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…