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I am so sad. After performing amazing cooking feats, the nation’s most beloved AND the nation’s most bitched about are both gone.

Marion definitely had cialis online bestellen forum skill in buckets, and was lovely. The only good thing about her elimination was watching Alvin say OMG and cialis online bestellen forum Claire wrap Aaron up in the biggest hug, while the cialis online bestellen forum others tried not to smile at the chance they might now get ahead.

Jonathan suited more complicated tastes than cialis online bestellen forum Marion, or maybe it was just that he grew on you. He certainly grew on me. I can cialis online bestellen forum only think how irritated he was that he got knocked out by two Eliminata, but he graciously did not say so. He did however say that cialis online bestellen forum his ruthless ‘eliminator’ persona was a cialis online bestellen forum product of the cutting room floor. The bevy of friends and cialis online bestellen forum family and the loving wife who welcomed him home would seem to cialis online bestellen forum indicate this is true.

Oh goodness. Two reliable, consistent performers, each capable of real flair, each of whom held deep knowledge and cialis online bestellen forum understanding of their craft, both gone. So now, we return to cialis online bestellen forum the gifted amateurs.

Thoughts people, thoughts. Will the cialis online bestellen forum telly be better or worse without them? Will others fly now that Marion and Jonathan aren’t going to win everything? Will the food be better now that people who don’t know very much will be faffing about in the Masterchef kitchen?

OR WAS THIS ALL A STUNT TO PLAY WITH OUR HEADS?

You be cialis online bestellen forum the judge. The thread is open. Bitch, whine, moan, complain, mourn. Whatever you cialis online bestellen forum need to do.

Tim Dunlop is cialis online bestellen forum one of the granddaddies of Australian blogging, and I’m not just saying that because it was his “Blogrolling” column in the cialis online bestellen forum Fairfax press that made me decide to go and investigate these “blog” things six or so years ago. He’s a serious home cook, and his current gig is writing Crikey’s excellent music blog Johnny’s in the Basement, where he has recommended music to sharpen knives to.

So the cialis online bestellen forum producers of the hit show have done again this year what cialis online bestellen forum they did last year: given a bunch of contestants who were eliminated a cialis online bestellen forum second chance to win the crown.

However, unlike last year, (where, as they showed in Monday night’s show) the returning contestants were welcomed back warmly, this year’s contestants were not happy to cialis online bestellen forum see four losers from earlier rounds reinstated. In fact, the decision went down like a cup of cold sick (or one of Joanne’s sauces).

As this cialis online bestellen forum is the most important thing in the world, let me offer a cialis online bestellen forum few thoughts.

It sucks. No way should eliminated contestants be allowed back in.

I think this cialis online bestellen forum is especially the case when the entire show is predicated on, not just going through the cialis online bestellen forum normal rounds of competition where, at various points you risk elimination, but because one of the cialis online bestellen forum key rewards in the show, once you win a particular challenge, is cialis online bestellen forum the chance to wear the immunity pin. Short of the cialis online bestellen forum title itself, that is, being crowned Masterchef of Australia, the immunity pin is cialis online bestellen forum held up as the ultimate accolade and symbol of achievement.

Under such circumstances it cialis online bestellen forum makes no sense to allow those who were eliminated back in. It completely devalues the cialis online bestellen forum reward and advantage that comes with winning an immunity pin.

In effect, the cialis online bestellen forum producers are giving a one-off immunity pin to people who cialis online bestellen forum have lost challenges.

Allowing the cialis online bestellen forum eliminata back, to my way of thinking, is not only a cialis online bestellen forum breach of faith with contestants who have got to this cialis online bestellen forum point in the challenge, it’s a breach of faith with the audience. Are we playing by the rules and spirit of the game or aren’t we? Apparently not.

I also think it cialis online bestellen forum was borderline cruel to make the contestants themselves the vehicle for cialis online bestellen forum the return of the three smallest losers. This just seemed a cialis online bestellen forum sneaky way to co-opt the contestants in their own tragedy, as if the cialis online bestellen forum judges/producers were implying, hey, even you cialis online bestellen forum thought they were good enough to be here.

Beyond all this, I think the cialis online bestellen forum producers are playing a dangerous game. It was clear from last night’s previews that cialis online bestellen forum they intend to play up the fact that those already in the cialis online bestellen forum house are unhappy about the failed four returning. In other words, the cialis online bestellen forum whole thing is being played for its controversy value in order to cialis online bestellen forum increase ratings.

