And quite chuffed am I about it too. So what worked well?

• "pillows" - I really did look somewhat askance at Heidi Swanson's recipe when it kept referring them as pillows, but this actually turned out to be exactly the imagery that worked. It stuck in my head and really did help guide me.
  
• *lots* of flour - she calls for "scant: measurements of ( Read more... )

The last month has seen us add a number of lovely things to our kitchen that are really too good not to share ( Read more... )

One of the many, many things I love about my relationship with raayat is how well we've come to work together in the kitchen and how much relish we take in the food we prepare. There are few things more fabulous than tucking into dinner we made together from scratch and realising that the food itself is scrumptious. In fact, we often comment that we ( Read more... )

So, our housewarming yesterday went off quite well. It turned into a rather small gathering, which was absolutely fine, and in good style we pretty much hung around, ate and chatted until early evening. raayat even managed to have a first successful run on the grill in the rain! Oh yes, life is good ( Read more... )

It's really hard to say how much of raayat and my eating habits are shaped by being so long in Europe and how much is just us really liking good, fresh food. Either way, one thing that is fabulous about summer is the ability to eat food very nearly fresh. Just the slightest bit of cooking to meld flavours together, but otherwise, crispy crunchy ( Read more... )

then what you need to make is a variation on this dish. It is essentially a vegetarian, Moroccan version of shepherd's pie, and oh man let me tell you is it tasty. Seriously, seriously tasty. Nearly orgasmic, actually. It is actually pretty fussy, but there are a number of short cuts that you can take that will keep to the original intent, but ( Read more... )

Today was perhaps one of the worst days yet this year - if it could have gone wrong today it did. I really do hate Tuesdays something terrible, and today was no exception.

Instead let's talk about food! Food is great and cooking makes me feel better, so food it shall be.

( Salads and Cookies! )

So, yes I have successfully written my first law school essay and so in celebration I'm baking cookies. We had a gander through our recipe collection and thought that given the dreadful weather today, that something spicy sounded just the thing, and was clinched by the author's suggestion of apples, cheese and spiced rum as accompanments. Yum ( Read more... )

A hodge podge of what's in my life and head at the moment. . .

Work has blocked almost every social/fun website possible, including LJ and Facebook. Goodreads is still available and for some strange reason I still have access to a certain Great MAIL service. This is bothering me much more than it should given that it is their network afterall ( Read more... )

Well, since my colleague has failed to show up for our meeting this morning (never mind I was here early to prepare and she's just completely failed to come in - not even an email and clients breathing down my neck for decisions she needs to make), let's talk about some more pleasant things ( Read more... )