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Category Archive for 'Cooking basics'

The Perfect Scrambled Egg

It’s possible that I often mention scrambled eggs. Or maybe not. What is certain is that I eat them a lot. They’re my staple weekend breakfast and I often make myself a serving for lunch too. Perfect after a cold morning in the pool. In fact, Lil Miss and I had scrambled eggs with feta […]

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Shallot wars

A friend told me last week that a new supermarket that has opened in our local area was selling spring onions tagged as shallots. A pet hate for both of us. The confusion is exacerbated when talking across international lines as the names will change (not to protect the innocent). So I thought it worthwhile […]

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If we are actually going to be home in an actual house for Easter rather than waking up in our tent like we usually do, I suppose it would be nice to make a special breakfast.
We had breakfast at Apte a few weeks ago and they served a dish similar to this. I’ve been inspired […]

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I adapted my old tried and true short crust pastry recipe to suit the thermomix. So if you don’t have a thermomix, just manually crumb the dry ingredients and butter together and then slowly mix in the wet and knead lightly.
Shortcrust Pastry
2 cups plain flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
125g butter
just over 1/4 cup water
Mix dry ingredients […]

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Stove Top Yoghurt

This recipe is from Nourishing Traditions. It’s nice and basic. I’ve converted to metric. This tends to be a little thinner than commercial yoghurt. You will need a candy thermometer.
Stove Top Yoghurt
1 litre full cream milk
1/2 cup good quality yoghurt (when you get it going, save the last half cup of each batch to make […]

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Stock

I just found a truly fascinating article on stock making via a link on forty dollar gourmet. Well worth a read if you mke your own stock and have any interest in food science.

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