had never tasted casked wine … So he couldn’t compare.

  23. gigi – ‘Vin rouge ordinaire’. I’ve encountered this.

    After the second glass most types OK.

  24. Think Tanya getting in Waffles’ face.

    Actually, I reckon Ged Kearney would be perfect in that role.

    • If you let this roll past the end on YouTube you’ll get some very good stuff.

  27. “Ged Kearney would be perfect in that role”
    .
    From what little I have seen or heard of Ged she would in my “Very ‘Eavy, Very ‘Umble” opinion a great one to deliver the “the cold steel” wot “they don’t like it up ’em!”

    Some ‘eavy and ‘umble

    .

  30. Hello, everyone.

    It’s been a while, but things have been looking a bit down for me lately.

    Basically, I have been unsuccessful in finding a job for the past 6 months, and because of that, Centrelink is attempting to put me on a work for the dole program.

    So, what I’ve done from here is enrolled for my Honours course at university, and I have been accepted and am starting now.

    So it seems that my studies aren’t over just yet. And hopefully by the end of the year I’ll have a good thesis to make future job hunting efforts a bit better.

  31. gigilene

    “Another Julia perhaps.”
    .
    A good chance for that. She seems to get sfa msm media coverage but she comes over very well.

  32. Kirsdarke

    Sorry to hear about the employment position. Ah well, you seem to excel when studying, and you know us Pubsters will be watching your back all the way through.

  33. Just thinking about the Romance languages in song.

    My take, on their pop music.

    French – always to some extent throatal and, therefore, passionate

    Italian – always flummery. Not a fan

    Spanish – language always fluent (leaving aside Flamenco) and easy to listen to. BTW, Their composers do a lot better melody than the English-writing ones.

  34. Kirsdarke,

    Rotten luck about the employment but you have imo made a wise decision.

    We all know you will do brilliantly.

  36. I really hope Ged Kearney gets into federal parliament sooner rather than later. She has considerable experience and huge potential.

    To make matters even better, she’s not “deliberately barren”, and her children are grown up.

  37. Gigilene,

    Scholarships are seldom available for honours or masters programs.

    However, on the basis of Kirsdarke’s known results, I’d say he’d have to have a good chance of a PhD scholarship when the time comes.

  38. Thanks, everyone.

    It wasn’t something I was particularly keen on doing because I was so relieved to have finished studies last year, but my teacher pointed out that I still have 40 years of my working life left ahead of me, so I’d best do what I can at the start of it before settling in somewhere for the long term.

    And yes I will keep updates on how I’m going.

  39. Fiona,

    You know better than I but isn’t the path to a doctorate fraught with the tutors and assessors foisted upon you?

    At what stage can the applicant say nix to any of those?

  40. Kirsdarke,

    I agree with your mentor.

    Does s/he have anything to say about a PhD? I would have thought that in today’s environment the more expertise you have to offer the better. However, I don’t know much about your particular industry, so I could well be quite wrong.

    Best of luck with your studies. You know you have lots of people here supporting you, so please keep in touch!

    • I agree.

      Most of us don’t reply to / comment on most postings but it is obvious that many of us, from the interpolation now and again, that we have a watching brief.

  41. Ducky,

    but isn’t the path to a doctorate fraught with the tutors and assessors foisted upon you?

    A prospective student needs to take great care in the selection of a supervisor. Many do; some don’t – and those that don’t can suffer badly.

    Changing supervisors is almost always an option, and if a student is unhappy with the quality of their supervision, or where the relationship is incompatible, the student should always seek advice about how best to make the change.

    As for the eventual thesis examiners, that’s always something a decent supervisor will discuss with the student. Of course, the examiners are anonymous, though usually, after the thesis has been passed, they will agree to having their identities disclosed to the student.

    In my experience (not just my own thesis), supervisors and examiners are incredibly generous with their advice – but then, I chose carefully.

