You may have noticed that one of the few dietary requirements I don’t pay much attention to on this blog is Kosher law (Halal also misses out, which is somewhat astonishing, given where I live). Of course, since most of…
Author: Catherine
Recipe: Vegetarian Chilli
DON’T FORGET TO SOAK YOUR BEANS! (putting them in to soak before you go to work in the morning is fine) This recipe is adapted from one of the Moosewood Cookbooks – I’m afraid I can’t recall which, as I…
Recipe: Microwave Lemon Curd, with bonus meringue
Just a short post today, because today has been loooong… and it hasn’t even had any cooking in it. Of course, it might have felt less loooong if I hadn’t decided last night that the best solution to ‘where can…
Recipe Index!
If you look up at the top of this blog, you will notice that there is another page available called Recipe Index. I’m toying with the idea of a Review Index as well, for my cookbook and other reviews. And…
Recipe: Grapefruit Pectin Jellies
These jellies are basically the point of grapefruit, at least in my opinion. I find grapefruit far too bitter to eat, but the bitterness and sourness help the pectin to set the jelly, and the resulting confection is just sweet…
Further exciting chemistry knowledge
Apparently, the reason your skewer comes out clean when the cake is cooked is because in a cooked cake, all the molecules have bound to each other, and therefore have no interest in binding to a random skewer. And I…
Kitchen chemistry again…
I’m probably going to be fairly quiet on my blog this week, because I have my head down reading and learning about the chemistry of food on a molecular level. No, it isn’t molecular gastronomy, it’s a book called On…
Vegan Marshmallows – first attempt
Astute readers may have deduced from the title of this post that my first attempt at making marshmallows using agar instead of gelatine was less than successful. And they would be right. Boy, would they be right. About the only…
Book Review: Veganomicon: The Ultimate Vegetarian Cookbook, by Isa Chandra Moskovitz and Terry Hope Romero
I’ve referenced this book at least ten times already in this blog, and I’ve adapted dozens of recipes from it for various occasions. So it’s definitely time I reviewed it. I’m going to start by saying that I’m not a…
Leftovers
Am I the only one who gets excited about leftovers? Not eating them as they are, cold from the fridge, but their promise, their potential, that lovely sense of having lunch or dinner taken care of, or of having a…