Katsudon - Japanese crumbed pork rice bowl ( Read more... )

For a number of years after my mum and I became estranged, I didn't cook any of her recipes. But now I have started to cook them again. I think I am being my own mum now? I feel like cooking is part of my gender identity as a woman. This is pretty weird for me as I have pretty mixed feelings about even having a gender identity as a woman, but ( Read more... )

HELLO ELJAY ( Read more... )

1. I spent a lot of money on a lot of wine.
2. I expended all my cooking energy this weekend, not on something sensible I could have for dinners and lunches, but on a key lime pie (made with ordinary limes, not key limes, if that still counts) and meringues (to use up the egg whites).  Then I ate toast for meals.
3. On Sunday night I pulled into a servo on ( Read more... )

Oh my god, I just made a gnocchi carbonara with this: http://www.philadelphiacreamcheese.com.au/products/cream-for-cooking.aspxRead more... )

Flist ( Read more... )

You guys, I bought A CAR ( Read more... )

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chaosmanor, who moved to insanejournal in 2007, posted a chocolate self-saucing pudding recipe in 2005 that I was clever enough to save to my hard drive. Whereupon I remember a discussion in which we talked about it overflowing in the oven and Elaine said, memorably, "I'll clean the oven when I'm dead ( Read more... )

Okay, so I finally made a chicken and chorizo stew that was NOM NOM like this fantasy I have had for a while about a chicken and chorizo stew that would KICK YOU IN THE FACE. And I kept making one that wasn't doing it - the problem being, I think, that I was still cooking like a broke student who can barely afford to eat meat. But finally last ( Read more... )