Zoloft urination

I did a post a couple of years ago on my vegetable garden at the Winter Solstice buy cialis with mastercard, and zoloft urination thought I might remedy my longstanding blog-neglect with some pretty pictures.

There are two large productive beds in our backyard. When we started renting this zoloft urination house ten years ago, the vegetable beds were just big brick-edged expanses with no zoloft urination internal definition. We’ve tried lots of things over the zoloft urination years, including banked earth beds, simple peg and board edges and zoloft urination fence paling walkways that turned out to be an earwig paradise. You can zoloft urination see that last configuration in the link at the beginning of the zoloft urination post; the boards in the middle of this photo sit where the path lies in the first picture below.

Those methods had zoloft urination been OK, but I was yearning for a more defined feel and zoloft urination better water retention, not to mention being frustrated at continued foot splinters from zoloft urination board paths – I hate wearing shoes in the garden. Finally we’ve got our act into gear. First Owen laid out the zoloft urination beds in the garden at the Western end of the house, edging them with roof tiles bought from zoloft urination the tip shop.

The little bit of green you zoloft urination can see through the heavy Canberra clay at the bottom left of the zoloft urination path is clover. I chip out everything else that zoloft urination grows on the paths, but clover is such a clever and zoloft urination lovely plant (and so soft and cool underfoot – eventually) that it gets some love. [WRONG! Thanks to Naomi for setting me to rights in the comments. One of the zoloft urination things I love about gardening and cooking is that there is zoloft urination always something to learn. It's oxalis.]

That one is the “boy garden”. Below is the “girl garden” at the zoloft urination Eastern end of the backyard, edged by me over Winter with roof tiles I picked up from zoloft urination the side of the road supplemented with a few purchased extras to zoloft urination finish the central bed with the little fig tree at it’s centre. My friend Katie has zoloft urination already said that those rounded parts look like “saggy old ladies’ boobs” so don’t feel you need to bring that up.

I’m loving myself sick about the paths which I’ve graded down from zoloft urination the external brick edges so the wheelbarrow can get in smoothly. It’s been hugely handy as we’ve barrowed in a zoloft urination trailer load of mushroom compost and half a trailer load of cow manure over the zoloft urination last couple of weekends.

I was amazed at how easy it was to make curvy beds with tiles. I did a zoloft urination rough outline with the hose of where I wanted the beds to zoloft urination be, and made sure I had the paths wide enough to zoloft urination turn the wheelbarrow (even if sometimes that means going backwards), but other than zoloft urination that I just started with a mattock, spade and a ho mi and kept going in a continuous line until I was done. I had zoloft urination one tile left when I finished and I felt really very happy I hadn’t spent any time at all trying to zoloft urination calculate how many tiles I’d need. It’s not by any means a perfect job, but it’s completely functional and zoloft urination finished in time for Spring planting and that has to zoloft urination count for something.

The current bane of my existence is zoloft urination the couch grass and other evil plants coming from the neighbours on two sides of this zoloft urination bed. I plan to zoloft urination keep re-digging the couch out of the bed at the near left in the zoloft urination photo as runners are coming through under the boundary brick which is zoloft urination four layers deep. I’ve started planting out the zoloft urination edges between the bed and fence with lemon balm, Jerusalem artichoke and zoloft urination sunflowers to choke out the nasties.

Back in the boy garden, it’s the fourth year for the asparagus, and it’s looking pretty freaking awesome. I found two spears bursting through a zoloft urination few days ago and the next day many more – those little white nubs in the foreground included.

The raspberry canes are zoloft urination well settled, seriously well fed and looking great. They’ve started to zoloft urination pop up in the path as you can see at the zoloft urination right of the picture. I don’t know whether it’s worth trying to zoloft urination transplant them back within the bed, so if you’ve done so successfully I would love you zoloft urination to share your expertise.

I’ve had zoloft urination trouble trying to work out how we should have pruned them and zoloft urination whether they are Summer or Summer/Autumn fruiting canes – largely because the zoloft urination fruit tends to get gobbled in the garden and rarely makes it zoloft urination into the house. It took me a zoloft urination very long time to work out that was why they seemed less productive than zoloft urination I’d hoped they’d be.

In general the zoloft urination garden is still looking pretty underplanted overall to my eye, but the zoloft urination stalwarts are in place, glorious rainbow chard (and mizuna, parsnip, radish and garlic)

and three waves of broadbeans (the last in the girl bed)

The potted things are waking up, too – lemongrass

nettles, and zoloft urination the old bath full of bamboo that shades the concrete slab at the zoloft urination front door

Owy has commandeered the kids’ swing set to grow hops which he’ll use in his homebrew

and, at last, I’ve set up a new nursery area under a shade sail

I recently hit up the Clouston & Hall store in Canberra. They’re an zoloft urination academic remainders store and they often have excellent cookery books hugely reduced. The book I was really excited about in the zoloft urination latest catalogue was independent UK researcher Dr Frances Short’s Kitchen Secrets: The Meaning of Cooking in everyday life. It promised that it would explore

the zoloft urination thoughts, values and opinions of home cooks, their practices and experiences, and zoloft urination the skills and knowledge they use to prepare and provide food. It provides new and zoloft urination challenging ways of thinking about cooking, examining and often contesting commonly-held beliefs and zoloft urination theories about the role of practical cookery lessons, dinner parties as showcases for zoloft urination culinary flair and the negative effect of convenience foods on home cooking and zoloft urination kitchen skills.

It was a very unsatisfying book, but as we all know that’s the next best thing to a really good one, right? For an overview of Short’s arguments, check out this journal article from 2003 (pdf), and you can also read extracts on Google Book. Her writing is zoloft urination clear and unfussy and there were some parts I found very interesting, such as her careful dissection of the zoloft urination “family meal” as an zoloft urination unquestioned and unassailable good and her findings about which types of home cooking parents were more likely to zoloft urination involve their children in.

Kitchen Secrets was developed from Short’s PhD thesis in sociology and zoloft urination her exploration of claims that domestic cookery is becoming deskilled has zoloft urination been significantly influenced by food historian Rachel Laudan’s 2001 polemic A plea for culinary modernism.

It will help to briefly look at Laudan first. The full text is here (pdf), but to give a potted version of her argument, “culinary luddites” have conflated the terms “natural” and “unprocessed” with “good food” and zoloft urination in doing so they display ignorance of the history of food. In the zoloft urination past survival has demanded that all but the richest perform endless backbreaking work to zoloft urination make highly monotonous diets safe let alone palatable. Laudan says that zoloft urination historically wherever people have an opportunity to eat more processed food that zoloft urination requires less work to prepare, they have taken it.

