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Oct 2
Spätzle
"In short, this is one recipe guaranteed to improve your life." Felicity Cloake Even though it's a beautiful day - one of those perfect...
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Aug 12
Into the frying pan
" If we have only one pan, then it should probaby be a frying pan." Nigel Slater/Eat At the beginning of his section on food cooked in a...
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Aug 11
Who was Betty and was she brown?
Or was she a blondie? Or even a teapot? Sometimes I worry that my brain is not connecting all its bits and pieces properly and today's...
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Jul 28
How many sieves do you have in your kitchen?
"To sift: (a) to put (a fine or loose substance) through a sieve so as to remove lumps or large particles. (b) an act of sifting...
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Jul 2
My kitchen bit by bit - 1
"We see books as features and magazines as accents" Foxy Home Staging Yes I know, I'm devising yet another series to explore in my blog...
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May 16
Tablecloths
"A kid under a tablecloth insists he’s a ghost. A table underneath a tablecloth is, I guess, like the rest of us, only pretending to be...
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Mar 12
Keeping clean whilst eating
"The centuries-old history of the napkin has unfurled from a basic tool to an ornamental accessory." This is Mold Yesterday was a book...
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Mar 2
Swifties
"Swifty - Australian - a deceptive trick" An alcoholic drink consumed quickly" Oxford Languages "Not a valid Scrabble word" Wordnik "A...
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Feb 19
Old fashioned grilling
"That tangle of bars that lights up over the food isn't worthy of the name. In my book a grill is where the heat comes from below the...
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Feb 8
The common kettle - not so common
"We overlook what we take for granted. Billions of tea drinkers observed the force of steam escaping from water boiling in a kettle...
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Jan 31
Flakes
"Flake: a small, thin piece of something, especially if it has come from a surface covered with a layer of something" Cambridge...
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Oct 25, 2023
Making pasta
"the essential nature of pasta is simple. Take some flour and water, take some flour and eggs, combine, knead, rest, shape. Or go buy...
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Oct 19, 2023
A ball of string
I took the above photograph back in April. This week I decided to change the 'wallpaper' on my computer desktop which I do every few...
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Oct 13, 2023
Apples from Winton
"Passing time adds false memories and modifies real ones." Stephen King Eons ago I studied geography as one of my three A-level subjects....
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Oct 5, 2023
Flakes
"flake - a small, very thin layer or piece of something, especially one that has broken off from something" Oxford Learners'...
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Sep 11, 2023
Flummery
"The word 'flummery' later came to have generally pejorative connotations of a bland, empty, and unsatisfying food. From this use,...
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Jul 20, 2023
Bee or fly? Real or fake?
“It is cutlery, yes. But it’s also culture, it’s heritage and it’s history,” Thierry Moysset - CEO Forge de Laguiole This has been an...
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Jun 5, 2023
Hodgepodge
"Hodgepodge: a jumble, a heterogenous mixture" Merriam-Webster Dictionary "a confused mixture, a hotchpotch" Oxford Languages...
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