Month: May 2005

Category Archive plugin

Newer version here

This is a category archive plugin. It displays a list of all categories, along with the first x posts for each category.

The plugin lives at http://www.neato.co.nz/plugins/category_archive.txt.

To install, copy the contents of that file to your plugins directory; enable the plugin; then make a call to the get_category_archive($limit, $parent) function.

$limit specifies the number of posts to get for each category; and $parent specifies the parent id. If the $parent parameter is left blank, then all of the categories will be retrieved. Alternately, if a category id is specified, only the categories under that category will be retrieved.

The output takes the form of a set of divs, with the specified CSS class names.

categoryarchive

categoryarchivename
categoryarchivedesc
categoryarchiveposts

Ducky!



Ducky!

Roast Duck with Pomegranate Molasses (and rice pilaf).

This was delicious the first time around, when we made it last night; and the leftovers were just as good tonight. Instead of making a rice pilaf, however, we used the rendered duck fat to roast potatoes, kumara and mushrooms that turned out fabulous.

The Liquid Kitchen

Cyrus and myself tagged along to the Food Show yesterday. The exhibitors were a bit meh; but we did go along to two of the food presentations. The first of them, was Ray McVinnie, which was okay. The second, was Hayden Wood, making cocktails; that was much, much better.

In any case, we bought his second book, the liquid kitchen – party drinks (signed, no less. Albeit to Syrus and Christine; but no matter). It’s more of the same kinds of things from his first book; without much in the way of overlap.

His website, at http://www.theliquidkitchen.com has a few cocktail recipes and other such bits and pieces on it. One of the drinks which is there at the moment, is Monaco iced tea. We haven’t made that particular drink; but the candy apple syrup that goes into it is delicious.