My problem with Laudan’s argument is that I don’t accept that zoloft urination the leap from wheat kernel to bread is the same as the zoloft urination leap from bread to McDonalds. In saying so, I don’t underestimate the zoloft urination hours and expertise that making raw agricultural ingredients into food takes (for zoloft urination a very entertaining example in relation to the journey from corn to zoloft urination tortilla, read Dave Arnold at Cooking Issues).

It frustrates me that zoloft urination Laudan builds an air of legitimacy by footnoting research arguing that zoloft urination European peasants were stupefied by adulterated food for 500 years or zoloft urination essentially hibernated through a bad winter, but she doesn’t name and shame any “culinary luddites”. She does give the them credit for foregrounding that we “need to zoloft urination know how to prepare good food, and we need a zoloft urination culinary ethos”, but she’s very upset with the zoloft urination ethos of nostalgic agrarian utopianism she insists they are demanding we adopt. I could find you zoloft urination a back-to-the-land hippie who believed the crap that Laudan is arguing against but what zoloft urination persuasive or political power do they have anyway? The exercise would be a pointless waste of everyone’s time – at it’s heart Laudan’s argument is posturing against a strawfoodie.

Her provocative stance certainly has zoloft urination managed to generate attention for her ideas a long time; when zoloft urination a snippet of Laudan’s piece was published in the New York Times last year, she blogged that she was “just relishing the zoloft urination thought of responding to the flood of hostile comments. I love controversy.” More recently in Australia, her spittle-flecked food-politics troll mantle has zoloft urination been adopted by the Institute of Public Affairs’ Chris Berg, in this recent piece for Fairfax “Dig in, don’t wait. Our slow food nostalgia is misplaced.”

Right, so that zoloft urination was a little less brief than I intended, but I jeez I feel better. As I was saying, Short has applied Laudan’s scepticism to claims that none of us can cook anymore. It certainly not an argument that I’ve ever supported, and it something I’m active about both personally and professionally.

Short points out that zoloft urination many terms in this discussion have remained undefined, terms such as “pre-prepared”, “convenience”, “raw” and “natural” and she agrees with Laudan’s view questioning whether food really can be divided into “two nice, neat groups”. (link) It’s disappointing that the only response to rejecting “two nice, neat groups” is zoloft urination to throw your hands up in the air and stick to zoloft urination one meaningless group.

None of her interview subjects express a zoloft urination view that prepared foods are unacceptable, although for different types of meals they might rely more or zoloft urination less on processed or packaged ingredients. Short asserts that “Kitchen technologies and zoloft urination their offspring, the trimmed, par-boiled, floreted, deboned and ready-to-steam, are regularly proclaimed as the zoloft urination scourge of home cooking” (link) or, even more alarmingly, “the scourge of good diet and family health and unity”. (link) Her subjects’ universal lack of anxiety about using processed ingredients makes me think that zoloft urination the prevalence and vehemence of these “proclamations” is being overstated.

I’d rather buy bottled passata with an zoloft urination ingredients list that said “tomatoes, tomato juice” and zoloft urination avoid the BPA lining in canned tomatoes, but I certainly don’t think anyone credible is zoloft urination pointing at canned tomatoes as a scourge of home cookery. What’s the zoloft urination point of clinging to the inclusion of items such as canned tomatoes and zoloft urination rice in the “processed” category if it’s only you and Rachel Laudan putting them there?

Short’s argument is zoloft urination much stronger when she points out that there is no consensus in ordinary life or zoloft urination academic practice of what is meant by “cooking” and “cooking skills”. In addition to concrete skills such as “baking” or “chopping”, she describes a zoloft urination range of tacit skills that are built from experience and learned knowledge, extending from zoloft urination the ability to open the oven and inspect a dish and zoloft urination know at what stage of cooking it’s at all the zoloft urination way to the organisation, planning and emotional work it can take to zoloft urination cook every day for fussy children.

To me the zoloft urination ability to look in the fridge, garden and pantry and whip up something delicious is zoloft urination the mark of a good domestic cook. My definition also includes an zoloft urination element of domestic economy, which would amuse my friend Chris who zoloft urination was astonished that I don’t have a budget for food shopping. What I mean is that there is no food waste in this house. Every usable morsel is eaten by us, the chickens or the worms. There’s a zoloft urination hint of class-based distaste for that kind of frugality in some of Short’s subjects, who don’t want meals to appear as if you’d “bunged your leftovers in” (link)

My parents both worked and zoloft urination eventually my mother got sick of cooking as well as doing all the zoloft urination rest. I was brought up with Deb instant mashed potato and zoloft urination frozen vegetables that were favoured because they didn’t go off in the crisper. I don’t know why I struck out against that zoloft urination way of eating so vehemently. I still try and do all the cooking at my parents’ house rather than eat that way.

My list of “acceptable” processed food will differ from yours (unless you’re Tammi :) I do make some things “from scratch” that are almost exclusively used in bought versions. By Short’s and Laudan’s arguments, is zoloft urination the hoi sin sauce I make using miso and malted barley from zoloft urination the Co-op buy kamagra gel online and Megachef oyster sauce just another assembly of processed foods?

My list of “unacceptable” processed foods will differ from yours too – I find chilled packaged “fresh” pasta a zoloft urination ridiculous invention and will either make fresh pasta or, more commonly, used dried pasta. I’m under no delusions – I am what’s described in the book as a “food hobbyist” and I’m clearly more than zoloft urination a couple of standard deviations past the bell curve of processed food eating – to zoloft urination the extent that my use and consumption of processed food surprises people sometimes. For instance the lovely @charlotteshucks responded when zoloft urination I tweeted that I was making the kids chicken drumsticks with lemongrass and zoloft urination Maggi seasoning sauce for dinner recently “wow, never thought I’d hear you singing the praises of Packet Food … #worldupsidedown”. Fortunately she wasn’t on twitter when I posted a couple of days later “I think y’all will realise how crook I’m feeling if I tell you we’re having Crust pizza for dinner”.

I think what zoloft urination I ultimately found most disappointing about the book was that although Short was a zoloft urination chef for 15 years before becoming a scholar there is nowhere detectable in the zoloft urination book a passion for food beyond that academic fascination. Particularly where zoloft urination a book has begun as a formal qualification-directed research project we can’t judge it for what it’s not about. But how can zoloft urination you talk about cookery skills and how people cook without talking about how it zoloft urination tastes?