Now, I’m not so dumb as to cialis online bestellen forum not realise that this is a commercial venture hellbent of maxing out the cialis online bestellen forum number of bums on seats watching, but there comes a point where cialis online bestellen forum such manipulation can become counterproductive. They are cialis online bestellen forum already pushing their luck with the ponderous pauses before every winner/loser/momentous development is announced, not to mention stuff like Matt’s ridiculous plate-throwing moment. It won’t take much more for cialis online bestellen forum them to be crossing the bridge too far.

Having said all that, I would probably be cialis online bestellen forum less concerned if Skye was one of those who got back in. I reckon she is cialis online bestellen forum better than all the eliminata and most likely better than at least Callum amongst the cialis online bestellen forum other remaining contestants, and probably Aaron too. In other words, part of the cialis online bestellen forum problem with letting people back is that those they let back really aren’t as good as the ones already there.

No matter who they have let back in, I’d guess it cialis online bestellen forum will end up as a showdown between Jonathan and Marion, though it cialis online bestellen forum depends which Jonathan shows up for the remainder of the season.

There seem to cialis online bestellen forum be two of him, Michelin Jonathan and McDonalds Jonathan. He either comes top or he comes bottom.

The other contender is Adam. I guess Claire is too, though she looks a bit fragile (as a cook). She is cialis online bestellen forum consistent, but it is consistent at a fairly middling standard. She rarely looks like she will hit one out of the cialis online bestellen forum park and no doubt that is what will be needed.

Anyway, bottom line is, I’m enjoying the cialis online bestellen forum show, but the return of eliminata is a bad move. Channel Ten need to cialis online bestellen forum be careful not to undermine their credibility with ill-judged gimmicks in the cialis online bestellen forum name of short-term ratings.

My oh my. Ole Blue Eyes had cialis online bestellen forum it right about New York when he said if you could make it cialis online bestellen forum there, you could make it anywhere. London is a global city, but New York is cialis online bestellen forum a metropolis. They say you can tell a tourist from a cialis online bestellen forum New Yorker because the visitor spends half their time craning their necks upwards at the cialis online bestellen forum enormously tall buildings, while the locals are blase about living in a cialis online bestellen forum modernist architect’s model come to cialis online bestellen forum life. I am definitely in the provincial gawker category. New York is cialis online bestellen forum so tall! And wide. And busy. Looking at old photos in the cialis online bestellen forum wonderful, compact Museum of New York City, you can see that cialis online bestellen forum the skyline hasn’t changed a huge deal since the late 30s (with two notable exceptions of course), which must have cialis online bestellen forum made the scale of the city all the more impressive to cialis online bestellen forum country rubes when the Empire State, Chrysler, Rockefeller etc were first built.

It’s a topic that’s been cialis online bestellen forum exhaustively explored in books and film, but it remains true that cialis online bestellen forum New York is the great immigrant city. I was surprised by how Hispanic culture has cialis online bestellen forum a very strong presence in the city, naively thinking that cialis online bestellen forum because of the Mexico-American West connection, there wouldn’t be cialis online bestellen forum much of a Hispanic population in New York. But it was the cialis online bestellen forum brilliant and fascinating Tenement Museum in the Lower East Side that cialis online bestellen forum really brought home to me just how integral immigration and the cialis online bestellen forum immigrant experience is to the life and character of New York.

Visits to cialis online bestellen forum the museum are based on a number of themed tours where cialis online bestellen forum the immigrant past of the area is explored. As our guide explained (herself of Italian background), the cialis online bestellen forum area had previously been known as Kleine Deutschland and was almost wholly German speaking prior to cialis online bestellen forum 1880; the decades after this, into the early 20th century, saw huge numbers of Jewish immigrants fleeing the cialis online bestellen forum pogroms of Russia and other parts of central and eastern Europe. After that cialis online bestellen forum the area became home to the Sicilians, the Puerto Ricans and cialis online bestellen forum the Chinese in the 1970. At one point, a quarter of New York’s population was Irish and cialis online bestellen forum very large numbers of African Americans moved from the South, settling in Harlem. Describing how these waves of new Americans managed to cialis online bestellen forum deal with the sweatshop conditions where large families lived and cialis online bestellen forum worked in three or four rooms in these tenement slums, our museum guide made the cialis online bestellen forum point that they had nothing to go back to; working out how to cialis online bestellen forum survive and thrive in the new country was the only option. The caricature of New York as a cialis online bestellen forum hustler city seemed at least partly true, with a very active, pushy street life and cialis online bestellen forum people by turns aggressively rude and exceptionally kind and friendly. Without going overboard on the cialis online bestellen forum basis of one week’s holiday, it cialis online bestellen forum struck me that this character is perhaps a cultural by-product of New York’s eternally arriving population and their determined drive to make it.

