Quicklinks
Posted by kathryn in Miscellanea
An ultra quick Quicklinks this week, as I just haven’t had many wedges of time available for online reading.
- Change your thinking: I’m new to the Redefining Diet blog. I first found out about it from Sophie and have been exploring ever since. The writing is powerful, the thoughts are challenging, but if you want to change the way you think and relate to food then it’s a wonderful resource. For example, this piece called We are what we believe.
- Beetroot: I’ve linked before to Lili’s series From garden to plate. She’s covered asparagus and avocadoes, but how could I resist her beetroot version?
- Scrumping: Apart from being one of the best words ever, there seems to be a resurgence in scrumping or urban foraging. The Herald ran a piece on it earlier in the week. There’s even a map where you can research sites. Most of them are Sydney based, but no reason why you can’t add your own.
- Baked endive: Lovely, lovely recipe from the latest GI Newsletter for baked Belgian endive. It has crumbled gorgonzola and walnuts on top and looks absolutely delicious.
04 December, 2009
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The scrumping map is an interesting idea. There’s a surprising number of bananas marked in Sydney, and lillipillis for that matter. I don’t think I’d travel for lillipillis.
My friend and I ride our bikes around Melbourne scrumping for figs each year (there are an abundance in my area). But I’ve never heard the word ‘scrumping’ before – we call them FIG RAIDS.
I’m also surprised at the number of bananas in Sydney. In fact there’s one shown about five minutes walk from me, I’m going to investigate some time this weekend. I’m actually not sure what a lillipilli is – I’ll have to go off and google that one.
And Lisa I love the idea of fig raids. I think scrumping is an old UK term, my dad talks about scrumping for apples when he was young.
Four links are perfect “if you have an extra half hour”. I’m just popping in from Twitter.
Lovely recipes — simple and elegant.
I’d never have guessed what “scrumping” meant. Excellent word and great idea though…well, I’m not sure I’d be so brave to eat something from the urban wild.
Thank you for the link to the Redefining Diet blog, also new to me. I look forward to exploring it, particularly because it sounds like it will challenge my opinions — always a good thing.
Scrumping is a top word.
Lilli Pillis are beautiful trees, but really annoying if you have a car or a deck underneath them…in order to use them, you need tonnes of sugar. Jam is the usual. A jam that tastes like sugar rather than fruit, if you get my drift. Here’s a pic – http://www.flickr.com/photos/dalegillard/340108900/
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