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Starry chocolate skies
2007-08-26 04:21:00 Despite my many claims in this blog that I am not a chocoholic, I have to admit that I have a love of it. Of course, unlike serious chocolate fiends, I don’t dream of swimming in lakes of chocolate, nor do I pitch a fit when its unavailable, but more and more I find that ... More About: Desserts , Chocolate , Chocolat , Choco
Still occupied with rather boring matters
2007-08-19 10:47:00 Unfortunately, I’ve been out of the kitchen all week due to study (and I’m still working on an analysis of bias in the media) so haven’t really got anything spectacular for your perusal. However, in lieu of that, here’s a Gâteau au Yaourt that I made using a recipe from Clotilde’s blog, Chocolate & Zucchini. ... More About: Desserts , Matters , Boring , Rather
Just a pretty picture
2007-08-15 15:14:00 Have been too tired from recuperation and study to cook, so here’s a pretty picture of the spices mixed up and ready to be dumped into a pot of chilli in the making. Now if the chili recipe itself wasn’t tempting enough, tell me that this glorious picture doesn’t whet your appetite Or how about ... More About: Picture , Pretty
Heavenly mess
2007-08-13 12:30:00 Definitely not the best looking potatoes in the world, but they taste divine! My kid brother is a maniac. He’s an in-training bodybuilder who has shoulders broad enough to carry a house and seems to subsist with low-carb, low-fat, high protein meals nearly all the time (usually containing tuna or chicken). Now me, I can’t understand ... More About: Vegetarian , Desserts , Mess
A cloud-like cheesecake
2007-08-11 14:00:00 This post was going to contain some silly comments about the variety of cheesecakes around as well as the qualities of baked goods from certain areas of the world - for example, Asian bakeries and their overwhelming amount of different kinds of soft milky breads (I think I’ve spoken before about the near impossibility of ... More About: Desserts , Cloud , Cheesecake
A bounty of berries for a very special birthday
2007-08-08 11:58:00 Yes, this is a strawberry mirror cake. No, I’m not a member of the Daring Bakers clique - but read on… Whilst I bake cakes fairly often (there is a new cake on the kitchen bench on average once a fortnight), I generally go for plain cakes that don’t require any fancing piping or icing - ... More About: Desserts , Berries , Birthday , Special , Bounty
Steam it up one time
2007-08-06 12:40:00 Steamed buns - one filled with sweetened red bean paste, the other with finely chopped spring onion With China, Japan and Korea being in such close proximity to each other, it means that many dishes cross the short distances to each country, either in its existing form or being recreated into a new variation (such as ... More About: Vegetarian , Time , Desserts , Pastry , Bread
Lamington lovin?
2007-08-04 07:50:00 So what do you get when you take a sponge cake, chop it into squares, smother them in thick glossy chocolate icing then give them a good dredging in dessicated coconut? Why, a wonderful treat known as the lamington, of course! Much like the humble pavlova, the lamington’s origins are contested - this time, not just between ... More About: Desserts , Ming
Simple elegance
2007-08-01 15:52:00 Anyone who has read this blog for any number of time knows that I love spending hours in the kitchen. Baking, in particular - I love rolling up my sleeves and attacking an unfamiliar recipe with gusto, watching with nervous anticipation to see whether it turns out. Nearly all the time, I revel in the ... More About: Desserts , Simple , Legan
Let?s step this way and take a minute?
2007-07-31 09:23:00 Here’s a cute picture of Mr Woofy, for the first ever edition of Food Bloggy Pets Of The Month, a new event over at Peanut Butter Étouffee. Make sure to head over to see the round-up of pets next week Right, now that I’ve lured you into reading this post with an adorable photo ... More About: Step , Minute
Dreams of Coney Island
2007-07-29 17:04:00 My brother is a health nut. Almost every day for lunch he has a tuna salad (tuna in springwater, chopped vegetables with no dressing!) and he rarely if ever indulges in naughty things such as sweets, cookies, cakes or chocolate. In fact, I often have to cajole him to give any of my baking a ... More About: Dreams , Vegetarian , Poultry , Island , Dressings
So where did the alchy go?
2007-07-27 06:43:00 Not a recipe, but hopefully an interesting post regardless. I’ve got ‘interesting’ taste buds. Born in the year of the dog (according to the Chinese astrology), my family have always kidded that I’ve got heightened senses - my eyes are quick to pick up on small details (interestingly, I’m the only member of my family not ... More About: Where , The A
Following the K-I-S-S principle
2007-07-23 17:19:00 Sorry that I’ve been a bit absentee of late, but I’m trying to finish a list of tasks that I need to get done before I go back to uni for the final semester of my BA in a few weeks and one of them in particular is driving me absolutely batsh*t crazy! Argh! In ... More About: Drinks
I take thee, Nigella Lawson, to be my domestic goddess?
2007-07-19 13:38:00 I often joke with my friends that I live in the middle of Sticksville Suburbia - about a 20 minute drive from my home and you encounter paddocks of sleepy-eyed sheep and horses grazing side by side, and there’s an entire strip of road with small-scale farms all side by side selling things from fresh ... More About: Domestic , Desserts , Goddess , Nigella Lawson , Lawson
Ice-cream for the gadgetless
2007-07-18 03:33:00 For those of you who read other food blogs, you’re probably well aware of the sudden increase in the number of ice cream and sorbet recipes appearing all over the place as our Northern neighbours hit the peak of their summer season with all the sweltering heat and humidity that it brings. However, for me this ... More About: Ice Cream , Desserts , Nuts , Pulses , Cream
A cultural memory wrapped in a rice cake
2007-07-15 13:03:00 It’s a blustery day, the cold Autumn wind chafing my cheeks and turning my fingers into frozen little fishsticks despite my gloves. School’s finished for the day, and arm in arm with my girlfriends, we go racing down the path from our school to a tiny little shopfront just next door. The glass door has ... More About: Memory , Rice , Korean , Cake , Wrapped
Scone-sational!
