Pictures, they are tasty - my week in food
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elvenpirateladyTyping a record of my week would be mostly reiterations of 'I'm bored' and on Saturday, 'waaaaaaah, it's hot' so here is what I cooked instead:
On Monday I did not cook anything except sausages for tea, and since I think everyone here knows what sausages look like I will not trouble with a picture. Also, I am wary of Googling 'sausage' because the Internet is, well, the internet.
On Tuesday it was my mother's birthday and I made this plum cake at her request. I have to say, I rock at making plum cakes.
We ate it three nights in a row and concluded that it is very tasty on the first day, very very tasty on the second day as the flavours have time to mingle, but the cake part begins to go stale on the third day.
I also made couscous salad for my lunch and I've decided that raw onions should not be part of salads. They are too strong. But couscous is delicious and it is my very favourite grain because it only needs warm water and is tasty with only salt and butter.
On Wednesday for dinner I made Thai Chicken Salad which turned out to be spicier than I expected. Word to the wise: if you're making a half batch of something, make sure you halve the sauce as well.
I also made these Ginger Snaps (and I feel that I'm on a slippery slope here. I'm reading food blogs, multiple food blogs. I'm obsessively bookmarking recipes. I rearranged the recipe folder so now I have a chance of actually cooking something written on the three billion scraps of paper. The fact that I have taken pictures of everything and posted them here is a sign of my problem. I think I'm hooked. Or bored. Heeeeeeeelp.) This is the only gingernut recipe I've ever found to have fresh ginger in it. This is sad. Ginger is a beautiful plant! It spices up tea, biscuits and curries perfectly! We should not settle for its powdered form.
Speaking of beautiful plants, this is our basil. It is fresh and happy and apparently loves scorching days and hot dry winds which is a relief because I can't really afford to send it home to visit Italy. At this rate it will outstrip the mint in the race for Control Of The Garden.
On Thursday I went on a baking and made these Mayan Chocolate Sparklers which is a fancy way of saying very chocolately slightly spicy biscuits rolled in sugar. They were time-consuming and not healthy at all and very, very delicious.
And then I made banana bread which has no fat at all and contains things like dates and dried apricots and oats and so I felt virtuous again.
Dinner was pork stirfry and I cooked it into something that actually resembled stirfry this time. (Our stove is electric. Our wok is rather old. These are not conducive conditions to proper stirfry.) Apart from the oil getting slightly all over the hot plates and the problems inherent in trying to cook pork and vegetables at arms' length, it turned out very well.
On Friday I did a massive cleanup and ended up with five bags of stuff for the op-shops. I made pizza for lunch and ate it all because I failed to take into account the amount of time an oven needs to get to 250C. Quite a long time, apparently. About an hour passed between the stages of 'I'm hungry, I'll make pizza' and 'yay pizza!'. But it was delicious. Possibly more so because I was starving. Trying on old clothes all morning is very enervating, y'know.
On Saturday, Melbourne recorded its hottest day ever of 46.4 degrees celsius, or 155.5 for those. Salads were in order. On the left, chicken and celery. On the right, tomato and mint.
We ate and were generally happy in the face of a new record in Australian weather trying to send people insane. 'Ah,' I said appreciatively, 'salad days.'
I think I am on my brother's hit list now. If you never hear from me again, assume that I have been clubbed to death with a textbook.
And today it was cool and I half woke up to see rain falling, and when I had woken up properly I wasn't sure if I hadn't dreamed the whole thing. And I made apricot scones.
There were a lot of them. Luckily, scones freeze.
So that's my week in cooking. Enough blogging now. Adios!
On Monday I did not cook anything except sausages for tea, and since I think everyone here knows what sausages look like I will not trouble with a picture. Also, I am wary of Googling 'sausage' because the Internet is, well, the internet.
On Tuesday it was my mother's birthday and I made this plum cake at her request. I have to say, I rock at making plum cakes.
