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Weekend Punch: First Saturday of the winter

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02 Jun 05:00am

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Soup! The time for soup has arrived, and roast lamb, and pretty much any slow-cooked meat dish.

Five stars…

So the great unwritten read this week was the post not produced by the twins in this relationship. Marc Glasby’s piece about being “the meat in the sandwich” certainly got a lot of attention. But wouldn’t you love to read what the long-lost sisters he thinks of as his “wives” really think about the whole arrangement? If you didn’t catch SBS’s Insight program, on which the trio appeared, you can replay it here.

And a great read that was written (by another publication) was this piece in The Guardian about why we love reading bad reviews more than reading good ones…

Here’s hoping your weekend gets a good review.

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    • Bill says:

      06:33am | 02/06/12

      OMG! The roast lamb in that picture looks just divine! Guess who’s having a souvlaki for lunch….

      Reply

    • nihonin says:

      10:15am | 02/06/12

      A Greek family?

    • Bill says:

      11:12am | 02/06/12

      Ah, no, nihonin. An aussie bloke. Souvlakis are standard takeaway fare. Maybe not in your white picket fence existence, but everywhere else…

    • nihonin says:

      11:53am | 02/06/12

      It was meant as a joke, but obviously it went over your head.

    • acotrel says:

      08:02am | 02/06/12

      Winter in North East Victoria is glorious.  It is freezing cold in the mornings, however by lunch time, it is usually warm and sunny.  Living retired in Benalla would be like being continually on holiday, except for the monetary considerations. It seems that either it is blistering hot, and the electricity bill from the air conditioning soars, or it is freezing cold, and gas bill soars. There is about a month in autumn and spring where neither happen.

      Reply

    • antiacotrol says:

      05:11pm | 02/06/12

      And just watch your power/gas/petrol bill soar onse the fantastic carbon tax comes in.

    • Gregg says:

      09:04am | 02/06/12

      First day of winter and you could tell, only a couple of girls out in their bikinis on a milder day as I strolled bare chested along the beach.

      It’s hard to get too excited about soups and stews just yet but a good time to stock the larder with a few specials and also contend with consuming local local produce of strawberries and passionfruit.
      I actually made a nice batch of strawberry/apple/carrot/kiwifruit and passsionfruit low sugar level jam earlier in the week, well two batches actually, the second lot I doing some of my usual experimenting and adding a touch of another local product in Bundaberg Rum.
      Also good to add a few spices and even melted some butter and honey in this time for what is a smooth exotically tropical spread.

      Reply

    • Mouse says:

      09:16am | 02/06/12

      One of my Chrissie presents last year was a slow cooker. Absolutely perfect! I can now make soups and stews to die for. Love the slow cooking method, makes even the toughest meats melt.  I did lamb shanks last week and the meat just slid off the bone! It was divine!!  Also love soups with barley or chick peas. My next slow cooker project is pea and ham soup with bacon bones, just like my Gran used to make!  I am a bit of a “what’s there gets thrown in” cook when it comes to this type of stuff, but am always open to new ideas for concoctions.  :o)

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    • nihonin says:

      10:17am | 02/06/12

      Greatest cooking tool ever invented for the single person, eh Mouse smile 

      I’ve yet to try Pea and Ham soup in mine, might just do that tomorrow.

    • Mouse says:

      11:40am | 02/06/12

      Definitely the best and not just for singles either, I bet! lol
      Let me know how it goes if you do. I will get my bacon bones next week, so it’ll be next weekend for me. What do you put in yours?  You have to have it with hot crusty bread and REAL butter, bugger the cholesterol!!  lol :o)

    • nihonin says:

      11:56am | 02/06/12

      If I cook it up tomorrow, I’ll let you know, I’m a bit of a ooooo that’s going in type of cook.  I’ll pick up my ‘Babe’ bones tomorrow in the morning and have it all bubbling away by 11:00 AM.

      Cholesterol, that’s why we have tablets mwahahaha.  wink

    • TheRealDave says:

      12:34pm | 02/06/12

      Pea and Ham is great in the slow cooker - you just need to let it cook longer. Soak the peas for 24 hours prior in the fridge.

    • Mouse says:

      02:27pm | 02/06/12

      nihonin, I always put diced onion, carrot and one potato in mine, with a bacon stock cube. Green split peas of course, tried it with yellow once and it looked ghastly!!  :o/
      I will wait to hear from you then, I am sure it will be scrumptious, yummm.  Ahhhhh, my mouth is watering already! 
      Tablets???  YAAY, make that losta butter then! lol   :o)

      Thanks for the tip TRD, I don’t usually soak the peas but will this time. So, you reckon 8 hours on slow?  No probs, if I get it on early morning, it will be well ready for dinner. I always think that it tastes better the next reheat too, just gets thicker and tastier! lol   :o)

    • Little Joe says:

      10:31am | 02/06/12

      It will be raining with minimum temperatures will be less than 10oC in most capital cities this week. Lucky all those chairs and desks are warm and dry in those school halls while 105,000 Australians are homeless.

      Yes it is perfect weather for soup.

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    • TheRealDave says:

      11:06am | 02/06/12

      I love our slow cooker we bought a few years back. Digital timer, flicks itself over to low at a set time and stays on low till we get home.

