Saturday Morning with Jack Tame

Ingredients
2 cups water
¼ cup dry white wine
1 bouquet garni
a few peppercorns
800g-1kg side of salmon
1 each red and yellow pepper
mixed salad greens for 8
1 orange (optional)
1 bunch asparagus, blanched
2 spring onions, trimmed and chopped
Tarragon Cream Dressing
1 egg
2 tblsp caster sugar
3 tblsp tarragon vinegar
¼ cup cream
1 tblsp finely chopped crystalised ginger (optional)
2 tblsp chopped tarragon
Method
1. Put the water, wine, bouquet garni and peppercorns in a large lidded frying pan simmer for 5 minutes. Use
tweezers to remove the bones from the salmon. Cut salmon into 4 equal-sized pieces. Add the salmon steak to
the pan, cover and poach for 7 minutes, or until just cooked. Transfer salmon to a plate, discarding the liquid.
When the salmon is cool, remove the skin and flake the flesh. Cover and set aside.
2. Grill the red and yellow peppers until they are blackened and blistered all over. Cool, peel, core and deseed,
then slice thinly.
3. Refresh the salad greens in cold water and dry well in a salad spinner. or wrap in a tea towel and shake lightly.
Grate the rind from the orange. Cut away the thick pith and then segment the flesh. Toss the salmon, asparagus,
peppers, spring onions, lettuce and orange rind and segments together.
Tarragon Cream Dressing
1. Beat the egg, sugar and tarragon vinegar together in a heatproof bowl. Put the bowl over the top of a saucepan
full of simmering water and stir constantly until the mixture is thick. Remove from the heat and cool. (Alternatively
microwave on 50% power for 30-60 seconds.)
2. Beat the cream until it just begins to thicken. Fold the cooked egg mixture, ginger and chopped tarragon into the
whipped cream.
3. Spoon the dressing over the salad just before serving.
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Newstalk ZB host Andrew Dickens has been listening to Mariah Carey's new albulm Caution, and believes Mariah fans are going to be in 7th heaven after listening to the artist who comes into force during the christmas season!
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Blowing the Bloody Doors Off by Michael Caine
Hollywood legend and British national treasure Sir Michael Caine shares the wisdom, stories, insight and skills that life has taught him in his remarkable career - and now his 85th year.
One of our best-loved actors Michael Caine has starred in a huge range of films - including all-time favourites - from the classic British movies Alfie, Zulu and The Italian Job to the Hollywood blockbusting Dark Knight trilogy, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Hannah and Her Sisters and Cider House Rules. Caine has excelled in every kind of role - with a skill that's made it look easy.
With brilliant new insight into his life and work and with his wonderful gift for story, this is Caine at his wise and entertaining best.
Heroes by Stephen Fry
The dazzling companion volume to the bestselling Mythos. There are heroes - and then there are Greek heroes.
Few mere mortals have ever embarked on such bold and heart-stirring adventures, overcome myriad monstrous perils, or outwitted scheming vengeful gods, quite as stylishly and triumphantly as Greek heroes.
Heroes is the story of what we mortals are truly capable of - at our worst and our very best.
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Compost is ideally made from a certain mixture of C and N - Carbon and Nitrogen
The C:N ratio should be around 30:1 for the compost to be optimal in terms of rapid breakdown.
Too much C (twigs, branches, wood chips, dead leaves, paper napkins, bark bits, sawdust, etc) and the compost heap won’t decay.
Too much N (Grass clippings, food waste, vegies, fruit, coffee, weeds, Manures, etc) and the heap will go slimy and smelly & release ammonia.
Hydrogen sulphide is produced by anaerobic bacteria (absence of oxygen)
Freshly-made compost gets hot and for really good heat you need a large pile (not a small backyard bin)
It should smell kind-of sweet and have heaps of bugs in it too
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The Last Kingdom: The third season of this British historical series set in 872 just landed on Netflix, based on the novels of Bernard Cornwall
Marvellous Miss Maisel: A new season of this delightful Emmy award winning comedy-drama, made by the creators of The Gilmore Girls(Amazon Prime Video, December 5)
The Kominsky Method: Michael Douglas and Alan Arkin star in this new comedy-drama about two old mates growing old not-so-gracefully (Netflix
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Rosanne Cash has been called one of the best songwriters of her generation.
The Country musician has won four Grammy's, received 11 Grammy nominations, had 11 number one country singles, 21 top 40 country singles and two gold records.
Rosanne is, of course, the daughter of country music legend Johnny Cash and her stepmother, June Carter Cash was from the first family of country music, The Carter Family.
In 2015, she was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters’ Hall of Fame and is known for being an outspoken activist, especially about gun control.
Rosanne Cash joined Saturday Mornings with Jack Tame to discuss her music career, being the daughter of such a country music legend, and an issue very close to her heart, combating gun violence in the USA
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Movie reviewer Francesca Rudkin joins Jack Tame to talk about the latest releases at the movies this weekend.
Beautiful Boy starring Steve Carell, Timothee Chalamet, Maura Tierney and Amy Ryan 
Steve Carell is a father who watches his son (Oscar nominee Timothée Chalamet, Call Me By Your Name) struggle with meth addiction in this drama based on the memoirs of David and Nic Sheff.
Writer-director Felix Van Groenigen (The Broken Circle Breakdown) chronicles the heartbreaking and inspiring experience of survival, relapse, and recovery in a family coping with addiction over many years.
Shoplifters 
A family of small-time crooks take in a child they find on the street.
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Former broadcaster Kevin Milne joins Saturday Mornings with Jack Tame to talk about families seeking to reduce the emphasis on presents on Christmas day.
Keven believes the festive season can be all the more merrier if gifts and commercialisation is taken out of it, highlighted by a recent trip to the Ukraine where traditional values were the focus.
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Sweet short pastry
1 ¼ cups flour, plus more for dusting
½ cup sugar, plus more for sprinkling
¼ tsp salt
110g unsalted butter, chilled
¼ cup iced water
Filling
¼ cup brown sugar
50g butter
½ cup ground almonds
1 egg, lightly beaten
2 cups chopped fresh fruit – I used strawberries and plums

In a food processor, add flour, 2 tablespoon of the sugar and the salt and pulse to combine. Add the butter and pulse until the mixture resembles breadcrumbs. Sprinkle on the ice water and pulse until the dough just comes together. You may not need all the water. Pat dough into a disk, wrap and chill for 30 minutes or until required.
Make filling by whisking together brown sugar and butter until fluffy, then stirring in ground almonds and half the egg mix (remaining will be used for an egg wash). It should be a smooth thick paste.
Preheat the oven to 180 C and line a baking tray with baking paper.
On a floured bench roll out dough to 20cm circle. Spread paste over pastry, leaving a 3 cm border free from filling. Add fruit in centre of circle, on top of paste. Brush pastry border with egg wash then fold it in, pleating, to half cover fruit. Egg wash exposed pastry and sprinkle with sugar.
Bake for about 40-50 mins until the crust is golden, the fruit is tender and pastry bottom is browned.
Cool before cutting into slices and serving with whipped cream or icecream.

Jack Tame shares his thoughts on the Auckland councils proposal to make the central city more cycle and pedestrian friendly.
After travelling overseas and experiencing riding his bike around the streets of Paris and New York, Jack believes the council's decision is well overdue.
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