I went a bit bizerk with the grill. I honestly thought I was just making smoked salt. And then I realised I could bake on the grill, and just like that, door thrown wide open and imagination ran amuck. But this is where it all started. Smoked salt.
Alice in Wonderland Mad Hatter Tea Party Unbirthday Cake
Now, statistics prove that you’ve one birthday Imagine, just one birthday every year Ah, but there are three hundred and sixty four unbirthdays! Precisely why we’re gathered here to cheer A very merry unbirthday to you Now blow the candle out my dear And make your wish come true A merry merry unbirthday to you! -Mad Hatter and March Hare,…
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Julie & Julia; Boeuf Bourguignon
It was oddly exhilarating, the grand ambitions all these strangers had for my dinner party. These people thought that Julie Powell, with her yearlong cooking project, was sufficiently fascinating to draw the greatest lights of food celebrity chefdom, and maybe even some minor movie stars, to her crappy outer-borough apartment. Hell, maybe it was true. Maybe my Boeuf Bourguignon, the…
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How To: Make a Winnie the Pooh ‘Hunny’ Pot
This time last year I was making ‘hunny’ pots as easter baskets. And since time got away from me, I never got around to posting my how to, until now. the finished product I purchased several sized $3 plastic garden pots from Red Dot for this project. Regardless of their colour, begin by spraying all of them in a ‘mission…
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For Whom The Bell Tolls; Paella
We ate in pavilions on the sand. Pastries made of cooked and shredded fish and red and green peppers and small nuts like grains of rice. Pastries delicate and flaky and the fish of a richness that was incredible. Prawns fresh from the sea sprinkled with lime juice. They were pink and sweet and there were four bites to a…
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