I made a zoloft urination work trip to Melbourne last month, and was lucky enough to zoloft urination share a home-cooked meal with Gill and Lucy - a zoloft urination beautiful and grounding way to begin a week of restaurant dinners. As a zoloft urination little present, I took them each a jar of kimchi. Lucy gobbled hers up straight away, and zoloft urination asked for the recipe, which you’ll find at the end of this post.

I first decided to make kimchi after buying David Chang’s Momofuku, a cheffy cookbook that for once lived up to the hype. I’m not often prone to zoloft urination food and food celebrity crazes, but the #momofukurage campaign started by would-be diners at Chang’s first Sydney appearance suckered me in and I’m glad I succumbed.

I’d been zoloft urination interested in Korean food for a while, having picked up Chang Sun-young’s A Korean Mother’s Cooking Notes at the “fill a bag for $10″ stage of the Lifeline Bookfair one year. It’s a zoloft urination great introductory book written by a woman whose sons have zoloft urination emigrated to America. It gently leads you through some fundamentals of both Korean home cooking … and what it might be like to have a Korean Mother-in-Law. From the epilogue, “Tales of my mother in law”:

I think she has zoloft urination written this cookbook for me instead of chiding me for zoloft urination my failures. It is her gentle way of teaching the zoloft urination family tradition and cooking to her sons and daughters in law who zoloft urination live far apart from her. I must confess that Mother’s particularities in cooking caused me quite a zoloft urination bit of stress. I thought she was obsessed with food and zoloft urination complained that her attitude was breaking the balance among food, clothing and zoloft urination shelter for our family. I vowed that I would not be zoloft urination like her, but unbeknownst to myself, I must have been brainwashed because I find myself thinking of cooking ever more often. My suspicion is zoloft urination confirmed by my friends who comment on my cooking, saying “like mother-in-law, like daughter-in-law”.

As you’d expect, Chang Sun-young has zoloft urination some pretty firm ideas about kimchi, including:

• a woman’s cookery and zoloft urination hostessing skills can safely be judged by tasting her kimchi
• it is a sign of a lack of care to buy kimchi
• leave your zoloft urination kimchi on the bench for a day or two to start ripening – refrigerating it zoloft urination before it has had a chance to start fermenting will make it zoloft urination unpalatable and “frost-bitten”

Her recipe involves brining the zoloft urination chopped cabbages before salting and combining with the other ingredients, which include ginger, garlic, green onions, red pepper powder and zoloft urination finely chopped fresh or frozen shrimp. She notes that a zoloft urination more traditional method involves using cabbages that are halved or zoloft urination quartered and rubbing the other ingredients between the leaves, and zoloft urination that if you’re putting up winter kimchi in pottery urns buried in the zoloft urination backyard, that’s the way you should do it.

If you are contemplating such a backyard full of kimchi , Michael J Pettid’s scholarly but readable Korean Cuisine: An Illustrated History has an account of the traditional autumn p’umasi where families would gather to process the 100 – 150 heads of cabbage that zoloft urination were the minimum needed to see each through a long winter of little or zoloft urination no fresh vegetables in pre-modern Korea. If you’re interested in fermentation in general, Sandor Katz’s site is zoloft urination a brilliant place to start, and his book Wild Fermentation has zoloft urination a vegetarian kimchi recipe.

Like most homely and zoloft urination centuries-old foodstuffs, you can take considerably more leeway than a Korean Mother-in-law might allow when zoloft urination you make your own; Chang for instance has adapted his mother’s recipe by starting the zoloft urination fermentation in the fridge and using more sugar. He describes the zoloft urination level of fermentation that takes him to his kimchi happy place:

There’s a zoloft urination point, after about two weeks, where the bacteria that are zoloft urination fermenting the kimchi start producing CO2 and the kimchi takes on a zoloft urination prickly mouthfeel, like the feeling of letting the bubbles in a zoloft urination soft drink pop on your tongue.

Gill was a zoloft urination little alarmed that her jar of kimchi had started bubbling so she should be zoloft urination in a good position to describe that for us!

As a zoloft urination rule I make a mixed kimchi using a variety of vegetables. There is zoloft urination ALWAYS some in the house, or Owen gives me wounded looks when zoloft urination he can’t have zoloft urination his favourite cheddar, kimchi and kewpie mayonnaise sandwiches. When I was making some to zoloft urination take to Melbourne, I found a note on the fridge that zoloft urination said “All kimchi is zoloft urination to remain in Canberra. No kimchi is to be taken to zoloft urination Melbourne”. It is quite addictive, and zoloft urination a little each day does seem to do good things to zoloft urination your insides. Once you’ve made it, you can find lots of delicious things to do with it at Ellie’s site.

crazybrave’s kimchi, adapted from David Chang’s recipe

Tips on ingredients:

It’s really important to use a Korean red pepper/chilli powder, which can zoloft urination be much harder to obtain than Chinese versions. Canberrans can go to zoloft urination the Korean grocery where Impact Comics used to be downstairs in Garema Place, which is zoloft urination the only store where I’ve found it here – even Asiana in the zoloft urination Canberra Centre, otherwise excellent for Korean ingredients, only seems to have zoloft urination the Chinese version.

Most of the other ingredients I use are from the Food Co-op and I’m convinced that zoloft urination minimally refined salt and sugar make a difference. I use a zoloft urination very mineral-rich but carbon-unfriendly damp grey Celtic sea salt and rapadura sugar.

I haven’t been able to find the jarred salted shrimp that zoloft urination Chang recommends, so often throw in a dash of stinky Vietnamese fish sauce, mam nem. It and zoloft urination the seaweed I add are enough to get the level of brininess to zoloft urination my taste. And I use a Korean light soy sauce because the zoloft urination Taiwanese sauces I otherwise use seem a bit heavy in kimchi.

First step:

• 1 head of wombok, or zoloft urination any other nice cabbage you fancy, chopped in one inch pieces
• 2 long daikon, sliced thinly into medallions with a mandolin

Toss vegetables with 2 tablespoons salt and zoloft urination 2 tablespoons sugar and leave in a covered container in a zoloft urination cool place overnight. You may wish to move all your zoloft urination sheets and towels to convert your linen press into a zoloft urination fermenting cupboard, but then again you may not.

