Everyone! Check out my post title! It’s a pun! Today I made shakshouka, and I was all “what’s shakshouking?” but that didn’t make sense so I had to flip it around. So now it’s like “Hey, shakshouka, what’s shoushaking?” Pretty clever, huh? And my cleverness doesn’t end there! I’ve been whisking up cleverness into a [...]
Also taggedEver had shakshouka? It’s a thick, spicy soup with capsicum, onions, tomatoes and such, and before you serve you poach eggs in it. It’s one of the finest culinary creations known to man, particularly when served with flatbread sprinkled with za’atar. Ever had pizza? ‘Course you have. I’m not going to fuck with you on [...]
Also tagged adventures in cookingStumped for inspiration, yet finding myself in the kitchen armed with a spoon and a bowl, I turned my attention to the Foodin’ Challenge List! Today’s spectacular triumph: cornbread. Cornbread is so easy I feel a bit embarrassed about listing it anywhere even tangentially connected to the word “challenge”. It’s easier than muffins. It’s easier [...]
Also tagged adventures in cooking, The Learn-How ListToday is Sunday and I’m moving slowly and small-ly. Partly because of… …who has been living with us this week. A hairy brown peanut of cuddles and wags. But it hasn’t been all peaches and farts around here: on Wednesday night we were treated to three renditions plus encore of her rarely-heard HOWCK-SPLAT solo concerto [...]
Also tagged banging onIf you felt a slight shift in the globe’s gravitational pull today, be not alarmed. It’s simply that my awesomeness has expanded to new, stellar levels and there had to be a slight planetary adjustment to accommodate it. This weekend I made a lovely banana cake. I roasted some coffee, I dabbled with a bit [...]
Also taggedToday I ticked a big one off the 2012 Cooking Challenges list: making pasta. I’ve made it before, but it was pretty wobbly and I wasn’t too proud of it. I haven’t made it solo since M and I bought a pasta-roller-dealie: we’ve been making our own pasta for ages (which is to see M [...]
Also tagged adventures in cooking, The Learn-How ListIt’s my Mumini’s birthday today. I tried to take photos of the skirt I made to show off to her, but frankly she deserves better. Let’s talk life skillz. What she gave me: Knitting. Man, that first scarf: she showed me how to cast on, and then I would work a row of K1, P1 [...]
Also taggedSuper easy, dudes. All you need is love pastry, eggs and fillings. I made pesto, I made pastry, I roasted an eggplant and a red capsicum. Pastry = 150g plain flour, 75g cold butter, cubed, pinch of salt, water. Mix the flour and salt, then rub the butter in so it goes all crumbly. Add [...]
Also taggedIt’s beautiful. To recap: Got 10 balls of red cotton for an Xmas present: the balls turned out to have 48,000,000 metres of yarn each, so I made two tanks and an Everlasting Bagstopper. The bagstopper rocks on; the two tanks shrank in such a way that they no longer fitted. BOO. I wore them [...]
Also tagged FO Report, recycled redIn 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 [...]
Also tagged adventures in cooking