Entries Categorized as 'Food'

Pasta Carbonara

Date July 20, 2008

It’s been a while since I’ve had this dish. My mum found it in a book titled “The Cost Conscious Cook Book” (I cannot find it on Amazon, otherwise I’d link to it). It’s a really simple dish, but rather tasty…

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They’re good…

Date May 12, 2008

No, they’re bad… Now they’re good again…

I am of course talking about eggs. And now I turn you over to Lewis Black.

Steak with Mushroom and Red wine Sauce

Date January 20, 2008

This evenings experiment was steak with mushroom and red wine sauce. Original idea was from Good Housekeeping, but had some tweaks. For example, couldn’t find port, so just went with a red wine. Cut down the amount of mushrooms to just 8oz, because that’s all I could fit in the pan.

I browned [...]

New Kitchen Toys

Date December 3, 2007

I upgraded one of our kitchen toys this weekend… Got a new knife set, now I can look like a real chef, even if I cannot quite cook like one. Maybe I’ll start going to courses, or just grab a few books, and randomly pick recipes to try.

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Mmmm cookies cake

Date April 28, 2007

Why do Bill and Theresa rock? Because they found me these, and sent them down from Connecticut. They’re very similar to Jaffa Cakes, and quite tasty. They’ll be receiving the real things in September when I get back…

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Yummy

Date December 18, 2006

So this evening, I took it upon myself to construct dinner. Steph didn’t fancy the usual meal, so we popped to the store, and picked some stuff up. We ended up cooking Stuffed Chicken breast with greenbeans and rice. Chicken breast was stuffed with cream cheese, and a variety of herbs (that’s [...]

Trying Recipies

Date November 24, 2006

I recently wrote about being on a creativity kick, and I’ve been reading a lot of food blogs recently, one such is The Culinary Chase. Today they have an interesting looking recipe for beef stew which I think I might try. Anybody got any other recipes they really enjoy? Or have been wanting [...]

On a creativity kick…

Date October 29, 2006

Not sure why, but the last few weeks, I’ve been on a bit of a creativity kick. More specifically with food. Not entirely sure why. I’ve watched more Food Network in the last 2 weeks than I have since I split up with my ex, who used to watch it religiously.

Chicken

On Thursday [...]