2007-07-12 06:06:00 Sometimes you try a food or a recipe for the first time and it just lets you down. Pretty badly, in fact. That was my relationship with scones - I’d tried one when I was quite young at a little tea house in Olinda, but I was thoroughly unimpressed with the tough, doughy and flavourless ... More About: Desserts
I think I need an intervention
2007-07-08 17:32:00 I make no secret of the fact that I thorough adore being in the kitchen - I feel like I’m truly in my element when I am chopping, blending or mixing, and so I rarely notice the time passing when I am merrily humming away in the the kitchen whilst doing my thing. However, occasionally ... More About: Desserts , Dressings , Spreads , Vent
From mother?s loving hands
2007-07-03 16:58:00 My family are absolute chicken fiends. We have red meat maybe once or twice a week, and lots of seafood and fish, but for some reason chicken tends to appear on the dinner table only about once a month. However, when it does, it’s usually done so in a ridiculously tasty way courtesy of my ... More About: Poultry , Hands , Mother , Loving , Ving
A soup to bring you back to life
2007-06-27 16:43:00 Some dishes are classics - they are uncomplicated, fussy, time-tested and known the world over for the simple reason that they taste homely and good, and chicken soup is one of those dishes. Most people are familiar with the warming, restorative properties of a well-made broth, and there’s certainly good reason why people declare you ... More About: Life , Vegetarian , Poultry , Soup , Back
If you?re crazy and you know it, bake a tart
2007-06-25 18:13:00 Hi, my name is Ellie and I’m an oven-addict. I know you’re laughing, but you shouldn’t. You see, it’s a legitimate problem. I have a pastry-obsession and I need to bake at least once a week to feel sane. I love sifting flour, I adore beating eggs and working with butter sends shivers down my spine. My ... More About: Vegetarian , Crazy , Desserts , Tart
Pains aux raisins
2007-06-20 09:57:00 If you’ve managed to make the Pâte à Brioche Feuilletée and survive, well done! Now, as the best application for this beautiful dough, here’s the recipe for these gorgeous Pains aux raisins - a truly delightful and calorific treat! Pains Aux Raisins (from The Cook?s Book) Ingredients 1x Pâte à Brioche Feuilletée dough 200g almond cream (frangipane) 250g sultanas/white raisins, soaked ... More About: Desserts , Dressings , Spreads
I don?t need no stinkin? Kitchen Aid!
2007-06-20 08:22:00 It seems that everyone and their momma has a Kitchen Aid mixer these days. That is, everyone except me. A particularly frustrating predicament to be in, particularly when there are are so many recipes for things such as delicious, butter brioches out there. They mean that a person like me can do nothing but sit ... More About: Desserts , Chen
Fairly flaky & surely sweet, these treats are good to eat!
2007-06-18 15:30:00 I’m not a food snob, really. I occasionally enjoy toasties with plastic cheese and white supermarket bread and I’ve been known to enjoy a mug of instant soup just as much as home-made (Cup-a-soup creamy chicken and corn, nyum nyum!). However, when it comes to things baked or sweet, for some reason I find myself ... More About: Desserts , Sweet , Good , Sure , Treats
For the love of chocolate sauce
2007-06-13 15:21:00 I have a problem. What is that problem, you ask? The fact that I can rarely follow a recipe to the letter. I don’t know what it is, but I always find myself tinkering, trying to get the flavours adjusted to my tastes rather than trusting the person who wrote the recipe to begin with. ... More About: Love , Chocolate , Dressings , Spreads , Late
What?s the matter with you? Eat some sugar!
2007-06-10 15:09:00 I’m baaaaaaaaaaack! Yes! After my 2-week hiatus from the food blogging arena, I return refreshed and with a new vigor for churning out delights in my kitchen Did you miss me? I have to admit that it was really difficult to get back into the blogging world…I slowly weaned myself back by reading the occasional ... More About: Sugar , Desserts , Matter , Some , With You
Weekend Herb Blogging Round-up
2007-05-28 03:44:00 I just wrote up the round-up for this week’s Weekend Herb Blogg ing …and then my computer died, so I have to start over What can I say about this week’s round up? We’ve got a variety of entries and ingredients, from basil to truffles and the dishes cover everything from scrambled eggs to risotto. Thanks ... More About: Round Up , Round
Forget Fergie, this is meme-a-licious!
2007-05-25 16:31:00 Sorry folks, there’s no food photo, so here’s a picture of Mr Woofy’s muzzle to tide you over till I have food to post Hallo folks! The posts are going to be few and far-between from now till the 5th of June (the date of my last exam before FREEDOM!) and I’ve told myself ... More About: Meme , Fergie , Forge
Mushroom mania
2007-05-21 06:18:00 I have always been a lover of mushrooms, they come in a huge variety of varieties and each have their own distinct characteristics and flavours that can really give a big boost to almost any dish. Though their bodies mostly consist of water (hence the drastic shrinkage during cooking), many varieties contain lots of fibre ... More About: Vegetarian , Mushroom , Room , Mania , Mush
Who said all fakes are bad?
More articles from this author:2007-05-17 09:26:00 An ice-cream maker has long been on my list of things I wish to buy for my kitchen, but since quitting my job to concentrate on study in February, money has definitely been one of the things I’m lacking in (well, the purchase of my highly overpriced but much loved Canon G7 probably had a ... More About: Desserts , Seafood , Fakes , Said 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 |
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