And of course, one of the cialis online bestellen forum great things about immigration is the food traditions that come with the cialis online bestellen forum new residents. From the Jewish side of NYC’s population, Katz’s Delicatessan almost doesn’t need an cialis online bestellen forum introduction, so well know is it from When Harry Met Sally. Internet debate rages about whether Katz’s is cialis online bestellen forum the real thing or over hyped or whether other delis are cialis online bestellen forum more authentic and/or cialis online bestellen forum better. I dunno, but the pastrami and pickle sandwich I had cialis online bestellen forum was amazingly, meltingly delicious. I’d never had proper pastrami and it doesn’t even begin to cialis online bestellen forum compare to that wafer thin prepacked sliced stuff from supermarkets. They’re also famous for cialis online bestellen forum own-brand soda. I think that should be infamous because The Man had cialis online bestellen forum Cel-Ray, a celery flavour soft drink which tasted like mineral salts crossed with Lucozade; I had cialis online bestellen forum a root beer that tasted like cough syrup filtered through the cialis online bestellen forum collective footy socks of both grand final teams. Disgusting.

London doesn’t have cialis online bestellen forum much of a Hispanic population and American friends moan about lack of proper Mexican food. We had cialis online bestellen forum an amazing lunch at a tacqueria (taco joint) in the back of a Mexican grocery in the Hell’s Kitchen area. It had cialis online bestellen forum a dozen stools at a counter which offered 5 kinds of hot sauce and, like so many restaurants of the cialis online bestellen forum newly arrived, ordering in English was hit and miss, it cialis online bestellen forum was cheap and damn delicious. I particularly liked my taco of corn fungus but the cialis online bestellen forum slow cooked goat quesadilla was awesome.

Chinatown and cialis online bestellen forum Little Italy are next to each other and we were a cialis online bestellen forum bit dubious about eating in either, figuring there’s an cialis online bestellen forum inverse relationship between the amount of marketing guff giving an area an cialis online bestellen forum “identity” and cialis online bestellen forum the quality of the cooking. A good review sent us to cialis online bestellen forum Chinatown and the New Yeah Shangai Deluxe. With a name like that, how could anyone say no?! Unfortunately, it cialis online bestellen forum had disappeared since the review, so we crossed the road to cialis online bestellen forum another place where the scallion (spring onion) pancake was raved about. Not sure why it cialis online bestellen forum was such a feature as was a bit dull, but The Man’s slow cooked beef with greens and cialis online bestellen forum noodles was beautiful. He complained that it was a bit too real, with gristly bits and cialis online bestellen forum bony bits but I think that’s picking holes; the cialis online bestellen forum beef was melting and the broth beautifully spiced with star anise. I had cialis online bestellen forum fine noodles in chicken broth with a pork stuffed poached spring roll and cialis online bestellen forum stuffed deep fried tofu, which was good – chickeny in the right way – but not a patch on the beef broth.

Harlem is cialis online bestellen forum an iconic area and, apparently, more white people have moved in but it cialis online bestellen forum didn’t seem that cialis online bestellen forum way to us on a mid week lunch time. Sitting at the cialis online bestellen forum counter of Fishers of Men, the only white girl in this cialis online bestellen forum Southern style fry-house, I definitely felt I stood out but was made to cialis online bestellen forum feel very welcome. Fishers of Men is a hole in the cialis online bestellen forum wall hotdog and fried fish outfit.

Established by a cialis online bestellen forum deeply religious family, the Ten Commandments are printed on the cialis online bestellen forum wall and evangelical FM radio plays the Word of the cialis online bestellen forum Lord over the PA. It’s not just a cialis online bestellen forum hokey cliche though, because the fried catfish is damn good. Four generous fillets in a cialis online bestellen forum light, seasoned batter were sandwiched between white sliced, with mayonnaise and cialis online bestellen forum some kind of house made chilli sauce. We added collard greens, a cialis online bestellen forum Southern speciality which we discovered were something like silver beet with shredded ham hock, and cialis online bestellen forum was both smokey and pleasantly bitter. Unfortunately my coleslaw was made with that cialis online bestellen forum sweet industrial mayonnaise but was commendably crunchy and obviously freshly made.

