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Broccoli, pasta - ordinary - but ...
"What’s courageous about the timeless combination of broccoli and pasta?" Deb Perelman/Smitten Kitchen The answer is nothing of course. ...
Apr 22
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Different ways of cooking
"experience a dish through the person most intimate with it." Genevieve Ko/New York times via Smitten Kitchen Now who might that be? ...
Mar 30
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Leftover pizza
"Some like it hot Some cold I like it room temp" u/eboj-dm/reddit I'm reviving that reddit haiku about leftover pizza, because I really...
Mar 17
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Culinary haikus - an AI suggestion
"Haiku moments are the will-o’-wisps we seek. The purest of them aren’t formed by effort. They arise naturally when we allow ourselves to...
Mar 11
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Playing the game of three
"I can’t find plain flour for love nor money, so I have been baking apples with marmalade and the dregs of the sherry bottle instead" ...
Feb 20
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A waste not, clean-up kind of day
"the sort of cooking that allows the cook, quite justifiably to feel rather pleased with themselves." Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall It's a...
Feb 16
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Poor shopping = dinner challenges
"Nothing good will come from getting too fancy with these greens. They bask in simple treatment and become shy when long lists of...
Nov 28, 2024
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Tonight's dinner - me or Ottolenghi?
It's one of those fridge challenge days, and I also haven't been able to tick off my new recipe challenge this week as yet. The...
Oct 25, 2024
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Mishmashing cauliflower cheese soup
"mishmash: a confused mixture" So today I presented my cauliflower cheese soup to my book group colleagues and they pronounced it good. ...
Oct 14, 2024
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'Eat' - marmalade chicken
"I refer to this book so often, it rarely makes it to a shelf and is usually  found laying on a table peppered with random pieces...
Sep 21, 2024
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Caramelised onion chutney - dinner?
"Improvisation is the art of being completely O.K. with not knowing what the f— you’re doing" Mick Napier It's one of those...
Aug 31, 2024
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The daily decision
"I don't believe in taking right decisions. I take decisions and then make them right." Ratan Tata Recently I wrote a post on planning...
Aug 18, 2024
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What I have learnt from making quiche
"This is the sort of cooking you always promise yourself you will do more of, because it turns making supper into a recreation rather...
Aug 14, 2024
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A freezer challenge
"Every week, I will learn to label one day I just know I will" BamaModerate/Reddit Every morning I decide what to cook for dinner. This...
Aug 6, 2024
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Self-doubt and a recipe
"So much of the very best food is like this, which is to say a huge bloody mess. It lies on the plate or in the bowl, looking like...
Jul 24, 2024
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Inertia
"Nothing happens until something moves." Albert Einstein "Inertia: a property of matter by which it continues in its existing state of...
Jul 20, 2024
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Elizabeth vs Nigel - pastry, onions, cheese
"my favourite savoury tart. It made it's first appearance in Appetite and I make it to this day." Nigel Slater A few weeks ago now, in...
Jul 12, 2024
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Should I write it down?
"I rarely write them down, assuming that no one else will be interested in something that simply filled a hole with whatever happened to...
Jun 25, 2024
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That was the week that was
"Doesn't expecting the unexpected make the unexpected expected?" Bob Dylan I don't remember which day I had this coffee and a piece of...
Jun 3, 2024
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What to do with those pickled onions
"open mouth, insert pickled onion, chew" TheSkewed/Reddit commenter Well yes indeed you - well I - could just eat them. And I have to...
May 14, 2024
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