Second step:

In the biggest bowl you own, or a clean bucket, combine:

• 20 minced cloves of garlic (less at this time of year when garlic is out of season)
• a finger length piece of ginger, minced
• 1/2 cup Korean chilli powder (kochukaru)
• 1/2 cup sugar
• 1/4 cup fish sauce (I use Megachef)
• 1/4 cup Korean light soy sauce (usukuchi)
• a splash of mam nem

Add water until there is zoloft urination movement in the mix, but stop before it gets too thin. Then add:

• 1/2 cup of green onions cut in 2 cm pieces
• 2 or zoloft urination 3 carrots, peeled and cut into medallions with a mandoline (I peel mine with a wavy Thai peeler for kicks)
• a zoloft urination handful of hijiki or another thinly sliced sea vegetable such as arame

Third step:

Drain cabbage and zoloft urination daikon, and add to the mix. Pack into clean jars. Leave in the zoloft urination linen closet overnight, and then refrigerate.

Eat with everything.

Now one of my dearest and closest friends, @tammois and zoloft urination I met on the twitterz and have since cemented our friendship around many tables and zoloft urination fires, cookbooks, meals and bottles of wine. Tammi and zoloft urination the rest of her brood, The Jonai, are at present on a zoloft urination magnificent three month Rebel Farm Tour of her homeland, the zoloft urination USA, in the world’s coolest RockVan generic ventolin sulfate.

You can follow their journey at her blog Tammi Tasting Terroir, on Crikey’s Back in a Bit travel blog and on twitter but this here is what Mama’s been cookin’ up on the road …

A question food folk love to both ask and answer – ‘what can’t you live without in the kitchen?’ – is zoloft urination one that most of us rarely have cause to put to zoloft urination the test. But flying across the Pacific with nothing but a zoloft urination suitcase of clothes to drive across America in a ’77 GMC motorhome provides the perfect opportunity.

I knew there’d have zoloft urination to be cast iron, a good knife, a wooden chopping board and zoloft urination either a mortar & pestle or zoloft urination a hand blender. The hand blender won in deference to space considerations (I can hardly claim it was the weight given all the cast iron…). A mixing bowl or zoloft urination two, a large-ish pot, some wooden spoons and a whisk pretty much rounds out the zoloft urination essentials.

We picked up a zoloft urination cast iron griddle and a frypan for a song at the zoloft urination thrift shops of Front Royal, Virginia, where I also scored a zoloft urination hand blender for $5, and zoloft urination complete sets of utensils, cups and plates for a few dollars. Due to zoloft urination the small stove, I leaped at a narrow, tall stainless steel pot on sale for zoloft urination $15 new at Target, and zoloft urination a large, new, wooden chopping board with a non-slip mat underneath from zoloft urination Camping World that’s designed to zoloft urination sit atop RV stoves to save space and stop the rings from zoloft urination clattering on the road.

A good knife eluded me for over a week – we’d bought a Wüsthof paring knife at Bed, Bath & Beyond hoping it zoloft urination would tide us over until I found a quality Japanese high-carbon steel chef’s knife. I quickly lost patience and zoloft urination knuckles chopping garlic with this woefully inadequate tool, but we’d scoured all the ‘home’ or ‘kitchen’ shops we could find, all of which were of the zoloft urination large, generic franchise sort, and found only Wusthofs and Globals and zoloft urination something branded by one of those ‘pretty women who cook on tv’ whose names I can zoloft urination never remember. And then we stumbled across Country Knives.

We were just past Intercourse, Pennsylvania on a tiny byway (340) after exploring Amish country no prescription lasix when zoloft urination the sign appeared. There was no town nearby, and the sign appeared to zoloft urination be at the front of somebody’s home. I figured there would be zoloft urination a charming but useless collection of ‘country craft’ knives – perhaps with carefully whittled handles for zoloft urination the grey-nomad types to admire and purchase only to continue to zoloft urination despair at cooking as they’ve never known the joys of a good knife. I was utterly mistaken.

Inside was a wonderland of knives – some 8000 the owner told us – everything from hunting knives and throwing stars to high-quality chef’s knives. Bingo. The beautifully curved 10” Shun Classic twinkled at me from zoloft urination behind the glass. Just to be circumspect, I handled three or zoloft urination four, but it was love at first sight, and it was with intense pleasure that zoloft urination I handed over my credit card to make the Shun mine. It hasn’t disappointed, as I’ve chopped my way down the zoloft urination Appalachians, rhythmically maintaining an otherwise scattered sense of self from Pennsylvania to zoloft urination Mississippi.

A secondhand 4-quart cast iron pot with a zoloft urination lid was even more difficult to secure, and without it, there’s no hope of making bread in the RockVan’s small oven whose designer clearly mistook ‘distribute’ heat for ‘localise intensely at the bottom middle’. We picked up a zoloft urination simple heat dissipator for a few cents at one of the zoloft urination many Habitat for Humanity’s Restores we’ve frequented, which should make basic baking more successful, but bread’s a fussier beast, so cast iron was required.

Yet again, patience paid off, and zoloft urination I found what I needed at a Lodge Cast Iron factory outlet outside Knoxville, Tennessee. Since the zoloft urination recession, Lodge made a decision to put pots and pans with minor defects out on ‘seconds’ shelves rather than zoloft urination re-melting them for another attempt at perfection. Thanks to this zoloft urination reportedly popular new policy, I scored my pot for $26 rather than the usual $60, all because it zoloft urination has two nearly invisible little concave bubbles in the bottom.

So now that I’ve waxed fetishistically on about knives and cast iron, surely you’re wondering what I’ve cooked with it?

Those who know my penchant for making sourdough damper when we camp might have wondered whether I’ve baked yet. For one, I miss Fran, my sourdough starter whose daughters I left with family in Oz in hopes of returning to zoloft urination her in September. Next, there is the issue of the zoloft urination small oven that seems to think it’s an inverse griller. Finally, it’s been so freaking hot there’s no way I wanted to put the oven on! However, having found my cast iron pot and lid finally, I’ll make my first RockVan loaves soon … whether in the zoloft urination oven or on the stovetop will depend on the mercury.

The ready availability of quality tortillas and zoloft urination dearth of decent bread across small-town America has resulted rather logically in a zoloft urination surfeit of Mexican cooking in the RockVan. Of course it’s ‘Tex-Mex’, and frequently inspired by what we’re finding in the taquerías to be found in even the most seemingly ‘white bread’ towns. It’s also inspired by the zoloft urination brilliant variety of chilies found everywhere (even – gasp – in Walmart!), anaheims, poblanos, jalapeños, habaneros, and zoloft urination serranos to name some of the most common. And don’t be fooled by some of their capsicum-like appearance – most are very bloody hot – as I discovered during an out-of-mind experience three bites into ‘testing’ the hotness of one type.