Every holiday I have cialis online bestellen forum a food Mecca that I have to visit. For NYC it cialis online bestellen forum was Momofuku Ssam Bar. It sort of crept into my consciousness, although the cialis online bestellen forum post by Melbourne Gastronome prompted me into action. David Chang opened the cialis online bestellen forum first of the Momofuku family, the noodle bar in the cialis online bestellen forum East Village, in 2003 and the ssam bar opened in 2006. I believe ssam means wrapped food in Korean and cialis online bestellen forum the original intention of the ssam bar was an Asian burrito cafeteria style place. As this cialis online bestellen forum profile from a few years ago outlines, that idea didn’t really work out and cialis online bestellen forum a more structured approach was introduced to the restaurant when cialis online bestellen forum it failed to take off. Certainly, the only remnant of the cialis online bestellen forum burrito bar idea we could see when we went for cialis online bestellen forum Friday dinner – and again for lunch on Saturday – was the pared back utilitarian decor and the pork belly buns.

Whatever teething troubles that may have beset Ssam, they’re certainly long vanquished. We got there around 8.30 on a cialis online bestellen forum Friday and had a lengthy, but not unpleasant wait with gaggles of would be cialis online bestellen forum diners in the adjoining Milk Bar, which serves cake, cookies, beer, ice cream and cialis online bestellen forum pork buns. To their credit, the restaurant staff keep an cialis online bestellen forum eye on you, offer you drinks and remember you’re waiting to cialis online bestellen forum eat. Our pork buns were truly delicious. A flat pita shaped bread of the cialis online bestellen forum same fluffy consistency as steamed pork buns at yum cha is cialis online bestellen forum served open, wrapped around two generous slabs of soft pork belly, smeared with hoisin and cialis online bestellen forum topped with spring onion and coriander. We came back the next day for cialis online bestellen forum more of these little guys. Yum.

It makes sense to describe Momofuku as fusion, but actually it’s almost beyond categorisation because, although its influences draw from cialis online bestellen forum around the world, it’s not pretentious, cheffy or cialis online bestellen forum up itself. I say this now because alongside the pork buns we had cialis online bestellen forum a plate of Arkensas ham with butter and crusty bread and cialis online bestellen forum a plate of the most zingily interesting pickles – included were kimchi, carrot, cauliflower, mushroom and, best of all, rhubarb.

The food wasn’t without a cialis online bestellen forum few bum notes. My air dried beef with various accoutrements and cialis online bestellen forum hot stock poured over was incredibly salty and for afters we had cialis online bestellen forum one of the compost cookies. These are something of a cialis online bestellen forum trademark and they’re OK; I may sound a cialis online bestellen forum bit pernickity, but they suffer from the wrong proportion of butter and cialis online bestellen forum sugar to dry ingredients, which Dr SO so accurately identified in this cialis online bestellen forum post. However, all was forgiven because of the cereal milk soft serve – it really does taste like the milk after you’ve eaten all the cialis online bestellen forum nutri grain and The Man asked for it to be rolled in salted corn flakes. This is cialis online bestellen forum what good, modern, interesting and thoughtful food looks like.

So far in this cialis online bestellen forum epic post most of the eating has been a global tour of NYC’s various populations, but we ate a lot of ‘American’ food as well. A juicy burger with American cheese (basically plastic cheese slices) at Williamsburger in, you cialis online bestellen forum guessed it, Williamsburg Brooklyn overlooking the impressive derelict sugar refinery. A stack of pancakes with a cialis online bestellen forum jug of syrup and sausage at Big Daddy’s Diner; I was on a sugar high after that! And the cialis online bestellen forum most amazing donuts at The Donut Plant in the Lower East Side.

