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Questions Doubts and Requests => Questions? Technical Issues? The Survival Guide => Topic started by: LauraTO on February 05, 2014, 06:12:36 pm
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I'm really new here on the board and to Thermomix, but I've been lurking on this forum for months, and enjoying learning the tips and tricks and of course all the mouth-watering recipes. But as a Canadian, I find some of the terminology and names for things to be mystifying (although usually extremely charming), and have been keeping track of all my new vocabulary words.
I thought I might share them here to help other Non-Aussies, and also to make sure I've got the correct "translations." So feel free to chime in with corrections or other suggestions and I'll add them to the list! Note- I'm not sure the origins of many posters, so I may be
mixing UK or other "dialects" into the list, apologies!
Aubergine= eggplant
Baking paper= parchment paper
Beetroot=beet
Bicarb (soda) = baking soda
Capsicum= bell pepper
Castor sugar= extra fine sugar/quick dissolve sugar
Chicory= endive
Chinese cabbage = Napa cabbage
Chook= chicken
Coriander (the herb)= cilantro
Corn flour= corn starch
Cos lettuce=romaine lettuce
Courgette = zucchini
Icy pole (which always makes me giggle)= popsicle
gherkin= cornichon
kumara (?NZ) = sweet potato
linseed = flaxseed
Mince= ground meat
Pudding= dessert
Pumpkin= squash, all types (eg “butternut pumpkin”), not just the orange version we carve into jack-o-lanterns
Punnet = basket like the one blueberries or raspberries come in
Prawns = shrimp
Rice bubbles= Rice krispies
Rocket= Arugula
Scroll = a pinwheel-type baked good like a cinnamon roll but could have different fillings
Silverbeet = swiss chard
Slice = squares or bars, tray bake (Uk)
spring onion = green onion (not to be confused with scallions, chives, or shallots!)
snow peas = mange tout, sugar peas, chinese peas
Sultanas= golden raisins
Swede = rutabega
Tea = can also mean supper in addition to the hot drink
Tinned (eg. Tinned tomatoes) = canned
tomato sauce = ketchup
vanilla essence = vanilla extract
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Hi LauraTO
I think you have pretty well got the list right. Of those equivalents I know, I would add:
Capsicum = all colours, it is usually preceded by the colour, i.e. red capsicum (occasionally cap for short), green cap, yellow capsicum, etc.
Swede is correct, as is Aubergine, chook, bicarb (bicarbonate of soda), pudding, pumpkin, rocket, tea and tinned.
I will leave the other clarifications to others.
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Hi Laura,
Castor sugar is a fine sugar which is usually used in cake making.You will be able to make it in your TM by finding granulated sugar for 2-3 seconds speed 10.
Sultanas are Blonde Raisins.
Custard is a sweet sauce that can be eaten hot or cold.Used hot on top of fruit pie etc or cold in a trifle.It can be vanilla or other flavours.
Just keep asking questions if you are not sure about anything.
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Hi Laura, that's a good list and they all look pretty right to me. The only one I'm not sure on is the BiCarb-Baking soda - I thought they were two different things.
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Me again Laura ;D
I have found this post, "What is" (http://www.forumthermomix.com/index.php?topic=424.0) that might help you too.
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Great, thanks for the input everyone! I've been updating my first post and will continue to do so, and will add some of the terms from the "What is?" thread (Thanks @CC, sorry I missed it, it didn't come up in my search) so there is a central glossary for me and any other Aussie-wannabes ;D
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Laura we Aussies forget that there are others who use the forum.
Wonder I think baking soda is bi carb but baking powder isn't. It is a mix of bicarb and tartaric acid.
Laura thanks for doing the list. We can add to it as we go.
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Punnet = confusion. You are right, it is the small container that fresh berries usually come in, but there is not a standard weight or size, which is where the confusion comes in, it's just a bit of guess work! The size and weight of punnets would differ with the different fruits as well.
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I also find that that not having the size/weight of some vegetables in recipes is a problem. In Perth we buy zucchini (courgettes) which are often 500g or more, and a recipe which calls for 2 or 3 (on the assumption they are finger sized) can lead to some unusual outcomes in final product!
Same goes for cabbages, eggplants and sweet potatoes. I always send a mental hug to those who add approximate weights of these things in recipes. Yotam Ottolenghli is one of the few chefs I know whose cookbooks always put in weight as well as quantity.
