Oscar Wilde died on 30 November 1900
Friday 30 November 2012
30 November- Solution for the last clue and the next cryptic crossword clue
Solution – setter
I enjoyed this clue. Setter is a sort of class of dog, of course.
But you also get to it by scrambling the letters in "street" – and the fact that an anagram is involved is indicated by "barking" in the sense of "barking mad" rather than just a dog's bark.
Mean to eat mostly raw fish (8)
Source of clue – NZ Herald
Hint- this is a container clue
Food on Friday : Christmas Favourites
ON
Just in case you haven't noticed, Christmas is just around the corner. Today's Food on Friday is all about your
favourite Christmas foods/traditions
etc.
Please link your posts up using the
Mr Linky boxes below. It will be great to see what delights you all
have in store!
Thursday 29 November 2012
A Christmas Favourite from Downunder: Mango Cocktails
This lovely smooth cocktail is simple to make:
Instead of putting ice in it I just refrigerated all the ingredients overnight so they were nice and cool
For 4 serves just blend together:
180ml white rum (or less if you prefer less of a kick)
1 teaspoon or a bit more of lemon juice
425g can of mango pieces in juice
250ml of milk
2 tablespoons of caster sugar – I used ½ teaspoon of stevia powder instead
Pour into your festive glasses and enjoy.
29 November- Solution for the last clue and the next cryptic crossword clue
Solution – needle
Want = need
The Parisian = le (ie French for "the")
Need + le = needle = pointer
Dog in street, barking (6)
Source of clue – NZ Herald
Hint – the answer is a word describing a class of dog breed
Your Favourite ..... Cookbooks
A
new feature for you today. This link up
is to collect together posts about Your
Favourite Cookbooks. A Your Favourite link up is planned for
every second month – and some of the topics I have thought of include –
historical fiction, biographies, romances, travel books, laugh out loud books,
childhood books, Children's Books, self-help/motivational books and thrillers –
no doubt there are many other possibilities.
Ideas are most welcome.
So
on to the party. Hunt out those posts
you have done about your favourite cookbooks and link them in using Mr Linky
below.
I
am looking forward to learning about some great cookbooks. Happy linking!
Wednesday 28 November 2012
28 November- Solution for the last clue and the next cryptic crossword clue
Solution – Yellow Fever
Obviously Yellow Fever is a disease.
But if you scramble the letters in "feel very low" you can also get to Yellow Fever.
Want the Parisian to give a pointer (6)
Source of clue – NZ Herald
Hint – this is a charades clue. Think about the way a Parisian might say "the".
Need some inspiration? Try Bananas Part II
Here
are some more great banana dishes that were linked in to Food on Friday: Bananas. I
hope they inspire you to great things.
Don't
you just love these frozen banana pops by Sarah at The Winthrop Chronicles.
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| frozen banana pops |
And
the photography is splendid too!
And
Jenny Eatwell from Rhubarb & Ginger
does it again with this scrumptious Sugar-free Blueberry and Banana Muffin Stack.
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| Sugar-free Blueberry and Banana Muffin Stack |
Fantastic
concept Jenny – and sugar free to boot!
How
about these Cinnamon sautéed Bananas
from The J4C Blog?
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| Cinnamon sautéed Bananas |
I
can smell them from here!
This
Chocolate Chip Banana Bread looks
incredible. Thank you to The Mandatory Mooch for linking it in.
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| Chocolate Chip Banana Bread |
Ray's Banoffee Pie from How Now Brown Chow looks divinely decadent.
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| Ray's Banoffee Pie |
And
last but very far from least, is this Mango Banana Smoothie from The Cooking
Rookie – not too much of a rookie in my opinion!
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| Mango Banana Smoothie |
If
you would like to see the Pinterest board with all the banana links from Food
on Friday, click here
Tuesday 27 November 2012
27 November- Solution for the last clue and the next cryptic crossword clue
Solution – boasts
A word meaning Craft's "catches" ie contains something standing for "small".
As normal you ignore the punctuation so:
Craft's = boats
Small = s
Boa + s + ts = boasts which matches the word "crows" – not in the bird sense but in the boasting sense!
Disease may make one feel very low (6,5)
Source of clue – NZ Herald
Hint – the solution is the name of a disease
Rocamadour
Here's
another magical corner of France. Rocamadour in Provence. It is a bit
crowded with tourists so you need to pick your time to go there carefully.
Rocamadour's
setting is hard to beat – it is perched on a steep hillside above a river. And it has been a place of pilgrimage for
centuries. Pilgrims would go up the 216 steps
from the main street to the chapel on their knees – and you can see where all
those knees have worn the steps down.
Nowadays
you can get to the top in a lift – which doesn't seem to be right some how.
About
600 people live in the village but it has over a million visitors each year!
About
a 20 minute drive from Rocamadour are the Caves at Padirac – another must see. Pre-historic cave paintings.
Monday 26 November 2012
Flag of the Week – Cambodia
26 November- Solution for the last clue and the next cryptic crossword clue
Solution – muscle
Might = muscle - in the sense of power
1000 = M
Cryptic clues = anagram of clues
M + uscle = muscle
Craft's required to catch small crows (6)
Source of clue – NZ Herald
Hint – this is a container clue
Tina Turner - Happy Birthday
Tina Turner's birthday is on 26
November. And she was born in 1939 so I
will leave you all to do the math!
Who
can forget Proud Mary, What's Love Got to do with it and We Don't Want Another
Hero!
And
those legs!
Her
born name was Anna Mae Bullock – doesn't have quite the same ring to it, does
it?
Sunday 25 November 2012
25 November- Solution for the last clue and the next cryptic crossword clue
Solution – Rum Baba
All of you great cooks out there will know that Rum Baba is a dessert.
You can also get to it by adding BA (for Bachelor of Arts) to rumba – the Latin American dance
Rumba + ba = Rum Baba
A shout out to Natasha at My Project Pan who solved it first.
1000 cryptic clues might (6)
Source of clue – NZ Herald
Hint – there is an anagram and an abbreviation in the solution
Edmonds Cookery book
If
there is one cookbook that almost every household in New Zealand has – it is
the Edmonds Cookery Book. It was first issued in 1908 and has had over
50 reprints and new editions since then.
It is a piece of iconic Kiwiana – which also happens to give reliable
recipes for most basic foods that a New Zealand cook might want to make for the
family.
It
has sold over 3 million copies – now given that New Zealand only has just over
4 million people – you can see just how popular it is.
It
doesn't have fancy pictures. Just
simple, straightforward recipes like this one for Banana Cake.
BANANA CAKE
125 g (4 ozs) butter175 g (6 ozs) sugar2 eggs2 mashed bananas (or 3 if bananas are small)1 teaspoon bicarbonate soda2 tablespoons boiling milk1 teaspoon baking powder225 g (8 ozs flour)
METHOD
Grease a medium cake tin Cream butter and sugar.Add eggs, mashed bananas, then bicarb of soda dissolved in boiling milk.Lastly add flour and baking powder, previously sifted.Spoon into cake pan and smooth top.Bake in a preheated 180C (350F) oven. Cake will take about 30 - 40 minutes depending on size of pan and how efficient your oven is.
Remove cake from pan and cool on wire rack.Ice with 1 1/2 cups icing sugar blended with a tablespoon of softened butter and a little milk added to make a spreading consistency
Saturday 24 November 2012
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