by Linda Sang
Ingredients:
250 g fine egg noodles
2 cm (3/4 in) knob of fresh ginger
1 tbsp soy sauce
1 tbsp oil
500 g firm white fish fillets cut into 2 cm squares
2 or 3 eggs
Oil to fry
Half a small cauliflower, thinly sliced
1 medium carrot thinly sliced
6 dried shiitake mushrooms, soaked in a cup … Read more »
by Jacob Round and Flick Ruby
A lot of people in our Triangle community know Linda Sang from her involvement in Well Thumbed Books, the Cobargo School of Arts Hall and this publication. Also, she is a prolific caterer and you have likely eaten some of the delicious food Linda cooks for local events. The carrot cake or trout dip from the General Store was hers and pretty hard to resist. But like many worker bees, … Read more »
by Mark Evans
Humans have been growing plants indoors for millennia. It likely began when the first ancient Egyptian plucked a lotus stem from the Nile River and placed it in a clay pot. The Hanging Gardens of Babylon – one of the seven wonders of the ancient world – may well have been the first true ‘urban jungle’.
Meanwhile, the Chinese were perfecting the art of bonsai, while … Read more »
by Jessie Tu
reviewed by Wendy Tucker
Jessie Tu is a book critic at The Age and Sydney Morning Herald and a journalist for Woman’s Agenda. Her debut novel, A lonely girl is a dangerous thing won the Australian Book Industry Awards for 2020 Literary Fiction Book of the Year.
The honeyeater is her eagerly awaited second novel. The protagonist of her first novel was an adult but emotionally stunted former music … Read more »
Deb Worgan:
Prima facie by Susie Miller, an important and powerful read.
About Grace by Anthony Doerr, an odd but intriguing story, beautifully written, about exile and returning.
The conversion by Amanda Lohrey, a novel about a change of heart paralleled with the repurposing of a church.
Flick Ruby:
The valley, Chris Hammer’s latest tightly woven outback murder mystery, includes greenie protesters, good cops, bad cops, and greedy shysters, set in an imaginary town near us.
Doppelganger: a … Read more »
by Mark Evans
Red, green and white are among the most popular colours associated with Christmas. This iconic combination is believed to originate from the English Holly (Ilex aquifolium) with its evergreen leaves and bright red berries. Amidst the European snow, holly symbolised hope during the depths of winter and was integral to ancient winter solstice celebrations, long before the advent of Christmas.
In Australia, however, holly berries ripen between May and August, … Read more »