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10/4/2021

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THE  TABLE HAS BEEN EMPTY
The first dinner after "lockdown" was at this very sparse table, with a favourite cousin; three of us still social distancing at a table opened up for eight.  Fortunately, all three of us are quite vocal.

We're beginning to see normal again in Australia (at least), while aware that stillness and solitude continue for friends and relatives in America, France, Britain and Denmark. 

I've taken up the keyboard again, at last. For many months, as well as suffering from a general numbness, it seemed irrelevant to talk about, even with a wry smile, the placing of cheese on a plate, getting children to eat their greens and holding their cutlery "correctly" , the trials of feeding the sour dough starter.

But I continue to obsess, to cringe, to observe and to be moved.  I'll be working on...
  • How thick is soup?
  • The pizza & pineapple dilemma.
  • Rinse before loading the dishwasher?
  • Food waste.
  • My new BFF - Fran Lebowitz.
  • Wellness, health and guilty pleasures. (What is a probiotic?)
  • Guests - the good, the bad and the ugly.
  • Hosts - the good, the bad and the ugly.
  • Cooking citrus peel.
  • Recipes and ingredient substitutions
What might you like to talk about?  Join in at the faint blue comment below.
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6 Comments
Karyn
10/4/2021 07:02:02 pm

LOVE the idea! Well done! I'm sure we will all enjoy the read!
If only to disagree with you...joking Joyce... Topics are endless, not only that old chestnut of how people now attack their cutlery, but stacking at the table, serving from the right, dinner on trays, meals from websites and delivered by Uber. Then there are cooking disasters...I recently forgot the quinces in my favourite saucepan for three hours, lucky I didn't burn down the house! I always like 'favourite imaginary dinner guests'. Plus the booze...bad term but who doesn't like a good aperitif or cocktail? Pimms? Bloody Mary like I had this morning? And wine... This might look like a whine...but we will have fun Cath!

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Linda Westacott
11/4/2021 05:58:04 am

I’m looking forward to your many musings, especially the good, the bad and the ugly themes

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Ragini Dey link
12/4/2021 08:59:11 am

The Indian dilemma
One ‘curry’ sauce for 20 dishes definitely ugly
Do all dishes need to be sweet before the non Indian can appreciate them ?
Does everything have to have a surfeit of tomato,cashew and cream?
Is mild ,simple food not Indian?

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Cath link
14/4/2021 07:42:21 am

Great to see your comments. You are spot on and we must organise a round table discussion. Why has Indian (bastardised) become the go-to ethnic? As you say, why sweet. What drives me mad is the excessive hot for the young macho Aussie male . Is it a competition?

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Alex Hagan
17/4/2021 05:36:05 am

So glad your back Cath.
Posset looks elegant in the demitasse.
Happy searching all the new food shops in Canberra.
Found some superb ones at Pialligo near the airport.
Loads of Polish food in our freezer now, particularly meat. My eldest’s partner is of Polish extraction so when ever her lovely parents get their butcher’s order from Sydney we are included. Plus her mum cooks cakes and deserts for restaurants, so we are delivered some. Sublime, but wicked!
Keep up the wonderful posts.
Alex

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Cath link
19/4/2021 01:00:59 pm

Polish cakes are superb. You are very lucky. I don't agree with the wicked however. Immerse yourself fully, without regret - just now and again. Best - Cath

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