Recently readLA continues to be grand; it’s nice to go through my normal work routine - the same stuff I’d be doing if I wasn’t on-site with a client - while also getting to experiment with recipes and subject Cathy to the results. The big food success of yesterday was this Native American cornmeal pudding - […]
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Last night at Cathy’s, I made dinner (cream of spinach and mushroom soup, Thai prawn curry - made with my own improvised Thai curry paste, since the stuff I’d bought got lost somewhere between the supermarket and Cathy’s house - rice, butternut squash) and Sandra Tsing Loh brought the cookies. I was going to try […]
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Or: Another reason to wish Prince Charles would go away. So we should ban McDonald’s out of existence, but it’s fine to eat crisps, chocolate, biscuits, cakes, pasties, steak and ale pie….as long as they’re Charles’s own brand of calorific, fatty goodness, right? We just need our friends in Parliament to look out for the […]
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I could give a few people on this forum a lengthy lecture on nutrition and what the human body needs, but it’ll be more fun to watch them become more and more delibitated until they die slowly of their own ignorance.
I can’t help but wonder how torn this guy is on whether or not to […]
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The tough get procrastinating. This afternoon, I baked Le Gâteau Piège for Antoine, which was super-easy and smells great. And I don’t even like to bake. (Haven’t tasted it yet, but I’m sure it’s lovely.)
Procrastination over, I just finished writing the reading I will give at my best friend’s wedding next Saturday. Please hope, for […]
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It’s going slowly, mostly because I have 100+ photographs to edit for it, too. Plus, I need to re-write a lot of my recipes, because the person I’m giving this to is an American and I don’t want her to have to try to figure out what coriander is (cilantro, duh!). Considering all the time […]
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I’m editing a cookery book this weekend, using Blurb, which I’ll also use to publish it. (It’s being created for one specific recipient, though, so the book isn’t intended for sale.) So far, this is fun and somewhat entrancing, which I guess is why I’m still working on it at 4.30 in the morning.
Speaking […]
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According to the email I got in response to that post, I guess you’re not supposed to joke about chicken broth. Ever. This website is now on the Official Shit List of the Organic Free Range Chicken Broth People.
Dooce gets the most retarded, funny hate mail. I wish she wouldn’t feel compelled to explain her […]
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I have a love letter to one of my favourite London restaurants, Roka, up at Another Food Blog. Thanks to Antoine and Patrick Crozier for being such good sports when I dragged them there after Casino Royale. (Our cab had driven past Roka on our way to the cinema - bee, meet bonnet.) If you […]
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I can’t remember who it was, but someone (one of the two other girls at our sausage party, no doubt) asked me for the recipe to make the corn spoon bread I served for Thanksgiving. There it is.
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It was supremely stupid of me to plan a Thanksgiving open house during a week when I have so many appointments and so much work on. So I spent much of my weekend testing recipes for the event; if you’re interested in an easy pumpkin bread, I’ve done all the testing for you.
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While I am SO over the organic delusion that afflicts so many (please, keep your value judgements about my food to yourself - especially if you’re a politician whose wages I’m paying), I have to say that I am very happy with the organic fruit and veg we’ve got from Riverford.
This week, we had […]
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I now have password-protected wikis (I use Writeboard) for:
- collecting quotations for my best friend’s wedding favours
- listing Christmas gift ideas for others
- listing Christmas gift ideas for myself and Antoine (to satisfy my father and stepmother’s annual request for wish lists, which I am determined to fulfil for once)
- listing recipe possibilities for our […]
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Speaking of folic acid and government interference in what we eat, a new study finds that folic acid may render anti-malaria drugs ineffective. Of course, this probably will not affect the UK government’s mandate that folic acid MUST be added to ALL bread and flour, under penalty of law.
Why on earth do government busybodies, ‘consumer […]
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