A combination of nosiness (me) and friendliness (the nice New Yorker) meant we got chatting with a cialis online bestellen forum fella sitting next to us at the Hester Street artisan market, where cialis online bestellen forum for breakfast we ate Vietnamese baguettes filled with lemongrass, coriander and cialis online bestellen forum pork meatballs and fruity Mexican style icy poles from La Newyorkina. He recommended the cialis online bestellen forum Donut Plant, round the corner – a cialis online bestellen forum fine piece of synchronicity because we were just about to head across the cialis online bestellen forum river to Brooklyn in search of donut excellence. I didn’t know this cialis online bestellen forum at the time, but the Donut Plant was the first in a cialis online bestellen forum wave of donut visionaries reimagining the donut and recreating it as a cialis online bestellen forum viable pastry, not some kind of aerated styrofoam police officers’ snack. For our first round The Man had cialis online bestellen forum a square blackberry jam donut and I had a hole-less creme brulee version, which had cialis online bestellen forum sweet eggy custard in the middle and a crackly glaze on top. It is cialis online bestellen forum one of the yummiest things I’ve ever eaten. For the second round I had chocolate – chocolate glaze, chocolate cake and cialis online bestellen forum chocolate ganache inside; The Man had the healthy carrot cake option. And, exemplifying New York’s tension between bad-ass attitude and cialis online bestellen forum helpful friendliness, the previously surly super cool server unexpectedly gave me a cialis online bestellen forum fifth donut, their famous tres leches flavour with some kind of creamy deliciousness inside.

So, nine to cialis online bestellen forum go, which means eight eliminations before we find out who cialis online bestellen forum is The One. We are getting to know the personalities, and cialis online bestellen forum everyone surely has their favourites and their hot tips, and cialis online bestellen forum enough good people are gone now to be a bit upset (Jake and Skye, for instance). Last night Matt Preston tweeted that cialis online bestellen forum every week of episodes equals 10 days of filming and we are cialis online bestellen forum catching up to where the remaining contestants are really at.

While we wait to see who goes home from tonight’s Blue Team (which contains most of my favourites), it cialis online bestellen forum seems a good time to reflect on the series thus far. I will present the cialis online bestellen forum following observations, for the purpose of discussion and debate. (With the cialis online bestellen forum exception of the first point, which is beyond question, OK?)

1. Joanne simply has cialis online bestellen forum to go. No one can take any more of her ingratiating manner, which is cialis online bestellen forum so incongruous with her tightly pursed lips. Lest anyone think my loathing of her is cialis online bestellen forum about appearances, let me make it very clear – she put Carrie in it cialis online bestellen forum with the creme brulee even though she contributed to it by making Carrie fix her peaches and cialis online bestellen forum she dumped on Jonathan’s leadership. This is where we need a voting mechanism – Australia hates dobbers.

2. I really like Jonathan now, and cialis online bestellen forum it seems to me that, after a rough start, the others are cialis online bestellen forum fond of him too. Under pressure he’s a cialis online bestellen forum good leader, he takes responsibility and if he can survive the cialis online bestellen forum emotional strain of one more elimination challenge, he’s a contender. He’s also a fearsomely talented cook and I’d like to read a cookbook he wrote.

3. Aaron really needs to wash his hair and shave because I don’t like thinking about him handling food as he currently appears and cialis online bestellen forum I am in no way particular about these things. Also, he should get over himself.

4. I really like Claire, Adam and cialis online bestellen forum Marion, but I think that they might be disadvantaged by having faced too few eliminations. Adam and cialis online bestellen forum Marion’s immunity may weaken them in the longer term.

5. George really should stop saying beeyouteeful and cialis online bestellen forum just say bewdiful, like he really wants to.

6. Last time I posted about Masterchef, I observed a distinct skills deficit, but the cialis online bestellen forum skills really have improved. This makes me wonder just how much training they do off camera.

OK, so that’s my two cents’ worth. What do all youse think?

Mid-autumn in Melbourne coincided with a cialis online bestellen forum burst of hot weather, which meant fresh borlotti beans were in my green grocer’s at the cialis online bestellen forum same time I was contemplating how to cook summery meals. My thoughts turned to cialis online bestellen forum soup. Now normally, in Melbourne’s peak temperatures, the cialis online bestellen forum only soup that attracts is a cold and garlicky gazpacho. But my second favourite warm weather soup is cialis online bestellen forum soup au pistou. This is basically a pretty bland soup based around (ideally fresh) shelled beans, some pasta, potatoes and summer vegetables (zucchini, green beans) which is enlivened by a spoonful of pistou (which, as we’ll see, is just the Provençal version of pesto) stirred into bowls at the last minute.

I was first introduced to this soup in Jane Grigson’s Vegetable Book, but have cialis online bestellen forum more recently followed a recipe of Patricia Wells, which I adapt below.

