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Weekend Herb Blogging - Who’s Hosting?

Aug 31, 2008 Noticias

This post will be updated regularly with the hosting schedule.

To participate in Weekend Herb Blogging - please check out the rules for WHB and then email your host by

3pm Sunday - Utah Time
10pm Sunday - London Time
9am Monday - Melbourne (Aus) Time

You can use this converter to find out the corresponding time in your location.

Acceptance of late entries will be left to the discretion of the host and may be passed onto the following weeks host.

In your email please include the following information:

• Your Name
• Your Blog Name/URL
• Your Post URL
• Your Location
• Attach a photo (please check the details below for specific photo requirements)

Recaps are published either Sunday Night or Monday.

Upcoming Hosts

WHB#172 - February 23rd to March 1st
The host will be Laurie from Mediterranean Cooking in Alaska
Send your posts to tasteslikehome AT hotmail DOT com
Please include a photo sized: 400px wide

Blog Day

Aug 31, 2008 Noticias

Peter Black, who hosted Blawg Review #85 and #136 at Freedom to Differ (and who’s hosting again in a couple of weeks), reminds us what Blog Day is all about. By the way, every Monday is blawg day here at Blawg Review.

Weekend Herb Blogging - Year Four Recaps

Aug 31, 2008 Noticias

Weekend Herb Blogging - Archives

Aug 31, 2008 Noticias

In this post you’ll find the links to all the previous editions of Weekend Herb Blogging. 

Honey Murcott Mandarin Sorbet

Aug 31, 2008 Noticias

Katie from Thyme for Cooking is hosting this edition of Weekend Herb Blogging and this week it’s time for another in season offering (well, in this part of the world), the vibrant Honey Murcott Mandarin.

Winter may well be giving us its final blast but with these large, citrus orbs on our shelves you know that the seasons are about to change. Honey Murcotts are the most sweetest variety of mandarin and also one of the juiciest. They are covered with an easy to peel skin - though they do come with a lot of seeds.

While it is known as a mandarin here, it may well be also known as a tangerine. While mandarins and tangerines refer to the same citrus species (they are both c. reticulata), the name tangerine has been used to describe a certain type of mandarin, those with a darker skin.

In deciding what to make with these mandarins I had one objective in mind and that was to focus on their sweet, juicy nature. Though it may seem a bit odd considering the season, I felt that sorbet would be the best solution!

Honey Murcott Mandarin Sorbet

500mls/2 cups Honey Murcott mandarin juice
1 cup water
1 cup caster sugar

Place the water and sugar into a saucepan and over a medium heat - stir until the sugar has dissolved. Simmer for 5 minutes to reduce slightly. Remove from the heat and allow to cool before using.

Peel the mandarins, remove the seeds - this isn’t difficult as they are quite large. You can put them through a juicer or you can, as I did, put them in a blender and blend until smooth.

Pour this mixture through a fine sieve and discard the solids - you want 2 cups of juice left at the end of this process.

Add the cooled sugar syrup to the mandarin juice and stir. Begin by adding half a cup of syrup and then taste - how much you end up using will depend on just how sweet the fruit was to begin with. I added just under 1 cup of sugar syrup.

Stir well and allow to thoroughly chill before pouring it into the bowl of your ice cream maker - following the manufacturers instructions. This took about 25 minutes to churn.

If you don’t have an ice cream maker - you can follow these instructions.

Pour the churned mixture into a freezer proof container - smooth the surface and place in the freezer for a few hours to set completely.

Not only is this refreshing, it has all those sweet mandarin flavours without being too cloying. I can well imagine that in summer this would be a lovely way to get that hit of Vitamin C - it’s not that bad in winter either.

VALL Celebrates 20 years!

Aug 29, 2008 Noticias

Members of the Vancouver Association of Law Libraries are getting set for a new VALL season which launches (and lunches) on Friday, September 19th. But did you know that this year marks the 20th Anniversary for VALL?

According to our wonderful incoming President Wilma MacFarlane, and according to our VALL history page, it was February 1988 that seeds for VALL were set. So, this year we’ve decided to make it an anniversary year, and are looking to do some special things around the time of our Christmas social.

There’s also a very cool story about a related email exchange between Wilma and the Honourable Mr. Justice Marshall Rothstein; but I’ll let Wilma tell it…. at the VALL meeting on September 19th. How’s that for a teaser?

I’ll also blog about it after the VALL meeting. Right now, we’re rallying the troops! Give me a V! give me a A! …. you get the idea.

5 Photoshop and Illustrator brushes set for web designer

Aug 29, 2008 Noticias

1. Lineart Brush (Download)
This brush for Illustrator will make your strokes look like they were drawn with a pencil. Thin were the stroke begins, wider in the middle, and back to thin were the stroke ends.

Each size comes in two variations - one with the stroke getting wider to the left and one with the stroke getting wider to the right. If you need other sizes just copy one of the sizes and modify it.

2. Polaroid Brushes (Download)
A nice collection of Polaroid brushes, for Photoshop useful to be used in grunge or vintage website style:

3. Diagonal Lines (Download)
This set of 17 diagonal lines brushes useful to design quickly background pattern for your websites.

4. Safety Pin (Download)
This is a set with six nice pin brushes for Photoshop.

5. Shape Tags (Download)
This is another brushes set of 23 shape tag very useful to design original tags in your websites.

If you have an interesting brushes set and you want to share it please add a comment!

Lean, Clean, No Theme

Aug 29, 2008 Noticias

Cross-posted from Colin Samuels’ Infamy or Praise

D. Todd Smith hosts this week’s Blawg Review #174 at his Texas Appellate Law Blog. Smith’s review is a throwback of sorts to the early days of Blawg Review when hosts simply collected the best legal blogging of the previous week without packaging it (or, as in the cases of my own Blawg Reviews, overpackaging it) in a themed presentation. Highlights include thinking randomly about randomness, worrying about internet law, and forcing the transgendered to sit out the war on terror.

Jamie Spencer will host Blawg Review #175 at his Austin DWI Lawyer blog next Monday.

Salt

Aug 29, 2008 Noticias

Salt is probably something we really don’t think too much about and when we do, it’s usually because there’s been some study or another “proving” that it’s bad for us which will in turn, be gazumped by another “proving” that it’s good for us.

But really we should be thinking about it - when used correctly it can bring out the true flavour of ingredients.

Salt shouldn’t be consigned to be that white granular substance we buy in bulk - salt comes in many forms, each with their own unique characteristics. As a example of this, I thought I’d look at three interesting salts.

At the top is a French classic

Fleur de Sel de Guérande - hand collected in the salt marches of Guérande, this is naturally white and is not washed or crushed.

It is best used as a finishing salt - sprinkled at the end of cooking, over salads or added at the table. If making salted caramel then this would be the salt of choice.

The next salt is a local product - Murray River Salt Flakes

Its distinctive colouring, a pale pink-peach, is due to carotene which is released by river algae. This product has an extra benefit in that it helps in the fight against the growing salinity of the Murray river basin. Just like Fleur de Sel, this is an excellent finishing salt. As the flakes are quick to dissolve they can also be used when baking and roasting.

The final salt comes from Cyprus - natural Volcanic Sea Salt Flakes

This salt sourced from the Mediterranean Sea is sun-dried in large pyramids and then mixed with activated charcoal. The crystals are quite delicate in nature and are also best used as a finishing salt.

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Aug 28, 2008 Noticias

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