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| Prompt 4 for Journalistic Intentions. “Mister…I was born for it.” I don’t think we are born destined for anything. Babies are a blank canvas, easily steered into mastering anything. Farmer’s children grow up with an affinity for animals, children of sports people are taken to sporting events early in their lives, and given the opportunity to play a sport because that’s what their parents want. Chess masters teach their child chess at a very young age, tennis champions children have lessons from their parent as soon as they can hold a racket. Yet people say, “ he was born to be… Opportunity makes champions. So what do I think I was born to be? I could have been so much more than I am. The reason I say that is because of the very fact I wasn’t given the opportunity to go to a good school or even expected to get more than a rudimentary education. I wasn’t given music lessons or even access to a musical instrument. I left school at fifteen to help in our grocery business. Maybe I was born to be a mother, but somehow I don’t think I was. When we had our first daughter I felt like a fish out of water for several years. I never felt good enough somehow. When she was three years old I gave birth to twins. I remember the matron at the hospital telling me that God only gave us what we deserved, that I must be have been born to be a mother. I struggled with three children under four with no available help from family who lived in another country. Our family is large. We have 6 grandchildren now and five great grandchildren. They say I’m the glue who hold the family together and yet I still feel the same doubts about myself. So what was I born to be? Whatever it was it passed me by. |
| Journalistic Intentions prompt three: Kohirabi. Well I know little about Kohirabi, so decided to write about a unique Australian rare tree and its nuts. Bunja Pine. The pinecones contain seeds four centimetres long. Raw roasted or boiled by the Australian natives What is it? Araucaria Bidwilli, is commonly known as the bunya pine, sometimes referred to as the false monkey puzzle tree. It is a large evergreen coniferous tree. Bunja pines can produce dozens of massive cones that can weigh up to 10 kilograms. Beware they can drop from up to 50 metres without warning! The pines contain seeds four centimetres long. They are eaten raw, roasted, or boiled by the Australia natives. What does it taste like? It’s hard to find anyone who doesn’t like the taste of the Bunja Pine nuts. The flavour is described as similar to a starchy potato or chestnut. How to cook Roasted on the fire like you would a potato. They can be ground into a paste or flour and cooked into little cakes. How to enjoy raw The Bunja is ready to harvest when they fall to the ground but be careful many people have been killed or badly injured by a falling pinecone. The leaves are very sharp, and the nuts are right at the top of the pine. The need to be boiled or roasted for an hour to release them from their shell. Gently crack the shell with a hammer or rock. The nuts are a highly nutritious, protein rich food. Recipes Bunya Nut Fritters 300 g bunya nuts, raw 80 g cheese 120 g Milk 5 eggs 1 tsp baking powder 80 g plain flour 1 tsp salt 0.5 tsp Garlic powder 1 tsp Onion powder 1 can canned sweet corn kernel RECIPE'S PREPARATION Preparing Bunya Nuts 1. To get at the nuts you need to pull the cone apart and peel the tough husk away from the seed. It’s best to do this as soon as you can as the husk becomes harder to remove as it dries. 2. Use a pipe cutter or guillotine to cut each nut in half and remove the nut from the hard shell. Fritters 3. Add bunya nuts to the bowl and put lid & measuring cup on. 4. Grate finely 20 secs, speed 8 5. Add cheese and put lid & measuring cup on. 6. 8 seconds, speed 7 7. Add remaining ingredients (except corn) and put lid & measuring cup on. 8. 10 seconds, speed 6 9. Add corn 10. 8 seconds, speed 3 11. Spoon mixture into greased frypan in batches and cook approx 1-2 min each side. |
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