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Posted in Cooking on Apr 28th, 2008
I work in a very creative environment, and we sometimes let our creativity get carried away with itself. A perfect example is an office prank that we performed today ( with a few days of preperation for it ). One of my staff (Matt, hence Christmatt) was away for a week. Everybody knows that when [...]
Posted in Cooking on Apr 21st, 2008
I’ve been baking bread for quite some time now, and I’ve never been totally happy with the results… until now! I wasn’t meticulous about measuring instead just went for the feel, and I kneaded it for longer than usual. I was making pizza bases, but had an excess of dough, so I rummaged through the [...]
Posted in Cooking on Apr 18th, 2008
A few days ago I stopped at a little Italian deli that I’ve been eyeing off for a while. While taking in all the wonderful delights from Italy and the Mediterranean I came across a small mexican section. Basking in a ray of sunlight was a stack of cans of Chipotle in Adobo sauce. This [...]
Posted in Cooking on Apr 16th, 2008
Both of these recipes were shamelessly stolen from Smitten Kitchen. I love onions especially when they’re cooked long enough for the sweetness to come out fully ( I once had an onion tart that was sweet enough you would happily eat it for dessert, shame I never got the recipe ). Obviously onion by itself [...]
Posted in Cooking on Apr 14th, 2008
With plans to fire up the smoker I headed down to a local bulk butcher. I went straight to the cheap cuts and started grabbing meat. First up was a big chunk of pork, I had plans for some lamb, but they didn’t have any shoulder. I then picked up some sausages that were marked [...]
Posted in Cooking on Apr 7th, 2008
I fired up the smoker yesterday and prepared two smoked dishes, Pastrami and Atomic Buffalo Turds ( ABTs ). Pastrami is one of my favourite deli meats and has been on my ‘to-do’ list for quite some time. When looking for recipes for Pastrami I came across one for ABTs which I’d seen before, but [...]
Posted in Cooking on Apr 7th, 2008
Not really a recipe as such, but I definately need to post about this killer steak I cooked the other night. I went to the James St Markets where there’s a gourmet ( read expensive ) butcher and after humming and harring over the various steaks I decided on some Angus Beef Porterhouse. A friend [...]
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