Growing your own veggies and herbs is great, and they certainly without fail always taste far superior to what you buy in the supermarkets. But of course, that then means you have to find a use for them when ready.
I like growing leeks as I always pass on a few to my sister, but I have limited recipes that actually use leeks (I sometimes get flummoxed by vegetables you can’t roast). Out of the recipes I do have, this one is far and away the best, assisted largely by the fact it has a lot of pig in it. So without further ado: Big Angry Trev’s Bacon, Leek & Potato Soup
Ingredients
8 rashers of bacon, chopped
1 onion, chopped
3 leeks, sliced
3 medium potatoes, peeled and diced
1.5L hot vegetable stock
150ml thickened cream
Fresh parsley
Cracked pepper
Method
Chop up bacon, fry up half until crispy and put to one side
Put stock in pot, heat but do not bring to boil.
Chop up onion, sauté it with remaining bacon in butter until golden.
Add sliced leeks and diced potatoes to pan, cover and cook on very low heat for 5 minutes, shaking pan occasionally.
Take bacon & vegetables from pan and stock from pot and combine in large pot, bring to boil.
Simmer concoction for 20 minutes covered, stirring occasionally.
Let mix cool. Take mix and put in food blender. Puree mix.
Pour mix back into warm pan, slowly add cream and stir until warm.
Put into bowls, top with fresh parsley, crispy bacon and cracked pepper.
Every year various radio stations do their ‘Top 100’. Triple J has their ‘Hottest 100’, Triple M has their ‘Best 100’ and so on. But these only cover the preceding 12 months – yawn – and frankly, a lot of crap songs make their way into the playlists.
On The Big DJ Trev Show at Krrfm we think bigger. MUCH BIGGER. The best 100 songs of the last year? Pfff…. small potatoes. On The Big DJ Trev Show we are doing the ‘GREATEST 100 OF ALL TIME!’
That’s right loyal listeners – yours truly has gone through the music libraries of the world and found the GREATEST SONGS IN ALL OF HISTORY! And YOU get to VOTE on them! Voting will take place through March 2022 with the songs then being played in April. Also, no band appears on the list twice, so you have over a hundred artists to choose from – stretching from the 60’s all the way up to the 2020’s! Check out the list below:
ARTIST
SONG
Alanis Morrissette
All I Really Want (1995)
Alien Ant Farm
Smooth Criminal (2001)
Art vs Science
Parlez-Vous Francais? (2009)
Aqua
Barbie Girl (1997)
Ashlee Simpson
La La (2004)
Babymetal
Road of Resistance (2014)
Beastie Boys
Sabotage (1994)
Ben Folds Five
Underground (1995)
Beyonce
Crazy in Love (2003)
Bjork
It’s Oh So Quiet (1995)
Bloodhound Gang
Mope (1999)
Bluejuice
Broken Leg (2009)
Bonnie Tyler
Holding Out for a Hero (1984)
Boogie Pimps
Somebody to Love (2003)
Brittney Spears
Toxic (2003)
Butterfingers
FIGJAM (2006)
Cake
The Distance (1996)
Cheap Trick
Transformers (The Fallen Remix) (2009)
Daphne & Celeste
School’s Out (2000)
Dave Dobbyn
Slice of Heaven (1986)
Deee-Lite
Groove is in the Heart (1990)
Deadeye Dick
New Age Girl (1994)
Divinyls
I Touch Myself (1990)
DJ Sammy
Boys of Summer (2002)
Drapht
Jimmy Ricard (2008)
Dune Rats
6 Pack (2017)
DVDA
What would Brian Boitano Do (1999)
Eiffel 65
Blue (1998)
Eminem
Just Lose It (2004)
Foo Fighters
The Pretender (2007)
Fun Lovin’ Criminals
Scooby Snacks (1996)
Garbage
Vow (1995)
Girls Aloud
Sound of the Underground (2003)
Gorillaz
19-2000 (2001)
H-BlockX
The Power (2002)
Henry Rollins
Liar (1994)
Hilltop Hoods
Capturing the Vibe Restrung (2007)
Hole
Celebrity Skin (1998)
Ida Maria
I like you so much better when you’re naked (2008)
Iggy Pop
Lust for Life (1977)
Josh Pyke
Middle of the Hill (2007)
Justin Timberlake
SexyBack (2006)
KMFDM
Ultra (1995)
Kylie Minogue
Did it again (1997)
Lene Alexandra
My Boobs Are OK (2008)
Lily Allen
Alfie (2006)
Linkin Park
What I’ve Done (2007)
Limp Bizkit
Break Stuff (1999)
Madison Avenue
Who The Hell Are You (2000)
Madonna
Beautiful Stranger (1999)
Max Graham Vs Yes
Owner of a Lonely Heart (2005)
Michelle Branch
All You Wanted (2001)
Mindless Self Indulgence
Bitches (2000)
MGMT
Kids (2007)
Monty Pythons
Always Look on the Bright Side of Life (1989)
Mousse T. Vs The Dandy Warhols
Horny as a Dandy (2006)
Nine Inch Richards
Closer to Hogs (1995)
N.R.G
Instruments of Destruction (1986)
Namie Amuro
Hide & Seek (2007)
No Doubt
Just A Girl (1995)
Oasis
Wonderwall (1995)
P-Control
Clown Song (2015)
Perry Farrell
Hot Lava (1998)
Pez
The Festival Song (2004)
Psy
Gangnam Style (2013)
Queen
Don’t Stop Me Now (1979)
Rammstien
Engel (1997)
Ray Parker Jr.
