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Kenwood brings you… the exploding brownie!

By E on May 4, 2011

Today is my honorary birthday. Which means today is the day that I acquired my first-ever (!!!) stand-mixer (!!!), which is a very early birthday present from my darling Philosophe (and to all those who think kitchen appliances are not cool birthday gifts: you are just wrong. They bring joy to all). I admit I’ve [...]

Posted in Cooking | Tagged brownies, French nougat, Kenwood Chef Premier, KitchenAid, Nigella Lawson, shortcrust pastry | 1 Response

Making a milkshake out of yoghurt

By E on April 18, 2011

I have been reading (and writing) about Mr. Oliver’s latest LA venture for some time now, but I didn’t get to *enjoy* the full spectacle of the first episode until last night. Late at night was a stupid time to watch, because it sent me to bed depressed. Smite me with your bleeding heart if [...]

Posted in Food Media, Jamie Oliver, Posts, Rants | Tagged celebrity chefs, food TV, Jamie Oliver, jamie oliver's food revolution, Obesity | Leave a response

Learning to Rest in Peace

By E on April 13, 2011

Life is scary. We get bad news every day (and now even more bad news at an even faster rate, thanks to Twitter et al). Most of it is distant, thank goodness. Bad stuff generally happens to other people. But every so often, the degrees of separation become uncomfortable close. A friend’s mother passes away. [...]

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Pop that in your corn and smoke it

By E on March 26, 2011

So Heston Blumenthal has been entertaining his viewers (me) with some more fascinatingly cringe-worthy television with his/Channel 4′s latest Mission Impossible (or as someone else puts it, his Michelin Impossible). Brief: take world’s UK’s quackiest chef, put him in places where he does not belong, turn on liquid nitrogen, watch. That is, watch him try [...]

Posted in Cooking, Food Media, Posts, Rants | Tagged heston blumenthal, michelin impossible, mission impossible, popcorn ice cream | Leave a response

Alton Brown-ies (or, glutton for punishment?)

By E on March 6, 2011

Being an honorary South African (or Swazi, or Dane), I am a relative latecomer to the phenomenon of Alton Brown – who, as per above, has apparently been teaching (American) geeks how to cook since 1999. He’s entertaining and whacky in a Heston Blumenthal sort of way, except the comparison stops at invention: they’re both [...]

Posted in Cooking, Food Media, Rants | Tagged alton brown, brownies, cocoa brownies, heston blumenthal, willy wonka | Leave a response

Getting what you see

By E on February 19, 2011

So I, like many others, saw quite a lot of Bono (boh-no/bow-no/bow-now?) last night, but the Philosophe has already said what needs to be said about that. Recap: yes, we don’t all worship at the church of U2 anymore, and failed to be persuaded to do so again. My extra 2-cents are that I found [...]

Posted in Cooking, Rants | Tagged Bono, dry gin essence, snaps, tar syrup, U2 | Leave a response

Homeopathy to blame for obesity! #ten23

By E on February 5, 2011

This morning I swallowed a bottle of sleeping pills. I had a handful of headache pills too, and I think some opium for good measure. This is how I felt afterwards: Well, OK, I felt a little sick first, but that’s only because I’m not used to stuffing hundreds of sugary ‘pillules‘ into my mouth [...]

Posted in Food Media, Rants | Tagged bad science, bullshit, CAM, homeopathic drugs, homeopathy, Obesity, pseudoscience, quackery, ten23 | Leave a response

Let the battle begin!

By E on February 3, 2011

Courtesy of one dear friend (the sailorman) let loose in a Swedish food shop, we now have in our kitchen: Marshmallow Fluff, hard LICORICE-flavored ice-cream topping, essence of DRY GIN, TAR syrup, and one hot-smoked mackerel. (I didn’t include in the mise-en-place two cubes of guava puree which apparently need to meet the inside of [...]

Posted in Posts | Tagged G&T, gin essence, hard licorice ice cream topping, Iron Chef, licorice ice cream, marcus wareing, marshmallow fluff, tar syrup | Leave a response

The fight to fight obesity

By E on January 22, 2011

A few days ago the LA Weekly reported that Jamie Oliver’s latest US crusade was off to a bad start, because the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) had banned the chef access to all their schools. He responded with this remarkable statement: “Normally getting into schools isn’t a problem. We’ve never had a total [...]

Posted in Food Media, Jamie Oliver, Rants | Tagged celebrity chefs, Food Revolution USA, Jamie Oliver, Jamie's Food Revolution, Michelle Obama, Obesity, Walmart | Leave a response

Pop Tarts 101

By E on January 14, 2011

Ever had a breakfast that looks like this? Me neither, until just now. It was my first taste of this thing I’ve been hearing about for years, and which comes out of a box which looks like this: Pop Tarts are rather popular in the US, I believe – so much so that they were [...]

Posted in Cooking, Rants, Reading | Tagged birthday cake, Danish pastry, hindbærsnitter, peanut butter, Pop Tarts | Leave a response

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