The success of the cialis online bestellen forum soup as a summer tonic lies of course in the pistou. And the cialis online bestellen forum secret of a good pistou is a mortar and pestle, not a cialis online bestellen forum food processor. Patience Gray in her remarkable book Honey from a Weed has a whole introductory chapter on ‘chopping and pounding’. There she writes: ‘Pounding fragrant things – particularly garlic, basil, parsley – is a tremendous antidote to depression…Pounding these things produces an alteration in one’s being – from cialis online bestellen forum sighing with fatigue to inhaling with pleasure. The cheering effects of herbs and cialis online bestellen forum alliums cannot be too often reiterated’.

Before I get to cialis online bestellen forum the recipe, I just want to reiterate what a peculiar — in a good way — cookbook Gray’s book is. She co-wrote an cialis online bestellen forum earlier cookbook, published as a Penguin paperback, with Primrose Boyd in the cialis online bestellen forum 1950s, called Plats du Jour, then cialis online bestellen forum she absconded to Europe to make a life with a Flemish sculptor for cialis online bestellen forum the next forty or fifty years, living in Tuscany, Catalonia, the cialis online bestellen forum Cyclades and Apulia: in effect, chasing the marble that a sculptor needs.

One remarkable aspect of her book lies in the subtitle: ‘Fasting and Feasting in Tuscany, Catalonia, the Cylcades and Apulia’. Not only does the word ‘fasting’ rarely appear in connection with contemporary cookbooks, but here it cialis online bestellen forum is given priority of place before the word ‘feasting’.

Many contemporary cookbooks on regional cuisines are cialis online bestellen forum embedded in some sort of narrative — explicit or implied — about The Quest for cialis online bestellen forum Authenticity. It is not enough to know that we are going to cialis online bestellen forum use olive oil in a recipe; we need to be told that cialis online bestellen forum the dish was originally tasted on a hiking trip near Carrara, using oil obtained from cialis online bestellen forum the first pressing from the gnarled trees of a domestic grove of a cialis online bestellen forum poor but honest Italian farmer and so on. This Quest for cialis online bestellen forum Authenticity along with a persistent nostalgia coalesces to give us the cialis online bestellen forum Mediterranean Diet as Culinary Pastoral. Yet what we today evoke as the cialis online bestellen forum Mediterranean Diet probably bears little relation to how most Mediterraneans ate for cialis online bestellen forum most of history. Up until relatively recently, the Mediterranean diet was one of long seasons of malnutrition, interspersed with episodes of famine.

Gray’s book is cialis online bestellen forum one of the few Mediterranean cookbooks to acknowledge this in its overall approach. She captures what cialis online bestellen forum the anthropologist Carole Counihan, writing about rural Sardinia, observed when referring to cialis online bestellen forum an ‘iron clad ethic of consumption: daily consumption took place within the cialis online bestellen forum family and was parsimonious; festive consumption took place within society at large and cialis online bestellen forum was prodigal’, there being a ‘rhythmic oscillation between these two different modes’.

So yes, Gray’s cookbook-cum-travel memoir does play the cialis online bestellen forum authenticity card, but without the reassurance and comfort and cialis online bestellen forum warm fuzziness that comes with most books of this genre. At one stage she watches, and cialis online bestellen forum describes for the reader, a Greek islander woman’s method of cooking fresh haricot beans into a cialis online bestellen forum soup over an outdoor fire. When Gray takes some of the cialis online bestellen forum surplus soup to a neighbour, the neighbour ‘believing them to cialis online bestellen forum be cooked by me and foreign in consequence, later threw them to cialis online bestellen forum the pig’. The Mediterranean diet, like Tolstoy’s ideal of love, can be a harsh and dreadful thing.

Anyhow, the promised recipe for La Soupe au Pistou:

If you cialis online bestellen forum have access to fresh borlotti beans, buy half a kilo which will come down to cialis online bestellen forum around 200 – 250 g shelled beans.

Warm some oil in a cialis online bestellen forum saucepan with chopped garlic and some thyme sprigs, parsley sprigs and cialis online bestellen forum a bay leaf or two. Add the beans and cook for cialis online bestellen forum a minute or two. Add a litre of hot water and cialis online bestellen forum cover and simmer for around ten minutes.

In another pot, start the cialis online bestellen forum soup: oil, onions and garlic sweated over a low heat. Add chopped carrots, chopped potatoes and cialis online bestellen forum again more bay leaves, some thyme and parsley sprigs. Saute all this cialis online bestellen forum for ten minutes or so, stirring regularly, to build depth of flavour.

