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Seedy business 2: less seedy

Go to Hell, chia seeds. Stupid fad food. I’m really annoyed at the chia seed thing. Sure, they’ve got loads of protein and omega-3 and bind things together — you know what else does? Eggs. Free-range eggs from the farmer’s markets, where I’m friendly with the sellers and you can look at photos of them [...]

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2012 02 17 bethini Cooking Comments (0)

Seedy business

The title is a pun. I made a seedful bread. Seeds, seedy: GET IT? Yay! High five! Anybody? I feel like I’ve got this bread making business under control nowadays: I can reliably produce delectable loaves of sandwich-appropriate bread. Hellz yeah. I can make foccaccia, naan, tortillas. I can, when called upon, produce crusty, open-crumbed [...]

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2012 02 15 bethini Cooking Comments (0)

Pannekoekken

So I’m pretty great. Disappointing biscuits notwithstanding, I’m definitely pretty great. Ask anyone. Saturday morning breakfast is a good time to show how great I am. M’s like “I’m thinking of pancakes for breakfast.” And I’m like “Let me cover you there, dude: I’ve not mastered pancakery yet and I want to show how great [...]

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2012 02 13 bethini Cooking Comments (0)

A Tale of Two Biscuits

I made biscuits and I don’t feel that pleased about it. Normally when I make bikkies, I’m all “yaaaay! bikkies!” They’re usually easy and tasty and small and satisfying. These ones took a while to win me over. First up: Oatmeal Spiced Chocolate Cookies. I have a question: why do they get called “oatmeal” biscuits/cookies [...]

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2012 02 11 bethini Cooking Comments (0)

Bouncy

I got home from work. I made dinner. Then I made a flognarde. Then I made pesto. Then I made hummus. Then I made a roast eggplant, capsicum, feta, pesto and shallot quiche. I’m thinking of baking bran muffins. I also made yoghurt and soda and iced tea and refilled all the water bottles in [...]

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2012 01 31 bethini Cooking Comments (0)

Heavy Crumpetting (*snork*)

If you were paying close attention, you would recall how I declared a set of things I wanted to learn hot to cook. The Learn-How List! Today I kicked off with one of the hardest.  A cooking challenge that has eluded me for some years now, and whose rewards are potentially legion. Crumpets. I love [...]

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Foodin’ challenges

You might not have noticed, but it recently became a new year. That means we observe the fact that, since 1 January 2011, the planet has done approximately one loop around the sun. It also means bloggers whip themselves into a foam of introspection, self-reflection and planning, usually expressed through lists such as “Top 10 [...]

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2012 01 24 bethini Cooking Comments (0)

Big Red Love

In my house there’s a big red pot and that big red pot gets more big red love than anything else in the kitchen. Okay, maybe not more. The wok and the enormous mixing bowl probably are equal contenders. But I love that dern pot. Originally bought for the purposes of making no-knead bread (you [...]

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2012 01 19 bethini Cooking
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“Well, what is there to eat?”

“Get off, Napoleon! Make yourself a dang quesadilla!” And so the legend was born. Inspired by Napoleon Dynamite, a friend of the awesome ilk invented the Dang Quesadilla. Take yourself some tortillas — homemade unless you’re a lazyboneroo, and I’ll get to that in a sec — and spread half with chopped banana and a [...]

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2012 01 17 bethini Cooking
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Claf goes plus good

Man, clafoutis, am I right? Yes. The answer is yes. Clafoutis, in case you just walked in and are too dumb to do the Google, is a French dish where you take raw, sherry-drizzled cherries and pour a thickened custard-type batter over the top, then bake until the custard cooks. Top with toasted slivered almonds [...]

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