Archive for the ‘recipes’ Category

Cheap & good eat: fast to fix

LW is full of ideas for making great meals and consequently is often sought for her recipes. She doesn’t write them down, giving pointers whenever she’s asked.
Perhaps that’s the way to go for which cook, good or bad, follows recipes slavishly anyway, given the mnany things that can’t always be replicated — ingredients, size of kitchen, adequacy of [...]

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KISS-style cooking

Considering that when I first went to the UK to study, I barely knew how to boil water, it seemed something of a miracle that the first paid work in my life was to cook for an aristocratic family who hired me for six weeks as a “mother’s help” while their real one went on summer [...]

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Waste not, want not

I hate to make this a habit: quoting again from the Sunday Times, I mean but I guess there’s no running away that it does provide some fodder for food chat.
So, here I go again. On Sunday, (Aug 24), I found something really worthwhile in the papers, a link from its usually rubbishy Hot Clicks section: [...]

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Making do & get it done!

I’m a great believer in making do — that is, don’t fuss if you don’t have all the ingredients you need for a particular recipe. It’s a philosophy I eat and live by: hence when life hands me a lemon, I make lemonade; if it’s an orange, I make orange juice and if it’s grape, I [...]

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Cooking without oil

Since I began cooking without oil from October 2006, I’ve never missed the stuff. My taste buds have changed, as have those of my mother’s. Even those of my family (and the maid who joined us in March 2008) who eat my cooking occasionally have learnt the pleasure of eating food with little or no oil.
This [...]

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