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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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New times

By E on December 16, 2010

I didn’t make these cute chicken pies – they were gifted by a dear friend who had just acquired a new set of Le Creuset ramekins. Which means the ramekins are no longer in the kitchen, having been returned to their rightful owner after we had scoffed their delicious contents. I didn’t make that holly [...]

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Secret ingredients

By E on November 9, 2010

Behold the ugliest cake I’ve baked: Yes, it looks pretty nasty. But rest assured that I doctored well it before feeding it to various people and demanding that they guess the secret ingredients. And by doctoring, I mean smothering it in icing which was admittedly too thin simply because I couldn’t bear the idea of [...]

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Reuben goes topless

By E on October 5, 2010

What happens when you leave a Danish girl alone at home with the fixings for a Reuben? Open-faced, that’s what. With a side of broccoli flash-fried with garlic and rosa tomatoes. Check out those mounds of sauerkraut under delicious melted Emmenthaler. Oh, and plenty of horseradish too. ‘Twas a meal fit for a queen (in [...]

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Not so excellent

By E on August 30, 2010

Here are the things you may not do on the Wheel of Excellence: In other words, no slouching about looking cool (thanks to the Philosophe for the articulate picto-analysis), no throwing out the Rock when you’re playing *that* game, and no showing off the soles of your shoes. You are also not permitted to smoke, [...]

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The blue Cosmopolitan that was

By E on August 21, 2010

I’ve been nurturing a craving for cosmopolitan(s). I blame the sun, which has been shining on Cape Town a most unusual amount this “winter”, and has caused more than one person to utter the words “spring has sprung” in the last two weeks. First spring, then summer, and before we know it, the silly season [...]

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The martini that never was

By E on August 14, 2010

Once, at our favourite drinking hole, the Philosophe and I had the audacity to question whether our vodka-and-limes had been watered down because (double shots though they were) we couldn’t taste the vodka. Much to our embarrassment, it was simply because they had used a superior (=more expensive) brand of vodka, one clearly too sophisticated [...]

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Country eating..and eating…and still eating

By E on July 21, 2010

When you are invited to spend the weekend contemplating scenery like this, it is only proper that you devote a few days to thinking about food before the fact, so that nothing can get in the way of two days of carefully planned indolence (not to mention that there are no shops, so if you [...]

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Strawberries soaked in vodka fail to impress

By E on July 11, 2010

So after my recent bold declaration that this Doctor’s brownie adventures are officially over, I was naturally confronted with all sorts of Facebook banter offering yet more tips and tricks for that thing I had just renounced. The most evil of these was a recipe which calls for cocoa powder dissolved in hot water (rather [...]

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