Comments on: Pamela Faye says: Beet this

By: dylwah

dylwah — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 08:47:10 +0000

I didn’t think so.

Pamela, the fella that does the rrr market report, recommends leaving your beets at the back of the cupboard for a week or two as it allows the sugars to ‘deepen’. so your six pathetic specimens may have been the best of the bunch.

By: Dr Sista Outlaw

Dr Sista Outlaw — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 06:15:50 +0000

Zoe, plz know that obscenity is in the ear of teh beholder, or somesuch mixed metaphoricism. But you should know that ‘top hole’ is something said by hoity-toity aristocratic types, or so I believe from watching fillums.

The Devil Drink possibly watched the same fillums.

By: The Devil Drink

The Devil Drink — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 03:30:40 +0000

Brandy. No, seriously, bear with me here.
Chilled vodka’s a pretty nice way to spend a cold afternoon or a pleasant lifetime, and it certainly fits into the bourgeois-hedonist chic, but it’s not the tastiest of spirits. At least, it shouldn’t be. It’s not the drink you choose to go with such a tasty borscht.
Warm up a bottle of table-brandy (I have no commercial relationship whatsoever with Chateau Tanunda) under your coat on the way to the group borscht-eating, throw away the screwtop when you open the bottle, and drink it in glasses marked with children’s cartoon characters, and you’ve not only got yourself a tastier accompaniment to a spicy soup than vodka but also a more authentic Eastern European culinary experience. Add extreme violence to taste.
BTW. Top hole! Tallyho! Lord Bufton Tufton KCMG has a Porsche and a defamation suit!

By: Zoe

Zoe — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 03:11:32 +0000

dylwah, it's not just you with the little beetroots. And DSO, pls to explain "top hole idea" as it sounds really quite rude.

By: Dr Sista Outlaw

Dr Sista Outlaw — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 00:28:03 +0000

Pamela, I think roasting weeny beets for the borsch is a top hole idea. All this talk of vodka makes me wish the sun was over the yard arm …

By: dylwah

dylwah — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 23:41:24 +0000

Brrr i’ve just come in from my morning garden inspection and my beets are growing too slow, what else am i to expect at this time of year in melbourne town.

Your borsch looks mighty fine PF, have you ever made it with gold beets, perhaps i should try it when mine are ready.

borsch, vodka and elite hedonism are a classic canberra mix Anthony, perhaps my fav was Vodka, Borsch and trapese games after a Splinters gig. the frost was heavy on the grass outside, yet we were working so hard in the performance space that bare torsos abounded, when we went outside for coffin nails steam wrapped itself around our heads.

By: Nigel

Nigel — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 23:06:04 +0000

I’m sure he’s half-way through a billion nano-apologies but in his defense there were too many, nay a myriad distractions to the magic of the table amid such delicious company – other than the geezer who left us all with visions of piles of children’s skeletons and how they decompose. Now that was a barbeque-stopper…

By: Zoe

Zoe — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 11:50:17 +0000

Anthony, we live in Canberra, and are therefore not actually real people anyway.