Monthly Archives: February 2009

Easy Dal

I don’t own an Indian food cookbook, but I think I should buy one. No, I know i should. I decided that I wanted to make dal. Not the bastardized dahl that I normally boil up, but something more like the wonderful curries that I remembered from Malaysia. There was one in particular that was [...]

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Fresh Tomato Salsa, or how to use up the limes.

Part two of how to use up those millions of limes is about salsa. And it failed. Failed entirely to use up my overabundance of limes. It did, however succeed in being delicious. Spicy, tangy, hot and sweet all at the same time, which I thought was Thai cuisines thing, but no, apparently Mexico is [...]

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Updates

I thought it was time for a make-over, a cleanup and a modernisation. Hope you like! The bugs are still being ironed out, so let me know if you have an problems, if you find anything broken. It will all be fixed up soon.

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Lime drop biscuits

What do you do when you realise that your fridge is full of limes? Well, if you’re me, then you have a whole array of outlandish ideas, recipes that will take all day to make, cost an arm and a leg, require an ice-cream machine, or will turn your kgs of limes into a fridge [...]

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How to boil an egg.

Up until a few months ago, I didn’t consider boiled eggs to be anything special. In fact, I can’t think of the last time I ate one (Passover excluded), and I certainly haven’t cooked one lately. But then, there, for lunch at Felix’s parents house. Boiled eggs. I ate, and quite enjoyed mine. Then piles [...]

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