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Cafe Mint is a nice cosy Middle-Eastern place in the less-trendy end of Crown St, Surry Hills, near Cleveland Street. Further north is the trendier section with the likes of Bills and Billy Kwong. I rather like this more bohemian end, where every other shop is seemingly Indian or Middle-Eastern. In fact, strolling before dinner, we see a few skewers of lamb kefta glistening on the grills. Very hard to resist. We also see Sushi Suma (Sushi Suma - Mietta's review) with a short queue of diners waiting for it to open. We make a note to return next time.
With a good selection of mezze and a few warming tagines to ward off the Winter chills, it is a good place to graze over a few dishes with friends.
We start with a Muhammara dip of capsicum and walnut. Nutty and faintly smoky, perhaps from the chargrilled capsicum. It was a bit cheeky to charge for bread separate to the dips, but the pita crisps were nice enough to each on their own with a zingy zaatar topping.
Strips of tender lamb was served with a za'alook, basically a simple salad of eggplant and tomato strips, providing a nice foil to the meaty lamb. The chargrilled quail was lovely marinated in thyme, lemon and chilli, but a little under-done for us. The knock-your-head-off harissa was great with the lamb shoulder tagine too, a nice contrast to the sweet and savoury flavours of the tagine and the meltingly tender hunks of meat.
A surprise hit was the lemon and saffron roast chicken. It's not something Julia and I would order, but we loved it. Thanks to Isabel and Andrew for choosing that! The chicken was fragrant with lemon and saffron. The tender grains of pilaf coated with herbs was a lovely accompaniment.
We would have stuck around for the Turkish apple and mint teas, or even the chai, but parking-limits got the better of us. Next time!
Cafe Mint
(02) 9319 0848
579 Crown St
Surry Hills NSW 2010
Reviews:
- Cafe Mint, By Joanna Savill, Sydney Morning Herald, Good Living, February 5, 2007
- Cafe Mint, By David Dale, Sydney Morning Herald, Good Living, December 16, 2005
After the creation of the United States government in 1792, a national mint was established in Philadelphia. As the years went on, it became increasingly apparent that the production there was unable to cope with the exponential growth of the United States. In 1832 Pres Andrew Jackson vetoed the Second Bank of the United States, believing its use of credit benefited the Northeastern businessmen at the expense of Westerners, and required all government purchases be done with species circular (coin). This led to a shortage of coins in circulation (there was simply not enough coin to go around to for all business transactions), leading to the Panic of 1837, a massive depression with 25% unemployment.
In response to the increasing need for coin, the US Treasury Department opened three branches: Dahlonega, GA, Charlotte, NC and New Orleans LA. While to former two were small branches built in gold-mining districts, the New Orleans was a massive block-sized three-story complex that took up the entire space of the main French/Spanish fort that defended New Orleans, Ft St Charles, as befitting the city's status as the fifth largest city in the nation, one of the largest trading ports, and the gateway to the West.
Designed by famed architect William Stickland (who also designed all the four mints then in the United States as well as the State Capitol of Tennessee), the New Orleans mint was a Greek Revival made out of red brick with a jutting portico supported by four ionic columns and two square pillars. Stickland however failed to account for New Orlean's marshy soil, which caused numerous structural problems as the building settled unevenly, requiring the use of rod insertions and renovations to correct.
The mint produced silver three-cent pieces, half dimes, dimes, quarters, half dollars, silver dollars, gold dollars, $2.50 quarter eagles, three-dollar pieces, $5 half-eagles, $10 eagles, and $20 double eagles. John Riddell, a famed botanist, inventor of a practical microscope and a general renaissance man, was a melter, if ironically a slightly controversial one.
In 1861, the mint was seized by the State of Louisiana after it seceded from the United States, taking $483k in coin and later placing it under control of the Confederate government. The mint employees were retained, and kept producing coin until the end of that year, when the bullion ran out. With the Union blockade choking off further supply, the mint closed and was used to house Confederate troops.
Only a few months later, New Orleans fell back under government control. In late 1861 a small Union expeditionary force of 18000 under Maj Gen Benjamin Butler (strongly opposed by the Union Gen-in-Chief George McClellan) joined the fleet of 6 warships and 12 gunboats under newly appointed Flag Officer David Farragut as well as 26 mortar boats brought in by Farragut's foster brother Com David Porter. Luckily for the Federals however, the Confederates failed to appreciate the threat from the Gulf, gutting most of the Confederate forces around New Orleans to reinforce armies in Tennessee and Missouri. The defenses of New Orleans thus consisted of Fts Jackson and St. Phillips near the mouth of the Mississippi, a chain barrier between them, and a hodgepodge Confederate navy that included 3 ironclads (only the CSS Manassas ready for action), 4 warships, 6 cottonclad rams, and unarmed vessels all in a labyrinthine chain of command.