Ghostbusters (1984)
Red Hot Chilli Peppers
Love Rollercoaster (1996)
Rednex
Cotton Eye Joe (1995)
Regurgitator
Sucked a lot of C*ck to get where I am (1996)
Rhianna
Cheers (Drink to That) (2010)
Robert Palmer
Simply Irresistible (1988)
Romeo Void
Never Say Never (1982)
Rouge Traders
I Never Liked You (2007)
Seth Sentry
The Waitress Song (2008)
Sir Mix-A-Lot
Baby Got Back (1992)
Smashing Pumpkins
Doomsday Clock (2007)
Sophie-Ellis Bexter
Murder on the Dancefloor (2001)
Stan Bush
The Touch (1986)
Spectre General
Nothin’s Gonna Stand In Our Way (1986)
Spiderbait
Buy Me A Pony (1996)
tATu
All the things she said (2002)
Tenacious D
Tribute (2001)
TISM
(He’ll Never Be) Ol’ Man River (1995)
The Avalanches
Frontier Psychiatrist (2000)
The B-52’s
Love Shack (1989)
The Beards
You should consider having sex with a bearded man (2012)
The Cat Empire
The Car Song (2005)
The Chats
Pub Feed (2020)
The Cops
Call Me Anytime (2007)
The Cybertronic Spree
Dare (2019)
The Jon Butler Trio
Funky Tonight (2007)
The Grates
19-20-20 (2006)
The Killers
The Man (2017)
The Legendary Stardust Cowboy
Paralyzed (1968)
The Offspring
Come out and play (1994)
The Presets
My People (2008)
The Primitives
Crash (1986)
The Proclaimers
I’m Gonna Be (500 miles) (1987)
The Presidents of the United States of America
Back Porch (1995)
The Supermen Lovers
Starlight (2001)
The Timelords
Doctorin’ The Tardis (1988)
The Ting Tings
That’s not my Name (2008)
The Verve
Bittersweet Symphony (1997)
The Wombats
Tokyo (Vampires & Wolves) (2010)
Tracey Bonham
Mother Mother (1996)
Weird Al
Your Horoscope for Today (1999)
White Town
Your Woman (1997)
William Shatner
Common People (2004)
How do I vote?
Vote for your Favorite Song/s
In the comments section at the bottom of this Blog Post, put your pick for the best song out of the list provided. And we here at the Big Angry Trev blog won’t make you adhere to no stinkin rules! You want to vote for just one song – that’s fine! You want to vote for your fav 10 songs? That’s fine too! You want to order the entire list from 1 to 100 according to what you think is best? You champion! You will get a shout out live on the air for that!
Vote a Song Out
You’ll note there are more than 100 songs in the list. So you get to vote one out! Vote for which song you think has no business being in the top 100 songs of all time and it’ll get the boot!
Make a Suggestion
Is there a favourite song of yours that didn’t make the list? Pop it in the comments along with the rest of your votes. If it’s a good suggestion it will get some airtime!
So in summary:
*Vote for your favorite songs
*Vote out a song you hate
*Make a suggestion for a song that should be on the list
And that’s it! So peruse the list above and then listen in! Voting will take place for the rest of March, then starting in April, everyThursday night from 6 to 9pm (AEST) on The Big DJ Trev Show on Krrfm we will work our way from 100 all the way up to Number 1!
Initial reports said the the Dunn Swamp Dam had burst its banks, though this was downgraded to it simply overflowing. However this overflow, combined with extremely heavy rains over the last several days, has caused the Cudgegong River to swell and overflow, becoming a roaring torrent rather than its usual sedate self.
To show how much more rain there had been compared to the last flooding, this time the Rylstone Showgrounds also flooded, one of the ovals becoming completely submerged and resembling more of a lake than a place to play football.
Find below two videos – one of the Cudgegong River itself taken from the John Hawkins Bridge, and the other of the Rylstone Showgrounds themselves.
And of course you can click the link below to compare the above videos to the flooding we experienced in March 2021. Who knows what will happen in March of 2023 – may be time to start investing in some sandbags.