Blood orange (and lime) marmalade recip-ish
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Halfway through making marmalade (boiled oranges whole for 3 hrs yesterday; today, scraped out pith and cut up peel [v. easy]; boiled up pulp and pips [v. easy] and squeezed them in cloth to extract pectin [middling tricky, finished item will be cloudy]; put peel, pectin extract, sugar into water from boiling oranges and bring to boil [v.easy, ( Read more... )

Lobsterrrrrrrrr. Waaaannnnntttt. (Mmm. Grilled lobster. Might it be worth seeing if pre-cooked lobster can be improved by bunging the flesh over the coals for a minute, I wonder?)
(Sorry, vegetarians.)

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A couple of things that turned out well recently. Sorry about your-grandmother's-cookbook style, but I wasn't measuring anything. ( Read more... )

The trip to Ikea (many thanks, Tim) was not as epic as expected, although the last time I was in a car that full it was a van, and I got everything on my list and nothing besides. Boring things like folding chairs, and, most importantly, nine bookcases. Nine. That is how many bookcases I now have to assemble. (Well actually two are done, with only ( Read more... )

I was quite bored yesterday. I was bored while watching a Muppet movie, which is frankly worrying. But happily it wore off. I made a rather nice stew for supper, with rosemary-flavoured dark chocolate in it; ( vague recipe here, )