Well. You are more than welcome to start a thread on fuel subsidies or land regeneration, Imperium. No one's saying you can't do that.

I'm sure there are some interesting things happening at the regional universities too. That Pakistani course in Dubbo sounds fascinating.

If it wasn't for the Nationals we wouldn't have these fine things.

Today CNCWACB travels to the place of the "Rising Sun" for our vegetable of the week.
If you haven't already tried this little morsel I recommend you get yourself along to any major shopping centre with a food court head to the Japanese offerings & it will be in the window.
Or you can do it yourself at home following the recipe below.





Ingredients:

1 oz. dried wakame seaweed, cut into strips
4 TB rice vinegar
2 TB sesame oil
4 TB soy sauce
1 tsp ginger, grated
1 tsp sugar
1 rsp garlic, minced
3 green onions, thinly sliced
1 TB white sesame seeds, toasted
1/2 TB black sesame seeds, untoasted


Directions:

Soak seaweed in warm water for 5-6 minutes until tender. Meanwhile, combine vinegar, sesame oil, soy, ginger, sugar, green onions, and garlic. Stir until sugar is dissolved. Toss seaweed strips with dressing and sesame seeds. Let sit for 10 minutes for flavors to develop.

muso wrote on Nov 9^th, 2011 at 3:23pm:


Nationals can't get anything right. First you try to ban the wonderful

http://polishmushrooms.webs.com/borowikicepesporcini.htm

Now you give us Laksa without the Laksa.  Laksa leaf; Rau Ram: Vietnamese corinder (Persicaria odorata). Perennial.

http://ediblyasian.info/resources/flavourants/odorata.jpg%0A%0Atimestamp=1257752699442

Good with mushrooms, lemon zest, and chilli. Also add to dry sherry and dried shrimp to make a good quick stock for stir fry vegtables, (which may include mushrooms

Mushrooms, along with Zuchini and their flowers, tomato, potato, corn, carrot, pumpkin, borage flowers, runner beans, peas and bleedin chocolate are not vegetables.

Let's settle for vegtables and their allies hmm hmm?  

Grey wrote on Nov 9^th, 2011 at 4:14pm:


Mate, if you take my advice, you've got a few kangaroos loose in the top paddock, there.

Let me get this straight - potatoes are definitely vegetables. That's clearly the case. It's not a Grey area either. You don't have to have any qualifications as a vegetable inspector to work that one out.

However the potato plant does produce a fruit, and if you've been eating that thinking it was the potato, perhaps that would explain your disruptive attitude, because the fruit of the potato plant is poisonous.  

- and while we're at it, we're a fairly reasonable lot here at the Nationals, so I'll extend a bit of an olive branch since you're new around here. There is some really good programming on ABC Local, including some splendid programming on vegetables, and when it comes to the wet season, if I was out the back of Bourke somewhere, I  wouldn't listen to anything else to find out the latest on the road situation.  

http://www.abc.net.au/capricornia/topics/lifestyle-and-leisure/gardening/

Grey wrote on Nov 9^th, 2011 at 7:25pm:


Yes, they are both in the Solanum family, as is the eggplant, and you can also get solanine poisoning from green potatoes and tomatoes , and even eggplant if it's not properly prepared.

Another plant in the same family is atropa belladonna or deadly nightshade, which is even more poisonous. The poisons they contain are in the alkaloid family, but they all contain some solanin.

Potatoes and tomatoes are very closely related, and their wild precursors can be still found in the Americas. Cultivars were developed by the various Amerindian civilisations.

Beautiful  Mr Grey

You see you get with the program & everyone's happy