This is mostly notes for my own nefarious, wedding-cake-making purposes, so I’m going to put most of it under a cut. But if you enjoy reading the convoluted workings of my brain when trying to calculate food and allergy things,…
Category: Writing about cooking
Best recipe instruction ever…
This is a quick, promissory post, because I have been out basically all weekend with singing and visiting people, except for last night, when I was at home and might theoretically have been productive if I hadn’t had a very…
Pressure Cooker!
OK, it’s official – I love my pressure cooker. What pressure cooker? I hear you ask.. That would be the one I bought because I really wanted a slow cooker and thought one which had a pressure cooker option might…
Reader, I bought it.
The multi-function pressure cooker / slow cooker / rice cooker / electric saucepan / steamer thingie, that is. Well, it’s on order, anyway. I’m already dreaming about things I could cook with it (I wish that wasn’t literally true, and…
Half-Homemade Part 2: Tim Tam Cake And Friends
I’ve been thinking about this half home-made thing all week, actually, and as it happens, while I tend to be averse to things out of packets and jars these days, it must be said that when I first moved out…
Cooking for People Who Don’t : Half-Homemade
My friend Commodorified is holding another of her occasional festivals of Cooking For People Who Don’t, and this month’s theme is Half Homemade. I have to say, this particular theme has caused me quite a bit of difficulty. There just…
Drive-by blog post (with knives and Shakespeare)!
Not much blogging out of me this week, because I have a friend staying in my spare room (the one where the computer is), so I’ve been too busy doing friend catching-up stuff to write much. Also, it’s rude to…
Magnetic and genetic properties of chocolate
My office has started spontaneously generating chocolate. It’s not that I don’t bring in my fair share of both chocolate and baked goodies, but the chocolates are definitely taking on a life of their own. The Divisional Chocolate drawer now…
Just a quick link
I’m hoping to do a more entertaining post later today, but in the meantime, I strongly recommend you all go and read this post by Not Quite Nigella about Food Banks and waste in the food industry. Here’s a little…
Rainy Day Food
We broke our Lenten fast yesterday with a feast of roast lamb for Easter, so today – and probably the next few days, really – is about leftovers, and the first of the leftovers is stock made from the lamb…