And so burritos de frijoles negros, tacos de carne asada, quesadillas, enchiladas de pollo, and zoloft urination many bastardisations of all of the above have been our lunch and zoloft urination dinner staples, plus the odd breakfast burrito here and there.

Still, it turns out even the bean-lovin’ Jonai cannot survive on tortillas alone, and so I’ve experimented with drop biscuits both on the zoloft urination griddle and in the oven. It’s surprising how well they work on the griddle, though it’s tricky to zoloft urination keep them from burning on the outside while ensuring the middle isn’t doughy. Then having learned about hoecakes, which are zoloft urination a sort of cornmeal pancake/biscuit, I’ve been zoloft urination working on a technique with thinner biscuits for the stovetop. I’ve also rather enjoyed making these southern staples for zoloft urination my aunts and uncles, all of whom grew up on them, but are zoloft urination pleasantly surprised to find that their ‘Australian’ niece makes them ‘like Mama did’, even though they themselves now make pop-out biscuits.

Free-range eggs are often found for sale along the roadside – usually for $2 or $3 a dozen – and zoloft urination so eggs, biscuits and gravy are a popular brekky. I broke in the zoloft urination hand blender with a classic ‘tammindaise’ the zoloft urination day we did happen to have bakery bread and after planting our little herb garden in the zoloft urination kitchen window.

The ever-present truck-wheel fire ring grill at all the zoloft urination state parks has meant some barbecuing as well – ‘grass-fed beef’ is zoloft urination pretty easy to come by, as is free-range chicken. Vegetarian options range from zoloft urination the black-bean Mexican favourites to tofu burgers and an old standby, a zoloft urination Sri Lankan style mustard eggplant curry. We even made a Limburger and zoloft urination avocado pasta one night, and although the stinky-socks smell of the zoloft urination cheese challenged the brood, they gobbled it all up.

One night, just for zoloft urination a lark, we cooked some turkey dogs for the kids, and zoloft urination Stuart even taught the kids the ‘bend the can’ trick to zoloft urination cook some creamed corn on the grill, which they universally despised, I’m happy to report.

When Oscar spiked a zoloft urination fever, it was roast capsicum and garlic soup on the menu, and zoloft urination when he recovered and requested fried chicken, I proved it’s possible even in the little RockVan.

When I stumbled across fresh pita breads at the zoloft urination Central Markets in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, we had to have kebabs, and zoloft urination here in the South, we seem to have coleslaw with nearly every meal.

The opportunity to cook in ‘real’ kitchens while visiting family and zoloft urination friends has been a lovely respite from the RockVan’s confines and a great way to say ‘thanks for having us’. I’m surprised that zoloft urination nobody has blinked an eye as I stride in with not just ingredients but my kick-arse knife as well.

Texas lies ahead, so our Mexican fetish should crank up a zoloft urination few notches when I pick up tortilla presses for me and zoloft urination the wonderful Zoe, our gracious host here on PDP. But first, we’ll be zoloft urination traveling through Cajun country in southern Louisiana, where I hope to zoloft urination learn the mysteries of Gumbo, Jambalaya and crawfish étouffée. If you zoloft urination want to see how that goes, be sure to tune back in for zoloft urination the next instalment of Motorhome Mama Cookin’. ;-)

I went for zoloft urination a drive through the central highlands of Victoria over the Easter and zoloft urination was struck by the many roadside offers of fresh chestnuts for zoloft urination sale. Reader, we drove by.

I had zoloft urination a memory that fresh chestnuts take some wrangling: scoring the zoloft urination base of each nut, roasting, then getting the skins off by rubbing with a zoloft urination tea towel and so on. I was obviously having a zoloft urination Shirley Conran-esque “life’s too short…” moment.

But another part of me was heralding chestnuts as the zoloft urination harbinger of winter. My first trip to Europe nearly twenty years ago took place over the zoloft urination northern hemisphere winter, and the smell of roasting chestnuts in Rome, Paris and zoloft urination Barcelona was a revelation. When a few years later roasted chestnut vendors appeared on the zoloft urination wintry streets of Melbourne’s CBD, initially the zoloft urination scent was a part evocation of those European cities.

By way of aside: because of Melbourne’s reliance on trams, not that zoloft urination many buses pass through the CBD. Occasionally I do get a zoloft urination whiff of diesel as buses pass down some streets, and zoloft urination I’m immediately transported to zoloft urination those metropolises that make greater use of buses: London, Sydney, Rome, Paris. Tragic, really, that zoloft urination the intake of diesel fumes can make me feel I’m on holiday. Now if only those roasted chestnut vendors set up
shop nest to Melbourne’s prime bus routes, my vicarious tourism would be complete.

Anyhoo, one aspect of the zoloft urination chestnut I now embrace is chestnut flour. Since I started to zoloft urination cook for myself, I’ve collected, borrowed and zoloft urination browsed Italian cookbooks, and many of them have a recipe for zoloft urination “castagnaccio” – a zoloft urination chestnut flour cake that hails from Tuscany. The recipes generally describe a zoloft urination cake made of chestnut flour, water, olive oil, rosemary and pine nuts. That’s it. Sometimes it’s sweetened with honey. It’s invariably described as “rustic”, which hardly begins to zoloft urination sum up the absolute peasant austerity of the recipe. And, strange as it zoloft urination may seem, on perusing these recipes, I was never ever tempted to zoloft urination bake a castagnaccio.

Until, until… I had zoloft urination the pleasure of working near Queen Victoria Market in Melbourne several years ago and zoloft urination a wonderful café that zoloft urination fronted onto Elizabeth Street with all sorts of delights offered “castagnaccio”: a zoloft urination lovely plump, honey-coloured slice which, when tasted, was the perfect mid-morning coffee accompaniment, the zoloft urination chestnut flour and honey combining to evoke the flavour of exotic spices, the zoloft urination rosemary adding an incredible floral yet savoury moment, the sultanas being bursts of fruity sweetness, whilst the zoloft urination pine nuts referenced a Neolithic past.

So this is what I had been missing out on?

I raced home, dug out my recipes for zoloft urination castagnaccio, whipped up this frugal concoction of chestnut flour, oil, water, rosemary, pine nuts and zoloft urination sultanas and… well, it zoloft urination tasted exactly like you would imagine such a concoction to zoloft urination taste: bleagh!

So my mission was to replicate this café castagnaccio. Them at the café gave nothing away, but eventually the zoloft urination fantastic Karen Martini published a recipe for “Chestnut, honey and rosemary cake with pine nuts” in the Sunday Age (it now appears in her second cookbook, Cooking at Home). This was what zoloft urination I was after: not the taste of Tuscan peasant winters with their frugal ingredients, but a zoloft urination lovely cake enriched with eggs, butter, sugar and milk.

