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A Taste Of Yellow - Eggs

Breakfast at the Waterline Café in the tiny village of  Kohukohu  on the upper Hokianga Harbour . We'd spent the night in Rawene which quite frankly was a huge disappointment.  We had one of our worst meals ever at the Rawene Hotel. The only other option was  a takeaways shop with a menu that read greasy.  Rawene also has the  Boatshed Café but it is only open for lunches.

There is a car ferry that connects Rawene with Kohukohu and when you drive off the car ferry the Waterline  Café is the first building on the right. It's not a big village you can't miss it. They also open for dinner on Friday evenings.  What could be better than sitting on the deck over the water enjoying a morning coffee...or a glass of wine later in the day looking at this view.

Don't forget to come back on the 16th May for the Taste Of Yellow round up.

A Taste Of Yellow - Sunshine

Sunset at Hihi Beach  Doubtless Bay. On our last evening in Northland last week we drove over to Hihi Beach, sat on the sand with a glass of wine and watched the sun go down.

The Taste Of Yellow  round up is almost complete. I've finished the reading, the commenting and the write up. Tomorrow I shall start proof reading and hopefully I'll get to take Sunday off. So many entries, so many new blogs to discover and so much yellow food to make.

LiveSTRONG DAY May 16th 2007 -   A Taste Of Yellow round up.

A Taste Of Yellow - Apple Cake

With  50 more entries to complete the roundup I don't have time for baking this week .  This Apple Cake is served at The Canteen  over in Nugent Street, Eden Terrace.  It's a nice place to call into after a hospital  appointment.

The response to A Taste Of Yellow  has been overwhelming and I thank you all for your contributions.   I'll be busy with the roundup for a few more days but it will ready by the 16th May in time for  LiveSTRONG Day.

A Taste Of Yellow -Sand

I'm back from a few days up north. The only yellow I've seen, apart from the yellow flowers my friend Sue had especially arranged when we called in for lunch at Dargaville, was the yellow sand on Ninety Mile Beach. 

Once I got over my fear of my dune buggy tipping over on the rocks I ripped along nicely reaching speeds of 68kph on the hard sand and dropping down to about 30 in the soft sand. The rocks I managed by going fairly slowly at about 9k.

It is head down now as I read through the many entries for  A Taste Of Yellow and finish the round up ready for 16th and LiveSTRONG Day. Thank you everyone for your entries.

A Taste Of Yellow - Tumeric

TUMERIC SPICE RUB FOR CHICKEN
Crush a couple of cloves of garlic, add a teaspoon each of Maldon salt flakes, tumeric, ginger and chili. Drizzle a little olive oil over and mash together.  Butterfly a chicken , make slashes in the thick parts, rub spice all over chicken and into the cuts. Grill or roast as desired. I fan grill in the oven at 220C for 20 minutes, turn grill off and lower temperature to 180C on the fan cycle for a further 40 minutes.  I've included the instructions for butterflying chicken but I don't go to all that bother for a family dinner. I just cut the chicken down the middle and spread it out.

Tomorrow I'm taking a few days off to go north. I've typed up the entries that are already in for A Taste Of Yellow .  Actually I typed them up twice.  During the week our area suffered a major power cut while the file was sitting open on the computer. Although I'd saved it in typepad as I added each entry I lost the lot - about 28 entries at the time.

We are going here,  here ,  and here .   It's autumn here so I won't be swimming but I will be riding a dune buggy.

As I will be away until 9th May you have a few extra days to get your Taste Of Yellow  entries to me at  atasteofyellowATgmailDOTcom

A Taste Of Yellow - Bananas

You can see I've already eaten one - well someone had to taste test to make sure they were okay...and they were. More than okay I'm happy  to say.

Oops I accidentally published this post before I'd finished posting it....  I was about to tell you I'd received a package in the mail recently. It had come from Amazon and inside was a lovely note from a famous blogger  to say it was a gift.  If the blog awards had a category "worlds nicest blogger" I'm sure Sam would win.

Ripping the package apart, as you do when something arrives from Amazon, I found my gift was a cook book written by another famous blogger.   Which is how I came to have a copy of Super Natural Cooking by Heidi Swanson. Thank you Sam. It is full of tempting photographs, healthy recipes, useful information and a rather cute guy on page 184. ...just after the Chocolate Chip Cookies.

Heidi  has kindly allowed me to post her recipe for Espresso Banana Muffins.

ESPRESSO BANANA MUFFINS
2 cups whole-wheat flour
2 teaspoons aluminum free baking powder
1/2 teaspoon fine grain sea salt
1 1/4 cups chopped toasted walnuts
1 tablespoon fine espresso powder
6 tablespoons unsalted butter at room temperature
3/4 cup natural cane sugar
2 large eggs
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
1 cup plain yogurt
1 1/2 cups mashed over ripe bananas (about 3 large bananas)

Heat oven to 375F, position the racks low in the oven, and line 12 muffin cups with paper liners.

