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Jottings
"Jottings: Quickly written short notes" Cambridge Dictionary I'm making a batch of marmalade because David has run out. It's time...
5 days ago
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Upping my sandwich game
"No offence, but I find sandwich recipes pointless. Who needs a recipe for making a sandwich? It’s like looking up a manual before taking...
Jun 2
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Carrot salads
"Creative freedom is a huge carrot." Adam McKay I don't think Adam McKay meant, what I have taken to mean from the above quote. I think...
May 30
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Granules
"granule - a small piece like a grain of something" Cambridge English Dictionary "a small particle; especially : one of numerous...
May 12
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The seasonal divide
"I momentarily forgot that not all Spring celebrations are about Easter, that, for many, Easter isn’t a thing at all, and that not all...
Apr 23
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Saturday's 5 star Ottolenghi crêpes + ...
"My freezer is stocked up with cooked crepes (an ingenious idea I nicked off a friend) that take minutes to warm up from frozen in the...
Mar 2
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Green beans in a salad
There are few ingredients that can do anything for a french bean ... but a little chopped shallot, melted butter or a crushed clove of...
Jan 4
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Gravy soup? Why didn't I think of that?
"This is the fridge's finest hour" Nigel Slater I've given up for now ignoring NIgel and Yotam - it's just too hard at this time of the...
Dec 27, 2024
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Sundries
"various items not important enough to be mentioned individually." Oxford Languages Christmas approaches and begins to dominate, so life...
Dec 21, 2024
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Nigel and Jonathan's onions
"There is no point in hurrying an onion – other than those you dip into batter and dunk into bubbling oil. They need time." Nigel Slater...
Nov 10, 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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Party time in the wilds of Nillumbik
Nillumbik is our local council area. It calls itself 'The Green Wedge Shire' - because over 90% of it's 431.94 square kilometres of land...
Oct 21, 2024
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Cool as a cucumber
"Pert as a pear-monger I'd be, If Molly were but kind; Cool as a cucumber could see The rest of womankind" John Gay 1732 I was going to...
Sep 26, 2024
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Collectors and/or creators
"it’s about familiarising yourself with ingredients and understanding flavours." Alex Hely Hutchinson There are so many things that you...
Sep 20, 2024
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Burnt lemons
"The juice will enhance almost anything you can squeeze it over." Nigel Slater Scorched, burnt, charred, grilled, fried, roasted - take...
Sep 14, 2024
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Comfort - a moveable feast
"the ability of a dish to be nostalgic and novel at once - that's at the heart of our interpretation of comfort. In this book we offer...
Sep 10, 2024
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Fried red tomatoes
For dinner tonight I'm going to try that kefir fried chicken recipe I talked about the other day, so I have been pondering on what to...
Sep 6, 2024
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The comfort of Heinz tomato soup
"I can still remember the taste of those Scottish rolls and butter and the warm, tangy tomato soup, a real childhood treat." Man Has a...
Sep 4, 2024
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Kohlrabi for Jenny - mostly from Ottolenghi
"The martian tennis ball, the slug magnet, the devil's testicle." Mark Diacono/River Cottage My sister gets one of those deliveries of a...
Aug 21, 2024
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Why don't I cook pancakes more often?
"Its surface is the softest canary yellow evenly dimpled with pale gold. Its edges are as frilly as old French lace. It is so delicate...
Aug 2, 2024
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