Going AWOL

No sooner has my first team invitee accepted the challenge of joining the Ausfood Search team than she announces she is off to distant lands.

Strictly speaking this holiday was arranged long before the team invite was issued and has been anticipated with great excitement.

The great attraction will be some time spent living and learning about elephants in a refuge for rescued elephants in northern Thailand.

This leave of absence has absolutely no connection to Australian food but I hear there is the possibility of enrolling in Thai cooking classes, most likely in Bangkok.

Let’s hope there is no unexpected stampede of elephants through the living quarters.

Team Happening

A step in the right direction today.

We have a name and an image for one of the team.

The name of choice is lami, an abbreviation of that famous Australian cake, the lamington. If by some chance this is a cake about which you know nothing, there is always Wikipedia to give you the inside information.

Here is the image.

 This image will accompany the lami posts on the blog.

And now we will wait patiently and before too long lami will introduce us to her kitchen cupboard.

Another team member accepts the invitation.

I've pounced on another potential team member and they have accepted the invitation to join the Great Ausfood Search.

That makes the grand total of two team members.

They will now each choose an appropriate Australian food as their nom-de-plume, find a fitting image and the next step will be putting together their respective 'kitchen cupboard' stories.

I hope the Team Plan approves of all this and won't be lurking in the vicinity of the backburner, waiting to give even more advice and suggestions and doling out the criticism.

I could use a break from all that stuff.

Kicking off the team invites

I’ve taken the plunge today and after a preliminary live chat have sent an email inviting my first team member to join the blog.

 I will ask people I know, who have expressed a definite interest in supporting Australian farmers; who are creative and who might be prepared to do some research and write one or two posts a month.

 I’m looking to gather up a handful of these people who will add another point of view to that of Yours Truly, missbr - the blog administrator - and who might venture into the land of cooking, recipes and food ideas using Australian produce.

They will choose an appropriately Australian blog-name and image, open their kitchen cupboard to the world, introduce themselves and talk about their chosen food /image and where they shop. After that they will be on their own; the choice of what they want to discuss/reveal/opine will be their choice.

This first prospective team member has had little experience with blogging so it will be interesting to see how this venture will unfold; contact will be by email and though I have received a reply accepting the invite  to the team (hurrah!!) I can see I might have my work cut out getting replies from this team member. 

I suspect my enthusiasm for the cause might outweigh that of other people......

More confrontation

Self congratulation on evading another episode with the Plans came unstuck very quickly.

There I was sitting in a relaxed and carefree manner in the backburner chair when I heard an angry buzzing which grew louder and louder and closer.

They were back.

The Team Plan and another plan, one that I had not seen before.

The buzzing was coming from the Team Plan who was obviously in charge of today’s telling off.

“You think you’re very clever setting up the Challenge Plan don’t you? Think you’re pretty smart and now you think can sit around in that chair doing nothing?”

I was taken aback at this outburst and wasn’t really thinking anything at all. It didn’t matter because Team Plan was in full flight.

“Now listen to me. I’ve said this before and now I’m telling you for the last time. This is the plan for a team. You need other ideas and input. One person is only able to give one view. Yours. What makes you think you know everything? Too limiting that’s what it is. Get some other people on board. You’ve got a selection from the survey. You’re asking people you know. You must know whether they would be interested and what they can add to this blog.”

The words are tumbling out in a torrent and I wait for a small pause. I might be waiting a long time.

I interrupt the flow.

“Yes. Yes. I hear what you are saying. I can think of a couple of candidates right now. I’ll talk to them.”

Team Plan is staggered at my immediate response and actually stops ranting.

I seize the moment to ask what the other Plan wants.

The other Plan wants an Ingredient list.

An Ingredient list.

Please.  Spare me the details .