Steamed Eggs? At This Time of Year? Located Entirely Within Your Kitchen?
I hear chopsticks are the new (ancient) whisk So, I’ve never been a fan of cold eggs. A frequent “That’s You” of my child and teenhood was Dunnes Stores’s...
The Too Much Diet or, Nourish Me Sohla
1 Everything I eat these days has to be prepared to the point of “isn’t that too much?”. Then I add an egg2 and bring it to the table. The egg in question is...
I'm Restarting Here aka Cucumbers Take Three!
NOM! Shall we always land back here? With the crunchy, watery little bois eager to be salted and sugared and tasted until the vibe is right? May I not move...
I Like My Tarts How I Like My Blogs: Rough and Thick
I said what I said I came into an abundance of onions over the weekend. Large beads bathed in balsamic vinegar - a little bit sweet, tangy, crunchy,...
That...that can't be right
Egg, innit? I have poached an egg in my time. I have swirled, vinegar-ed, microwaved1 in my time and had it down to quite a fine art (which I obvs can’t...
Charred Lemons or Charwoman, amirite??
So fricking sexy I can’t get out this first sentence, because, well, I’m horny for that charred lemon look. I’m in their thrall, I’m lusty for lemons, I’m...
Once A Cheater...
A faux French Dip I will not tell you how to make, but I id game plan and taste extensively Did you know, I’ve actually done like, tons of cooking without...
Crunchy Bois
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
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
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
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...
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?
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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....
