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"not especially interesting" sums it up perfectly. But it was within budget (as opposed to Sierra Nevada $75 a slab!) and it was new. It was interesting that a number of smaller brewery or seasonal US beers were in stock. I think you could buy beer retail in California, ship a container to Australia, pay the duties, and still make a profit. I'm wondering if we are seeing the things that aren't selling in N. America.

I bought Coronado Orange Avenue Wit for my Friday after work beer club. It wasn't horrible, but the best thing anyone had to say about it was that the label matched my shirt.

... or you could try a nourishing flip

My strategies are highly varied depending on hunger levels, time, and stress level. Range from fish & chips from the shop to prepackaged horrors. Actually we get some prepack Indian dal etc. that is decent and jars of butter chicken sauce. But sometimes the best way for me to de-stress is to take the time to cook. It might not be cutting edge gastronomy, but some sous vide chicken breast in the fridge is really versatile for whipping up something from a salad to pasta. You might want to look at Jamie's 15 minute meals for ideas.

I just received my copy of MoCuAHo from Powell's Books in Portland OR, which is one of my favourite book stores in the world. Price $98, shipping to Australia $13, very reasonable IMO (free US shipping, I believe). It did take over 2 weeks to arrive and there was no tracking but it was packed well and didn't suffer on the journey. Just letting you know about the option.

I added the simple after tasting. For some reason my dram seems to taste bitter to me. The pd was made with, I think 1/2 IC green (it was a while ago) but yeah, some more funk might stand up to the Duck and Bull better. For others out there. Duck and Bull is a pretty assertive cider IMO with a fair whack of traditional English cider apple varieties, mellowed with some pink lady. I have a confession to make, I don't actually have any Angostrura bitters but have Jerry Thomas decanter, Fee's barrel aged, and Fee's cocktail. I thought the pie-spice was a little too obvious with the apple but I think you are right that it could be the way to go. Further research awaits.

Not bad but not quite right, still, I think this has potential 1.5 oz rum (Havana Club anejo) 1 Tbs pimento dram 1 tsp. simple syrup 4 oz sparkling hard cider (Henry's of Harricourt Duck and Bull) small squeeze of lemon juice to see if that would head it in the right direction. Maybe work better with a different dram than my homemade but I think it needs something to tie it together. ... actually it's growing on me. Suggestions are welcome.

Pineapple upside-down cake.

From the label and their website that might not be fermented ginger beer but ginger beer plus vodka. There are a number of kinds of alcoholic ginger beer available here, which isn't too surprising given the Aussie love of ginger beer and alco-pops. I can't say I've tried them - I reckon if I want alcohol & ginger beer I'd prefer to add rum. But let us know how it is.

If the can is heated in boiling water the temperature inside will equilibrate to 100 C - not the same as a pressure cooker.

I mentioned elsewhere that I like a French 75 with sparkling [hard] cider. I think it would work particularly well with a Normandy-style cider.

Haven't tried this but I thought about it. I believe I saw a site suggesting you could use citric acid for cheese sauce, or maybe even lemon juice. In any case I have used citric acid and only noticed a tiny bit of acidity. Nothing wrong with neutralising your own, though. Did you figure out the stoichiometry or just add the soda until it stopped fizzing? Not sure I would have bothered evaporating the water.

My bay tree is just now starting to recover from over-optimistic leaf harvesting when it was little, I hope. It's a 2 m tall stick with a few leaves. I think some insects didn't help, either. They are rather slow growing trees.

Well, there you go - skate on slate

What part of the world? Maybe whole sole or plaice.

Ground glass stoppers are very cool but can freeze up and become impossible or nearly impossible to remove, particularly if they haven't been opened in a while or if something was put in hot and then allowed to cool. Bendigo Pottery used to make clay 5 gallon bottles with threaded clay tops to hold chemicals like sulfuric acid. I'm amazed they could get the tops to fit and seal after firing.

Wouldn't Lazarroni go under citrus? It tastes a lot like chinotto to me.

I think the Dalwhinnie is a very good value. May be too tame for some, but I like it.

My local sour-dough bakery uses paper bags when you buy their bread at the bakery but when they deliver to other stores they use plastic bags that appear to have small pores so they can breathe.

I'm interested in what's true. I really don't have any position in this with "rigidity". And I certainly don't "hope" for a particular outcome. Finding out what's true is what matters. If one thinks about science properly there aren't winner and losers. Who'd have thought someone with a PhD from a Science faculty could be so muddle headed? I suppose the lack of scientific references in this topic up until now led one astray. The experiment would be simple to conduct in a laboratory equipped to observe smoke point while applying different temperatures; unfortunately like many things that interest us in the food arena, the issue seems too trival to feature in the scientific literature. You could probably come up with something reasonable using a deep fry thermometer and a smoke detector set a few cm above the pan. But I wouldn't be surprised if there is a time/rate-of-heating factor so smoke point isn't simply a single temperature.

Sous vide sausage? I was thinking of sous vide cooking some lamb sausage before frying to even out the cooking. I've been having all sorts of trouble with getting snags cooked through without turning the outside to carbon. So is this a good idea? My concerns are getting the meat cooked/pasteurised quickly enough and getting the fat to cook properly. Any thoughts on time/temperature?

I like to half baby bok choy, put a little hoisin sauce on the halves and then steam. A guilty pleasure, I guess. Got to try it in the microwave.

Interested to hear how the Injera turns out. I can't get teff four here.

Took your suggestion for the test. I didn't notice a huge difference between the 2 but 24 hours was probably too much, even though it was a relatively tough cut. So I'll try your shorter time next time and probably just season with pepper.

You can always move back home