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I understand that Bonsai, having just been given a couple of enormous zucchini. I sort of guesstimate my zucchini on a normal one being about 10 inches long, I think that is about 20 cm or so.
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Just ran into another on on the Indian patties thread (which looks like a must try)
Coriander is the green leafy stuff with a strong taste, often in Thai and Mexican food? In canada we call this cilantro. I think coriander is a dried spice here, but maybe they are related somehow?
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We have coriander seeds, coriander powder and coriander fresh herbs here Laura but you are right, the herb is call cilantro in a lot of places.
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The onion family always confuses me
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The onion family always confuses me
Me too.
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Ack, onion family, where to start?! Scallions and shallots and leeks, oh my! I have hardly got them straight in "Canadian" let alone trying to translate!
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They are called by different names all over Australia as well. Very confusing.
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Best we not throw in words like "cackle berries", "bum nuts", "hopping dogs", "joe blakes" and "snapping handbags" then. :o
Although you don't often see a recipe with the ingredients written like that ;D ;D
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Hopefully there will not be any "bush oysters" on the "barbie" ;D
Gert
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Are they the same as "prairie oysters" Gert?
I was helping (probably more like hindering, but they had a good laugh at my expense a few times...) the jackeroos up north and they used to thread them on some fencing wire and hang them on the fence until smoko time, then while the billy was boiling they'd cook them over the flames.
Mmmmmm good tucker! ;D
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Not exactly Nikkit. More like snot than bull testicles. LOL!
Gert
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ROFL ;D ;D ;D ;D
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Ok! Definitely don't want your bush oysters on the barbie then Gert!
Will stick with my prairie oysters thanks...
Have we confuzzled you yet Laura? ;D
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Not sure about Laura, but I am. Lol you guys are too funny.
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These are VERY helpful suggestions. I did some googling, and you ladies are sick I tell you!! Lol
Ps prairie oysters on the fence? Ewwwww!
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I just came across another one."scrolls" they seem to be like what we would call cinnamon buns, but not always cinnamon. Anyone know another word for these?
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Scroll, bun, swirl - can't think of anything else Laura.
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We just hung them on the fence till we had enough to eat for smoko Laura. Better than putting them in your sky rocket I can tell you (slimy suckers they are!) ;D
We used to call cheeses and vegemite scrolls "chunder buns" at school. Does that help? ;D ;D
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Somehow I don't think we are endearing ourselves to Laura! Who is the one who will explain chunder to her?
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Poor Laura, she must wonder about us Aussies ;D A google search will give her the answer Marina ;)
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Laura in case you hadn't guessed we have a lot,of weird sayings here in Australia. ;D ;D ;D please ask if you are wondering. Someone will give you an answer. :D ;D ;D ;D
We weren't up market enough to have scrolls at school, but cheese and Vegemite sandwiches, ( or any for that matter) didnt taste very good after sitting in your lunch box for hours in the 40 + heat for several hours. We were tough in those days. :D ;D frozen lunch things hadn't been invented then. I wonder how any of us survived without keeling over with food poisoning. Our little town had no fresh water so we had to take ours for the day. It was hot when you drank the last of it on the school bus. That caused many a chunder Nikkit. Not good ol days at all!
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Remember the free bottle of milk we had given to us each day girls? The crates were delivered early in the morning and sat outside the office in the sun until someone bought them in - they then expected us to drink it for morning recess??? I've always hated plain milk so I used to take pink flavouring to try and make it drinkable then I found I really didn't have to drink it if I didn't want to ;D
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Chunder is value added food.
Gert
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Remember the free bottle of milk we had given to us each day girls? The crates were delivered early in the morning and sat outside the office in the sun until someone bought them in - they then expected us to drink it for morning recess??? I've always hated plain milk so I used to take pink flavouring to try and make it drinkable then I found I really didn't have to drink it if I didn't want to ;D
That milk was revolting, Judy, sadly, I still remember it well after all these years.
Gert, that is an interesting definition - it doesn't make it any more appealing, though.
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Remember the free bottle of milk we had given to us each day girls? The crates were delivered early in the morning and sat outside the office in the sun until someone bought them in - they then expected us to drink it for morning recess??? I've always hated plain milk so I used to take pink flavouring to try and make it drinkable then I found I really didn't have to drink it if I didn't want to ;D
In winter ours were sat next to the wood heater in the class room. And were made to drink it.
