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• The Devil Drink
  June 15th, 2009 at 4:35 pm

  Tony Abbott is pouring himself a moderate glass of domestic sparkling …

  I see what you did there.

• Stephanie
  June 15th, 2009 at 6:25 pm

  Hi Zoe,
  Here it is,
  best
  ES

  Roast Garlic and Zucchini Soup
  (Nourish, by Holly Davis)

  10 cloves garlic, unpeeled
  3 large zucchini, sliced
  3 tbsp olive oil
  1/2 tsp sea salt
  2 medium onions, roughly chopped
  1/2 leek, sliced
  400g potatoes, chopped
  4 cups stock
  2tbsp toasted walnuts
  2tbsp umeboshi vinegar

  rub the garlic cloves and zucchini with 1tbsp olive oil and a pinch of salt
  place them on a baking sheet and roast in a hot oven, 200 degrees, for approx 30 min, being careful not to burn them
  heat a large pan and pour in remaining oil
  saute the onions and leek until both are soft and well-cooked
  stir in potatoes and the rest of the salt
  pour in the stock and simmer until potatoes are soft
  squeeze the garlic pulp out of the skins, discarding skins
  blend garlic pulp and zucchini with walnuts and umeboshi vinegar
  add potatoes and stock to blender
  continue to blend thoroughly
  serve hot with crusty bread.

• Zoe
  June 15th, 2009 at 9:34 pm

  Thanks Stephanie (who is responding to my twitter plea for this recipe, having loaned my copy of the book out).

  You should all go make it, it’s delicious.

• Helen
  June 15th, 2009 at 9:53 pm

  Oh it’s so good to see you blogging at Crazybrave again Zoe!

  Can’t come at the soup though; anything from a book called – urgh – nourish by anyone called Holly is just too up itself for words.

• Zoe
  June 16th, 2009 at 9:45 am

  noooo! Well, OK, yes, there is a bit of that. It’s a macrobiotic book, so the virtue-o-meter is very high. The things that work in it though, are delicious. The double page paeans to baby octopus with green tea noodles is definitely overegged.

• Dorian
  June 16th, 2009 at 5:47 pm

  Yes except Kevin Rudd appears to be courting Costello for a future government position now.

• Zoe
  June 19th, 2009 at 10:55 am

  Preferably one overseas.

• Rebekka
  June 19th, 2009 at 12:25 pm

  The thing is, Dorian, if you’re going to make potentially unpopular ex-Labor politician appointments, you have to match them with potentially unpopular ex-Liberal politician appointments. That way you can claim you’re not “partisan”.

  Please, god, let there be a by-election. Soon.

• Bernice
  June 21st, 2009 at 10:44 pm

  I hear Somalia needs a new leader…

• Armagny
  June 24th, 2009 at 11:22 am

  C’mon Zoe, what do you really thing of Peter Costello?

• k8
  June 26th, 2009 at 8:04 am

  Kev’s just doing the sensible thing… when malcolm finally impales himself on his own ego, you don’t want his dimwitted cronies to survey the scene, realise it’s a contest between Tony & Joe, and go begging back to the Twerp.

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