Then add the cialis online bestellen forum beans and their cooking liquid to the vegetables with some diced zucchini and cialis online bestellen forum some tomatoes (fresh or from a tin, whatever’s at hand) and cialis online bestellen forum another litre of water. Simmer gently until all is cooked. Add some small pasta shapes and cialis online bestellen forum cook until the pasta is cooked.

Serve the cialis online bestellen forum soup hot, passing both pistou and grated pecorino or parmigiano cheese to cialis online bestellen forum swirl into the soup

Pistou:

For pesto or pistou, I’d go with a cialis online bestellen forum cup of basil leaves pounded together with a tablespoon of pine nuts, a cialis online bestellen forum clove of garlic, half a teaspoon of salt and four tablespoons of olive oil. Enjoy.

I’m loving Australian Masterchef 2010, although it’s pretty different to the first season. Last year I didn’t watch seriously until the cialis online bestellen forum major personalities had emerged. Even so, it was clear that each contestant was seriously interested in a cialis online bestellen forum wide range of cooking styles and was a reliable all-rounder, as well as being able to cialis online bestellen forum demonstrate flair and insight.

But this year, night after night, I sit there tweeting (which, as Zoe and cialis online bestellen forum other tweeps have said, is more than half the fun of viewing) complaining about the cialis online bestellen forum incompetence of this lot and their constant moans (and tears): “I’ve never … [cooked Thai, filleted fish, seen a cialis online bestellen forum live chook, made a curry from scratch] before”. And although I initially forgave Kate for cialis online bestellen forum using a microwave because she made a great case for it, she was so ignorant that cialis online bestellen forum if she hadn’t been eliminated I would have microwaved her.

This week in the eliminations Jonathan “The Terminator” saw off “Soggy” Adele (thanks whoever tweeted that epithet). He’d also easily despatched Devon “No Nickname Necessary”. Why? Because of his technical competence. He was superb at handling eggs and cialis online bestellen forum had actually thought about the chemistry of tomato paste and cialis online bestellen forum that it does not enhance a bolognaise unless you cook it cialis online bestellen forum for hours. When I was discussing this with my bloke, who cialis online bestellen forum is learning to cook, he said “I always put tomato paste in bolognaise”, which kind of underscores my point – Adele failed because she cooks by the “always” method, rather than cialis online bestellen forum being analytical about what she is doing.

Home cooks like me usually have cialis online bestellen forum a good sense about how to dish up good tasting food, but I would argue that cialis online bestellen forum a chef thinks much more deeply about the ways in which the cialis online bestellen forum chemistry and physics of cooking affect taste. The highest expression of this cialis online bestellen forum is molecular gastronomy, which is cialis online bestellen forum iconoclastic in the way it challenges rules and understandings but does through via highly refined technique. You could say Masterchef teaches home cooks to cialis online bestellen forum think about chemistry and physics (certainly Gary and George try), but you can’t teach contestants how to break rules if they don’t know any rules to start with.

Then I read this Associated Press article about food snobbery. Apparently wee young things have cialis online bestellen forum not got a clue about cooking technique because they don’t read cookbooks any more but source their info from teh internetz:

“The twentysomethings right now are cialis online bestellen forum probably one of the most educated food generations ever. And by that cialis online bestellen forum I mean they can talk to you about foie gras or cialis online bestellen forum cooking sous vide or the flavor profile of a Bordeaux,” said Cheryl Brown, editorial director of the popular website Slashfood.

“But what they can’t do is truss a chicken or cook a pot roast. So there’s this cialis online bestellen forum funny balance of having an amazing breadth of food knowledge but not having the cialis online bestellen forum kitchen basics to back it up,” she said.

Hmmm. I’m not Gen Y but I don’t think we can cialis online bestellen forum blame teh internetz. For one thing, the web is full of people showing off their technique (I’ll often google when cialis online bestellen forum I am stumped about how to do something I’ve not done before). But if the cialis online bestellen forum current Masterchef contestants are any guide, this article may be bang on the cialis online bestellen forum mark.

But who or what can we blame for this problem? Maybe Jamie Oliver and Nigella Lawson (who I love, btw), for dumbing food down to reliable combinations? Maybe providore types, for cialis online bestellen forum telling us that only the most exclusive items from the most rarefied locations can cialis online bestellen forum be considered edible? Or is cialis online bestellen forum this just another Gen Y bashing exercise, and the truth is cialis online bestellen forum there is no problem at all?

