Archive for July, 2002

Saturday, July 20th, 2002

A recipe from Elizabeth:

> Happy Pancakes with Happy Sauce

>

> *Start this dish 24 hours before you get hungry for it

>

> Batter:

> soak 250 g. mung beans for 24 hours, drain

>

> Put equal parts of rice flour/soaked mung beans in blender with 1 tin

of

> coconut cream

> 1 tsp. turmeric

> 1 tsp. salt

> 1 tsp sugar (optional)

> 2 dried chili peppers

> Blend till pureed, then add 2 eggs, whisk.

>

> Filling 1:

> Fry shallots and garlic add 200 g. minced pork, and maybe some

shrimps

> (depending on budget)

> season with fish sauce to taste

>

> OR

>

> Filling 2:

> Fry shallots, garlic, tofu, mushrooms, season with salt and pepper to

taste.

> Drain excess moisture (mixture should look dry)

>

> **

>

> Make pancakes:

> pour batter in oiled skillet or wok, swirl to make thin pancake

>

> Place filling on cooking pancake:

> 1 T. raw bean sprouts

> 1 T. filling

>

> Cover pan and cook for 30 seconds

>

> Fold in half with spatula, creating a half-moon shape

>

> Cover pancake with pan lid, and cook for 30 more seconds or until it

looks

done

>

> Use spatula to remove from pan, place on heatproof platter,

> keep warm in oven while the rest are being cooked

>

> Serve with Happy Sauce:

>

> Fry shallots, garlic, peppers, add yellow bean sauce, soy sauce,

sugar,

> tamarind water, water or stock, ground peanuts, toasted sesame seeds:

blend

> and simmer

>

> Serving suggestion:

> Put Happy Pancakes on plates with Happy Sauce & garnish with lettuce,

> basil, mint

>

> Enjoy

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Wednesday, July 17th, 2002

Comics, they’re the hip new thing! Everyone’s doing them.


Here’s some new ones by Sean Healy.

http://www.octapod.org.au/s/comix/comix.html

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Tuesday, July 16th, 2002

There’s a new contest up at ViridianDesign.org. Design what a less Microsoft dependent computer environment would look like.

http://www.viridiandesign.org/notes/301-350/00320_global_civil_society.html


Sydney comix bad boy Stratu is starting a blog for his new project, Atomizer.


http://atomiser.blogspot.com/


And Michael Pee Fikaris gets featured at SBS! You’ll need Flash for this.

http://www.sbs.com.au/whatever2/artiste/artiste.html

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Tuesday, July 16th, 2002

Apparently Kirrily Schell’s ‘Cheese Party’ went well, complete with Tim Danko wearing a homemade cheese tie. Like Aaron O’ Donnell’s meat shirt, the new trend for comics cognoscenti seems to be edible clothing.

Weeksy finds comic fun for YOU:

US cartoonists under pressure to follow the patriotic line

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/story.jsp?story=308068

Vanessa Sowerine’s site http://www.netspace.net.au/~van

Cassandra Tytler’s new site http://www.netspace.net.au/~ctytler/

and always a good source of info: http://www.bugpowder.com

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Sunday, July 14th, 2002

Hi all.

A site referral by Tim Danko: www.koor.org/stuff/fun/movies/swf/go.swf

Also, Jared Lane has a new site!

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