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Bitters. Ice cream!

By E on December 26, 2011

My mother’s favourite new drink is tonic water with a dash of (Angostura) bitters. Nothing too revolutionary there – who hasn’t added a dash of bitters to a G (or V) & T, etc. But what is pretty damn cool is a whole underground of bitters that I knew nothing about until a friend who [...]

Posted in Cooking, Posts | Tagged Angostura Bitters, Bitters ice cream, blood orange bitters, celery bitters, Peychaud's Bitters | Leave a response

Guinnessy goodness and a cheesy crust

By E on December 9, 2011

Once in a blue cheese moon I actually feel like making pastry. That moon came on Wednesday, when I whipped up Ramsay’s rough puff. But woman cannot live on pastry alone, so I threw some beef and Guinness in a pot and let that simmer for a couple of hours. The next day (assured by Google [...]

Posted in Cooking | Tagged apple and cheddar pie, blue cheese crust, Guinness ice cream, Guinness pie, rough puff pastry | Leave a response

A weekend of happy birds

By E on November 30, 2011

This weekend the Philosophe turns 40, and for several months I’ve been scheming about what cake I could bake him that would be truly memorable. I have found NOTHING cooler than this playable angry birds cake that a lucky six-year old got for his birthday. How cool would that be? (Go check it out in action, [...]

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Its name is wedding

By E on November 24, 2011

This morning the Philosophe gifted me this card: I never thought I would get a fourth birthday card again, but this was a stroke of genius. See, just over four years ago, we had a little impromptu gathering with a few friends, telling them we had some important news. Thinking that we were oh-so clever [...]

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Recently spotted in the Doctor’s kitchen

By E on October 29, 2011

Magic, really. I thought I was marking exams, but suddenly there was a brownie occurrence. Specifically, goat’s cheese fudge and smoked almond brownies: The best part? You can do this too! All you need is: 1 good brownie recipe waiting for a new identity; 1 batch of goat’s cheese fudge lurking in the freezer (preferably [...]

Posted in Cooking, Food Media, Jamie Oliver, Rants | Tagged brownies, brunost, fudge, Giada de Laurentiis, gjetost, Ina Garten, Jamie Oliver, Nigella Lawson | Leave a response

My Bree moment #chocchipcookie

By E on September 30, 2011

I’ve never been much into making biscuits, as we call them in this part of the world. (Apart from biscotti, of course. Those who know me well know that my own biscotti are the only ones I will deign to eat.) I like making biscotti because they keep for long enough not to go stale. [...]

Posted in Cooking, Food Media, Posts | Tagged chocolate chip cookies, cookie dough, cookie dough ice cream, food blogs, new york times chocolate chip cookies | Leave a response

Burger schmurger

By E on July 24, 2011

Two weeks or so ago the Philosophe asked if I would consent to being all ‘Capetonian’ and hitting the Loading Bay for a burger. The Loading Bay, for all non-Capetonians (and that includes some of you who actually live in the city but who – like ourselves – roll on different wheels), is a clothing-accessory [...]

Posted in Cooking, Food Media, Rants | Tagged hamburgers, heston blumenthal, Loading Bay, Spur | Leave a response

Brownies, redux: Trust no-one!

By E on May 18, 2011

While the rest of South Africa is out doing something important today, I though I should do something important to. So I made brownies. Again. Yawn. I know, I have said it time and again that I will stop this madness. But wait! This time I cracked it. Let me be clear: I have not [...]

Posted in Cooking | Tagged browned butter brownies, brownies, crazy doctor brownies, supernatural brownies | 2 Responses

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

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

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