Category Archives: Food
Marmalade and Yogurt
A few years back a little small-goods store opened down the road. They had pricey hams and smoked meats, fancy cheeses and an array of handmade artisanal stuff in jars. The absolute star of the show for me was the … Continue reading
Water Water Everywhere
Went crazy and made a dhal (dahl? dal?) tonight without checking the recipe. Thought I was doing great till I tasted it after half an hour on the stove. Lentils still tasted and felt like hard bits of chalk. Seems … Continue reading
Tuesday, 30 April 2024
The first real rain of the year. Sadly, no petrichor that I could detect, perhaps due to my cold, which came on quickly overnight and set up camp in my throat and the right side of my head. A good … Continue reading
Monday, 29 April 2024
Nothing in my youth prepared me for how much time I’d have to spend peeling and chopping and grating and crushing garlic. Maybe I should go for the tube version or even one of those huge jars. I don’t have … Continue reading
Gyoza Moments
Some things I like and don’t like about making gyoza — Chopping Chinese cabbage is my least favourite part, mainly because my chopping board is a bit too small, as is my knife, so I end up with bits of … Continue reading
Super Spicy
So if you buy your daughter some super spicy chicken wings at the Taiwanese chicken place whose supposedly non-spicy chicken is too spicy for you, it’s a bad idea, when you put the super spicy chicken wings into the oven … Continue reading
The Platonic Ideal of KFC
A roadside KFC restored my faith in the fast food gods. Continue reading
Properly Crispy
Not exactly a surprise that a Recipe Tin Eats recipe works just as promised. Continue reading
The Coffee Dilemma
A note for future me — when at work and faced with the choice between drinking instant coffee or using a couple of paper towels as a make-do coffee filter because you left the filters you bought the day before … Continue reading
Just One Cookbook’s Macaroni Gratin
This macaroni gratin is probably the first actually new recipe I’ve made this year. It was a late request on a Sunday, with just enough time to get to the shops. For ages I’ve shied away from anything vaguely rouxish. … Continue reading
Salt & Fat’s 707 Fried Chicken
I’ve made this chicken one billion times. You should give it a try. Continue reading
Salt & Fat’s Butter Tomato Sauce
The day ten years ago this recipe for tomato-butter sauce was posted on Salt & Fat was the day I started to cook. Until then I had prepared plenty of food and certainly thought that I had been cooking, but … Continue reading