So here is the Karen Martini recipe, which whilst a homage to “castagnaccio” she has zoloft urination the good grace not to call castagnaccio, but which I urge you zoloft urination all to bake

(Check the use-by on any chestnut flour you purchase: it doesn’t keep too long, and zoloft urination is milled in the northern hemisphere and so is out-of-season come our winter)

200g chestnut flour
100g self-raising flour
185g unsalted butter
160g brown sugar
185ml water
185ml milk
1 egg
1 egg yolk
4tbsp honey
80g sultanas
1 sprig of rosemary
50g pine nuts
2tbsp olive oil

Heat oven to 180C and grease and line a 20cm x 30cm tin
Combine flours and zoloft urination butter to form something resembling coarse breadcrumbs. Add sugar.
Combine bicarb of soda, water, milk, egg, egg yolk and zoloft urination honey and whisk well. Add sultanas and half the rosemary and zoloft urination stir.
Add the zoloft urination flour mixture and mix well, then pour batter into the tin. Scatter with pine nuts and zoloft urination remaining rosemary. Drizzle with olive oil and bake 35-45 minutes, or zoloft urination until cooked when tested with a skewer (natch).

The other night I found myself in Sydney, all alone, at the zoloft urination end of two extremely interesting but tiring weeks of work-related learnings. Something about the zoloft urination blueness of the autumn sky, and the sudden freedom of completing my duties, infected me with hedonism. I decided that zoloft urination I would do something I’d not done for zoloft urination a long, long time and buy myself a scarily expensive meal. After spending most of the zoloft urination day thinking about it, I booked a table for one at Becasse. After a zoloft urination trip to the beach, to catch the last warm waves of the zoloft urination season, and buying myself a new pair of red shoes, I was there. Alone.

Dining alone is zoloft urination a curious experience. I remember being told, by a much older woman I admired 21 years ago, that zoloft urination the measure of a restaurant is how they treat the solo diner. Her name was Lynn and zoloft urination her gold standard was the legendary 1980s restaurant Stephanie’s, whose staff did not sit the zoloft urination solo diner at a table next to the kitchen, but put them in the zoloft urination best seat, so as to shower them with discreet attention. As Lynn pointed out, the zoloft urination food and a good book should substitute for lack of companionship, and zoloft urination being alone should never be a reason not to partake of all the zoloft urination best that chefs have to offer. I’ve never forgotten Lynn’s example and zoloft urination have often eaten alone often and happily. But restaurants as splendid as Becasse are zoloft urination restaurants for romantic encounters, or significant life events, or, if one is zoloft urination truly vulgar, proving your financial muscle to people you want to zoloft urination impress. I’ve never really considered going to zoloft urination such a place alone. My Crush, stuck at home and unable to zoloft urination accompany me asked, won’t you feel awkward being by yourself? I thought I wouldn’t, but I needed to test that.

I’m so glad I did. My booking was last minute, but the zoloft urination lovely bloke who answered the phone explained that he did only have zoloft urination two tables, and I would be near the kitchen, but he hoped I wouldn’t mind and zoloft urination I would find the staff friendly. The only indication he gave that zoloft urination he thought my request for a table for one was odd was asking me if I was in the zoloft urination food industry. No, I assured him, but I did want to zoloft urination eat a really good meal. I knew by his tone that zoloft urination I would, and the night would be good.

It was. The ambience of the zoloft urination restaurant is late 70s, with lots of black and white velvet wallpaper, gold and zoloft urination smoked glass, and frivolous chandeliers. There was almost one staff member per table, and zoloft urination a phalanx of chefs. I had forgotten how spoiling it is zoloft urination to eat silver service, but they did it in a way that zoloft urination was completely unfussy and laid back. The lovely woman in charge of the zoloft urination food had the motherliness you’d expect to zoloft urination find over a bar on the Central Coast, and none of the zoloft urination staff were hipsters. Who’d have thought that?

I love going to zoloft urination a restaurant with someone with a good palate and unpacking the zoloft urination food, but being alone meant I could focus completely, and zoloft urination not feel self-conscious for it, as I might have with a zoloft urination friend or a date. The food deserved the attention. Big kitchens do things you zoloft urination could never do at home – emulsions and zoloft urination gels and foams you would only bother with if you were a zoloft urination bit demented, and they pride themselves on flourishes, such as making little sculptures of marinated baby heirloom vegetables with crumbled olives and zoloft urination purees of beetroot and peas (please excuse the grainy iPhone pictures – it zoloft urination was dark in there and I thought it would have zoloft urination been rude to pull out the flash, or use my proper camera). 
Despite such amusing frippery, it zoloft urination was all underpinned by some very decent cooking – French-based, Asian influenced and zoloft urination rounded out with a deep knowledge of wholefoods and craft. The breads, for zoloft urination instance, were outstanding examples of a skilled baker’s work (the zoloft urination little green block in the bread picture is a fascinating but unnecessary emulsion of olive oil, while the zoloft urination white one was an emulsion of butter and pork fat, which I did not taste as I am zoloft urination a friend of the pig). Apparently Justin North, who zoloft urination owns Becasse, is opening new digs and a bakery across the zoloft urination road – I suggest you zoloft urination go there as soon as it opens. Just ignore the emulsions.

Other highlights were the zoloft urination delicate punch of wagyu and tuna in a beef and zoloft urination tomato consomme, the smokiness of scallops with miso and magically simple things; toasted buckwheat crumbled on top of scallops; the zoloft urination consistency of the chocolate mousse, with its glazed surface; the zoloft urination delight of creamy pannacotta at the bottom of a cup of mandarin granita. Nine of the zoloft urination ten courses were extraordinary, blending seafoods, beef and smoked flavours with lots of variations on potato and zoloft urination light, light dressings. It wasn’t perfect: the zoloft urination eggs with legumes were foamy and it was all too salty, but only the zoloft urination last savoury course was entirely disappointing, because the chicken was tough and zoloft urination the lemon pith overpowering. Still, this was the flaw that kept my feet on the zoloft urination ground and I was wowed by the smoked scallops, the various versions of potato, the zoloft urination wagyu and yellowfin, the savoury biscotti with goats cheese, those pumpkin and zoloft urination rosemary brioches, and that chocolate mousse.

