1. Chicken boiled upside down because dark meat takes longer to cook, and water is hotter at the top where the majority of the steam is. Roasting chickens and turkeys this way also keeps the breasts moist (lower down), but doesn’t brown the skin. Skin is for sissies anyway.

2. Basmati rice especially, rice is washed to take off the stalk and excess starch. Wash 3 times with some light agitation. You don’t want to really grind the rice, as this damages it.

3. Prophylactics are put on cucumbers to reduce pickle count.

Lenny

By the way, for the rice, most people here add crushed lemongrass stalks as well (and pandan, as another guy here has pointed out) you can fry the stalks together briefly with the rice before boiling it. And you can use good basmati rice, it gives a flavour with more oomph.

you have made a good attempt at the chilli though, although we don’t actually do it your way we mince the chilli with the garlic and the ginger zest. No vinegar is added (as far as i know) but lime juice’s squeezed. and we use a sort of thickish sweet dark sauce (unsure of actual composition, though). i quite like the soy sauce and sesame oil dip though!

I motion for a CTK beer and something dish!!

CANBERRA (Reuters Life!) – Australians, long regarded as a nation of beer drinkers rivaled only by the Germans, seem to be turning soft, or sober.

After 113 years, the country’s biggest selling beer, Victoria Bitter, or VB, is to be produced in a mid-strength version to keep pace with the country’s fast-changing beer tastes.

VB, with its distinctive green label, has since 1894 been a staple of hard-drinking backyard barbecues, student revels and football games, not to mention healthy overseas exports.

Unfortunately Apple have imposed certain fixed QuickTime settings to make videos work with both Apple TV and the iPod. But I am trying out some “hacks” devised by videobloggers that produce smaller files – so stay tuned, as they say.

The QuickTime link in the blog post is for a smaller file; you can right-click (or Mac equivalent) and download it to your computer, then drag and drop into iTunes. i realise this is less than seamless but if bandwidth/disk space is an issue …

Nice to see your new kitchen.
Like this recipe, coming into Winter soon over here, so going to give it a go.

Lenny, perhaps a future in the advertising world!! What a slogan for happy food…was that it?

Cheers.
Lesleigh.

Best of luck in the new digs.

Natalie

This is done using an HREF track that is added using QuickTime Pro. It involves a bit of coding but is not too difficult. Tutorials on the web can be found by searching on ‘HREF track’.

I’m not sure how to do it if you’re not using QT Pro.

Waz

Great way to re-purpose food all at the same time, which is doable in pretty much any cuisine.

Really appreciate the feedback. The video had some heavier processing than usual this time around, and I suspect that’s caused some of the jerkiness. Something we need to iron out as we get to grips with our new surroundings.

Waz