Category Archives: food

cornbread

Told you I was only making bread. Though Liam did most of this. We were having a jambalaya and inspired by Simon this was the natural compliment. I ordered corn meal from Tesco, not realising it’s actually polenta, which I have tons of anyway. Ho-hum. Otherwise, it’s bread-baking as usual except for the addition of, well, polenta. Doing it again […]

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bagels

I bought a bread book the other day. I’ve made little else ever since. I had to try making bagels, such a satisfying and fun food, and so versatile. The bread recipe is fairly standard, flour, yeast, water, yadda yadda, leave to prove etc. But the difference is just before baking to poach the batter in boiling water. It made […]

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balti beef

A dreadfully-named dish this one; but it inverts a standard cooking cornerstone in a way that really baffled me. It came from a Weight Watchers book of all places, though it has dubious dietary heritage. Rather than the time-honoured tradition of: sweat onions in oil, then add meat, the method for this is to dry-fry mince until it starts to […]

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