We chat summer salads with Lucinda Bennett on Breakfast Food. Check out Lucinda's vinaigrette inspired by Via Carota (by Lucinda Bennett @still__life__with)
1/4 cup red wine or sherry vinegar (or whatever vinegar you have, adjust to taste)
3/4 cup extra virgin olive oil, best possible
About a tablespoon of warm water (this is the magic ingredient)
A small shallot or some red onion, very finely chopped
A small garlic clove, finely grated
Some fresh thyme if you have it
About a teaspoon honey, maple syrup or sugar
Big tablespoon Dijon mustard and a big tablespoon whole grain mustard (or 2 of whichever one you have)
Good amount of black pepper
Salt to taste
Method:
Add all ingredients to a jar and close the lid firmly before you shake to emulsify. Let sit to thicken further while you make your salad. My favourite standard combination is chopped cos lettuce, finely sliced red onion, fennel, cucumber and radish. Use your hands to gently toss salad so that each leaf is coated.
All ingredients can be substituted or left out if you don’t have them - make the dressing work for you, not you for it!
This week James is back for an exciting show with his producers Jade Lewis and Lyric Waiwiri-Smith where they talk all things news to finish off the week.
The show starts off with a piece from Jade on vaccinations where she talks to Nikki Turner, the director of the Immunisation Advisory Care and Associate Professor at the University of Auckland about the implimentation of vaccines.
Lyric talks to Professor Susan Krumdieck about electric vehicles and the implications they bring with them
OMG! Competiton winning rum? Tonights drink is a winner with pineapple rum, lemon and mango juice and deliciously finished off as always with Chi and cheers to Red Bar!
Our weekly Thursday feature State of the States has returned! Jason Leopold has finished up with us, but we have some exciting new correspondents we'll be working with from WNYU News, which is the news department of New York University's radio station. This week, we hear from their news director Jacob Goldfisher, who spoke to our news director Ximena earlier today.
Ximena speaks to Tracey about some of the major topics New Zealand First raised during their regional election campaign launch in Palmerston North during the weekend. They focus on how New Zealand First wants to help kiwis in the regions benefit more from the wealth that they produce for the country, as well as how the party plans to get rid of student loans for graduates who promise to live and work in New Zealand after they finish their studies.
Holed up in a hotel room, high above the bustling junket crows below, Mikey chats to director Edgar Wright (Shaun of the Dead, Scott Pilgrim, Hot Fuzz, Spaced) about his brand new film, Baby Driver. A labour of musically inspired love, Wright talks to Mikey about finally finishing the passion project he's had kicking around his head (and iPod) for over twenty years.
Allan Blackman joins us again for Dear Science this week. We talk about a study linking increased failure rates at university with cannabis use; we look at Stuart Nash's (questionable) plan to replace chlorine in water with ozone; finally, we finish with how researchers have been inspired by slug goo in their development of a new surgical wound adhesive.
This week we talked to contemporary moving image expert Erika Balsom, who just finished a curatorial residency at the Govett-Brewster gallery in New Plymouth. We also spoke to Artbank co-host Nadine about the relational aesthetic performance Bite Me, that she participated in at Lowtide on K a Road, and played some great tunes.
This year's forest and bird bird of the year competition is getting heated. The race is on and the dirty politics have been played. Will the kereru fly across the finish line ahead of the Kea? Harry spoke to campaign coordinator Kim Collins to find out more.
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