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Peewee chorus

We have a breeding family of Peewees (Grallina cyanoleuca) in our back yard. The colloquial name comes from their call. In the peculiarly Australian way they are also known as Magpie-larks as they are related to neither magpies nor larks. Our pair currently have three young.

When feeding the chooks yesterday I noticed them all sitting on the overhead cables so raced inside to get my camera and long lens. I was lucky enough to catch them being feed.



All shot on a Canon 7D with a Canon EF 70-200mm.

3 comments February 7th, 2010

Kaffir revealed!

The answer to What is it? Part 4 is Kaffir Lime (Citrus hystrix).

My neighbour has a beautiful kaffir lime tree growing in a pot near her front door. Knowing I’m a keen cook she generously suggested I take as many fruit and leaves as I want. So the weekend curry had to be Thai (red beef curry with peanuts). The zest and juice of these wonderfully knobbled (almost brain-like) fruit provide lots of astringent zing. The characteristic double-jointed leaves¹ are also used widely in Thai and other south-east asian cuisines. They have a fresh, sour taste.

No pics of the curry I’m afraid.

1. actually only one half is the leaf proper, the other is a flattened petiole [↩]

5 comments March 28th, 2009

The blues

1 comment March 1st, 2009

What’s it again

Not a difficult one it but may keep you amused while I find something challenging.

Look closely!

And the answer is… spooky bread dough!

So Nina was right even though she was 95% sure she was wrong.

There’s another shot of it in my food photos.

From memory it was the biga¹ after a day or so of fermenting. I would have been making pane Pugliese or ciabatta.

1. ie the starter dough for bread [↩]

12 comments November 29th, 2008

What is it?

Have a guess! (Colour may be misleading.)

Update 27 Nov: Damn! Bill got it first go. It is a photo of a red cabbage cut in half. (No CATs were harmed.) Stick with your instincts Nina! The outer parts look very three-dimensional - like intestines as Kari suggests.

A selenium tint was applied with some contrast tweeking.
Thanks for having a guess!

7 comments November 25th, 2008