I have a narrow cupboard on the wall next to the cooker, in which I keep various oils, vinegars, ketchups and so forth. In a mad fit I decided to go through it today, to make some space. The record for something past its sell by date in this house is now held by a…
Category: general
Bristol Slow Food market – 5 march 06
As I’ve said before, we only get a decent food market here in Bristol on the first Sunday of the month, so we tend to make the most of it. Here’s this month’s haul: 4 packs of organic mutton (mutton! rar!) 1 organic leg of lamb for today’s lunch um .. 6 packs of sausages….
and they call this cooking?
Spotted on a food blog I read, was this “recipe” for Lemon Pound Cake. 1 (18.25 ounce) package yellow cake mix 5 tablespoons instant lemon pudding mix 2 eggs 1/4 cup butter, softened 1/3 cup water 1/8 cup applesauce Truly, American cooking is a wondrous thing.
clearing up the fridge
For one reason and another, I haven’t done much cooking this week just past – probably because I’ve been coding this site for hours on end! So I looked in the fridge last night, and decided to clear up all the bitsa that was in there. What did I do? there was a jug of…
dining on duck
Well, we dined on duck a couple of weeks ago, and then I threw the carcass in the freezer to deal with later. Pulled it out again at the weekend, and boiled it up for a couple of hours; we were driven demented by the aroma! And last night I stripped the meat off it…
some things are just plain *wrong*
Looking at Le Creuset‘s web site today, as you do, I am horrified to find that they now do their cookware in lavender. What is the world coming to?
christmas cake eggstravanza
Originally posted in my LiveJournal 19 dec 2005 So … I weighed out the ground almonds, the whole nuts (whizzed briefly in the food processor), the mixed tropical fruit, the sultanas, the blueberries and cranberries, the dried apricots. I rummaged in the back of the cupboard for Cointreau and Amaretto. I beat 225g of butter…
chilli and orange jelly
I live near Bristol, which is, for some reason, a bit of a wasteland when it comes to food shops. There’s a farmers’ market in the city on a Wednesday – hopeless for those who don’t work anywhere near it, and a couple of markets at the weekend, but they lean more towards the car…