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We never had bottles as we were in the bush. For a while it was dropped off in tetra packs. It sat in the sun like Judy's for hours. It was always sour. I don't like milk on its own either Judy.
When I started work the kids were still having free milk. If it was someone's birthday we used to ask if they would like strawberry or banana milk. We then dropped the appropriate colour food colouring in the bottle. 8)
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Mum remembers the milk at school Judy.
What about snot blocks 😄
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I am of the vintage when free milk was not at school - thank goodness! I remember Mum and Dad talking about it and neither of them could drink milk!
My Mum was the queen of sangas. She would make all sorts and it was always interesting to say the least to see what she had packed me for the day. One of her faves was peanut paste, celery and sultanas. Or grated carrot and sultanas. I would beg for a vegemite sanga so I would be deemed "normal"! Thank goodness she was also the queen of no germs, and our lunches had to be cold, so I never ate anything that was soggy or floppy regardless of the heat ;D
Ok Kimmy - you've got me on the snot blocks. As soon as you say what they are I'll go "oh yeah I remember them"...
And yes I remember the trip home on the bus Cookie. It would take about an hour - if the driver didn't have a bit of a chat to one of the Mum's or Dad's on the way, it was hot, the seats were vinyl and would sear a pattern in your bum and the backs of your legs when you sat down, someone would always fart which would make someone else threaten to chunder, the bus driver would hit the brakes hard so we'd end up hurtling over the seat and landing in a heap on the seat in front of you, it was always dusty (no sealed roads on my bus ride home) and if I never had any water left to drink :(
If it was really really hot (over 45) the bus driver would stop at the roadhouse on the way out of town and buy us all an icypole and a cool drink. Which was fantastic for the first 5 minutes, but when you'd finished it all you wanted was a drink of water to wash the sugar down!
You really are bringing back some memories now Cookie! And not all of them good!!
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Lol Nikkit. It's a vanilla slice!
Like the sound of carrot and sultana sandwiches. Must try it one day.
Germs not a big problem in our house. Nan would always say "you've gotta eat so much dirt before you die". Tough love hey!
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You had a lovely bus driver Nikkit. Ours was a meanie. Sometimes he bought us an icy pole at Christmas. He would try and split us up by putting some up the front of the bus and some down the back. It didnt help. He had a little bald patch on his head and we used to try and hit it with paper in an elastic band. I managed to jag it one day. He was sort of cross. I was the bus prefect too. Gosh I was a bugger. Such fun at the time though.
Mum used to give us apple and sultana sandwiches. I loved them. They tasted like toffee apple. ;D
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Wouldn't the apple go brown Cookie?
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I don't really remember to be honest Judy. I think it may have at the edges of the sandwich. It was grated apple.
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I remember the school milk program but my kids never ever drank it. The never drank milk really. Water babies they were. I guess because I never liked milk so rarely bought it. Full of sugar anyway but they did eat lots of cheese. Neither one drink milk today and my grandkids don't drink much milk either unless it is fresh un homogenised . I guess there is lots of that in India. Actually I think milk is overrated! greasy and quite disgusting. Butter is good though.
Gert
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I think you ladies have given me a good sense of the word "chunder" so thanks so much for that lol. :) what are sangas? Sandwiches?
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Spot on, you're getting good at this Laura LOL.
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Spot on, you're getting good at this Laura LOL.
Yes she is Judy. Someone mentioned "Bubble and Squeek in another thread. Explain that one.
What about "fair suck of the Sav". That is a food item. Dagwood dog anyone.
Gert
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Laura you might also want to learn about a "Dingo's Breakfast "
Gert
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Dingos breakfast is a brilliant expression! Although very unlikely with the TM :)
When I was in Australia last year I learned the term "Dag" as a term of endearment, which just cracked me up to no end. That's what you call a pal?!
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Milk in schools is back over here now - DS's school joined late last year. tetra packs of UHT milk, and they provide fridges and specific recycling bins too (apparently they then get made into roofing tiles and book covers). So it's a far cry from the milk days of old.
The only freebie in school I remember was a promotion by the Apple & Pear board - we had to save our apple seeds and compete to collect the most (no idea what the prizes were - more apples probably).
And back on page one... is it a kiwi thing to call overgrown zucchinis "marrows"?
Hmm, that's not quite my definition of "dag" but I'll let an Aussie decode it - might be different over the ditch here.
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As long as you aren't "as dry as a dead dingo's donga" Laura - she'll be right mate ;) You'll learn all sorts here!!