Combine the flour, baking powder, salt, 3/4 cup of the walnuts, and the espresso powder in a bowl and whisk to combine.

In a separate large bowl or a stand mixer, cream the butter until light and fluffy. Beat in the sugar and the  the eggs one at a time. Stir in the vanilla, yogurt, and mashed bananas, then briefly and gently mix in the dry ingredients; over mixing will result in tough muffins.

Spoon into the prepared muffin tin ( an ice cream scoop works well), top with the remaining 1/2 cup walnuts, and bake until golden, about 25 minutes. Fill the cups 2/3 full for regular muffins or to the brim for a big topped version. Cool in the tin for 5 minutes, then turn onto a wire rack to cool completely.

I don't have instant coffee in my pantry so replaced it with Milo, but I think the coffee powder would  be  better.  Heidi must have bigger muffin pans than me because my mixture produced 18 muffins.

Don't forget to make and post your yellow food  .  Email your entries to me at  atasteofyellowATgmailDOTcom by 7th May.

A Taste Of Yellow - Butter Beans

There is a lot of  yellow food out there this week. Thank you to everyone who has posted A Taste Of Yellow in support of  LiveSTRONG Day .

I bought a bunch of butter beans at the shops this morning, knowing by the time I arrived home I'd have a plan for them.

YELLOW BEAN AND RED PEPPER SOUP
Soften a chopped onion, garlic and diced potatoes. Toss in the chopped peppers( also called capsicum) and beans. Cover with stock or water. Season.
Cook until tender - about 20 mins.
Blitz in blender.
Serve.

Quantities will depend on how many you are serving. I used 1 onion, 2 small potatoes, 2 large red peppers, a handful of beans. It made about 4 servings.

A Taste Of Yellow - Lemons

Before I went to bed last night I mixed up a batch of my famous English Muffin  dough and made a quick jar of  Lemon Curd .   Up at 5.30 am, I formed the dough into discs and left them to rise while I showered.   Baked to perfection in the fry pan, toasted and topped with butter and lemon curd, we sat down and watched the Australia Cricket team cruise to victory  in the World Cup  on a rather wet day in Barbados.

Please support  A Taste Of Yellow  and LiveSTRONG Day .

LiveSTRONG - Anzac Day 2007

Takapuna Beach 7.30 AM 25th April,  Anzac Day 2007  and 4 years today since my father died from cancer.

 

Please support LiveSTRONG Day by participating in A Taste Of Yellow .  Please email (atasteofyellowATgmailDOTcom ) your post on food inspired by the colour yellow to me before 7th May . Thank you to those bloggers who have already posted their support for LiveSTRONG Day.

A Taste Of Yellow -for Livestrong Day

A TASTE OF YELLOW is your chance to participate in LIVESTRONG Day by doing what food bloggers do best - bake.

LIVESTRONG Day is the Lance Armstrong Foundation's (LAF) grassroots advocacy initiative to unify people affected by cancer and to raise awareness about cancer survivorship issues on a national level and in local communities across the country.  LIVESTRONG Day 2007 will occur on Wednesday, May 16.

You are wondering why someone in New Zealand would be supporting an event based in the US aren't you.  Well for the simple reason cancer knows no boundaries.  There isn't a person in the world who hasn't been touched by cancer in some way. Either a family member, a friend, work colleague, neighbour or even themselves.  One of my best friends and my Dad both died of cancer in the same week.  Twelve months later I was diagnosed with cancer and am still fighting the disease, hoping to be cancer free one day. To raise awareness in any country is to raise the level of awareness world wide.

I'm asking all bloggers to participate in the blog event  A TASTE OF YELLOW by making a dish containing some type of yellow food. This  can be anything you like as long it features a yellow food. Some ideas to get you started are lemon, banana, saffron, corn, eggs, cheese.

On the 16th May to coincide with LIVESTRONG Day 2007 I will post a round up of all the entries.  Please make and post your entries using any yellow coloured food and send them to me at atasteofyellowATgmailDOTcom   before the 7th May.

The A Taste of Yellow  has been approved  by the Lance Armstrong Foundation as an official LIVESTRONG Day event . I am organising the event to raise awareness of cancer.  However if you wish to make a donation you can do so by visiting the Lance Armstrong Foundation donation page.

Please support  LIVESTRONG Day in your city. You will find a list of all events  here  .

The beautiful Lemon Meringue Pie  above is a creation of Ivonne at  Cream Puffs In Venice . Thanks Ivonne for allowing me to post your photo of delicious  yellow food.

UPDATE: THE ROUND UP OF ALL THE ENTRIES TO A TASTE OF YELLOW HAS BEEN POSTED    HERE.  GO VISIT AND SEE THE 148 ENTRIES OF YELLOW INSPIRED FOOD.