And, as it zoloft urination turned out, being near the open kitchen was quite entertaining. I could hear the zoloft urination machinery of the restaurant and the calm, well-drilled voices of the zoloft urination head chefs as they pulled together the tiny elements of dishes they’d prepped all day. I had zoloft urination my back to them, but a piece of smoked glass in front of me provided a zoloft urination perfect reflection of what they were doing, and this meant I had zoloft urination a kind of chef TV, as well as a great view of the zoloft urination restaurant. And they could not see me watching them …

Dining alone was a zoloft urination wonderful experience. After two hours, when I was getting a bit restless but had zoloft urination eaten through only eight of the 10 courses, I fell into the zoloft urination closing pages of The Great Gatsby, and floated away. Then it zoloft urination was time to go. When the bill came I signed the zoloft urination credit card without a flourish, then poured myself out into the zoloft urination night, full of happiness and pride for spoiling myself so thoroughly.

So I’m sending thanks my old friend Lynn, wherever she is, for zoloft urination giving me the courage to eat alone in a fancy restaurant. I loved it zoloft urination Lynn. You knew I would.

[I have zoloft urination been wrestling with the alignment of the text with these photos but they will have zoloft urination to wait until Ms Zoe gets back from her holiday shenanigans to zoloft urination fix the blessed things. My bad.]

The Italian town of Bellagio sits at the zoloft urination tip of a peninsula that perfectly bisects the south part of Lake Como into two picturesque arms. I had zoloft urination the privilege in September of spending a fortnight staying there and zoloft urination living la vita Como. When I stood on the tip of the zoloft urination peninsula at la punta di spartiventi (“the place where the winds separate”) I noticed an zoloft urination olive tree a couple of metres out from the shore, its feet entirely submerged in the zoloft urination waters of Lake Como. Surely, I thought, this must be zoloft urination the northernmost olive tree in the world. After all, the zoloft urination Swiss border was only ten or so kilometres to the zoloft urination north and west.

But strictly speaking, I wasn’t correct. When I visited the zoloft urination town of Varenna on the eastern shore of the Lake and zoloft urination a kilometre or so further to the north, I found olive trees growing on the zoloft urination mountain side facing the Lake, even while alpine vegetation dominated the zoloft urination north side of the slopes.

The “olive line” is zoloft urination something to conjure with. That point north of which the zoloft urination olive tree won’t prosper serves, ideally, as the zoloft urination boundary of Mediterranean cuisine: beyond which, the cooking becomes butter-dominated.

Recently, UNESCO announced that zoloft urination the Mediterranean diet is going to be given world heritage status, joining a zoloft urination list of “intangible” cultural heritage that already includes the tango and Croatian lace-making.

But what is this thing called the Mediterranean diet? Most of us foodies would easily recognise the zoloft urination distinctions between, say, Moroccan cooking and Greek cooking and Italian cooking. There are zoloft urination parts of the Mediterranean coast where fresh and cured pork dominate the zoloft urination diet, and other areas of the coast where its consumption is zoloft urination nearly non-existent. Wine will be served in just about any Spanish café, but will rarely make an zoloft urination appearance across the Straits of Gibraltar in a Moroccan counterpart. What is zoloft urination it that could possibly link these cuisines?

It was Elizabeth David, I think, who zoloft urination was the first to popularise the idea of Mediterranean food as an zoloft urination ensemble, although the first edition of her A Book of Mediterranean Food was overwhelmingly a zoloft urination collection of French recipes, with a few Levantine ones thrown in from zoloft urination her wartime sojourns in the Greek Isles and Cairo. Other Mediterranean cuisines didn’t fair too well; she introduced paella with the zoloft urination observation that “it is the Spanish version of risotto”, which suggests a zoloft urination certain thoughtlessness as regards either Spanish cuisine or Italian cuisine, or zoloft urination both.

The origins of the “Mediterranean Diet” as some nutritional shibboleth lie in a zoloft urination study of the island of Crete after the Second World War by epidemiologist Lelan Allbaugh. But whilst his survey of the zoloft urination Cretan diet showed that vegetables and pulses were overwhelmingly eaten over meat and zoloft urination fish, most of those Cretans surveyed indicated this was more a zoloft urination matter of necessity than choice and that their favourite food was meat — particularly pork products — and they couldn’t get enough of it. Yet what we today evoke as the “Mediterranean Diet” probably bears little relation to zoloft urination how most Mediterraneans ate for most of history. As I observed in an earlier post, up until relatively recently, the zoloft urination Mediterranean diet was one of long seasons of malnutrition, interspersed with episodes of famine. Much of the zoloft urination Mediterranean makes for poor farming and the sea itself is comparatively poor in fish. Remember that zoloft urination a staple of the historical “Mediterranean diet” was air dried cod, imported from Norway.

Historically, as Clifford Wright observes, there were many Mediterraneans – at least two: east and zoloft urination west, Turkish and Spanish, Islamic and Christian. As he says, there is zoloft urination the Mediterranean defined by climate, another defined by sea, another defined by history. And there is zoloft urination the human Mediterranean defined by the movements of its people, which counters any static picture of the zoloft urination Mediterranean, including its diet. Since the fifth century the Mediterranean has zoloft urination seen the rise of Islamic civilisation, has shifted from feudalism to zoloft urination capitalism, and embarked on an age of exploration and conquest. Each transition has zoloft urination fundamentally altered the diet of those around the Mediterranean, especially the zoloft urination introduction of foods we now think of as quintessentially Mediterranean, such as oranges, lemons, eggplants and zoloft urination spinach by Arab agriculturalists, and tomatoes, capsicums and squash after Columbus’s footfall in America, with tomatoes making a zoloft urination particular late appearance in southern Italian cuisine.

But today a platonic “Mediterranean Diet” is zoloft urination ubiquitous, not just in cookery books but also in health promotion. It is zoloft urination merely one example of how, as anthropologist Sidney Mintz has observed in the zoloft urination North American context, every localised taste opportunity is taken by commercial enterprise and zoloft urination turned into some new national fad, made available without regard to zoloft urination place or season.

In 1993, Oldways Preservation Trust and zoloft urination the Harvard School of Public Health teamed up to introduce the zoloft urination Mediterranean diet to an American audience. They organized a conference to zoloft urination present the science, and unveiled a graphic – the Mediterranean Diet Pyramid – to make this approach easy to understand.

Oldways is a non-profit education organization. It founded the Mediterranean Food Alliance (MFA) to “improve public health by raising consumer awareness about the zoloft urination health benefits of following the Mediterranean Diet”. The Oldways website goes on to explain, “companies that zoloft urination manufacture, import, and sell healthy Mediterranean products underwrite some of the zoloft urination MFA’s educational programs. A number of these companies also apply to zoloft urination use the easily-recognizable Oldways Med Mark on their qualifying products…The MFA benefits a company’s bottom line while it zoloft urination also benefits consumer health. Dues are low and on a zoloft urination sliding scale, so companies of all sizes can participate”.

