This is still one of the best minimal-effort recipes ever. Of course I have to use gluten-free soy sauce and check the bottle of the mirin to make sure it's one of the safe ones, but those are things I have around anyway. I have periods of total ambivalence about food in general, but I'm not sure I'm ever not in the mood for this one ( Read more... )

This was tonight's dinner, using turkey stock I made after Christmas and really nice leftover bacon from the same. Pared down version -- no celery, cabbage or parsley, and I honestly don't know why you'd NEED to add salt to something which has so much bacon in so I didn't -- but it's still pretty tasty! :) I used green lentils and did soak them for ( Read more... )

Liz: *makes experimental mince pies*
Pez: *grabs a bit of one fresh out of the oven*
Liz: ...does it taste okay?
Pez: I aant ell it oo ot!
Liz: ...

Further culinary success was had with this recipe for coconut chicken soup. I played pretty fast&loose with the quantities, and also included some galangal just because I could, and the chicken stock was the stuff I made in bulk last month. It turned out pretty tasty. *_*

Anjum Anand has a new TV series, which means new recipes showing up on the BBC website! I really like her recipes a whole lot, not least because the vast majority of them are gluten free by nature as well as being really tasty. Tonight we had this and I have the vegetable and rice noodle thing earmarked for another day. (It's one of her previous ( Read more... )

Adapt http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/database/rosemaryssavourypast_74777.shtml + http://www.deliaonline.com/recipes/traditional-mince-pies, ( Read more... )

This weekend's mad experiment seems to be the attempted creation of gluten free christmas pudding ( Read more... )

1. My masochism. Let me show you it.

(This is what happens when you angst too much with Lynn about writing. Oh yeah, just imagine what the rest of the many hour long conversation was like ( Read more... )

Unni wanted recipes.

This isn't really super-quick food but a lot of stuff that I cook isn't. This is another recipe from Anjum Anand's Indian Food Made Easy, roughly paraphrased... I rather love this book because only a handful of the main meals in it feature gluten in any way. Actually I rather loved this book even before that became relevant. ( Read more... )

Mirin-glazed salmon, originally from Nigella Lawson. Several alterations later...

( My cooking method: well, there was this recipe, but I replaced this with this other thing and changed the quantities of that and... )