We ate it three nights in a row and concluded that it is very tasty on the first day, very very tasty on the second day as the flavours have time to mingle, but the cake part begins to go stale on the third day.
I also made couscous salad for my lunch and I've decided that raw onions should not be part of salads. They are too strong. But couscous is delicious and it is my very favourite grain because it only needs warm water and is tasty with only salt and butter.
On Wednesday for dinner I made Thai Chicken Salad which turned out to be spicier than I expected. Word to the wise: if you're making a half batch of something, make sure you halve the sauce as well.
I also made these Ginger Snaps (and I feel that I'm on a slippery slope here. I'm reading food blogs, multiple food blogs. I'm obsessively bookmarking recipes. I rearranged the recipe folder so now I have a chance of actually cooking something written on the three billion scraps of paper. The fact that I have taken pictures of everything and posted them here is a sign of my problem. I think I'm hooked. Or bored. Heeeeeeeelp.) This is the only gingernut recipe I've ever found to have fresh ginger in it. This is sad. Ginger is a beautiful plant! It spices up tea, biscuits and curries perfectly! We should not settle for its powdered form.
Speaking of beautiful plants, this is our basil. It is fresh and happy and apparently loves scorching days and hot dry winds which is a relief because I can't really afford to send it home to visit Italy. At this rate it will outstrip the mint in the race for Control Of The Garden.
On Thursday I went on a baking and made these Mayan Chocolate Sparklers which is a fancy way of saying very chocolately slightly spicy biscuits rolled in sugar. They were time-consuming and not healthy at all and very, very delicious.
And then I made banana bread which has no fat at all and contains things like dates and dried apricots and oats and so I felt virtuous again.
Dinner was pork stirfry and I cooked it into something that actually resembled stirfry this time. (Our stove is electric. Our wok is rather old. These are not conducive conditions to proper stirfry.) Apart from the oil getting slightly all over the hot plates and the problems inherent in trying to cook pork and vegetables at arms' length, it turned out very well.
On Friday I did a massive cleanup and ended up with five bags of stuff for the op-shops. I made pizza for lunch and ate it all because I failed to take into account the amount of time an oven needs to get to 250C. Quite a long time, apparently. About an hour passed between the stages of 'I'm hungry, I'll make pizza' and 'yay pizza!'. But it was delicious. Possibly more so because I was starving. Trying on old clothes all morning is very enervating, y'know.
On Saturday, Melbourne recorded its hottest day ever of 46.4 degrees celsius, or 155.5 for those. Salads were in order. On the left, chicken and celery. On the right, tomato and mint.
We ate and were generally happy in the face of a new record in Australian weather trying to send people insane. 'Ah,' I said appreciatively, 'salad days.'
I think I am on my brother's hit list now. If you never hear from me again, assume that I have been clubbed to death with a textbook.
And today it was cool and I half woke up to see rain falling, and when I had woken up properly I wasn't sure if I hadn't dreamed the whole thing. And I made apricot scones.
There were a lot of them. Luckily, scones freeze.
So that's my week in cooking. Enough blogging now. Adios!
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Date: 2009-02-08 02:58 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2009-02-08 05:04 pm (UTC)The temperature there is insane! I offer to send some cooling vibes your way but we're in the middle of our own February mini heatwave with highs back up to 13C by Tuesday (like it was yesterday). It's just in time to melt all of our snow so that the Sled Dog group will probably have to, once again, cancel it's sled dog race scheduled for next week. This makes the third year in a row... you'd think that they'd learn!
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Date: 2009-02-09 08:10 am (UTC)I heard about the fires... that's terrible. I hope it stops soon, and I'm glad you're okay.
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Date: 2009-02-08 10:31 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2009-02-09 04:47 am (UTC)(And you can come and live here! It's raining.)
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Date: 2009-02-09 06:08 am (UTC)Rain? Ra-in? What is this thing you call ra-in?
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