{"id":658,"date":"2010-07-19T17:04:55","date_gmt":"2010-07-19T07:04:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.belly.net.au\/?p=658"},"modified":"2010-07-30T15:52:38","modified_gmt":"2010-07-30T05:52:38","slug":"july-19-radio-show-tasting-the-byron-bay-writers-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.belly.net.au\/?p=658","title":{"rendered":"July 19 radio show: tasting the Byron Bay Writers Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"
Today Srs T and B were having such a good time talking with the Director of the Byron Bay Writers Festival and the Northern Rivers Writer Centre, Jeni Caffin, that we ended up spending most of the show with her. \u00a0It turns out that the whole staff of the NRWC (about 4 people who work enough for 20) are completely food obsessed – that explains all the great food events at the festival. \u00a0And the way they make sure the many volunteers get tasty and healthy food on their shifts. \u00a0And Jeni’s 19 year old cat wears a small tea cosy as a hat right through winter – who knew?<\/div>\n
The 2010 Festival will include breakfasts lunches and dinners with writers, a cooking workshop with the Red Lantern’s Luke Nguyen, a book launch by popular local food writer Victoria Cosford, and plenty of sessions that touch on food, especially “Eat me: writing food, glorious food” on the Saturday. \u00a0Jeni’s advice is \u00a0to look out for these authors : Monica Trapaga, Ramona Koval, Luke Nguyen, Victoria Cosford, Juanita Phillips, Joanna Savill and Simon Marnie.<\/div>\n
Go to the Festival site for author biographies and details of all the events.<\/div>\n
And of course here’s the eggplant tart – a tartless tart, well tested by everyone at the writers centre, guaranteed to work and be delicious.<\/div>\n
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Jeni's glamorous cat, Perfect Tiger, recommends wearing a stylish tea cosy in winter<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

EGGPLANT TART<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n

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For a round tart made in a dish about 8 inches across and about 2 inches<\/div>\n
deep you will need approximately:<\/div>\n
3 medium eggplant;<\/div>\n
2-3 large brown onions;<\/div>\n
a little balsamic vinegar and sugar to taste to caramelise the onions<\/div>\n
a large cup of grated parmesan;<\/div>\n
herbs to taste, whatever you like, I use basil and parsley<\/div>\n
olive oil with crushed garlic in it, to taste<\/div>\n
Cut the stem end off and slice the eggplant in 5mm widths lengthways,<\/div>\n
discarding the first skin slice on each side. Brush both sides with garlic oil<\/div>\n
Put baking paper or alfoil down and grill each side till lightly golden and<\/div>\n
transparent<\/div>\n
Cook the onions, balsamic and sugar slowly till caramelised. Lightly grease your tin<\/div>\n
Lay the eggplant slices, overlapping to fill gaps,<\/div>\n
Put caramelised onion, cheese and herbs mixed in between each layer of eggplant<\/div>\n
Press down firmly each layer of eggplant. Last layer should be eggplant slices<\/div>\n
Bake in moderate oven for 45 mins, allow to cool down to eating temperature<\/div>\n
before putting a plate on top and inverting it.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today Srs T and B were having such a good time talking with the Director of the Byron Bay Writers Festival and the Northern Rivers Writer Centre, Jeni Caffin, that we ended up spending most of the show with her. \u00a0It turns out that the whole staff of the NRWC (about 4 people who work […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,12],"tags":[122,123],"class_list":["post-658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-radio-show-posts","category-wide-world-of-veg","tag-eggplant","tag-tart"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.belly.net.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.belly.net.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.belly.net.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.belly.net.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.belly.net.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=658"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.belly.net.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":674,"href":"http:\/\/www.belly.net.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658\/revisions\/674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.belly.net.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.belly.net.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.belly.net.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}