I thought I’d do something different today. We’re having meatballs and spaghetti for dinner, so here’s my meatballs recipe.
Meatballs
500g premium grade mince (the best you can afford, or consider making your own)
250g sausage meat
breadcrumbs
1 egg
dried basil
dried oregano
freshly ground black pepper
rock salt (small amount)
Put all ingredients in a bowl and mix together. Best to use your [...]
And now for something about a movie that hasn’t even hit the box office yet.
A British movie about Charles Darwin has opened the Toronto film festival to acclaim, leading to world-wide distribution. Well, almost worldwide. One country is notable by its absence in the queue for Creation – the USA.
It seems the majority of US [...]
While urban New Zealand is coming to rely more and more on fast access to the Internet, things are different in our rural hinterland. But help is at hand.
New Zealand’s Communications and IT Minister Steven Joyce yesterday announced the Government’s rural broadband strategy, a NZ$300 million package designed to deliver high speed, affordable broadband to [...]
Today is the eighth anniversary of the destruction of the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York City, and other terror attacks in the US.
Maybe while the western world is in the midst of a global economic meltdown, it’s a good time to reflect on the real human tragedy that hit the [...]
One year on from the US’s biggest bankruptcy the BBC has released a radio dramatisation of the last three days of Lehman Brothers.
A dry subject, you might imagine, but I listened to The Day That Lehman Died last night, and found it strangely compelling. The overriding question that remained was, why Lehman, or more specifically, [...]
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The whole movement of ethical living is fascinating. It seems it can be anything from the simple personal choice of recycling, to a complete lifestyle change involving burying your biological waste and not washing much.
As with all such movements, there are zealots who implore others to set aside their wicked ways and follow in the [...]
I went to see Inglourious Basterds and I was surprised to have very much enjoyed it.
Not for the squeamish, but the whole feel of the movie is so over the top that the violence, for once, didn’t bother me. Probably because I didn’t engage with any of the characters. Couldn’t care less if they [...]
Last week just flew by. Hope you didn’t miss me too much!
I seemed to spend most of the week getting ready for the weekend. The man, the kids and I took off for a day’s skiing on one of New Zealand’s active volcanoes. Mt Ruapehu is host to two commercial and one club ski field, [...]