Jo - We have dags here and yep...some of them are equivalent to your dags.
If my Dad really disliked someone he would call them a pizzle!
Kimmy...that was it. Vanilla slice! Thank you for reminding me ;D
Cookie the bus prefect and hitting the bald spot on the bus driver. Naughty you!
We had a fair few different bus drivers over the years and one used to love stopping at the airstrip on the way to school so we could watch the army guys parachute in. Which was fun - we were always late for school. Not so fun when I was last on the bus, he thought we were all on and shut the door on me half in and half out. There's me, legs hanging out the door yodelling as he takes off in a hurry. He had to do a quick stop, open the door haul me in close the door and take off again. I was distraught and told Mum when I got home, she was not impressed and had words with him the next morning!
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My DH uses the dry as..........dingo a lot. Another of his favourite sayings about some folks is "I hope all your chooks turn to emus and back peddle up your €#>~€~!\ ( bottom).
I love the word "dag." I use it as a term of endearment.
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spring onion = green onion
gherkin = cornichon
snow peas = mange tout, sugar peas, chinese peas
bicarb soda = baking soda
vanilla essence = extract
sweet potato = kumara
tomato sauce = ketchup
zucchini = courgette
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Thanks for reining us in and getting us back on track CP!
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Not nearly as fun though ;)
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Not nearly as fun though ;)
I know. I was enjoying the chit chat!
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sorry girls :D maybe LauraTO can copy & paste any food definitions to her first post so they are easier to find amongst the strine
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Good going girls we should keep the Strine going I would hate to lose it, I love it. Goodonya
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Bonza mate,
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HOOROO for now.
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Kimmy...that was it. Vanilla slice! Thank you for reminding me ;D
Vanilla slice = custard square in NZ speak!!! :D
(Only know after DH asked me to get him one soon after we were married and I had no idea what vanilla slice was!!) :o :-)) ;D
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This post is just the bees knees.
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You wanna crack a tinnie with me cookie?
Gert
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Yes. I will edit the original post, thanks for the additions!
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OMG Gert, that one made some memories surface...
I used to hang out with my cousin and his mates many moons ago and we drank copious amount of liquid amber or brown champagne and one certain tinnie had an emu on it. Many a time we had to save the emu at the bottom of the can by drinking it quick.
Many a time I spent hugging the porcelain bus :-))
It took me a while, but I figured it was better to let the little buggers drown than save them, there's plenty more in the bush!
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It was all a bit "how's yer father" .. ;)
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This makes me LOL - being an Aussie import and all!!! I have had to ask DH to explain some..... :o
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You wanna crack a tinnie with me cookie?
Gert
Sure Gert. Whose shout is it?
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Laura will be thinking we are all just a bit doolally!
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You wanna crack a tinnie with me cookie?
Gert
Sure Gert. Whose shout is it?
Must be mine cobber!
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Laura will be thinking we are all just a bit doolally!
Or a bunch of drongos!
Gert
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Loving this thread!
I don't post a lot here but talking of school milk took me down a memory trail...I went to small country primary school in central Victoria. The school was surrounded by irrigated paddocks and our milk was dropped off by the milk tanker driver and left in a table drain nearby. Two of us would be monitored to go and get the crate at morning recess and it was usually sitting in water so it never seemed to get hot and in winter the water usually had ice on it! Like everyone else I had a glass jar with a mixture of cocoa and sugar to add to the bottled milk...much more palatable!
And just to be confusing - there are regional variations in our lingo too, such as 'ports' for 'luggage'...I'm sure there are more.
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Do you say piers and we say jetties?
Gosh us Aussies are are funny lot. We need to give others a 'fair suck of the sav.'
On a slightly different vein. Did anyone read "They're a Weird Mob" and other associated book?
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I've just had to clean my laptop screen, don't drink and read this thread at the same time.
Now I'm as cross as a frog in a sock the dam air conditioner is cactus again.
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You lot better not come the raw prawn with me... you gotta be fair dinkum to be a dinky di Aussie !!! Been flat out like a lizard drinking ...
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Cookie, I read some of the Niño Cullota books many moons ago.
JenJan what do you wear when you're swimming? I wear bathers, but when I lived in NSW, I wore my cossie.
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ES I wear my Togs.
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Anyone wear budgie smugglers? 😳
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AB, I forgot all about togs!
