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Re: Choice at the supermarket - 11 months ago
Countdown have a 24 pack of Paseo toilet rolls (standard size, not long ones) for $17 this week, which is about the best price you can get Paseo for. Makes it 70c per roll. Grab it while you can! I was in there looking for all the things I can't buy at Pak'nSave this week and wandered past this huge stack of Paseo 24-pack on the floor, with the sign saying $17 special, and bought some, even thoby J1 - Foodlovers Food Talk
Re: Date Scones - 11 months ago
Well, years ago when I first started making date scones, I always put the dates in whole because I didn't know about chopping them up. I also used to regularly buy delicious wholemeal date scones from a local cafe which also put whole dates in, until one day I bit into a date stone in the cafe's scone and shattered a molar on it. No wonder they call them stones. I have several date scone recby J1 - Foodlovers Food Talk
Re: Saveloys - 11 months ago
Lynne2, thank you very much, very helpful. Decent saveloys will be such a coveted item at this rate, they'll start serving them at fine dining restaurantsby J1 - Foodlovers Food Talk
Re: Choice at the supermarket - 11 months ago
Lyn V, I assume you've tried Paseo 3ply. I have been buying it for a very long time and am happy with it as a 3ply. But I certainly think the thickness of a "ply" has got much thinner over the years. 2-ply paper used to be perfectly fine in thickness.by J1 - Foodlovers Food Talk
Re: Moroccan Lamb Chops - 11 months ago
TPANDAV, that's interesting. How would you do the lamb shanks? I usually think of lamb shanks as needing moisture and long cooking so they become "falling off the bone", and I'm thinking they could be done with this recipe in the slow cooker. But I'm assuming you mean cook them much the same as the chops, so they come out more like a "falling off the bone" lamb roast?by J1 - Foodlovers Food Talk
Re: Saveloys - 11 months ago
Sue, Moore Wilson's are going to get in stock Beard Brothers Old School Saveloys - should have in store by middle of next week. Their website mentions saveloys but doesn't have a picture of them, so we shall see....and taste.... in due course. I did try some Beard Brothers sausages from the supermarket some time ago, but have never seen their saveloys stocked.by J1 - Foodlovers Food Talk
Moroccan Lamb Chops - 11 months ago
This recipe is based on a lamb ribs recipe by Sam Mannering It's delicious and easy. Moroccan Lamb Chops 8 lamb shoulder chops (approx 1350g chops) 2 tablespoons of evoo (extra virgin olive oil, or your usual cooking oil such as canola oil, etc) zest and juice of 2 lemons (or one large lemon) 2 teaspoons cinnamon powder 4 teaspoons each of cumin seeds and coriander seeds, ground in aby J1 - Foodlovers Food Talk
Re: Manual for Agee Preserver - 11 months ago
BELOW IS THE TYPED VERSION OF THE AGEE PRESERVER MANUAL. Electric Model Automatic Agee Preserver Now that you are the fortunate owner of an AGEE Preserver you will be anxious to gain the greatest benefit from its use. By following the simple instructions contained in this booklet, you will produce preserves of which you will be very proud. _________ To obtain the maximum life from tby J1 - Foodlovers Non-Foodie Chat
Re: Manual for Agee Preserver - 11 months ago
Attached is the last photo of the final pages of the Agee Preserver manual.by J1 - Foodlovers Non-Foodie Chat
Re: Manual for Agee Preserver - 11 months ago
Gay has kindly provided a copy of the manual. I will now load it onto the Foodlovers website as photos and also as a typewritten copy, so people have the option of copying the typewritten version, or downloading the photos of it onto their computer. In the photos, it can be a little hard to decipher the ¼, ½, ¾ unfortunately. I can only attach 5 files to this message so I will have to do a subby J1 - Foodlovers Non-Foodie Chat
Re: Saveloys - 11 months ago
Sue, I found these Blackball ones which look and sound worthwhile - they are made in NZ from NZ meat (whereas Hellers is imported meat) and I saw that one of their stockists is Moore Wilson's. Unfortunately, our Moore Wilson's can't stock them because they come unpacked (which our local MW can't deal with, having no meat counter) but they are going to see if they can find a packaged saveloy froby J1 - Foodlovers Food Talk
Re: Choice at the supermarket - 11 months ago
I was surprised to read a couple of days ago that Gilmours is owned by Foodstuffs (owner of New World, Pak'nSave, etc): "With sister company Trents, Gilmours is the largest food and beverage wholesaler in New Zealand owned by Foodstuffs." (quote from their Facebook page)by J1 - Foodlovers Food Talk
Re: Choice at the supermarket - 11 months ago
Yes, exactly, Irene, same experience here, and also the "long wall of specials on entry usually consists of 3/4 of junk food and drinks". Lately our local Pak'nSave has placed, so it's the first thing you walk past as you enter the store, some junk food item from the bakery - today it's iced doughnuts. I, too, for about two recent years, completed their surveys and, just like you,by J1 - Foodlovers Food Talk
Choice at the supermarket - 11 months ago
Our local Pak'nSave has gradually reduced choice in some lines. They stock Wattie's Hawke's Bay grown canned tomatoes in the savoury versions (Mexican, Indian, Italian, etc) yet won't/don't stock the "chopped in juice", "chopped in puree". Brunswick sardines have disappeared. Gregg's lovely environmentally packed spices have been moved to the less ideal top shelves (and I seby J1 - Foodlovers Food Talk
