I’ve just done a massive cookbook cull so naturally I found myself ogling cookbooks again the other day. If all I did was ogle them, it wouldn’t be a problem, but ogling inevitably leads to browsing, which leads to detailed…
Category: confectionery
Recipe: Agar Jellies that Fluoresce under Blue Light
They are also vegan, gluten-free, and very tasty. And not at all radioactive, despite their alarming appearance. But let me go back to the start of this story. Next weekend, I and a bunch of my colleagues will be participating…
Recipe: Passionfruit and Mango Pâté des Fruits
This was my first attempt at modifying Kirsten Tibbals’ recipe for Passionfruit Pâté de Fruit using the Lotus brand of Citrus Pectin. And… first time lucky, apparently, because this really worked. It’s nothing like my old pectin jellies, but it’s…
Kitchen Lab Book Post: Pectin Jellies Attempt 3
This is a continuation from my previous lab book post, as I’m still working on how to get the best results with the two kinds of pectin I’ve been using by modifying the two recipes I’ve been given. The main…
Recipe Lab Book Post: Pectin Jellies (Pâté de fruit)
When I originally started this blog, a big part of the point of it was keeping track of my more successful culinary experiments so that I could repeat them as needed. I haven’t really done that, but today I definitely…
Recipe: Chocolate Truffle Cake Pops That Really Should Be Vegan
Why yes, this is indeed another Wedding Cake Leftovers post. Is anyone really surprised by this? This time, the cake bits in question were the vegan sachertorte cakes. I also had leftover dark chocolate, leftover milk and leftover cream –…
Recipe: Lemon and Ruby Cakepops
You probably thought I was done with rainbow-wedding-cake related posts, didn’t you? Nope. Not a chance. I’m actually writing this a month before you are reading it (and a good thing, too, because right at this very moment I am…
Recipe: Chocolate THING that is basically evil but really yummy
A couple of Thursdays ago, I read an article in the paper lamenting the fact that many Australians would be letting down their employers by taking a sickie on the Monday before Australia Day. (The article did, at least, point…
Pot-Pourri Post: Nerdy Nummies, Sugar Geodes and Jam Sugar
A post all about sugar, what a surprise at this time of year! Today is horribly hot, and I’m sitting inside, obsessively tracking the cool change across Western Victoria via the BOM weather observation map, and there is no way…
Recipe: Fruits in Liqueur
A couple of years ago, Diana Henry put out a book called Salt Sugar Smoke, which is all about preserving things. I’m terrified of preserving things, because my kitchen is always full of dirty dishes and I’m convinced that no…