Kimmy, there is nothing worse than a man in speedos :P
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there is nothing worse than a man in speedos :P
Dunno - depends what hes got in them....... ;D
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😃😃😃
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there is nothing worse than a man in speedos :P
Dunno - depends what hes got in them....... ;D
only men that look good in speedos are young men. Only problem is the old men love them and strut their stuff like there's no tomorrow. Young men get bagged and wear their boardies. Love the ad on tv that says you have to be a certain distance from the beach when wearing speedos by themselves so they don't look like undies ;D
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The worst is the belly hanging OVER the speedos!
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there is nothing worse than a man in speedos :P
Dunno - depends what hes got in them....... ;D
There are budgies and sometimes cockatoos if her lucky to spot ' em!
Gert
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OH GERT! :o
There are a few blokes out there with kangaroos loose in the top paddock and they wear budgie smugglers.
Hey Cookie - did you ever have a durry with your tinnie at the pub?
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Nah, don't like Durries. Tried 'em a few times but never took to them. :(
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Had to Google durry - I've never heard that before.
Got to go and see a man about a dog......
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I might go have a Captain Cook at the shops this afternoon.
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I had to google durry and captain cook.... :-[
now I have this http://www.koalanet.com.au/australian-slang.html (http://www.koalanet.com.au/australian-slang.html) open in a separate tab on my PC!! ;D
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I hope you didn't end up with sore 'plates of meat ' after walking round the shops AB.
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Did you take any 'billy lids' with you? ;)
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I didn't end up goin' for a squizz, met up with some rellies down from the bush for a bit of a yak , a snag and dead horse and a coldie.
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G'day ya bloody gallahs! (Hope that's not too rude)
Question- is Sago the same thing as tapioca?
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They are different Laura.
Sago is starch extracted from a tropical palm and Tapioca is starch extracted from the cassava root.
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Thanks for clarifying. I've never heard of it before. Even tapioca isn't exactly common here in Canada.
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Love it Laura. Both sago and tapioca are delicious.
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Here's a couple of photos of those bloody galahs feeding out the front of our house tonight Laura. There is a Mum, Dad and babies.
(http://img.tapatalk.com/d/14/02/18/3atymugy.jpg)(http://img.tapatalk.com/d/14/02/18/ty4udabe.jpg)
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They look quite at home there Cookie. Let's hope their brood doesn't grow too big, noisy little devils at times.
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Such a beautiful bird but not user friendly in the suburbs.
Gert
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Not user friendly when there's about 40 of them and they use my horses water toughs as a dunny either >:(
They do go pretty good in a pie though, as long as you cook it long and slow. They can be a bit tough other wise :-))
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We had about 20 one day and were worried about the noise. Thank goodness that was the only day. One baby is very noisy.
Nikkit I heard that the best way to cook a galah was to put it in a pot with a stone. Boil until the stone is soft, then eat.
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I like the pink and greys, the 28's are a nuisance here. I adore the red tailed cockatoos but boy oh boy what a mess they make.
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I heard that too Cookie - or swap the stone for an old leather boot. Boil til soft, chuck the galah and eat the boot. ;D
28's are good in a pie as well. (cook the same as a galah as above)
My brother and I barbequed a couple of 28's once. Pretty funny looking little critters once you've plucked and de-gutted them! We got them looking nice, put them on the barby and cooked them for the appropriate amount of time (I was about 10 and brother 7 and we "knew" how to cook...obviously!) and tucked in. Needless to say Mum and Dad weren't real interested in us sharing with them, I had more tough meat stuck in my teeth than not and they were nothing like chicken!
Mum was happy as it meant there were 2 less to destroy her roses and orchard.
Can't say that I've cooked one since!
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You were brave Nikkit. I can remember catching pigeons, killing them, plucking them and cooking them on an open fire in the bush. They weren't too bad. At the time we did this all of us were members of the Gould League at school.
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You were brave Nikkit. I can remember catching pigeons, killing them, plucking them and cooking them on an open fire in the bush. They weren't too bad. At the time we did this all of us were members of the Gould League at school.
Somebody in Cairns is selling frozen pigeons at an outrageous price cookie. I like them but at that price not thanks. I'll catch me own.
Gert
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Too funny Cookie!
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Just updated my list with
Scroll
Slice
Linseed
Courgette
Prawns
I'm not sure about my definitions so input appreciated! Especially "slice." You Aussies seem to be huge fans, but I scratch my head whenever I see it because I can never quite picture what you mean.