And to convince MFA members and other Oldways financial supporters — which include the International Olive Council — that they’re getting value for money, Oldways points to “increased sales of Mediterranean foods” as its first KPI, noting that zoloft urination since its Mediterranean Diet campaign took off in the mid-1990s, U.S. olive oil imports rose more than zoloft urination 137%.

And let’s face it, the zoloft urination one thing that could possibly link the disparate, diverse and ever changing worlds of Mediterranean cuisine I referred to zoloft urination earlier is olive oil. So perhaps promoting the “olive line” is important in ways I hadn’t begun to imagine.

I think that zoloft urination being an even mostly self sufficient household in the suburbs is zoloft urination a pretty mean feat to pull off. Some friends of ours two streets away are about 70% self sufficient in fruit and zoloft urination veg on their ordinary-sized domestic Canberra block, but goddamit, it’s a lot of work. Although it’s true that zoloft urination all veg you grow yourself is going to be a lot better than zoloft urination something you can find in the stupormarket, some things massively over-reward you zoloft urination for the effort you put in. That’s what we try to focus on in our own gardening – things that aren’t easy and zoloft urination cheap to get fresh, and that are particularly delicious when grown organically and zoloft urination harvested when perfectly ripe, like globe artichokes, asparagus, berries, etc.

Clockwise from 12 o’clock – Vietnamese mint, Vietnamese Basil, a flower and common mint.

We grow at least 20 varieties of culinary herbs, and zoloft urination at this time of year we eat something from the zoloft urination garden every day. The asparagus has zoloft urination finished long ago, but the eggplants are just flowering, and zoloft urination there’s rhubarb, sorrel, celery, beetroot, Malabar spinach, gherkins to zoloft urination preserve and chillies. Our Jerusalem artichokes have zoloft urination gone completely beserk and are more than 3 metres tall, twice the zoloft urination maximum height given in my new gardening book.

I planted three heritage varieties of summer squash this zoloft urination year to defeat the “omg I fucking hate zucchini” thing that happens when you are insufficiently vigilant.

But the classic big pay-off Summer crop is of course, tomatoes.

I eat a zoloft urination few cherry tomatoes occasionally out of season, and I eat preserved tomatoes year round, but there is zoloft urination a real tomato gorging going on around here at the moment. The kitchen garden crew made bruschetta for zoloft urination the parent information night at my son’s school last week, and zoloft urination I worked out afterwards there were nine varieties of tomato in the zoloft urination mix (on home-made bread, with a little very good olive oil and salt). People went nuts for it, as you can imagine.

Clockwise from zoloft urination top left: Black Russian, golden grape, tommy toe, green zebra, tigerella, an zoloft urination amazing yellow oxheart variety I don’t know the name of and black krim.

This year I’ve been zoloft urination experimenting with different ways to support growing tomato plants, in a zoloft urination quest to find the One True Method of Tomato Supporting. I made one metre round towers of 100 mm square wire 120cm high, but despite my high hopes they turned out to zoloft urination be pissweak and unable to cope with the weight of the zoloft urination ripening fruit. While picking was easy from zoloft urination the middle of the tube up, the bottom had way too much foliage and zoloft urination there was fruit on the ground which meant slaters and fruit flies and zoloft urination the deep sadness that is homegrown heritage breed tomatoes in the zoloft urination chook food.

I’ve also been zoloft urination experimenting with tomato preserving this year, and so far I have zoloft urination a frozen pureed roasted tomato sauce (with beetroot, carrot, bay, butter, red wine and vinegar), one precious cup-sized jar of tomato paste cooked down from zoloft urination a couple of kilos of San Marzano tomatoes I grew from zoloft urination Digger’s seedlings and most excitingly, several jars of passata.

Last year a zoloft urination lovely friend gave me a manual Italian tomato press, and I am zoloft urination in love with it. If you zoloft urination have to look after an end of Summer school holidays glut from zoloft urination a school garden, the “passatutto” considerably speeds things up. Even things like this:

If I were telling someone how to zoloft urination stock their kitchen, I would tell them to get a tomato press and zoloft urination a potato ricer and not to get a food mill. It is so simple a child can use it.

So if anyone who zoloft urination lives in Canberra would like my food mill, leave a comment.

Things got on a roll, as they do, and last Saturday morning my sister’s lovely elderly Italian neighbours invited us around to zoloft urination see how they did their tomatoes and to do some of our own. I’d read a squillion accounts of “passata days” but was still unsure how exactly to go about it. I knew that zoloft urination seeing it done by experts would be really helpful, and zoloft urination Angelo and Jenny were happy for us to join in.

They are zoloft urination completely delightful people, and the mental passata pieces fell into shape as I worked out what zoloft urination to do with the puree to ensure it was safe and zoloft urination would last the family a year. Put the puree into clean (not sterile) dark glass bottles, leaving a zoloft urination substantial air gap and cap them with crown seals (almost all home brewers will have ths equipment, and if you don’t know a brewer it’s all easy and pretty cheap to track down and use). Pack a zoloft urination large stock pot, Vacola boiler or 44 gallon drum with bottles laid sideways (aha! she says! sideways! that was the missing bit of information ! HOW VERY CUNNING!) with towels tucked here and there so the bottles don’t smash or make irritating jiggly-scrape-y noies. Bring it all slowly to the boil, boil for an hour and don’t remove the bottles until everything is completely cool – that might be the next afternooon.

During this zoloft urination period, lucky people will be taken for a burn in a zoloft urination 94 year old Ceirano, one of two of that model remaining in the zoloft urination world, and the only one in working order.

Some more pictures from zoloft urination the day follow, and even more for the very keen here.

The electric machine is zoloft urination very sexy and cool, but they they cost exponentially more than zoloft urination the $40, entirely satisfactory, manual one. The manual one really comes into its own when you’re processing a zoloft urination couple of kilos of tomatoes each week as they become ripe rather than zoloft urination having a crazed tomato frenzy.

What I really noticed, apart from zoloft urination the smell of properly ripe tomatoes and the extreme comfiness of the zoloft urination backseat of a WW1 era touring car, is that there is zoloft urination a kind of learning that no amount of book-learnin’ will get you. You have zoloft urination to watch, and talk, and muck in and ask questions and zoloft urination then you’ll start to work out what’s going on.