This is something I basically made up last night, having foolishly let some croissants go stale, and being in need of things to make with that raspberry and lavender butter. It’s related to bread and butter pudding, and I actually…
Category: nut-free
Recipe: Flavoured Butters
You all knew, didn’t you, that once I had seen Not Quite Nigella’s post on buttermaking, it would only be a matter of time before I had to start fiddling with it? In fact, by the time I got up…
Recipe: Pasta Carbonara, my way
My father’s family is from the Basilicata region of Italy, and even after moving to Australia, my Nonna and Nonno would make their own sausage every year. I think one of my great-uncles kept pigs, or maybe just one pig…
Recipe: Choc-Chip Cookies for Scientists who have had a Very Bad Day
One of my very nicest postdocs just discovered that the freezer had defrosted, taking all her experiments with it. Her partner, another particularly delightful postdoc, had a Bad Grant Day. And one of the PhD students came into my office…
Recipe: Red Cabbage, German style
This recipe comes from Dr Oetker’s German Cooking Today, with a few little tweaks by me. I don’t know how to describe it, because to me it’s the thing you do with red cabbage. (Apparently, there is no other thing…
Recipe: Chocolate, Coconut and Raspberry Cupcakes
Today my workplace is holding the Australia’s Biggest Morning Tea, a cancer research fundraiser which is very popular with hungry scientists! Since I work in a medical research institute looking after a couple of cancer research Divisions, we take this…
Recipe: Chocolate for Breakfast
The official name for this recipe, which comes from Less Meat, More Veg, is ‘Chocolate, Coconut and Raspberry Spread’, but I like to think of it as Chocolate for Breakfast, as that is basically the point. You can say all…
Recipe: Three Roasted Vegetable Soups
Three recipes in one post today, because it’s the same (very easy!) method, but with markedly different flavours. I’ve given recipes for a very simple but delicious pumpkin soup, a subtly perfumed beetroot soup and a creamy Jerusalem artichoke soup,…
Recipe: Arroz con Pollo with Peas
This recipe is adapted from Andrea Chesman’s book Serving Up the Harvest. I’ve made this recipe with snow peas, sugar snap peas, green beans or broadbeans supplementing or replacing the peas, and I often add paprika, chilli, oregano, thyme, or…
Basics that aren’t: Béchamel Sauce (and variations)
Ah, béchamel sauce. As I wrote yesterday, it is one of the great culinary classics that dates back at least as far as the kitchens of Antonin Carême and probably further… but it’s also a definitive ingredient in comfort foods…