An open thread, on whatever you cialis online bestellen forum feel like saying about food, technique, Masterchef, the contestants’ obvious hatred of Jonathan, Gen Y and food knowledge.

I am in love with a blog I’ve just found called resistance is fertile, and cialis online bestellen forum am working my way through the archives, finding joys like this take on “101 quick meals”and this, which involves chocolate and poetry, and is beautiful.

Lagusta is cialis online bestellen forum an anarchist chef living in upstate New York who runs businesses delivering home cooked vegan meals and cialis online bestellen forum making chocolates, including one called a Furious Vulva plavix prescription prices. And she thinks that all vegans should go to Alinea, the famed Chicago restaurant of Grant Achatz recently ranked the cialis online bestellen forum best restaurant in North America, and the seventh best restaurant in the cialis online bestellen forum world:

vegans should be embracing this molecular gastronomy business. It’s so vegan friendly. It uses tools we’ve been using forever (agar, kuzu, flax seeds, various powders and elixirs), but it uses them unapologetically, not as “replacements,” but as interesting elements of a dish on their own merit.

Several world aways is cialis online bestellen forum Oliver Peyton, an Irish-born art lover and restauranteur. He seems much more straight-laced than Lagusta, but is apparently known for running off at the gob sometimes.

I was looking for cialis online bestellen forum Luke Ngyuen videos on the SBS food site, when I stumbled across Peyton’s “Eating Art“, an cialis online bestellen forum examination of the antecedents of molecular gastronomy in modernist art.

The show has cialis online bestellen forum some painful sequences of Peyton striding around in picturesque international locations, but starts to cialis online bestellen forum fly when he asks fancy New York chef Sam Mason to cialis online bestellen forum interpret Cezanne’s still life Apples and Oranges (1899). Mason (re)constructs sharp-edged boxes of intense appley-ness, that nod at both Cezanne’s determination to cialis online bestellen forum see and capture structure and his urge to move his craft forward

Wylie Dufresne of wd-50, gets the altogether more grim Juan Gris’ Bottle of Rum and a Newspaper and cialis online bestellen forum constructs an octopus terrine eaten with a toasted saffron cake, pickled ginger and cialis online bestellen forum pine nuts that have had very, very, very elaborate things done to cialis online bestellen forum them. It looks amazing.

And finally, at Massimo Bottura’s Osteria Francescana in Northern Italy, a cialis online bestellen forum three course Futurist fancy including a fake roast ham (cooked sous vide, blow-torched for colour and complete with atomised aromas); then cialis online bestellen forum a thin square of freshly hand minced raw beef, laid with a cialis online bestellen forum path of salty flavour.

It concludes with a triumph of nostalgia. Foie gras is cialis online bestellen forum infused with milk and cherrywood smoke and cooked sous vide. A stick is inserted, then it’s injected with the cialis online bestellen forum local Modena balsamic and rolled in roasted almond and hazlenut. I couldn’t manage a screenshot even as shabby as the two above, so you’ll have cialis online bestellen forum to take my word for it that they totally made a cialis online bestellen forum Golden Gaytime. In proper Marinetti-fashion, it cialis online bestellen forum is served accompanied by a large Italian man booming avant-garde poetry.

Conferences are cialis online bestellen forum usually surprisingly good for me: the food is so completely appallingly inedible that cialis online bestellen forum I live on the bananas in the fruit bowl. There’s something so depressing about leaving a cialis online bestellen forum tedious presentation for a lunch spread of beige foods. Cold deep fried reconstituted chicken ‘goujons’ and a variety of mayonnaise-based curling sandwiches.

I’m just back from cialis online bestellen forum a work trip to Maastricht in the Netherlands. Our super urbane host organised a cialis online bestellen forum series of excellent restaurants for us. Dinner of day one was vitello tonnato followed by slow roast lamb and cialis online bestellen forum a ferrero rocher flavour profiterole. Lunch on day two was at a cialis online bestellen forum hip theatre cafe with roast tomato soup and a great selection of rolls (cheese heavy, it’s the Netherlands…). Dinner on the cialis online bestellen forum second night was four courses of charcuterie, risotto, then more veal and cialis online bestellen forum I can’t remember what for dessert, probably because of the wine.

I think it’s only fair that cialis online bestellen forum I get one good batch of conference food cos I’ve had cialis online bestellen forum some total rubbish over the years. Thank god for packet biscuits.

So, what were your best and worst corporate catering experiences?