Re: Saveloys - 11 months ago
Sue, yes, that is the butchery that is downsizing and no longer making saveloys! Awful news, isn't it.by J1 - Foodlovers Food Talk
Re: Manual for Agee Preserver - 11 months ago
I have sent a private message to Gay, offering to enable this manual to be available on the Foodlovers website directly. Hopefully she is still checking in and able to respond. The manual doesn't seem to be easily available elsewhere on the internet so it would be good to set it up here for the future, when Gay is no longer willing or able to keep sending it to people. Otherwise, if Gay doesby J1 - Foodlovers Non-Foodie Chat
Re: Saveloys - 11 months ago
Rather gadget-free kitchen here - no microwave either.......by J1 - Foodlovers Food Talk
Re: Saveloys - 11 months ago
That is a cooking method worth trying, thanks Noeleen. I was also going to see if steaming them in my steamer pan helped prevent the splitting. The silly thing is, all the previous saveloys I have been able to buy, which have now become extinct, didn't have a splitting problem, and it is only this rather awful packet of Hellers that has split within moments of being heated, and I am keen to notby J1 - Foodlovers Food Talk
Re: Butter - 11 months ago
This is what happens when people put cheap price before every other consideration, including their own country's job base and food security, and the world environment as a whole. In the long run, that cheap price is very expensive.by J1 - Foodlovers Food Talk
Re: Saveloys - 11 months ago
Thanks Griz, they do have saveloys and we've tried them but, although they were fine enough, they weren't quite a match for the saveloys we were able to get alternatively at the time. But they might have to come into play again, now that Hellers seem to be the only option.by J1 - Foodlovers Food Talk
Re: Saveloys - 11 months ago
jj, thank yoy. I actually found those earlier, as I thought perhaps I'd better look up if any nice ones are available through the internet and Halswell Butchery came up. Those saveloys in their website picture look EXACTLY how a saveloy should look so I was, like, YES! But then I looked up where Halswell is and it's Christchurch, so, oh well.... I'll have to move to Christchurchby J1 - Foodlovers Food Talk
Re: Saveloys - 11 months ago
Hi Griz, yes grew up here. My family never went out to Waingawa to get our meat though, don't know why. I used to get ours from there sometimes as an adult, until it closed. I used to get sheep hearts for my cat (from the local butcher or supermarket) and didn't particularly enjoy cutting them up all the time either..... The Moore Wilson savs turned out to be a 5kg frozen box with sticks (fby J1 - Foodlovers Food Talk
Re: A smile for Sunday - 11 months ago
That's lovely, Ali, thanks for sharing. It is lovely to see the little old cars on the road. My mum owned an Austin A30 when she first got married and it became our family car, loaded up to the gunwales for annual seaside camping holidays. One thing I love about the older cars is their wind down windows - how I wish we still had them in all cars. These electric windows in modern cars are deatby J1 - Foodlovers Non-Foodie Chat
Re: Saveloys - 11 months ago
Ah, cooking method, good point Irene. I don't have an air fryer. The proper saveloys didn't split (or very rarely) whereas Hellers are obviously rubbish in that regard. Hopefully Moore Wilson's will get some stock in soon and partner can try those.by J1 - Foodlovers Food Talk
Re: Saveloys - 11 months ago
Ah, yes, key addition is tomato sauce. Chris might be thinking of cocktail sausages (not allowed to say their true name che...rios because it's a trademarked name). Saveloys are much bigger, more like a fat sausage. I'm always surprised when there is confusion over what saveloys are because they were so commonplace around here when I was growing up, and yet I'd never heard of polonies untiby J1 - Foodlovers Food Talk
Saveloys - 11 months ago
Well, I did a quick search of the Foodlovers forum archives and can advise that this is the first thread to ever be about saveloys! They do get a brief mention on a sausage thread from 11 years ago but otherwise no-one is talking about saveloys. My partner likes saveloys. I ate a lot of them as a child too. We both know what a saveloy is supposed to taste like and look like, having partakenby J1 - Foodlovers Food Talk
Re: Slow Cooker meat recipes - 11 months ago
Slow Cooker Beef Curry 750g stewing steak (e.g. chuck, blade), cut into 3cm cubes 3 tbspns each: plain flour, sugar 1 tspn salt & ¼ tspn ground pepper 2 tspns each: ground turmeric, curry powder ½ tspn each: mustard powder, ground ginger, mixed spice 3 tbspns each: white vinegar, orange juice 2 tbspns tomato paste 1 tspn Worcestershire sauce Grated rind and juice of 1 lemon Combiby J1 - Foodlovers Food Talk
The environmental impact of Madagascar vanilla - 11 months ago
I was pleased to read in a New Scientist magazine article that a rare bird not seen for 24 years has been confirmed as alive in Madagascar's forests. Two teams went to the forests on high mountain slopes, as this is where most remaining wooded areas are in Madagascar. But then I read the sentence "The second team's efforts didn't go smoothly at first, as it was discovered that much of the tby J1 - Foodlovers Food Talk