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Just updated my list with
Scroll
Slice
Linseed
Courgette
Prawns
I'm not sure about my definitions so input appreciated! Especially "slice." You Aussies seem to be huge fans, but I scratch my head whenever I see it because I can never quite picture what you mean.
Laurao I have lived her 49 years and still have no idea what a slice is either. Never made one and never eaten one.that I know of. ;D ;D
Gert
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Yes you would have, I'm sure Gert!! ;D
But at a bit of a loss how to describe it....not a cake, a flat baked thing. :-))
you are probably right with the square idea.
Examples: zucchini slice (same recipe as muffins but done in a pan)
apple slice
ginger crunch (well I would call it a slice, not sure about anyone else)
vanilla slice (we called this custard square in NZ)
weetbix slice
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Yes I have seen DH eat a vanilla slice many years ago.
Gert
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I am not sure of the exact definition of a slice - I generally think of it as a 'normal' cake, baked in a flat square or rectangular tin and cut up into squares or rectangles! I think it can also be a firmer mixture than a cake mix, once again baked in a flat tin and it may also comprise one or more layers.
Linseed is also called flax seed and you can get golden or brown. Golden is better for you.
Courgette is Zucchinni (that may not be spelled correctly, sorry about that)
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Laura, check out all these slices - http://www.taste.com.au/recipes/collections/slices.
What do you call anything baked like this? A tray bake perhaps?
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Thank you Judy! That confirmed my suspicions. We would call those "squares" like date squares, lemon squares, or sometimes "bars" as in Nanaimo bars. Gert that's probably no help to you though :(
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OK, another one sorted ;D
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I have had to work out quite a few of these when I try to convert some US/Canadian recipes too.
I haven't read all the thread but there is a recipe that needs cornmeal. Is that the same thing as cornstarch?
I've also learnt that button mushrooms are crimini mushrooms, romaine lettuce is cos lettuce, Napa cabbage is chinese cabbage, swiss chard is silverbeet.
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I THINK the UK call a slice a tray bake. I'm sure I saw it on GBBO. I wish Gem TV would bring another lot of this show. I really enjoy it.
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I have had to work out quite a few of these when I try to convert some US/Canadian recipes too.
I haven't read all the thread but there is a recipe that needs cornmeal. Is that the same thing as cornstarch?
I've also learnt that button mushrooms are crimini mushrooms, romaine lettuce is cos lettuce, Napa cabbage is chinese cabbage, swiss chard is silverbeet.
Corn meal is polenta or ground corn.
Gert
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Isn't cornmeal polenta? And cornstarch is cornflour, I think.
Too quick for me, Gert! :D
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I THINK the UK call a slice a tray bake.
You're correct Cookie we call it a Tray Bake ;)
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Thank you GBBO. ;D
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Thanks Gert and Sue.
I have never used polenta. I was thinking of trying a recipe that uses this to make pancakes. Is it something that you need to know how to cook properly? Any tips?
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Tasty you would not use cornmeal to make pancakes..
There are many recipes on this forum for polenta which is really a savoury thing.
Gert
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I have had to work out quite a few of these when I try to convert some US/Canadian recipes too.
I haven't read all the thread but there is a recipe that needs cornmeal. Is that the same thing as cornstarch?
I've also learnt that button mushrooms are crimini mushrooms, romaine lettuce is cos lettuce, Napa cabbage is chinese cabbage, swiss chard is silverbeet.
Thank you so much for these additions!
Cornmeal is ground corn. Polenta is cooked cornmeal (by NA definitions). It may seem weird to make pancakes with them (assuming we have the same name for pancakes) but it would be something done in southern US cooking. Southern US cuisine uses cornmeal for everything! Do you all call the basic dry ground corn you'd buy in a bag Polenta? Or just the prepared version.
I will add cos lettuce, chinese cabbage, and silverbeet. I think I was assuming silverbeet was beet (beetroot) tops, I was wrong!
Cremini mushrooms aren't button mushrooms though I don't think. Button mushrooms are white, cremini are similar size and shape but brown and more flavourful. In Canadian grocery stores they are side by side in the produce department.
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Cornmeal
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"Indian meal" redirects here. For food of India, see Indian cuisine.
