A few years ago, I decided that it was time to move beyond my six favourite vegetables, and accordingly, I arranged to have a box of fruit and vegetables delivered each week. The vegetables were whatever happened to be in…
Author: Catherine
Recipe: Lovely Rice Pudding For Dinner Again
After you all egged me on to make rice pudding the other day, I found myself compelled to give it a try. The difficulty was, my evil, chocolate-loving side wanted to make a completely decadent rice pudding with chocolate and…
Recipe: Onion Soup for a Sick Day
The Christopher Robinish breakfast didn’t work, so it’s time to resort to my ultimate virus-fighting weapon: onion soup. What what could be stronger, heartier, or more pungent? No virus would dare colonise a body with this many allicins in it,…
Easy as boiling an egg
Who came up with that expression, anyway? Whoever they were must have been talking about hard-boiled eggs, which I agree are pretty straightforward. Well, relatively straightforward – hardboiling them is not too tricky, provided you don’t crack the shell by…
Oranges, addendum
I gave up and added pectin, because I want to go to bed at a reasonable hour tonight, and I didn’t trust it not to spontaneously become toffee instead of jam. And then I had to strain my syrup through…
Midwinter
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Recipe: Grilled Mushroom and Roast Pepper Sandwich
When I saw those glorious mushrooms at the Farmers’ Market on Sunday, I knew exactly what I’d be having for dinner sometime this week. This is basically a particularly glorious toasted sandwich, but I tend to think of it as…
Recipe: Five-spice Gingernuts
I made this recipe up because the recipe I had for five-spice ginger biscuits required overnight standing and I wanted biscuits *now*. So I got a gingernut recipe from the Women’s Weekly and played havoc with it, and the results…
Recipe: Baked Cauliflower
This is a very simple recipe, from a book called Reds, Whites, and Greens, by Faith Willunger. As you might have gathered from the title, it’s a book of Italian things to do with vegetables. I’m yet to find a…
Farmer’s Market Sunday
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