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The Star Thursday March 26 2020 20 Bulking up mince helps it go further • By Ian Knott LOCKDOWN RECIPES In these trying times, there are many ways you can make your grocery spend last a bit longer. Mince is a family staple that can be used in a myriad of ways – but bulking it up with other ingredients can make smaller trays of mince feed more people and larger ones spread over a couple of meals THESE ADDITIONS will bulk out your mince while adding flavour and nutrients to the dish. Not every addition will suit every meal – so use your discretion. Bread/cracker crumbs: Dry or fresh breadcrumbs and cracker crumbs can add body and binder to minced meals that need to keep their shape, like meatballs, burgers and rissoles. Cooked Rice: If you’re gluten intolerant, don’t have bread or crackers on hand or just don’t want to use them, then mixing cooked rice of any variety into shaped mince meals can bulk it out too. It helps if the rice was cooked the previous day and has dried out overnight in the fridge so it can adequately soak up flavours and juices while not causing the mixture to become soggy. Hard vegetables: Things like carrots, turnips, celery etc. Basically any vegetables that need a decent bit of cooking to get them softened up. Pumpkin and kumera could be used also, though if diced small enough they cook very quickly. Grate, finely dice or blitz hard veg in a food processor and sweat out excess liquid in a pan before you add your meat. This works great for meat sauces, lasagnes and pie fillings. Thick and saucy things benefit from aromatic vegetables that add flavour and nutrition while bulking out the meat. Soft vegetables: Zucchini, eggplant, capsicum, squash, mushrooms, cabbage, broccoli and other soft vegetables can be finely diced, shredded or sliced to add bulk and flavour. Zucchini, eggplant and mushrooms are great at soaking up flavours. If you need to hide their existence from little ones who don’t like veg, try chopping or processing them as finely as possible and adding them early in the cooking process so that they get a chance to caramelise and develop colour and flavour. Mashed potato: Mix through some mashed potato in shaped mince dishes or layer it in baked dishes like moussaka, lasagne and pies. Make the potato layer of a shepherd’s pie extra thick, or if you are making a pastry topped pie, BULKING UP: There are many ingredients you can add to mince to make it go further and also add nutritional value. you could put a layer of mashed potato under the pastry to bulk out the meat filling. Cheese: While cheese is at the pricier end of ingredients for bulking, some crumbled feta, ricotta, cream cheese, diced halloumi or mozzarella could extend shaped mince meals like burgers and meatballs. Lentils: Already soaked and cooked lentils can be added to any kind of mince dish as an extender. If you’re combing lentils into meatballs, burgers or rissoles, consider adding additional ingredients like eggs or breadcrumbs as binding. Lentils During the lockdown The Star will bring readers recipes and tips to make economical but very tasty meals. If you have any tips or recipes to make economical meals and help groceries go further during lockdown, share them with The Star and starnews.co.nz readers by emailing newsroom@ starmedia.kiwi – photos are welcome but not necessary. Please include your name and suburb. are great for extending a meat sauce and a chilli too. Beans or chickpeas: Cooked or canned beans or chickpeas are particularly good for bulking out shepherd’s pie fillings, chilli, meat sauce for lasagna or spaghetti bolognese. They can also bulk out burgers or meatballs but may need some additional ingredients to keep the mixture together when shaping. Whole grains: Things like buckwheat, quinoa and barley as well as other grains can bulk out mince dishes. Whether you add the uncooked grains with the mince when you make sauces and stews or add already cooked grains to meatballs, grains add nutty flavour, texture and bulk. To all our customers, We’re open for business as usual and will remain open as an essential service identified by the Government. Please be assured that we’ll remain 100% committed to ensuring that you will have your fresh produce and butchery needs met. Fresh produce and goods will continue to be delivered daily from our local farms and suppliers. The team at Raeward Fresh are working hard to meet our community’s needs at this time. We ask that you help support us by being patient and considerate towards other shoppers so we can help New Zealand unite against COVID-19. Thank you and please remember to #SHOPNORMAL WWW. .CO.NZ Like us on Facebook
SPORT 21 Ellis pulls stumps local sport Proudly brought to you by... Thursday March 26 2020 The Star Tower JuncTion Phone: 348 6020 Open 7 days 11am to late www.speightstowerjunction.co.nz on long and successful career • By Gordon Findlater Canterbury’s longestserving cricketer called stumps on an 18-yearcareer last week. Sports reporter Gordon Findlater caught up with all-rounder Andrew Ellis to reflect on his career and how he hopes to help more athletes succeed in his next journey. ANDREW ELLIS’ career in red and black started with him breaking a Canterbury record. The record for the side’s largest first-class 9th wicket partnership of 115 with Gareth Hopkins was just scratching the surface. The all-rounder has gone on to entrench his name in Canterbury’s cricket history while becoming just the second player in New Zealand domestic cricket to play more than 100 games in each format – including 117 T20 matches, 109 List A matches, and 105 first-class matches. Growing up in Dallington, Ellis played his youth cricket for East Shirley and was one of many players to come through under the guidance of coach Bill Duncan. Sport was a constant in his life from an early age. His father Malcolm Ellis hosted an afternoon sports show on Newstalk ZB for two decades. “I used to get around with him on a Saturday afternoon. At that time, before he did it from the studio, he would be around all the grounds reporting all the club sport,” said Ellis. The right-arm paceman played first XI cricket at Shirley