I’m a bit of a sucker for the “dump everything in” school of baking, given that I spend every day dealing with micro-volumes of nasty chemicals in multi-step, multi-day techniques dans les labo. So whenever Santos recommends an all-in-one-no-washing-no-hassle recipe, (see here for prior eg.), the baking pans come out. The timing of the recent […]
In my cranberry/vodka. Rectifying the lack of cocktail photos in the last post. Recipe.
Why are cocktails named as such? Who knows and who cares? All that matters is that they taste fabulous, and are an excellent excuse to buy pretty glasses. Tonight’s cocktails (sorry, nae photos. photographer was bartender): Amaretto-Cranberry Kiss, but with white rum substituting the vodka. And a few pomegranate seeds instead of clementine segments as […]
I treated myself to a little holiday in the wet and windy city of San Francisco while P was away. Right, that’s the craving for wet and windy sorted for the autumn-winter transition. Next up: gale force winds and slush underfoot. While enjoying walking in the windy rain (sadly no horizontal rain obliged), I popped […]
There’s one day left to enter the raffle for this year’s Menu for Hope. $10 to obtain one raffle ticket with all proceeds will be going to a school lunch program in Lesotho. My nearest “outpost” is posted at Rasa Malaysia1: West Coast of the USA. It all looks really good, but I can’t decide […]
Do I ever talk about anything else these days? The mega-lab party was not quite as mega as I’d expected it to be. I guess the undergrads all have finals next week and weren’t in the partying mood. Ach well, more chocolate cake for everyone else. The “fixed” with ganache piss-easy-and-yet-I-duffed-it cakes went down very […]
Don’t you hate it when you bake a cake and it turns into a dog’s breakfast by the time a few folk have tried to saw through it with plastic knives? I thought I’d preempt that by making lots of bite-sized cakes for that mega-lab party I’m committed to attending tamara. Perfect for buffets and […]
Righty then. It’s only 7 days into my month of daily posting, and I’m already flagging. Work is interrupting my plans for a chilled December1. But it also brings fodder for posting in the form of the mega-lab party. My two labs are having a joint party on Sunday, which kind of interrupts my working […]
Lamb stew is possibly the only thing we can get away with when we have chunks of lamb in the freezer. Fortunately, it’s one of those easy dishes you can put on while you get on with the weekly chores of hoovering and the damn laundry. And doubly fortunately, it’s a very forgivable dish: you […]
Having accumulated several bottles of wine over the summer, I hosted a mini tasting session of a mere fraction of the full cupboard of Californian sunshine. Here are some piccies taken pre-drinking. The cheese and fruit spread was intended to 1. line the stomach and 2. provide gentle reminders of the often-fruitiness of wine. OK, […]
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