{"id":706,"date":"2010-08-16T17:09:16","date_gmt":"2010-08-16T07:09:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.belly.net.au\/?p=706"},"modified":"2010-08-17T00:18:49","modified_gmt":"2010-08-16T14:18:49","slug":"16-august-2010-e-bookslove-and-polenta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.belly.net.au\/?p=706","title":{"rendered":"16 August 2010 – e-books,love and polenta"},"content":{"rendered":"

A pretty crazy show on day one of our major subscriber drive aka radiothon.\u00a0 Sister T was answering phones for the previous show, Andrew Davie’s luscious Lighthouse Lounge, chatting up subscribers, and she ain’t a morning girl (why do you think we’re sponsored by a coffee company?)\u00a0 Sister B had been to the gim for the first time in a loooong time and looked like she had been run over by a cement mixer.\u00a0 And our lovely guest, presenter Karin Kolbe from Bayfm’s ‘the spin cycle’<\/a>, is learning to surf.\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

She had all the glory ot standing up and all the pain of a solid fall in a few short seconds, and turned up full of painkillers.\u00a0 But also full of beans, great info on her and TOOT’s (Train on our Tracks) campaign to bring back train transport, which would also make our food more sustainable.\u00a0 And on where e-publishing,\u00a0 is going, as she is a publisher and ‘internetty person’.\u00a0 We look forwards ot electronic cookbooks with a stack of extra features as soon as publishers and authors get more creative.\u00a0 And she shared her favourite, tried and tested cake recipe, from a tattered exercise book – with alphabetical tabs though, obviously an organised woman.<\/p>\n

POLENTA AND YOGHURT CAKE<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Ingredients :<\/span><\/p>\n

300 g. plain yoghurt<\/span><\/p>\n

100 g. polenta<\/span><\/p>\n

grated rind of 1 orange<\/span><\/p>\n

125 g. softened,chopped unsalted butter<\/span><\/p>\n

220 g. caster sugar<\/span><\/p>\n

3 eggs<\/span><\/p>\n

200 g. self raising flour<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00bd tsp bicarbonate of soda<\/span><\/p>\n

85 g. chopped raisins<\/span><\/p>\n

80 g pine nuts [or try macadamias in our area \u2013 n.d.sr.T]<\/span><\/p>\n

citrus syrup :<\/span><\/p>\n

1 lemon and 1 orange (preferably organic)<\/span><\/p>\n

200 g. caster sugar<\/span><\/p>\n

30 mL Cointreau (more is more, says Karin)
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and cream to serve!<\/span><\/p>\n

KK says that this cake is magic because first off you put the yoghurt and polenta and grated rind together to chat for an hour in a bowl.<\/span><\/p>\n

Heat oven to 180C.<\/span><\/p>\n

Toast nuts well in a little olive oil in a pan on low heat, it makes them come alive, but careful not to let them burn.
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Cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy, then add the eggs one at a time, beating well. Sift together the flour and bicarbonate and fold gently into the butter mixture. Toss the raisins in a tbs of flour. Add yoghurt\/polenta mix to batter, fold in nuts and raisins. <\/span><\/p>\n

Butter and flour a 2 litre\/21 cm kugelhopf (holey) cake mould. Pour in cake batter and cook 30-45 minutes, until a skewer comes out clean.<\/span><\/p>\n

While the cake cooks, make the citrus syrup.<\/span><\/p>\n

Make small threads of zest from the orange and lemon and juice them. Put all ingredients except Cointreau in a saucepan, bring to the boil, lower heat and reduce volume by half. Turn off heat and add Cointreau.<\/span><\/p>\n

To assemble, turn cake onto a rack for 10 minutes, then slide onto a plate and and pour hot syrup on top. Serve with cream.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Don't you love those spattered old recipe collections? Instead of star ratings they have spatter & scribble ratings<\/p><\/div>\n


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WHAT’S ON<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

for farmer’s and weekend markets please go to our markets page, but here’s a couple of other local events:<\/p>\n

Organic farm share meetings<\/strong> \u2013 remember the people from herdshare, who were in the news a while ago with their scheme to own a bit of a cow so you can have your own organic, maybe even raw, milk \u2013 now calling themselves farm share<\/span><\/p>\n

info meetings<\/span><\/p>\n

NORTHERN NSW<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Murwillumbah – Mon Aug 16, 7pm to 8:30pm<\/p>\n

South Golden Beach – Fri Aug 20, 1pm to 2:30pm<\/p>\n

Broken Head – Fri Aug 20, 6pm to 7:30pm<\/p>\n

more info on website – http:\/\/organicfarmshare.com<\/a><\/p>\n

BARISTA COURSE
\nTUESDAY 17th OF AUGUST
\n4.00PM TO 7.00PM
\n$75 <\/span><\/span> call the Byron Youth Service \u2013 6685 7777<\/span><\/p>\n

Thanks again to everyone who subscribed to Bayfm today – we are getting together a few tasty bits and pieces for a post radiothon draw for belly supporters, and anyone listening on the first show after radiothon.\u00a0 Also while you call in, tell the volunteer answering the phone if you’d like to go on the belly listeners page that we are assembling, leave an email address and the sisters will get in touch.<\/span><\/p>\n

To go in the big prize draw you need to call (02) 6680 7999 by the morning of 29 August 2010.<\/span><\/p>\n

Details on bayfm site<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n


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LOVE FOOD<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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whole and split nutmeg<\/p><\/div>\n

In honour of the ‘love your radio’ fortnight we are talking love foods for 2 weeks – keeping it seasonal for the Australian winter, unlike the summery Valentine Day recipes – and we wanted to change a bit from the constant oysters, strawberries and chocolate that our lovers serve us up.\u00a0 Did you know you can make sexy pumpkin soup?\u00a0\u00a0 Just add freshly grated nutmeg at the beginning of cooking.\u00a0 Nutmeg was considered an aphrodisiac by the Arabs and the Chinese.\u00a0 Apparently you can also rub nutmeg oil on the genitals to ‘excite sexual passion’, but you might just give yourself a nasty rash.\u00a0 I put a few drops of mace (the covering of the nutmeg ) essential oil in the bath a few years ago and had to get out very quickly.
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