Note: Yes, I’m a bit of an absentee blogger at the moment. Work is particularly crazy, I’m preparing for three separate and unrelated concerts in two weeks’ time, and I’m too tired to feel like eating, let alone cooking anything…
…Aside from the fact that I am not good at it, and therefore it takes me ages, and we wind up having dinner at quarter to ten on a Sunday night, quoth she, hungrily. It’s two things, really. Well, three,…
There are a lot of posts I need to write. I need to write the gargantuan photographic post about Pericles (NB: There was definitely enough food.). I need to write about going to the market and finally – finally! –…
Edible glitter is, admittedly, awesome. And it makes last-minute birthday cakes look fabulous with very little effort. But it isn’t cheap, and should not be wasted.
I’m slightly overwhelmed by other projects today, so here’s an old post from my other online journal that I ran across while looking for something else and found amusing. Hopefully, you’ll find it amusing too. Fontina, Cima di Rape and…
Many years ago, I purchased a cookbook called Garlic, Garlic, Garlic!. I purchased it pretty much for the sake of one recipe, garlic fudge. I figured that garlic fudge was not a recipe I was going to find anywhere else,…
In the immortal words of 1066 And All That, it’s magnificent, but it’s not the railway station. Which is to say that I did, in fact, succeed in making confectionery this time, and it even tastes good. I just didn’t…
Astute readers may have deduced from the title of this post that my first attempt at making marshmallows using agar instead of gelatine was less than successful. And they would be right. Boy, would they be right. About the only…
It turns out that I can make marshmallows. It also transpires that I can make an unbelievable mess in the kitchen and emerge covered in a mixture of cornflour and icing sugar. This is not as tasty as it sounds.…
I visited my brother and sister-in-law today for lunch. We had Mexican food, cooked by my brother, followed by cupcakes, cooked by my sister-in-law, who expressed what I hope was humorous concern about baking cakes for me. Fortunately, I came…
