From the monthly archives:

July 2009

Recipes from around the internets, tried and tested 3

I’m in mid preparations for a trip off the rock. Later today we’re going to Canada for two weeks, a whistlestop tour of Whistler (geddit) and more in British Columbia. Hence I’ve been doing an awful lot of leftovers which aren’t too interesting or bloggable. But here are the best of the rest:

Gooey chocolate stack
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Abe’s extremely fruity blueberry streusel muffins

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I’ve recently started to play golf, or more accurately to take lessons. I’ve been told golf is the most technical sport there is, that it’s a very “deep” game, that once one starts it’s impossible to stop… All I know is that my pro annoyingly never seems to perspire, even under the Nassau midday sun, [...]

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Recipes from around the internets, tried and tested 2

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One hit, four misses. I still have yet to reliably master the art of producing homemade ice-cream that isn’t either overly rich or a frozen mass requiring drill and blast operations to eat. Damn good souffle though.

Lime souffle
Really delicious, fluffy and light. For two people I used 2 yolks, 4 whites and 60g caster [...]

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A slapdash cook’s redemption (polpettone, less elegantly known as meatloaf)

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So not all goes to plan in this kitchen, oooh no. Actually that sentence would indicate that I have a plan for supper – most days I’m flipping between at least ten sites open on my increasingly sticky MacBook Air, each with a slightly different version of the recipe I originally had in mind. My cooking [...]

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