{"id":30387,"date":"2026-10-12T11:41:48","date_gmt":"2026-10-12T10:41:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=30387"},"modified":"2026-10-12T11:42:54","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T10:42:54","slug":"30387","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=30387","title":{"rendered":"Our four islands holiday (9): more Bali"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Next morning, we had a two-hour cookery class. First, we had \u201charvesting\u201d, the collection of some ingredients from the establishment\u2019s gardens. Then there was a lot of cutting and grinding, followed by cooking in a large heated bowl and a heated grill. Constantly we were adding all sorts of of herbs, spices, vegetables, salt and even sugar. Small offerings had to be made to the gods.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I confess that I let Tess take the lead. Apparently, in Balinese culture, men do the cooking only on two special days of the year, but a complicated dish is involved which takes a long time to compare. At the end of our class, we ate our efforts at an early lunch. We survived. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That afternoon, we were supposed to be taken on a village walk to Manggis, but there was some sort of administrative error and it never happened. Instead we spent time in the hotel\u2019s infinity pool overlooking verdant green jungle.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Next morning, we had a two-hour cookery class. First, we had \u201charvesting\u201d, the collection of some ingredients from the establishment\u2019s gardens. Then there was a lot of cutting and grinding, followed by cooking in a large heated bowl and a heated grill. Constantly we were adding all sorts of of herbs, spices, vegetables, salt and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-life-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30387"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30389,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30387\/revisions\/30389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}