Category Archives: food
What have I been eating?
What have I been eating? To be honest, I don’t really know. A bit of this, too much of that and just a smidge of that, I swear. Kathryn over at Limes and Lycopene has been listing the variety of foods she eats drawing attention to the realities of a well rounded and balanced diet. [...]
Polenta, fig, rosemary and Pine Nut – The Cake I nearly didn’t make. AKA the frying pan cake.
Oh, and this is my entry for this months ‘Waiter, there’s something in my…’ fruit and nuts. I can’t for the life of me tell you why I wanted to make this cake. The ingredients appeal to me mostly, separately, but combined? Why? In fact, I almost didn’t make it, see its true, I admit [...]
Potato Love
Potatoes love rosemary. It is that simple. Add some olive oil and sea salt and they, along with those destined to eat them, will be in heaven. The smells wafting from the kitchen are almost too much to bear. I’m ready to eat dinner and its only 5:30pm.
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Beef Laap or larb, larp – delicious however you spell it.
My old neighbourhood is jam-packed with Thai restaurants, it seems they were taking business and marketing inspiration from the old quarter in Hanoi with its tin, paper and gravestone streets, rather than from the rest of the city. A shop would close and invariable a new Thai restaurant would open. I can count at least [...]
Muffins
Today is muffin Sunday. The last few weeks I have been terribly overindulgent, so to curb that tide I stayed in today and instead of making rich, sweet cupcakes I made (up) some muffins. Pistachio, cardamom and quince paste seemed like a good idea seeings as F. spent heaps of time last night organising the [...]