Cornmeal
Cornmeal is a meal (coarse flour) ground from dried maize (corn). It is a common staple food, and is ground to fine, medium, and coarse consistencies, but not as fine as wheat flour.[1] In the United States, very finely ground cornmeal is also referred to as cornflour.[1] However, the word cornflour denotes cornstarch in the United Kingdom, where cornmeal is known as polenta.
I don't know anything about prepared polenta though I have seen it on the shelves. I guess that would be cooked and you could just reheat or fry it.
It took me years to get my head around silver beet. I still call it spinach.
Agaricus bisporus
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Common mushroom
Agaricus bisporus—known variously when white as common mushroom, button mushroom, white mushroom, cultivated mushroom, table mushroom, champignon mushroom, when brown as Swiss brown mushroom, Roman brown mushroom, Italian brown, Italian mushroom, cremini/crimini mushroom, brown cap mushrooms, chestnut mushroom,[2] and when mature as Portobello mushroom—is an edible basidiomycete mushroom native to grasslands in Europe and North America. Agaricus bisporus is cultivated in more than 70 countries[3] and is one of the most commonly and widely consumed mushrooms in the world.
Seems they are all the same mushroom and only a matter of maturity. The older the button mushroom the better the flavour therefore the Swiss Brown and Portabello are more expensive because they are more desirable which makes me pretty cranky.
Gert
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Silverbeet is also known as chard or Swiss chard - it has a large, glossy green leaf with either a silver/white or coloured stalk. The coloured ones are referred to as rainbow chard and the stalks are generally red or yellow.
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Wait, so portobello mushrooms are the same species as button mushrooms, just more mature?!?! My mind is blown!
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Gert I eventually learned about silverbeet and spinach. Silverbeet is all crinkly and spinach is flat and easier to wash.
I cook polenta in the thermomix. The EDC has a recipe. It's nice made and spread into a tray. Then later cut it into chips and lightl cook them. The AF would be good for this.
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I had enough cornmeal as a kid. Cheap and filling . If I never have to eat it or cook it I will be a happy person. Waste of time, effort and is tasteless.
Gert
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I'm with you Gert (not that I had to eat it as a kid) but it is tasteless and a waste of time! I have never eaten any good polenta!
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You don't make polenta sound too good but I would still like to give this recipe a go:
http://www.veria.com/video/peggy-ks-kitchen-cures-omega-3-gluten-free-cornmeal-pancakes-with-peach-topping/
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You don't make polenta sound too good but I would still like to give this recipe a go:
http://www.veria.com/video/peggy-ks-kitchen-cures-omega-3-gluten-free-cornmeal-pancakes-with-peach-topping/
That ain't no pancake. Sounds disgusting and why bother messing with such a simple thing that tastes good. ;D ;D ;D
Gert
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I'm with you again Gert!
Give it a go Tasty and tell us what you think.
Hemp seeds might be ok though... :-)) :o
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I'm with you again Gert!
Give it a go Tasty and tell us what you think.
Hemp seeds might be ok though... :-)) :o
I would need plenty of hemp,seeds ground and smoked to make me eat that recipe. :D
Gert
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You don't make polenta sound too good but I would still like to give this recipe a go:
http://www.veria.com/video/peggy-ks-kitchen-cures-omega-3-gluten-free-cornmeal-pancakes-with-peach-topping/
I think it sounds pretty good, but I don't have cornmeal aversion due to childhood trauma. Looking forward to hearing how it turned out!
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Where would you buy hemp seeds? Margaret River or Byron Bay or somewhere like that?
I don't mind polenta occasionally. Never had it as a kid either. :D
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Nearly all things hemp. Cannabis Sativa sadly not Cannabis Indica
http://www.hempfoods.com.au
Gert
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Thanks. I wasn't sure if there was a difference. I saw on the lunchtime news that the villagers in Myanmar were smoking heaps of opium from the poppies they grow. Not sure what the link is here.........I guess they are both drugs. :D
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Cookie - you buy hemp seeds at the health food shop. They actually have lot of benefits including omega-3's and are very good for you. Not related to the drug or similar to it.
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And here is an article in the SMH that might be of interest:
http://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/diet-and-fitness/blogs/chew-on-this/nutritions-top-seed-20110704-1gyhr.html
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Hemp is of the cannabis family, whilst the poppies smoked by the Myanmar is opium related.
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Here is something you may not know cookie but I am sure our Tasmanian members may know....Tasmania is the worlds largest producer of opium alkaloids for the pharmaceutical industry. It produces the concentrated poppy straw for morphine. Turkey is probably the next largest but way behind the Tasmanians .
