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Coles' new look
As with almost every topic I choose to write about on this blog, I discovered bits about today's topic that hadn't occurred to me. Even...
Jun 8


Angel hair
“Angel hair just lands on your chin like the strands of a wet mop.” Bon Appétit "The thin strands absorb sauce like few other pastas...
May 23


Baked oats
"Everything looks like cake, but is not in fact cake." Emily Gerard/Today This is one of those posts that began with me thinking I was...
May 17


Granules
"granule - a small piece like a grain of something" Cambridge English Dictionary "a small particle; especially : one of numerous...
May 12


I found it - sort of
"Passing time adds false memories and modifies real ones." Stephen King Remember yesterday my despair at not finding the tube of hot...
Apr 26


Roasting vegetables
"Clearly, roasting is really the only way to treat vegetables if one hopes to be modern." J. Bryan Lowder/Slate In 1993 Delia Smith...
Jan 12


The cheese board
"When cheese gets its picture taken, what does it say?" George Carlin The inspiration for this particular post, although I have thought...
Dec 11, 2024


Why is distressed so loved?
"Indulge in noncommittal decorating" Domino Last week I treated myself - I think I told you - to three new cookbooks. One of these was...
Dec 10, 2024


An Italian day out in the city
It's Italian Film festival time and my friend Clare proposed going to see something with a lunch beforehand. I, of course, agreed and so...
Oct 1, 2024


Do you plan a week's meals?
"Is "planning" this stuff just for people who need another thing to make their life more difficult?" dethwatch/Reddit I have just spent...
Aug 9, 2024


Peanuts
"Peanuts: something so small it is not worth considering, especially an amount of money" Cambridge dictionary "an insignificant or tiny...
Jul 22, 2024


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...
May 16, 2024


Noodle burgers
"It's a food born in America that happens to combine two different cultures and makes them exist as one. The perfect symbol of America." ...
Mar 24, 2024


Tajín - a quickie
"So why should you use Tajin? Simply put, it just makes so many things taste better." Nancy Lopez-McHugh/The Spruce Eats I'm not a huge...
Mar 21, 2024


Swifties
"Swifty - Australian - a deceptive trick" An alcoholic drink consumed quickly" Oxford Languages "Not a valid Scrabble word" Wordnik "A...
Mar 2, 2024


Chaos Cooking - new words for an old thing
"Any food idea that makes you smile is a food idea to be embraced." Erin Shaw/Food Republic "there is no "wrong." Only "try again...
Feb 25, 2024


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...
Feb 19, 2024


Almond crumbs - an indecisive lucky dip
"Change is not indecision" Chris Ofili Well that's what I'm telling myself now. I have somehow managed to make myself very confused...
Jan 27, 2024


Cauliflower, saffron, anchovies + ...
"As always, we never seem to do the ingredient du jour by halves" Nigel Slater It's an unbelievably, considering it's summer, wet,...
Dec 9, 2023


The gentrification of the sausage
"even at the crummiest of supermarkets, [they] come in at least a half dozen flavors." J. Kenji López-Alt So very true. According to The...
Dec 8, 2023