Crunchy Bois

January 14, 2025

Missed me? Salads take too long. A bag o’ leaves, olive oil, salt, maybe some capers if I remember to take them out of the fridge… All of this is golden,...

Just the Old Ones

January 1, 2025

Orange-you glad to see me? I love a good fascination, an obsession I can’t shake. Throw me down the rabbit hole, all this red string is bound to lead me...

Soup Waits For No Man aka I Just Can't Help Falling In Soup

November 29, 2024

The first of the fallen. Not the last. Not the last, indeed… I can make soup. Pot, water, bone1 - done. I have a blender that has a soup setting, where, if I...

Leaf Peeper

November 13, 2024

Can’t beat a big old bowl of leaves I love me some leaves. A bag of spinach or rocket (but usually and) gets added to every trolley (rare), basket (common),...

I know what you've been stressing about...

November 6, 2024

Wow. Political, amirite? What did I do with all those beans!?! Look, it’s easy to make beans (if you have time and beans), and it’s easy to eat beans...

How do you solve a problem like a big ol' pot a beans?

October 12, 2024

Yes, I skipped forward to the Just Add Water lesson. If a thousand monkeys on a thousand typewriters had a big ol’ pot of beans, would they be able to figure...

Nomlette

October 10, 2024

Clearly AI generated. You can tell by the foot placement. I cooked! I ate! I bought some Diamond Crystal kosher salt (the dia-mond standard) and came one...

I'm Engaged! aka The Sohla, Delia and NIGELLA etc etc pt3

September 18, 2024

So unexpected “for me cooking stems from an engagement with life” So says Nigella Lawson in the introduction of Simply Nigella, a book I was gifted at one of...

Here's to banging one out

September 11, 2024

Admittedly, this did take 20+ mins. My brain slow It could be said that I, at times, over think1 things that others, perhaps, take in their stride. I...

So Unpredictable

September 8, 2024

Your germinal disk is showing God, a fried egg is just great. I don’t think I’ve ever had that strength of feeling for a fried egg. They are the least of my...

When you just don't want to

September 7, 2024

A Game Plan for my day. I have simple quests in life. So now I have the ingredients for two different Start Here lessons. I have the nugget of a meal I can...

Potato

September 6, 2024

Some sick potato on potato action there Some say it shouldn’t go in a sandwich, some say it’s the most versatile vegetable, and some say it in a high-pitched...

The Sohla and Delia and (almost no) Nigella of it all pt 2

August 28, 2024

A photo I took trying to turn up the volume on my phone. 🙃 Idiot. Sometimes when I’m explaining something to another person, I make them feel like an idiot....

The Sohla and Delia and Nigella of it all pt 1

August 22, 2024

Where they fall I don’t read cookbooks. I use them. They are frequently gifted to me, or purloined from houseshares where no-one else claimed them and people...

Celery In Excess (or What to do when you buy a mid ingredient)

August 21, 2024

A gathering of bits No shade on celery. I’m sure it has an abundance of friends and lovers, and that it has someone to call when a body needs burying1. I am...

…and finishing it.

August 16, 2024

Toast is always great Let me get back to tasting. That’s the whole lesson, the instinct that Sohla is trying to hone - how to taste food, when to taste it,...

...working through it...

August 15, 2024

Real beans. Fake cheese. There is no predicting vegan cheese. Lord love them for trying, but it does add an extra layer of effort (and a frisson of...

Beginning something...

August 14, 2024

That’s some fine looking chopping Today I did a preparing, but not an eating. As in, the meal I wanted to cook didn’t fit into the day (or leftovers) I had...

Cucumbers - Take Two! (aka Little Chunker)

August 13, 2024

Not a sex thing. No cute lil’ Persian cuques (quck? Cuce? Cúke?) in Co-op, but I’ll take a big boi. I took that big boi and I smashed it, I smashed it good!...

A Lesson

August 12, 2024

It’s beets! Copyright Elizabeth Cox, obvs. I do dislike learning. Or, being told to learn. Even if I’m the one doing the telling. I have not read much of...

I'm Julie & Julia-ing myself

August 7, 2024

This is not the beginning (obvs, there are not beginnings, nor endings etc etc), but it’s where (and when) I’m going to make some mistakes. It’s a project -...