      We usually prepare it all the night before, cut up all the veges and meat, mix in whatever we want. Then as we are walking out the door just pull it out and turn it on and done.

      Best invention ever. Well…right up there with my Aldi coffee machine….and the Cadbury Hot Chocolate maker thingy…

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    • nihonin says:

      11:58am | 02/06/12

      Automatic toilet paper dispenser as well? wink I’m posh and use the bidet, great wake up call in the middle of winter hahahaha.

    • Mouse says:

      02:39pm | 02/06/12

      Bidet?????  OMG, I get the giggles just thinking about that! lol :o)

    • TheRealDave says:

      11:08am | 02/06/12

      Oh and guys - you can make porridge in your slow cooker as well. I bung it on about 10pm and leave it….wake up the next morning and awesome porridge is waiting for you wink Plenty of recipes for it on the net…. just need the real raw oats, none of that instant or quick shit.

      Quick tip - don’t use milk in this method…..you are cooking it for 6 hours or so…add milk to it when serving wink

      Slow Cookers aren’t just for diner wink

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    • Mouse says:

      02:39pm | 02/06/12

      I have done a rice cream thingy in it too, using water and vanilla bean, adding milk and a little custard powder for the last 30 mins. That was really nice, even better than the canned rice cream, and I lurve that!!

      TRD, I have just been introduced to cinnamon sugar, just perfect for porridge!  :o)

    • simonfromLakemba says:

      11:12am | 02/06/12

      Absolutely freezing here in Canberra, has rained and now a low cloud. Should be a great Saturday! -.-,

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    • nihonin says:

      12:19pm | 02/06/12

      SfL We use to go to Canberra occasionally for holidays when I was a kid, way way back in the 60’s, I remember my father use to defrost the windscreen with cold water from the kettle provided by the hotel.  Bloke in the next unit saw him do it one morning, so boiled his kettle and did the same thing, you can imagine the result.  smile

    • simonfromLakemba says:

      03:06pm | 02/06/12

      Canberra in the 60s? I can only imagine how bad and boring it would of been back then, like a big paddock?

    • nihonin says:

      12:04pm | 02/06/12

      Kick back weekend after managing the warehouse and store at work for the last week.  I’m thinking the 6 episodes of Game of Thrones I’m yet to watch, then perhaps movies smile

      All while conversing and turd stirring here on the Punch, never take it seriously, but geez some people do and I thank them.  smile

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    • Shane From Melbourne says:

      12:26pm | 02/06/12

      Queen Elizabeth II celebrates 60 years on the throne. Good showing for an old battleaxe that has absolutely no relevance to Australia whatsoever…....

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    • Martin H says:

      01:22pm | 02/06/12

      QE2 has no relevance to Australia…LOL

      She is our head of state…that’s fairly relevant!

      God save our gracious Queen.

    • Old Man Timekeeper says:

      01:24pm | 02/06/12

      Unfortunately for you and your ilk SFM, the Monarchy does have some significance, but that’s just how it is.  Get a life and get over it, trust me, you’ll live to ripe old age and possibly never think about it, after you’ve gotten past 25 years of age.

    • stephen says:

      02:42pm | 02/06/12

      She is very likeable because she seems to have a very nice personality.

      Perhaps you do not like her when she is over here, in which case, you should leave when she does.

      ps banana-leaves make good boats.

    • farkurnell says:

      08:41pm | 03/06/12

      god, if we didn’t have the Royals what would happen to womens weekly,all those staff would be unemployed.

    • IJ says:

      01:27pm | 02/06/12

      Queen Elizabeth, absolutely no relevance, be like having Bob Hawk or Malcolm Fraser or Dick Smith for President, you “anti” people just crack me up.

      Reply

    • stephen says:

      07:22pm | 02/06/12

      Hmmm ... that channel 2 newsreader is lovely.
      Thank God I am only 32.

      Reply

    • stephen says:

      08:28pm | 02/06/12

      I really like a song called ‘Skin Deep’ by The Stranglers.

      It is on utube ... 1984.

      Quite stylish, too.

      Reply

    • Elizabeth1 says:

      10:53pm | 02/06/12

      I love that song too. Watch out for the skin deep. Golden Brown was cool on a sleepy Sunday as well. Oh the memories!

    • nihonin says:

      10:22am | 03/06/12

      Thank you Warren Mundine, for stating what mining is doing for our people, far more than just the verbal feel good/do nothing advocacy we hear or read about all the time.

      Reply

    • John Spratt says:

      01:53pm | 03/06/12

      Clover Moore asks us to tell her what is needed to improve the function of King’s Cross “late-night trading”. Those of us who live there know that 24/7 availability of alcohol and drugs to thousands of young visitors every weekend destroys their lives for days on end, just as it has converted older drinkers to permanent, shambling wrecks. How come Ms Moore still hasn’t fixed the booze tsunami after more than a decade, despite it being her job to limit the danger and damage that floods our streets? Compared with that, all her offered options are pure, deceptive bumph.

      Reply

    • stephen says:

      06:30pm | 03/06/12

      From KFC you can get 9 pieces of chicken for 9 bucks.

      That’s on Tiwesdaeg ... the day of single combat.

      Reply
 
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