Just being proxy for Robert Bollard’s sister-in-law FDB – haven’t descended into random culinary didacticism

Ah yes. I missed that. Carry on.

Just thinking about the stuffing ingredients though. The Chinese and Japanese make stuffed chicken wings too and adjust their ingredients accordingly – it’d be nice to mess around and maybe do a sage, butter and lemon one or maybe the chicken kiev is due for an update.

Best thing about skin-heavy dark meat (oooer) cuts is the capacity to stand up to a robust stuffing (OOOOOEEEERRRR!). Sage, lemon, butter AND garlic sounds like a good update on the Kiev. I’d be hard pressed to keep saffron out of it at the moment – a good mate gave me about 100g of it in a nifty box, and I’m going nuts.

p.s. admin-meisters – I seem to be routinely spaminated since yesterday. Was it something I said? Are-you-being-served dark meat innuendo, perhaps?

We’ve been forbidden from using pay-per-post or similar schemes, which is a smart decision I think.

You have to be picky about ads. I don’t think people resent them if they are not too obtrusive. My general strategy is “while you’re here, you might find this interesting”, and then move back to the content.

But people hate seeing friendly articles in return for an ad. If I try and pretend something is interesting when I think it isn’t, I’ll fail.

BTW I’ve found Problogger very good for advice if anyone else is interested in trying to make money blogging. I actually started reading it just for ideas on how to make Let’s Take Over more readable, without any plans for ads, but the job ad for Brisbane Is Home turned up on the job boards there.

Mark, you should think about reviewing more books that you can link to on Amazon, I think.

I guess it’s not too off topic to be talking about plans for making money at Chinese New Year…

I’m lucky I’ve got such a booming city to be blogging about…Brisbane’s going off right now.

I’m also lucky that the world of business is changing. I had to submit 3 sample articles to apply, and two of them were on Let’s Take Over.

That means I put forward a business application using articles from a site that calls for ‘kicking out the bosses and running the world ourselves’ above the fold on every page.

This is not, I understand, a tactic recommended in most guidebooks on business, but it was dealt with in a simple email exchange – as long as I don’t use it to push my political agenda (which would be silly on a mainstream site anyway), it’s all good.

Congrats on the new site – good stuff.

Thanks very much for that