Boys’ High School and made a natural transition to senior cricket with Easts. However, at the time cricket wasn’t the only sport he was playing at a premier club level. During the winter Ellis played football for Rangers. Before dedicating himself purely to cricket Ellis made three national league appearances for Canterbury United in 2003. The team at the time featured Danny Halligan as a player-coach and Ben Sigmund. His debut for Canterbury United came just months after his first-class cricket debut against Auckland at Colin Maiden Oval in February 2003. Ellis remembers claiming his first wicket by dismissing Tim McIntosh LBW. However, he says his first scalp should have been one of the big names in cricket – Mark Richardson. “He [Richardson] was stone dead in front, but was given not out. Then I think Tim McIntosh wore the brunt of an umpiring make-up call. He was probably wearing his black helmet at the time, so the umpires were a bit STALWART: Andrew Ellis represented Canterbury 331 times across all three formats during his 18-year professional career. reluctant to stick their finger up.” Later in the match, Ellis and wicket-keeper Gareth Hopkins combined for a record ninthwicket partnership of 115. Batting at No 10 at the time, Ellis was a far different batsman to the explosive middle-order threat he became later in his career. “I was pretty cautious back then. I had a good defence, but lacked the audacity to go outside of that.” His rise to become a genuine all-rounder involved switching club and changing his mindset to become more aggressive. Ellis also says a successful surgery in 2010 after a long battle with stress fractures in his back played a major role in the development of his game. “At East Shirley I was batting five or six, but would hardly get a bat because we were so dominant. We had the Papps brothers opening the batting, Neil Broom and the Pawson brothers. Because we were so dominant as a team I’d come in with 10 overs to go, so I made the tough call to move clubs and open the batting,” said Ellis. “There was a lot of work I had to do on the mental side of it. That probably culminated in having surgery, which got my back sorted and gave me a real security in myself “I always thought I needed to have this mental restriction on myself to score runs. Things just grew from there. Bob Carter played a big part in that by basically forcing me to take risks and push me out of my comfort zone mentally. “The technical stuff was there because I had done so much work, but it was those coaches and Bob’s words around ‘if you don’t those risks and take this approach then you won’t make it, there’s no chance of success’. When it was laid down black and white like that for me I knew what I had to do and it sort of snowballed.” The new approach saw Ellis go onto score nine first-class centuries. Impressive displays at provincial level also saw him represent New Zealand in 15 one-day-internationals and five T20 internationals in 2012 and 2013. However, Ellis says the biggest highlights of his career came in his five Plunket Shield four-day title-winning campaigns with Canterbury in 2007/08, 2010/11, 2013/14, 2014/15 and 2016/17. THE NUMBERS: First-class: 5221 runs at an average of of 35.17 and 249 wickets at an average of 29.78. List A: 2708 runs at an average of 31.85 and 154 wickets at an average of 29.84. T20: 1258 runs at an average of 17.00 and 131 wickets at an average of 22.93. BIG STAGE: Ellis represented New Zealand in 15 one-dayinternationals and five T20 internationals in 2012 and 2013. “Nothing can replace the feeling of working over a six month season. Getting to the end and winning that Plunket Shield was the pinnacle. That was the vindication of all that work. The four-day game was always the true test of cricket – mentally, technically and the whole piece as a person. To come out with five of those titles in a career is a huge highlight.” Arguably the most impressive of the lot came in 2010/11. Following the February 22 earthquake, the side still had six Plunket Shield matches remaining in their season. The side made the decision to soldier on and went undefeated for the remainder of the campaign. “I don’t know how we did it. Like everyone at that time we were in a daze just trying to work out what was happening in our own personal world and trying to play cricket. We were out there like everyone else shovelling liquefaction,” said Ellis “I’m immensely proud of what that team achieved during that time. I know everyone that was a part of that probably changed forever, in how they saw their cricket and the team, probably in a positive way. “We realised what resilience was. We had that successful period in four-day cricket after that. It was the start and who knows, it may have been a huge part of that. We knew that we could withstand any challenge that was thrown at us as a team after that. There were guys like Toddy [Todd Astle] and Fults [Peter Fulton] who were the spine of the team and each had different earthquake experiences, but we were able to take that resilience for guys that came in and out of the team and let them know this is the way we do things in Canterbury and this is the way we play our cricket. That culminated in a pretty successful four-day team.” After making the decision to pull stumps on his playing career, Ellis will remain heavily involved with sport in his new role as the regional manager for Christchurch at High Performance Sport New Zealand. After previously trying his hand at sales he admits the transition to life after cricket has come with its challenges. “It was challenging to be honest and harder than I thought it was going to be from a logistical point of view as well as a mental point of view, but it was an inevitable time,” he said. “You’ve got to find a job that gives you that same sense of fulfillment and that same sense of pushing yourself, and that’s pretty tough to do. It’s not just the food on the table, but how do I find a job I loved as much as my previous job.” With cricket now on the back burner, Ellis also confirmed a return to the football pitch is a very high possibility sometime in the future.
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