Blog Day 36: Tuesday 28 April 2020

You know that I am battling for content for the blog when I resort to another in the occasional series of "What's in the pantry Graeme"?


Quite seriously this is a product that I use often. It is vacuum packed and has a decent shelf life if stored in the fridge.  Each knuckle weighs about a kilo and I get 1 hot meal and a couple of cold lunches out of it.  If wiped with some oil and salt and bunged in a very hot oven I even get crackling.  Delicious with apple sauce, sauerkraut and vegies and maybe a flinty reisling. Highly recommended and available from Woolies for about $10 for a kilo pack.

I have been under some pressure to provide some photos from my youth which I have vigorously resisted.  However to appease some people and to take up some space I will post one photo of a youthful Graeme and that will be it.

First and last time that I wore a dress!
      
That's it and no further correspondence will be entered into in the matter.

Current Virus Day Stats - Day 113

Vic: 1,351 (+1 from previous day) - 17 deaths (increase 0)
Aus: 6,728 (+8 from previous day) - 86 deaths (increase 2)
Recovered: 5,586
World: 3,037,605

Comments

  1. Jo28 April 2020 at 15:32

    I don't know which photo i like better - cute baby Tas or crispy pork knuckle! hahahahaahah

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    1. Graeme29 April 2020 at 11:22

      Certainly difficult to choose between the two, but I think the crispy pork knuckle is the winner.

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  2. Clair28 April 2020 at 23:26

    Very short blog - but very amusing comment from Jo

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    1. Graeme29 April 2020 at 11:21

      Its not the size its the quality that is important.

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  3. Richard29 April 2020 at 09:53

    A photo, excellent. I still say publish the one I sent to you. I bet the readers can't spot the difference. A flinty reisling, wow, using a term to describe wine as having a 'wet stone' taste is amazing. A term that has been around for a while but only becoming popular in the last five or so years. I'm impressed (yes I had to look it up). OK now here's a challenge, I would like to see some comments on MMT. Being an old Reserve Bank protegee surely you must have some theories for us. If nothing else, it might generate debate. Who knows, I might not need to travel far with the guns.

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    1. Graeme29 April 2020 at 11:25

      Having visited the Moselle Valley in German and spent a lot of time tasting the local product I know very well that they aspire to the flinty taste. I would make a comment on the MMT if I knew what it meant.

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  4. Andrew29 April 2020 at 14:37

    I've had that brand Pork knuckle before - not bad - but not a patch on the old German Club (Before they changed about 4yrs ago)...

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