On April 24, after Porter's mortars had hammered away relatively ineffectually at the forts for five days, Farragut elected to simply run his away across. With his gunboats having cut the chain while the forts were under bombardment, his warships and gunboats ran through the chain in quick succession under fire from the forts. Only the gunboat USS Itasca was disabled, drifting back downstream, and the last two gunboats were turned back. With no command structure the Confederate fleet was quickly routed; attacking the USS Brooklyn and the USS Mississippi, the CSS Manassas was trapped between the two vessels and finally abandoned, and while the Governor Moore and the Stonewall Jackson successfully rammed the USS Varuna, sinking it in shallow water they themselves were quickly driven aground and abandoned.
At a cost of 229 casualties and one vessel at the Battle of Forts Jackson and St. Phillip, Farragut had inflicted 789 casualties and destroyed 12 ships, but more importantly had bypassed the forts (the garrisons of which soon mutinied and surrendered) and opened the way to New Orleans. This was a massive victory for the Union forces, as at relatively low cost they had seized the largest city in the Confederacy (larger than the next 4 cities combined), as well as the most important port in the South. The Confederacy was stunned at the blow; initial elation in Europe at early Confederate victories in the American Civil War quickly gave way to wariness about intervening.
After token opposition at the old Chalmette Battlefield, Farragut's fleet arrived at the defenseless city, its remaining militia having fled. While a frivolous three-way talk between Farragut, the mayor and city council and Confederate Brig Gen Mansfield Lovell occurred, with the Confederate civilian and military leaders trying to pass responsibility of the surrender to the other, Capt Henry Morris sent a marine detachment to raise the United States flag over municipal buildings, including the mint. A hostile crowd followed, and as soon as the marines left, seven individuals, including William Mumford, climbed up and removed the flag from the staff and tore it to pieces to the cheers of the crowd.
Three days later, the commander of the new occupying force, Butler, ordered Mumford arrested and executed:
William B. Mumford, a citizen of New Orleans, having been convicted before a military commission of treason and an overt act thereof, tearing down the United States flag from a public building of the United States, after said flag was placed there by Commodore Farragut, of the United States navy: It is ordered that he be executed according to sentence of said military commission on Saturday, June 7, inst., between the hours of 8 a.m. and 12 a.m. under the directions of the provost-marshal of the District of New Orleans, and for so doing this shall be his sufficient warrant.
He was hung from the courtyard flagpole of the mint. Mumford was declared a hero in the South, and Butler vilified and as beast (after the war, he helped Mumford's widow find a job in Washington).
The mint remained closed during the war and Reconstruction, reopening in 1876 as an assay office, then returning to a mint three years later, mainly due to the Bland–Allison Act requiring the minting of large amounts of silver coin, such as the Morgan Dollar. In 1909, with new mints opening across the West and the end of the need for silver, Congress decided to close the New Orleans Mint. It returned to an assay office, then became a prison. During the Cold War it turned into a fallout shelter. In 1981 it was converted to a museum, mainly dealing with coinage and jazz. Part of New Orleans Jazz National Historic Park is located here.
French Quarter, New Orleans, Louisiana
Filled with Mint Kreme, dipped in chocolate and topped with chocolate chips, green piping and a sprinkle of icing sugar from Krispy Kreme
© 2017 Tony Worrall
Unused Konix Speedking (1987). Now... should I leave this piece of gaming history untouched, or should I test drive it with my C-64? Hmm... tempting...
My father bought me one back in 80's. But it had only one button and no autofire.
Nikon D90, 105mm, f/8, 1/200 sec
SB-800 M 1/4 with softbox from top of model, triggered with SB-800 on camera with Nikon CLS, White sheet as reflector from below.
It's fun to create packaging colors which create the 'mood' - in this case "cool" Mint Chocolate Chip.
Mint condition. Fresh as. Newly minted. Perfect....and so on.
