Soccer WC

 I notice Japan defeated Germany in the soccer World Cup.

Maybe the German team should spend more energy on playing soccer and less on virtue signalling.

Roast Beef and Mexican Hot Sauce

 I was given a selection of hot sauces for a birthday. In them was one that was too hot for me. It was so hot that I couldn't taste the sauce and so it failed to enhance the taste of the food.

I hate waste so I put it aside.

I cook roast beef in a bag in the air-roaster after spicing (dry marinade) it for 48 hours. I cook the meat to med-rare and then remove it from the bag and blast the meat for about 5 minutes a side with the hottest air possible to dry the exterior which helps with carving.

I need the spiciness because I have a problem getting food from my mouth to my throat. Spices help.

This means the juices from the meat are unsuitable for gravy (at least to my taste) and I need to reach for the Bisto.

The first time I did this after giving up on the hot-sauce I, for no real reason, included a slug of the disguarded hot-sauce along with plenty of freshly ground black pepper in the gravy.

It was bloody brilliant!

Since then I have included the hot-sauce with the mustard in sandwiches and the mustard on bread with bbq'd sausages.

Excellent!

Don't throw out stuff you don't like until you've tried it with food you do, even if in a different way.

Vapid Vape View

 I have returned - mainly because of the utter stupidity being spouted and written around Godzone.

There is a fellow on NewstalkZB mornings (I understand, I've never listened to the fellow) called MacDonald.

I've occasionally read some of his stuff and have concluded that he's probably employed to make Hosking look good. If so he deserves a raise.

Today he's opining about a suburban dairy with a vape-shop section.

He and some busy-body local (Naturally a "miss") are against it.

MacDonald's main complaint is the dairy is just down the road from a school.

This is a New Zealand city - every-bloody-where is "just down the road from a school.

Secondary complaints are the shopkeeper is selling chocolates, sweets and ice-creams to the vapers and the separated vape section has no external door.

Note there is no suggestion vape equipment is being sold to children.

Mr MacDonald is complaining for complaining's sake, he should be ignored.

Disclaimer: I don't smoke, have never "vaped" and admit to wondering if those puffing on the vape devices do so in order to look like the utter wankers they, when you meet them, so obviously are.