Purple Potatoes

These are a heritage variety, with the Maori named of Urenika

Their flesh is purple all the way through. After boiling in water they cook up to a pale purple
with a very floury flesh - purfect for mashing

I mixed the leftovers with eggs, spring onions (scallions/green onions), grated parmesan and
a little besan (chickpea flour) and baking powder to make little fritters

It is hard to tell but the fritters looked kind of blue inside. Eaten and enjoyed with a fresh salad* and a glass of Boysencider - a drink made from Apple Cider and Boysenberry Wine. A delicious supper on American Independence Day.


* and a yummy salad dressing of equal parts of Dijon Mustard, Maple Syrup and Balsemic Vinegar well mixed (super thanks Daharja)

First of July - A Zebby Cat Posting

A Grand Night for Zebbycat Snoozling.


For the first time this winter he allowed His human to roam around their wee flat while Zeb permitted himself two whole hours of full-on sleepy snoozling in front of the new heater.

His human even remembered to check, clean and refill his water and dry food bowls!

Food Flavours that Divide Us

As the comments to my previous post show, folks either love or loathe anchovies. A couple more like/hate foods that I like are blue cheese and olives. An absolute divider is fresh coriander which I admit to utterly loathing (and it repeats on me so I retaste it).

Here are some more of my "loathe" foods:

Caraway Seeds

Watermelon

Peaches

all offal except black pudding

shellfish

Whiskey*

Which foods and flavours do you go out of your way to avoid?



(*Both my parents have the whiskey gene, unfortunately they only passed it on to my sister. I missed it completely!)

Gale force winds......

... with horizontal rain and sleet - it must be a Wellington winter's day. Just the evening for comforting and delicious home made leek and potato soup.

Having filled and warmed myself up, I moved onto roasted tomatoes (I only had little ones) ...

...topped with garlic, anchovies and fresh mozzarella. Back in the oven then served with a sprinkling of chopped chives and some good bread to mop up all the juices.

After a happy 2 hours of heat bathing in front of the big heater Zebby moved to under his "quilt" again for more happy time - snoozing, purring, washing, purring some more and then a good, sound and snorey sleep.

Those *@&# Plastic Horns!

They sound like an angry swarm of tone deaf bees.

Massed Pipe Bands with the Pipers only playing the drone would sound better.
A Pipe Band paying any tune would be a huge relief.

The New Zealand team, the All Whites, have just thwarted and frustrated Paraguay to a scoreless draw. Sadly this wont see us through to the next round, but it does have us third in our pool group where the defending cup champions, Italy, finished last. Our lads can come home feeling very proud of what they accomplished - unbeaten, and now free from the sound of those bloody horns!

Wellington's Shortest Day

I took these shots at about 4.00pm on Monday, after the unglamorous task of taking the rubbish (trash/garbage) and recycling bags up the demon steps to the road. I then only had to walk past a few other houses to give you some new views of Wellington City


Our Mid-Winter's Day got to a balmy, barmy 16C (61F). In this next shot I was lucky enough to capture one of the Cook Strait Ferries coming into the harbour:



Next, here I've gone back to the view to the south-east, the view from partway down the demon steps. That's the Pacific ocean over on the left. Those beautiful, semi- clear skies led to a chilly night.



So you know where Zebbycat was, don't you - yes, under His quilty-comforter for a few hours of purring, washing, snoring and a scratch or two. Despite me covering him up well his tail escaped!

On a soggy Sunday,

when Your human has got up yet is too busy with daft human things to turn on a heater, there is nowhere as good as under Your quilt.

With a full tummy and the secure knowledge that Your human has changed the kitty litter you can purr away to yourself in warm comfort, and ignore the human completely!