The Election Day Sausage Sizzle
Having been alerted to this phenomenon by two Facebook friends of mine, I wondered what the experience of you foodways aficionados is of these events. I vote at the Town Hall and there is no sausage sizzle on the pavement outside, but the church just around the corner was putting one on, jumping castle, DJ and all, with chalked signs on the footpath directing people to it – tho I suspect most custom was from the congregation and not voters fanging for a sanger. [See pic above] It’s becoming bigger than Ben Hur it would seem. The Sydney Morning Herald ran an article about the event at Erskineville Primaryhttp://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.smh.com.au%2Fnsw%2Fnsw-state-election-2015%2Fnsw-election-2015-sausage-sizzle-the-best-part-of-election-day-20150328-1m9syg.html&h=aAQFAuOkO. That article mentions the Election Sausage Sizzle site, established by ‘Queensland IT expert Grant Castner in 2010. Some 323 were registered with his site by 8am Saturday 27h March. And it isn’t just your P & C mums and dads who are into it. Helen Campbell reports that this year Colin Fassnidge was doing his bit at Malabar Primary School. My son Raj even discovered this site http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.electionsausagesizzle.com.au%2F2015-nsw-election-sausage-sizzle-map%2F&h=WAQFnRFtG
All contributions to the discussion, hopefully to be turned into a blog post/article are welcome. When did you first notice them? Who runs the one’s you know of or indeed have just eaten at (it being voting day in NSW as I write this). Barbara Santich has a nifty write up of charity sausage sizzles in Bold Palates, which the election day ones clearly derive from. Pics also welcome J
Cornish Pasties
Jacqui Newling contributed the following:
Charmaine O’Brien's 'plain food' paper cited this week by USA's food history doyenne (vale Karen Hess) Rachel Laudan http://www.rachellaudan.com/blog - on 'traditional' Cornish Pasties, nice to see Australia included in the discussion). Maybe worth extending the Cornish Pastie issue locally - my memory of them, fostered from Adelaide upbringing means has to be shortcrust pastry, submarine style with pastry joined in a ruffle along the top (none of this folded half moon or triangle business) and feature characteristic white pepper flavour, dominating the minced meat, alarmingly uniformly diced turnip, potatoes and carrot, (and maybe peas, added gratuitously for colour ??) needless to say, few have lived up to expectations in past decades.
This coincided with an article in Petit Propos Culinaire 102 from Peter Bears ‘The Pasties of Cornwall and the Cornish Pasty’ which was a critique of the EEC ruling that only Cornwall could sell said object of pastry crimped and folded over meat and veg as authentically named, where in Bears debunks the notion that this kind of pasty is at all indigenous to Cornwall – part of a general critique on this rush to get commercial gain from having a food item declared thus. Bears presents a strong argument that the Cornish pasty had bugger all meat in it to begin with until other regions in the UK whacked meat in, and that the pasty anyway is of considerable provenance centuries back from outside Cornwall.
But, to Jacqui’s observation – I’m interested in what others of you reckon a Cornish pasty looks like and features. Is there a typically Australian variation on it?
Pointless Convenience Foods Contd.
From Barbara Santich: Kraft ready-made pancakes – square! They didn’t last long (flash in the pan, one might say ...).
Not just for stews: re-inventing the slow cooker
‘All these authors love slow cookers for their obvious pros: cheap to buy and run, fast prep, and hardly any washing up. Plus, practicality needn’t come at the expense of flavour if you follow basic rules.’
How cheap can a slow cooker be to run compared to doing a casserole or baking a cake the usual way?
Nourish Talks
St Canice’s Rooftop Kitchen Garden is starting a series of talks from 16 April 6.30pm. The Rooftop Kitchen Garden was begun by Rob Caslick, who runs a weekly organic soup kitchen as part of the parish’s outreach for local people in need. The kitchen is situated below the offices of Jesuit Refugee Service in Rushcutters Bay. I have been following the development of the project and am excited to go and see how it is going. You can read about the Garden at http://www.jrs.org.au/growing-rooftops/.
You can get tickets to the first talk at https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/nourish-talks-autumn-tickets-16276284806
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