Beautiful fields right down the middle of Tassie.
Gert
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Here is something you may not know cookie but I am sure our Tasmanian members may know....Tasmania is the worlds largest producer of opium alkaloids for the pharmaceutical industry. It produces the concentrated poppy straw for morphine. Turkey is probably the next largest but way behind the Tasmanians .
Beautiful fields right down the middle of Tassie.
Gert
There's a lot on the north west coast too, love driving past them they are so pretty.
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Yes I have seen them Gert. We were quite surprised at the lack of security for them. They are white poppies aren't they? Some of the ones in Myanmar were a deep burgundy/ red. I grow red poppies during the winter, not for smoking though.
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I have a friend who has red poppies come up in their front garden and every year they are ripped out by their roots and stolen when they are "ready" ! :o
I didn't think they were the 'right' poppies, but someone wants them for either planting in their own garden or smoking.
I have red poppies in my garden (self sown every year) and had a 'do-gooder' here for dinner one night, (a ring in - no idea who she came with!) who not so politely told me that it was illegal for me to be growing "those poppies". There was about 50 people here, I'd had a couple of glasses (or 5) of bubbles, so for a bit of fun I started up a wee debate about poppies and the benefits of having them in my garden. My argument was that they are pretty, they survive on no love, I like them and they are pretty. Simple really - I thought. She didn't get that I was pulling her leg...She launched into all sorts of codswallop about poppies, (baffled me with a fair bit of bull dust actually, she really did know a lot about poppies! ) and I soon got tired of listening to her.
She then started to get a bit personal, I thought we were having a friendly chat about pretty poppies! She got louder and louder and most people were stopping and starting to listen. I had to politely remind her that we were having a chat about poppies, not anything else and if she didn't like my poppies then she could head on up the track and go out the front gate and please don't come back. (that bit may not have been so polite) ;D
Haven't seen hide nor hair of her since. Thank goodness.
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Wish I had been there Nikkit. We would have had fun.
Gert
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Oh Gert, you stirrer.😘
I have Flanders Poppies come up every year, they don't produce opium( they are a special breed on their own although I do believe that the ones my Mum used to grow when I was young were the real thing back then we didn't even think about it. )
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I am sure we would have Gert! ;D
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Poppy fields are just part of life here in Tassie! :) We don't really give them much thought. 8)
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I love our red poppies. They were given to DD many years ago by someone at work. She threw them in thinking they wouldn't grow. They come up every year without fail. Quite beautiful.
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I love poppies too. I have a favourite photo on my wall of a very thin me cutting poppies with a stolen surgical scissors while in a field in Portugal.
Gert
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Sounds lovely Gert.
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So I made the cornmeal pancake this morning and you were right Gert. It's disgusting. Apart from that, it took forever and was too thick and I didn't even get one good one. It was just a big mess when I tried to flip it so I gave up and made vegan banana pancakes which were much nicer.
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LOL! At least you gave it a shot. My DIL is a vegan and make delicious pancakes all the time which taste exactly like everyday pancakes.
Polenta is a world of it's own and does not go with pancakes!! ;D ;D
Gert
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Yeah I'm not sure what went wrong there as they didn't turn out like the video. No hemp seeds in the video either but the recipes are often slightly different in the video than what is written. I've had success with many of her other recipes though.
We are not vegan except at certain times of year due to religious reasons. I would love your DIL's recipe though if she is willing to share and any other great vegan recipes she has....building up a collection and always up for something new.
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I can ask her. She lives in India. I'll get back to you. I think she may use egga like when in AU.
Geet
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From my
It's Nigella Lawsons recipe from her book domestic goddess. Here is the recipe:
225 g plain flour
1 Tbs baking powder
Pinch salt
1 tsp sugar
3 Tbs yoghurt
30 g butter melted and cooled
300 ml milk
Butter for frying
Whizz it all in TMX and away you go, actually it is good to let rest for 20 mins.
Note from Nigella : " when you cook pancakes, all you need to remember is that when the upper side is blistering and bubbling its time to cook the second side, and this needs only about 1 minute.
🚩I like to add vanilla if they are sweet ones.
Gert
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Butter and yoghurt...vegan?!
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I saw your separate post on this as well Gert but unfortunately as others have said, it's definitely not vegan....just doesn't have egg.
I think the banana pancakes I tried are pretty good and close to regular pancakes.