Back to Basics Cooking in a Modern Age
Sometimes I spy a recipe online that I think, wow – I need to try that. But then the next time I go to the supermarket, I forget to get the right ingredients and end up making something else. Or I do get the right ingredients and then forget where I saw the recipe. Sometimes, …
I appear to be on a bit of a feta kick at the moment. I blame the fact that at the supermarket the other day, I encountered a ONE KILO tin of feta cheese. A whole KILO of salty, crumbly goodness. So easy to use in the summer, with salads galore. But in the winter? …
I sorta think of Thanksgiving as a trial-run for Christmas. All the lovely recipes start appearing in my Facebook and RSS feeds and it gives me a six week headstart on Christmas dinner planning because we don’t actually celebrate Thanksgiving here, obviously. But this year I’m not in charge of dinner at Christmas. So I …
Shopping ’round here is great. Sometimes frustrating, sometimes exciting. Like the other day when I found blueberries in the shop and ended up making Coconut Blueberry Muffins. Well, over the weekend, I found blackberries (same shop, in fact) so I bought those and figured, as I’ve still got a fridge full of Bacon Chocolate Muffins, …
There is something indescribable about the combination of bacon and chocolate. It either fills you with horror or delight. For me, it’s delight. I’ve made chocolate covered bacon before, so why not have a go at chocolate bacon muffins. I didn’t let the fact that I don’t have any muffin liners stop me. But in …
I always see recipes that call for those giant portabello mushrooms, using them as a substitute for hamburger buns. I covet those; and I don’t even like mushrooms all that much. But we can’t get them here in Spain. At least, I’ve never seen them. Until the other day when I found these giant mushrooms …
