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My favourite cuuisine is probably Thai / Vietnamese - but I turn my hand to cooking almost everything - except sushi.

I love to cook what I consider to be a typical Australian meal, although I can't offer it to ______, (like Jespah, no red meat). A couple of legs of baby lamb, pierced with garlic, rosemary and occasionally anchovies (makes a difference), amd slow roasted on a rack, so the juices drip down. As many kinds of roasted vegetables as I can manage. I spice up the traditional mint sauce with chili and fish sauce, and make a gravy with the meat juices (with fat removed).
I usually have a small horde arrive if I cook this, and they eat an incredible amount. I guess for most of us, our standard food is pasta or Asian (both quick and easy after a long day), so a time consuming meal like this is a much enjoyed novelty.

This is my manager Possum-cat beside me. I know my place!

I fell in love with C.S. Lewis--Chronicles of Narnia in my childhood. Since then I've read nearly everything he wrote and his letters and biography. Also tried to read as much as I could of what he read and thereby discovered E. Nesbit, George Macdonald, William Morris... finally did a graduate degree in sixteenth century literature. But, curiously, I never became a Christian, although I was much influenced by his religious reasoning. I grew up in a different world and a different culture from Lewis, but since Narnia, I have always felt him to be a kindred spirit. He was a man who believed that reading was one of the most important things we can do with our lives, that true readers are addicts for life and what we read is not separate from our "real" lives, it makes us who we are intellectually and spiritually--just as food makes us what we are physically.

S'io credesse che mia riposte fosse
A personna che mai tornasse al mondo
Questa fiamma staria senza piu scosse.
Ma piocche giammai di questo fondo
Non torno vivo alcun, s'i'odo il vero
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