  42. @Fiona

    She hasn’t mentioned a PhD yet, but she did mention that my thesis will have to be really good so I’d have a chance at the next step to get a Master’s degree.

    And thanks, that’s great to know.

    And yes, TLBD, I’ll be narrowing focus on studies in order to do a particular subject. It’s kind of exciting really, it’s a process of separating the different minerals in Granite rocks. The aim there is to separate the microscopic Zircon grains from the rest of the rock. If that’s done, then the zircon particles can be analyzed to find out the age of the rock (it’s like Carbon dating, but it can be used to estimate the date over a much longer period).

    At the moment, the most reliable method of doing that is to do it manually, which involves cutting up the rock under a microscope and this can take weeks or even months to do for a sample. So I’ll be trying out a new method. I’ll let everyone know how it goes.

    • “process of separating the different minerals in Granite rocks”

      By chemical interference or spectroscope?

      I’m way out of my depth here.

  43. A good friend of the family did a doctorate on minute bugs. She did want to become a pathologist doing court stuff.

    A highly intelligent lady. She went to the Netherlands where she married and became an editor for Elsevier in I know not what.

    She and hubby are living in Melbourne, doing I know not what.

    The other daughter also got her PhD doing work on the psychology of Aborigines in some particular aspect. She now works for the ABS.

    Not quite work out what the story of the tale is but one is that what you seem to qualify for may not be what you end up with.

  44. Oliebollen, Dutch NYE food. As I get older I get more nostalgic for childhood treats, necessarily Dutch, of course.

    Used this recipe, with dried fruit and added a few little balls marzipan I had made. Mum reckons they were very good.

    Back to Strathalbyn tomorrow, buy a couple of items antiques including a Crown Ducal jug. I am a sucker for pieces with tactile appeal. Then a nice lunch at a French restaurant in nearby Callington with niece and great niece.

    • My very good friend, immigrant from the Netherlands, does does regularly.

      I hate to tell you (or you may already know) that the bollen don’t get that colour unless they are burnt to a crisp.

    • And it was good to meet you and your mum.

      My regards to her too if you please. Her stories from the war were rivetting. Gave me quite a few insights.

      She would have been my mum’s contemporary (born 1923).

  46. Kirsdarke

    You have made a very wise decision. Best of luck, and if you feel a bit down at any time, just remind yourself it’s a much better option than being a slave on work for the dole.

  47. @TLBD

    We’re hoping that we can do it through gravity separation. Basically, the principle is that Zircon is more dense than the other substances found in granite rocks. So if it’s put into a heavy liquid that has a higher density than the rest of the rock, but a lower density than the Zircon, then when the granite rock is crushed into a fine powder, most of the grains will float to the top while the zircon sinks to the bottom and can be separated in that method.

    • The less interference the greater the accuracy.

      One , Herr Heisenberg, would be appreciative.

  48. tlbd

    what you seem to qualify for may not be what you end up with.

    Two law degrees done and never really used them.

    • ducky – The real insult to injury after I slugged my way through these was the guy who encouraged me to do them told me about 5 years ago if he had have known I’d keep popping up to ‘fill gaps’ he’d have got me to do economics.

  49. Basically, I have been unsuccessful in finding a job for the past 6 months, and because of that, Centrelink is attempting to put me on a work for the dole program.

    So, what I’ve done from here is enrolled for my Honours course at university, and I have been accepted and am starting now.

    Definitely a good decision, trying to go through all the hoops that centrelink and the job service providers make you go through is an absolute pain.

  50. Was nice to meet you too, TLBD.

    Poor Mum is pretty deaf but yes, had an eventful life. Great Depression, then occupation by the “moffe” then the Hunger Winter when her mother said “Here is the key to the pantry. You can say ‘no’ I can’t” then migration to Australia landing during one of idiot Menzies’ credit squeezes. Marriage in ’42 when Dad got a pass to return to Holland. He tried another time, no money no papers just homesickness. Lucky to be sent to a punishment camp not a concentration camp.

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