The tin has been sawn from a tin containing strong mints, pressed out in my homemade press and templates, then set in a custom made, flat-backed sterling silver setting. The back of this one-of-a-kind brooch has a subtle texture of stars. The dot of the "i" is a bright faux-diamond.
2 x 4.5 cm (3/4inch by 1& 3/4inch).
fuyu persimmons sliced and dressed with red onion, mint, yogurt, ginger and soy sauce. from eric gower's "the breakaway japanese kitchen".
I went on holiday to Marrakech and loved drinking this tea ... I asked the guy who made it at the tea shop near Jamaa El Fna for the recipe and here it is ... By the way I have tried this at home and yes it is gorgeous
Ingredients
1 rounded teaspoon green tea
5 teaspoons sugar (granulated)
12-14 large fresh mint leaves
1 cup water
1 sprig of mint per glass to be served
Method
Mix tea and sugar. Crush mint leaves in water. Bring to boil. Pour over tea and sugar. Let steep for 5 minutes. Place small sprig of mint in two thick 4-ounce juice glasses. Strain tea into glasses. Drink while hot.
The man I watched make this tea in Marrakech used one of the small brass coffeemakers which you can buy at Jamaa El Fna. He boiled the mint leaves, tea and sugar over the fire. Then he strained this over the sprigs of mint in the glass.
Enjoy the Recipe
Faz
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Recipe can be found at www.omnomicon.com/ice-cream-cake
We used Mint Chocolate Chip ice cream w/ a Chocolate Cake mix
I discovered how good this was last summer. This was my first mint water this summer and it was still very refreshing.
Pizza after being in the oven. Turkish pide bread with layer of passata. On top are lardons, black olives and grated Parmigiano-Reggiano. Mint leaves.
Mint chocolate chip cupcakes with a mint buttercream.
Some have a dark chocolate glaze and some a mint aero chocolate glaze.
Topped with dark chocolate sprinkles/mint aero pieces.
SweetHarts Cakes and Bakes: Mint choc chip cupcakes bit.ly/naBGDr
The Munttoren ("Mint Tower") or Munt is a tower in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. It stands on the busy Muntplein square, where the Amstel river and the Singel canal meet, near the flower market and the eastern end of the Kalverstraat shopping street.
The tower was originally part of the Regulierspoort, one of the main gates in Amsterdam's medieval city wall. The gate, built in the years 1480,consisted of two towers and a guard house.
After the gate went up in flames in a 1618 fire, only the guard house and part of the western tower remained standing. The tower was then rebuilt in Amsterdam Renaissance style in 1620, with an eight-sided top half and elegant open spire designed by Hendrick de Keyser, featuring a clockwork with four clockfaces and a carillon of bells.
The carillon was made in 1668 by Pieter Hemony, who added new bells to the instrument that he and his brother François had made earlier for the tower of the Amsterdam stock exchange in 1651. In 1873, the original baton keyboard was removed from the carillon, in favor of changes to the clockwork mechanism. In 1960 a manual playing system and a manual baton keyboard was re-installed. Some of the original smaller Hemony bells have been damaged over the years and have been replaced by new bells in 1959 and 1993. The original smaller Hemony bells are now on display in the Amsterdam Historical Museum. The current carillon consists of 38 bells (2 more than the original carillon had). A mechanism causes the bells to chime every quarter of an hour. On Saturdays, between 2 and 3 p.m., Gideon Bodden, the Amsterdam city carillonneur gives a live concert on the bells.
The name of the tower refers to the fact that it was used to mint coins in the 17th Century. In the Rampjaar ("disastrous year") of 1672, when both England and France declared war on the Dutch Republic and French troops occupied much of the country, silver and gold could no longer be safely transported to Dordrecht and Enkhuizen (where coins were normally minted), so the guard house of the Munttoren was temporarily used to mint coin.
The guard house is not the original medieval structure but a 19th Century fantasy. The original guard house, which had survived the fire of 1618 relatively unscathed, was replaced with a new building during 1885-1887 in Neo-Renaissance style. An underpass was added to the building during a 1938-1939 renovation.
The Munttoren will receive new foundations to prevent it from sagging during construction of the Noord/Zuidlijn, the new metro line. The city has allocated 1.9 million euros for this purpose, according to a May 17, 2006 report in the newspaper Het Parool.
The last year of opperation for this beautiful garden. Chilliwack, BC Canada.
My mother, wife and I went for a drive to Minter Gardens, located near Vancouver, BC. An enjoyable time was had by all.