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Posted in Recipe: savoury on Jul 14th, 2010
I imagine that most food bloggers have their ‘Julie and Julia’ fantasy cookbook: the one cookbook from which you would love to cook every single recipe. Mine is David Thompson’s Thai Food. At 673 pages, this would certainly be quite the challenge. It’s such an incredible book; the detail about Thai food and how it [...]
Posted in Recipe: savoury on Jun 29th, 2010
Regular readers will know that both Saskia and I are on a mission to try to find ways of making do and using the food we have rather than throwing things out (check out Saskia’s crumble and her banana cake and my carrot cake). In this vein I was at work one day pondering the random collection [...]
Posted in Recipe: savoury on Jun 17th, 2010
I absolutely love using preserved lemons in my cooking. I use them in Middle Eastern recipes such as tagine and pilaf, but also to give a flavour lift to other dishes such as risotto and pasta or as a stuffing for chicken or lamb. My only issue is that I tend to go through the preserved lemons quickly and given [...]
Posted in Recipe: savoury on Jun 10th, 2010
A few years ago my workmate S had all the girls in our team over for a Sunday lunch. I remember that there was a lot of gossiping and a lot of wine. There was a lot of food too, but the only thing I remember was the delicious mushroom soup, which was S’s [...]
Posted in Recipe: savoury on Jun 9th, 2010
Last Tuesday, my little family had Emily and her husband (my brother) and my other brother over for dinner. My dad decided to make a meaty cannelloni, which sadly excluded me from the mains. All was not lost, however. I decided to make some braised vegetables to stick inside the tubes for myself. I’ve made [...]
Posted in Culinary adventures, Recipe: savoury on Jun 7th, 2010
Every now and again, a mad idea comes into my head and I just can’t let go of it. This happened last weekend: I decided that I would make crème fraîche, and that nothing could stop me. When I was researching mascarpone (for this tiramisu), I came across this video where a lovely American man [...]
Posted in Recipe: savoury on May 31st, 2010
So my love letter to Taggerty continues, today with some scenery and a deliciously fragrant chicken soup that was made by my lovely friend M. I tend to make a fairly standard chicken noodle soup by boiling a whole chicken with vegetables and herbs, then shredding the chicken and adding in some noodles. M’s [...]
Posted in Recipe: savoury on May 26th, 2010
I was perusing the lovely ‘Where’s the Beef?’ on the weekend and came across these vegan sausage rolls. When I was a young lady, sausage rolls were one of my favourite foods, but I haven’t had one for a long time. I thought that I’d give Cindy’s recipe a shot. I followed her recipe exactly, [...]
Posted in Recipe: savoury on May 24th, 2010
The other weekend, we were lucky enough to go to P’s place in Taggerty. As I previously mentioned, I was in absolute awe of the beauty of the environment. We had great weather, cool and crisp with sunshine and clear blue skies. The different colours of the autumn leaves were spectacular. So it was a [...]
Posted in Recipe: savoury on May 11th, 2010
In case you weren’t tipped off by last week’s k-mart catalogue shouting ‘last minute gifts for mum‘, the Sunday just past was Mothers’ Day. We decided to celebrate by having a big family feast, cooked by the cousins for the mothers. My favourite dish of the day was wild mushroom and shallot tarts. This was [...]
